This section contains fiction and non-fiction items published between 1945 and 2024.  It does not include activity books and colouring books, which may be found in the leisure section.

For each entry, details of author, publisher, date of publication, type of work (picture book, YA novel etc.),and, where available, intended age group are included.

Where target age is not clear, decisions have been made according to our own estimations.  Entries also are tagged according to subject matter, such as ‘gladiators’, ‘slavery’, ‘Boudicca’, ‘Roman Britain’ etc., and searches may be conducted by any of these elements.