The Doomsday Machine: A Further Astonishing Adventure of Horatio Lyle
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| Author | M.J. Putney |
| ISBN | 0312622856 |
The Irregulars return home to 1803 England safely, but their worldview has changed. Not only have their heroic efforts at Dunkirk given them pride and confidence but their dangerous mission has increased their magical powers.
Tory delights in the ever deepening bond she shares with Allarde...
| Author | Kate Griffin |
| ISBN | 0356500659 |
Sharon Li: apprentice shaman and community support officer for the magically inclined. It wasn't the career Sharon had in mind, but she's getting used to running Magicals Anonymous and learning how to Be One With The City.
When the Midnight Mayor goes missing, leaving only a suspiciously...
| Author | Adèle Geras |
| ISBN | 1783440600 |
1914: War has broken out across Europe and beyond. Nothing will ever be the same again for those caught up in the conflict.
This collection of short stories explores how the First World War changed and shaped the lives of women forever. A courageous nurse risks her life at the Front Line; a young...
Immediately compelling and action-packed, this carefully researched work of historical fiction introduces young readers to the childhood of the famous yet elusive Beryl Markham, the first person to fly solo from England to North America. As in her debut novel, Prisoners in the Palace, MacColl propels...
| Author | Holly Webb |
| ISBN | 1408304503 |
*NOTE:This is a review of the entire series*
Typically, I don't read a lot of middle grade novels. I used to love them when I was younger. As an adult, I feel that I am so beyond the intended audience that the magic and wonder is lost on me. However, I've been on this kick lately where all I want to read...
| Author | Victoria Lamb |
| ISBN | 0373211007 |
Her darkest dreams are coming true.
In Tudor England, 1555, Meg Lytton has learned how powerful her magick gift can be. But danger surrounds her and her mistress, the outcast Princess Elizabeth. Nowhere is safe in the court of Elizabeth's fanatical sister, Queen Mary. And as the Spanish Inquisition's...
| Author | Mary Hooper |
| ISBN | 0747599106 |
In this follow-up to By Royal Command, Lucy is asked to continue her work on behalf of Queen Elizabeth I. But will her romance with Tomas, the queen's fool, get in the way?
There's also Mistress Juliette, the mysterious new lady-in-waiting. Could she be a threat to the queen? Or is Lucy simply...
| Author | David Massey |
| ISBN | 1908435178 |
War changes things. That which was clear-cut, becomes blurred. Good or bad; easily distinguished in theory, mesh and blend together during battle. The single-minded, grim determination to conquer the enemy can be difficult to maintain when the antagonist is but a small boy. When the terrorists are...
| Author | G.L. Twynham |
| ISBN | 1907211136 |
Imagine starting at the end and finishing back at the beginning. This is the story of a teenage girl called Valerie Saunders who is about to be thrown through time and space. Being bestowed with abilities beyond her wildest nightmares, she discovers that she not only has to deal with turning eighteen,...
One of London's first forensic detectives chases a grisly killer in this stunning debut mystery rich in period detail and sinister intrigue.
London in 1856 is gripped by a frightening obsession. The specimen-collecting craze is growing, and discoveries in far-off jungles are reshaping...
| Author | Robert Lee Hall |
| ISBN | 0872165116 |
Ever wondered just what was the relationship between Holmes and Moriarty? Why no one has ever seen the two of them together? Well, here's your answer. As Moriarty himself puts it: 'We are closer than brothers - and further apart than any two beings can be.' This non-Doyle pastiche continues the Sherlock...
| Author | Judith Tarr |
| ISBN | 0553276093 |
This is a very enjoyable book if you can overlook the fact that the protagonist is a rapist.
I trust the 'oh dear' is implied.
This book takes place in medieval Egypt and the middle-east, slightly before the third crusade, if I have my figures right. Salah ad-Din Yusuf (Saladin) appears...
| Author | Gerry Davis |
| ISBN | 0426110684 |
Enter: The Cybermen and the first regeneration!
WHO
The Doctor:
The First Doctor
Companions:
Ben Jackson
Polly Wright
WHERE & WHEN
Antartica. Earth. Year 2000.
WHAT
This...
Kitty Peck and the Music Hall Murders
| Author | Kate Griffin |
| ISBN | 0571302696 |
Limehouse, 1880: Dancing girls are going missing from 'Paradise' - the criminal manor with ruthless efficiency by the ferocious Lady Ginger. Seventeen-year-old music hall seamstress Kitty Peck finds herself reluctantly drawn into a web of blackmail, depravity and murder when The Lady devises...
Wilma Tenderfoot and the Case of the Putrid Poison
| Author | Emma Kennedy |
| ISBN | 0330469525 |
A cunning disguise. Some stinky seaweed. And a dastardly villain on the loose ...sounds like another case for Wilma Tenderfoot! Wilma Tenderfoot, the feisty and determined assistant to the greatest living detective, Theodore P. Goodman, is faced with a peculiar, and pongy, case to crack. Cooper...
Sherlock has been drugged, kidnapped, and sent off to China on the Gloria Scott, most likely by the Paradol Chamber. Amyus Crowe and Mycroft Holmes are concerned, but since there is nothing they can do, they decide from the comfort of Mycroft's club that Sherlock will learn a lot and come back to them in...
Jinx (Lady Grace Mysteries, #10)
This charming short story was first made available as a chapbook for Christmas 2008, 'given away by the author as a Christmas card' apparently, which is a tremedous idea - I'd love an exclusive little tale such as that!
As it happens, for my fortune and that of others who enjoy Mann's work, it is reprinted...
| Author | Lorna Hill |
| ISBN | 9796052288 |
Although 'Masquerade' was written before 'No Castanets,' and doesn't even mention Caroline (the action being firmly centred on Jane and Mariella), an overlapping time frame across both novels is definitely discernible.
Jane is a likeable character, but she lacks strong characterisation...
| Author | Robin Jarvis |
| ISBN | 0006753868 |
Robin Jarvis’s latest creation is a world set in an alternate past. This strangely familiar Britain consists of ninety-three individual ‘blessed isles’ floating in the deep darkness and the story begins in December in the Gloriana Kalendar, when Elizabeth Tudor has reigned for one hundred...
| Author | Melissa Scott |
| ISBN | 0671697838 |
The heavy summer air of 1595 is full of portents for Elizabeth, England's Queen, and James VI, King of Scotland. A coven of witches secretly controlled by the Wizard Earl of Bothwell has summoned a storm to sink the ship that bears James' bride to Scotland. Though the ship made port, the success of their...
