ACHUKA Book of the Day Thu 20 Feb 2020 An exclusive short story from the Branford Boase winning author of I Am Thunder, written for World Book Day 2020. One of this year’s special £1 titles. Fifteen-year-old Salma Hashbi has been caught with her boyfriend in a totally humiliating misunderstanding. Instantly accused of being easy, […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day Tue 18 Feb 2020 A contemporary romance that makes the reader think of politics and issues of culture and discrimination. The lead characters are a Jewish boy and a Muslim girl with a mutual interest in politics and door-to-door canvasing. Waterstones says, “Heartwarming, poignant and very, very funny, Yes No Maybe […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day 14 Feb 2020 In Letters of Note: Love, Shaun Usher gathers together some of the most powerful messages about love ever composed, whether inspired by love’s first blush or the recriminations at its ending, the regrets of unrequited feelings and the joys of passions known. Includes letters by: Simone de […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day Wed 5 Feb 2020 Times Children’s Book of the Week 27 April 2019 Now in paperback. Hardback still available here. When Allison runs away from home she doesn’t expect to be taken in by Marla, an elderly woman with dementia, who mistakes her for an old friend called Toffee. Allison […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day Wed 29 Jan 2020 The sequel (and middle book in a trilogy) to Waterstones Children’s Book of the Year category winner Children of Blood and Bone… The Waterstones Exclusive Edition has blue sprayed edges, matching endpapers with clan symbols and a bonus, Q&A with the author… After battling the impossible, Zelie […]
sequel to the international bestseller One of Us is Lying It’s been a year since the events of that novel, but nothing has settled for the residents of Bayview. Not now someone has started playing a sinister game of Truth or Dare. Choose truth? You must reveal your darkest secret. Choose dare? Well, that could […]
Sunday Times Children’s Book of the Week 26 Jan 2020 15-year-old Kat wants to do GOOD FEMINISM, although she’s not always sure what that means. She also wants to be a writer, get together with Hot Josh (is this a feminist ambition?), win at her coursework and not make a TOTAL EMBARRASSMENT of herself at […]
Times Children’s Book Of The Week 25 Jan 2020 WINNER OF THE 2018 TIMES/CHICKEN HOUSE CHILDREN’S FICTION COMPETITION When Iseabail is employed by a wealthy merchant to be his daughter’s companion, her life changes forever. Transported from her remote island home to the Scottish borderlands, Iseabail is unnerved both by her precocious young charge and […]
Veronica is top of her class – and somehow she’s found herself gazing in disbelief at a positive pregnancy test. Even worse, her ex-best friend and the high school’s legendary malcontent, Bailey, is the only one there to help. In this warm and darkly funny road trip story, Veronica and Bailey drive a thousand miles […]
Orphaned as a child, tormented by her guardian and cast out to a harsh boarding school, Jane Eyre has been raised in the shadow of cruelty and isolation. But when she takes a job as governess in Thornfield Hall, where secrets lurk in the attic and strange laughter echoes through the night, Jane meets the […]
3rd title in a series that will make you want to rush out and take shelter in your nearest bookshop. Waterstones describes… It’s just a typical grey day in Greysworth, until the manager of Bennett’s Bookshop makes an exciting announcement. They’ve organised a French exchange with one of Paris’s most famous bookshops! Before you can […]
Rich detail and evocative language, this is the start of a soaring YA duology about courage, broken loyalties and fighting for your place in the world, co-written by two sisters. When her father dies just before her birthday, seventeen-year-old Aderyn inherits the role of Protector of Atratys, a dominion in a kingdom where nobles are […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day Wed 22 Jan 2020 The Waterstones exclusive edition has a printed edge… The conclusion to the This Mortal Coil SF-thriller trilogy. Cat’s hacking skills weren’t enough to keep her from losing everything – her identity, her past, and now her freedom. Meanwhile, the person who’s stolen everything from her is close […]
f.p. 2019 now out in paperback Jan 2020 A powerful story of family, hope and redemption amidst the refugee crisis in Syria from the award-winning Elizabeth Laird, illustrated by Lucy Eldridge. Thirteen-year-old Safiya and her family have been driven out of Syria by civil war. Safiya knows how lucky she is – lucky not to […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day Mon 20 Jan 2020 Niven’s bestselling 2015 YA novel has been re-released with a Netflix movie tie-in cover. The 1hr 48min film starring Elle Fanning and Justice Smith is set to go live on Netflix towards the end of February (2019). The book is available now. Theodore Finch constantly thinks of […]
Malcolm Duffy’s debut novel Me Mam. Me Dad. Me., about domestic violence, won the YA category of the Sheffield Children’s Book Award 2019, the Redbridge Children’s Book Award 2019, was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Prize 2019 and selected for World Book Night. Written with humour and heart, Sofa Surfer looks at what it means to […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day Wed 15 Jan 2019 Balancing epic and intensely personal stakes, Infinity Son is a gritty, fast-paced YA fantasy adventure about two brothers caught up in a magical war generations in the making. Growing up in New York, brothers Emil and Brighton always idolized the Spell Walkers – a vigilante group sworn […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day Tue 14 Jan 2020 The fifth novel of Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children… This signed Waterstones Worldwide Exclusive Edition includes a deleted chapter. Please check availability if purchasing some time after publication [Jan 2019]. Waterstones says: “With its merging of text and haunting photography to create a gloriously gothic atmosphere like […]
“A genre-bending collection of 13 twists on Edgar Allan Poe’s works does Poe proud with this creepy and atmospheric set of stories inspired by a handful of his most well-known works…Strong feminist themes appear throughout, and genres run the gamut from futuristic to gothic to lots in between. Diversity in race, gender identity, and sexuality […]
“Rhythmic, propulsive prose drives this bloody retelling of Macbeth at a relentless pace all the way to its violent end…impossible to put down.” KIRKUS “This revenge fantasy told from the point of view of a rape survivor will shock and awe.” SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL A thriller for fans of Killing Eve and One of Us is Lying. This […]
ACHUKA Book of the Day Tuesday 7 Jan 2020 This exclusive Waterstones edition comes with sprayed edges and the inclusion of deleted scenes… An addictive thriller crossed with the darkest of fairytales that’s guaranteed to keep you up all night… Alice has fought hard for a normal life. Having escaped the Hinterland – the strange, […]