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Hmm...given that I haven't managed to get hold of Eragon yet and I haven't started reading Inkheart yet either I think I shall choose....
Endymion Spring by Mathew Skelton for July.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASI ... 53-2019951
Synopsis:
"In the dead of night, a cloaked figure drags a heavy box through snow-covered streets. The chest, covered in images of mythical beasts, can only be opened when the fangs of its serpent's-head clasp taste blood.
Centuries later, in an Oxford library, a boy touches a strange book and feels something pierce his finger. The volume is blank, wordless, but its paper has fine veins running through it and seems to quiver, as if it's alive. Words begin to appear on the page - words no one but the boy can see."
And don;t forget...the book cover is a shiny dragon!!!