Historical

Dublin 1913 My name is Betty Rafferty. A few weeks ago I had to leave school and go out to work in a cake shop, serving fancy cakes to rude, rich people. No choice. But since then so much has happened. It all started when old Miss Warby took our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374482442Author Rosemary SutcliffFormat PaperbackImprint Farrar, Straus & Giroux IncPublisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc

Told who to cheer for, who to believe in, Yuri grows up in a country where no freedom of thought is encouraged - where even one's neighbours are encouraged to report any dissension to the authorities. But it is still a shock when a few careless words...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781665905640Author Marianne CurleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Margaret K. McElderry BooksPublisher Margaret K. McElderry BooksWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (Grades 6-8) 2015 and Golden Sower Award (Young Adult) 2015 and Isinglass Teen Read Award 2014. Commended for Georgia...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398479296Author Clare CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley PublishersWeight(grams)...

When Lily is a young teenager, the time comes for her and her friends to leave school and find work; some are emigrating to America, some going to work in shops. Lily is going into service in the Big House - Lissadell. Lily's employers, the Gore-Booth...

Just in time for the 10th anniversary of Between Shades of Gray, Ruta Sepetys's award-winning debut novel, and inspiration for the major motion picture Ashes in the Snow, is now a gorgeous graphic novel!From #1 New York Times and international...

Derry, 1689. An anonymous letter is read out saying that every last Protestant man, woman and child is to be murdered. Panic takes hold. Two teenage boys, Daniel and Robert Sherrard, help close the city gates against the approaching Catholic army. ...

Drawing from historical journals and letters, New York Times bestselling author Laura Elliot weaves a richly detailed tale about the extraordinary Peggy Schuyler and her revolutionary friendship with Alexander Hamilton. Perfect for fans of the smash...

Shortlisted for the Historical Association's Young Quills Award 2018Russia, 1916. Nina Ivanovna's world is in turmoil. Her only hope is to travel to St Petersburg, to escape the past and find a future.Stefan Kolodin is a medical student - young and...

Dublin, 1943, and Roisin Tierney has changed her identity to evade the police in Nazi-occupied Ireland. With spies and informers a constant threat, Roisin must choose her friends carefully, and keep her Jewish heritage hidden at all costs. With her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593428368Author Vesper StamperFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Would you break the rules or break your promise? On the outskirts of Edinburgh, just before the outbreak of WW2, Charlie finds a starving German boy called Josef hiding in the woods near his home. Josef can't speak English and is desperately afraid,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801051101Author Arthur OverFormat HardbackPage Count 56Imprint Imagine That Publishing LtdPublisher Imagine That Publishing LtdDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385738965Author Adeline Yen MahFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Bantam Doubleday DellPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

It's time to choose: friendship, family or loyalty to the cause. When Emer Davey saves her neighbour Jack Madigan from drowning, it seems that they will be friends forever. But eight months later, they find themselves on opposite sides in a...

An enthralling novel of two intertwining stories based on real events in 19th century Ireland and the Canadian Arctic. Two ships Arctic-bound, HMS Erebus and Terror, leave London in 1845, captained by the aging Sir John Franklin. How long they'll be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781338355949Author Sharon CameronFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Scholastic USPublisher Scholastic USWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm *...

"Haunting, exhilarating, and a howl of vengeance." -Andrew Joseph White, New York Times bestselling author of Hell Followed With UsFrankenstein meets Inglourious Basterds in this stunning Jewish historical horror novel from the award-winning author of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035805075Author Steve JukeFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

In a celebrity-obsessed world can absolute celebrity fame and idolisation be exploited to gain absolute power... opening the gates of hell... ? At a worrying time when the once-clear line between celebrity stardom and political leadership on the world...

This is the story of Katie Berger-Jones-Burg. One minute, she's under the bed of her New York apartment... the next she's in Buckingham Palace, at the height of Queen Victoria's reign... A dangerous place to be.The Royal Family is in mortal peril. In...

As a young black woman in 1880s Savannah, Essie's dreams are very much at odds with her reality. Ashamed of her beginnings, but unwilling to accept the path currently available to her, Essie is trapped between the life she has and the life she wants. ...

Germany, 1945. The soldiers who liberated the Gross-Rosen concentration camp said the war was over, but nothing feels over to eighteen-year-old Zofia Lederman. Her body has barely begun to heal; her mind feels broken. And her life is completely...

Belfast in 1916. Fourteen-year-old Helen is shaped by her mixed background - rural, Catholic Irish values from mum Kathleen; urban, Protestant Ulster ones from dad James. Her parents are relaxed in their politics but others in the family circle are more...

A down-on-his-luck actor and an English lord reluctantly team up to solve the murder of Christopher Marlowe in this Shakespearean-era young adult romp perfect for fans of F.T. Lukens and Mackenzi Lee.London, 1593. Sixteen-year-old Will Hughes is busy...

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material...

An arranged marriage interferes with star-crossed love in this sweeping medieval romance from Sally Nicholls - perfectly pitched for struggling teen readers. Lady Elinor of Hardford has fallen in love for the first time, with Dan, her cousin...

From first breakups and romantic vampire encounters to last band performances and the deadly end of a friendship, Firsts and Lasts is an anthology that is just as unpredictable as being a teenager. While each of these stories span different genres and...

When her home is destroyed in the Luftwaffe bombing of the North Strand, Dublin in 1941, Grace Ryan is forced to move in with relatives in a different part of the city. There she meets Barry Malone, an English boy sent to neutral Ireland to escape the...

Between 1943 and 1944, nearly 50,000 Bulgarian Jews were rescued from the Holocaust, including thousands who had already been rounded up and put on trains bound for death camps in Poland. Dominic Carrillo's suspenseful novel Acts of Resistance is based...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913637316Author Lesley ParrFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Jelly Bean BooksPublisher Candy Jar Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Indies Choice Book Award.Book InformationISBN 9780399254123Author Ruta SepetysFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA...

In the Dublin of 1922 with Civil War about to break out, working class Annie Reilly is thrilled to win a scholarship to Eccles Street Convent School. A little frozen out by her old friends, yet not wholly accepted by all of her new classmates, she is...

Big changes are coming to late-Sixties Belfast. At first life seems normal for Sammy and Maeve, two children from the opposing republican and loyalist communities. Sammy tries to avoid trouble with his unemployed father, while Maeve has lived with her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780147511843Author Stacey LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint SpeakPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 337gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 140mm * 24mm

Quantum Computing: From Alice to Bob provides a distinctive and accessible introduction to the rapidly growing fields of quantum information science and quantum computing. The textbook is designed for undergraduate students and upper-level secondary...

THE THIRD BOOK IN CLAIRE MACLEARY'S MULTI-AWARD-LISTED HARCUS & LAIRD SERIES 'Claire MacLeary has, with little fuss or fanfare, written a crime series that subverts and rejuvenates the crime genre' Scots Whay Hae When Aberdeen housewife Debbie Milne...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375829086Author Tamora PierceFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint EmberPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 141mm *...