Debut books from New Authors

Meteorite Strike
A.G. Taylor
Shortlisted for the Waterstone's Book Award 2010 An action-packed science fiction adventure unfolds at a cracking pace following the crashing of a plane after a meteor strike. Robert and Sarah survive the alien virus which strikes thousands of others but find...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 29/01/2010
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Tommy Storm
A.J. Healy
The hilarious adventures of earthling Tommy Storm as he is suddenly transported to join a training school in the Milky Way. Is Tommy, a well-known loser on earth, about to become the saviour of earth and the universe? Not if...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/03/2008
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Viola in Reel Life
Adriana Trigiani
Full of a zest, this captures how a newcomer to Prefect Academy learns to enjoy the boarding school environment she thought she would hate. Viola provides a hugely entertaining account of Perfect and the people in it initially using her...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 29/04/2010
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Haywired
Alex Keller
Fans of Philip Reeve’s Mortal Engine sequence will love this debut novel, Haywired – a ‘steampunk fairytale’ as described by the publisher. It's packed with murderous inventions, two desperate runaways and one mad dad.  Published by a smallish publisher this...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2010
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Unique
Alison Allen-Gray
This debut novel, published back in 2004 has only just hit our radar screen at Lovereading4kids with the publication of her second novel Lifegame. We've been so blown away by the brilliance of Unique that we just had to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/05/2009
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Matched
Ally Condie
 Introducing a rare new talent and almost certainly one of the biggest Young Adult debuts of the year this is the first in an utterly compelling, visionary and imaginative series that is set to be a sensation. The book is...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/12/2010
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The Hunt
Andrew Fukuda
May 2012 eBook of Month. If you're on the hunt for an original plot that's thought-provoking and chilling then The Hunt will be just up your street.  Gene is human in a world where they've been made extinct other than those...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2011
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Villain.net: Council Of Evil
Andy Briggs
A hurtling adventure begins at the click of a computer. Ordinary schoolboy Jake Hunter finds himself a global fugitive wanted for blackmail, theft and kidnapping after he enters a tempting looking website. The stakes are high in the race for...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/06/2008
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The Tide Turner
Angela Mcallister
For all those who enjoyed Helen Dunmore’s absolutely brilliant Ingo, they’re sure to thoroughly enjoy this debut novel from a bright new talent, as will anyone looking for a well-written and exciting adventure.  McAllister’s fabulous underwater world has some terrific...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/06/2007
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Luxe
Anna Godbersen
Compulsive, tantalizing and utterly irresistible, this is a gorgeous, glamorous, must-have debut. Set in New York in 1899, it’s glittering with jewels, brimming with secrets and social intrigue, and loaded with plenty of eligible young men – and one gorgeous...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/07/2008
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Dogs Don't Do Ballet
Anna Kemp
Nominated for the Roald Dahl Funny Prize 2010. A fabulous feel-good book about a pug dog with a big personality and even bigger dreams. Biff has no interest in doing dog-like things, he just dreams of being a ballerina. With...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2010
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Dogs Don't Do Ballet
Anna Kemp
A fabulous feel-good book about a pug dog with a big personality and even bigger dreams. Biff has no interest in doing dog-like things, he just dreams of being a ballerina. With some delightfully jaunty text coupled with some classic...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/04/2010
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Crossing Over
Anna Kendall
Huge in scope, this is a gripping and unusual adventure and romance packed full of larger than life characters and astonishing exploits. Forced to use his gift of ‘crossing over’ into the world of the dead so that he can...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 24/06/2010
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A Tiger Too Many
Antony Wootten
April 2012 Debut of the Month. A Tiger Too Many is enchanting from the word go and very readable.  The sentences are short and concise with no waffle and therefore the story goes forward quite briskly and the reader’s attention...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 29/08/2011
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The Traitor Game
B R Collins
Winner of for the 2009 Branford Boase Best Debut Novel Award   An extraordinary fantasy novel from a supremely talented debut novelist. Set partly in a boys’ school and also in another world that is both fierce and dangerous, it has themes...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/08/2008
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The Traitor Game
B R Collins
Winner of for the 2009 Branford Boase Best Debut Novel Award   An extraordinary fantasy novel from a supremely talented debut novelist. Set partly in a boys’ school and also in another world that is both fierce and dangerous, it has themes...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 30/11/1999
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The Traitor Game
B R Collins
Winner of for the 2009 Branford Boase Best Debut Novel Award An extraordinary fantasy novel from a supremely talented novelist. Set partly in a boys’ school and also in another world that is both fierce and dangerous, it has themes of...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2009
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Monster Republic: The Divinity Project
Ben Horton
As commercial and compelling as a computer game, this is the first book in a major new series. Edgy, exhilarating and fast-paced not all teens will have the guts to read this but we're sure there will be many that get...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2010
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The Bad Tuesdays: Twisted Symmetry
Benjamin J Myers
Fast-paced inventive writing with an original plot involving strange creatures and weird science, it's guaranteed to satisfy the hunger of voracious readers everywhere. Chess Tuesday and her brothers, Box and Splinter are street rats. Nobody likes them but now along...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 08/01/2009
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The Replacement
Brenna Yovanoff
Full of romance and danger, this is an arresting adventure that slips effortlessly between our world and the dark world of the paranormal. Mackie Doyle is not what he seems. Despite his apparently normal life, Mackie is a Replacement; he...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/01/2011
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Amos Daragon: The Mask Wearer
Bryan Perro
A fast-paced and gripping epic fantasy tale of a young boy's struggle between good and evil. Amos Daragon is one of the chosen.  On the day of his birth, his fate was written in golden letters in the great history of heroes.  His destiny is to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2009
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Amos Daragon, The Mask Wearer
Bryan Perro
From publisher Book House:  A fast-paced and gripping epic fantasy tale of a young boy's struggle between good and evil. Amos Daragon is one of the chosen.  On the day of his birth, his fate was written in golden letters in the great history of heroes. ...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2009
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Angel's Fury
Bryony Pearce
A gripping psychological drama that captures the absolute terror that the past can have on the present. Cassie is haunted first by nightmares and then even in the daytime when her thoughts seem to be taken over by terrors from...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/07/2011
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Pretty Bad Things
C.J. Skuse
Although not the target audience for this debut novel, Pretty Bad Things arrived on my desk at about the time the Catcher in the Rye author, J D Salinger died and there are definite comparisons to be drawn. Here in Pretty...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2010
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Tall Story
Candy Gourlay
This is a debut novel packed with warmth, humour and quirkiness that will have you in fits of laughter one minute and in tears the next as the author explores a touching sibling relationship and the clash of two very...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 27/05/2010
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The Forest of Hands and Teeth
Carrie Ryan
This is a remarkable and moving debut novel that was causing waves well before it was published.  The author has crafted a powerful and at times frightening tale that explores humanity’s unfailing desire not just to survive, but to live,...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 01/07/2009
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Forgotten
Cat Patrick
A teen story with a difference. London Lane seems like any normal high school student except that she can’t remember the past – her brain is wiped clean at 4.33 every day – and worse, she can see what is going to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 06/06/2011
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We Can be Heroes
Catherine Bruton
An astonishing debut.  Moving. Funny. Explosive. And most of all, unexpected...As powerful as Frank Cottrell Boyce's Millions. A Piece of Passion from Ali Dougal, Catherine's Editor at Egmont Books: We Can Be Heroes is the sort of book that I dreamt of...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/08/2011
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The Loon in the Moon
Chae Strathie
  An inventive space fantasy tells how the Loon powers the lights on the Moon by sucking up all the dreams that leak from children. Suddenly, disaster strikes! Earth children are producing no more dreams! The Loon sets off to Neptune...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/07/2010
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Lonely Beast
Chris Judge
How the Beast overcomes his loneliness is a touching story about friendship of all kinds. Despite his name, the Beast, and all other Beasts, are gentle creatures who love gardening and cake baking. The Beast travels across the world to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/02/2011
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