Pam Norfolk

Left alone to run a popular pub in the Yorkshire Dales countryside when her husband signs up to fight in May of 1941, Flora Whitaker finds herself caught up in an old secret which still has the power to cause ripples in the close-knit village of Giggleswick.

Follow a bunch of ragtag pets who must find their way in a dystopian land where humans have disappeared, return to the thrilling fantasy world of Rapunzel and Eugene in a teen sequel to Disney’s much-loved movie Tangled, and discover a spellbinding guide book to some of nature’s magical plants in a sizzling summer selection of children’s books.

Escape to a thrilling 19th century London where the boundary between sleep and the waking world starts to dissolve, meet an ambitious racer who dreams of becoming the first female F1 champion, step into a palace of facts where the world’s most mind-bending facts are on display, and join two girls fighting to find their way out of a web of lies of their own making in an enthralling selection of summer children’s books.

For decades, single mother Unnur has been hiding from all memories of the disappearance of her long-ago friend Freyja at the notoriously remote and forbidding Dark Valley on the coast of Iceland.

Finders keepers says the old adage but what if you found a backpack with £1.6million in used notes stashed inside it… would you do the right thing and hand it in to the police, or give in to temptation and keep it?

Here is our latest round-up of books for children aged between three and 12 years-old

You only have to look at England’s prolonged and bitter War of the Roses to learn that the fall-out can be not just vicious, but deadly, when family feuds become more than just domestic battles.

A young nurse must face bombs, bullets and the ruins of an island in the dark days of war as she works to not just save the lives of wounded Maltese residents, but to dig out the mysterious beginnings of her own young life.

Immerse yourself in a bright and beautiful new collection of Aesop’s legendary fables, return to the thrilling world of Pixie Hollow where a dangerous magic is at play, meet a teenager whose angst is served with a stony Gorgon side-eye, and travel to an ordinary town where strangeness is a way of life in an eclectic mix of new children’s books.

If any hint of cannibalism is OFF your reading menu, then the thought of devouring this deliciously dark and twisted tongue-in-cheek comedy thriller – set in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro’s famous holiday mecca – might well not tickle your taste buds.