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The Alchemist and the Angel

By Joanne Owen - Published 2010

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young Adult

Jan is apprentice to his uncle, an alchemist, living in Venice in 1583. After losing his parents to the plague, Aunt Greta and Uncle ...Read Review

Fallen Grace

By Mary Hooper - Published 2010

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Grace Parkes is about to give birth. She is fifteen, single, orphaned, poor and living in Victorian London in 1861. Resigned to the fate ...Read Review

The Fool’s Girl

By Celia Rees - Published 2010

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

In London, in the year 1601, Violetta, ‘The Fool’s Girl’, is a determined young woman who strives to restore a stolen relic to ...Read Review

Ondine: The Summer of Shambles

By Ebony McKenna - Published 2010

Genres:

Children/Young AdultHistorical FantasyMystery/Crime

Ondine de Groot runs away from Psychic Summercamp to return to her family home, an inn, taking with her a pet ferret called ...Read Review

The Bride’s Farewell

By Meg Rosoff - Published 2009

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Pell Ridley has seen the ravages of marriage, and she has firmly decided against it. Her mother’s health and well-being have been ...Read Review

Selina Penaluna

By Jan Page - Published 2009

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Twins, Ellen and Jack, are evacuated from East London to Cornwall during the early stages of WWII. In contrast to their background, they ...Read Review

Envy

By Anna Godbersen - Published 2009

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

It is now Manhattan in 1900 and a few months have passed by since we left the story of the Holland family in Rumours. ...Read Review

Rumours

By Anna Godbersen - Published 2009

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Manhattan 1899 is the setting for Rumours, the sequel to The Luxe. The name aptly reflects the tone of the society about which the ...Read Review

Between Two Seas

By Marie-Louise Jensen - Published 2008

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Marianne begins her story in Grimsby in a world of poverty, cruelty and illness. The victim of bullies, Marianne, is illegitimate and is ...Read Review

I am Rembrandt’s Daughter

By Lynn Cullen - Published 2008

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

This complex work of fiction is based upon the real person of Cornelia, the illegitimate daughter of Rembrandt van Rijn and his common-law ...Read Review