Published By: Pan MacmillanPages: 400Released On: 09/11/2023 Wildly different half-sisters Maggie, Simone, and Star have hardly seen each other since their idyllic summers spent in the charming village of Rowan Thorp, the home of their eccentric father, Augustus. Known for the fruitful ways in which his bustling curiosity shop kept the tired town afloat, AugustusContinue reading “A December to Remember – Jenny Bayliss”
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Operation Nativity – Jenny Pearson
Published By: Usborne PublishingPages: 352Released On: 09/11/2023Reading Age: 7-10Illustrated By: Katie Kear When Oscar and Molly rush outside to investigate a crash in the night, they’re not expecting to find a dazed Angel Gabriel wandering around their grandparents’ back garden. And they’re certainly not expecting to find themselves in a race to save Christmas. ButContinue reading “Operation Nativity – Jenny Pearson”
Christmas by Candlelight – Karen Swan
Published By: PanPages: 416Released On: 26/10/2023 It’s three days before Christmas and starting to snow when high-flier Libby and her new boyfriend reluctantly attend her university reunion on the way back from a wedding in Yorkshire. Hosted by Archie Templeton – the heartbreaker of their group – at his grand family estate, the night isContinue reading “Christmas by Candlelight – Karen Swan”
The Finery – Rachel Grosvenor
Published By: Fly On The Wall PressPages: 300Released On: 25/08/2023 Tyranny is in the air in the city of Finer Bay, and Professor Wendowleen Cripcot would like to be left alone, thank you very much. The memories of the last one hundred years are quite enough to be getting on with, if only these youngContinue reading “The Finery – Rachel Grosvenor”
The Four – Ellie Keel
Published By: HQPages: 368Released On: 11/04/2024 We were always The Four. From our very first day at High Realms. The four scholarship pupils. Outsiders in a world of power and privilege. It would have made our lives a lot easier if Marta had simply pushed Genevieve out of our bedroom window that day. Certainly, itContinue reading “The Four – Ellie Keel”
What the River Knows – Isabel Ibañez
Published By: HodderscapePages: 416Released On: 14/11/2023 Bolivian-Argentinian Inez Olivera belongs to the glittering upper society of nineteenth century Buenos Aires, and like the rest of the world, the town is steeped in old world magic that’s been largely left behind or forgotten. Inez has everything a girl might want, except for the one thing sheContinue reading “What the River Knows – Isabel Ibañez”
Water – John Boyne
Published By: DoubledayPages: 176Released On: 02/11/2023 The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the locals, she is Willow Hale, a solitary outsider escaping Dublin to live a hermetic existence in a small cottage, not a notorious woman on the run from her past. But scandalsContinue reading “Water – John Boyne”
The Ice Children – M.G Leonard
Published By: Macmillan Children’s BooksPages: 288Released On: 02/11/2023Reading Age: 9-11Illustrated By: Penny Neville-Lee At the stroke of midnight on the dawn of December, five-year-old Finn Albedo is found frozen in the city park standing on a pedestal of ice. His heart is beating, he is smiling serenely, but no one can wake him. Finn’s bigContinue reading “The Ice Children – M.G Leonard”
Nature Tales for Winter Nights – Nancy Campbell
Published By: Elliott & ThompsonPages: 272Released On: 12/10/2023 As the evenings draw in – a time of reckoning, rest and restoration – immerse yourself in this new seasonal anthology. Nature Tales for Winter Nights puts winter – rural, wild and urban – under the microscope and reveals its wonder. From the late days of autumn, through deepestContinue reading “Nature Tales for Winter Nights – Nancy Campbell”
Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year – Joanna Nell
Published By: Hodder and StoughtonPages: 336Released On: 02/11/2023 Heather Winterbottom has worked side by side with her husband as GPs in their idyllic rural practice for over forty years. But as the time comes to hang up their stethoscopes, the Winterbottoms discover that they have rather different visions of retirement . . .Heather dreams of exploringContinue reading “Mrs Winterbottom Takes a Gap Year – Joanna Nell”
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