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Name: Jenny Caddick
06 February 2020;Genre: Mystery & Detective
This is a new, fun and action-packed detective mystery with a fabulously enthusiastic and determined young central character - Agent Zaiba. Zaiba has inherited her mum and aunt's love of crime solving and fully intends in follow in Aunt Fouzia's sleuthing footsteps (she owns Karachi's top dete...
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Name: Erin Hamilton
06 February 2020;Genre: Dystopian
Nicola Penfold has created a world in which people are forced to live within city walls and without any nature growing around them. Ticks had been carrying a disease that wiped out entire towns and cities, so the government stepped in and created barriers, rules and consequences for being a na...
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Name: Carol Carter
06 February 2020;Genre: Historical Fiction
Little Bird Lands is the stunning conclusion to the historical diptych beginning with 2019's Little Bird Flies.At the end of the first novel, we left Bridie MacKerrie, also known as Little Bird, as she landed in New York in 1864, about to begin a new life having es...
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Name: Stephen Leitch
06 February 2020;Genre: Adventure
Talking tigers, flying rugs and pancakes, what's not to like in Tiger Skin Rug, a brilliant debut novel from Joan Haig. The story follows young brothers Lal and Dilip who with their family have moved to Scotland from India. In the drawing room of their new home they discover a tiger skin rug,...
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Here be Wizards: The Snowdonia Chronicles (Book Three)
Name: Linda Brown
06 February 2020;Genre: Fantasy
Here Be Wizards is the final part to the Snowdonia Chronicles trilogy. Four months have passed since the adventure of the first book, Here be Dragons. It is now Midsummer's Eve, the time w...
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Name: Jacqueline Harris
05 February 2020;Genre: Dystopian
Juniper is thirteen and lives in the city with her little brother Bear. To the children, this city seems like a cage, as they used to live in the Wild. Leaving the city and returning to their mother has always been their dream. But this is a time when the world has changed. Fifty years previou...
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Name: Katie Bradwell
05 February 2020;Genre: Dystopian
Where the World Turns Wild is a beautiful, enchanting novel which tells the tale of siblings Jupiter and Bear and their search to reconnect to their parents. The novel is set in a world where a disease has wiped out a large proportion of the population, and those surviving are forced to live i...
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Name: Donna Burkert
04 February 2020;Genre: Personal Growth
Frances Frida Ripley: born in a storm (or so her parents so often reminisce), filled with anger and unrest. She spends her life being told to quieten down, to control her anger, to just be something that she's not. But she can't! She can't be like her sweet sister Bridie, she can't be like her...
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Where the Wilderness Lives
Name: Kelly Buxton
04 February 2020;Genre: Environment & Nature
Where the Wilderness Lives is a story filled with adventure and nature, intertwined with magic and folklore but grounded by the trials and tribulations that accompany childhood.There are so many aspects this book lends itself to; vibrant descriptions take you on a...
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Adventures on Trains: The Highland Falcon Thief
Name: Kelly Buxton
03 February 2020;Genre: Mystery & Detective
I thoroughly enjoyed going on a fact-finding adventure aboard The Highway Falcon, a locomotive on its final voyage. Hal, who reluctantly joins his travel-writer uncle, finds more than he anticipated when he is thrown into the role of unveiling a jewel thief. Brimming with twists and turns, thi...
