Review: Slave to Fortune by D J Munro

Review: Slave to Fortune by D J Munro

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...
Review: The Peculiars by Kieran Larwood

Review: The Peculiars by Kieran Larwood

  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...