Set in Hanoverian England with a Channel Tunnel through which wolves run and dastardly smuggling adventures occur.

It is May 1945. Peace has been declared. Dot has to learn to cope with the return of her father, the man with the paper face.

The story of Johnnie, branded as a thief, in wartime London.

A novel about Carrie's experiences as an evacuee in Wales.

An exciting story about the First WorldWar.

Jet, the poacher's dog, is taken into the army when her owner is sent to prison. It is 1939 and Britain is at war. Soon she is sent to France on active service.

The year is 1381 and unrest is spreading like the plague. The story of the Peasants' Revolt told through the eyes, ears and nose of a wolf.

A true story about experiences in World War II.

8th century Northumbria is on the brink of civil war. The Norse are raiding the coasts. Into this ruthless world comes ‘The Fox’ - a young man who has to use all his cunning to survive.

A time-slip starring an actor in Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre.

For 12-year-old Jem, the coming of the railways was the most spectacular thing he had ever seen, but many people did not want things to change. As the navvies carved out the railway lines across the countryside, the tension grew between the villagers and the gangs until it flared into violence.

Young Arthur is son of the Lord of Caldicott Manor, longing to be a knight.  He acquires a seeing stone through which he is drawn into the story of the famous King Arthur of legend.  A brilliant work of fiction, meticulous in its medieval detail.

Gatty, who has only been as far as the next village in her short life, finds herself in the company of Lady Gwyneth heading for Jerusalem.

20 March, 1291 Catherine's in trouble. Her father's trying to marry her off to disgusting old Shaggy Beard, and her mother's determined to turn her into the perfect medieval lady.

14th century England is a cruel and dangerous place. Brat didn't know her real name or her age. She is a homeless orphan, but her life changed when Jane the Midwife came upon her in a dung heap.

Votes for women! Emily Palmer tells of her involvement with the Suffragette movement.

An action-packed story involving the Globe theatre. One of a series including: The Queen of the Dying Light; The Prince of Rags and Patches; The Knight of Stars and Storms and The King in Blood Red and Gold.

Aida is on the run in Bosnia. She meets four other teenagers hiding out on the Gora, the mountain that dominates the village. As war and danger swirl around the five teenagers - Muslim, Croat, Serb and Romany - their stories are told.......

All Dickens' novels are set in Victorian England and reveal much of the social conditions of the times.

The story of the French revolution - Liberty, equality and fraternity - entwined with happenings in London.  (A harder read than ‘Oliver Twist’ or ‘A Christmas Carol’, I think you’ll find.)

A complex story of how two girls, one living now and one 100 years ago, change places in time.

A school history project gives many insights into World War II.

The story of the author's uncles, four of whom lost their lives in the First World War. They play football on Christmas Day, on No Man's Land against the enemy.

How a goose followed one of the little ships involved in the Dunkirk rescue. A most beautiful short story.

A sophisticated fairy tale, this brings to life the England of the Commonwealth – after the Civil War of the 17th century. Coriander inherits her mother's 'cunning' skills.  Herbalist? Witch? Fairy?

Brilliant collection of short stories (one for each month) weaving together the tales of a dozen apprentices in 18th century London. Superb.

An 18th century London pickpocket plunges himself into a desperate adventure when he steals an important document.

Other great adventures: John Diamond, Jack Holborn, Devil-in-the-Fog.

Set in 1789, the year of the storming of the Bastille, this is the story of two young Englishmen - Richard Mortimer, who joins the revolutionaries, and Lewis Boston, his friend who tries to save the victims of violence.

A comedy set in mid-Victorian London. Orphan Nick's sister needs a dowry but she cannot sew, read or write, so Nick decides they must go to school - only first they need a dad.

Barnacle was a climbing boy in Victorian London, who fell down the wrong chimney one day.

A Jewish brother and sister flee Nazi Germany to find a new life in Britain.

Patty sells a pencil-sharpener to the German prisoner. A friendship starts which causes problems as Patty's Jewish.

A sympathetic portrait of life in a mining village at the start of the 20th century. David helps miners when the roof falls in.

Set in the time of King Alfred, this is the story of a boy, also called Alfred, who becomes assistant to the King's secretary, after several battles with the Danes.

David escapes from a concentration camp and eventually finds freedom.

Hannah is a teenager experiencing London life in the 17th century, the time of Pepys and the Plague.

An exciting adventure set in Elizabethan England.

Miles Philips was 13 when he sailed from Plymouth for the Indies with John Hawkins in 1567.

Set in Orkney Islands in the first century, this story recreates the society of this distant period. There are tensions, rivalries, warrior chiefs, Druids, Roman slaves, raiders and a young girl called Coll.

This is a tale of spying, set in Edinburgh in 1589. Roger Macey, an agent of the English government, is sent to Scotland to hunt for two Spanish agents.

In 1736, Sandy is apprenticed to a lawyer. He becomes involved in the dangerous business of tracking down key figures in The Lothian Run - a smuggling organisation.

Based on actual events of the 1850's, Connal pulls out a gun when members of his family are threatened by the Sheriff. This is an act punishable by death. . .

Bridie McShane grew up in a village in the lowlands of Scotland after WWI. Her father died when she was 9, and she is haunted by her own sense of time passing and death.

Eleanor is up against it in a castle at the time of Henry VIII.  Popular teenage historical romance.

The story of a girl growing up in pre-war Germany, and escaping with her family to live in France and then in England.

A vivid picture of young life in Hitler's Germany given by a survivor who did not learn until after the war that she was partly Jewish.

An exciting adventure set in World War II.

Set in the Russian Revolution, Natasha and her family escape across war-torn Europe. Eventually they settle in Scotland. Years later Natasha starts a revealing search for her will. . .

Protestant girl and Catholic lad fall in love during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

In 1846 in Ireland the potato harvest has failed. English soldiers turned families out of their homes. The roads were full of people with nowhere to go , and there was no work. A story of survival.

A gripping and moving story of what it was like to live in East Berlin under the shadow of the Wall.

12-year-old Rusty, who had been evacuated to the United States, returns to the grey austerity of post-war Britain.

Asmir lives in Sarajevo. He hears bombs and guns all around him. Then, one day, he is torn from his father, his home and everything he knows and becomes a refugee..............

A young city-boy is evacuated during the Second World War to live with a lonely old countryman.

In this moving story, the inhabitants of Blinston have to come with the closure of their pit. Mick watches his dying grandfather face his difficult past, and struggles to balance the needs of his own future with the strong power of the past.

A story about St Cuthbert, set in Northumbria.

A story about life with strolling players, set in the Middle Ages.

It is 1757 and15-year-old John Trenchard is in the Mohune Vault and overhears a smugglers' conversation. He, too, becomes involved in Blackbeard's treasure.

The story of Elizabeth I’s difficult and dangerous youth, seen through her own eyes.

Bess Throckmorton discovers she is descended from Sir Walter Raleigh. When she visits The Bloody Tower in London, she is amazed to find her ancestor’s ghost waiying for her.

Sean and Annie flee from the potato famine in Ireland to join their father in California, leaving their dying mother behind.

The story of a horse who left a village in Devon and served in the First World War.

Cessie's grandfather is sent off to Shangri-La, an old people's home, and she is determined to unravel the truth of his past, culminating in a terrifying night on the beaches of Dunkirk.

Jo stumbles on a dangerous secret. Jewish children are being smuggled from the Nazis, over the border into Spain. Now German soldiers have been stationed at the border. Jo must get word to his friends that the children are trapped.

In the 16th century, life for Donata, a young noble girl in Venice, is harder than you might guess. One of many popular reads from this American author.

A haunting story about Tom, Hugh, Laura and Margaret, set before the First World War in a grand Tudor house in Warwickshire.

Stepping outside as the clock strikes 13, Tom finds himself in a garden, some 80 years in the past.

Joey sells oranges in Victorian England. He finds a man murdered and is suspected, and starts to cover dark secrets about himself.

In 1659, after the witch trial of her ‘grandmother’, embarks for America in disguise with a group of puritans, hoping to avoid the same fate.

Sent to her father's sugar plantation to be married, Nancy Kington falls into serious trouble and takes to the seas as a pirate with a slave she has befriended.

Friedrich's family was well off when many in the Germany of the 1930's were not. But when Hitler came to power all this changed because Friedrich was Jewish.

The Nazis have come to power in Germany and children are flocking to join the Hitler Youth Movement.

It is 1916. Alex Davies and Seb Carpenter are 16-year-old Cathedral choristers - until Alex is faced with the threat of expulsion. The two boys enlist under age and are sent to the Somme. After a surprise German raid on Pave, the boys rejoin their original platoon in the trenches where a new shock awaits them...

Extensive range of historical periods – quick and easy reading, giving good flavour of times, including…

The Crystal Palace  -  A mock diary of Lily Hicks, 1850-1851.

The Hunger – the mock diary of Phyllis McCormack, Ireland 1845-1847.

Voyage on the Great Titanic – the mock diary of Margaret Anne Brady, 1912.

Blitz - A mock diary of Edie Benson, London, 1940-41

Epic journey of a group of children from post-war refugee camps searching for their parents.

Thrilling story of a war-time parachute drop into enemy territory.

An imagined account of how the white horse of Uffington was created.  Sutcliff was one of the finest writers of children’s historical fiction.  Each of her titles comes very highly recommended.

On the edge of the Roman Empire, Phaedrus has earned his freedom from slavery by fighting his way through the gladiators' school. Now he is offered a chance to be Head of a Gaelic tribe - The Horse People.

Marcus comes to England to find out what happened to his father, and the Ninth Legion which he commanded. The story takes him across the Roman Wall into Scotland. Also : The Silver Branch; The Lantern Bearers.

The legend of Cuchulan, one of the great Irish folk heroes who lived in Saxon times.

The Vikings are in The Lake District and not even all the resources of Norman England can break into the last Norse stronghold. Their defence, their shield ring, was not only the high barrier of the fells, but the fanatical Norse spirit of battle. Into this world escapes Frytha, a Saxon orphan, and Bjorn, a Viking.

Owain was fourteen when the British warlords gathered in a desperate attempt to hold what territory they still had against the Saxons.

The story of a girl called Tamsyn who has a love of ships and the sea, and how she leaves her Devon home and goes to live with a family of lively cousins in Tudor London.

Set in 17th century Scotland, Hugh Herriot tells the story of the Jacobite Rebellion.

A tale of smuggling and adventure. Damaris Crocker had not lived her 12 years in smuggling country without knowing when a Run was planned. That night the smugglers, or Fair Traders as the locals called them, were to trade in lace, brandy and a stranger.

Set in the 18th century, this tells the story of a group of ropemakers who rarely leave their underground home, a huge cave in Derbyshire.

In 1842, Sheffield was the main centre for cutlery and the tools industry. Young Bern Sterndale works in Dyson's Yard, and he is drawn into groups like Trade Unions, Chartists and the Anti-Corn Law League trying to help working families.

Set in Whitby at the turn of the century this tells of 13 year old Dory Lythe who is determined to keep her brothers and sisters from the workhouse. See also: The Herring Girls

The hostage is the young prince, later Edward I, held captive by Simon de Montfort and his confederates. The story leads up to the Battle of Evesham in 1265.

When Peter Browrigg runs away from home he becomes involved in a plot to kill Queen Elizabeth I.

Charles II holds court in London and Sam Pepys holds the key to Britain's sea defences at the Navy office. There is trouble from highwaymen and this fast-moving adventure reaches a thrilling climax in a river chase on the Thames, at high tide at midnight.

Based on an actual event, this story follows the lives of Fiona Campbell and Lady Belle Isherwood, two Suffragettes who are passionately involved with their beliefs.

St Petersburg in 1916 was a beautiful but uneasy city. David, newly arrived from America, is both bewildered and intrigued by the dramatic events unfolding before his eyes. Caught up in a web of political intrigue, David and his friends soon find themselves part of the dangerous beginnings of the Russian Revolution.

A stirring story of a boy living and fighting at the time of the first Roman invasion of Britain.

The story of Beom, the Icelandic boy who joins a crew of roving Vikings.

In 1212 a 12-year-old shepherd boy called Stephen went to the King Philip of France with a letter which he said came from Christ himself, bidding Stephen to organise a crusade.

An early ‘time-slip’ novel in which Penelope finds herself in the world of Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots… and the Babington Plot.

When the villagers of Eyam isolate themselves to prevent the Plague spreading, Mall is separated from her beloved Thomas.

Harriet, 11 years old, and upper-class, runs away on a canal boat delivering coal. She learns about another way of life - and herself.

In 1838, Grace Darling, the daughter of a lighthouse keeper, rowed to the rescue of a foundering ship. Her heroic actions made her name in history, but for this simple girl the intrusive publicity was more fearsome than the merciless seas she had so bravely conquered.

The story of two boys who took a boat to help save the stranded British army at Dunkirk.

An unforgettable, poignant story of two teenagers adrift in London during the Blitz.

Set in the fourteenth century, this story follows the adventures of Hugh Fletcher and his band of outlaws. Hugh is offered a commission to take part in King Edward III's campaign against France.

Great series following military members of the Carey family through history.

Set in Tyneside during the Second World War, this cracking story tells of children finding a German bomber that has crashed. The machine gun is still intact…

Short stories about ordinary people caught up in World War II.

A tale of a cat that plays a surprising part in World War II.

Set in the Ashdown Forest in Sussex, these excellent books cover the period from 1485 immediately after Bosworth up to the English Civil War in the 1640s. This first title concerns the transformation of Cecily Jolland, brought up in London to be spoilt and helpless, into a useful and independent person.

12 year-old Matthew has a strange concern with the fate of Jeremy, a boy his own age who perished over 100 years age in a mining accident.

A nine year-old, a journey, a concentration camp…

Masterful retelling of the campaign and the battle, with excellent period detail; not for the squeamish.

Her books are very popular indeed. I’m told she takes liberties with the facts – but then this is fiction.

Temujin, son of a Mongol tribal leader, grows through unimaginable hardship to become Genghis Khan.

A murder mystery in a monastery at the time of Henry VIII and the Dissolution.  (Other titles too.)

The life of Elizabeth I up to the time she became Queen.

Death narrates the extraordinary story of a young girl in war-torn Germany.

The finest swordsman and the finest horseman in Napoleon’s army, as he himself assures us, Brigadier Gerard recounts his adventures in wonderful style, exciting, splendidly immodest and amusing.

Wonderful stories of life in Nelson’s navy.    Also – Death to the French, The Gun

More great naval writing.