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Lark
Name: Joanna Hewish
11 February 2019;Genre: Real life
From the award winning and Carnegie nominated Anthony McGowan, this is already set to be another best seller. A real page turner which had me gripped to the end. Lark continues the story of Nicky and Kenny, brothers who have not had the best start in life. But in this tale, things have finally s...
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A World Without Princes (The School for Good and Evil)
Name: Linda Brown
04 February 2019;Genre: Fantasy
A World Without Princes is book two of the magical The School for Good and Evil series. This part of the story is deeper and darker, with pacy twists and turns that help keep the reader enga...
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The School for Good and Evil
Name: Linda Brown
31 January 2019;Genre: Fantasy
The School for Good and Evil was not what I was expecting when I picked it up! This is a funny, frightening, fast-paced twist of a story about the fairy tales that we have all grown up with (I have placed it in the fairy tale category, but could also be called fantasy). <p...
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Name: Janet Fisher
31 January 2019;Genre: Real life
This is one of those quirky stories which is very hard to place in a category and to suggest a readership. Set in the US in the 1970s, it tells of a Lenny (Lenore), her mother and her brother Davey who just keeps growing. Their father, after many journeys away, simply does not return one day s...
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A Curse So Dark and Lonely
Name: Lucy Georgeson
29 January 2019;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
Prince Rhen, the heir to Emberfall, is cursed. Forced to repeat the autumn of his 18th year over and over, he can only be freed by love. But at the end of each autumn he is transformed into a beast hell-bent on destruction, and after so many failed attempts, his kingdom and its people are bare...
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A Curse So Dark and Lonely
Name: Linda Brown
29 January 2019;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
Over the years there have been many retellings of the classic tale of Beauty and the Beast. This is what the author wanted to complete and she has managed it, but with a much darker theme woven into the love story. A Curse So Dark and Lonely is simply enchanting and well worth...
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Name: Sue Wilsher
04 January 2019;Genre: Historical Fiction
When Clarry is born, her mother dies and her indifferent father leaves her and her brother, Peter, to be raised by a series of housekeepers and well-intentioned neighbours. They long for their summer holidays in Cornwall where, largely ignored by their grandparents, they roam free with their c...
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The Twisted Tree
Name: Linda Brown
22 December 2018;Genre: Fantasy
I can't say it any better than the blurb on the back of this wonderfully written book: 'The Twisted Tree is a chilling ghost story inspired by Norse legend.' Martha can tell things about a person just by touching their clothes, as if their emotions and memories have bee...
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Name: Lorraine Ansell
18 October 2018;Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales
Tangleweed and Brine is a collection of fairy tales but not as most people would recognise them. Retold without the usual happy endings, these stories have a dark and bewitching air with the females taking a lead and following paths quite contrary from the traditional tales.<b...
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Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes?
Name: Catherine Purcell
28 September 2018;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
Holly Bourne has triumphed again. Olive's narrative is so simple, so real, so painful and raw. From the start, from page 1, we feel her mania; it's truly impressive how the writing draws you along, throughout you're skillfully soaring and plummeting with Olive as she struggles to catch hold of...
