Saffron is a first-year university student navigating friendship shifts, family tensions, and a fraught relationship with her body. Amara Sage delivers a sharp and emotionally resonant exploration of the complex pressures shaping young women’s identities in the digital age.
Reader be warned, this book contains a riot of a story, full of laughs, kicks and … farts!
Kacen Callender returns with a stunning sequel to the bestselling Infinity Alchemist. Ash Woods is struggling to deal with the aftermath of the battle that saved New Anglia. To some, Ash is a hero. To others, he is a symbol of the danger of alchemy and its potential to cause destruction. In this fast-paced novel, alchemists and non-alchemists clash for dominance, loyalties are pushed to the limit, and chaos threatens to disrupt the very fabric of reality.
Following the death of her mother, Dilly moves to the small island of Ollipest to live with her Grand-Aunt Florence. Ollipest is home to practitioners of magic or, more accurately, former practitioners, the reasons for which are revealed as the story unfurls. Dilly and her new friend Callum’s efforts to help a friend reveals their own inheritance of magic and the prejudice, external and internalised, experienced by those who are ‘different’.
After climate collapse in the world, Akaego Eke’s London is one of airlocks, climate-controlled suits, and strictly regulated societal structure. She is comfortable within this and does not question any part of it, until a newly discovered ability turns her world upside down.
Self-deprecating Orla is a giver, forever the sidekick, who neglects her own dreams, sacrificing herself to the needs of her demanding family, until her semi-sib Roks encourages her to apply for a drama course that changes her life. Structured like a cross between a diary and a script, the story follows Orla’s emotional journey over the space of a fortnight in December.
Lin the panda is back, and she’s as bad as ever – well, she’s trying to be! In Bad Panda: For Sale, Lin is determined to prove she’s the baddest panda around because bad pandas don’t get separated from their best friends. But when she’s sold to a new zoo, Lin has to come up with a clever (and very mischievous) plan to keep her zoo family together.
Joan’s life was already fraught before the pact between the Fae and humankind fell; her magic, skin colour, and gender all make her stand out in her worlds of metalworking and swordsmanship. Now William Cecil’s targeting her, the Queen has made Joan her plaything, and responsibility for restoring the pact and keeping London safe has fallen on Joan’s shoulders. The burdens are heavy, but she’s not alone in carrying them; her family and friends are always at her side.
The kitchen is where Soup feels most at home, mostly because she lives upstairs and was raised in it by the kitchen staff who she has come to recognise as her family. Throughout this graphic novel, we follow Soup through a journey of growth as she recognises that she is enough as she is with all her skills and talents in the kitchen. With the backing of her family in the kitchen, and her ever-expanding extended family, Soup sets out to fight back against her employer.
Retelling the horrifying story of the famed alien invasion in a graphic novel format, Chris Mould’s re-imagining of H.G. Wells’s science fiction classic does not disappoint. Aimed at a younger audience than the adult original, the story follows Leon, who records the events in his journal and Anya the scientist as they attempt to save the planet through their observations and research.
