Authors

Lucy Worsley’s novelisation of Queen Victoria’s childhood illustrates the lives of the 19th-century upper classes, but ends with a shocking cliffhanger

There is plenty of drama in this tale of loss, horse-whispering and cross-dressing, our reviewers say

TV presenter Clare Balding climbs into the authorial saddle, with a children’s novel about a recalcitrant racehorse. The story canters along so successfully that one of our reviewers was told off for reading under her desk

The new book by Allan Ahlberg, author of Each Peach Pear Plum, offers a novel way of learning the two times-table. It is, our six- to eight-year-old reviewers say, very exciting...but a bit weird