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The Magic of Mums
Name: Alison Kelly
14 February 2020;Genre: Adventure
In the early pages of this lovely new collection of poems by Justin Coe, there's a simple diamond shape poem which holds a lens to the themes and sentiments of the poems: MUM / I COULD / DIG DEEP DOWN / TO THE EARTH'S CORE / AND NEVER FIND A / DIAMOND AS / BEAUTIFUL / AS YOU / ARE //. The book...
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Trail Blazers - Harriet Tubman
Name: Carol Carter
13 February 2020;Genre: Adventure
Trail Blazers: Harriet Tubman retells the well-known story of the brave slave who escaped on the Underground Railroad then returned many times to help other slaves follow in her footsteps. The book follows Harriet (born Araminta Ross) from her birth on a Maryland plantation, through childhood a...
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Fantastically Great Women Who Saved The Planet
Name: Lauren Maidman
10 February 2020;Genre: Environment & Nature
I have been a huge fan of the Kate Pankhurst Great Women series and already have the first few in my collection. The new addition, Fantastically Great Women who Saved the Planet, is no exception. I love everything about these books from the illustrations and the layout to the...
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Name: Jacqueline Harris
10 February 2020;Genre: Historical Fiction
Little Bird Lands is the second book in the adventures of Bridie , set in the mid-1800s. The first book, Little Bird Flies, took place on the remote Scottish island of Tornish. This book is set in America, where Bridie and part of her family have fled a cruel landlord.<b...
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Name: Jenny Caddick
07 February 2020;Genre: Dystopian
Where the World Turns Wild is an absolutely stunning, highly emotive and gripping dystopian adventure story. It takes place in the near future, years after the climate change activists, the Re Wilders, have released a man made virus (spread by ticks) that kills off a huge portion of the human...
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Name: Beverley Somerset
06 February 2020;Genre: Magical Realism
Hurrah! The Widdershins sisters are back! Fliss, Betty and Charlie, whom we first met in Michelle Harrison's 'A Touch of Magic' return in a new action-packed adventure in the sequel 'A Sprinkle of Sorcery'.The girls are still living in The Poachers Pocket, the run-down pub they sha...
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Name: Jenny Caddick
06 February 2020;Genre: Mystery & Detective
This is a new, fun and action-packed detective mystery with a fabulously enthusiastic and determined young central character - Agent Zaiba. Zaiba has inherited her mum and aunt's love of crime solving and fully intends in follow in Aunt Fouzia's sleuthing footsteps (she owns Karachi's top dete...
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Name: Erin Hamilton
06 February 2020;Genre: Dystopian
Nicola Penfold has created a world in which people are forced to live within city walls and without any nature growing around them. Ticks had been carrying a disease that wiped out entire towns and cities, so the government stepped in and created barriers, rules and consequences for being a na...
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Name: Carol Carter
06 February 2020;Genre: Historical Fiction
Little Bird Lands is the stunning conclusion to the historical diptych beginning with 2019's Little Bird Flies.At the end of the first novel, we left Bridie MacKerrie, also known as Little Bird, as she landed in New York in 1864, about to begin a new life having es...
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Name: Stephen Leitch
06 February 2020;Genre: Adventure
Talking tigers, flying rugs and pancakes, what's not to like in Tiger Skin Rug, a brilliant debut novel from Joan Haig. The story follows young brothers Lal and Dilip who with their family have moved to Scotland from India. In the drawing room of their new home they discover a tiger skin rug,...
