Rosemary Sutcliff’s FRONTIER WOLF concerns a young man, Alexios, who is in his early twenties. He is given the responsibility of commanding a unit in what is now Germany, but when the […]
FRONTIER WOLF by Rosemary Sutcliff (DOLPHIN RING CYCLE #3)
Victoria Holt’s MISTRESS OF MELLYN
Mistress of Mellyn really creeped me out. There I was sitting up in bed at midnight, the dark only relieved by the light from my iPad screen. And I really felt uncomfortable. […]
Rosemary Sutcliff’s THE SILVER BRANCH (DOLPHIN RING CYCLE #2)
THE SILVER BRANCH is set about 200 years after THE EAGLE. Marcus Flavius Aquila’s namesake grandson (called Flavius rather than Marcus) and his cousin Justin come across something that points to treason […]
THE EAGLE OF THE NINTH (DOLPHIN RING CYCLE #1)
No-one knows what really happened to the Ninth Legion, the Hispana. All that is known is that it marched north into what is now Scotland to deal with the Painted People, and […]
A fairy tale set in the years 1859 to 1870 in Germany…(ON THE NIGHT OF THE SEVENTH MOON)
ON THE NIGHT OF THE SEVENTH MOON by Victoria Holt is a fairy tale set in the years 1859 to 1870 in Germany. A young English girl gets lost in the mists […]
THE STONES OF GREEN KNOWE (GREEN KNOWE #6) by Lucy Maria Boston
In this last, sixth novel of the series, we say “goodbye” to our friends at Green Knowe. In this farewell volume, published in 1976, twelve years after volume five, we see our […]
AN ENEMY AT GREEN KNOWE (GREEN KNOWE #5) by Lucy Maria Boston
Like Volume 4, Volume 5 is about a stranger who arrives at Green Knowe. However, this stranger is no gorilla trying to find a place to hide, but a creepy academic woman […]
A STRANGER AT GREEN KNOWE (GREEN KNOWE #4) by Lucy Maria Boston
In this fourth novel, Ping, one of the displaced children from the third novel becomes the protagonist when Mrs. Oldknow invites him to stay at Green Knowe. This novel has none of […]
THE RIVER AT GREEN KNOWE (GREEN KNOWE #3) by Lucy Maria Boston
Having enjoyed the first two volumes of this series, I imagined I would read another charming tale about Tolly and his great-grandmother Mrs. Oldknow, and some children from yet another century. Imagine […]
THE CHIMNEYS OF GREAT KNOWE/TREASURE OF GREEN KNOWE (GREEN KNOWE#2) by Lucy Maria Boston
Tolly, our protagonist from the first of the series is now 9 and half a year has passed since the last novel. This time, we meet some children from the early 19th-century: […]
