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Master of his fate
Hardback. English.
Published
London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018
London 1884: Queen Victoria is Empress of India and Britain at its peak of worldwide power. James Falconer, known as Jimmy, is a barrow boy working for...
The Essex Serpent
Paperback. English.
Published
London: Serpent's Tail, 2017
London 1893. When Cora Seaborne's controlling husband dies, she steps into her new life as a widow with as much relief as sadness. Retreating to the countryside...
The workhouse girl
Hardback. English.
Published
London: Arrow Books, 2013
Circumstances force eight-year-old Sarah Scrase and her widowed mother Ellen to enter a workhouse in Bloomsbury. When Ellen dies in childbirth, Sarah...
The royal lacemaker
Paperback. English.
Published
London: Michael Joseph, 2014
Seventeen-year-old Lily Rose has been left to provide for her siblings following the death of her parents, scratching out a living as a lace maker. Hundreds...
The Essex Serpent
Paperback. English.
Published
Rearsby: Clipper Large Print Books, 2019
Set in Victorian London and an Essex village in the 1890s, and enlivened by the debates on scientific and medical discovery which defined the era, 'The...
The last pearl
Hardback. English.
Published
Long Preston: Magna, 2017
1879, York. Greta Costello must rely on her wits to survive. She finds refuge as a Saturday girl for an old jeweller, Saul Abrahams, and her eye for detail...
For a mother's sins
Hardback. English.
Published
Leicester: Charnwood, 2014
It is 1870 and railway workers and their families have flocked to the wild and inhospitable moorland known as Batty Green to build a viaduct on the Midland...
Rose Rivers
Paperback. English.
Published
London: Corgi Yearling, 2019
Rose Rivers lives in a beautiful house with her artist father, her difficult, fragile mother and her many siblings. She has everything money can buy -...
The elephant thief
Paperback. English.
Published
Frome, Somerset: Chicken House, 2017
When street urchin Danny accidentally bids for Maharajah the elephant at an Edinburgh auction, his life is transformed as he is swept up on an unforgettable...
Hetty Feather's Christmas
Paperback. English.
Published
London: Corgi Books, 2018
An unexpected gift leads to trouble for Hetty on Christmas Day at the Foundling Hospital, and the dreaded Matron Bottomly is delighted to have an excuse...
