Geoffrey Trease

"Two deaths lead Inspector Montalbano into investigations of corruption and power in the twentieth installment of the New York Times bestselling series. Montalbano investigates a robbery at a supermarket, a standard case that takes a spin when manager Guido Borsellino is later found hanging in his office. Was it a suicide? The inspector and the coroner have their doubts, and further investigation leads to the director of a powerful local company. Meanwhile, a girl is found brutally murdered in Giovanni Strangio's apartment--Giovanni has a flawless alibi, and it's no coincidence that Michele Strangio, president of the province, is his father. Weaving together these two crimes, Montalbano realizes that he's in a difficult spot where political power is enmeshed with the mafia underworld."--

Geoffrey Trease should have received high honours, for the 200 or so books he wrote for teenagers. He wrote mysteries, romances (that could be and were read by boys as well as girls) and, most importantly, historical novels, mostly set in England, but many in Europe, covering important events from 200 BC to 1980. The closest North American writer was Stephen Meader, but his historical novels typically did not contain the detail that Trease provided. Canada has no-one even close.

Presents the life of Samuel Pepys as well as the social and historical events of the times.

The flames of revolution sweep relentlessly through India, threatening the life of free-thinking Sarah Faulkner. Fleeing the impending holocaust, the sheltered Victorian beauty is irresistibly drawn to Damien Coleridge, the renegade son of an English duke - a handsome and powerful man who hides from her the painful secrets of his tormented past. But an undeniable passion will bind them together as their world explodes - as two yearning hearts seek sanctuary from chaos in the rapturous promise of a bold and magnificent love...

A children's story set in the wartime Channel Islands

Opening in Renaissance Italy, this story moves quickly to the Welsh Marches where Nicholas, a penniless young English scholar finds himself unexpectedly heir to an earldom in the native country he has never known.

The non-fiction book shows how transportation, communication, war, fashion, leisure activities, houses, work, medicine, and education have changed with the development of Western civilization.

When he unthinkingly kills one of the King's deer, a peasant boy flees home and goes into Sherwood Forest where he joins Robin Hood and his band.

A young scholar of medieval England, accused of having leprosy, is denounced by the church and community. He is befriended by Solomon, a Jewish physician, who cures his skin disorder, and the two friends embark upon a mysterious mission for the queen.