Published By: Pan MacmillanPages: 432Released On: 25/04/2023 In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots–fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. They’re a family, hidden and safe. Continue reading “In The Lives of Puppets – TJ Klune”
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The Woolworths Girl’s Promise – Elaine Everest
Published By: Pan MacmillanPage: 368Released On: 16/03/2023 After losing her beloved fiancé at Ypres in 1917, seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Billington faces a lonely future estranged from her upper-class parents due to her association with Charlie Sayers and his working-class family. No longer able to live under her parent’s roof she is taken in by Charlie’s father,Continue reading “The Woolworths Girl’s Promise – Elaine Everest”
The Maiden – Kate Foster
Published By: Pan MacmillanPages: 384Released On: 27/04/2023 “In the end, it did not matter what I said at my trial. No one believed me.” Edinburgh, October 1679. Lady Christian Nimmo is arrested and charged with the murder of her lover, James Forrester. News of her imprisonment and subsequent trial is splashed across the broadsides, withContinue reading “The Maiden – Kate Foster”
If I Let You Go – Charlotte Levin
Published By: Pan MacmillanPages: 368Released On: 02/03/2023 Every morning Janet Brown goes to work cleaning offices. It calms her, cleanliness, neatness. All the things she’s unable to do with her soul can be achieved with a damp cloth and a splash of bleach. However, the guilt she still carries about a devastating loss that happenedContinue reading “If I Let You Go – Charlotte Levin”
The Reader on the 6.27 – Jean-Paul Didierlaurent
Translated By: Ros SchwartzPublished By: Pan MacmillanPages: 208Released On: 10/03/2016 Guylain Vignolles lives on the edge of existence. Working at a book pulping factory in a job he hates, he has but one pleasure in life. Sitting on the 6.27 train each day, Guylain recites aloud from pages he has saved from the jaws ofContinue reading “The Reader on the 6.27 – Jean-Paul Didierlaurent”
Meet Me Under the Mistletoe – Jenny Bayliss
Published By: Pan MacmillanPages: 448Released On: 10/11/2022 A winter wedding of school friends should be the highlight of Nory Noel’s festive calendar. But that group has long since drifted apart, and Nory is dreading the lavish, week-long affair. Still, she supposes, being the only single person means she gets a king-size bed in the idyllicContinue reading “Meet Me Under the Mistletoe – Jenny Bayliss”
The Grumpus: And His Dastardly, Dreadful Christmas Plan – Alex T. Smith
Published By: Pan MacmillanPages: 176Released On: 29/09/2022 Do you know about The Grumpus? And his Dastardly, Dreadful Christmas Plan? And about the Awful Thing that happened at the North Pole on Christmas Eve? Perhaps I should tell you about it . . This heartwarming story follows the adventures of an unlikely hero as he journeysContinue reading “The Grumpus: And His Dastardly, Dreadful Christmas Plan – Alex T. Smith”
Before Your Memory Fades – Toshikazu Kawaguchi
Published By: Pan MacmillanPages: 256Released On: 01/09/2022 On the hillside of Mount Hakodate in northern Japan, Cafe Donna Donna is fabled for its dazzling views of Hakodate port. But that’s not all. Like the charming Tokyo cafe Funiculi Funicula, Cafe Donna Donna offers its customers the extraordinary experience of travelling through time. From the authorContinue reading “Before Your Memory Fades – Toshikazu Kawaguchi”
Wolfsong – T.J Klune
Published By: Pan MacmillanPages: 576Released On: 01/09/2022 Ox was twelve when his daddy taught him a very valuable lesson. He said that Ox wasn’t worth anything and people would never understand him. Then he left. Ox was sixteen when he met the boy on the road, the boy who talked and talked and talked. OxContinue reading “Wolfsong – T.J Klune”
Daisy Darker – Alice Feeney
Published By: Pan MacmillanPages: 352Released On: 18/08/2022 After years of avoiding each other, Daisy Darker’s entire family is assembling for Nana’s 80th birthday party in Nana’s crumbling gothic house on a tiny tidal island. Finally back together one last time, when the tide comes in, they will be cut off from the rest of theContinue reading “Daisy Darker – Alice Feeney”
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