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Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge

The first things to shift were the doll's eyes, the beautiful grey green glass eyes. Slowly they swivelled, until their gaze was resting on Triss's face. Then the tiny mouth moved, opened to speak. 'What are you doing here?' It was uttered in tones of outrage and surprise, and in a voice as cold and musical as the clinking of cups. 'Who do you think you are? This is my family.' After Triss is rescued from a pond near her home – and from certain death – she remains unwell and her memory is hazy. Strange things begin to happen - her dolls come alive, she finds dead leaves in her hair and her tears come out as spiderwebs! Things are getting seriously creepy… Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge is a fantastically eerie and beautifully written novel which was short-listed for the prestigious Carnegie Medal.

House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland

The Hollow sisters - Vivi, Grey and Iris - are as seductively glamorous as they are mysterious. They have black eyes and hair as white as milk. They share the same birthday, spaced exactly two years apart. The Hollow sisters don't have friends - they don't need them. They move through the corridors like sharks, the other little fish parting around them, whispering behind their backs. Shortlisted for the YA book prize 2022. A thrilling, twisting, novel that is as seductive and glamorous as the Hollow sisters themselves. Ms Eldred says: “I could never have predicted the twists and turns in this story, I don’t think I’ve come across another quite like it.”

Pet Sematary by Stephen King

The house looked right and felt right to Dr Louis Creed. A sad place maybe, but safe. Surely a safe place. Not a place to seep into your dreams, to wake you, sweating with fear and foreboding… Mr Gormley says: “Stephen King once said that this is the only novel he wrote that really scared him. Believe him!”