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Fiction: Cosima Unfortunate Steals A Star

Potton author celebrates after signing two book deal with publisher for novels with an inspiring heroine

Carlisle author sees her debut children s book snapped up by publishing giant

Carlisle author Laura Noakes s debut Cosima Unfortunate Steals a Star

Children s books roundup – the best new picture books and novels | Children and teenagers

really make it as a secret agent? This swift-paced, lively debut balances down-to-earth believability with wish-fulfilment fun. Geraldine McCaughrean’s The Supreme Lie (Usborne) is a more complex and stretching book, with the odd upsetting element, so it’s best suited to tougher readers of 10-plus. It follows Gloria, a teenage maid who finds herself impersonating a vanished head of state in Afalia, a country overwhelmed by floods. When Gloria’s desperate efforts to help the suffering population come up against the machinations of Afalian propagandists (elegantly evoked by Keith Robinson’s newspaper-style illustrations), discovery looms perilously close in this thought-provoking, poignant, blackly funny novel.

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