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The Good Hawk: (Shadow Skye – Book 1) – Joseph Elliott
Walker Books Australia February 2020 ISBN: 9781406385854 Imprint: Walker Australian RRP: $16.99 New Zealand RRP: $18.99 Enter a fabulous new adventure-fantasy series that will not just enthral readers with its ‘difference’ being set in a fictional parallel landscape but with its wonderful celebration of another type of difference. Agatha and Jamie are of the Clann-a-Tuath, one of the…
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The Secret Commonwealth – Philip Pullman
The Book of Dust Volume Two Published: 3 October 2019 ISBN: 9780241373347 Imprint: Penguin and David Fickling Books Format: Trade Paperback Pages: 784 RRP: $32.99 Surely one of the most highly anticipated sequels ever – or was that just me? (I don’t think so!) I wasn’t sure what to expect but it wasn’t this – and I mean that in a…
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The Wizards of Once: Knock Three Times: #3 – Cressida Cowell
Hachette SEP 24, 2019 | 9781444941470 | RRP $19.99 Not strange at all – looking up and seeing three children clutching a magical flying door high above a forest. Well ok, perhaps a magical door flying is a tiny bit odd but not in a Cressida Cowell fantasy/adventure! Xar, Wish and little Bodkin are escaping their Warrior and Wizard…
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Malamander – Thomas Taylor
Walker Books Australia ISBN: 9781406386288 May 2019 Australian RRP: $17.99 New Zealand RRP: $19.99 Ok, so I’m a bit slow getting to this one (cue: moving house etc) but it is one not to be missed. Two orphans are brought together in the Grand Nautilus Hotel in a slightly odd town known as Eerie-on-Sea. Herbert Lemon is…
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The Book of Three – Lloyd Alexander [Usborne Modern Classics]
Harper Collins October 2018 ISBN: 9781474943444 ISBN 10: 1474943446 Imprint: Usborne – GB List Price: 14.99 AUD Lloyd Alexander was one of America’s most loved and respected children’s authors winning the Newbery Medal in 1969 and U.S. National Book Awards in 1971 and 1982. His most famous work The Chronicles of Prydain series entranced readers of all ages. The…
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Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow– Jessica Townsend
Hachette October 2017 9780734418074 | RRP $16.99 When you receive a proof copy of an upcoming debut novel about which the publisher says stuff like ‘sold by eight-way auction’ and ‘film rights pre-empted’ you can assume it’s going to be a cracker. And it is that indeed. Written by Jessica Townsend (Sunshine Coast! Yay!) this…
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Bring Me the Head of Ivy Pocket – Caleb Krisp
Allen & Unwin ISBN: 9781408858721 Publisher: Bloomsbury UK Imprint: Bloomsbury Child May 2017 RRP $14.99 After two totally madcap and thrilling Ivy Pocket adventures, Caleb Krisp completes the trilogy with an equally exciting conclusion. For those who have followed Ivy’s incredible and unbelievable exploits so far you may find this final instalment quite a lot…
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Geis: A Matter of Life & Death – Alexis Deacon
Walker Books Australia ISBN: 9781910620038 Imprint: NB NOBROW Release Date: September 1, 2016 Australian RRP: $29.99 New Zealand RRP: $32.99 geis f (genitive singular geise, nominative plural geasa) a solemninjunction, especially of a magical kind, the infringement of which led to misfortune or even death atabu, spell or prohibition https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/geis This is going to tick a lot of boxes for quite a number of your readers. Firstly, it…
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Archie Green and the Alchemist’s Curse – D. D. Everest
Allen & Unwin Australia ISBN: 9780571307418 Publisher: Faber Imprint: Faber Children Pb Pub Date: August 2016 $14.99 Move over Harry, you have a rival for my affections! Somehow or other I missed the first book in this fabulous series (that will need to be redressed ASAP) but no matter, I was able to pick…
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