Fat Girls and Fairy Cakes
Sue Watson TV Producer Stella Weston is over worked, overweight and under fire. Having battled uphill for years to balance her career with her family life, she is repaid by being put out to pasture on a religious gardening programme…
Shopping With The Enemy
Carmen Reid Fashion-guru Annie’s well-dressed world is falling apart – first she’s lost her legendary sense of style, and now her daughter Lana seems to have become her worst enemy. Even her multi-millionairess friend, Svetlana, is having daughter trouble. A…
Lesley's 2012 review
What is your favourite read of 2012? Gosh, looking through my list of reads from 2012 and it’s hard to pick a favourite, but I think I will say Divergent and its sequel Insurgent by Veronica Roth. These are fab,…
Diary Of A Christmas Wombat
Jackie French and Bruce Whatley (Illustrator) It’s Christmas! And it’s Christmas for Mothball the Wombat too. She eats, she sleeps, she scratches, but on Christmas Eve she also takes a very unexpected sleigh ride! We’ve not read the bestselling ‘Diary…
Monday to Friday Man
Alice Peterson What do you do if you’re 34, single and recovering from being jilted two weeks before your wedding day? This is the dilemma Gilly Brown finds herself in. While friends are marrying, having children and moving into the…
Unsuitable Men
Pippa Wright After eleven years of coupled-up domesticity, Rory Carmichael is single for the first time in her adult life. Even she would admit that her ex-boyfriend Martin wasn’t the most the most exciting man in the world – let’s…
Meg and Mog
Helen Nicoll and Jan Pienkowski Meg and Mog is the first in the long-standing series about a witch (Meg) and her cat (Mog). Meg is a cute well-meaning witch who lives with Mog and her owl. In Meg and Mog,…
Temptation
Karen Ann Hopkins Your heart misleads you. That’s what my friends and family say. But I love Noah. And he loves me. We met and fell in love in the sleepy farming community of Meadowview, while we rode our horses…
Something Beginning With Blue
Sally Symes and Nick Sharratt(illustrator) I spy with my little eye, something beginning with blue… and green… and grey. Peep through the holes and follow the clues – can you guess what’s hiding in there? This book came home to…
What's Left Of Me
Kat Zhang NEVER LET ME GO meets HIS DARK MATERIALS in a beautiful, haunting YA debut, the first book in The Hybrid Chronicles. Eva and Addie live in a world where everyone is born with two souls, but where only…
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