Books of the Month - YA


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Caroline O'Donoghue
Set in a universe where time is a resource - coveted and exploited, the key to power and privilege - comes a dazzlingly inventive sci-fi fantasy romance by a bestselling Irish author.
Margo is on a train to a new boarding school when she slips into another dimension, passing from the height of Irish summer into the chill of an alien winter, from a 24-hour day to one that begins and ends in just six hours. From a stranger on the train - a travelling salesman by the name of Moon - she learns that New Davia is part of a world scarred by uprisings, travel bans and world sealings. Power is determined by time - who has it, who doesn't, and who has the freedom to travel between time zones.
Can Margo find a way to get back home - or will she choose to stay in a world where her teenagehood is slipping away faster than ever before, but where she may have found the only person with whom she would choose to spend eternity?
June

Never Thought I'd End Up Here
Ann Liang
Another gorgeous YA rom-com from Chinese Australian author Ann Liang.
Leah Zhang has spent her whole life in LA - it's all she's ever known. But after accidentally wishing her cousin ill health and a very depressing marriage at his wedding, her parents stage an intervention. She's forgotten most of her Mandarin, has zero regard for etiquette, and can't hold a conversation with her own grandparents for longer than a minute. Their solution? Send her on an intensive two-week travel program across China's most beautiful cities. To them, it's the perfect opportunity for Leah to get back to her roots.
May

This Dream Will Devour Us
Emma Clancey
An intoxicating mix of magic and the machinations of the rich and powerful creates a compulsive, bingeable read for readers who love Krystal Sutherland and Karen McManus.
'Dark, deadly and decadent - prepare to stay up late to finish this one. Emma Clancey is a debut to watch.' Amie Kaufman, NYT bestselling author of The Isles of the Gods
Sometimes you have to kill a dream to escape a nightmare.
Nora is the opposite of lucky. She's still wrangling her dead dad's debts when a mysterious illness lands her brother in hospital. But her fortunes take an unexpected turn when she wins the lottery to attend the Lamour family's exclusive magical Dream Gala. If Nora can win over the Lamour heirs, she'll get a coveted spot in their magical training program - and the money she needs to save her brother.
There's just one problem: Nora never bought a lottery ticket.
Determined to discover who wants her at the Gala - and why - Nora plunges headfirst into magical high society.
April

Rival Darling
Alexandra Moody
Fall hard for the Darling Devils in the first in this heartstopping YA rom-com series, for fans of Lynn Painter, Jenny Han and Powerless. Fake datingHe falls first HEACute, clean and wholesome fun vibesNever date a jock - it's her one rule. He'll do whatever it takes to break it.
When seventeen-year-old Violet is left heartbroken by the captain of her school's ice hockey team, she vows to never date a jock again. But, in an attempt to prove she's moved on, she turns to the most unlikely person-her ex's biggest rival, the notorious captain of the Ransom Devils.
Reed Darling is gorgeous, mysterious and intimidating, both on and off the ice. Wild rumors constantly circulate about him, and the only thing people love to talk about more than his hockey skills are his exploits as a ruthless heartbreaker and bad boy.
March

Our Infinite Fates
Laura Steven
A star-crossed lovers romance that spans a millennia, for fans of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, They Both Die at the End and One Day
'Impossible to put down' V.E. Schwab, international bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
A star-crossed lovers romance that spans a millennia, for fans of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, They Both Die at the End and One Day
'Maybe that's all love is, in the end. An endless tempting of fate.'
Evelyn can remember all her past lives. She can also remember that in every single one, she's been murdered before her eighteenth birthday.
The problem is that she's quite fond of the one she's in now, and more importantly, her sister needs her for bone marrow transplants to stay alive. So now she has to-
find the centuries-old enemy who hunts her through each life and destroy them foreverfigure out exactly why she's being hunted in the first place,try quite hard not to fall in love with them
...again.
'Vividly beautiful and brilliantly transcendent' - Amelie Wen Zhao, New York Times bestselling author of the Song of the Last Kingdom duology
'An iridescent ode to love, life and humanity' - Bea Fitzgerald, Sunday Times bestselling author of Girl, Goddess, Queen
'Evelyn and Arden are a pair for the ages' - Ayana Gray, New York Times bestselling author Beasts of Prey
'Our Infinite Fates demands to be read in one sitting.' - M.
February

Cruel Is The Light
Sophie Clark
They say love conquers all. . . But can love win in a war between demons and exorcists?
Or will it just tear them all apart. .
January

A Language Of Dragons
S. F. Williamson
The most exciting debut of 2025 - an incredible fantasy Dark Academia, perfect for fans of Babel, Fourth Wing, and the Scholomance trilogy
EVERY ACT OF TRANSLATION REQUIRES SACRIFICE
Welcome to Bletchley Park... with dragons.
London, 1923. Dragons soar through the skies and protests erupt on the streets, but Vivien Featherswallow isn't worried. She's going to follow the rules, get an internship studying dragon languages, and make sure her little sister never has to risk growing up Third Class. By midnight, Viv has started a civil war.
With her parents arrested and her sister missing, all the safety Viv has worked for is collapsing around her.