Here's a book to excite all readers. Here is a book that I (Sarah) pushed under Emma's nose and forced her to read because I knew how much she would love it. Eleven year-old Tilly has lived above her grandparents' bookshop ever since her mother disappeared shortly after she was born. Like the rest of… Continue reading Pages and Co: Tilly and the Book Wanderers
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Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes?
Statistics: Title - Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes? Author - Holly Bourne Series/Standalone - Standalone Book No - N/A Genre - YA Contemporary Date of Publication - 9th August 2018 Number of Pages - 397 Synopsis: Everyone wants to feel "normal." Everyone wants to feel as if they have their life under control, or… Continue reading Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes?
Review – Everless
Statistics: Title - Everless Author - Sara Holland Series/Standalone - Series Book Number - 1 Genre - YA Fantasy/Dystopia Date of Publication - 27th December 2017 (UK) Number of Pages - 361 Synopsis: When your own blood and personal time is a currency, how far would you go to save your loved ones and give… Continue reading Review – Everless
The Price Guide to the Occult
Statistics Title - The Price Guide to the Occult Author - Leslye Walton Series/Standalone - Standalone Genre - YA Fantasy Date of Publication - 6th September 2018 (UK)/ 13th March 2018 (US) Number of Pages - 288 Synopsis: Nor Blackburn wants to live as normal a teenage life as she can on Anathema Island, a… Continue reading The Price Guide to the Occult
The Taste of Blue Light
Format: paperback Number of pages: 352 Date of Publication: 8th February 2018 Genre: YA Contemporary Synopsis: An incandescent, soul-searching story about a broken young woman's search for a truth buried so deep it threatens to consume her, body and mind. These are the things Lux knows: She is an artist. She is lucky. She is… Continue reading The Taste of Blue Light
ARC Review: Fragments of the Lost
Jessa Whitworth knew she didn't belong in her ex-boyfriend Caleb's room. But she couldn't deny that she was everywhere - in his photos, his neatly folded T-shirts, even the dragonfly necklace in his jeans pocket, the one she gave him for safe keeping on that day. His mother asked her to pack up his things… Continue reading ARC Review: Fragments of the Lost
Rebecca
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again... Working as a lady's companion, the heroine of Rebecca learns her place. Her future looks bleak until, on a trip to the South of France, she meets Max de Winter, a handsome widower whose sudden proposal of marriage takes her by surprise. She accepts, but whisked… Continue reading Rebecca
Call The Midwife Christmas Special
When all presents are opened, dinner has been served, and you've exhausted all the Christmas games, you want nothing more than to sit in front of the tv and watch one of the many specials broadcast at this time of year. The eclectic mix of programmes is enough to make you go mad and find… Continue reading Call The Midwife Christmas Special
The Hate U Give
Statistics: Format - Prose Edition - Paperback (UK) Date of publication - April 6th 2017 No of pages - 438 Genre - Contemporary Age - YA Author - Angie Thomas Goodreads Synopsis: Sixteen-year-old Starr lives in two worlds: the poor neighbourhood where she was born and raised and her posh high school in the suburbs.… Continue reading The Hate U Give
The Bone Sparrow
Statistics: Format - Prose Edition - Paperback No of Pages - 240 Date of Publication - 12th January 2017 Author - Zana Fraillon Genre - YA Contemporary Opening the worlds’ eyes to the reality of the refugee crisis, The Bone Sparrow shares the story of those people lost and forgotten to the world. Mostly… Continue reading The Bone Sparrow