To be published 02/11/2021… Having grown up in isolation in her family’s slowly failing manor house Elinor does not have much experience of the world; until an undead tragedy thrusts her out into it and she finds that she may be destined to be one of the world’s key players after all. Plucked from theContinue reading “‘Terciel and Elinor’ by Garth Nix”
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‘Gilded’ by Marissa Meyer
To be published 02/11/2021… Serilda is different, marked so by her golden eyes and judged as bad luck by the villagers who scorn her storytelling talents. Only the children see her without prejudice, and her father whose unending love attempts to overshadow the absence of Serilda’s mother. When she crosses paths with the Erlking duringContinue reading “‘Gilded’ by Marissa Meyer”
‘The Mask of Mirrors’ by M.A. Carrick
Street urchin, turned gang member, turned maid, and now con-woman, Ren is halfway to ingratiating herself into the noble Traementis family when the entire city begins to unravel into a plot greater than anything Ren has ever seen before.
‘Under the Whispering Door’ by TJ Klune
Wallace Price is dead. He’s not overly impressed, but unfortunately there doesn’t seem to be much he can do about it – other than hang out in a teashop with the Mei and Hugo (the reaper and the ferryman) and refuse to move on. Hugo’s dead grandad Nelson is there too, like Wallace stubbornly ignoringContinue reading “‘Under the Whispering Door’ by TJ Klune”
‘The Bookbinder’s Daughter’ by Jessica Thorne
To be published 20/09/2021… Sophie has never known what happened to her mother. So when an estranged Uncle shows up and offers her a job in the family business, her mother’s old job, it’s an offer too good to refuse. Little does she know that the secret of her mother’s disappearance isn’t the only mysteryContinue reading “‘The Bookbinder’s Daughter’ by Jessica Thorne”
‘A Spell of Rowans’ by Byrd Nash
To be published 26/10/2021… Vic left home fifteen years ago under a dark cloud and she hasn’t been back since. Her new life in the city is built carefully around privacy and solitude and painstakingly constructed boundaries. When her mother dies, finally, Vic is finally drawn home to deal once and for all with herContinue reading “‘A Spell of Rowans’ by Byrd Nash”
‘A Treason of Thorns’ by Laura Wheymouth
The Great Houses of England are alive with magic. Bound to the King’s service their magic can only be wielded through the stewardship of caretakers. For generations the Sterling family have been the caretakers of their beloved Burleigh House and Violet grows up happily within its walls, ready to take on the responsibility when herContinue reading “‘A Treason of Thorns’ by Laura Wheymouth”
The Betrayals by Bridget Collins
Set against the backdrop of Montverre, a boarding school where elite intellects study the complex intricacies of the ‘Grand Jeu’, this book focusses on the moments where two lives intertwine. Claire Dryden is Magister Ludi, master of the ‘Grand Jeu’ and first ever woman admitted into the mysteries of Montverre. Leo Martin was the MinisterContinue reading “The Betrayals by Bridget Collins”
‘A Girl Made of Air’ by Nydia Hetherington
This is the story of the greatest funambulist who ever lived. How she was born and raised in the circus, neglected by her parents and groomed to be a star. How she had to learn what love was and what it wasn’t. How she only learnt her own true story when it was almost tooContinue reading “‘A Girl Made of Air’ by Nydia Hetherington”
‘Six Crimson Cranes’ by Elizabeth Lim
Shiori is a spoiled princess who loves her brothers, hates her stepmother and doesn’t want to marry the random nobleman her father has picked out for her. Life is simple. Then she meets a dragon, learns of her own magic and discovers that her stepmother is keeping secrets. Life will never be simple again. CursedContinue reading “‘Six Crimson Cranes’ by Elizabeth Lim”
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