The Court of the AirA hugely engaging adventure set in a Victorian style world a fantastical version of Dickens that will appeal to fans of Susanna Clarke and Philip Pullman. Two orphans are more than they seem. And one megalomaniac will stop at nothing to find them When Molly Templar witnesses a brutal murder at the brothel she has just been apprenticed to, her first instinct is to return to the poorhouse where she grew up. But there she finds her fellow orphans

the last thing Maggie expects in the dead of a cold winter's night is that her own home has become the scene of a violent crime

with a full chorus of street urchins

A stunning historical novel of passion

Outstanding

When no one will tell you the truth

He is thrust into the centre of the search for a serial killer

the boy king Alexander

they discover that what looked like retribution is actually tied to a web of deceit that stretches to the highest echelons of the FBI

insurrection

proclaiming her misery to all and sundry and refusing so furiously to look on the bright side

It's a hopeless case and the murder trial

is an unusual teenage girl