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Who'd have thought that Catherine the Great's husband's murder was passed off as a death due to haemorrhoids!
Well-researched and fascinating especially as the book stays faithfully with the focus of the first inoculations which then led to the eradication of a virus that killed a sixth of all it attacked. Thoroughly absorbing.
Twelve-year-old identical twins Ellie and Kat accidentally trigger their physicist mom’s unfinished time machine, launching themselves into a high-stakes adventure in 1970 Chicago. If they learn how to join forces and keep time travel out of the wrong hands, they might be able find a way home. Ellie’s gymnastics and…
This was first published in 2008 but I was delighted to discover it this year. It piqued my interest for two reasons. It was set during The Troubles in Northern Ireland and wove in was also an archaeological discovery of a girl who died in 80 AD. Moving and perceptive and very educational, but a rippingly engrossing read too.
DIGGING FOR PEAT in the mountain with his Uncle Tally, Fergus finds the body of a child, and it looks like she’s been murdered. As Fergus tries to make sense of the mad world around him—his brother on hunger-strike in prison, his growing feelings for Cora, his parents arguing over the Troubles, and him in it up to the neck, blackmailed into acting as courier to God knows what—a little voice comes to him in his dreams, and the mystery of the bog child unfurls.
Bog Child is an astonishing novel exploring the sacrifices made in the name of peace,…
