Celia Rees
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Childrens
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Description
When two young women meet under extraordinary circumstances in the eighteenth-century West Indies, they are unified in their desire to escape their oppressive lives. The first is a slave, forced to work in a plantation mansion and subjected to terrible cruelty at the hands of the plantation manager. The second is a spirited and rebellious English girl, sent to the West Indies to marry well and combine the wealth of two respectable families. But fate...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Germany, 1946. A reluctant spy is born. Edith Graham has always flown under the radar. Working for years as a teacher in a girls' school, she had a quiet war, sequestered away in the English countryside. But beneath her quiet exterior lies the heart of an adventurer.When a family friend asks her to interview for a position in the war office, Edith has no idea she is being recruited for something more, but leaps at the chance to do her bit. Sent to...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Violetta and Feste have come to London to rescue the holy relics taken from the church in Illyria by the evil Malvolio. Their journey has been long and their adventures many, but it is not until they meet the playwright William Shakespeare that they get to tell the entire story from beginning to end!
Author
Publisher
Hodder Children's
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
The Goodman family move into an old pub with a haunted past. They are unaware that the building is haunted by a spirit with terrifying connections to the Knights Templars, and a mystery that has stayed hidden for over 500 years.