Published By: Bloomsbury Children’s BooksPages: 32Released On: 09/10/2025Reading Age: Birth-5 Years It’s Harry’s birthday, and all he wants is a bear of his own. When he steps into a magical shop full of teddy bears, he finds a hundred different kinds of bear to choose from – roundish bears and thinnish bears, woolly bears andContinue reading “The Forever Bear – Lu Fraser and Pippa Curnick”
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My Name Is Emilia del Valle – Isabel Allende
Published By: BloomsburyPages: 352Released On: 06/05/2025 Emilia del Valle was always destined for great things. Abandoned at birth by her Chilean aristocrat father, Emilia comes of age in nineteenth-century San Francisco as an independent and fiercely ambitious young woman, decades ahead of her time. She will do whatever it takes to pursue her life’s passionContinue reading “My Name Is Emilia del Valle – Isabel Allende”
Hidden Treasure – Jessie Burton
Published By: Bloomsbury Children’s BookPages: 320Released On: 13/03/2025Reading Age: 9+ For the people who live on the banks of the Thames, the river is a living, breathing thing. It can take your treasures. It can hide your treasures. And, sometimes, it can give them back. Bo and Billy are two children who have never met.Continue reading “Hidden Treasure – Jessie Burton”
There’s Nothing Wrong With Her – Kate Weinberg
Published By: BloomsburyPages: 256Released On: 01/08/2024 Vita Woods is on the brink. She has a good job and a successful doctor boyfriend, Max, with whom the sex is great and the chat sufficient; a vivacious and charming sister Gracie, her verbal sparring partner and best friend for life; and she’s even got a goldfish calledContinue reading “There’s Nothing Wrong With Her – Kate Weinberg”
Gratitude – Delphine de Vigan
Published By: BloomsburyPages: 160Released On: 25/11/2021Translated By: George Miller Marie owes Michka more than she can say – but Michka is getting older, and can’t look after herself any more. So Marie has moved her to a home where she’ll be safe. But Michka doesn’t feel any safer; she is haunted by strange figures whoContinue reading “Gratitude – Delphine de Vigan”
For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Small Pain – Victoria MacKenzie
Published By: BloomsburyPages: 176Released On: 19/01/2023 In the year of 1413, two women meet for the first time in the city of Norwich. Margery has left her fourteen children and husband behind to make her journey. Her visions of Christ – which have long alienated her from her family and neighbours, and incurred her husband’sContinue reading “For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy On My Small Pain – Victoria MacKenzie”
What Writers Read – Pandora Sykes (Ed)
Published By: BloomsburyPages: 208Released On: 01/11/2022 In this love letter to reading, curated by Pandora Sykes in aid of the National Literacy Trust, bestselling and beloved writers share their favourite books: the ones they hold most dearly, that they return to time and again and that helped make them the writers they are. ***** I’veContinue reading “What Writers Read – Pandora Sykes (Ed)”
The Whispering Muse – Laura Purcell
Published By: Raven BloomsburyPages: 304Released On: 02/02/2023 Be careful what you wish for… it may just come true. At The Mercury Theatre in London’s West End, rumours are circulating of a curse. It is said that the lead actress Lilith has made a pact with Melpomene, the tragic muse of Greek mythology, to become theContinue reading “The Whispering Muse – Laura Purcell”
WishYouWas – Alexandra Page
Published By: Bloomsbury ChildrenPages: 288Released On: 30/09/2021 It’s 1952 in smog-shrouded London. Christmas might be fast approaching, but with her mum away and Uncle Frank busy running the post office, Penny Black is lonelier than ever. All that changes when Penny discovers a small, fluffy, funny, springy and – most importantly – talking creature in the postContinue reading “WishYouWas – Alexandra Page”
Breadsong: How Baking Changed Our Lives – Kitty and Al Tait
Published By: BloomsburyPages: 458Released On: 28/04/2022 “If you had told me at 14 when I couldn’t even get out of bed with depression and anxiety that three years later I would have written a book I would never have believed you. But here it is – the story of the Orange Bakery. How I wentContinue reading “Breadsong: How Baking Changed Our Lives – Kitty and Al Tait”
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