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  • A Secret of Birds & Bone

    Name: Sue Wilsher
    02 April 2021;

    Genre: Friends and family

    Sofia lives with her mother and little brother, Ermin, and their pet crow, Corvith, on the outskirts of Sienna. Their home, set in the grounds of a ruined monastery, is a charnel house made of bones, and her mother is a bone-binder, famed throughout the city for her work. Smallpox has ravaged...

  • Pages & Co.: Tilly and the Map of Stories (Pages & Co., Book 3 paperback)

    Pages & Co.: Tilly and the Map of Stories (Pages & Co., Book 3 paperback)

    Name: Jacqueline Harris
    01 April 2021;

    Genre: Magical Realism

    A Pages and Co 3 - Tilly and the Map of Stories; A man walks into the bookshop Pages and Co and cannot remember what he came in for. Tilly and her family feel something is not quite right but cannot work out what it is. The wicked siblings Decima and Melville Underwood are now...

  • Skin Taker

    Name: Sue Wilsher
    01 April 2021;

    Genre: Historical Fiction

    When disaster strikes the Forest at the start of Skin Taker, it seems as if the sun will never wake and the Clans are left in chaos. Torak, Renn and Wolf must face dangers and demons and find a way to bring back the First Tree if their world is to survive. But Torak is caught...

  • Amber Under Cover

    Amber Under Cover

    Name: Donna Burkert
    01 April 2021;

    Genre: Mystery & Detective

    Amber Roberts: a typical schoolgirl whose life is turned upside down in more ways than one. Fearing that her parents are about to divorce, Amber is shocked to find that it is something altogether more worrying that they have been whispering about for weeks; it seems her life will never be the...

  • Skin Taker

    Name: Kelly Buxton
    01 April 2021;

    Genre: Historical Fiction

    Skin Taker by Michelle Paver is the latest in the Chronicles of Ancient Darkness series, which follows Torak, a spirit Walker, Renn, his mate and Wolf, his trusty companion, as their livelihood is threatened by an unnatural force in this tense, new wild adventure. Journ...

  • Mark Anchovy: Pizza Detective

    Name: Beverley Somerset
    01 April 2021;

    Genre: Mystery & Detective

    When pizza delivery boy and would-be detective Colin Kingsley meets Princess in the local kebab shop, he has no idea of the adventure ahead of him! He becomes a member of the Golden Spatula League (GSL), a detective agency that only recruits children. Each child has a special talent and Colin...

  • Emmy Levels Up

    Emmy Levels Up

    Name: Donna Burkert
    01 April 2021;

    Genre: Bullying

    When Emmy is playing the part of Emmentine in the online game: Illusory Isles, nobody can defeat her. She is master of her game. She is queen of combat. She is a celebrity. The video of her greatest defeat against The Mulch Queen is legendary in the Illusory Isles world. Nothing can burst her...

  • The Lightning Catcher

    The Lightening Catcher

    Name: Jacqueline Harris
    01 April 2021;

    Genre: Magical Realism

    Alfie and his family move to the village of Folding Ford where the weather is completely crazy. Ice in the middle of summer, rain over just one house and temperatures and tempers going crazy. Alfie and his new friend Sam start to investigate and Alfie unwittingly lets loose a strange creature...

  • A Secret of Birds & Bone

    Name: Janet Fisher
    01 April 2021;

    Genre: Friends and family

    This author goes from strength to strength. Each of her books, starting with The Girl of Ink and Stars in 2016, is different and quite unique. A Secret of Birds and Bone tells of the children of Renata, a bone binder living just outside Siena in an undefined period. Renata app...

  • Starboard

    Starboard

    Name: Donna Ritchie
    01 April 2021;

    Genre: Friends and family

    If you like boats - you'll love this! If you like adventures - you'll love this! If you like a story about finding your true self - you'll love this! Starboard is a story set around 11-year-old reality TV star, Kirsten. Her show is focused on finding a girlfriend for he...