Marion Rose
Nush and the Stolen Emerald
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Like the start of a Bond movie, the reader is swept into this story as Anushka races bare-back through the Indian desert dawn ...Read Review
City of Stolen Magic
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.Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
This debut novel by British Bangladeshi writer Nazneen Ahmed Pathak is as powerful as it is original. We meet 12-year-old Chompa on a ...Read Review
Fablehouse
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Emma Norry has that endearing ability in a writer of weaving in reflections on life and what it throws at you, without it ...Read Review
The Boy Who Stole the Pharaoh’s Lunch
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Seth is always naughty, and he doesn’t like school. While waiting for a telling-off for his latest prank, he picks up a ...Read Review
A Spoonful of Spying (Alice Éclair, Spy Extraordinaire!)
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This exuberant romp of a spy thriller is set against the backdrop of a fictionalised grand exhibition like the one which took place ...Read Review
Honesty and Lies
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This story reeled me in like a fish to the world of Queen Elizabeth 1, Tudor London and the backdrop to the Gunpowder plotters. ...Read Review
The Secret of Splint Hall
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“Mum said the war was over, but Isobel thought that it was not. She could see it in the tight lips of the ...Read Review
The Mermaid in the Millpond
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‘Sometimes the only way to save yourself is to save someone else’ is the theme that flows through this mystical story set during ...Read Review
The Book Cat
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This delightful story is based on the real-life cat who came to live at the Faber offices during WW2. It is written by ...Read Review
Bone Talk
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In this wonderful and unusual novel, Candy Gourlay sets out to give a voice to the people of the Philippines, where she grew ...Read Review