What better way to get too involved in a novel than choosing one that is set just outside your front door? This psychological thriller takes place on the Isle of Wight, seemingly a place of safety and tranquillity, but old family secrets emerge to disrupt the lives of...
A young woman, a railway and the inevitability of marriage. Cooper’s debut novel seamlessly transports you to 19th century Cowes as if you had walked the high street and found the studio of the Professor of Photography yourself. The story is centred around the coming...
Did you know that in 1891 Mahatma Gandhi travelled to the Island to give a speech to the Ventnor Vegetarian Society? He trembled with fright and, unable to utter a single word, passed the speech to his lawyer-friend to finish! Or that the orphaned Prince Alemayehu of...
Based on the real-life journals of Tom Cheke, Slave to Fortune is an award-winning historical novel,which expertly captures the bygone era of barbary corsairs, galleons and gunpowder. You can almost feel the spray on your face and catch the scent of exotic spices in...
If you love history, mystery and adventure, then this winner of the Times Children’s Fiction competition will be right up your alley. Especially if that alley is a mucky, smelly alley in the middle of smog filledVictorian London where sinister secrets and...
