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A Midnight Dark and Golden
Name: Linda Brown
07 July 2022;Genre: Fantasy
A Midnight Dark and Golden is an explosive and gripping finale for The City of Nightmares trilogy. This well written, imaginative author gives her audience a rollercoaster ride of emotions f...
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Coming Up For Air
Name: Morgan
07 July 2022;Genre: Friends and family
15-year-old Coco and her mother Min move from Soho back to her mothers home town. Coco is anxious but excited too. The idea of making new friends and developing her skills in making films excites her, however she is labelled with terms created by her parents. This encourages Coco to break thes...
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Dragon Storm: Mira and Flameteller
Name: Lauren Maidman
07 July 2022;Genre: Fantasy
Dragon Storm: Mira and Flameteller is the third instalment in the Dragon Storm series. The story is set in the city of Rivven, where dragons once ruled. The only problem now is that a King rules and he hates dragons. He also doesn’t know there is a group of yo...
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Some Sunny Day
Name: Sue Wilsher
06 July 2022;Genre: Family & Home
Cymbeline Igloo is not enjoying lockdown. He hates not being allowed to play football or see his friends and he is struggling with on-line learning. As he struggles to cope with boredom, his mum seems determined to clean the whole house from top to bottom. Desperate to avoid her touching thing...
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Nura and the Immortal Palace
Name: Jenny Caddick
05 July 2022;Genre: Magical Realism
The most gloriously, richly illustrated cover of this book opens and takes the reader into a darkly intriguing and imaginative fantasy adventure that blends perfectly with a very real, central theme of child labour and the culture of exploitation of the poor by the wealthy. Set in India...
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Nura and the Immortal Palace
Name: Donna Burkert
05 July 2022;Genre: Magical Realism
Nura wants what she can't have: money, wealth and power. Her days are long and difficult, mining for mica; it's a dirty and dangerous job but she does it to help her mum, to bring some extra money into the family, to help give her younger siblings a little extra. But what she really wants is t...
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Some Sunny Day
Name: Andrew Mullen
05 July 2022;Genre: Family & Home
It was brilliant to find myself back with the wonderfully named Cymbeline Igloo, and to read a book set during the lockdowns of the past few years. The story, created by Adam Baron, shows us how it might have seemed to live through those dark days as a school-aged child; the loneliness, the an...
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The Raven Riddle
Name: Beverley Somerset
01 July 2022;Genre: Science Fiction
The Raven Riddle follows Grace Griffin, her mother, and brother Bren are wardens of the Griffin map. They can teleport across the whole of Moreland to be where people need help or a mystery needs to be solved. They have been joined by Tom Eely, who Grace met on a previous miss...
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Family of Liars
Name: Tanja Jennings
01 July 2022;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
If you’re looking for a psychological thriller that takes a scalpel to human nature, E. Lockhart's Family of Liars is a good choice. Caught on the whirlwind of Tik Tok celebrity for its predecessor, the plot twist sizzler We Were Liars, Lockhart's new novel is a prequel set in...
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This Wicked Fate
Name: Tanja Jennings
01 July 2022;Genre: Fantasy
Kalynn Bayron reinvented the myth of Cinderella shattering the patriarchal construct of the tortuous glass slipper into fragments in Cinderella Is Dead which was recently banned in Texas because of the power of its representation. She p...
