Viking Girl  REVIEWS: "An emotional journey full of suspense and mystery…I just had to find out what was going to happen…a brilliant introduction to the Viking era." Rachel 13: Red House Books "This author has a remarkable ability to conjure up detail and atmosphere from the past…(Berengeria’s) struggle to win hearts and minds to the belief that peaceful co-existence between communities of different beliefs is possible, is very resonant." The Book Seller Summer 2007 "A great achievement...written with great confidence, with a fine sense of time and place. I felt I was there, and was excited to be there. I think teenagers, boys and girls, will find it a thrilling read." - Carnegie Medal-winning Berlie Doherty    SYNOPSIS: Viking princess, Beren, leads the defeated remnant of her tribe from the Mark, to a new life in Eng-land where she believes Viking settlers will provide food and shelter.   When her uncle abandons her in territory ruled by the enemy Saxons,  Beren faces a hard struggle to survive.   A mysterious fox, a messenger from her dead father, alerts her to the treachery surrounding his death.  Beren battles enemies on every side to seek out the truth and win peace and a hopeful future for herself and her tribe.      ___________________________________ Warrior Girl REVIEWS: "A cracking tale" Nottinghamshire Evening Post Kevin Crossley-Holland's Arthur trilogy was a favourite at home last year. This is what he had to say about Warrior Girl: "thrilling battle scenes" … "The quality of the research.. suffusing Warrior Girl is such that we always feel we're in safe hands" …The ending is "so unexpected and utterly right." "The writing is deceptively simple, with a brilliant opening. It is fast and pacy but with quiet spells to change the tempo and mood which match those of Jehanne's own character. I like the way the two stories were neatly woven into one another. I really enjoyed it." School Library. SYNOPSIS: Set in medieval France, beginning in the year 1428, the story follows the adventures of Mariane, who is sent to live with her aunt Isabeau d'Arc, and her family. There she meets her strange cousin, Jehanne, whom we know as Joan of Arc. She is horrified to discover that that Jehanne intends to set out on a mission to save France from the English. How can a simple farm girl persuade the highest powers in the land to support her? But when Jehanne leaves, Mariane goes with her. She also has her own battle to fight, against an old enemy who will deprive her of her true inheritance, if he can.     ______________________________ Dark Thread   REVIEWS: "An elegant and well-constructed novel…Pauline Chandler's imagery is delightful. The book also addresses head-on some very painful taboo issues about death and how we respond to it." School Librarian, Winter 1998 "Chandler has an acute ear for dialogue and a great ability to evoke the past." Books for Keeps, March 1999 "A first class book..." (5 stars) Amazon, 2004  SYNOPSIS: After her mother's death in a road accident, Kate's life is on hold. She truants from school and destroys the fine weaving she was preparing for a textile exhibition, where she and her mother were to be major exhibitors. She can't talk to Dad. How can she tell him that she was to blame for her mother's death? If she and Mum hadn't quarrelled, if Kate hadn't run across the road like a naughty child, Mum might not have run after her and been killed. A strange old woman from the past haunts Kate. Down at the mill, she hears Pentecost calling to her across the centuries. As she stands in her mother's workshop, she fugues back to the time of 1771, when Cromford Mill was at the start of the Industrial Revolution, with Sir Richard Arkright and his new spinning frames: dark times, when children's lives were used up as cheap labour in the new factories. Living with those children and working at the mill, Kate finds a way to live with her feelings of guilt and grief. She returns to the present to take up her own life again.