Sawbones
Catherine Johnson Sixteen-year-old Ezra McAdam has much to be thankful for: trained up as an apprentice by a well-regarded London surgeon, Ezra’s knowledge of human anatomy and skill at the dissection table will secure him a trade for life. However,…
The Boleyn Deceit
Laura Andersen The regency period is over and William Tudor, now King Henry IX, sits alone on the throne. But England must still contend with those who doubt his legitimacy, both in faraway lands and within his own family. To…
Unravelled: Two Wars. Two Affairs. One Marriage.
M K Tod Two wars, two affairs, one marriage. In October 1935, Edward Jamieson’s memories of war and a passionate love affair resurface when an invitation to a WWI memorial ceremony arrives. Though reluctant to visit the scenes of horror…
Treason (Secrets & Spies #1)
Jo Macauley Fourteen-year-old Beth Johnson is a talented and beautiful young actress. She is also a spy. The year is 1664, and Charles II is on the throne, but all is not well in the bustling city of London, and…
The Light Between Oceans
M L Stedman A boat washes up on the shore of a remote lighthouse keeper’s island. It holds a dead man – and a crying baby. The only two islanders, Tom and his wife Izzy, are about to make a…
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Mary Ann Schaffer and Annie Barrows It’s 1946 and author Juliet Ashton can’t think what to write next. Out of the blue, she receives a letter from Dawsey Adams of Guernsey – by chance, he’s acquired a book that once…
The Book Thief
HERE IS A SMALL FACT – YOU ARE GOING TO DIE 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents…
The Sweetest Dark
Shana Abe “With every fiber of my being, I yearned to be normal. To glide through my days at Iverson without incident. But I’d have to face the fact that my life was about to unfold in a very, very…
Carnegie and Greenaway: In Darkness
Nick Lake Listen. You’re the voices in the dark so the world can’t all be gone. There must be people left. I’m going to tell you how I got here and how I got this bullet in my arm. I’m…
The Secret Keeper
Kate Morton During a party at the family farm in the English countryside, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicolson has escaped to her childhood tree house and is dreaming of the future. She spies a stranger coming up the road and sees her…
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