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Tales to remember yesterday's fallen - from today's bestselling authors.Compiled by Tony Bradman, this collection of short stories chronicles the events of World War One - imagining the conflicts and emotions of those people caught up in the war and its aftermath. With...
Editeur :
Orchard Books
Parution :
2014-04-03
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The fourth thrilling title in Simon Scarrow's epic, bestselling Gladiator seriesMarcus may be free from the brutal training regime of the gladiators but he will not rest until he finds his mother. With his old friends Festus and Lupus at his side, and a letter from...
Editeur :
Puffin
Parution :
2014-03-06
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'The story I'm going to tell is true. It happened to me. It is a tale of Gunpowdertown’Life for Cristal has been upside down for a long time. She can’t even remember a time before the war began. Before potatoes for every meal and bombs raining down from the sky. Before...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2014-03-06
ePub
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Drem longs for the day he will win his Warrior Scarlet. But with a withered spear arm, how will he take part in the ritual Wolf Slaying which will prove his worth as a man of the tribe?With over forty books to her credit, Rosemary Sutcliff is now universally considered...
Editeur :
Rhcp Digital
Parution :
2014-02-28
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The Confidence Man follows 14-year-old Hans Ruppert and a band of Protestants as they leave their home town and seek peace and freedom from Persecution in the New World. They are led by a mysterious hussar, who has offered to lead then to safety. To Hans he is a...
Editeur :
Rhcp Digital
Parution :
2014-02-28
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From the day Cadwan fashioned a sword from a willow wand and composed a victory song for his young mistress, Boudicca, he has loyally charted her rise to Queen. Boudicca is the strong and brave leader of the Iceni tribe - courageously guiding her people from one...
Editeur :
Rhcp Digital
Parution :
2013-12-31
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One stormy December night some time in the eighteenth century, a coach came thundering down the long hill outside of Dorking on its usual journey into London. But something unusual was to happen that night as one of the passengers unexpectedly gave birth to a child.Not...
Editeur :
Rhcp Digital
Parution :
2013-12-31
ePub
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It had never seemed important during their boyhood that Simon Carey was for Parliament and his friend Amias Hannaford a royalist. But when Civil War breaks out, they find themselves fighting on different sides.Finally the day comes when the friends must put their...
Editeur :
Rhcp Digital
Parution :
2013-11-30
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Set in China in 1900s the story of a young girl who defied tradition by refusing to have her feet bound and in doing so changed the course of her life forever.
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2013-11-28
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After the sad demise of Sir Thomas, Edmund Bertram and his new wife Fanny must sail to the West Indies in order to oversee the family’s affairs.Back at Mansfield Park, Fanny’s younger sister Susan is left at the helm. The household faces disarray, and she must guide the...
Editeur :
Rhcp Digital
Parution :
2013-11-07
ePub
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The invasion of the Norsemen is approaching, and the people of Edmund Firehead's settlement must flee if they are to stand any chance of survival. But people have always found Edmund's fiery red hair startling - and the Norsemen are no exception. Instead of killing...
Editeur :
Rhcp Digital
Parution :
2013-10-30
ePub
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'Suppose you got stuck in here, and Clare there in your time. Just suppose you did?’Charlotte Makepeace’s first day at boarding school is a bewildering blur of unfamiliar faces, timetables, rules and lists. All the other girls know the routine – and each other. No one...
Editeur :
Vintage Digital
Parution :
2013-10-03
ePub
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My name is Sapphire Battersea. Doesn't that sound beautiful?When Hetty Feather, a foundling, is finally reunited with her mother, she hopes that her beautiful new name, Sapphire Battersea, will also mean a new life! But things don't always go as planned...The twists and...
Editeur :
Rhcp Digital
Parution :
2013-09-26
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The mega-bestselling tale of fiery, spirited Victorian foundling, Hetty Feather.London, 1876. Hetty Feather is just a tiny baby when her mother leaves her at the Foundling Hospital.The Hospital cares for abandoned children - but Hetty must first live with a foster...
Editeur :
Rhcp Digital
Parution :
2013-09-26
ePub
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The day the First World War broke out, Alfie Summerfield's father promised he wouldn't go away to fight - but he broke that promise the following day.Four years later, Alfie doesn't know where his father might be, other than that he's away on a special, secret...
Editeur :
Rhcp Digital
Parution :
2013-09-26
ePub
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'We are the scum and the scrapings of the Empire. They tipped out the garbage-bin of the Eagles to make us what we are.'In disgrace after a mistake that cost the lives of half his men, Alexios arrives in Castellum. It's his first command, but it isn't really a...
Editeur :
Rhcp Digital
Parution :
2013-08-31
ePub
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Damaris Crocker had not lived her twelve years in smuggling country without knowing when a Run was planned. This night smugglers would bring more than just the usual contraband of brandy and lace. They would bring adventure, romance and danger in the form of a...
Editeur :
Rhcp Digital
Parution :
2013-07-31
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Life in eighteenth-century London was hard and especially so for the city's apprentices. For seven long years they struggled for their livelihoods among the fetid houses and sinister quays of old London. But despite their hardships there was hope and even fun.This...
Editeur :
Rhcp Digital
Parution :
2013-07-31
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Floridius the Soothsayer has been asked to read the omens for a wealthy man whose villa appears to be haunted. The pay is good but it means studying a sheep's liver and poorFloridius faints at the sight of blood! Can Threptus solve the mystery and save his friend from...
Editeur :
Orion Children's Books
Parution :
2013-07-04
Collection :
The Roman Mystery Scrolls
ePub
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‘This little lass is strong. She will carry the ropes and walk forever.’It is as well that these words, spoken by Minnie’s great grandmother at her birth, prove to be prophetic, for the ropemaker’s youngest daughter needs all the strength and courage she can muster in...
Editeur :
Rhcp Digital
Parution :
2013-06-30
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