Published By: ScholasticPages: 368Released On: 16/01/2025Reading Age: 12+ Ora has always been fascinated by chilling fairy stories of the Vulpine – the mythical, fox-like monsters who live below ground, emerging at night to snatch ‘imperfect’ babies and children. Because Ora knows that disability and illness have no place in her world. To succeed is toContinue reading “The Vulpine – Polly Crosby”
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An Almost Perfect Summer – Jill Mansell
Published By: Headline ReviewPages: 432Released On: 16/01/2025 Nick is the most intriguing man Nella has met in a while. He’s a 9 in the looks department (no one gets a 10), he makes her laugh, and he keeps her company when she ends up in A&E. But they live hundreds of miles apart.Then Nella loses her job. There’s a perfectContinue reading “An Almost Perfect Summer – Jill Mansell”
An Ethical Guide To Murder – Jenny Morris
Published By: Simon & SchusterPages: 416Released On: 16/01/2025 If you had the power between life and death, what would you do?Thea has a secret. She can tell how long someone has left to live just by touching them. Not only that, but she can transfer life from one person to another – something she findsContinue reading “An Ethical Guide To Murder – Jenny Morris”
The Queen of Fives – Alex Hay
Published By: Headline ReviewPages: 416Released On: 30/01/2025 They whisper her name in every corner of town.The lady with a hundred faces, a thousand lives.Five moves, five days – for such are the rules of her game. 1898. Quinn Le Blanc, London’s most talented con woman, has five days to pull off the seemingly impossible: trickContinue reading “The Queen of Fives – Alex Hay”
Strange Pictures – Uketsu
Published By: Pushkin VertigoPages: 240Released On: 16/01/2025Translated By: Jim Rion A series of drawings by a pregnant woman conceal a chilling warning. A child’s picture of his home contains within it a dark secret message. A sketch made by a murder victim in his final moments leads an amateur sleuth into a terrifying investigation. CanContinue reading “Strange Pictures – Uketsu”
Murder on the Marlow Belle – Robert Thorogood
Published By: HQPages: 336Released On: 16/01/2025 Verity Beresford is worried about her husband. Oliver didn’t come home last night so of course Verity goes straight to Judith Potts, Marlow’s resident amateur sleuth, for help. Oliver, founder of the Marlow Amateur Dramatic Society, had hired The Marlow Belle, a private pleasure cruiser, for an exclusive partyContinue reading “Murder on the Marlow Belle – Robert Thorogood”
The Broken River – Chris Hammer
Published By: WildfirePages: 464Released On: 02/01/2025 A body has been discovered on the riverbanks of The Valley, a remote community in the hills of New South Wales. The gold mine at the heart of The Valley was once the lifeblood of this region, but it has been flooded for decades. Over the years, many haveContinue reading “The Broken River – Chris Hammer”
The Hedgehog’s Dilemma – Toon Tellegen
Published By: PushkinPages: 176Released On: 02/01/2025Translator: David ColmerIllustrator: Annemarie van Haeringen The hedgehog is feeling rather lonely, so one day he decides to invite all the other animals for a party. But the hedgehog is also rather a shy, reserved animal, and is terribly worried about doing or saying something he shouldn’t, and about allContinue reading “The Hedgehog’s Dilemma – Toon Tellegen”
The Last Bookstore on Earth – Lily Braun-Arnold
Published By: PenguinPages: 320Released On: 09/01/2025Reading Age: 12+ The world is about to end. Again. It’s been a year since a devastating storm ripped Liz’s world apart. Haunted by the memories of those she couldn’t save, Liz holes up in the only place she felt safe before her world fell away: the bookstore where sheContinue reading “The Last Bookstore on Earth – Lily Braun-Arnold”
Bitter Passage – Colin Mills
Published By: Lake UnionPages: 303Released On: 01/01/2025 In May 1845, Sir John Franklin, commander of HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, departed England to seek a navigable route across the top of the Americas. He and his 128 men never returned. Four years later, Royal Navy Lieutenant Frederick Robinson and Assistant Surgeon Edward Adams are determined to find theContinue reading “Bitter Passage – Colin Mills”
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