Who are you? Where do you come from?

These are the questions confronting Marianne in Between Two Seas, a debut teen novel shortlisted for the prestigious Waterstone's Children's Book Award 2008, the Branford Boase Award, the Glen Dimplex New Writer's Award and the Hampshire Book Award.

'I am afraid. Mother, if I can free you, will you flee with me?'

Set in a real place and based around a real story, this Tudor novel follows the fortunes of Eleanor Hungerford as she struggles to free her mother from a four year imprisonment in a tower of their castle home. Shortlisted for the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize 2009.

'A sense of menace grew on me all morning. A shadow of approaching doom. That was the first warning…'

Stolen from her family by a cruel Viking chieftain, Thora's future looks bleak. Yet Thora has visions, and in one she foresees a daring escape with a new companion.