Twenty-five year old Clara Amedroz, following the death of her brother, Charles, the heir to the Belton Estate in Somerset, learns that her ...

Thomas Hawkins is on his way to Tyburn to be hanged as a murderer. He is anticipating a royal pardon, so is not overly concerned - at first,...

Salamanca Cottage is set during World War II, in the fictional village of Lower Marchland. Aurelia Smith, a recently widowed nurse, rent...

This children's classic, first published in 1898, tells the story of John Trenchard, a fifteen year old orphan, who lives with his sp...

I've not read any of John Marsden's young adult fiction so didn't know what to expect from his first novel for adults. What gr...

This is a very sad and thought provoking tale written from the perspective of Mary, a fifteen year old farm girl, lame and hair the colour o...

Jessie Marley learns she is adopted and leaves Australia to seek out her birth mother in England. In London, distracted by what she has disc...

Scapegallows is the fictionalised story of Margaret Catchpole, a horse thief, who escaped the hangman's noose twice and was eventually t...

A novel with a World War II setting grabs my attention instantly, especially if it involves the R.A.F.  I also like well-crafted ghost stori...

Louise Brenier seeks news of her brother, Benoit, who is missing after the horrific defeat of the Scots at Flodden. She appeals for aid from...

While having enjoyed several adaptations of Anthony Trollope’s novels on television, I have never actually read one. When I saw Sir Harry H...