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Rebel Heart
Name: Sara Sumner
28 March 2025;Genre: Historical Fiction
Rebel Heart is a new and exciting historical adventure story from Ally Sherrick, set in the English Civil War. The year is 1645 and with her father away fighting for the Royalists and her step mother about to surrender her home to the troops bombarding it, you...
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Deep Dark (Volume 1) (A Cassia Thorne Mystery)
Name: Donna Ritchie
27 March 2025;Genre: Adventure
I love a book that has a little bit of real history entwined within the story. Deep Dark is such a book. Cassia Thorne is the main character; a patterer (a child singer who sings songs - that tell a story - on the streets of early 19th century London), but who also teaches pia...
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Rebel Heart
Name: Jacqueline Harris
12 March 2025;Genre: Historical Fiction
The year is 1645 and the Civil War is raging. Merriweather Pryce decides to fetch her father to defend their home of Compton Blaize, as it is under attack from the Parliamentarian forces. Dressed as a boy, she leaves Compton Blaize to find him - only to run into deadly danger before she has go...
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Westfallen: What if you had to stop Germany winning WWII?
Name: Sue Wilsher
12 March 2025;Genre: Adventure
Although Henry, Frances and Lukas are no longer best friends, they meet up for the funeral of their pet gerbil. Whilst digging the grave, they make an amazing discovery - a radio which allows them to communicate with another group of three children who live in the very same place, only 80 year...
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The Things We Leave Behind
Name: Clair Bossons
10 March 2025;Genre: Dystopian
Shortlisted for The Carnegie Award 2025 and the UKLA Book Award, The Things We Leave Behind by Clare Furniss is a stunning and thought-provoking dystopian novel. It is set in the near future, where London is teetering on the edge of collapse. Amid a refugee cr...
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All Better Now
Name: Sam
07 March 2025;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
In All Better Now, a virus is spreading, but this one is different: first there's a fever, and then utter contentment. Those that survive the Crown Royale virus find the stress, depression, greed, and other negative feelings that used to weigh them down are gone. This all soun...
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Deep Dark (Volume 1) (A Cassia Thorne Mystery)
Name: Sue Wilsher
07 March 2025;Genre: Adventure
Cassia Thorne lives in the Fleet with her father, who is in prison for debt. She does what she can to support them by selling ballads in the streets and giving music lessons. When the younger brother of her friend goes missing, Cassia is determined to find him and with the hel...
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The Storm and the Sea Hawk
Name: Jacqueline Harris
06 March 2025;Genre: Fantasy
Ysolda is on the run with the daughter of her enemy, the Wolf Queen. They are travelling to find the Anchorite and for Ysolda to free her sister and try to stop the terrible things happening across the country. Plunged into the cold world of the Norveger, Ysolda has to test her courage to its...
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Vanya and the Wild Hunt
Name: Louisa Farrow
06 March 2025;Genre: Fantasy
In Vanya and the Wild Hunt, fantastical creatures and frightening figures from Indian mythology and European folklore inhabit a vibrant fantasy world, spreading out around a single safe haven: a magical library of talking books hidden in the mountains of India. Taking c...
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After
Name: Jacqueline Harris
04 March 2025;Genre: Dystopian
Jen and Father are in a world that is almost empty of people. This is the time after 'The Flood', when people and machines were mostly destroyed. They come across a small, friendly community and Jen finds she wants to stay. But Father is not what he seems; he is a human appearing AI and people...
