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  • Hugg 'n' Bugg: Finding Home

    Hugg 'n' Bugg: Finding Home

    Name: Sharon Porter
    03 December 2022;

    Genre: Friends and family

    Hugg 'n' Bugg: Finding Home: "This book made me laugh out loud. It was so funny and a little bit rude. I'm really glad that Bugg found Hugg because it looks like they were made for each other." F aged 10.  "Our teacher shared this book with us and we loved it. Hugg looks so mu...

  • The Eternal Return of Clara Hart

    The Eternal Return of Clara Hart

    Name: Louise Baker
    01 December 2022;

    Genre: Personal Growth

    How long could you turn a blind eye to the actions of your friends, before speaking up? Teenager James 'Spence' Spencer is coming to the slow realisation that his friends aren't the people he thought they were - and that, by association, he's walking a very dangerous path. After witness...

  • Little Santa

    Little Santa

    Name: Maria
    01 December 2022;

    Genre: Picture Books

    Do you know the story of Santa's childhood? Well this is just the book you need to read to discover what happened to Little Santa! In the North Pole Little Santa lives with his family and life is tough in the cold and in the snow. His family are miserable and decide to...

  • The Winter Wish

    The Winter Wish

    Name: Kyle Matravers
    01 December 2022;

    Genre: Family & Home

    The Winter Wish is a beautiful and charming festive tale that really highlights the magic and wonder of Christmas. The story is set around William and his family. They live in a flat above the book shop they own. Because of this, William has grown up in a world of words...some...

  • Love in Winter Wonderland: A feel-good Christmas romance guaranteed to warm hearts!

    Love in Winter Wonderland

    Name: Morgan Harkin
    01 December 2022;

    Genre: Romance & Relationships

    Love in Winter Wonderland is a heart felt read, following the story of two main characters, Trey and Ariel. A family owned bookshop is where this unlikely pair meet. Both disliking each other until the impending closure of Wonderland, the bookshop, slowly their love for one an...

  • Glowrushes

    Glowrushes

    Name: Linda Brown
    01 December 2022;

    Genre: Friends and family

    Glowrushes has been considered to be an Italian masterpiece by this author and for the very first time has been translated into English. I'm so pleased that this has been done. This is a book that will stay with you long after you have put it down. It will put your emotions on...

  • The Little Match Girl Strikes Back

    The Little Match Girl Strikes Back

    Name: Louisa Farrow
    30 November 2022;

    Genre: Historical Fiction

    Meet Bridie Sweeney. She's a little match girl, working hard on the streets of Victorian London to help feed her family; she's poor, hungry and cold - but there ends the resemblance to the famous fairy tale character. As she says, match girls weren't all pretty things with with fair curls and...

  • The Ghost Locket

    The Ghost Locket

    Name: Janet Fisher
    30 November 2022;

    Genre: Supernatural

    Lolli is in England with Freya and they have come back to help with the opening of the family house in Spitalfields.  But Lolli does not want to go into the house as she knows it is haunted by a malevolent spirit.  Her strange behaviour and her inability to tell anyone what is happening to her...

  • Princess Minna: The Big Bad Snowy Day

    Princess Minna: The Big Bad Snowy Day

    Name: Lucy Newton
    29 November 2022;

    Genre: Young fiction

    Another adventure with Princess Minna. In Princess Minna: The Big Bad Snowy Day, Minna wakes up and sees snow everywhere. She has a snowball fight and builds some dragons but she notices a problem. Her poor grandma can't get out of her house because there is so much snow, so s...

  • Together with You

    Together With You

    Name: Jennifer Bevan
    28 November 2022;

    Genre: Family & Home

    This book is about spending time with Grandma in every season. The young child in the story looks excited to go into Grandma's house, just as my own children are when they go to there Grandparents' home. I liked the illustrations and the fun the child and Grandma are having each day. A nice bo...