An excellent story-teller, intense and skilful
Thomas Hardy's only historical novel, The Trumpet-Major, is set in Wessex during the Napoleonic Wars.
Did you know that the electrical energy in a single mosquito is enough to cause a global mass extinction?
One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from.
The Alden children have a home with grandfather now - but their adventures are just beginning! Their first surprise comes when they learn they'll be spending the summer on their own private island. The kind stranger who lives there is always happy to help the children out, but does this new friend have a secret?