Reading lists and articles featuring Lindsay Galvin

With The Great Phoenix of London, Lindsay Galvin has once again woven a legend into a hugely significant historical event – an excellent way of grasping and keeping the attention of students aged between 9 and 12.

Call of the Titanic is a great mix of factual and fictional with a mythological twist, exploring what happened and what could have been. It leaves readers in no doubt as to how catastrophic and initially unbelievable the whole event was.

Darwin’s Dragons is a marvellous tale that plunges the reader into Charles Darwin’s HMS Beagle voyage and adds a young boy’s wonder, imagination and bravery into the historical mix. This is a fantasy firmly grounded in historical fact and geographical realism.