Debut books from New Authors

A Bad Boy Can Be Good For A Girl
Tanya Lee Stone
This is a brilliantly observed wake-up call for teenagers about life and love and the pitfalls of choosing the bad boy as your man. A story of self-discovery, broken hearts but more than anything any girl who reads this book...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/04/2008
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A Dog Called Homeless
Sarah Lean
May 2012 Debut of the Month. This is an outstandingly assured debut novel from a sparkling new talent.  When Cally Fisher sees her dead mother, real as anything, no one believes her. So Cally stops talking - what's the point...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 26/04/2012
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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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Allie Finkle's Rules For Girls: Moving Day
Meg Cabot
Allie Finkle is going to be the talk of the playground for 8-10 year olds as is her creator Meg Cabot, for at long last this brilliant bestselling author of The Princess Diaries has written a novel for younger readers. Allie...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/03/2010
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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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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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Amy Green Teen Agony Queen: Boy Trouble
Sarah Webb
Sarah Webb is a debut children's author but an established chick-lit novelist and her wonderful 13 year old character creation in Amy Green, teen agony aunt extraordinaire, is set to be the new best friend for every pre-teen girl.  Full of humour...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 02/02/2009
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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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Anila's Journey
Mary Finn
Shortlisted for the Bisto Irish Children's Book Award. A stunning debut novel, Anila’s Journey captures a girl with an amazing talent for drawing who is swept up in an epic journey up the Ganges where she hopes she may find...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/01/2008
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Artichoke Hearts
Sita Brahmachari
Shortlisted for the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2011 A welter of emotions engulf Mira in this touching pre-teen story about secrets and how to keep them and share them. Strongly set in a busy family, Mira’s life is full of the...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/01/2011
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Beautiful Creatures
Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl
A teen romance with a twist of danger and the supernatural told with a sure touch that makes it a headlong read from start to finish. Typical teenager Ethan is bored by his life growing up in a small town...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2010
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Beyond The Hedge
Mairi Craw
As its title implies this is the story of two worlds; you could say a 21st century Alice in Wonderland.  Original, pacy, laced with humour and full of magical realism, it features a parallel fantasy world where 11 year old...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 28/10/2005
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Billy Bones: A Tale from the Secrets Closet
Christopher Lincoln
This is an exquisite debut novel from an author who clearly has a great talent. The Bones family are a family of skeletons who all live, rather appropriately, in a closet inside a great mansion. Little Billy Bones longs to...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/06/2009
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Black Heart Blue
Louisa Reid
May 2012 MEGA Debut of the Month. A debut novel which packs a heart-stopping punch. Sixteen year old twins Hephzi and Rebecca are about as different from each other as they could be; Hephzi is beautiful and bold, Rebecca suffers from...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 10/05/2012
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Bloodline
Katy Moran
Shortlisted for the 2009 Branford Boase Best Debut Novel Award   Go back in time to Dark Age Britain for this powerful story about loyalty and survival in another time. Abandoned by his father, Essa makes a new life for himself among...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 03/03/2008
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Box of Tricks
Katie Cleminson
Winner of Best Emerging Illustrator Award, Early Year Awards 2009   A truly magical debut from author/illustrator Katie Cleminson.  When Eva is given a box of tricks for her birthday she becomes a master magician. Conjuring up the best animal musicians, party...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 07/05/2009
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Boy Zero Wannabe Hero The Petrifying Plot of the Plummeting Pants
Peter Millett
Hair-raising super deeds are Charlie Applejack’s speciality. Or, so he thinks. But, his skills are not enough to get him into Super School. Poor Charlie! Luckily, he has the chance to show his skills when general Pandemonium captures the world’s...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2010
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By Midnight A Ravenwood Mystery
Mia James
Welcome to a stunning debut and a rollercoaster emotional ride of anger, mystery, fear and romance.  This is a spooky, London-based debut Young Adult novel that cleverly intertwines Highgate cemetery, still haunted from sightings of vampires back in the 1960s...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 07/07/2010
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Call Me Drog
Sue Cowing
April 2012 Debut of the Month. Parker’s got a lot of demons to face as he struggles to come to terms with his parent’s separation and his father’s expectations of him. He thinks he’s coping alright until he finds Drog...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2012
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Captain Yellowbelly The Tale of the Terrible Pirate
Preston Rutt & Leo Timmers
This book will have you and your toddler roaring with laughter as dear old Captain Yellowbelly gets himself into more and more of a pickle in this swashbuckling-comical pirate tale. If it leaves your child with something more than a...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 30/08/2007
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Casper Candlewacks in Death by Pigeon!
Ivan Brett
As hilarious and ridiculous as its title might lead you to expect, this is a rollercoaster of a ride as Casper Candlewick sets out to ‘save the day’! Why the day needs saving and how it is done is a...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 28/04/2011
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Castle of Shadows
Ellen Renner
A ragged princess needs all her courage to help her find out what has happened to her mother. When Princess Charlotte’s mother, the Queen of Quayle, vanishes in mysterious circumstances no-one seems very interested in finding out what has become...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/01/2010
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Chicken Dance
Jacques Couvillon
This extraordinary debut is a funny and refreshingly quirky novel that celebrates the underdog.  A boy called Don Schmidt finds fame in a chicken-judging contest and suddenly finds himself an unexpected celebrity. This sets in motion a chain of events...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/02/2008
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Claws
Mike Grinti, Rachel Grinti
May 2012 Debut of the Month. Emma's sister has run off with the faeries. Her parents have spent all their money looking for her and now the family is living on the edge of an enchanted slum-forest nearby. But then...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 24/05/2012
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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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Crowboy
David Calcutt
Full of mystery and the unknown, this is a futuristic thriller charting the role Crowboy, a boy with special powers can play in helping to diffuse the gang warfare in a troubled city.
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Format: Paperback - Released: 07/02/2008
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Cub's First Winter
Rebecca Elliott
Within this snuggly bedtime story there is an excellent introduction to looking at nature. It is Cub’s first winter and he wants to learn everything he can about it. Mum gives him lyrical answers to his many questions as she...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 01/06/2010
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Danger Zone: The Devil's Breath
David Gilman
Danger Zone is a brand new blockbuster adventure series by debut novelist David Gilman that boys and girls of 9 upwards will lap up with elacrity. Fans of Alex Rider and Young Bond will love the 15 yearold all-action hero,...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 04/06/2007
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Dark Inside
Jeyn Roberts
The Road meets 28 Days Later in this heart-stopping, page-turning saga of rage, hope and survival. A global earthquake has released an inner rage in some people throughout the world that they cannot fight. For those who can, life becomes...
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Format: Hardback - Released: 02/09/2011
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Dark Life
Kat Falls
This is a debut novel that won’t disappoint.  Set in a world where the rising oceans have taken over continents and there are humans living on the small tracts of land that remain whilst others have moved under the sea...
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Format: Paperback - Released: 05/08/2010
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