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A Monster Calls
Patrick Ness and Siobhan Dowd

$29.95$27.95 – Hardcover book / Walker Books

This is an extraordinarily moving novel about coming to terms with loss. The monster showed up just after midnight. As they do. But it isn't the monster Conor's been expecting. He's been expecting the one from his nightm... Buy or find out more 


All I Ever Wanted
Vikki Wakefield

$19.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing

Read our Q&A with Vikki Wakefield about All I Ever Wanted.

Mim knows what she wants, and where she wants to go—anywhere but home, stuck in the suburbs with her mother who won’t get off the couch, and two brothers in... Buy or find out more 



The Name Of The Star
Maureen Johnson

$19.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins

Sixteen-year-old American girl Rory has just arrived at boarding school in London when a Jack the Ripper copycat-killer begins terrorising the city. All the hallmarks of his infamous murders are frighteningly present, bu... Buy or find out more 


Daughter Of Smoke And Bone
Laini Taylor

$24.99 – Paperback book / Hachette Livre

Daughter of Smoke and Bone is a book unbounded by genre but located at a magical crossroads where The Passage meets Philip Pullman and Twilight meets Pan's Labyrinth.

Errand requiring immediate attention. Come.

The note ... Buy or find out more 



The Bridge
Jane Higgins

$19.95 – Paperback book / Text Publishing

Winner of the Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing.

The City is divided. The bridges gated. In Southside, the hostiles live in squalor and desperation, waiting for a chance to overrun the residents of City... Buy or find out more 


Legend
Marie Lu

$19.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Group Uk

Lu's debut is a stunner. Weaving the strands of SF dystopia, police procedural, and coming-of-agewith touches of superhero and wild frontier traditionsshe fashions a narrative in which the action is kinetic and the emoti... Buy or find out more 



Red Glove
Holly Black

$22.99 – Paperback book / Orion

Curses and cons. Magic and the mob. In Cassel Sharpe's world, they go together. Cassel always thought he was an ordinary guy, until he realized his memories were being manipulated by his brothers. Now he knows the truth—... Buy or find out more 


Goliath: Leviathan Book Three
Scott Westerfeld

$29.95 – Hardcover book /

Alek and Deryn are aboard the Leviathan when the ship is ordered to pick up an unusual passenger. This brilliant, maniacal inventor claims to have a weapon called Goliath. It can end the war. But whose side is the invent... Buy or find out more 



Act Of Faith
Kelly Gardiner

$19.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins

England 1640. Sixteen-year-old Isabella is forced to flee her home when her father's radical ideas lead him into a suicidal stand against Oliver Cromwell's army. Taking refuge in Amsterdam and desperate to find a means t... Buy or find out more 


Burn Bright
Marianne de Pierres

$18.95 – Paperback book / Random House

Into a world of wild pleasures and deadly secrets comes a girl whose innocence may be her greatest strength . . .

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Retra doesn't want to go to Ixion, the island of ever-night. Retra is a Seal - sealed ... Buy or find out more 



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