Children’s / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction
Chris Aplin Books Feather Force
£10.83
FriesenPress Alicias Journey to the Past
£20.69
FriesenPress La grosse vague
£19.34
FriesenPress La grosse vague
£23.27
FriesenPress Katyas Journey
£11.39
FriesenPress Mabels Little House in the Park
£22.04
Peter D Tutty Time Detectives Club
£12.58
Softwood Books At The Door
£23.13
Blossom Spring Publishing Circum Quadratum The Time Traveller
£10.96
Sands of Time Small Press The Power of the Wouivre
£14.70
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Camilla
£8.29
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Achates
£8.92
Becoming Books Publishing Back In Time
£11.07
Fearless Futures The Medicine Bear
£11.19
£11.19
Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Seven for a Secret
£13.50
The Coffee Season Publication Press I Am Lebanese
£19.95
Ridgecrest Books Tiaris
£16.02
LIGHTNING SOURCE INC Searching for Guastavino
£15.99
K. M. Martell The Prophecy
£12.34
Penguin Putnam Inc Wolf Hollow
Book SynopsisA Newbery Honor BookNew York Times Bestseller“Wolf Hollow has stayed with me long after I closed the book. It has the feel of an instant classic. —Linda Sue Park, Newbery Medalist and New York Times bestselling author of A Long Walk to Water“This book matters.” —Sara Pennypacker, New York Times bestselling author of PaxDespite growing up in the shadows cast by two world wars, Annabelle has lived a mostly quiet, steady life in her small Pennsylvania town. Until the day new student Betty Glengarry walks into her class. Betty quickly reveals herself to be cruel and manipulative, and though her bullying seems isolated at first, it quickly escalates. Toby, a reclusive World War I veteran, soon becomes the target of Betty’s attacks. While others see Toby’s strangeness, Annabelle knows only kindness. And as tensions mount in their small comm
£8.54
Penguin Putnam Inc Beyond the Bright Sea
Book Synopsis- Winner of the 2018 Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction - From the bestselling author of Echo Mountain and Newbery Honor–winner Wolf Hollow, Beyond the Bright Sea is an acclaimed best book of the year.An NPR Best Book of the Year • A Parents’ Magazine Best Book of the Year • A Booklist Editors' Choice selection • A BookPage Best Book of the Year • A Horn Book Fanfare Selection • A Kirkus Best Book of the Year • A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year • A Charlotte Observer Best Book of the Year • A Southern Living Best Book of the Year • A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year“The sight of a campfire on a distant island…proves the catalyst for a series of discoveries and events—some poignant, some frightening—that Ms. Wolk unfolds with uncommon grace.” –The Wall Street Journal★ “Crow is a determined and dynamic heroine.” —Publishers Weekly★ “Beautiful, evocative.” —Kirkus The moving story of an orphan, determined to know her own history, who discovers the true meaning of family. Twelve-year-old Crow has lived her entire life on a tiny, isolated piece of the starkly beautiful Elizabeth Islands in Massachusetts. Abandoned and set adrift in a small boat when she was just hours old, Crow’s only companions are Osh, the man who rescued and raised her, and Miss Maggie, their fierce and affectionate neighbor across the sandbar. Crow has always been curious about the world around her, but it isn’t until the night a mysterious fire appears across the water that the unspoken question of her own history forms in her heart. Soon, an unstoppable chain of events is triggered, leading Crow down a path of discovery and danger. Vivid and heart-wrenching, Lauren Wolk’s Beyond the Bright Sea is a gorgeously crafted and tensely paced tale that explores questions of identity, belonging, and the true meaning of family.
£8.99
Square Fish Then
Book SynopsisFelix and Zelda have escaped the death camp train, but where do they go now? They''re two runaway kids in Nazi-occupied Poland during World War II and the Holocaust. Danger lies at every turn of the road. With the help of a woman named Genia and their active imaginations, Felix and Zelda find a new home and begin to heal, forming a new family together. But can it last?Morris Gleitzman''s winning characters will tug at readers'' hearts as they struggle to survive in the harsh political climate of Poland in 1942. Their lives are difficult, but they always remember what matters: family, love, and hope.
£10.44
Square Fish Dead End in Norvelt
Book SynopsisDead End in Norvelt is the winner of the 2012 Newbery Medal for the year''s best contribution to children''s literature and the Scott O''Dell Award for Historical Fiction!Melding the entirely true and the wildly fictional, Dead End in Norvelt is a novel about an incredible two months for a kid named Jack Gantos, whose plans for vacation excitement are shot down when he is grounded for life by his feuding parents, and whose nose spews bad blood at every little shock he gets. But plenty of excitement (and shocks) are coming Jack''s way once his mom loans him out to help a feisty old neighbor with a most unusual choretypewriting obituaries filled with stories about the people who founded his utopian town. As one obituary leads to another, Jack is launched on a strange adventure involving molten wax, Eleanor Roosevelt, twisted promises, a homemade airplane, Girl Scout cookies, a man on a trike, a dancing plague, voices from the past, Hells Angels . . . and p
£8.99
Square Fish An Elephant in the Garden
Book SynopsisLizzie and Karl''s mother is a zoo keeper; the family has become attached to an orphaned elephant named Marlene, who will be destroyed as a precautionary measure so she and the other animals don''t run wild should the zoo be hit by bombs. The family persuades the zoo director to let Marlene stay in their garden instead. When the city is bombed, the family flees with thousands of others, but how can they walk the same route when they have an elephant in tow, and keep themselves safe? Along the way, they meet Peter, a Canadian navigator who risks his own capture to save the family. As Michael Morpurgo writes in an author''s note, An Elephant in the Garden is inspired by historical truths, and by his admiration for elephants, the noblest and wisest and most sensitive of all creatures. Here is a story that brings together an unlikely group of survivors whose faith in kindness and love proves the best weapon of all.
£8.54
Square Fish Compass South A Graphic Novel Four Points Book 1
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£16.19
St Martin's Press The Silvered Serpents
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£11.25
Wednesday Books The Bronzed Beasts
Book SynopsisReturning to the dark and glamorous 19th century world of her New York Times instant bestseller, The Gilded Wolves, Roshani Chokshi dazzles us with the final riveting tale as full of mystery and danger as ever in The Bronzed Beasts.After Séverin''s seeming betrayal, the crew is fractured. Armed with only a handful of hints, Enrique, Laila, Hypnos and Zofia must find their way through the snarled, haunted waterways of Venice, Italy to locate Séverin. Meanwhile, Séverin must balance the deranged whims of the Patriarch of the Fallen House and discover the location of a temple beneath a plague island where the Divine Lyre can be played and all that he desires will come to pass. With only ten days until Laila expires, the crew will face plague pits and deadly masquerades, unearthly songs and the shining steps of a temple whose powers might offer divinity itself...but the price of godhood may just cost them everything they hold dear.
£11.39
Palgrave USA Knifes Edge A Graphic Novel Four Points Book 2
Book SynopsisIn this follow-up to the New York Times-bestselling Compass South, Hope Larson and Rebecca Mock once again create an outstanding seafaring adventure.
£14.00
St Martin's Press Lost Boys
Book SynopsisThe gripping story of a child soldier swept up in the Iran-Iraq War - and the gift that helps him survive.
£18.52
Flatiron Books Girl Serpent Thorn
Book SynopsisMelissa Bashardoust''s Girl, Serpent, Thorn is an alluring feminist fairy tale (Kirkus) about a girl cursed to be poisonous to the touch and who discovers what power might lie in such a curse.There was and there was not, as all stories begin, a princess cursed to be poisonous to the touch. But for Soraya, who has lived her life hidden away, apart from her family, safe only in her gardens, it's not just a story. As the day of her twin brother's wedding approaches, Soraya must decide if she's willing to step outside of the shadows for the first time. Below in the dungeon is a demon who holds knowledge that she craves, the answer to her freedom. And above is a young man who isn't afraid of her, whose eyes linger not with fear, but with an understanding of who she is beneath the poison. Soraya thought she knew her place in the world, but when her choices lead to consequences she never imagined, she begins to question who she is and who she is
£12.34
St Martin's Press A Woman of Intelligence
Book SynopsisCaptivating. The Washington PostNamed a Best Book of Summer by Good Morning America BuzzFeed PopSugar BookRiot LifeSavvy CT PostFrom a master of historical fiction (NPR), Karin Tanabe''s A Woman of Intelligence is an exhilarating tale of post-war New York City, and one remarkable woman's journey from the United Nations, to the cloistered drawing rooms of Manhattan society, to the secretive ranks of the FBI.A Fifth Avenue address, parties at the Plaza, two healthy sons, and the ideal husband: what looks like a perfect life for Katharina Edgeworth is anything but. It's 1954, and the post-war American dream has become a nightmare.A born and bred New Yorker, Katharina is the daughter of immigrants, Ivy-League-educated, and speaks four languages. As a single girl in 1940s Manhattan, she is a translator at the newly formed United Nations, devoting her days to her work and the promise
£13.29
Feiwel & Friends This Wretched Beauty A Dorian Gray Remix
£17.68
Square Fish Balto and Togo Hero Dogs of Alaska
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£10.26
Feiwel and Friends SelfMade Boys A Great Gatsby Remix
Book SynopsisA NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLIST SELECTIONIn the Remixed Classics series, authors from marginalized backgrounds reinterpret classic works through their own cultural lens to subvert the overwhelming cishet, white, and male canon. This YA reimagining of The Great Gatsby centers trans love in a cast removed from its cishet white default, finally exploring those longing glances and wistful sighs between Nick and Jay.New York City, 1922. Nicolás Caraveo, a 17-year-old transgender boy from Wisconsin, has no interest in the city's glamor. Going to New York is all about establishing himself as a young professional, which could set up his futureand his life as a manand benefit his family.Nick rents a small house in West Egg from his 18-year-old cousin, Daisy Fabrega, who lives in fashionable East Egg near her wealthy fiancé, Tomand Nick is shocked to find that his cousin now goes by Daisy Fay, has erased all signs of her Latine heritage, and now passes sea
£14.24
Square Fish Angel of Greenwood
Book SynopsisAngel of Greenwood by Randi Pink is a piercing, unforgettable love story set in Greenwood, Oklahoma, also known as the Black Wall Street, and against the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921. Isaiah Wilson is, on the surface, a town troublemaker, but is hiding that he is an avid reader and secret poet, never leaving home without his journal. Angel Hill is a loner, mostly disregarded by her peers as a goody-goody. Her father is dying, and her family's financial situation is in turmoil.Though they've attended the same schools, Isaiah never noticed Angel as anything but a dorky, Bible toting church girl. Then their English teacher offers them a job on her mobile library, a three-wheel, two-seater bike. Angel can't turn down the money and Isaiah is soon eager to be in such close quarters with Angel every afternoon.But life changes on May 31, 1921 when a vicious white mob storms the Black community of Greenwood, leaving the town destroyed and thousands of re
£10.44
Henry Holt & Company The Librarian of Auschwitz The Graphic Novel
Book SynopsisBased on the experience of real-life Auschwitz prisoner Dita Kraus, this graphic novel tells the incredible story of a girl who risked her life to keep the magic of books alive during the Holocaust.Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to take charge of the eight precious volumes the prisoners have managed to sneak past the guards, she agrees. And so Dita becomes the librarian of Auschwitz.Out of one of the darkest chapters of human history comes this extraordinary story of courage and hope.
£13.49
St Martin's Press Gwen Art Are Not in Love
Book SynopsisAn Instant New York Times Bestseller!A total, rollicking delight. Gwen & Art gave me the same cheeky, swoony, giddy, irresistible high of the first time I saw A Knight's Tale. Lex Croucher is one of my favorite romcom authors, and they should be yours, too. - Casey McQuiston, #1 New York Times bestselling author of I Kissed Shara WheelerHeartstopper meets A Knight's Tale in this queer medieval rom com YA debut about love, friendship, and being brave enough to change the course of history.It's been hundreds of years since King Arthur's reign. His descendant, Arthur, a future Lord and general gadabout, has been betrothed to Gwendoline, the quick-witted, short-tempered princess of England, since birth. The only thing they can agree on is that they despise each other.They're forced to spend the summer together at Camelot in the run up to their nuptials, and within 24 hours, Gwen has dis
£17.00
Square Fish Daughters of a Dead Empire
Book SynopsisThis fresh, thrilling take on Anastasia establishes that O''Neil is a debut author to watch. Buzzfeed From debut author Carolyn Tara O''Neil comes a thrilling alternate history set during the Russian Revolution.Russia, 1918: With the execution of Tsar Nicholas, the empire crumbles and Russia is on the edge of civil warthe poor are devouring the rich. Anna, a bourgeois girl, narrowly escaped the massacre of her entire family in Yekaterinburg. Desperate to get away from the Bolsheviks, she offers a peasant girl a diamond to take her as far south as possiblenot realizing that the girl is a communist herself. With her brother in desperate need of a doctor, Evgenia accepts Anna''s offer and suddenly finds herself on the wrong side of the war.Anna is being hunted by the Bolsheviks, and nowregardless of her loyaltiesEvgenia is too.Daughters of a Dead Empire is a harrowing historical thriller about dangerous ideals, inequality, a
£11.39
Square Fish Goats for Christmas Calpurnia Tate Girl Vet
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£7.99
Wednesday Books Immortality A Love Story
Book Synopsis*INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**INSTANT #1 INDIE BESTSELLER*Immortality: A Love Story is the eagerly-anticipated sequel to Dana Schwartz''s #1 bestselling gothic romance, Anatomy: A Love Story.Schwartz continues to seamlessly blend fiction with historical events, creating a richly detailed and engaging look at life in Regency London...the central mystery is intriguing and fun, with a delightful historical who's who in the form of a secret society. School Library Journal, starred reviewAccomplished prose KirkusHazel Sinnett is alone and half-convinced the events of the year beforethe immortality, Beecham's vialwere a figment of her imagination. She doesn't even know if Jack is alive or dead. All she can really do now is treat patients and maintain Hawthornden Castle as it starts to decay around her.When saving a life leads to her arrest, Hazel seems doomed to rot i
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St Martin's Press Enola Holmes and the Elegant Escapade
Book SynopsisEnola Holmes, Sherlock''s much younger, and feistier, sister, returns in an adventure of a confused young Baronet''s daughter who is on the run from her father''s devious schemes in Nancy Springer''s Enola Holmes and the Elegant Escapade.Enola Holmes, the much younger sister of Sherlock, is now living independently in London and working as a scientific perditorian (a finder of persons and things). But that is not the normal lot of young women in Victorian England. They are under the near absolute control of their nearest male relative until adulthood. Such is the case of Enola''s friend, Lady Cecily Alastair. Twice before Enola has rescued Lady Cecily from unpleasant designs of her caddish father, Sir Eustace Alastair, Baronet. And when Enola is brusquely turned away at the door of the Alastair home it soon becomes apparent that Lady Cecily once again needs her help.Affecting a bold escape, Enola takes Lady Cecily to her secret office only to be qui
£11.40
Square Fish Medici Heist
£12.59
£23.75
Lulu.com Doi Militari
£15.21
Lulu.com One Day They Tied Gilbert to a Tree
£32.64
Lulu.com The New Diary
£14.31
Lulu.com Emma and the Wonders of Mesopotamia
£17.98
