Delightfully and disturbingly surreal

The Strange Library is certainly one of Haruki Murakami's more outrageous short fantasy excursions 

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Something to make you smile

Happy Days: 365 facts to brighten every day of the year by Emily Coxhead gives you an interesting fact for every day of the year and they're bound to make you smile

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Into the heart of American conservatism

Few novelists create a protagonist whose characteristics whose name enters the language as useful shorthand - but this is exactly what happened with Sinclair Lewis’s 1922 creation, Babbitt.

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Finding your voice and making it count

Whisper to the Rescue by Rose Robbins is a colourful and delightfully illustrated story and a perfect way to introduce younger readers to the complex issues of climate change and environmental degradation without making the messages too scary or indigestible. 

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Grot and Horror

 'Tolly Grimpen’s Tales of Grot and Horror' by Ian Billings, illustrated by Hunt Emerson is a book that is designed to appeal to young readers who love slightly scary and slightly disgusting content!  

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I spy with my little eye

First published in 2022, Ruth Brown’s interpretation of the simple observation game has now been released in a lovely large-sized paperback edition.

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