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The Equal Sky

The Equal SkyThe Equal Sky (book)

Print: $17.46

When, in 1886, winter floods bring to light the remains of a long-dead Icenian warrior, Henry Turner, the son of a farm bailiff and already, at just twenty, gifted with an intuitive understanding of their heavy work horses, feels he is unaccountably chosen for a mysterious purpose. Turning his back on the Cambridgeshire village and the future everyone assumes he has with Annie Lilley, Henry is taken on as a groom by a former army officer with an estate in turbulent Ireland and a sinister past. While in the officer's London house, Henry befriends a Sioux Indian with similar gifts to his own, from Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show, which is in London for Queen Victoria's jubilee. Together they seek to understand the mind of the Icenian warrior as he compels them to fulfil his purpose and, in doing so, discover their own destinies.
The Middle Room

The Middle RoomThe Middle Room (book)

Print: $15.79

Across five generations and a century of war, a grandmother weaves together the strands of her family history, experience and reminiscence that make sense of lives lived in chaotic times. The Middle Room is Josephine Lucie's story from the Prussian siege of Paris in 1870 to the last Zeppelin raid on London in the Great War. It is also her granddaughter Florence's story as a teenager in the 1920s favoured with her grandmother's secrets and then herself caught up in the Blitz in 1940 and the intrigues of the Free French in General de Gaulle's London headquarters. Above all it is both their stories, timelessly and mysteriously linked in a place of trust and imagination - the middle room.