Blogs in January 2021

Freedom 18th January 2021

An action-packed and pacey story about a boy’s experience of slavery in Britain. Nathaniel doesn’t want to move to England with his master’s family, leaving behind his mother and sister on the Jamaican plantation. But then he remembers what...

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Queen of Freedom: Defending Jamaica 18th January 2021

How one woman masterminded slave resistance against the British in eighteenth-century Jamaica – the incredible true story of Queen Nanny and the Maroons. Part of the True Adventure series! 1720. Blue Mountains, windward Jamaica. High above the army camps...

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Sawbones 16th December 2020

Sixteen-year-old Ezra McAdam has much to be thankful for: trained up as an apprentice by a well-regarded London surgeon, Ezra’s knowledge of human anatomy and skill at the dissection table will secure him a trade for life. However, his...

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Race to the Frozen North 27th September 2020

Matthew Henson was simply an ordinary man. That was, until Commander Robert E. Peary entered his life, and offered him a chance at true adventure. Henson would become navigator, craftsman, translator, and right-hand man on a treacherous journey to...

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