(Review): Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer Niven

Holding Up the Universe is the story of a boy who can’t recognise anyone and a girl who everyone knows by reputation. Jack Masselin suffers from undiagnosed prosopagnosia, a condition which causes him to be unable to identify anyone – even his own family. Trying not to give anyone an excuse to realise he’s different, …

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(Book Review):Into Tordon by Z.F. Kingbolt

In Into Tordon, gamer girl Beth has just become the newest champion of her favourite online game, Tordon. Proud to be able to show people that she may be only thirteen and she may have a complicated home life but she is a winner, Beth goes to meet up with fellow gamers only to be sucked into …

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(Book Review): Heartless by Marissa Meyer

All Catherine wanted was to open a bakery and share her talent for baking with the Kingdom of Hearts. When she catches the eye of the King, Cath knows her dream of creating desserts for a living is in danger. Things get more complicated when the mysterious court jester comes into her life and she …

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Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman

This new edition of Neil Gaiman’s Odd and the Frost Giants is beautifully illustrated by Chris Riddell. The drawings by Riddell perfectly assist in narrating the story of Odd, a young Viking boy who is taken on an adventure of mythological proportions after meeting a fox, a bear and an one eyed eagle deep in the forest. …

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Review: The Art of Keeping Secrets by Rachael Johns

When it comes to home grown women’s fiction – Rachael Johns is an author you don’t want to miss. She writes wonderful stories with a local flavour which are relatable, interesting and have some incredible characters. The Art of Keeping Secrets is a novel about three mums and the secrets which threaten to tear their lives apart. …

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Review: Troppo by Madelaine Dickie

After reading Troppo I can understand why it won prestigious TAG Hungerford Literary Award. This is a book which manages to capture the feeling of a country and its people whilst delivering also an enthralling story. It begins with Penny taking a job in Sumatra, Indonesia to get away from her life in Perth. Having spent a few years in the …

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(A Cinderella Story): Everything But the Truth by Mandy Hubbard

When wealthy playboy Malik assumes Holly is another rich relative visiting family in the fancy retirement home her mother manages, she doesn’t correct him. Things between them were never going to get serious – they come from different worlds and in just a few months Holly is leaving for college. But when flirting leads to one date …

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(Alpha and Loving it): Tracker’s End by Chantal Fernando

Chantal Fernando delivers another red hot biker romance in Tracker’s End. Good girl Lana is the sweet, innocent one. Tracker is the big bad biker boy with all the tattoos that go along with being a member of the Wind Dragons Motorcycle Club. But what they have in common is intense attraction. Conflicted between wanting to protect …

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You Know Me Well by Nina LaCour and David Levithan

You Know Me Well is a book about friendship, love and taking chances. Teens Mark and Kate may seem to have nothing in common. He’s a shy jock hopelessly and unrequitedly in love with his oblivious best friend. She’s an artistically driven college bound senior who is waiting for her best friend to set her up …

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Happy People Read and Drink Coffee by Agnes Martin-Lugand

Life was good for Diane. She had a thriving literary cafe with a business partner she loved and a family she adored. But when her husband and daughter die tragically, a part of Diane died with them. After a year of closing herself up in her house and refusing to go back to her former life, …

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