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Under Glass and Stone and Doors of Gold and Rust (The Byrne House Box Set) by A.N. Willis

The Byrne House Box Set by A.N.Willis – Suspenseful and creepy, A.N. Willis’s books are good reads with credible and likeable characters and well-paced plots.

Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag by Oliver Bowden

Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag by Oliver Bowden – For fans of the game, this will be a welcome addition; for those unfamiliar, it is still an action-packed tale of pirates and adventure.

Seamless Transition by Will Shingleton

Will Shingleton’s book about the suggestion of subversive dealings in a college football team reads like a gripping Netflix documentary

Poetic Justice – A Short Story by Rachel Deeming

Poetic Justice by Rachel Deeming – Dorothy Walters relives her uneasy friendship and rivalry with Emily Ryder who has recently passed away

Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness by Peter Godfrey-Smith

Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith – An interesting book which discusses the evolution of intelligence and focuses on how this manifests itself in the octopus

The Flying Man by Etienne Bijnens

A beautifully and intelligently composed novel about loss, regret and guilt interspersed with philosophical leanings and literary suggestion

The Lost and Found Journal of Me: A Year in the Life of the Awesomest Girl Who Ever Lived (January-June) by J.C. Dublin

A wonderfully reflective tool, which provides historical and factual information as a springboard for your girls to think and record ideas

Whistling in the Dark by Lesley Kagen

Whistling in the Dark by Lesley Kagen: A book about growing up; about sisters; about the characters in a neighbourhood, all framed around some mysterious murders.

The Orphan’s Tale by Pam Jenoff

A wartime tale of rescue, redemption and resistance set in the world of the travelling circus

Funny Little Birds – A Short Story by Rachel Deeming

Julie loves her Nan, Marjory who in turn loves those “funny little birds” but can never remember what they are called. When Julie tries to prompt her nan into reminiscing, she gets more than she bargained for.