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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2)

  • Author: J.K.Rowling
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury
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It’s the end of the summer holidays and Harry Potter is getting a hard time again from the Dursleys, and all he’s looking forward to is going back to school at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. However, just before he’s about to set off a strange little house elf gives him a warning and [...]

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Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Book 1)

  • Author: J.K.Rowling
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury
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Harry Potter is rescued by a giant of a man from an unpleasant home. It is then that he finds out he’s from a long line of famous wizards and witches. Despite his adopted parents outrage he enrolls at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, to learn how to use his wizard powers. His arrival [...]

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The Silmarillion

  • Author: J.R.R. Tolkien (edited by Christopher Tolkien)
  • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
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The Silmarillion details the history of Middle-earth from the moment it was created leading up to the events of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. This period of time is called the First Age or the Eldar days. If you’ve read and enjoyed The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings it DOES’NT [...]

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The Scions of Shannara

  • Author: Terry Brooks
  • Publisher: Ballantine Books
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Par Ohmsford has inherited some of the magical powers of his ancestors. He can use the wishsong to tell stories of the past and bring them to life with his magic. And Shannara is in need of tales of heroes and vanquished foes for the Elves have vanished and the Dwarves are enslaved. Yet, as [...]

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The Wastelands

  • Author: Stephen King
  • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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The Setting Roland of Gilead is a gunslinger on a quest to find the Dark Tower. Which has been the source of his world’s slow collapse. Yet he doesn’t undertake this journey alone for he has 4 companions. Eddie is an ex-drug user with an interest in carving. Susannah is a disabled woman who has [...]

Context Clues — A Basil Coventry Misadventure

Context Clues — A Basil Coventry Misadventure

  • Author: James C. Ferguson
  • Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.
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Context Clues follows the misadventures of Basil Coventry, an ‘information gatherer’ employed by Sir Francis Walsingham (Chief Secretary) on behalf of Queen Liz. Basil Coventry would see himself (if he could think forward through time) as the typical dashing James Bond character. Unfortunately this view is not shared with those who meet him, they tend [...]

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Carpe Jugulum

  • Author: Terry Pratchett
  • Publisher: Doubleday
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Carpe Jugulum is set in Lancre which is the home of everyone’s favourite witches: Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, Magrat Garlick and Agnes (with Perdita). The king of Lancre (of which Magrat is now Queen), has rather stupidly invited vampires (sorry, vampyres) to join the naming ceremony of their first child. But the vampires decide to [...]

Hearts in Atlantis

Hearts in Atlantis

  • Author: Stephen King
  • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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Hearts in Atlantis is composed of four interconnected stories. All set in the sixties and deeply rooted in the Vietnam War. The first story, Low Men in Yellow Coats, sets the scene and introduces the characters that will be focused on throughout the book. It is this first story that crosses over to Stephen King’s [...]

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Moem The Beginning — Book 1

  • Author: Linda Whiddon
  • Publisher: Trafford
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Moem is book one in the Moem Chronicles, which are set in the future. Mankind now populates many planets and another solar system. Moem, herself, lives in this second solar system on a small planet called Katchwari. Moem is a Priestess who’s spent most of her life confined in a temple. It is here, under [...]

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The Lord of the Rings (LOR)

  • Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
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The Lord of the Rings (LOR) is made up of 3 books: The Fellowship of the Ring; The Two Towers and The Return of the King. It takes off where the The Hobbit left off and is (of course) set in Middle-earth. Bilbo’s nephew, Frodo, and his friends find themselves caught up in a war [...]