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The Dead by Charlie Higson

The Dead by Charlie Higson

The child in the video was terrified. Within days it had gone viral. The Internet stopped working – and they realised something was seriously wrong. The sickness struck everyone over fourteen. First, it twisted their minds. Next it ravaged their bodies. Now they roam the streets – crazed and hungry. Jack and Ed are survivors, determined to return home to London. Clinging to memories, they join misfits and fighters they meet on the road. And one adult, a butcher called Greg. But, when a devastating new threat arises, they know that for some there will only be one escape….

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Blood & gore depiction including body horror
Cannibalism
Death of a child
Death of a friend
Murder
Gun violence
Explosion
Animal death

Completely Normal by Biffy James

Completely Normal (and Other Lies) by Biffy James

Love has rules. So does grief. And Stella Wilde’s about to break them all. Stella Wilde is secretly in love with the hottest guy in school, Isaac Calder. He seems to love her back, but there’s a problem – he already has a girlfriend, the gorgeous Grace Reyes. When Isaac is killed in a car accident, the entire school is turned upside down with grief. And while Grace can mourn publicly, Stella has to hide her feelings to stop people from finding out about her and Isaac being more than friends. But how long can Stella keep lying – to herself and everyone else? And when the truth… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Fatmisia
Statutory rape*
Revenge porn
Adult-minor relationship*
Grief & loss depiction
Death of a friend in a car accident, off-page
Bullying

* Context : The sixteen-year-old female protagonist is dating a twenty-year-old man.

The Hunted by Charlie Higson

The Hunted by Charlie Higson

The sickness struck everyone over fourteen. First it twisted their minds. Next it ravaged their bodies. Now they roam the streets – Crazed and hungry The others had promised that the countryside would be safer than the city. They were wrong. Now Ella’s all-alone except for her silent rescuer, Scarface – and she’s not even sure if he’s a kid or a grown-up. Back in London, Ed’s determined to find her. But getting out of town’s never been more dangerous- because coming in the other direction is every SICKO in the country. It’s like they’re being called towards the capital and nothing is going to stop them…

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Blood & gore depiction including body horror
Death of a child
Death of a friend

The End by Charlie Higson

The End by Charlie Higson

It all comes to an end in the final book in The Enemy series The sickness struck everyone over fourteen. First it twisted their minds. Next it ravaged their bodies. Now they roam the streets – Crazed and hungry. Sickos swarm the streets of London. Gathered in the centre of the city, they lie in wait. The survivors have one final epic battle to overcome. Together they must work out a plan of attack and end the grown-ups reign of terror before it’s too late. The end is coming.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Blood & gore depiction including body horror
Death of a child
Death of a friend
Fire

A Treacherous Trade by Kerrigan Byrne

A Treacherous Trade by Kerrigan Byrne

Fiona Mahoney stands in the ashes of her hopes facing her tempting adversary, Inspector Grayson Croft. Her sins are about to spill from her lips, when he says the one thing that could dispel all thoughts of revelation or redemption. Someone is leaving the corpses of sex workers in the streets, and a name is being whispered in the fearful shadows. The name against which Fiona would sell her very soul for vengeance. Jack the Ripper.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Misogyny
Sexual assault
Necrophilia mentioned
Violence against and death of sex workers
Blood & gore depiction
Death of a child recounted
Death of a friend recounted
Murder
Poisoning
Kidnapping & captivity

Murder on Mustique by Anne Glenconner

Murder on Mustique by Anne Glenconner

Mustique is in a state of breathless calm as tropical storm Cristobal edges towards it across the Atlantic. Most villa owners have escaped the island but a few young socialites remain, unwilling to let summer’s partying end. American heiress Amanda Fortini is one such thrill-seeker – until she heads out for a morning swim and doesn’t return. Detective Sergeant Solomon Nile is just 28 years old and the island’s only fully trained police officer. He quickly realises he needs to contact Lord and Lady Blake, who bought the island decades ago and have invested time, money and love creating a paradise. Jasper is in St Lucia… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Alcohol consumption
Drug use mentioned
Graphic dead bodies
Death of a friend
Murder
Gun violence
Kidnapping
Fire

Friends Without Benefits by Penny Reid

Friends Without Benefits by Penny Reid

There are three things you need to know about Elizabeth Finney: 1) She suffers from severe sarcastic syndrome, especially when she’s unnerved, 2) No one unnerves her like Nico Manganiello, and 3) She knows how to knit. Elizabeth Finney is almost always right about everything: the musical merits of boy bands are undervalued by society, “benefits” with human Ken dolls are better without friendship, and the sun has set on her once-in-a-lifetime chance for true love. But when Elizabeth’s plans for benefits without friendship are disarmed by the irritatingly charismatic and chauvinistic Nico Manganiello—her former… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Slut shaming
Blood depiction
Death of a friend recounted
Death of a parent recounted
Gun violence
Stalking

Can’t Say it Went to Plan by Gabrielle Tozer

Can’t Say it Went to Plan by Gabrielle Tozer

School’s out. Forget study, exams and mapping out the future. For the next seven days, the only homework is partying with friends, making new ones and living in the moment. Zoe, Samira and Dahlia are strangers, but they have something in common: their plans for a dream holiday after their final year of school are flipped upside-down before they even arrive at the beach. From hooking up and heartache to growing apart, testing friendships and falling in love, anything can go down this week.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Cheating
Alcohol abuse
Cancer
Death of a friend recounted

A Fashionable Indulgence by KJ Charles

When he learns that he could be the heir to an unexpected fortune, Harry Vane rejects his past as a Radical fighting for government reform and sets about wooing his lovely cousin. But his heart is captured instead by the most beautiful, chic man he’s ever met: the dandy tasked with instructing him in the manners and style of the ton. Harry’s new station demands conformity—and yet the one thing he desires is a taste of the wrong pair of lips. After witnessing firsthand the horrors of Waterloo, Julius Norreys sought refuge behind the luxurious facade of the upper… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

Homophobia
Suicide
Alcohol consumption & recreational drug use
Death of a friend
Death of a parent & brother recounted
Blood depiction
Murder
Riots

You’d Be Home Now by Kathleen Glasgow

You’d Be Home Now by Kathleen Glasgow

For all of Emory’s life she’s been told who she is. In town she’s the rich one–the great-great-granddaughter of the mill’s founder. At school she’s hot Maddie Ward’s younger sister. And at home, she’s the good one, her stoner older brother Joey’s babysitter. Everything was turned on its head, though, when she and Joey were in the car accident that killed Candy MontClaire. The car accident that revealed just how bad Joey’s drug habit was. Four months later, Emmy’s junior year is starting, Joey is home from rehab, and the entire town of Mill Haven is still reeling from the accident… Read more.

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Trigger & Content Warnings

Parental neglect
Revenge pornography
Substance addiction and recovery, including relapse
Suicide
Drug use & abuse
Overdose
Hospital
Cancer
Death of a friend
Car accident
Bullying