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  • A Secret of Birds & Bone

    Name: Janet Fisher
    06 October 2020;

    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...

  • A Clock of Stars: The Shadow Moth

    A Clock of Stars: The Shadow Moth

    Name: Rhiannon Cook
    05 October 2020;

    Genre: Fantasy

    A Narnia for the modern age, A Clock of Stars is a magical adventure following two sisters that don't always get along. Imogen and Marie find themselves in a fantasy world after following a mysterious moth through a door in a tree but once on the other side, the door disappears and they are tr...

  • When Life Gives You Mangoes

    Name: Jacqueline Harris
    05 October 2020;

    Genre: Friends and family

    Clara lives in Sycamore, a village where nothing much happens. She loves eating mangoes and playing with her best friend Gaynah. The only dark cloud in her life is that she cannot remember what happened last summer.One day a new girl, Rudy, arrives from England with her mother. Cla...

  • A Secret of Birds & Bone

    Name: Sue Wilsher
    03 October 2020;

    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...

  • The Witching Stone

    Name: Clare Wilkins
    01 October 2020;

    Genre: Supernatural

    Just in time for Hallowe'en comes Danny Weston's spooky supernatural tale about the demise and reawakening of an eighteenth-century witch. Teenager Alfie is escaping a broken romance and spending the summer in the seemingly sleepy village of Woodplumpton. Whilst his Dad is at work, Alfie explo...

  • World Burn Down

    Name: Beverley Somerset
    01 October 2020;

    Genre: Environment & Nature

    World Burn Down is a thrilling adventure story with a strong environmental message. Carlos Feliz lives with his mother in Manaus, Brazil. She is a soldier working for the Special Forces Group of IBAMA - the environment agency, and her job is to protect the Amazon rainforest fr...

  • The Castle of Tangled Magic

    Name: Sue Wilsher
    01 October 2020;

    Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales

    Olia loves Castle Mila, the ancestral home of her family, a place full of secrets and magic. Although they no longer live in the grandeur of the past, the domed castle offers them shelter and the rest of the village space to celebrate and work. But strange storms are rising and Olia's Babusya...

  • The Castle of Tangled Magic

    Name: Beverley Somerset
    01 October 2020;

    Genre: Fairy Tales & Folk Tales

    13-year-old Olia lives with her parents, grandmother Babusya and baby sister Rosa, whom she adores. The family are descended from royalty and their home is the huge Castle Mila. The castle is 500 years old and with its 33 turrets and domes is full of secrets. Olia loves to explore it, searchin...

  • The Time Traveller and the Tiger

    Name: Sue Wilsher
    01 October 2020;

    Genre: Environment & Nature

    Elsie is used to being forgotten and so when her mother gets her holiday dates wrong and Elsie has to go and stay with Great Uncle John, she tries to make the best of it. After all, nothing exciting ever happens to her unlike Kelsie Corvette, the heroine of the stories Elise writes. However, s...

  • The Mirrors Shattered

    Name: Linda Brown
    01 October 2020;

    Genre: Fantasy

    At the end of book two (The Mirroculust Mission), Mr Peregrine was kidnapped! Now it's up to Darwen, Rik and Alex to rescue him. In The Mirrors Shattered, the final book in the Beyond the Mirror trilogy, they go on a journey that takes them deeper into Silbrica than they've ev...