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Young Adult

  • England, 1919. Alyce – with a Y – lives with her grandmother, the original Alice, having lost her father during the Great War. When a mysterious invitation to a tea party hits her square in the face, Alyce realises her grandmother’s strange stories of a place called Wonderland might have some truth to them after all.But the land Alyce finds herself in feels different from the Wonderland of her grandmother’s stories – for it is trapped in its own war. The Sun King and the Queen of the Moon are fighting over a stolen hour, and soon Alyce is tasked with setting it right. With the help of the Hatter, the Cheshire Cat and a Sailor Fox, Alyce will have to solve Wonderland’s problems and, eventually, find her way back home.
Alice With A Why (Anna James) $17.99
  • Queen Seventeen-year-old Kay left her sleepy hometown after the devastating death of her friend, Ivy. But when Kay is forced to come back, she receives an anonymous letter that turns her life upside down. The letter tells her that there will be a thrill on Tuesday, a wreckage on Wednesday, treachery on Thursday, a fire on Friday, sabotage on Saturday, a stabbing on Sunday - and her murder on Monday. And if Kay can't figure out who is behind the threats, the worst day of the week is about to get deadly...
Mondays Are Murder Ravena Guron $19.99
  • When Nanny Tobbins fell off a horse and broke her neck, the grown-ups told nine-year-old Albertine she'd never see her beloved governess again. But it simply isn't true. For every night, when the clock strikes twelve, Nanny returns to the nursery.
    Yet in her new ghostly state, Nanny Tobbins quickly causes chaos in the household -- and the timing couldn't be more inconvenient. Albertine's stepmother is struggling to settle in, and Papa is much occupied working with Prince Albert on the Great Exhibition.
    To make matters worse, the grown-ups don't believe in ghosts at all, leaving Albertine to take the blame for Nanny's unruly antics.
  • How will Albertine restore peace to her home before the unthinkable occurs?
R.I.P. Nanny Tobbis Lucie Stevens $18.99
  • Three days, three clues, one hungry planet.Constant surveillance.The entire universe watching every move.Some will shatter. Most will fail.A select few will make it through, instant celebrities.
    Welcome to the Surface Trials. The only way into Starquest Academy.
    For Amethyst Antares, Starquest Academy offers an escape from the prison of her home planet. For Rian - the uber-famous and expertly disguised heir to the universe's two greatest dynasties - failure to get into his own academy is not an option. And Deneb? Well, he's an outlier...
  • But this year not everything goes to plan, and Amethyst and her squad find themselves playing for more than Starquest admission. To survive, they'll have to outsmart carnivorous creatures, share dangerous secrets, maintain trust and embrace the most shocking truth in the galaxy.
The Surface Trials H.M. Waugh $18.99
  • Jodi never asked to be a Thrasher – a member of the high school elite. But Jodi has been best friends with Zack Thrasher her whole life, and like it or not, that means she’s branded a Thrasher by the rest of the school. And different as she feels to the other four Thrashers – all talented, privileged and beautiful – she can’t help appreciating her social status, especially compared to her violent home life.
    But being a Thrasher isn’t worth dying for – except, apparently, it was to Emily Mills. Sweet but intense Emily, whose fixation on Zack brought her close to the in-crowd, but never close enough. Emily, who took her own life on prom night.
  • When a detective finds a copy of Emily’s diary, there are whispers that she was ‘Thrashed’ – bullied to death by Zack and his gang. They are arrested, charged, and ostracised, their once bright futures extinguished. Then begin the texts from unfamiliar numbers, inexplicable light flares, the run of bad luck that becomes a string of near-fatal accidents… and the constant dreams of Emily.
    But something isn’t adding up. The diary is too convenient. In fact, it’s filled with Jodi’s own secrets, repurposed by Emily. But why?
    One thing is clear. Emily isn’t done with the Thrashers.
The Thrashers Julie Soto $19.99
  • Save the date . . . for a killer wedding!
    True-crime-obsessed Lara Oyinlola is heading to Lagos for her favourite cousin, Dérin’s, wedding. It’s going to be a holiday filled with glitzy dress-fittings, glamorous parties and, of course, the star-studded event of the year. But everything isn’t perfect in Dérin’s world. She’s been receiving anonymous threats telling her to cancel the wedding . . . or face dire consequences.
    This is the moment Lara’s been waiting for: put her sleuthing knowledge to work and solve a real-life mystery. As Lara
  • investigates, what she doesn’t expect to uncover is a web of secrets, malicious crimes, and near‑death encounters which promise to tear the family apart for good . . .
    With sinister secrets, bitchy bridesmaids, annoying exes, and a gossip-loving amateur detective, this gripping mystery thriller from a standout debut author and award-nominated BookTokker will have readers hooked.
Til Death Busayo Matuluko $22.99
  • Everglade loves to hate witches. And as the daughter of the last witch, Wren Westerly is the most hated person in town. She can only imagine what would happen if the townspeople found out she can actually see magic ... even if she has no idea how to use it.
    But when magic leads Wren to an enchanted necklace and reveals her secret, it's not just Everglade chasing her. It's the Eater - a terrifying creature who is determined to drain all magic from the world, and who really, really wants that necklace.
    Leaving Everglade with nothing but the necklace, two accidental travel companions,
  • and directions from a goat, Wren finds herself in a new and infinitely more magical world. And she's the only one who can save it from the Eater. That is, if she can figure out magic.
    No pressure.
    Welcome to the world of Everglade, where the truth about witches is tangled with lies and being yourself is the biggest risk of all.
Everglade 1 Rise of The Witch Kitty Black $17.99
  • When Morrigan is invited into Nevermoor's wealthy Silver District, she discovers a world of extravagance and a family mystery she's eager to unravel. She could never imagine where it will lead: a white wedding, a golden dragon and a red pool of blood.Embroiled in suspicion and danger, Morrigan leaps headfirst into a murder investigation, while also grappling with her ever-growing Wundersmith powers. And although her friends are there to help, she fears that could change if they learn she's keeping a terrible secret of her own.As shadowy forces awaken in Nevermoor, can Morrigan find a killer and solve the mystery in her own past . . . before the clock strikes midnight?
Silverborn Jessica Townsend $18.99
  • Red Solo cups? Check. Snacks? Check. Abandoned mansion full of countless horrors that won’t let you leave? Check. The Deinhart Manor has been a looming shadow over town for as long as anyone can remember, and it's been abandoned for even longer. When the final Deinhart descendent passes, the huge gothic manor is up for sale for the first time ever. Which means Arden can steal the keys from her mom’s real estate office . . . It’s time for a graduation party that no one will ever forget. Arden and her friends each have different reasons for wanting to throw the party to end all parties. But when the manor doors bar everyone inside and the walls begin to bleed, all anyone wants to do is make it out alive.
Killer House Party Lily Anderson $34.99
  • The woods are hiding a secret… but then so is Red…
    Red is not allowed to go into the woods. Everyone knows that they are dangerous – because of their strange magic and the wolves that lurk there… But Red finds herself increasingly drawn to the woods and the place where her grandmother disappeared without a trace three years ago. When the woodcutter fails to return home one night and wolves are spotted close to the village boundary, fear drives a deep and dangerous divide between the villagers and the nature they live alongside.
    Only Red seems to hold the key – but she
  • has a secret, and exposing it could ruin her family forever …
Wolf Siren Beth O'Brien $17.99
  • Vengeance is a killer.
    A killer is stalking and murdering sorcerers, and Valkyrie Cain is next on his list.
    While hunting down a cult of magical terrorists intent on taking their revenge on the mortal world, Skulduggery and Valkyrie are drawn into a murder investigation with unsettling similarities to a case they just closed – the case that nearly took the lives of both Valkyrie’s sister and girlfriend.
    With the body count rising, a special night approaches – a night where the elite of sorcerer society will gather on a remote island to witness a ceremony that could
  • change that society forever.
    Speeches will be made, champagne will be sipped, and two things will become terribly, distressingly clear…
    No one is safe. And not everyone will make it out alive.
A Heart Full of Hatred Derek Landy $19.99
  • Chloe has always dreamed of becoming a bestselling writer. Then she meets enigmatic influencer Clara Holland, and at last, Chloe has something to write about. They bond instantly, and Chloe moves into Clara’s mansion. But as Clara’s fame skyrockets, she starts behaving strangely, hosting increasingly wild parties, complete with bonfire rituals and moonlit river baptisms.
    Clara opens up her home to other girls desperate to live like her. The media call it a cult, and soon Chloe begins to hear unsettling rumours from Clara's past. After one spectacular party, a girl goes missing and the rumours take on a sinister new meaning. If Chloe can’t escape Clara’s influence, she may be next …
The Goldens Lauren Wilson $19.99
  • When Rachel and her brother Robert defeated the tyrannical President Malstain and saved all of Krasnia, they became heroes. But the battle between good and evil has only just begun. Rachel has a blood-red key and, as a Keeper of the Key, she cannot refuse its demands. So, when a young girl, Elsa Spiegel, is kidnapped and taken to the Hinterland, Rachel must answer the key's call. With time running out, Rachel realises that it's not just Elsa she must save, but the world as she knows it...
The Secret of The Blood-Red Key David Farr $17.99
  • A blacksmith's daughter with a secret.A lady with a plan.We're in for one unforgettable knight ...
    Gwen has spent the past several years manning the blacksmith's in place of her father, an open secret in the village in which she lives. A much more covert secret, however, is that she knows not only how to craft but also how to wield a sword, and an incognito stunt at the local jousting tournament manages to catch the eye of the wily Lady Isobelle.
    Isobelle has secret dreams too, but she's been promised in marriage to the winner of the whole stupid tournament, which means
  • an end to any freedom or choices for her. Desperate to avoid this fate, when she connects the newcomer knight to the female smithy she saw earlier that day, she begins to hatch a scheme ...
    Petty knights. Backstabbing noblemen. A prison breakout. Cheesecake on a stick. One particularly large and angry dragon.
    Will our ladies survive the night? And can our knight save the day?
Lady's Knight Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner $26.99
  • The unbearable itch of chicken pox. The annoyance of sharing a Spotify account with your parents. The delight of smearing tomato sauce over everything you eat. The bright rainbow lights of the roller derby. The glorious sticky sweetness of fairy floss. The rebellion of the fake tattoo you know your nan will hate. The satisfaction of turning your childhood Barbie into a punk-novelist.The shock of accidentally smashing a neighbour’s window with a cricket ball. The shame of cheating on a test. The feeling of wearing your afro high and proud. The anxiety of reading text messages before school. The joy in Mum’s solo standing
  • ovation on concert night. The blowfly in the school toilets that none of the boys can catch …
Stuff I'm (Not) Sorry For Maxine Beneba Clarke $22.99
  • When four friends find themselves thrown back in time to 1985, how will they handle being teens in their parents’ era? And will they ever get back to the future?
    It takes Shannon a while to work out what’s happened. She went into the cinema in 2025 and came back out … in 1985? Somehow she’s travelled forty years back in time.
    But this isn’t the first time something strange has happened to Shannon and her group of friends. Is there a chance that whatever mysterious forces brought them together a year ago have sent them back to the 80s with her? To find her friends, she’ll have to navigate a world with no
  • smartphones, no internet, and – worst of all – no bubble tea.
    As the group tries to find a way back to the future, some friendships are strained while others blossom into something more. Can they stay together – and stay friends – long enough to survive 1985?
How to Survive 1985 Tegan Daylight $22.99
  • The house has secrets of its own . . . After a tragedy rips her life apart, Carina Marshall is looking to reinvent herself in her mother’s homeland of Jamaica. With her new gig as the au pair for the wealthy and powerful Hall family at Blackbead House, Carina wants nothing more than to disappear into their world of mango trees, tropical breezes and glamorous parties. At first, Blackbead House seems like the perfect escape. Carina’s job is pretty easy, her boss is very welcoming and her new friends, especially the handsome and charismatic Aaron, help to ease the loneliness she’s felt for a long time.
  • But new beginnings don’t come easy. Because Carina isn’t who she says she is, and Blackbead House already knows . . .​
Honeysuckle & Bone Trisha Tobias $22.99
  • Adrasteia Dantes always knew she’d be a pirate captain. She just didn’t know she’d be seventeen years old when it happened. Adra takes the helm of the Worldeater after her half brother Cameron attacks their father and steals a priceless treasure map. Now, the young captain has only one desire: revenge. She will restore her father’s honor by killing her brother, reclaiming the map he stole, and finding the legendary treasure at the grave of the first pirate king. But when Adra discovers her brother’s ship destroyed and his crew dead—spare a sole survivor—she learns there’s something lurking in the sea that’s killing pirates, taking entire ships down with ease. Adra takes the surviving girl prisoner in hopes of tracking down Cameron,
  • but no one will survive to see the treasure if they don’t find and stop the Devourer first. If Adra wants to save her ship, she’ll have to strike a deal to help the Devourer reclaim something that was taken from her long ago. But it seems that their individual quests for vengeance might be leading them to the same end. . . .
The Devourer Alison Ames $34.99
  • Have you ever gotten lost in a book? Entranced into the world of a mysterious old story of Alice Springs published a hundred years ago, Millie, a Warlpiri teenager, is sucked up by a willy willy and transported to 1924. Here she meets a crew of oddly familiar young people, Sonny, Beryl and Spike. As the group compare notes, they realise the Alice Springs of the past and the future are not as different as they seem...
Desert Track Mary Wells & Linda Wells $22.99
  • Célie’s life is over. She took her final breath trying to save the people she loves—including the powerful and enigmatic vampire king, Michal, who refused to let her go. When Célie wakes, she cannot walk in the sun; she can hear her friends’ heartbeats and she craves their blood. Michal has cursed her to the eternal existence of a vampire.
    But Célie isn’t the only dead roaming the earth. Her sister, Filippa, has returned as a shadow of her former self, and other revenants are rising from their graves intent on revenge. The fragile balance between life and death has broken, awakening an even darker force—and he is coming for Célie,
  • ready to claim her as his Bride. With the fate of their world at stake, Célie and Michal must set aside their searing attraction to mend the veil and right the balance, once and for all.
The Shadow Bride Shelby Mahurin $22.99
  • Meet the Heist squad. AKA a motley crew of hot-headed misfits who HATE each other but LOVE chocolate. But then they discover a sinister chocolatey plot, right in the bowels of their high school, that will threaten the entire human race with utter annihilation. Can they put aside their differences to achieve the most audacious chocolate heist EVER and save the world?
Heist 1: The Great Chocolate Caper Joel McKerrow $17.99
  • Rehya is a hunter with uncanny magical abilities - and magic has long been outlawed in Mennama Valley.
    Every winter, on the night of the Blood Moon, young women enter forced marriages for the valley's advancement and prosperity. But this year Governor Kyra has decreed that girls of just fifteen must become Blood Moon Brides, making Rehya eligible. 
    When her Pa dies, Rehya's plans of escape evaporate and she is paraded in front of suitors on Show Day. And when she is chosen to be a bride, she lashes out.
    As punishment, she is sent to the Nest.
  • There Rehya must decide: should she submit to the life of a Blood Moon Bride, or rebel - and risk everything to fight for justice?
Blood Moon Bride Demet Divaroren $19.99
  • Europe, 1940With war on their doorstep, German classmates Klara and Rachel, and French brothers Lucien and Paul, are forced to leave their homes. They are taken to Gurs, a French detention camp in the south-west of France. It's a crowded place, with little comfort and even less food.
    When Klara and Rachel are promised safe refuge in a remote French village, Lucien and Paul are anxious to join them — and will risk their own lives to get there.
    Filled with adventure, danger and intrigue, this is the story of four unlikely friends desperate to escape from a war that keeps coming closer.
The Year We Escaped Suzanne Leal $17.99
  • Sometimes you have to kill a dream to escape a nightmare.
    Nora is the opposite of lucky. She's still wrangling her dead dad's debts when a mysterious illness lands her brother in hospital. But her fortunes take an unexpected turn when she wins the lottery to attend the Lamour family's exclusive magical Dream Gala. If Nora can win over the Lamour heirs, she'll get a coveted spot in their magical training program - and the money she needs to save her brother.
    There's just one problem: Nora never bought a lottery ticket.
  • Determined to discover who wants her at the Gala - and why - Nora plunges headfirst into magical high society. Caught up in a decadent world of brutal billionaires and cutthroat celebrities, Nora is soon in over her head. When her search for answers uncovers a sinister conspiracy, will Nora stay silent or risk the wrath of a family powerful enough to get away with murder?
This Dream Will Devour Us Emma Clancey $24.99
  • First it’s no more milk for breakfast. Then he’s forced to sleep in a windowless shed. And now he has to use a LITTER TRAY?! Not happening!
    Mittens knows a cat of his calibre should be living it up in a castle, and he’s determined to make his dream reality. His master certainly isn’t going to be much help, so it’s up to Mittens to charm the king and queen, defeat a shapeshifting ogre, and outwit the princess’s own cunning kitty. But first things first, he has his eye on a very fetching pair of boots…
Fairytale Woods 2: Diary of a Puss in Boots Ben Miller $16.99
  • Welcome to HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON SCHOOL. Where Viking and Dragon Heroes are made!Join Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third and his dragons, Toothless and Windwalker, in their hilarious, hair-raising adventures at the Isle of Berk's Training School for Vikings and Dragons. Where they are BOTTOM in pretty much everything.Disastrous Lesson Number One: The Art of Battle.It was supposed to be a quiet, SENSIBLE lesson. Hiccup never MEANT to get into TROUBLE.But things take an unexpected turn along the way and Hiccup and his friends soon find themselves adrift on stormy seas, in a
  • sinking ship, facing imminent DOOM, in one of their BIGGEST adventures ever...
How to Train Your Dragon School: Doom of The Darkwing Cressida Cowell $16.99
  • Two strangers, each with their own complicated relationship to Death-Cast, help each other learn to live.
    Paz Dario stays up every night, waiting for the Death-Cast call that would mean he doesn’t have to keep faking his way through this lonely life. After a devastating day, Paz decides he’s done waiting around for Death-Cast. If they say he’s not dying, he’ll just have to prove them wrong. But right before Paz can die, a boy saves his life.
    Alano Rosa is heir to the Death-Cast empire that encourages everyone to live their best lives, but he doesn’t feel in control of his own existence thanks to his father. And with a
  • violent organisation called the Death Guard threatening Alano, his End Day might be closer than he thinks. It’s time to live.
    Fate brings Paz and Alano together. But they must survive the tragic trials ahead so no one dies at the end.
The Survivor Wants to Die at The End Adam Silvera $29.99
  • When you're 12 years old and 6 foot tall, you'd better be prepared for a hilarious ride through that notoriously tricky first year of high school.

    The problem with Bird Day is that all everyone does is go birdwatching.
    Alma's not very interested in birds.
    But when she manages to see an extremely rare purple-bellied parrot, it's big news.
    She's practically, almost, nearly, entirely famous!
  • The only problem is no one else saw the parrot ...
    And no one saw Alma see the parrot ...
    And no one has seen the parrot since.
    When some so-called 'experts' suggest Alma didn't see the bird at all, she's determined to prove them wrong, no matter what.
The Girl Who Cried Bird Katherine Collette $17.99
  • When Delores Mackenzie is chased home by a restless spirit, she is sent to the mysterious Uncles in Edinburgh Old Town to learn how to control her unusual 'gifts'. Scared and alone, she finds her new home at the Tolbooth Book Store is full of curious surprises: some welcome, others less so. But when a sinister apparition threatens the lives of her strange new housemates, Delores must gather all her strength to save them.
The Dark And Dangerous Gifts of Delores Mackenzie Yvonne Banham $17.99
  • 'Hello,' said the umbrella.
    'Gosh,' said the boy. The umbrella's handle was carved in the shape of a dog’s head, with a very long snout and a shiny nose and ears that flopped back. 'You can talk.'
    'I suppose I can,' said the umbrella.
    'Do you have a name?' asked the boy.
    'No,' said the umbrella. 'Do I need a name?'
    'Yes,' said the small boy. 'You need one for someone to let you in at the front door, and another name to be let out the back door.'
  • Brought to life by a careless sorcerer, Pernickety Boo is a well-educated umbrella with unexplored magical powers – and after he is left behind on the London Underground by his forgetful creator, Pernickety must find an owner: someone who will truly love him.
    So when Pernickety meets young Sylvie Moonshine and is welcomed into her home, he thinks that all of his prayers have been answered. But there are plenty of other people who are also interested in the magical umbrella, and who threaten to separate Pernickety from his beloved Sylvie, unless he can find a way to stop them.
Pernickety Boo Sally Gardener $19.99
  • Leah and Charlie are handling their family's loss in very different ways. Their choices push them down dangerous and perilous paths which eventually collide, sending shockwaves through their community. This astounding, compulsive novel explores love, power, money, art and asks: what matters most in the end?
Let The Light in Jenny Downham & Louis Hill $22.99

Childrens

  • What’s more powerful than a secret wish? A wish you say out loud. Anything paints a tender picture of a father and daughter moving into a new home. Dad brings a birthday cake for the new apartment to celebrate their new beginning and tells his daughter she can wish for anything (or, more precisely, “three Anythings”). Over the course of the day, she wishes for some of her favorite things, including a rainbow and “the biggest slice of pizza in the whole world." But she keeps some of her wishes inside. Because what she really wants is to go back home to their old apartment, with its big blue bathtub and space in the closet for hide-and-seek. When she finally admits this last wish, her dad takes her on a journey, and by the book’s final pages, she is home . . . in every way that matters.
Anything Rebecca Stead $26.99
  • When Little Rabbit meets the Moon, the two play, dance and discover the wonders of nature in the quiet time before dawn. Charming nighttime sceneries and critters fill the pages of this gentle story that bridges Earth and Space.
Little Rabbit And The Moon Inda Zahri and Claire Wee $24.99
  • From the comfort of home to the adventure of the great outdoors, from family to first encounters with nature, Welcome to the World revels in the joy that comes with sharing this new world with children, and seeing it through their eyes.
    A perfect read-aloud story for sharing from Julia Donaldson and Helen Oxenbury.
Welcome to The World Julia Donaldson $14.99
  • Get ready to meet Barbara the beetle and Derek the squirrel who (through the power of poo) help a wise-cracking seed turn into a handsome tree . . . and become a wonderful book! And GUESS WHAT? It's the book that you're holding! A book to be loved, shared and cherished forever. Perfect for fans of Jon Klassen and Oliver Jeffers.Tactile jacket cover with a surprise underneath! Have fun with turn-around pages. If you are looking for a laugh-out-loud picture book about the wonder of trees, books and stories.... this is for you!
Once I Was a Tree Eoin McLaughlin $24.99
  • Join the narrator, as they proudly introduce the reader to their prized collection, featuring BIG things to small things ... and spiky things to wobbly things!
    Each page is bursting with humor, and they are interactive too, with children encouraged to interact with the book, with invitations to point, make noises, clap their hands and think about what they could collect.
These Are my Rocks Bethan Woollvin $24.99
  • A celebration of the unparalleled creative partnership of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, packed full of fun facts, behind-the-scenes information and never-before-seen illustrations. With a foreword by Rob Brydon. Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler have been working together for over thirty years, creating some of the world’s best-loved picture books, including The Gruffalo, Room on the Broom, Stick Man and Zog. Discover more about their early lives, how their creative partnership began, and dive deeper inside the wonderful worlds of all your favourite characters and stories. Packed with full-colour illustrations, sketches and photographs, in a stunning hardback edition, The Amazing World of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler is a must-have gift for fans of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, and is perfect for all the family to enjoy together. Published by Macmillan Children's Books and Alison Green Books.
The Amazing World of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler Julia Donaldson $49.99
  • hey reached a giant lemon tree.The old woman sat up, tapping an urgent finger against the window.'Hay! Hay! Hanna zarr'et ha. Hay!''She's saying that Hanna planted this tree,' Mama said as Dad pulled over.'It's a beautiful tree, shajrah hhelweh,' Mama said to the old woman.When a little girl, Safiya, and her family help Maryam, a lost and confused stranger by the side of the road, to find her way home, they begin to understand who she is and the rich and remarkable life she has lived. Through kind-natured Safiya, we come to see Maryam, a woman who had been made invisible by society because of her ethnicity, race, religion, language, age and now dementia.With Arabic text interspersed throughout, A Lemon for Safiya is a wonderful exploration of language, diversity and culture.
A Lemon For Safiya Jemima Shafei-Ongu $24.99
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