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Scared?
Name: Sue Wilsher
01 October 2022;Genre: Poetry
Neal Zetter and Joshua Seigal combine forces in this collaboration of poems which explores the 'darker side' of life. Not afraid of tackling uncomfortable subjects, each of these poets offers words which could lead to important discussions, will challenge and perhaps, comfort those who read th...
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Tyger
Name: Louisa Farrow
29 September 2022;Genre: Environment & Nature
It's the twenty first century in London - but a London that is only partly recognisable. It is still the global capital of an Empire that rules the world and the motor car has never been invented. Inhabitants whose families originate from different countries are forced to live in ghettos guard...
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Which Way to Anywhere
Name: Donna Chadwick
29 September 2022;Genre: Fantasy
Which Way to Anywhere is a story full of twists and turns, encompassing magic and mystery. K2 and Izzabird O'Hero are born into a magical family and sworn to secrecy. After their father mysteriously disappears (presumed dead), they acquire a new family who they need to keep th...
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The Arctic Railway Assassin
Name: Sue Wilsher
28 September 2022;Genre: Adventure
Hal is flying off to Sweden to meet his Uncle Nat. Together, they are going to make a special Christmas trip to the Aurora Sky Station to see the Northern Lights. Uncle Nat's friend, Mortimer, has just won a Nobel Prize, and has been scared by a series of inexplicable events since the announce...
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Sticky Pines: The Valley of The Strange
Name: Sam Phillips
27 September 2022;Genre: Science Fiction
The Valley of The Strange is the third in the Sticky Pines - where things get weird - series by Dashe Roberts. The Sticky Pines adventures is fast becoming one of my favourite series of middle grade books in a long time and, as someone who has never been a fan...
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The Treekeepers
Name: Sue Wilsher
26 September 2022;Genre: Fantasy
Home to thousands, the city of Arborven owes its existence to the Undrentree. A well as the buildings covering the tree, set in rings around it are the city circles where the different layers of society live - the farther away from the tree, the less magic the inhabitants have. As a shapewalke...
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Darwin and Hooker
Name: Sharon Porter
26 September 2022;Genre: Biographies & Autobiographies
Darwin and Hooker is no ordinary story book, it reveals the development of a friendship as well as the mind of one of our greatest biologists. With explanations of journeys to far shores to develop theories and giving presentations to the scientific communities in academia, th...
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The Valley of the Strange
Name: Sue Wilsher
25 September 2022;Genre: Science Fiction
As Lucy Sladan continues her investigation into the Pretenders - a race of shapeshifters she and her friend, Milo, discovered which has been living secretly in Stinky Pines for generations - things are about to get weird once more. Her father - Silas - has suddenly decided that the family shou...
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Mouse Heart
Name: Sue Wilsher
21 September 2022;Genre: Adventure
In the reign of Queen Anne II, in an alternate Bristol, a foundling called Mouse lives in the Moth Theatre with the people who took her in. Loving and loyal, Mouse adores her theatre family and so when Walter, the troupe's leading man, is wrongly arrested for murder, she is determined to ident...
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The Lost Girl King
Name: Donna Burkert
16 September 2022;Genre: Magical Realism
When their mum goes away with her new boyfriend, Amy and her brother Liam are left with their gran. For Liam, being curled up on a beanbag reading, or listening to one of gran’s stories about magical worlds, is just fine, but for restless Amy, it feels like she is being imprisoned. As soon as...
