The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

The ultimate reality show.  Could you last long enough to be the winner?

Worldshaker by Richard Harland - Book One of a series.


Col wakes in the night to find two eyes looking at him in the dark.  It's a female Filthy - someone who should be down in the lowest levels of the juggernaut 'Worldshaker'.  What is she doing there, and why doesn't he call for help?


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Life: an Exploded Diagram by Mal Peet

 




This final events of this story take place in Norfolk during the Cuban Missile Crisis on 1962. Clem is a working class boy, Frankie is the daughter of local aristocracy. Their affair is secret and dangerous.


Interwoven, is the story of Clem's family, life in rural England and world events which affect them all, particularly how the Soviet Union, Cuba and America got to the brink of annihilating the planet.

Not a book for everyone (especially if you don't like love stories or historical novels) but it is a really absorbing read and the bits about the Cold War are fascinating.

The Bricklayer by Noah Boyd

Want a book to keep you reading?  This is it.  Stephen Vain is an ex-FBI agent called back to do a job other agents can't do.

If the FBI do not pay a group of extortionists millions of dollars the will group will kill people.  Trouble is, from the way events unfold, it's believed an insider is leading the plot.


Stephen Vain doesn't like bureacracy, he doesn't get on with bosses but he can solve problems. He's a likeable hero.


There's a couple of ?? in the plot but you can ignore them and just enjoy a satisfying read.

Treskellion by Will Peterson

With their parents embroiled in a bitter divorce, Rachel and Adam are sent from New York to stay with their grandmother in the English village of Treskellion. But there's something strange and sinister about Treskellion, something from another world is affecting life today and it is a something the villagers want to protect at all costs - even murder.

Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr

"I was thirteen when my Dad caught me with Tommy Webber in the back of Tommy's Buick. Tommy was seventeen and the supposed friend of my brother, Darren. I didn't love him. I'm not even sure I even liked him."

In a single moment Deanna's life changes - her father barely speaks to her and she's become the "school slut". But life goes on and this is the story of how Deanna copes and eventually deals with what happened to her.

The Lord of the Beasts by Justin Elliott

A Barghest is (according to the Oxford Dictionary) 'a goblin in the shape of a large dog, fabled to portend death or misfortune'.

And one's been set to kill Hunter Greenman.

After being attacked by the school bullies, Hunter's life changes forever. He discovers he has special powers and those powers threaten the world of the Fae. Hunter and his friends Donn, Brigid and Sara are drawn into a quest. They must find the dagger Athame and destroy the Barghest.

But that's not going to be the end of the story ...