Welcome to our monthly book recommendations post for August! We’re making our way into cooler weather now, but we still did a lot of reading over the last summery month. So check out what books we enjoyed during August below!
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By Janice Hallett (pub. Puffin Books, 2025)
Continue reading “A Box Full of Murders | Book Review”1983. A hot summer. Bright sunshine. Starry nights. No parents. A happy group of children enjoying a camping trip together. The perfect summer…
Except…
A terrible crime was committed and no one knows who did it.
Not then. Not now.
Welcome to our monthly book recommendations post for July! We may be a little late this month, but it certainly doesn’t mean that we’ve skimped on our reading. So check out what books we enjoyed last month below!
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By Don Brown (Clarion Books, imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, this format 2025)
Continue reading “83 Days in Mariupol: A War Diary | Graphic Novel Review”Could Mariupol, and Ukraine, survive? As Russian rockets threatened the city, Ukrainians resisted, and with a heroic combination of sacrifice and bravery, the besieged city endured…for months. But it all came at a steep cost.
Welcome to our monthly book recommendations post for June! We checked out a nice range of books over the past month, including a number of new graphic novels that we simply adored. Have a look at our reads for June below!
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By Beth O’Brien (pub. HarperCollins Children’s Books, 2025)
Continue reading “Wolf Siren | Book Review”I felt rebellious saying it, like I was swearing. It felt wrong, dangerous, and Grandmother seemed to sense my discomfort.
‘When nature shows her strength, men will go to great lengths to call it evil,’ she said. ‘Magic is everywhere, Red. And while I do think it’s better that you keep these wolves a secret – from your mother and even Aerona – I want you to remember, no matter what happens, that this magic is much, much older than the fear of it, you hear me?’
Welcome to our monthly book recommendations post for May! Who knows what the weather might do next, which is why it’s always best to have a book (or three!) to hand. Check out what we were reading over the previous month below, and see what you want to add to your TBR pile!
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By Clara Kumagai (Zephyr, 2025)
Continue reading “Songs for Ghosts | YA Book Review”‘Who are you?’ I burst out. ‘How did you—’
She raised her head slowly. Her hair was long and dark and straight, half-covering her face, a pale oval. Her lips moved, but I couldn’t hear what she said. Benny quietened. Her eyes were like mine.
There was a noise from another room – my room – and I half-turned towards the sound, then remembered, caught myself and whirled back to the crib. There was nobody there, no woman, nothing. Only Benny, blinking his eyes, clenching and unclenching his little hands.
Welcome to our monthly book recommendations post for April! Both health and house have improved, which means we’re back to our regular recommendations. Take a look below at what we were reading over the previous month!
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By Peter Burns (pub. Farshore, June 2025)
Continue reading “Shadow Thieves | Book Review”It looked like a scrap of paper, tucked behind one of the roof tiles beside him. He pulled it free. It was a small rectangle of thick cream card, on which was printed in fine copperplate type:
Wanted: the clever, the cunning and the fearless.
Must be willing to risk death daily.
Fortunes available for the most daring and capable.
No one over 18.
Orphans preferred.
