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Review: While eleven-year-old Nora Davis was up in her bedroom doing homework, she had no idea her father was killing women in the basement. Until the day the police arrived at their front door. Decades later, Nora’s father is spending his life behind bars, and Nora is a successful surgeon with a quiet, solitary existence.... Continue Reading →
Review: Grasmere 1940. Tarn Forthergill is struggling to come to terms with the loss of her beloved brother in the chaos of the British retreat from Dunkirk. As a distraction, she and her friends scour the nearby mountains and lakes, watching out for the long-dreaded Nazi invasion. But while the war drags on with little... Continue Reading →
Review: Land-pirate Sam Singh goes in search for his missing brother. Sam’s brother Moon, a skilled thief, has gone missing and Sam fears he’s been captured in the notorious prison on the Isle of Lost voices. On a quest to save Moon, Sam leaves his tribe to travel to the Isle and on the way... Continue Reading →
Review: A date that will stay in infamy… Best friends Frank and Stanley are living the high life. With their dads stationed in Pearl Harbor they get to soak in the sun all day and draw their own comic books. World War II is raging overseas, but they feel safe on the sandy beaches of... Continue Reading →
Review: When Olive and her year six friends stage a sleepover and find themselves locked overnight inside Flatpack - a new IKEA-style superstore, they quickly realise that they are not alone. In every dark corner, shadows are creeping… A number of things hitched a ride from the forest where Flatpack sources its wood and in... Continue Reading →
Review: Zo is setting out to find the truth. After the mysterious council tried to wipe Zo’s memory, she’s been hiding her powers from them. With her friend Adri gone, she must set out to find the truth… and save who she can along the way. On a mind-bending journey that leads her to old... Continue Reading →
Review: Jack wants to impress his diving coach dad… There’s just one problem. Jack is the worst diver in the worst diving team in Damp Bottom, England. Luckily, when a new kid starts at school with awesome swimming skills and an eagerness to share diving tips, Jack’s luck might be about to change. But when... Continue Reading →
Review: Gayla is trapped all alone when floodwater pours into her bedroom in a residential centre for young people with disabilities in Manila. The other children have been evacuated while Gayla waited for her father, but now the streets around are cut off and she’s all alone with no way out… Junjun’s makeshift shack has... Continue Reading →
Proof Copy Front Cover Review: ‘I’m Tom’s dog and he’s my human. We belong to each other.’ Rebel is a good dog, and he loves his simple, perfect life on the farm with his own Tom - until one day the war comes too close…. Now Tom is determined to join the rebellion to defeat... Continue Reading →
Proof copy front cover Review: What would you do if you discovered a killer? Would you run? Would you hide? Or would you try to stop them? Midnight Jones is trained to understand the human mind. But everything changes when, in the course of her work, she discovers Profile K’s file - because K stands... Continue Reading →
Review: Before there was Addie, there was a Keedie. Firecracker Keedie has had enough of bullies and has had enough of conforming to convention. As she sets out to right wrongs and stand up for the truth, the sleepy town of Juniper is about to wake up and see that Keedie is one of a... Continue Reading →
Proof front cover Review: No murder has ever had any more witnesses… Six people land on a desert island ready to make their reality show debut. The contestants are hungry to prove themselves. The stakes are high and losing is not an option. But three weeks and eighteen episodes later, five of the six contestants... Continue Reading →
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