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Pretty Monsters
Kelly Link
Dazzling and unlikely stories disturb and delight in this hugely original collection. Fantasy, horror and just plain mischief jostle together in the ten stories which kick off with what happens when Miles digs up the wrong grave to recover the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2010

I'm Not Scared
Niccolo Ammaniti
An international bestseller, this almost painfully lucid picture gives a terrifying account of what happens when nine-year-old Michele makes a terrifying discovery in an old farmhouse on one ordinary hot, hot summer’s day when he is out playing with his...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2010

Blood Feud
Alyxandra Harvey
Passion propels this pacy sequel to My Love Lies Bleeding effortlessly spanning both time and the gulf between the living and the dead. Enter the world of blood and desire where vampires reign and death is not what it seems. Isabeau St Croix...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2010

A Swift Pure Cry
Siobhan Dowd
Winner ofthe Branford Boase Award 2007. A superb first novel, beautifully written, deeply moving and full of heartbreak. When Shell Talent’s mother dies everything around her begins to fall to pieces. Tired of looking after her younger brother and sister...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/07/2010

Slam
Nick Hornby
Gripping and funny this novel will appeal to all those who have ever picked up a skateboard and even those who haven't. From the author who brought you High Fidelity and Fever Pitch comes a new novel written for the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/07/2010

Fallen
Lauren Kate
July 2010 Debut of the Month. Falling in love is a wonderful feeling and when Luce falls headlong for Daniel as she arrives in the strange environment of her new reform school she feels its...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/07/2010

Tender Morsels
Margo Lanagan
July 2010 Debut of the Month. This is a striking retelling of the Grimms’ Snow White and Rose Red, beautifully written and strangely original. It’s an unforgettable novel that is sure to shock...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/07/2010

White Crow
Marcus Sedgwick
July 2010 Book of the Month. Packed full of suspense, this is a tingling and chilling Gothic thriller in which nothing can quite be taken for granted. Rebecca is forced to abandon her bustling life...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/07/2010

Crossing Over
Anna Kendall
Huge in scope, this is a gripping and unusual adventure and romance packed full of larger than life characters and astonishing exploits. Forced to use his gift of ‘crossing over’ into the world of the dead so that he can...
Format: Hardback - Released: 24/06/2010

The Sky is Everywhere
Jandy Nelson
June 2010 Debut of the Month. This is a debut novel that once readwill never be forgotten. It's a vibrant, deeply romantic novel that will bring tears to your eyes but it will also bring...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/06/2010

The Last Summer of the Death Warriors
Francisco X. Stork
June 2010 Debut of the Month. Totally unsentimental this is nonetheless an exceptionally moving story that is full of insight and written with a rare tenderness. Two boys in desperate situations come together...
Format: Hardback - Released: 07/06/2010

Numbers 2: The Chaos
Rachel Ward
June 2010 Book of the Month. A gripping thriller set in a not too distant future tells of Adam’s secret and his dreaded power – he can tell the date of people’s death....
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/06/2010

What I Saw and How I Lied
Judy Blundell
Winner of the prestigious American National Book Award Utterly gripping and beautifully told, this is a stunning rite of passage novel, set just after WW2, full of powerful and conflicting emotions, which captures the dramatic shift from child to adult in pinpoint sharp, painful...
Format: Paperback - Released: 07/06/2010

Black Ops: Jungle Kill
Jim Eldridge
A terrific new series for teen boys who want something that bridges the gap from Anthony Horowitz and Charlie Higson to authors such as Chris Ryan and Andy McNab. This, the first in the series is a high-octane, adrenalin-fuelled combat...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2010

The Summer I Turned Pretty
Jenny Han
One girl, two boys…How can Isabel, Belly to the boys, choose as she grows up with them through one glorious summer holiday after another? Belly has always yearned for the inaccessible, cool Conrad. But what does he feel for her? And what about...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/06/2010

Worldshaker
Richard Harland
This is a brilliant tale of revolution, of adventure that will hook readers from the very first page. With plot twists that you’re never expecting, wonderful characters that jump off the page and some rather weird and wonderful humour , this ‘steampunk’ adventure...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2010

The Cardturner
Louis Sachar
June 2010 Book of the Month. Best-selling author Louis Sachar took the world by storm with Holes, his remarkable story about a group of boys in a reform camp. But he deserves...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/06/2010

Breaking Dawn - Twilight Saga Book 4
Stephenie Meyer
Winner of the Galaxy Children's Book of the Year 2009. Possibly the final book in the Twilight series, Meyer has yet to decide if she will continue the series after a draught of a possible fifth novel was leaked on the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 29/05/2010

And Another Thing ... Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Part Six of Three
Eoin Colfer
June 2010 Book of the Month. Eoin Colfer takes up the Douglas Adams mantle and writes the next instalment in the Hitchhiker's saga. As an author who writes his own weird and wonderful...
Format: Paperback - Released: 27/05/2010

The Prince of Mist
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 30 May 2010. June 2010 Good Housekeeping selection. Utterly gripping, this is a deliciously haunting and chilling tale of dark magic and treachery which reaches out across time threatening all who cross its...
Format: Hardback - Released: 27/05/2010

Genesis
Bernard Beckett
June 2010 Book of the Month. Set in the future on an isolated island with its citizens divided into ‘sects’. To change position exams must be taken. We follow a young girl taking...
Format: Paperback - Released: 27/05/2010

Forbidden
Tabitha Suzuma
Carefully but without pulling any punches, Forbidden explores the power and pain of the feelings that pull Lochan and Maya together. Coping with their chaotic life which burdens them with responsibility far too young, the two siblings become increasingly inter-dependent....
Format: Paperback - Released: 27/05/2010

Hush, Hush
Becca Fitzpatrick
June 2010 Book of the Month. A gripping romance tinged with a strange and dark side as forces from long, long ago. Nora never meant to get into a deep romance and she...
Format: Paperback - Released: 27/05/2010

Virgin Widow - England's Forgotten Queen
Anne O'Brien
November 2010 Book of the Month. June 2010 Debut of the Month. A great read and a great insight into how women were used as pawns...
Format: Paperback - Released: 21/05/2010

4321: Based on the Screenplay by Noel Clarke
Jim Eldridge, Noel Clarke
High tension drama as 4 friends find themselves caught up in drugs, diamonds, sex and violence. Best friends Shannon, Jo, Kerrys and Cassandra have only one thing in common and that is their friendship. But, as their lives spin in...
Format: Paperback - Released: 17/05/2010

Wintercraft
Jenna Burtenshaw
A cross over novel for teens and adults this fantasy adventure follows a young girl called Kate Winters who discovers she is the last of a rare breed called The Skilled. There are those who would see her destroyed for...
Format: Paperback - Released: 13/05/2010

If I Stay
Gayle Forman
Gripping, heartrending and ultimately life-affirming, If I Stay is a haunting novel about the power of love and loss – a story that won’t quite let you go. It will make you appreciate all that you have, all that you've...
Format: Paperback - Released: 13/05/2010

Life As We Knew It
Susan Beth Pfeffer
When a freak asteroid knocks the moon from its orbit, everything in 15 year old Miranda’s life is changed. All her teenage problems get swept to one side as she and her family have to re-learn everything - just to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2010

Monsters of Men
Patrick Ness
May 2010 'new gen' Book of the Month title. This is a spine-tingling, page turning read. Heaped with well-deserved awards, the Chaos Walking Trilogy comes to a brilliant conclusion in Monsters of...
Format: Hardback - Released: 03/05/2010

Paper Towns
John Green
May 2010 'new gen' Book of the Month title. Award winning author John Green’s fresh-voiced novel is an utterly gripping story that gives a roller-coaster, unputdownable read. Strongly set with all the details...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/05/2010