Jamrach's Menagerie (Häftad)
avBIRCH CAROL, Carol Birch
ISBN: 9780857863836 - UTGIVEN: 201109Young Jaffy Brown never expects to escape the slums of Victorian London. Then, aged eight, a chance encounter with Mr Jamrach changes Jaffy's stars. And before he knows it, he finds himself at the docks waving goodbye to his beloved Ishbel and boarding a ship bound for the Indian Ocean. With his fri[...]
Jamrach's Menagerie (Häftad)
avCarol Birch
ISBN: 9780307743176 - UTGIVEN: 201206Nineteenth-century London comes vividly alive in this story a street urchin named Jaffy Brown. After a close call with an escaped tiger, Jaffy goes to work for Mr. Charles Jamrach, the famed importer of exotic animals. As the years pass, Mr. Jamrach recruits Jaffy and another boy named Tim to captur[...]
The Naming of Eliza Quinn (Storpocket)
avCarol Birch
ISBN: 9781844081462 - UTGIVEN: 200608This is an extraordinarily haunting novel, inspired by a true story. In the late 1960s, in the hollow of an ancient oak tree beyond a derelict cottage in Cork, were found the bones of a three-year-old girl. It was thought that they dated back to the time of the great potato famine of the mid 1800s. [...]
Scapegallows (Pocket)
avCarol Birch
ISBN: 9781844083916 - UTGIVEN: 2009-05This is the story of Margaret Catchpole, born into a smugglers' world in Suffolk in the late 1700s. As the valued servant of a wealthy family and a friend of criminals, Margaret leads a double life that inevitably brings about her downfall, and she is sentenced to hang not once, but twice. But she e[...]
Jamrach's Menagerie (Häftad)
avCarol Birch
ISBN: 9781847676573 - UTGIVEN: 201109Young Jaffy Brown never expects to escape the slums of Victorian London. Then, aged eight, a chance encounter with Mr Jamrach changes Jaffy's stars. And before he knows it, he finds himself at the docks waving goodbye to his beloved Ishbel and boarding a ship bound for the Indian Ocean. With his fri[...]
