It's Leeds, 1940. On the night of the Luftwaffe's fiercest bombardment, Captain Abraham Matthews has finally caught up with Albie Crowe, the champion of a gang of petty thieves and professional plunderers. Holed up in a brick air-raid shelter at the scrub end of Woodhouse Moor, Abraham and Albie wai[...]
A stunning novel set in the wake of the Second World War, Little Exiles tells the extraordinary story of the forced child migration between Britain and Australia that took place after World War II and how this flight from home shaped the identity of a generation of children. Jon Heather, proud to be[...]
A stunning novel set in the wake of the Second World War, Little Exiles tells the extraordinary story of the forced child migration between Britain and Australia that took place after World War II and how this flight from home shaped the identity of a generation of children.[...]
Fairy tale and history, wilderness and civilisation collide in this brilliant and magical new novel from the author of Little Exiles.[...]
Fairy tale and history, wilderness and civilisation collide in this brilliant and magical new novel from the author of Little Exiles.[...]
January, 1916, and the rooftops of Leeds creak with the weight of the winter's snows. William Redmond, soon to join the Chapeltown Rifles, wanders with his younger brother Samuel through the old haunts of their childhood - and, there, at the top of the Moor across which they are forbidden to walk, S[...]