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Books of the Decade

The Wishing Shelf Book Award has now been running for TEN YEARS. To celebrate this, we have announced SIX Best Books of the Decade from our PAST Gold, Silver and Bronze Medal Winners. You will find the books listed below. The readers in our Reading Groups think they are WONDERFUL!

Best Book from the Last Ten Years

Category 1

The Snark, Justin Davis, ill. by Stephanie Jayne

Category 2


Baby Worries, Frances Mackay, ill by Dotti Colvin

Category 3


Shadow Jumper, J M Forster

Category 4


Ben Archer and the Cosmic Fall, Rae Knightly

Category 5


The Poison Keeper, Deborah Swift

Category 6


Henry: A Polish Swimmer's True Story of Friendship from Auschwitz to America, Katrina Shawver

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Angry Arthur
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BEAUTIFUL AND TERRIBLE THINGS
A NOVEL. Award-winning story
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ANGEL OF ASHES
Award-winning epic YA
fantasy adventure series!
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THEY'RE ALL BARKING
Springer Spaniel's eye-opening
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CALM POND
TOP 10 BOOK - 9 short stories
for 5 - 9 year olds
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The One-Year Novelist
Takes You Step-By-Step From
Idea To Finished Draft
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Lines in the Sand
Edgy and isolating. A perfect
memoir of loss and endurance.
F. Scott Service


Truth Was Once Taboo
New humanity, ancient
wisdom: spirituality reborn.
Amazon