Carnegie and Greenaway: Maggot Moon
Sally Gardner What if the football hadn’t gone over the wall. On the other side of the wall there is a dark secret. And the devil. And the Moon Man. And the Motherland doesn’t want anyone to know. But Standish…
Wild Boy
London, 1841 A boy covered in hair, raised as a monster, condemned to life in a travelling freak show. A boy with extraordinary powers of observation and detection. A boy accused of murder; on the run; hungry for the truth.…
Wild Boy Blog Tour: No fun at the fair
Rob Lloyd Jones joins us today to share the inspiration behind the fairground setting of his middle grade book, Wild Boy. London, 1841 A boy covered in hair, raised as a monster, condemned to life in a travelling freak show.…
Carnegie and Greenaway Award: Code Name Verity
Time Breaking
Barbara Spencer Whilst staying in a 17th Century Manor house, fifteen year old Molly accidentally slips through time and reappears in 1648, towards the end of the Civil War to find she has taken the place of Molly Hampton, the…
The Island
Victoria Hislop The Petrakis family lives in the small Greek seaside village of Plaka. Just off the coast is the tiny island of Spinalonga, where the nation’s leper colony once was located—a place that has haunted four generations of Petrakis…
Becoming Jane Eyre
Shelia Kohler The year is 1846. In a cold parsonage on the gloomy Yorkshire moors, a family seems cursed with disaster. A mother and two children dead. A father sick, without fortune, and hardened by the loss of his two…
The Diviners
Libba Bray and January LaVoy(Narrator) It’s 1920s New York City. It’s flappers and Follies, jazz and gin. It’s after the war but before the depression. And for certain group of bright young things it’s the opportunity to party like never…
The Girl Who Came Home – A Titanic Novel
Hazel Gaynor In a rural Irish village in April 1912, seventeen-year-old Maggie Murphy is anxious about the trip to America. While the thirteen others she will travel with from her Parish anticipate a life of prosperity and opportunity, Maggie is…
The Savage Garden
Mark Mills Behind a villa in the heart of Tuscany lies a Renaissance garden of enchanting beauty. Its grottoes, pagan statues and classical inscriptions seem to have a secret life of their own – and a secret message, too, for…
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