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This Song Is About Us
Name: Sue Wilsher
04 April 2025;Genre: Romance & Relationships
As The Kerbs, a four piece band, are on the verge of success, lead singer, Drew, and his long term girlfriend, Ruby, have to decide whether to make their relationship public or to continue in secret. Wanting to maintain their privacy, it seems like an easy decision to make. However, fa...
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While We're Young
Name: Clare Wilkins
14 March 2025;Genre: Romance & Relationships
With graduation looming and the prospect of leaving home provoking both fear and excitement, school president and all round Grade A student Grace Barbour decides a day of skipping school is just the tonic she and her friends need. The only problems being the schism between her...
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Every Borrowed Beat
Name: Ruth Cornish
13 March 2025;Genre: Romance & Relationships
I really enjoyed reading Every Borrowed Beat by Erin Stewart. You might rightly expect this book to be extremely sad but the author has crafted the main character, Sydney Wells, as a pragmatic young person coming to terms with terminal illness, only for an unexpected emergency...
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Capitana: Set sail with the bestselling pirate romantasy of 2025!
Name: Sue Wilsher
10 March 2025;Genre: Fantasy
Ximena Reale is determined to become a Cazadoro at La Academia de los Cazadores, but despite being a star student, her prospects are tarnished by her heritage. Five years ago, her parents were executed for being pirates and now her older sister's behaviour is casting a shadow on Ximena's risin...
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The Rose Bargain
Name: Linda Brown
10 March 2025;Genre: Fantasy
The Rose Bargain is a thrilling and atmospheric dark fantasy set in 1848 England, where high society's yearly tradition of bargaining with an immortal fae Queen takes a sinister twist. This captivating novel explores themes of ambition, sacrific...
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For She is Wrath
Name: Linda Brown
10 March 2025;Genre: Romance & Relationships
364 days, that's how long Dania has been in a hell-hole of a prison for a crime she didn't commit. She is counting down her days until she can exact revenge on Mazin, the boy responsible for her downfall, the boy she once loved - and still can't forget. However, first she has to escape and tha...
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They Bloom at Night
Name: Clare Wilkins
10 March 2025;Genre: LBGTQ+
Post-hurricane, the town of Mercy is beset by rising waters and a red algae bloom that suffocates and distorts wildlife. Mutant creatures lurk in the depths as a semblance of life is maintained on the partially submerged land. Noon and her mother are shrimpers, good at their work but up to the...
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While We're Young
Name: Clair Bossons
10 March 2025;Genre: Romance & Relationships
While We're Young is a contemporary road-trip romance, inspired by the classic 80s film Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Grace plans to skip school with her best friend Isa and Isa's ex-boyfriend, Everett. The three friends used to be inseparable but since Everett ra...
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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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Needy Little Things
Name: Lorraine ansell
07 March 2025;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
Sariyah is not an ordinary teenager; her special gift means she senses what a person needs. Overwhelmed by the noise this creates, she tries to fulfil the requests, one day with devastating and unpredictable consequences. Shortly after one of her best friends disappears and a frantic search be...
