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The Blind Bowman: Dark Fire
Name: Lorraine Ansell
19 November 2024;Genre: Myths & Legends
Robin Hood and Marian have made the forest their home and scores of outlaws have joined them to prepare for battle with the Sherriff of Nottingham. Able to steal a small moment of peace among the skirmishes with the sheriff's ever-emboldened men, Robin and Marian dream of a da...
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When It's Your Turn For Midnight
Name: Ruth Cornish
07 November 2024;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
When It's Your Turn For Midnight by award-winning author Blessing Musariri is a real life novel about a family based in Zimbabwe. After the shock of discovering a life-changing family secret, Chianti, the eldest daughter, leaves her home and heads for a community of wise elder...
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The Search for Carmella
Name: Elen
01 November 2024;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
The Search for Carmella is an exquisite picture book that takes us deep into the ocean on a search for the mythical Carmella. However, we also learn that marine biologist Dr Rose is so committed to the search that she fails to notice all the other beauty around her, until fell...
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Old Wounds
Name: Stephen Leitch
30 October 2024;Genre: LBGTQ+
Set in small-town America, Old Wounds is a creepy, thrilling and thought-provoking novel following trans teens Erin and Max who are trying to get to California. Erin isn't quite sure why she's here as she's not spoken to Max in the two years since they broke up, but Max needs...
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How to Survive a Horror Movie
Name: Lorraine ansell
29 October 2024;Genre: Horror
Charley is starting over in a new boarding school on a remote island. Luckily her roommate shares her love of horror movies, and they bond over Slasher Saturday movie nights. Tormented by the popular and rich girls, and trying to reinvent her shady past, things take a rapid turn for the worse...
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The Ghost of Us
Name: Eileen Armstrong
28 October 2024;Genre: LBGTQ+
Haunted by her own cyberbullying incident years ago, aspiring ghosthunter Cara is determined to throw off her social outcast status by proving ghosts exist via her YouTube channel, Caranormal Activity. Stumbling across the spirit of Aiden, a popular student who lost his life a year ago, she s...
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Let's Split Up
Name: Clare Wilkins
28 October 2024;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
Let's Split Up is a fun (and frightening!) teen slasher story with a knowing nod to classic eighties and nineties horror. Think Goosebumps and Scream with a bit of Mike Myers thrown in! Shelley and Brad are the poster couple at school – the cheerleader and Jock about to...
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Now, Conjurers
Name: Ruth Cornish
25 October 2024;Genre: Horror
Now, Conjurers is an enjoyable read, part horror fantasy, part relatable older teen reality, incorporating mystery and crime into its 400+ thrilling pages. The quirky title, strap line ('welcome to the coven') and the perspective of the cover illustration (by Sam Schechter) of...
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Our Wicked Histories
Name: Ophelia McCluskey Gahan
24 October 2024;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
Our Wicked Histories is a delightfully sinister read that truly appealed to my love of horror and my interest in crime; this novel also allowed me to take a peak of a classic Irish folktale. When Meg gets a scholarship that could offer her more than she ever thought po...
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The Girl who Fell to Earth
Name: Maddalena Pretto
23 October 2024;Genre: Family & Home
Aria is a girl who lives with her family in a strange planet called Terros, during a class experiment she discovers that she has human DNA. Since she was very little she has known that her parents think that humans are bad people. One day she is sent to Earth to spread a virus that could kill...
