Sarah Matthias Books

Max is a German schoolboy, when he first meets Lili, a trapeze artist from a travelling circus that performs every year in Berlin. Lili is a Romani and her life and customs are very different from those of Max and his family. Their friendship turns into love, but love between a German and a Romani is definitely forbidden. As Max is conscripted into the SS and war tears them apart, can their love survive? Set against the backdrop of the Second World War, A Berlin Love Song is a love story of passion, unexpected friendship, despair, loss and hope.

Saint Wilfred's is certainly no ordinary monastery. So it's just as well that 13 year-old Tom Fletcher is no ordinary novice. When one of the monks is murdered in cold blood, and the wrong man accused of the crime, Tom has no choice but to turn detective.

It's 1220 and the City of London is a dirty and dangerous place, very different to the peaceful monastery of Saint Wilfred's in Saint Agnes Next-to-the-Sea. But when the new abbot returns from Westminster Abbey, it seems that he brings back something wicked, plunging Saint Wilfred's into deceit and violence. Once again, it falls to trainee monk Tom Fletcher to find the true culprit in a matter of life and death. Suggested secondary.