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Monthly Book Recommendations: April 2025

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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Shadow Thieves book cover for review: an adult and a child stand silhouetted on a rooftop, facing away from the viewer, looking over a cramped city saturated blue. The man is holding a lantern with a yellow light. In the distance, St Peter's Cathedral is silhouetted against lightning and a rising sun. The title 'Shadow Thieves' is in gold, the 'o' shaped like a lock, and the 'i' like a key.
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Shadow Thieves | Book Review

By Peter Burns (pub. Farshore, June 2025)

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.

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Monthly Book Recommendations: March 2025

Welcome to our monthly book recommendations post for March! Unfortunately, due to ill health on one side and a house move on the other, we’ve been unable to do our regular level of detail for this month. But we haven’t stopped reading, and it doesn’t stop us recommending those books!

So if you’re looking for a book to pick up, or perhaps give as an Easter gift, here are some to look out for.

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Monthly Book Recommendations: February 2025

Welcome to our monthly book recommendations post for February! Last month our reading travelled all over, from history and nature, to mystery and friendship. Come along with us below, and see what we’ve been reading!

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Monthly Book Recommendations: January 2025

Welcome to our monthly book recommendations post for January! We read some fantastic books over the past month, with adventure, information, and a lot of fun. What a great way to start the new year!

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Image shows book cover for review; an observatory is silhouetted at the bottom in a green field, with an orange glow above and behind it. Above is a dark blue sky, with lighter lines whirling across it. In the middle at the top, a bright orb shoots across. Between this and the observatory is the title 'The Others'.
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The Others | Book Review

Written by Sarah Merrett, illustrated by Ewa Beniak-Haremska (pub. Everything With Words, 2024)

‘There!’ Grandma’s face lit up. ‘Tell me you heard that!’ She ran to the machine and flung herself in the chair.

Reuben’s limbs locked tight. He stared, his mind running wild. The machine had never made a sound like it. He knew it wasn’t from this world.

He listened, waiting, holding his breath.

The machine remained silent, but he knew those few strange sounds had changed everything.

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Our Top 5 Books of 2024

We read some absolutely fantastic books over the past year, and we’ve enjoyed sharing them all with you! Some books didn’t make it into our recommended lists however (there were some crackers released at the end of the year!), and they were some of the best – so here we’re sharing with you our top 5 books from 2024.

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Book cover for review: image shows a young girl dressed in furs and wearing a deer skull on her head, carrying a bow. She has one hand on a large white reindeer walking beside her. It has packed bags strapped to it. They're walking through the snow in a dark forest. The title "Fia and the Last Snow Deer" is inscribed in gold above them.
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Fia and the Last Snow Deer | Book Review

Written by Eilish Fisher, illustrated by Dermot Flynn (pub. Puffin Books, 2024)

Suddenly I know what I have to do
to keep Solas safe.
The prophecy says the sacrifice must be given
freely,
              gladly,
                             with hope.
Nothing about
blood                  sadness              despair.

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Monthly Book Recommendations: October 2024

Welcome to our monthly book recommendations post for October! There are still a few spooky titles in our list from last month, but we were also looking forward to non-fiction November.

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Monthly Book Recommendations: September 2024

Welcome to our monthly book recommendations post for September! Last month we read some very spooky books, some not-so-spooky books, and some that aren’t really spooky at all. And we enjoyed each and every one of them!

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