Children's / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction

  • Deep dark

    £7.99

    The Cassia Thorne Mysteries follows a young Anglo-Indian girl as she uncovers mysteries around her, fighting for justice in a series that evokes Enola Holmes with a supernatural twist.

  • Westfallen

    £8.99

    We didn’t mean to change the past. Now we have to win the war.
    A stunning ‘what if?’ story by a bestselling author about two groups of 12-year-olds – one in World War Two, one in the present day.

  • Rebel heart

    £7.99

    England, 1645. Merriweather Pryce is the daughter of a nobleman fightingfor King Charles I in a war that divides the country. Whenher family home is besieged by Cromwell’s army, Merri sets outto get help. But in a land filled with enemy soldiers, turncoatsand spies, who can she really trust?

  • Hidden treasure

    £14.99

    From the bestselling author of The Miniaturist. Jessie Burton’s Hidden Treasure is the phenomenal page-turning story of two children whose lives collide when they find an ancient treasure with the power to return to them the most precious thing they have ever lost

  • When fishes flew

    £7.99

    A sweeping story of love and rescue and an unforgettable journey back in time to the Second World War – from the master storyteller

  • Toro! Toro!

    £6.99

    A moving tale set during the Spanish Civil War, about the bond between a little boy and his bull, and their escape from a terrifying fate.

  • Little Manfred

    £7.99

    A heartwarming story split between 1966 and the Second World War where past and present collide, unlocking memories and reuniting old friends, showing that people can become family, despite the conflicts dividing them.

  • Hunger’s bite

    £13.99

    Teen vampire Warwick (‘Wick’) Farley is dispatched by his shifty employers – the international paranormal investigation organization Goldfinch – to look into an ocean liner whose mysterious new owner could threaten Britain’s maritime business. What Wick discovers is a supernatural threat frightening even to him. Teaming with brave Neeta Pandy, the teenage ward of the ship’s captain, Wick stands against Honeycutt – who appears to be a merely crass American businessman but is in fact an energy-sucking entity intent on destroying the ship.

  • The great theatre rescue

    £7.99

    Charley doesn’t mind that she’s had an unconventional childhood. Growing up behind the curtain in London’s West End has been full of excitement. She’s even begun taking a turn on stage. But her dreams of being a performer are shattered when she is sent off to boarding school. On arrival, Charley discovers that the school is a place where the girls are forced to do unpaid work in order to fill the pockets of the owners. With the theatre in peril back home, Charley has no choice but to escape, and to make a dangerous journey along the coast in order to get back to all that she loves, and to save her beloved home.

  • Where the heart should be

    £8.99

    It is 1846 and Ireland is starving. The potatoes are black, people are dying and in the midst of it all Nell must do everything she can to keep her family together, and everyone she loves alive. Even if it means giving up her every want, dream and desire.

  • Wink, murder

    £7.99

    Mary has a gift for languages and codes that has brought her to the attention of the adults working at Bletchley Park. She finds herself drawn into their undercover operations, learning Japanese in order to decode enemy messages – but the operation she’s a part of remains cloaked in mystery. As tensions on the Home Front escalate, Mary is forced to face the realities of warfare – the enemy is operating amongst them. Posing as a waitress amidst the glamour and bustle of the Ritz Hotel, Mary uncovers secrets and lies amongst the people she’s working mostly closely with. Can Mary steer clear of danger and thwart the devious mission unfolding around her? There is just one thing she knows for sure: trust no one.

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