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  • While We're Young

    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...

  • Every Borrowed Beat

    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...

  • Capitana: Set sail with the bestselling pirate romantasy of 2025!

    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...

  • The Rose Bargain

    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...

  • For She is Wrath

    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...

  • They Bloom at Night

    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...

  • While We're Young

    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...

  • The Things We Leave Behind

    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...

  • Needy Little Things: The new YA thriller with a twist that will leave you speechless

    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...

  • Watch Your Back

    Watch Your Back

    Name: Sue Wilsher
    07 March 2025;

    Genre: Suspense & Thrillers

    Starting the new school year has been a challenge for Kara. Her best friend, Eden, has a new boyfriend and has completely cut her off, leaving her friendless. When the year 'freak', Romilly, comes to her aid, Kara finds herself drawn into a friendship which she is unsure about and when unsettl...