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Sofka Zinovieff had fallen in love with Greece as a student, but little suspected that years later she would, return for good with an expatriate Greek husband and two young daughters. This book is a wonderfully fresh [...]

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In this sequel to The King Must Die Theseus defies the Gods’ and claims the throne of Athens a move that culminates in the terrible, fateful destruction of the house of Minos -- the Minotaur.

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In 1970s Argentina, mothers marched in headscarves embroidered with the names of their “disappeared” children. In Tudor, England, when Mary, Queen of Scots, was under house arrest, her needlework [...]

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When Jessica’s partner disappears into the dark Tasmanian forest, there is of course the mystery of what happened to him. The deserted car; the enigmatic final image on his phone [...]

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Witches occupy a clear place in contemporary imagination. We can see them, emerging shadowy, from the corners of the past: mad, glamorous, difficult, strange. They haunt the footnotes of history [...]

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Pan MacMillan Speech   The last time I was here was to talk to you about ‘The Gypsy Crown’ and the Chain of Charms series, which […]

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My Fairy Tale Fascination I was enchanted with the Grimm Brothers’ fairy-tales from the moment I read them as a little girl, sick and lonely in […]

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INTERVIEW WITH JANE YOLEN   Jane Yolen is one of my favourite children’s authors. She moves easily between wonderful picture books like Owl Moon and How […]

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I have written books set in Kent during the time of Charles II and Oliver Cromwell (The Gypsy Crown); set in Scotland during the tumultuous reign of Mary, Queen of Scots (The Puzzle Ring); in Renaissance Venice and Versailles in the time of the Sun King (Bitter Greens); in Germany during the Napoleonic wars

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The astonishing true journey of Trudi Kanter, an Austrian Jew, whose courage, resourcefulness, and perseverance kept both her and her beloved safe during the Nazi invasion is a rediscovered masterpiece. In London, in 1984, Trudi Kanter's remarkable memoir was published [...]

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