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1) Tidelands
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Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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England 1648. A dangerous time for a woman to be different ... Midsummer's Eve, 1648, and England is in the grip of civil war between renegade King and rebellious Parliament. The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even to the remote Tidelands - the marshy landscape of the south coast. Alinor, a descendant of wise women, crushed by poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free...
2) Maskerade
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English
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The Opera House is a huge, rambling building full of masked figures and hooded shadows, and in the wings are the Discworld's greatest witches, Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, who fancy a night at the opera. But there's trouble ahead.
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BBC Digital Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Matthew Beard and Sophie Rundle star in a brand new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of the bestselling novel by Neil Gaiman, narrated by Eleanor Bron Challenged to retrieve a fallen star, Tristran Thorn leaves the sleepy English village of Wall and crosses into the land of Faerie and the realm of Stormhold. Locating the star, he discovers it is no meteorite, but a young woman, Yvaine. When Yvaine evades him and escapes, Tristran discovers he is...
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Dorothy Must Die volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
In this dark, action-packed fourth book in the New York Times bestselling Dorothy Must Die series, Amy Gumm travels from Oz to the twisted land of Ev, where she fights to free Oz from evil once and for all. My name is Amy Gumm. You might remember me as the other girl from Kansas. When a tornado swept me away to the magical land of Oz, I was given a mission: Dorothy must die. That?s right, everyone?s favorite Wicked-Witch-slayer had let the magic of...
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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...
6) The witches
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Puffin
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English
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But they are not ordinary. They are always plotting and scheming with murderous, bloodthirsty thoughts - and they hate children. The Grand High Witch hates children most of all and plans to make every single one of YOU disappear. Only one boy and his grandmother can stop her, but if their plan fails the Grand High Witch will frizzle them like fritters, and then what . . . ?.
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Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2018
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English
Description
From invisibility spells, broomstick rides and pet dragons to wobbly fangs, scary haircuts and teacher-charming spells, Titchy Witch always finds herself in trouble and must fix it in the only way she knows how - with a little magic! This magical collection of the popular Titchy Witch series includes the following stories: Titchy Witch and the Birthday Broomstick Titchy Witch and the Disappearing Baby Titchy Witch and the Frog Fiasco Titchy Witch...
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Puffin
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English
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of First Prize for the Worst Witch by Jill Murphy, read by Gemma Arterton. Accident-prone Mildred Hubble is the Worst Witch at Miss Cackle's Academy. She's always getting her spells wrong and landing herself in trouble. But Mildred is in the last term of Fourth Year and determined to prove that she's not as useless as everyone thinks - could it be First Prize for the worst witch after all? The Worst Witch is...
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The chronicles of Narnia volume 2
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English
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In this children's classic, Lucy finds that an old wardrobe in a professor's country house is a gateway to a magical land of fauns, centaurs, nymphs and talking animals - but also of the beautiful but evil White Witch who has held the land of Narnia in eternal winter for a hundred years.
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The Apprentice Witch volume 1
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Arianwyn has flunked her witch's assessment: she's doomed. Declared an apprentice and sent to the town of Lull in disgrace, she may never become a real witch - much to the glee of her arch-enemy, Gimma. But remote Lull is not as boring as it seems. Strange things are sighted in the woods, a dangerous infestation of hex creeps throughout the town and a mysterious magical visitor arrives with his eye on her. With every spirit banished, creature helped...
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Puffin
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English
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The eagerly-anticipated sequel to Tom Fletcher's bestselling magical adventure, The Christmasaurus. 'She is the best-kept Christmas secret of all,' whispered Santa Claus. 'Which is surprising, because she is so powerful that Christmas itself would not exist without her. She is older than time itself, yet still as young as tomorrow. She is known only as the Winter Witch.' A year has passed since a boy named William Trundle had an incredible adventure...
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English
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Tiffany Aching is a witch. And she thinks she's doing a good job for the people of the Chalk. Even if the job does seem to involve a lot of bandaging legs and cutting old ladies' toenails and not much magic, or sleep. But somewhere, there's a tangled ball of evil and spite that has woken up.
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The Apprentice Witch volume 3
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
The war is done and Arianwyn has discovered the secret of the quiet glyphs at last, but her troubles are far from over. Her day-to-day work as Lull's witch is tricky enough: winter has set in, bringing endless rain, ice imps and some rather befuddling Yule traditions. But when enemies converge on Lull, stealing away someone very dear indeed, our witch faces her greatest challenge so far. What really makes a witch come true? Our lovable heroine is...
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Granta Books
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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In Manningtree, depleted of men since the wars began, the women are left to their own devices. At the margins of this diminished community are those who are barely tolerated by the affluent villagers - the old, the poor, the unmarried, the sharp-tongued. Rebecca West, daughter of the formidable Beldam West, fatherless and husbandless, chafes against the drudgery of her days, livened only by her infatuation with the clerk John Edes. But then newcomer...
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The Wild Magic Trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Bolinda/Walker audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Mup?s dad has been kidnapped by witches, and Mup - along with her mam, brother and dog - must journey to an enchanted world to rescue him. Danger awaits them. Witches Borough is a beguiling place of rhyming crows, talking cats and forbidden magic, ruled by a tyrannical queen and her band of raggedy witches. And Mam seems strange on this side of the border - striding, powerful and increasingly distant. Even if they can save her father, Mup knows that...
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Mirabelle volume 2
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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Mirabelle is special because she is different. Mirabelle's mum is a witch, her dad is a fairy and she is a bit of both. When Mirabelle goes off to witch school she promises not to cause any mischief ... but then potions class goes a bit wrong and flying practice is a disaster. Soon enough, Mirabelle finds herself getting up to some seriously mischievous behaviour. Hopefully, with the help of her best friend, Carlotta, she can put everything right...
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