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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: Jacqueline Harris
05 February 2020;Genre: Dystopian
Juniper is thirteen and lives in the city with her little brother Bear. To the children, this city seems like a cage, as they used to live in the Wild. Leaving the city and returning to their mother has always been their dream. But this is a time when the world has changed. Fifty years previou...
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Name: Katie Bradwell
05 February 2020;Genre: Dystopian
Where the World Turns Wild is a beautiful, enchanting novel which tells the tale of siblings Jupiter and Bear and their search to reconnect to their parents. The novel is set in a world where a disease has wiped out a large proportion of the population, and those surviving are forced to live i...
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What is Mental Health? Where does it come from? And Other Big Questions
Name: Dan Katz
23 January 2020;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
What is Mental Health? Where does it come from? And Other Big Questions by Lucy Maddox is the latest title in Wayland's 'Big Questions' series. As the title suggests, it provides an overview on issues surrounding mental health, including what it is, why it's important and how...
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Crater Lake
Name: Clare Wilkins
21 January 2020;Genre: Horror
A perfect middle-grade horror featuring zombie teachers, bug-eyed students and a school trip like no other! Lance and his friends are headed for Crater Lake, a supposedly new and innovative activity centre. With his nemesis Ms Hoche in charge and annoying Head Boy Trent for company, Lance feels...
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Name: Janet Fisher
12 January 2020;Genre: Magical Realism
This is the third in Catherine Fisher's trilogy about Seren and the clockwork crow, full of magic and Welsh folklore. I did review the first book The Clockwork Crow (2018), which was very good and this does not disappoint. Seren, Tomos and the Crow are still trying to find the Swan's egg and...
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Name: Lorraine Ansell
11 January 2020;Genre: Historical Fiction
Evey and her little sister have just witnessed the horrific murder of their mother, a suspected witch, by a band of men. Fleeing for their lives and hunted, they take refuge in the forest and search for the coven, their mother's last instruction ringing in Evey's ears. Once safe, Evey strikes...
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Evernight
Name: Clare Wilkins
06 January 2020;Genre: Fantasy
The Silver King rules the sprawling city of King's Haven. With the aid of his Chief Witch, Mrs Hester, and an army of enslaved white witches, the Silver King's considerable power permeates the city. But a troubling phenomenon is disturbing the king - white witches are being enticed away by the...
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A Heart So Fierce and Broken
Name: Lucy Georgeson
19 December 2019;Genre: Fantasy
Harper has freed Prince Rhen from the curse that almost destroyed his kingdom. But all is not well, rumours are rife that there is a rival heir with a stronger claim to the throne and that 'Princess' Harper of Disi is nothing but a fraud. Grey has fled the castle carrying a terrible secret. Wh...
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Where the world ends
Name: Garry W
18 December 2019;Genre: Historical Fiction
I think Where The World Ends is very good book to read as firstly, I have never heard of a place called St Kilda even though it's very close to me and it's where I live in the UK.