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  • Cinderella Is Dead

    Cinderella is Dead

    Name: Linda Brown
    31 July 2020;

    Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales

    After reading Cinderella Is Dead, you will never look at the original Grimms fairytale in the same way ever again... It's been 200 years since Cinderella found her Prince Charming and they lived happily ever after, or did they?  Sophia, our lead character, knows th...

  • Ways to Make Sunshine

    Ways to Make Sunshine

    Name: Jo Clarke
    23 July 2020;

    Genre: Friends and family

    We all know the saying, 'When life gives you lemons, make lemonade', well, Ryan Hart is a girl who finds ways to make sunshine when life brings rainclouds.With subtle echoes of Bill's New Frock, Ways to Make Sunshine will inspire and delight. Ryan's name means 'lea...

  • The Lost Soul Atlas

    The Lost Soul Atlas

    Name: Lucy Georgeson
    23 July 2020;

    Genre: Social Issues

    A boy awakens in the Afterlife, with a pocketful of vague memories, a key, a raven, and a mysterious atlas to guide him as he sets out to piece together what happened, and try to find his way home...Twig is alone as a newly-made street kid after his dad goes missing. But when he me...

  • 44 Tiny Secrets

    44 Tiny Secrets

    Name: Lauren Maidman
    23 July 2020;

    Genre: Family & Home

    Betsy Bow-Linnet is the daughter of famous concert pianists Bella and Bertrum Bow-Linnet. Her grandfather, too, is a concert pianist, however Betsy is not. No matter how hard she tries she just can't get the hang of it. After hearing her mother call her 'a disappointment', Betsy is determined...

  • The Unadoptables: Five fantastic children on the adventure of a lifetime

    The Unadoptables: Five fantastic children on the adventure of a lifetime

    Name: Janet Fisher
    23 July 2020;

    Genre: Adventure

    The Unadoptables is a truly magical story of orphans, adventure, and of longing for something that seems so out of reach; belonging to a family. The Little Tulip Orphanage in 1880 Amsterdam is, as you would expect in a story about orphans, cold, miserable and run by a truly ho...

  • The Fowl Twins

    The Fowl Twins (Paperback)

    Name: Carol Carter
    23 July 2020;

    Genre: Magical Realism

    The Fowl Twins is the 'first book of the second cycle of Fowl Adventures', meaning we are back in the world of Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer's long-running MG series about a child criminal genius and his adventures with the fairy realm, but this new series focuses on the exploits...

  • Far From Perfect (The Valentines, Book 2)

    Far From Perfect

    Name: Jess Locke
    23 July 2020;

    Genre: Friends and family

    Far From Perfect, he second book in the Valentines series from Holly Smale, follows Faith, the 16 year old beautiful Valentine sister.Faith appears on the surface to have it all, looks, fame, a famous rock star boyfriend and a glittering future ahead of her. Yet al...

  • Urban Forest School: Outdoor adventures and skills for city kids

    Urban Forest School: Outdoor adventures and skills for city kids

    Name: Nicky Stiles
    21 July 2020;

    Genre: Environment & Nature

    Urban Forest School, published by the Guild of Master Craftsman Publications, is a great non-fiction text resource for teachers and school staff as well as parents, especially during this difficult time when we are all doing our best to home school and keep little ones enterta...

  • Good Girls Die First

    Good Girls Die First

    Name: Linda Brown
    20 July 2020;

    Genre: Horror

    Secrets, an abandoned carnival island and a group of teenagers, mixed with serious mind games and murder. I couldn't wait to delve into the pages of this supernatural suspense thriller/horror...16-year-old Ava receives an anonymous invitation to Portgrave Pier along with nine other...

  • The Ship of Shadows

    The Ship of Shadows

    Name: Beverley Somerset
    16 July 2020;

    Genre: Adventure

    Pirates of the Caribbean meets Indiana Jones in this rollicking tale of adventure! Aleja lives in Seville with her father, grandmother and two brothers, helping to run the family taverna. She spends her free time reading about explorers and dreams of following in their footsteps, especially th...