Oceanforged 1: The Wicked Ship SLEEPING BEAUTIES

Oceanforged 1: The Wicked Ship SLEEPING BEAUTIESSynopsis The realm of Aquinta has fallen into a dark age. And no one knows that better than thirteen year old Cori, who is fighting for her life in a pirate crew more beastly than Aquinta's sea monsters. But Cori's life changes when she finds the Oceanforged Gauntlet a piece of armour belonging to the legendary Champions who once ruled the islands. Whoever wears the armour wields the Champions' magic and has the power to return Aquinta to its lost

Fast cars driving like bats out of hell

an elderly crime fiction writer who also solves crimes

Organised into plant families

Futaba Sakura

a townful of bad bosses

and finally meet the idols of the new world - a boy band

ancient mythologies

She has been shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange prizes and three of her four novels have been adapted for television

into focus for historians to savor and enjoy

doomy warnings from a house-elf called Dobby

few first-time novelists come with the backstory of an Anna Williams-Bonner: recent bride of a wildly successful novelist who took his own life even as his fame seemed on the ascent

He’s learned a lot in a short amount of time