Children's / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction

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  Pride and Premeditation

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  The first work in the ‘Jane Austen Murder Mysteries’ series is a clever retelling of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ that reimagines the iconic settings, characters, and romances in a...

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  The Swallows’ Flight

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  Return to the world of Skylarks’ War in this hopeful and heart-warming follow up – a WWII story that spans generations and crosses the divides of war.

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  The Week At World’s End

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  1962, London during the Cuban Missile Crisis. What would you do if there was a real possibility that the world might end? Ray, aware of his parents’ building worry, decides to take matters in...

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  When the World Was Ours

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  A powerful, heart-breaking, ultimately redemptive novel about three childhood friends in 1930s Vienna whose fates are closely intertwined, even when their lives take very different courses.
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  A Single Thread of Moonlight

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  Iris Grey’s childhood was idyllic… until her father remarried. Far too spirited to be forced into a life of servitude, she runs away to London, where she crosses paths ...

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  All the better to see you

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  A classic whodunit in fairytale form, and a twist that readers won’t see coming until the very end.

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  Race to the Death

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  Twelve-year-old Dido dreams of becoming the first female charioteer at the great Circus Maximus. She’s lost her heart to Porcellus, a wild, tempestuous horse she longs to train and race. But ...

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  Somerset Tsunami

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  The year is 1607. When a catastrophic flood hits the Somerset coast, young sailor-in-disguise Fortune gets the blame. Locals are convinced witchcraft is at work. And Fortune – who is secretiv...

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  Nell and the cave bear

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  A long, long time ago, a girl lived with her tribe in a cave. As she had no parents of her own, her pet cave bear was her best friend. He followed her everywhere and comforted her whenever she grew...

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  Voyage of the Sparrowhawk

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  In the aftermath of World War One, everyone is trying to rebuild their lives. If Ben is to avoid being sent back to the orphanage, he needs to find his brother Sam, wounded in action and is now mis...

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  The Lost War Dog

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  Tilly and Gretchen have been best friends all their lives, and Gretchen adores Tilly’s beloved pet dachshund Wuffly like he’s her own. But tensions are high in Germany in 1938. Tilly...

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  Death Sets Sail: A Murder Most Unladylike Mystery

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  Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are in Egypt, where they are taking a cruise along the Nile. They are hoping to see some ancient temples and a mummy or two; what they get, instead, is murder. Also trave...

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  The Wild Way Home

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  When Charlie’s longed-for brother is born with a serious heart condition, Charlie’s world is turned upside down. Upset and afraid, Charlie flees the hospital and makes for the ancient f...

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  When We Were Warriors

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  Set in World War Two, Emma Carroll explores the resilience, resourcefulness and inventiveness of children when their lives fall to pieces. Introducing some compelling new characters, as well as rev...

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  The Skylarks’ War

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  An evocative and heartbreaking novel of family and friendship in wartime from Hilary McKay, award-winning author of the Casson Family Chronicles.

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  Children Of Castle Rock

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  When Alice’s family home has to be sold, she and her father Barney will do whatever it takes to buy it back – even if whatever it takes isn’t strictly legal. And when Alice is exp...

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  Spoonful Of Murder

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  When Hazel Wong’s beloved grandfather passes away, Daisy Wells is all too happy to accompany her friend (and Detective Society Vice President) to Hazel’s family estate in beautiful, bus...

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  Small Person Far Away

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  Partly autobiographical, this is the third title in Judith Kerr’s internationally acclaimed trilogy of books following the life of Anna through war-torn Germany, to London during the Blitz an...

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  Cream Buns & Crime

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  Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are famous for the murder cases they have solved – but there are many other mysteries in the pages of Hazel’s casebook, from the macabre ‘Case of the De...

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  Murder Most Unladylike 5 Mistletoe & Mur

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  Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong are spending the Christmas hols in snowy Cambridge. Hazel has high hopes of its beautiful spires, cosy libraries, and inviting tea-rooms – but there is danger lurki...

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  Murder Most Unladylike

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  When Daisy Wells and Hazel Wong set up their very own deadly secret detective agency at Deepdean School for Girls, they struggle to find any truly exciting mysteries to investigate. But then Hazel ...

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