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Notes from the Shelves: What We’re Unpacking

New arrivals, a winter novel we cannot stop recommending and a picture book about a very determined builder.

Notes from the Shelves: What We’re Unpacking

Every month the boxes arrive, and every month we spend far too long opening them. Here are a few of the new arrivals that made the whole team stop and read the first page.

A winter novel in letters

Winter Notes from a Northern Town is told entirely in letters between two strangers snowed into the same small town. It is funny, wise and quietly devastating.

For the youngest readers

Mabel Builds a Boat is about trying, failing and trying again, and it has the best final spread of any picture book we have seen this year.

A demo article for the Foliowick theme. The books mentioned are fictional.


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