Sheila Stewart

It's 1940. Edie Benson lives in a little house in Lewisham, London, with her family. Little does she know when she starts writing her diary that the summer is going to become one of air-raid sirens, bombs, and lead to the evacuation of herself and her brother to Wales - away from everything she knows and loves.

Amusing encounters for women working on a barge on Grand Union and Oxford Canals during World War II.

Maxine's family is nearly destroyed when her brother Derek disappears and then dies in a squat. Then Maxine starts to get telephone calls hinting that Derek is alive. Who could be playing such a sick, cruel joke?

A delightful portrait of the author's childhood in Edwardian England. Her brilliant family included her Grandfather, Charles Darwin.

The exciting story of a canal-boat family and their dog, Toby, as they experience the Blitz on Coventry in 1940.