A time-travelling adventure that finds Elsie in the India of her great-uncle's youth. By the daughter of the generally unsung tho' marvellous literary lion, Barry of that ilk. Ages 8-12.
October is a girl living a wild life in the woods with her father; a glorious existence of wood fires, reading, growing vegetables, far from the madding crowd. Her idyll is rocked by an owl,... read more
Great cities around the world as they once were, and now - C9th BC Thebes in Egypt compared with modern Luxor, Constantinople and Istanbul, London at the time of the Great Fire and since, et... read more