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  • Meet the Planets

    Meet the Planets

    Name: Jessica Bunney
    08 February 2020;

    Genre: Non Fiction

    Meet the Planets is a memorable, striking, space book like no other I've ever read before. Through the pages, we follow a young, aspiring astronaut as she journeys through our solar system in a rocket with her trusty dog by her side. It is ingeniously authored by Caryl Hart in a narrative styl...

  • My Name is Not Refugee

    My name is not Refugee

    Name: Nikki Stiles
    07 February 2020;

    Genre: Adventure

    Winner of the Klaus Flugge prize 2018, Milner has created a simple yet poignant picture book outlining a sensitive and very current issue for young children; life as a refugee The story begins with a young boy's mother explaining that they will need to leave their town and travel to a safe place...

  • Where The World Turns Wild

    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...

  • A Sprinkle of Sorcery

    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...

  • Agent Zaiba Investigates: The Missing Diamonds

    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...

  • Where The World Turns Wild

    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...

  • Little Bird Lands

    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...

  • Tiger Skin Rug

    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,...

  • Here be Wizards: The Snowdonia Chronicles (Book Three)

    Here be Wizards: The Snowdonia Chronicles (Book Three)

    Name: Linda Brown
    06 February 2020;

    Genre: Fantasy

    Here Be Wizards is the final part to the Snowdonia Chronicles trilogy. Four months have passed since the adventure of the first book, Here be Dragons. It is now Midsummer's Eve, the time w...

  • Where The World Turns Wild

    Name: Jacqueline Harris
    05 February 2020;

    Genre: Dystopian

    Juniper is thirteen and lives in the city with her little brother Bear. To the children, this city seems like a cage, as they used to live in the Wild. Leaving the city and returning to their mother has always been their dream. But this is a time when the world has changed. Fifty years previou...