Robert Dinsdale

Robert Dinsdale mixes history and mythology with great panache... Richly textured and with an appropriately labyrinthine plot... Book of the Month - The Sunday Times Some villains are meant to be heroes... London, 1861: Ten-year-old Nell belongs to a crew of mudlarks who work a stretch of the Thames along the Ratcliffe Highway. An orphan since her mother died, leaving...

All we're waiting for, you and I, is for something nobody's seen before to wash up on these beaches. Something so special and unique that its power cannot be denied. And there is every hope it will happen today. Perhaps it's out there, even now, begging for its chance to upend our world . . . London, 1861: Ten-year-old Nell...