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Last Gamer Standing
Name: Logan Age 12
10 October 2025;Genre: Science Fiction
Last Gamer Standing is so good, so kid friendly and a great story overall showing how people can be so sexist at times - but people will always come through. This book is so awesome, 5 stars = I would rate it higher If I could!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Sin Bin Island
Name: Sue Wilsher
06 October 2025;Genre: Adventure
When Jack Winston Claremont Digby - Digs to his friends - finds himself with the family solicitor after the death of his mum, stepfather and sister, he has no idea how strange things are about to become. He has been left a set of Russian nesting dolls and discovers that, instead of being taken...
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Murder at Christmas
Name: Sue Wilsher
03 October 2025;Genre: Mystery & Detective
Grace is delighted when she arrives in Bath to spend Christmas with her mum and younger brother, Billy. Although her dad won't be with them, they will be staying at the hotel owned by their mum's twin sister, Aunt Mollie. But when a body is found on the stairs and their mum disappears, Grace a...
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The Takeover: Volume 2 (Ministry of Mischief)
Name: Margaret Pemberton
02 October 2025;Genre: Funny Stories
This is the second in the wonderfully funny and anarchic Ministry of Mischief series featuring Joey and Harry, but importantly, it is about their relationship with the group of Imps from Impworld, who we met in the previous book....
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The Strange Disappearance of Imogen Good
Name: Sue Wilsher
02 October 2025;Genre: Friends and family
Fran is not looking forward to spending a week with her aunt and uncle, largely because of her rude and unfriendly cousin, Imogen. However, when she arrives, Fran finds that Imogen is missing . . . and no one seems to remember that she ever existed. Puzzled and frightened, Fran is determined t...
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Name: Sue Wilsher
01 October 2025;Genre: Adventure
When her mother dies, Maggie is left with nothing but a letter for a stranger named Jean Passepartout. Faced with life in an orphanage, she seeks him out and finds herself caught up in the adventure of a lifetime. Passepartout is valet to Mr Phileas Fogg, who has just entered into a wager to p...
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Tales of Ghosts and Hauntings: Six Bone-Chilling Mysteries to Investigate If You Dare!
Name: Sue Wilsher
01 October 2025;Genre: Supernatural
Posing the question, 'Do ghosts really exist?', Tales of Ghosts and Hauntings contains six gripping mysteries to investigate. Challenging the reader to consider the evidence and come to their own conclusions, this book is every bit as engaging as Tales of Scary Beasts by the s...
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Murder at Christmas
Name: Margaret Pemberton
01 October 2025;Genre: Mystery & Detective
The arrival of a Christmas murder mystery has become something of an early Christmas present from this author. This time, the two main characters are staying with their mother at their aunt's hotel in Bath. However, when the hotel manager is killed and their mother disappears, the siblings are...
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Fear Files: Hide and Seek: A pacy, spine tingling horror adventure
Name: Louisa Farrow
01 October 2025;Genre: Horror
Adam has gone on a camping trip with his best friend Sol, but it is not living up to expectations. There's no staying up late telling ghost stories, no cosy hammocks and Sol even seems to have lost his sense of fun. In frustration, Adam strikes off through the mist to find what adventure he ca...
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Dracula & Daughters: Sink your fangs into a brand new adventure series
Name: Beverley Somerset
30 September 2025;Genre: Myths & Legends
Famous actress Elsie Irving has died in mysterious circumstances and, for the first time in 20 years, a vampire Contagion has broken out in Temstown. Are the two things linked? Mina, her sister Buffy and cousin Bella find that they are connected by a family secret and they could be the only on...
