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The Younger Wife by Sally Hepworth

The Younger Wife by Sally Hepworth

A heart surgeon at the top of his field, Stephen Aston is getting married again. But first he must divorce his current wife, even though she can no longer speak for herself.

Tully and Rachel Aston look upon their father’s fiancée, Heather, as nothing but an interloper. Heather is younger than both of them. Clearly, she’s after their father’s money… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Sexual assault
Domestic violence
Anxiety
Depression
Alzheimer’s Disease
Death of a parent in a car accident mentioned
Murder

The Smoke Thieves by Sally Green

The Smoke Thieves by Sally Green

In Brigant, Princess Catherine prepares for a loveless political marriage arranged by her brutal and ambitious father. In Calidor, downtrodden servant March seeks revenge on the prince who betrayed his people. In Pitoria, feckless Edyon steals cheap baubles for cheaper thrills as he drifts from town to town. And in the barren northern territories, thirteen-year-old Tash is running for her life as she plays bait for the gruff demon hunter Gravell. As alliances shift and shatter, and old certainties are overturned, our four heroes find their past… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Homomisia
Slavery
Self-harm
Torture mentioned

Half Lies by Sally Green

Half Lies by Sally Green

Meet Michele and Gabriel: young Black Witches in a brave new world. Their mother was brutally murdered. Their father drowns his pain at the bottom of a bottle. They begin a new life in Florida, where Michele meets a White Witch boy, but the divide between Black and White Witches is as dangerous as ever. Soon Michele is caught between love and loyalty, truth and lies. Could falling in love be the deadliest mistake she’s ever made?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Physical assault

Half Lost by Sally Green

Half Lost by Sally Green

The Alliance is losing the war, and their most critical weapon, seventeen-year-old witch Nathan Byrn, is losing his mind. Nathan’s tally of kills is rising, and yet he’s no closer to ending the tyrannical rule of the Council of White Witches in England. Nor is Nathan any closer to his personal goal: getting revenge on Annalise, the girl he once loved before she committed an unthinkable crime. An amulet protected by the extremely powerful witch Ledger could be the tool Nathan needs to save himself and the Alliance, but this amulet is not so easily acq… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Bury Your Gays trope
Smoking, on-page
Medical experimentation
Blood & injury depiction, including amputation of a thumb and loss of an ear
Cannibalism recounted
Murder
Gun violence
Poisoning
Explosion & bombing

Half Wild by Sally Green

Half Wild by Sally Green

In a modern-day England where two warring factions of witches live amongst humans, seventeen-year-old Nathan is an abomination, the illegitimate son of the world’s most powerful and violent witch. Nathan is hunted from all sides: nowhere is safe and no one can be trusted. Now, Nathan has come into his own unique magical Gift, and he’s on the run–but the Hunters are close behind, and they will stop at nothing until they have captured Nathan and destroyed his father.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Alcohol consumption
Blood & gore depiction
Coerced suicide of a mother recounted
Death of a mother from hanging mentioned
Murder
Gun violence
Knife violence, including mentions of a knife being used to blind someone

Half Bad by Sally Green

Half Bad by Sally Green

Sixteen-year-old Nathan lives in a cage: beaten, shackled, trained to kill. In a modern-day England where two warring factions of witches live amongst humans, Nathan is an abomination, the illegitimate son of the world’s most terrifying and violent witch, Marcus. Nathan’s only hope for survival is to escape his captors, track down Marcus, and receive the three gifts that will bring him into his own magical powers—before it’s too late. But how can Nathan find his father when there is no one safe to trust, not even family, not even the girl he loves?

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Child abuse & neglect
Self-harm
Coerced suicide of a mother recounted
Smoking, on-page
Cannibalism mentioned
Involuntary body modifications including branding and tattoos
Mass murder & genocide discussed
Torture
Physical assault
Kidnapping & captivity

The Door That Lead to Where by Sally Gardner

The Door That Lead to Where by Sally Gardner

AJ Flynn has just failed all but one of his major exams, and at almost seventeen years old, he sees a future that’s far from rosy. So when he’s offered a junior clerk position at a London law firm, he hopes his life is about to change—and it does, but he could never have imagined how much.

While on the job, AJ finds an old key labelled with his birth date, and he’s determined to find the door it… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Drug abuse
Death of a parent
Murder

The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth

The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth

There’s only been one time that Rose couldn’t stop me from doing the wrong thing and that was a mistake that will haunt me for the rest of my life.

Fern Castle works in her local library. She has dinner with her twin sister Rose three nights a week. And she avoids crowds, bright lights and loud noises as much as possible. Fern has a carefully structured life and disrupting her routine can be… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Fatmisia
Sexual assault of a child
Child abuse
Emotional abuse & gaslighting
Infertility
Death of a parent

In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick

In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick

In 1820, the 240-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage for whales. Fifteen months later, in the farthest reaches of the South Pacific, it was repeatedly rammed and sunk by an eighty-ton bull sperm whale. Its twenty-man crew, fearing cannibals on the islands to the west, made for the 3,000-mile-distant coast of South America in three tiny boats. During ninety days at sea under horrendous conditions, the survivors clung to life as one by one, they succumbed to hunger, thirst, disease, and fear… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Racism
Cannibalism
Starvation & dehydration
Whale hunting & butchering

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction—but assassins are getting closer to her door.

Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden society of mages. Ead keeps a watchful eye on Sabran, secretly protecting her with forbidden magi… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Incest mentioned
Depression
Alcoholism & alcohol abuse
Suicidal ideation
Infertility
Pregnancy
Miscarriage
Blood & gore depiction
Amputation
Grief & loss depiction
Murder
Beheading
Imprisonment
Torture
Fire