Tag: New Release
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Book Review: The Night Raven
From the publisher: It’s 1880, and in the frigid city of Stockholm, death lurks around every corner. Twelve-year-old Mika knows that everyone in her orphanage will struggle to survive this winter. But at least the notorious serial killer the Night Raven is finally off the streets…or is he? Mika is shocked when a newborn baby…
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Book Review: Clarity Jones and the Magical Detective Agency
Website update: I have just switched to a full-site editing theme in WordPress. In case you don’t know, this should allow me customise every aspect of the website. It’s not as intuitive as I hoped, so it’s going to take me a few weeks to get the layout the way I want so please bear…
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Book Review: The Thief of Farrowfell
From the publisher: Welcome to a fantasy world where edible magic is the hottest commodity, traded between those who can pay or – in the case of Jude Ripon, the youngest thief in Farrowfell – those who can steal it! Twelve-year-old Jude Ripon has never been taken seriously by her family of magic-stealing masterminds. To…
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Book Review: Artemis Spark & the Sound Seekers Brigade
From the publisher: When Artemis Sparke has had it with humans, she heads to the nearby salt marsh to hang out with the birds, plants and mollusks who don’t make a big deal of her stutter. The shoreline sanctuary is predictable, unlike her family and friends, and the data in her science journal proves it.…
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Book Review: The NoWhere Thief
Writing Update: I haven’t posted for a while because I have been focussed on finishing my edit of book 3, The Great Forest. Something wasn’t working, but following a chat recently with a writer friend, I knew what I had to do to fix it. The book has finally gone to my editor, and I…
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Book Review: The Carrefour Curse
From the publisher: The Addams Family meets The Westing Game in this exhilarating mystery about a modern magical dynasty trapped in the ruins of their once-grand, now-crumbling ancestral home.Twelve-year-old Garnet regrets that she doesn’t know her family. Her mother has done her best to keep it that way, living far from the rest of the magical Carrefour clan…
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Book Review: Winter’s Keep
I really enjoyed this imaginative fantasy story by Tamsin Mori. I picked it up from NetGalley even though it is book 3 of the trilogy and I haven’t read the other books. I am glad I did. It was also very easy to get into the world, despite knowing nothing about cloud magic or weather…
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Book Review: The Bookshop at the Back of Beyond
When I saw this title in Netgalley, I had to request it. Anything to do with bookshops is a must read, plus it looked magical too. Which it is! The Bookshop at the Back of Beyond is Book 3 in The House at the Edge of Magic series. Here’s what the publisher says about it:…
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Book Review: The Sleeping Stones
From the publisher: Gruff and his new friend Matylda live on a small island off the Welsh coast, where legends are beginning to stir. Islanders find themselves irresistibly drawn to the Sleeping Stones, a line of rocks like stepping stones out to sea, and Gruff and Mat soon realise they must risk everything to save…
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