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Saint-Seducing Gold: The second book in the swashbuckling YA historical fantasy series
Name: Linda Brown
15 January 2025;Genre: Fantasy
Saint-Seducing Gold is the second book of the stunning YA historical fantasy, The Forge and Fracture Saga series by bestselling author Ayana Gray - beginning with That Self-Same Metal - and which has been called 'noth...
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The Legendary Scarlett and Browne
Name: Clare Wilkins
14 January 2025;Genre: Dystopian
The Legendary Scarlett and Browne, the final instalment of the rollicking Scarlett and Browne series, is another feast of high adventure and biting wit. Our daring duo have seemingly dispatched the evil Brothers of the Hand but the Faith House...
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Let the Light In
Name: Eileen Armstrong
13 January 2025;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
When 17-year-old Leah finds herself holding her family together after the death of her dad, she finds escape in a risky and secretive love affair with a married man who makes her feel like a goddess. Her younger brother, Charlie, tries to escape his grief and solve his problem...
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The Party: The New York Times best-selling YA thriller
Name: Sue Wilsher
10 January 2025;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
When Bessie and her friends decide to attend a secret party at a remote and desolate castle, they are looking forward to a brilliant weekend. However, things quickly start to go wrong and as the weather worsens, one of their number dies…followed by another…and another… Left suspecting everyone...
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The Restaurant at the Edge of the World
Name: Linda Brown
10 January 2025;Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
17-year-old Soup has always lived at The Brazen Manticore, a restaurant where she was abandoned many years ago. She has grown up in the kitchen and has been taught by those around her. Soup now lives and breathes food, and dreams of being a chef as good as her boss, the elven Trysil Heldritch,...
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The Wilderness of Girls
Name: Sam
09 January 2025;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
At first glance, this debut YA novel appears to be a fantastical fairytale but is in fact a rather dark and emotionally fraught story of the wild girls. The Wilderness of Girls' themes are hard hitting and include PTSD, suicide, eating disorders, family and domestic violence,...
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The Legendary Scarlett and Browne
Name: Stephen Leitch
08 January 2025;Genre: Dystopian
The Legendary Scarlett and Browne is the third and final instalment of this incredible series following the exploits of the now most wanted Scarlett McCain and Albert Browne, who are in a doggedly determined and driven mood. Two years since escaping death at the hands of the H...
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Let the Light In
Name: Clare Wilkins
02 January 2025;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
In Let the Light In, Leah's in love and woefully naïve; Charlie's an innocent who has got in way over his head, and only Abby is young enough to be relatively unaffected by the turmoil that has followed their father's untimely death. With their mother housebound suffering unsp...
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When It's Your Turn For Midnight
Name: Lorraine Ansell
12 December 2024;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
Chianti's world is torn apart when a shocking secret is revealed by her mother. Feeling abandoned by her parents she runs away to her grandmothers for sanctuary. But grandmother and her friends are not ordinary women, having lived through and fought a war for their independence. As more shocki...
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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...
