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  • Fledgling

    Fledgling

    Name: Louisa Farrow
    01 November 2021;

    Genre: Magical Realism

    Cassie Engel's home life is unusual. Her mother is an eccentric opera singer who spends most of her day singing and her father, broken by the war, takes refuge in drink and taxidermy. They live in a tall house built by her great grandfather on top of a tall rock, reached by a helter skelter ro...

  • Shadow Town

    Shadow Town

    Name: Ruth Cornish
    01 November 2021;

    Genre: Magical Realism

    Shadow Town is primarily an adventure filled with fantasy and mystery. It is also a powerful thriller with psychological layers which become apparent towards the end of the book, enabling the reader to make connections between the protagonist's real life and the imaginary worl...

  • Cardboard Cowboys

    Cardboard Cowboys

    Name: Jan Blagden
    31 October 2021;

    Genre: Friends and family

    It was refreshing to read Brian Conaghan's Cardboard Cowboys because it tackles the issue of negative body image from a boy's point of view. We are inside the head of Lenny, who is a loner, not necessarily from choice. All the angst and anxiety that he feels is expressed in a...

  • Beyond the Mountains (A Clock of Stars, Book 2)

    Beyond the Mountains (A Clock of Stars, Book 2)

    Name: Jacqueline Harris
    31 October 2021;

    Genre: Fantasy

    In Beyond the Mountains, the second book in A Clock of Stars fantasy, Imogen and Marie have returned from the magical land through the door in the tree. The trouble is, that no-one believes them, least of all their Mum and...

  • Tinsel: The Girls Who Invented Christmas

    Tinsel: The Girls Who Invented Christmas

    Name: Donna Burkert
    29 October 2021;

    Genre: Magical Realism

    Many moons ago, Christmas wasn't the magical time of year that it is today. There was no one to deliver presents, no one for children to write to, no tinsel, no reindeers, no magic. Until of course, a young girl called Blanche, who lived all alone under a bridge, met a mystical old lady, who g...

  • Tinsel: The Girls Who Invented Christmas

    Tinsel: The Girls Who Invented Christmas

    Name: Hayley Summerfield
    28 October 2021;

    Genre: Magical Realism

    Tinsel by Sibeal Pounder is a brilliant new Christmas book with a twist. The story is seeped with powerful themes of friendship, feisty girls, gender roles and adventure. This refreshingly original story on the origins of Santa is hilarious and heart-warming and crammed full o...

  • A Tale Dark and Grimm

    A Tale Dark & Grimm

    Name: Donna Burkert
    27 October 2021;

    Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales

    If you want to know what really happened to Hansel and Gretel, how they ended up in that forest and what happened to them after they survived that first trial, then this is the book for you. The dark and gruesomely twisted stories of Hansel and Gretel will keep readers turning pages in disgust...

  • The Unexpected Tale of Bastien Bonlivre

    The Unexpected Tale of Bastien Bonlivre

    Name: Rhiannon Cook
    27 October 2021;

    Genre: Mystery & Detective

    Trapped in a Parisian orphanage, mysterious circumstances surrounding his parent's deaths, Bastien Bonlivre follows in their footsteps as a writer and is determined to discover what really happened to his mother and father. Monsieur Xavier, appointed as the new director of the orphanage under...

  • When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

    When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

    Name: Donna Burkert
    26 October 2021;

    Genre: Historical Fiction

    Almost overnight, Anna and her family decide to flee their home. She has to leave behind her friends, all her things (including her beloved pink rabbit) and the life that she knew and loved. The dangers she faces and the difficulties her family endure as they fled Germany for Switzerland, Fran...

  • Gilded

    Gilded

    Name: Linda Brown
    24 October 2021;

    Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales

    It's been a while since I picked one of Marissa Meyer's wonderful reimaginings of our famous fairytales, (if you haven't already, you need to check our her Lunar Chronicle series). In Gilded she does the Grimm Brothers really proud as it's full of all the dark, otherworldly, n...