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  • Cafe Chaos: My Family Is Not a Piece of Cake

    Cafe Chaos: My Family Is Not a Piece of Cake

    Name: Jenny CADDICK
    02 April 2025;

    Genre: Funny Stories

    Cafe Chaos: My Family Is Not a Piece of Cake is the charmingly warm and downright funny new book, featuring main character, Hope Crumble, her fabulously engaging family members, and their trials and tribulations running the struggling family business Café Crumble. The "quiet"...

  • After

    After

    Name: Jo Clarke
    01 April 2025;

    Genre: Dystopian

    Set in a futuristic world of man versus automaton, After is another Padraig Kenny masterpiece. Main characters Jen and Father are travelling to Tranquility Lake in a time where technology has seen to the demise of the world as we know it. Father is a 'mek'; he looks human, he...

  • Owning It: Our disabled childhoods in our own words

    Owning It: Our disabled childhoods in our own words

    Name: Louisa Farrow
    01 April 2025;

    Genre: Representation & Inclusion

    This well-written and refreshing anthology of true stories is a journey through classic childhood experiences, reported by writers from a range of countries and with a variety of different disabilities. We see firsthand their struggle against the pressure of societal norms: as...

  • Rebel Heart

    Rebel Heart

    Name: Sara Sumner
    28 March 2025;

    Genre: Historical Fiction

    Rebel Heart is a new and exciting historical adventure story from Ally Sherrick, set in the English Civil War. The year is 1645 and with her father away fighting for the Royalists and her step mother about to surrender her home to the troops bombarding it, you...

  • Deep Dark (Volume 1) (A Cassia Thorne Mystery)

    Deep Dark (Volume 1) (A Cassia Thorne Mystery)

    Name: Donna Ritchie
    27 March 2025;

    Genre: Adventure

    I love a book that has a little bit of real history entwined within the story. Deep Dark is such a book. Cassia Thorne is the main character; a patterer (a child singer who sings songs - that tell a story - on the streets of early 19th century London), but who also teaches pia...

  • Rebel Heart

    Rebel Heart

    Name: Jacqueline Harris
    12 March 2025;

    Genre: Historical Fiction

    The year is 1645 and the Civil War is raging. Merriweather Pryce decides to fetch her father to defend their home of Compton Blaize, as it is under attack from the Parliamentarian forces. Dressed as a boy, she leaves Compton Blaize to find him - only to run into deadly danger before she has go...

  • Westfallen: What if you had to stop Germany winning WWII? A thrilling race-against-time adventure

    Westfallen: What if you had to stop Germany winning WWII?

    Name: Sue Wilsher
    12 March 2025;

    Genre: Adventure

    Although Henry, Frances and Lukas are no longer best friends, they meet up for the funeral of their pet gerbil. Whilst digging the grave, they make an amazing discovery - a radio which allows them to communicate with another group of three children who live in the very same place, only 80 year...

  • The Things We Leave Behind

    The Things We Leave Behind

    Name: Clair Bossons
    10 March 2025;

    Genre: Dystopian

    Shortlisted for The Carnegie Award 2025 and the UKLA Book Award, The Things We Leave Behind by Clare Furniss is a stunning and thought-provoking dystopian novel. It is set in the near future, where London is teetering on the edge of collapse. Amid a refugee cr...

  • All Better Now

    All Better Now

    Name: Sam
    07 March 2025;

    Genre: Suspense & Thrillers

    In All Better Now, a virus is spreading, but this one is different: first there's a fever, and then utter contentment. Those that survive the Crown Royale virus find the stress, depression, greed, and other negative feelings that used to weigh them down are gone. This all soun...

  • Deep Dark (Volume 1) (A Cassia Thorne Mystery)

    Deep Dark (Volume 1) (A Cassia Thorne Mystery)

    Name: Sue Wilsher
    07 March 2025;

    Genre: Adventure

    Cassia Thorne lives in the Fleet with her father, who is in prison for debt. She does what she can to support them by selling ballads in the streets and giving music lessons. When the younger brother of her friend goes missing, Cassia is determined to find him and with the hel...