Greta van der Rol

 

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Tom likes fast food and action movies; his Xbox and iPhone. He wants to be famous and knows he could be a movie star – if it weren’t for the nerves. A pretty normal thirteen-year old really – until the accident.

Why does he start dreaming about wild animals?
Why does he have to be sent to England, to live in the most godforsaken backward dump?
Why is his weird grandmother trying to read his mind?
Why, above all, didn’t he die alongside his parents?

Tom is thrown into an adventure far wilder than any game on his Xbox. He’s about to find out that he’s a shaman, an eco-warrior, a “walker between worlds”. The only problem? Nobody ever told him.

Warning: The shamanic techniques described in Walker are all real - do not try them on your own. And you can learn more about them at  Jane Alexander's blog


Isabeau

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The marriage of Isabella of France and Edward II of England in 1308 is a union meant to secure lasting peace. But the weak and ineffective Edward prefers his lover to his wife. With Isabella’s help, Sir Roger Mortimer, imprisoned for leading a rebellion against Edward, escapes from the Tower of London and flees to France.

Isabeau is a story about what happens when the quest for requital and a clandestine passion come together.

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Gemini Sasson


Songs of the Earth

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Gair hears magic, the songs of the earth. To the Church Knights, that makes him a witch and witches must die.

Fleeing Dremen pursued by a witchfinder, Gair struggles to control the magic within him. The Guardians can teach Gair about magic, but they've been persecuted almost to extinction by the Church. Now they face a new threat: the renegade Savin, who means to rend the Veil between worlds. Gair chooses to stand with the Guardians against him, and pays a terrible price for chivalry.

Read my review of Songs of the Earth
Elspeth Cooper


May 1812

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1812. Europe has been at war for twenty years. Out of the blue, the Earl of Myddelton discovers that within a week, under the terms of a contract signed by his late father, he must marry a girl he has never met. Refusal would mean the loss of his entire inheritance and income. And failure of the marriage spells political ruin.

Then, on 11 May 1812, the Prime Minister is assassinated, plunging Myddelton into a crisis which could cost him his life.



Read my review of May 1812.
MM Bennetts