Wednesday, 14 October 2015

New Books on the Shelves

Some say love is deadly. Some say love is beautiful. I say it is both.

Jack McKinley is an ordinary kid with an extraordinary problem. 

An ordinary teenager's world turns upside down when he's mistaken for a ruthless young spy.

 It was hard to remember when the genuine hacking started; but free phone credit was the first illicit, tangible "real-life" results of a hack, though not the last. 

Lucky Kyle wins a coveted spot to be one of the first 12 kids in the library for an overnight of fun, food, and lots and lots of games. But when morning comes, the doors remain locked. Kyle and the other winners must solve every clue and every secret puzzle to find the hidden escape route. And the stakes are very high.

Ever since Jacob Reckless was a child, he has been escaping to a hidden world through a portal in his father's abandoned study. Over the years, he has made a name for himself as a finder of enchanted items and buried secrets.

Want to know where to discover the perfect sunset in Fiji? How about a tropical paradise in St Lucia, or one of the world’s beautiful natural wonders in the Alps?Well this is NOT the book for you.

Mika and Ellie live in a future behind a wall: Solid concrete topped with high-voltage razor wire and guarded by a battalion of Ghengis Borgs, it was built to keep out the animals, because animals carry the plague. 

Wednesday, 3 June 2015

Calling all Writers under 25!


Starling is a new journal for writers under the age of 25
Their web site is here.

Wednesday, 13 May 2015

New Fiction!

Calling all Skulduggery Pleasant fans!
The Dying of the Light is the FINAL shocking, heart-wrenching book in the jaw-droppingly stupendous Skulduggery Pleasant series.
The War of the Sanctuaries has been won, but it was not without its casualties. Following the loss of Valkyrie Cain, Skulduggery Pleasant must use any and all means to track down and stop Darquesse before she turns the world into a charred, lifeless cinder.
And so he draws together a team of soldiers, monster hunters, killers, criminals… and Valkyrie’s own murderous reflection.
The war may be over, but the final battle is about to begin. And not everyone gets out of here alive…




After a mysterious Sickness wipes out the rest of the population, the young survivors assemble into tightly run tribes. Jefferson, the reluctant leader of the Washington Square tribe, and Donna, the girl he's secretly in love with, have carved out a precarious existence among the chaos.
But when another tribe member discovers a clue that may hold the cure to the Sickness, five teens set out on a life-altering road trip, exchanging gunfire with enemy gangs, excaping cults and militias, and braving the wilds of the subway—to save humankind.
The first novel from acclaimed film writer/director CHRIS WEITZ (About a Boy, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, The Golden Compass) is the heart-stopping debut of an action-packed trilogy.