Books
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Uptown Oracle Reads… The Good Luck Girls
The country of Arketta calls them Good Luck Girls – they know their luck is anything but. Sold to a “welcome house” as children and branded with cursed markings. Trapped in a life they would never have chosen.
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Uptown Oracle Reads… Holy Sister
Holy SisterMark Lawrence (Affiliate Links) Nona Grey’s story reaches its shattering conclusion in the third instalment of Book of the Ancestor. They came against her as a child. Now they face the woman. The ice is advancing, the Corridor narrowing, and the empire is under siege from the Scithrowl in the east and the Durns…
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Uptown Oracle Reads… Grey Sister
Grey SisterMark Lawrence (Affiliate Links) In Mystic Class Nona Grey begins to learn the secrets of the universe. But so often even the deepest truths just make our choices harder. Before she leaves the Convent of Sweet Mercy Nona must choose her path and take the red of a Martial Sister, the grey of a…
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Uptown Oracle Reads… Lud-in-the-Mist
Lud-in-the-MistHope Mirrlees (Affiliate Links) The town of Lud is a prosperous, bustling little country port, situated at the confluence of two rivers: the Dawl and the Dapple. The latter, which has its source in the land of Faerie beyond the Elfin Marches and the Debatable Hills, is a source of great trial to Lud, which…
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February 2020 Book Releases
Historical Fiction Mystery/Thriller YA Mystery/Thriller Fantasy YA Fantasy Non-Fiction Contemporary YA Contemporary Sci-Fi YA Sci-Fi Horror Interested in a specific genre? Use the list to the left to jump to the genre you want. If you’re an author and would like to be on future installments of this list, please fill out this form. Historical…
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Uptown Oracle Reads… City of Girls
City of GirlsElizabeth Gilbert (Affiliate Links) In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance. Her affluent parents send her to Manhattan to live with her Aunt Peg, who owns a flamboyant, crumbling midtown theater called the Lily Playhouse. There Vivian is introduced to an…
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Uptown Oracle Reads… Into The Crooked Place
Into the Crooked PlaceAlexandra Christo (Affiliate Links) The streets of Creije are for the deadly and the dreamers, and four crooks in particular know just how much magic they need up their sleeve to survive. Tavia, a busker ready to pack up her dark-magic wares and turn her back on Creije for good. She’ll do…
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London Bookshop Tour
Moving just outside of London meant that I had to explore some of the bookshop options around me and in the centre. As I have a train direct into Paddington, many of the central London bookshops are an easy tube away – and so I gave myself a challenge of visiting as many as I…