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Abandon

Meg Cabot

When Pierce nearly drowned in a swimming pool she momentarily experienced death. Before she was resuscitated she met and was instantly attracted to the strikingly handsome John, who exists in the void between death and life and who has a mission to draw spirits into the underworld. Pierce’s near death experience has changed her life profoundly. Following her accident her family moved home to put everything behind them but now Pierce is convinced that she is being watched and realises that John is pursuing her to take her back to the underworld with him. When life gets difficult for her she is tempted to succumb to his offer. A modern-day parallel of Persephone and Hades. First of a trilogy.

9780330453851 Macmillan 2011

VIII

Harriet Castor

Hal knows he is destined to lead his people and he has all the necessary qualities – he is a gifted warrior with charisma, bravery and intelligence. However, once he becomes King he turns into a selfish, tyrannical ruler with a taste for violence and cruelty. This thrilling ghost story is loosely based on the life of Henry VIII.

9781848774995, Templar 2011

Entangled

Cat Clarke

Grace is a captive, isolated from the world in a white room. She doesn’t know what her captor wants of her. Is he going to murder her? She has just paper and pen to occupy her so she writes about recent events leading up to her kidnap, pouring her heart out to explain why she tried to commit suicide.  An unusual, bleak tale with an intriguing twist.

9781849163941 Quercus 2011

Long Reach

Peter Cocks

Eddie decides to infiltrate a dangerous gang of drug dealers to revenge his brother’s death. His “way in” is to use the boss’s daughter, the lovely Sophie. Will she distract him from his aims?

Packed with mystery and tension, this is a brilliant read.

9781406324754 Walker 2011

Plugged

Eoin Colfer

The “plugs” in the title are transplant hair plugs for our vain hero Dan. Previously an Irish soldier on duty in the Lebanon he suffers from post traumatic stress disorder. Dan is now a doorman at a night club in New Jersey investigating his girlfriend’s murder. The tale is told in a sardonic monologue as he fights his way out of many a tight corner. This is Colfer’s first adult crime novel.

9780755380213 Headline 2011

Matched

Ally Condie

Cassia is quite content growing up in the safe world run by The Society, where every little decision is taken for her and everybody’s life follows a well-ordered and predictable course. But when it her is her turn to have her life partner chosen for her a glitch reveals an alternative boy and Cassia has to take the first independent decision of her life; is she going to accept the partner the Society has chosen or will she follow her heart? This is a slow-burning love triangle set in an unsettling future world.

9780141334783 Razorbill 2011

May I Have Your Attention Please?

James Corden

James Corden discovered the joys of having an appreciative audience aged 4 at his baby sister’s christening. His autobiography is full of funny anecdotes about his childhood and schooldays spent clowning around. Not only famous for Gavin and Stacey, he recounts his rise to fame and honestly reveals the dark times when he was starting to believe his own hype. A warm hearted and chatty account of his life so far.

9781846059353 Century 2011

The Quantum Universe

Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw

Do you know your matter from your anti-matter? Ever wondered whether an object can be in two separate places at once?  What is quantum physics and how is it relevant to our everyday lives? Celebrated physicist Brian Cox illustrates how the physical world works and shows how the great minds of the twentieth century endeavoured to answer apparently straightforward questions, resulting in laws of nature that ultimately shape the way in which we live our lives today. A mind-blowing dive into the deeper questions of science.

9781846144325 Allen Lane 2011

Nightshade

Andrea Cremer

Callor is a werewolf like the rest of her clan and is shortly to marry a fanciable male werewolf but things go wrong when she falls in love with a handsome human boy she rescues from a bear. She is in love with both. Who should she choose? It’s tough for her and the reader to decide in this intriguing, romantic, paranormal tale.

9781907410277 Atom 2010