Robert Dinsdale

It is 1917, and while war wages across Europe, in the heart of London, there is a place of hope and enchantment....

In the depths of winter in the land of Belarus, where ancient forests straddle modern country borders, an orphaned boy and his grandfather go to scatter his mother’s ashes in the woodlands....

When one evening in December 1948, Jon Heather's mother leaves him at Chapeltown Boys' Home of the Children's Crusade, he is certain she will come back....

Every night on their long journey to Paris from their troubled homeland, Levon's grandmother has read to them from a very special book. Called The Nocturne, it is a book full of fairy stories and the heroic adventures of their people who generations before chose to live by starlight.

From Robert Dinsdale, the critically acclaimed author of The Toymakers, comes an imaginative retelling of the legend of the Minotaur....