Sin Eater

Megan Campisi

For the crime of stealing bread, fourteen-year-old May receives a life sentence: she must become a Sin Eater–a shunned woman, brutally marked, whose fate is to hear the final confessions of the dying,…

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The Last Tourist

Olen Steinhauer

In Olen Steinhauer’s bestseller An American Spy, reluctant CIA agent Milo Weaver thought he had finally put “Tourists”―CIA-trained assassins―to bed. A decade later, Milo is hiding out in Western Sahar…

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Bird Summons

Leila Aboulela

When Salma, Moni, and Iman―friends and active members of their local Muslim Women’s group―decide to take a road trip together to the Scottish Highlands, they leave behind lives often dominated by obli…

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404

Sabri Louatah

Imagine a technology that can undermine deepfakes in a post-truth world torn apart by separatism and segregation… The year is 2022. A wave of panic is sweeping across the globe in the wake of a new, u…

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The Forgotten Girls

Lizzie Page

Elaine was typing out letters from POWs and reminding herself that she would not cry. Poor Sam in Burma doubted whether he would ever see his children again. “Tell them they mean the world to me.” Com…

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On the Up

Alice O'Keeffe

Sylvia lives in a flat on a council estate with her not-quite-husband Obe and their two young children. She dreams of buying a house on a leafy street like the one she grew up in. If she closes her ey…

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Explorers on Black Ice Bridge

Alex Bell

In the third magical Stella Starflake adventure the explorers meet gargoyles, sea-gremlins, mermaids, red devil squids – even a Gentleman Flamingo! Ice princess Stella Starflake and her father Felix a…

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The Private Joys of Nnenna Maloney

Okechukwu Nzelu

Shortlisted for the 2020 Desmond Elliott Prize How do you begin to find yourself when you only know half of who you are? As Nnenna Maloney approaches womanhood she longs to connect with her Igbo-Niger…

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Palace of Blood

CE Bernard

No crown in the world is worth losing the person you love most. The fight for the English throne has broken out. When the enraptured king gives the order to hunt down his own son, the queen resorts to…

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The 7 Lives of Léo Belami

Nataël Trapp

In Nataël Trapp’s brilliant, page-turning novel, the philosophical question of “free will versus destiny” takes on a gripping, life-or-death urgency. Leo is a film-loving, solitary seventeen-year-old,…

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