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The Glittering Edge
Name: Linda Brown
06 June 2025;Genre: Romance & Relationships
The next book in this series now, please… From the very first page, The Glittering Edge swept me off my feet and dropped me into the small, enchanting town of IdleWood. The author's writing is so immersive that you can almost feel the magic in the air. The story quickly unfold...
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Evie and Maryam's Family Tree
Name: Jane Rew
06 June 2025;Genre: Historical Fiction
There are really four girls who are centre stage in this story; two from the present day and two living in India towards the end of the British Empire. They are connected across the centuries by their grandmothers' coded letters and by a spider's web of complex interactions spanning different...
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Nate Yu's Blast from the Past: boy meets ghost in a tale of unlikely friendship
Name: Sue Wilsher
05 June 2025;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Nate Riley is an amateur myrmecologist and has his own ant farm, ruled by Queen Elizabeth III - or Betsy as she is affectionately known. With his mums, he has recently moved to Liverpool and unlike him, the 'parentals' (as he calls them) are very keen for him to take...
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Best of All Worlds
Name: Clare Wilkins
04 June 2025;Genre: Dystopian
When Xavier Oak wakes up on his weekend away with his father and heavily pregnant step-mother he expects his usual vista; the clear water of the lake and the harbour. Instead their entire cottage seems to have been transported to a farm, replete with bleating goats demanding to be milked. Stun...
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The Doughnut Club
Name: Sue Wilsher
02 June 2025;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Quinn has two mums and a younger brother, Olly. Both children share a donor - not a dad - but have different mums. Although surrounded by a loving, supportive family, Quinn always feels like the odd one out, not fitting in with the outdoorsy, adventurous rest. When their mums announce that Qui...
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The Foundation: will always welcome you
Name: Ruth Cornish
19 May 2025;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
The third super-readable book from Melinda Salisbury in her artificial intelligence/technology driven fictional thriller series does not disappoint. Here we meet Ivy who has been sent to a specialist summer camp to wean her from her addiction to gaming. Ivy is soon under the spell of Conrad O'...
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The Doughnut Club
Name: Jenny CADDICK
16 May 2025;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
A gently charming and warm-hearted family-focused debut story which features the summer holiday of 12-year-old Quinn, her two mothers and half-sibling, Olly. The Doughnut Club centres around Quinn's exploration of what to means to be a donor-conceived child bu...
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The Binding Spell
Name: Linda Brown
12 May 2025;Genre: Supernatural
The Binding Spell is a dark, enchanting YA novel that weaves witchcraft, family secrets, and ancient superstition into a compelling story set in the mist-shrouded village of Weir Hinny. 19-year-old Morgan, long haunted by nightmares, believes she has finally outgrown her terri...
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Wild Esat
Name: Clare Wilkins
09 May 2025;Genre: Social Issues
When a bus journey ends in tragedy for Ronny's friend Maz, Ronny's Mum decides enough is enough. Fearful that her son will be the next person to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, she uproots them from East London to East Anglia and they begin a tentative new life in Norwich. Disc...
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Shrapnel Boys
Name: Sue Wilsher
09 May 2025;Genre: Historical Fiction
Two days before Britain's Declaration of War, Ronnie, his younger brother, Micky, and best friend, Lugs, watch children from their school set off as they are evacuated to the countryside. Ronnie's mum cannot bear to be parted from her boys and Ronnie has considered himself the man of the house...
