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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: 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: 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...
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Tad
Name: Kyle Matravers
03 February 2020;Genre: Adventure
As a fan of Benji Davies' work, I was really excited to receive this to read. Thankfully, it did not disappoint. Tad is the smallest tadpole in the pond. She is so small that she has to wriggle her tail twice as fast as her brothers and sisters just to keep up with them. The 'almost frogs' are m...
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Nothing Ever Happens Here
Name: Lucy Russell
03 February 2020;Genre: Adventure
Izzy lives in Littlehaven, a small town in the East of England where nothing ever happens. Until the day, that is, when Izzy's dad tells her that he is transgender, and is about to start living as a woman, Danielle. Reeling from the shock, Izzy attempts to get on with school, auditioning for t...
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A Throne of Swans
Name: Tanja Jennings
02 February 2020;Genre: Fantasy
From the elegant cover featuring a 3D model of a specially designed throne and a lone feather to its pages filled with Machiavellian machinations, teen angst, secrets, love, betrayal, sacrifice and intricate world building involving avian transformation, 'A Throne of Swans' delivers a rich YA tre...
