Children's / Teenage fiction: Historical fiction

Jane Pinny has moved to the very grand Lytton House to be a Maid Of All Work. And being a Maid Of All Work means that she has to do - well, ALL the work, obviously! Cleaning, dusting, scrubbing, washing - there's SO much to do in a Victorian country house. But when a priceless jade necklace belon...

John Drawbridge has moved to Widemoat Castle to learn to become a knight. And there is a LOT to learn - how to charge with a lance on horseback without falling off, why the spiral staircases always go up in a clockwise direction, how to defend the castle against invading parties, and much more. S...

Having survived their first time-slip adventure, Alex and his sister, Ruby, have tumbled back through the mirror into the freezing-cold winter of 1947. Food is scarce in the aftermath of the Second World War and life at Applecott House is hard. The children decide to solve the mystery of a missin...

It's November, 1922. In a valley in Egypt the tomb of a long dead pharaoh is about to be discovered. The world watches and waits for news with baited breath. 13 year old Lilian Kaye, who lives in a flat above a shop in London, is eagerly following the story. One morning the news takes a sinister ...

Carter and Sadie Kane face the impossible task of defeating Apophis, the serpent of chaos, before he can destroy the mortal world. Unfortunately, the magicians of the House of Life are on the brink civil war, the Gods are divided, and the young initiates of Brooklyn House stand almost alone again...

1815. Twelve-year-old Nico Cloud is obsessed with science and maps; 'fossils are the past and seeds are the future'. Her parents have no time for her outlandish opinions - after all, a girl's work is embroidery. After overhearing that her parents plan to send her away to boarding school, Nico goe...

London, 1894. Luna aunt's butterfly club is actually a secret society whose members use time travel to plunder the future for wonders. Luna and her friends travel to 1912 and find themselves aboard a great ship travelling from Southampton to New York - the RMS Titanic.

Young Mai and her sister, Haf, are suspicious of the Saxon soldiers arriving in their village. Proved rightly so by a brutal attack on their family home, the sisters must seek a new place to belong, encountering betrayal, love and everything in between in the process.

Young Mai and her sister, Haf, are suspicious of the Saxon soldiers arriving in their village. Proved rightly so by a brutal attack on their family home, the sisters must seek a new place to belong, encountering betrayal, love and everything in between in the process.

Destined for an arranged marriage, Cass dreams of freedom. So when a beautiful leather-clad woman rides up and offers to take her away, Cass doesn't hesitate to join her. She is introduced to the Sisterhood of Silk Knights - a group of women training to fight, protect their community and right th...