- Location(s): London
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Victorian era, 19th century
Nominated for the Carnegie Medal Highly Commended, Young Quills Historical Fiction Award Ada Byron is rich and clever, but she longs to be free. Free to explore all the amazing ideas that come to her imagination, like flying mechanical...
- Location(s): Florence, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 16th Century to present
In Leonardo da Vinci’s studio, bursting with genius imagination, towering commissions and needling patrons, as well as discontented muses, friends and rivals, sits the painting of the Mona Lisa. For five hundred tumultuous years, amid a whirlwind of power,...
- Location(s): Antarctica
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): 1990s
Jerri Nielsen was a forty-six year old doctor working in Ohio when she made the decision to take a year’s sabbatical at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Research Station in Antarctica, the most remote and perilous place on earth. The...
- Location(s): Michigan, Upper Peninsula
- Genre(s): Crime, Mystery
- Era(s): early 2000s
Meet Grady Service: a former Marine, renowned tracker, Conservation Officer, and the last person any errant hunter wants to cross. In Ice Hunter, the first of a series of mysteries set in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Service defends his turf with the...
Icebreaker: A Voyage Far North
- Location(s): Finland
- Genre(s): Travelogue
- Era(s): Contemporary
‘We are celebrating a hundred years since independence this year: how would you like to travel on a government icebreaker?’ A message from the Finnish embassy launches Horatio Clare on a voyage around an extraordinary country and an unearthly...