Books With Benefits
Look familiar? There is definitely an uncanny resemblance between this picture and my dining room! The depicted conversation is all too familiar with my husband recently asking why he had bought me a Kindle if I’m going to continue to “clutter…
Lies Beneath
Anne Greenwood Brown Calder White lives in the cold, clear waters of Lake Superior, the only brother in a family of murderous mermaids. To survive, Calder and his sisters prey on humans, killing them to absorb their energy. But this…
Novel Nibbles: Trunchbull's Chocolate Cake
“I’ll tell you what I’m talking about, you suppurating little blister!” the Trunchbull shouted. “Yesterday morning, during break, you sneaked like a serpent into the kitchen and stole a slice of my private chocolate cake from my tea-tray! That tray…
The Glimpse
Claire Merle In a near future, society is segregated according to whether people are genetically disposed to mental illness. 17-year-old Ana has been living the privileged life of a Pure due to an error in her DNA test. When the…
Unravelling
Elizabeth Norris STOP THE COUNTDOWN. SAVE THE WORLD… Leaving the beach, seventeen-year-old Janelle Tenner is hit head on by a pickup truck. And killed. Then Ben Michaels, resident stoner, is leaning over her. And even though it isn’t possible, she…
Love Books Will Travel: Foyles Creative Voices
What: Book talk and Signing Who: C J Daughterty Sarah Grant Amy Plum Ruth Warburton Where: Foyles Charing Cross Rd London When:Thursday 3rd of May 2012 Why: The First of Foyles new Creative Voices events, showcasing the work of fabulous…
Novel Nibbles: Candor Truth Serum
“I don’t think that I could have made it through Candor initiation, though.”She Shakes her head. “There, instead of simulations, you get lie detector tests. All day, every day. And the final test…” She wrinkles her nose. “They give you…
Divergent
Veronica Roth Three flying birds… One for each member of the family I left behind. Sixteen-year-old Tris is forced to make a terrible choice. In a divided society where everyone must conform, Tris doesn’t fit. So she ventures out alone,…
The Mozart Question
Michael Morpurgo and Michael Foreman A boy’s passion for music unlocks a painful secret — and draws his family together — in a multilayered tale by an outstanding author-illustrator pair. Like any young boy, Paolo becomes obsessed with what he…
Happy Publication Day
To Insurgent by Veronica Roth War looms in sixteen-year-old Tris’s dark dystopian world as disputes between the factions grow. Tris must now fight against all odds to discover the truth that can save her and the people she loves. Sides…
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