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Publisher
BBC Children's Books
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
A fascinating interactive game book that takes real-life scenarios from the world of Blue Planet II, and turns them into a puzzle for readers to solve! Each animal has its own unique strengths that give it an advantage in the natural world. And sometimes, the underdog can come out on top. Readers must decide which animal they think would 'win' in each scenario - whether it's for travelling the longest distance, building the most impressive underwater...
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
Bookseller Cassie Andrews is living an unassuming life when she is given a gift by a favourite customer - an unusual book, full of strange writing and mysterious drawings. And at the very front there's a handwritten message to Cassie, telling her that this is the Book of Doors. What Cassie is about to discover is that the Book of Doors is a special book that bestows extraordinary powers on whoever possesses it, and soon she and her best friend Izzy...
Author
Publisher
John Murray
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
England, 1979. Vincent, Lawrence and William are the last remaining residents of a secluded New Forest home, part of the government's Sycamore Scheme. Every day, the triplets do their chores, play their games and take their medicine, under the watchful eyes of three mothers: Mother Morning, Mother Afternoon and Mother Night. Their nightmares are recorded in 'The Book of Dreams'. Their lessons are taken from 'The Book of Knowledge'. And their sins...
Author
Publisher
Granta Books
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
Lina and her father have arrived at an enclave called the Sea, a staging-post between migrations, with only a few possessions, among them three volumes from The Great Voyagers encyclopedia series. In this mysterious and shape-shifting building made of time, pasts and futures collide. Lina befriends her neighbours: Bento, a Jewish scholar in seventeenth-century Amsterdam, excommunicated for his radical thought; Blucher, a philosopher in 1930s Germany...
Author
Publisher
Hodder
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
Europe's internal borders have rarely been 'natural'; they have more often been created by accident or force. Successive powers have redrawn the map of our continent, with varying degrees of success: the fingerprints of Napoleon, Alexander I, Castlereagh, Napoleon III and Bismarck are all there, but the present shape of Europe is mostly the work of the Allies in 1919 and Stalin in 1945. In this book, writer and political historian Lewis Baston journeys...
Author
Publisher
Monoray
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
Following open heart surgery, poet and writer Peter Carpenter was given one instruction - 'Walk, if you want to stay on this planet'. And so when his hero and inspiration David Bowie died in 2016, he knew what he had to do. The man who was to so many a companion and guide had left no shrine, no focal point of understanding. To reconnect with Bowie, he would take a walk into the past, to the streets, towns and places where David Jones became something...
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Publisher
Pan Books
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
Raised in an abusive family, Saul Anguish is a clever but troubled teenager with a dark past and a love of nature. Etta Fitzroy is a former police detective who now lives in New York, but is called back to London to help in a missing persons case. Saul and Etta had met two years before when five-year-old Clara Foyle was kidnapped by a serial killer, whose evil deeds had left scars on them all. When Saul discovers a 'graveyard' on an island near his...
72) The burial place
Author
Series
Jake Jackson volume 3
Publisher
Hemlock Press
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
It began as the project of a lifetime - a group of archaeologists, uncovering the remains of a Roman settlement on a beautiful hill in the glorious English countryside. But, the idyll is shattered when they begin receiving threatening letters. Former city detective Jake Jackson, now enjoying a quieter life in the local village, is pulled in to investigate. Soon, threatening letters are the least of their problems, when a murderer strikes. And now...
73) Burying Jericho
Author
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
While Scott Jericho is tasked with investigating the most baffling case of his career, his partner Harry is set upon his own fateful path. In a rundown seaside town, the body of a missing man has been discovered, encased in the walls of a medieval church. How the corpse got there and why will unravel the lives of a group of old school friends, each with a terrible secret to keep. A secret hinted at by the paper men hanging from the trees in a nearby...
Author
Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
1843. Ishmaelle is born in a small village on the stormy Kent coast where she grows up swimming with dolphins. After her parents and infant sister die, her brother, Joseph, leaves to find work as a sailor. Abandoned and desperate for a life at sea, Ishmaelle disguises herself as a cabin boy and travels to New York.
78) The Cardinal
Author
Publisher
Headline Review
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
Step into the thrill and intrigue of Tudor England in this book and witness the rise and fall of Cardinal Wolsey. It begins with Thomas, the son of a Suffolk tradesman. A brilliant boy sent to study at Oxford at the tender age of eleven. It ends with a disgraced Cardinal, cast from the King's side and estranged from those he loves.
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