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1) Darien
Author
Series
Empire of Salt volume 1
Publisher
Bolinda/Penguin audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
TWELVE FAMILIES. ONE THRONE. The city of Darien stands at the weary end of a golden age. Twelve families keep order with soldiers and artefacts, spies and memories, clinging to a peace that shifts and crumbles. The people of the city endure what they cannot change. Here, amongst old feuds, a plot is hatched to kill a king. It will summon strangers to the city - Elias Post, a hunter, Tellius, an old swordsman banished from his home, Arthur, a boy who...
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
It all starts on the morning the letter D disappears from the language. First, it vanishes from her parents? conversation at breakfast, then from the road signs outside. Soon the local dentist and the neighbour?s Dalmatian are missing, and even the Donkey Derby has been called off. Though she doesn?t know why, Dhikilo is summoned to the home of her old history teacher Professor Dodderfield and his faithful Labrador, Nelly Robinson. And this is where...
Author
Language
English
Description
Can piecing together the past help you change the present? Safiya and her mum have never seen eye to eye. Her mum doesn?t understand Safiya?s love of gaming and Safiya doesn't think they have anything in common. As Safiya struggles to fit in at school she wonders if her mum wishes she was more like her confident best friend Elle. But then her mum falls into a coma and, when Safiya waits by her bedside, she finds herself in a strange alternative world...
Author
Series
The Faraway Tree volume 1
Language
English
Description
When Joe, Beth and Frannie move to the country, they find a wood nearby. In the wood stands the magic faraway tree where the Saucepan Man, Moon-Face and Silky the Fairy live. Together they visit the wonderful lands which lie at the top of the tree.
5) Peter Pan
Author
Language
English
Description
The night that Peter Pan flies into the Darling children's nursery is the night that magic flies into their lives. It's the night that Wendy and her brothers follow Peter out of the window and soar through the sky to Neverland. They discover a world of mermaids, fairies, and pirates, of lost boys, and of Captain Hook.
6) Six of crows
Author
Series
Six of Crows volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price - and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can't pull it off alone. A convict with a thirst for revenge. A sharpshooter who can't walk away from a wager. A runaway with a privileged past. A spy known as the Wraith. A Heartrender using...
Author
Series
Dark Star Trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James. Tracker is known far and wide for his skills as a hunter - and he always works alone. But when he is engaged to find a child who disappeared three years ago, he must break his own rules, joining a group of eight very different mercenaries working together to find the boy. Following the lost boy's scent from one ancient city to another, into dense forests and across...
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