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ANNOUNCING THE WINNER OF THE LANCASHIRE BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2019...

Moonrise-by Sarah Crossan

The astonishing new novel from this multi-award-winning

author explores life, death, love and forgiveness.

It will stay with you long after you have turned the last page.

'They think I…

When eleven-year-old Georgie befriends an eccentric, retired scientist,

she becomes the test subject for a thrilling new experiment:

a virtual-reality 3D version of the future.

But then a deadly disease threatens the life of every dog in the country

and Georgie's dog, Mr Mash, gets…

I suppose if you'd asked me before, I'd have said a time machine might look

something like a submarine? Or perhaps a space rocket.

Instead, I'm looking at a laptop and a tin tub from a garden centre.

This is my dad's time machine.

And it's about to change the world.

Well mine, at…

Skulduggery Pleasant is dead.

Valkyrie Cain is cool.

Omen Darkly is neither.

On a desperate journey to discover her sister's lost soul,

Valkyrie Cain goes up against the High Sanctuary itself,

and there's nothing Skulduggery Pleasant can do to stop her.

With Abyssinia's grand…

There are lots of stories about people who want to live forever:

This is not one of those stories.

This is a story about someone who wants to stop...

Alfie Monk is like any other nearly teenage boy - except

he's a thousand years old and can remember the last

Viking invasion of…

Maxwell is always in trouble.

He's a total menace to his teachers and big sister,

but he has a soft side too:he rescued his dog, Monster, 

from being run over and checks on his elderly neighbour after school.

One day, while looking through a mysterious cabinet of curiosities,

…

Lightning paced action and a truly spectacular adventure!

When twelve-year-old Nico falls into

the murky waters of spooky Still Cove,

his friends rush to his rescue.

But their search reveals more than they bargained for:

an island hidden in the mist - and an abandoned houseboat

…

The third book in the INK trilogy...

INK taught Leora that all is not what it seems.

SPARK taught her that there are two sides to every story.

Now Leora has had enough of lessons-

she wants to make her own story.

The explosive finale to the INK trilogy sees Leora

struggling to…

For all our Doctor Who fans...

Tom Baker's legendary Doctor Who adventure is a

spine-chilling thriller, forty years in the making.

The Doctor, Harry and Sarah Jane Smith arrive in a quiet

Scottish village, but their holiday is cut short by the appearance

of strange creatures -…

ASSESS THE THREAT

COUNTER THE DANGER

ESCAPE THE KILLZONE

In a dangerous world, everyone needs protection.

No one suspects that a teenager could protect someone -

but Connor Reeves is no ordinary fourteen-year-old.

He's a bodyguard, a martial arts expert trained in…

A bold tale of suffragettes and heroes, courage and survival.

It's 1918 and Stella has lost her suffragette mother

to the terrible flu pandemic that is sweeping Europe.

The Great War is finally coming to a close and women

are going to be able to vote for the first time.

Stella…