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Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Recipe for Trouble
Name: Donna Burkert
03 January 2023;Genre: Adventure
Alice Éclair is no ordinary girl. Not only is she an extraordinary pastry chef, whipping up amazing concoctions and icing them with perfection, she is also a spy! In Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Recipe for Trouble, it starts with the notes she receives after her uncle d...
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The Night Animals
Name: Donna Ritchie
03 January 2023;Genre: Family & Home
What a sensitively written story covering PTSD within a single parent family. I absolutely loved being taken through the ups and downs of Nora and her relationships with her mother, absent father, friend Kwame and of course the night animals. In The Night Animals, Jukes...
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Midwinter Burning
Name: Nathan Cox
28 December 2022;Genre: Historical Fiction
Midwinter Burning by Tanya Landman is an historical adventure story, steeped with mystery. The story is set at the beginning of World War Two in England. Alfie Wright, an evacuee, has left London for Devon, living on Coombe Farm with Auntie Bell and her son, Ted. Alfie Wright...
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Glowrushes
Name: Linda Brown
01 December 2022;Genre: Friends and family
Glowrushes has been considered to be an Italian masterpiece by this author and for the very first time has been translated into English. I'm so pleased that this has been done. This is a book that will stay with you long after you have put it down. It will put your emotions on...
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The Ghost Locket
Name: Janet Fisher
30 November 2022;Genre: Supernatural
Lolli is in England with Freya and they have come back to help with the opening of the family house in Spitalfields. But Lolli does not want to go into the house as she knows it is haunted by a malevolent spirit. Her strange behaviour and her inability to tell anyone what is happening to her...
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The Red Red Dragon
Name: Janet Fisher
25 November 2022;Genre: Magical Realism
Red the dragon is born into a world where dragons speak and think, communicate and live by an admirable code, faraway from the 'uprights' whom they fear and whom they think have suffered badly from an overheating of the world. Red is an unusual colour for a dragon and he has an inquiring 'thi...
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Murder at Snowfall
Name: Ruth Cornish
22 November 2022;Genre: Mystery & Detective
Murder at Snowfall, the latest murder mystery from Fleur Hitchcock, is an exciting middle grade book featuring realistic characters with real life issues in addition to a thrilling sideline in detective work. The atmosphere created by the author is as chilling as the season as...
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The Snow Bear
Name: Wendy Kelly
22 November 2022;Genre: Animals
This classic book has been re-released by Little Tiger in a gorgeous 10th anniversary edition. The story is as lovely as it's always been and will delight junior readers, especially during the winter months. It tells the story of Sara, a little girl staying with her grandfather just before Chr...
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The Chestnut Roaster
Name: Jacqueline Harris
15 November 2022;Genre: Historical Fiction
Piaf (Sparrow) is a chestnut roaster in Paris in the 1800s whilst The Eiffel Tower is just being built. Piaf is blessed (or is it cursed?) with total recall of every event in her life. There is something dangerous lurking in the background; 20 gifted children have disappeared, and Piaf's own b...
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Wolfbane
Name: Kelly Buxton
10 November 2022;Genre: Historical Fiction
A book that leaves you breathless. If I could give this more than 5*, I would! The ancient clans seek peace, but at what cost? A choked howl gives way to a deafening silence that echoes around the forest. Pack brother Torak and his mage mate Renn answer the call, but will they be too late? An...
