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Influential
Name: Ruth Cornish
21 February 2023;Genre: Mental Health & Wellbeing
Influential is a fantastically on-trend story featuring @thereal_almondbrown, a teenage girl who lives out her apparently perfect life in a carefully stage managed way. This book will appeal to all social media savvy students whose own lives inhabit the world of TikTok, Insta,...
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You Think You Know Me
Name: Clair Bossons
15 February 2023;Genre: Representation & Inclusion
This book is a real page turner and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it; You Think You know Me is a stunning debut novel. Hanan, the main character, is from Somalia. She is a practicing Muslim and has been raised to work hard at her studies and not to draw any attention to...
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City of Nightmares
Name: Emelia Helliwell
15 February 2023;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
City of Nightmares is set on an island where the inhabitants don't want to dream. Why? because dreams can lead to nightmares, and people can turn into their worst nightmares. The only way to stop this from happening is if they take medicine to stop them from dreaming. For those who are already...
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Game Over Girl
Name: Emelia Helliwell
10 February 2023;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
Game Over Girl is a story about a girl, Dolores, and her twin sister Alex, who were raised by an uncaring mother in two different ways. One girl, the eldest, was treated well, was brought new things and had lovely food. The other was only given hand me downs, would have leftov...
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This Time It’s Real
Name: Linda Brown
09 February 2023;Genre: Romance & Relationships
When 17 year old Eliza's personal essay about meeting the love of her life goes viral, her life changes overnight. However, will this make her life better? For in the back of her mind, she can't help believing this is going to go wrong. This is because her essay is all lies, she's never had a...
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This Is How You Fall In Love
Name: Morgan Harkin
09 February 2023;Genre: Romance & Relationships
Zara loves all kinds of romance stories in novels and movies, yet she is still longing for her very own. She is surrounded by her Desi family and friends, including her childhood best friend Adnan, but when they move from best friends to fake dating, the pair need to keep up the act even aroun...
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The Stolen Heir: A Novel of Elfhame
Name: Diao Sury
04 February 2023;Genre: Fantasy
The Stolen Heir: A Novel of Elfhame written by Holly Black is absolutely amazing. Most preferable to read The Cruel Prince, The Wicked King and The Queen of Nothing before reading this one because it is the continuation of the series. The only difference is that the narrator i...
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Scattered Showers
Name: Eileen Armstrong
02 February 2023;Genre: Romance & Relationships
Short stories are a notoriously difficult art form but the utterly brilliant Rainbow Rowell has nailed it with her very first collection. Scattered Showers showcases Rowell's trademark character-driven storytelling, realistic relationship building and witty dialogue with nine...
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This Book Kills
Name: Emelia Helliwell
02 February 2023;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
This Book Kills is set in a prestigious boarding school called Heybuckle School. It is written by the main character Jess Choudhary as a recount of events that happened to the students at the school, and a murder. Jess makes it very clear from the outset that she did not commi...
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The Midnight Game
Name: Beverley Somerset
01 February 2023;Genre: Suspense & Thrillers
One night in July, six teenagers break into an empty primary school. They don’t know each other, but they have met online and are there to play a game - The Midnight Game. Their aim is to summon the Midnight Man, a type of demon. There are strict rules to follow; they must not turn on the ligh...
