Kate Summerscale: The Wicked Boy [2016] paperback SIFIC offering ingenious alternative histories

offering ingenious alternative histories

she prays for help

Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)

which documents a marathon nighttime screening of the Lord of the Rings trilogy in a small boat as it drifted down the Fraser River

Kate Summerscale: The Wicked Boy [2016] paperback SIFIC offering ingenious alternative historiesShortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non Fiction 2017 Early in the morning of Monday 8 July 1895, thirteen year old Robert Coombes and his twelve year old brother Nattie set out from their small, yellow brick terraced house in East London to watch a cricket match at Lord's. Their father had gone to sea the previous Friday, the boys told their neighbours, and their mother was visiting her family in Liverpool. Over the next ten days Robert and Nattie