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“It’s a magical book, it really is. I was so impressed. It is astoundingly well imagined and extraordinarily well researched. It is almost perfect. There are a couple of slight factual errors in there and in terms of accuracy, obviously what I was saying about cruelty you don’t have reflected in the details because it’s a children’s book. You couldn’t possibly reflect the horror things were for children in the late 16th century!” Read more...
The best books on Life in the Tudor Era
Ian Mortimer, Historian
Our most recommended books
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How Was That Built? The Stories Behind Awesome Structures
Roma Agrawal, Katie Hickey (illustrator) -
The Secret Garden
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Reckless: The Petrified Flesh
Cornelia Funke, translated by Oliver Latsch -
The Wind in the Willows
by Kenneth Grahame -
Ben Rothery's Deadly and Dangerous Animals
by Ben Rothery -
Carrie's War
Nina Bawden, Alan Marks (illustrator)