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=='''3 OCTOBER9 MAY'''== {{Frontpage|isbn=190874572X|title=Letters from Tove|author=Tove Jansson (Author), Boel Westin (Editor), Helen Svensson (Editor), Sarah Death (Translator)|rating=5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Back at the beginning of the century I went on holiday to Nepal. I met a wonderful Finnish woman and we became sort of friends. I can't remember if it was on that holiday or a later one that Paula told me I really had to read Tove Jansson. I do know that it was four years later that I finally acquired an English translation of The Summer Book, and that I eagerly awaited the ''Sort Of'' translations of the rest of Jansson's work and devoured them as soon as I could get my hands on them.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1784742783|title=The Benefit of Hindsight (Simon Serrailler)|author=Susan Hill|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=A superficial look would suggest to you that Simon Serrailer has been lucky and - all things considered - his life is as good as it could be. He's back at work after a long break to recuperate from the violent incident which cost him his arm and almost his life. When he's not at work he's spending his time in the cathedral roof drawing the medieval angels which are being restored. There's talk of an exhibition of his drawings. Lafferton seems to be quite settled as far as crime is concerned until one night when two local men open their front door to a couple seeking shelter. It's the usual story of a broken-down car, and a phone which won't make a call. The man are generous and welcoming and have no suspicions that the couple are simply there to plan a robbery. It's a serious error of judgement in the course of this investigation which will throw Simon Serrailler's future into doubt.}} {{Frontpage|isbn=140638853X|title=Somebody Give This Heart a Pen|author=Sophia Thakur|rating=5|genre=Anthologies|summary=Sophia Thakur's debut anthology is a collection of poems that are all unique, whether in relation to their style, length or theme. The collection is split into four sections, titled 'grow','wait','break'and 'grow again', guiding you through a process which is one of the foundations that the anthology is built on. Each section begins with a foregrounded title page containing various small pieces of writing, ranging from a quote by a Nigerian playwright, to African proverbs. This provides a nice introduction to the section before you are immersed into the beautifully written and eloquent poems that Thakur has clearly put her heart and soul into.}}
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|isbnauthor=1910989460Tom Percival|title=Flember: The Secret Book|author=Jamie SmartWrong Shoes
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|summary=A mysterious islandWill's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. A strange He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and mystical power called Flemberhis dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. A boy-inventor called Dev Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, who uncovers a long forgotten secretand Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a gianttiny amount of hope. He is good at art, red robot bear?! The sleepy village and clings to the moments of Eden joy when he is about to descend into hilarious chaos - can disastrous Dev save his brand new best friend? Find out in this fully illustrated mad-cap adventuredrawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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=='''23 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=0241355222Onyi Nwabineli|title=Frostheart|author=Jamie LittlerAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Way out in Anuri spent her childhood on display to the furthest part of the known world, a tiny stronghold exists all thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on its ownsocial media, cut off from the rest where she posted every step of human-kin by monsters that lurk beneath the Snow Sea. ThereAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, a little boy called Ash waits for the return of his parentsbasically, singing a forbidden lullaby monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to remind him of them... regain her confidence and doing his best to avoid his veryget her life back, VERY grumpy yeti guardian, Tobusuing her step-mother to take down the content about her. But life Anuri is about battling alcoholism, failing to get a whole lot more crazy-adventurous start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for Ashdoing so. When a brave rescue attempt reveals he has amazing magical powers Most importantly, heshe is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's whisked aboard online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the Frostheart, a sleigh packed full of daring explorers who could use his help. But can they help him find his familysame time?|isbn=0861546873
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=1913101037Stuart Douglas|title=The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone|author=Jaclyn MoriartyLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Bronte doesnDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 't miss her parents, Floggit and sheLeggit's not particularly sad when she learns , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of their terrible fate at a woman on the hands edge of piratesa reservoir. And why should she be? After all The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, they just dumped her on Aunt Isabelle (without even asking if it would be and he enlists the help of a convenient arrangement for either party) when she was a babyfellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They swanned travel across the country during their days off to have adventuresfilming, uncovering more possible murders and never once came back , seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to check if uncover who is responsible before more people lose their only child was healthy and happy.lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''9 OCTOBER6 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=1406389331Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=In the Key of Code|author=Aimee LucidoDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
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|summary=Emmy Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is moving with her parents halfway across America, to follow her father's dreams an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a big break in his music career. She leaves behind her friends team of warrior, mage and her school in Wisconsinhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and moves race to Californiathe exit, knowing only what she has heard in songs. Her struggle to settle into her new life, make friends perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and feel happy and confident again, is agonisingly told in a the points they grant you along the way we can all relate to. There are many new opportunities and setbacks Unfortunately for Kit, taking the reader only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a rollercoaster new trio of emotionsquestors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, but it isn't until Emmy joins a coding class using computer language that she begins to feel she might have a chance he has taken to feel like she truly belongs.}} =='''17 OCTOBER'''=={{Frontpage|author= Karina Sainz Borgo and Elizabeth Bryer (translator)|title= It Would Be Night in Caracas|rating= 4|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= ''It Would Be Night in Caracas'' illuminates the everyday horrors of modern day Venezuela. It begins with goading from the death token bully of Adelaida Falcon's mother his world and chronicles Adelaidastumbled into declaring he's coming to terms with her new solitude in ll enter as a team. What chance does this world and her attempts to escape it. Danger stalks the shadows andfriendless, muscle-free-zone have in a society where the establishment is crumblingactually managing that, who can you turn and how could he possibly hope tosucceed? |isbn=00629368671839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|isbn=03494230671635866847|title=The Body on the Train (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)Lavender Companion|author=Frances BrodyJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=Crime (Historical)Lifestyle|summary=From Christmas to Easter a train ran from Leeds City Station to King’s CrossIt's strange, arriving before dawn so the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the forced rhubarb it carried could be taken to Covent Gardenbook for you. In early March 1929 one of Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the porters who was unloading the boxes discovered the body author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a man, stripped naked slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and with no means of identificationdesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. Scotland Yard hit (There's a dead end and called on recipe in the services of Kate Shackleton in book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the hope that her knowledge book and connections I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in Yorkshire would give them the lead they neededmargins are sanctioned. Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her as a child and could not come You get to terms with fold down the fact corners of pages. You suspect that she was now smears of butter would not be a woman experienced in dealing with murderproblem. He was reluctant to give her all the information which the police heldI ''loved'' this book already.
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===[[Once, I was Loved by Belinda Landsberry]]===
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Tock, the toy rabbit, is in a box of toys going to the charity shop. He realises that he's not wanted any more, but muses that it wasn't always this way. ''Once'', he says, ''I was loved''. And he tells us of all the children who have loved him over the years. [[Once, I was Loved by Belinda Landsberry|Full Review]]
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=='''29 OCTOBER'''==
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===[[Black Canary: Ignite by Meg Cabot and Cara McGee]]===
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Meet Dinah Lance. Frustrated that her policeman father will not allow her to try and follow in his footsteps, and seemingly lumbered with being a cheerleader at school, she is desperate to find her voice. But it's actually more a case of her voice finding her, as when she gets frustrated or plain dissed at school her vocal outcry can shatter glass better than any opera singer. You could almost call it a weapon, or a power. But in order for her to call herself a superhero, there has to be a whole path of steps for her to take – one of which will be into her past… [[Black Canary: Ignite by Meg Cabot and Cara McGee|Full Review]]
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===[[The Impossible Boy by Ben Brooks]]===
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''Oleg and Emma entered their den to find a cardboard spaceship standing where they usually sat. Slowly, the front door opened. Smoke billowed out. And out stepped a boy, dressed in a long coat with an even longer scarf, wound around his neck.''
''"My name's Sebastian Cole," the boy said, "But you already know that."''
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In the twenty-third century, humanity is enjoying a comparative utopia. Yet life on Earth is about to change, forever. Feriton Kane's investigative team has discovered the worst threat ever to face mankind – and we've almost no time to fight back. The supposedly benign Olyix plan to harvest humanity, in order to carry us to their god at the end of the universe. And as their agents conclude schemes down on earth, vast warships converge above to gather this cargo. Some factions push for humanity to flee, to live in hiding amongst the stars – although only a chosen few would make it out in time. But others refuse to break before the storm. As disaster looms, animosities must be set aside to focus on just one goal: wiping this enemy from the face of creation. Even if it means preparing for a future this generation will never see. [[Salvation Lost by Peter F Hamilton|Full Review]]
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===[[Photographer of the Lost by Caroline Scott]]===
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May 1921. Edie receives a photograph through the post. There is no letter or note with it. There is nothing written on the back of the photograph. It is a picture of her husband, Francis. Francis has been missing for four years. Technically, he has been "missing, believed killed" but that is not something that a young widow can believe. She hangs on the word 'missing', disbelieving the word killed. [[Photographer of the Lost by Caroline Scott|Full Review]]
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=='''3 NOVEMBER'''==
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===[[Fowl Twins by Eoin Colfer]]===
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Relax, everyone – our old friend Artemis may be off planet, but the baddies aren't getting away with skulduggery any time soon because they now have not one but two members of the Fowl family to contend with. Those cute little twins are now eleven (and, frankly, cute no longer) and in this, their first independent adventure, they meet a troll and without even trying manage to make two deadly enemies: a nobleman obsessed with immortality whatever the cost (to other people), and an unusual interrogator-nun. The boys are chased, kidnapped, arrested and even killed (though not for long), all with the help of one trainee fairy. [[Fowl Twins by Eoin Colfer|Full Review]]
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=='''7 NOVEMBER'''==
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===[[Long-Haired Cat-Boy Cub by Etgar Keret, Aviel Basil and Sondra Silverston (translator)]]===
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One day a boy is in the zoo with his father, when the man gets called away on urgent business. The boy isn't hustled into a cab and taken home first, though, no – he's given hot dog money, and taxi money, and told to just stick around on his own and enjoy himself. Well, it's no surprise that the orphan-for-an-afternoon sensation the lad feels doesn't make him happy, and so he thinks of a species name for himself, and curls himself up into an empty cage, as if he were a new exhibit. And it's then the drama begins… [[Long-Haired Cat-Boy Cub by Etgar Keret, Aviel Basil and Sondra Silverston (translator)|Full Review]]
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=='''12 NOVEMBER'''==
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===[[The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire North]]===
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When William Abbey fails to prevent the lynching of a young boy in 1880's South Africa, he finds himself cursed by the grieving mother. A naïve English Doctor, he slowly learns the weight of the curse upon him, as the shadow of the dead boy begins to follow him across the world. Never stopping, always growing – it crosses oceans and mountains in pursuit of William. As he finds himself unable to resist speaking the truths that he hears in others, he also learns that the dark shadow is deadly – and seeks to kill the one he loves the most… [[The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire North|Full Review]]
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===[[Invisible in a Bright Light by Sally Gardner]]===
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The beginning of this excellent story will leave the reader more than a little confused: who is the man in the green suit, what is the Reckoning, and why are rows of people in a cave? But stick with it – Ms Gardner is very cleverly letting us experience the same disorientation as our heroine. We watch in dismay as the strange man, who seems to have no eyes, does his best to persuade her to answer his questions. But for some reason Celeste, despite her bewilderment, remains wary and gives nothing away. [[Invisible in a Bright Light by Sally Gardner|Full Review]]
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===[[Violet by S J I Holliday]]===
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I've never been but understand that travelling is all about meeting new people and forming instantaneous bonds with people in often chance situations. Well that's exactly what happens when the two main/only characters meet in a travel agency in Beijing - Carrie is unsuccessfully trying to get a refund on an extra ticket for the Trans-Siberian train and Violet is trying to unsuccessfully buy a ticket for the same sold-out journey. As the two team up, travelling through Mongolia, Serbia and into Russia, it could've been the start of a beautiful friendship but this a thriller after all so it quickly becomes a tale of obsession, manipulation and toxic friendships. [[Violet by S J I Holliday|Full Review]]
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===[[Nothing Important Happened Today by Will Carver]]===
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Nothing Important Happened Today is a dark, twisted, difficult read. Stories about cults often are, but this is different; it's written with a sense of style that is quite unlike anything I've read before. I can't remember ever having read a novel with such an odd, distinctive narrative voice. While a slim and relatively small book, the slow-moving nature of the plot makes it feel far larger than its 276 pages. [[Nothing Important Happened Today by Will Carver|Full Review]]
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=='''21 NOVEMBER'''==
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===[[The Rabbits' Rebellion by Ariel Dorfman and Chris Riddell]]===
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We're in the realm of the rabbits, only the foxes and wolves have taken over. King Wolf, His Wolfiness, has declared the rabbits don't exist, but the pesky birds have spread rumours from awing that the bunnies are in fact still around. Demanding a propaganda spree, King Wolf orders a humble monkey to be his official portrait photographer, but whatever the poor innocent monkey prints out in his darkroom there is a distinct leporine hint. Can King Wolf succeed in proving himself victorious, can the rabbits show their continued existence to all who need to know of it – and what can the poor monkey caught in between do? [[The Rabbits' Rebellion by Ariel Dorfman and Chris Riddell|Full Review]]
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=='''4 JULY'''==
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|author=Innosanto NagaraMax Boucherat|title=M is for MovementThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary=Set We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in Indonesia, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the not too distant pastworld-building, this critter-collecting game that is a story about social changehit in Lori's world. Dealing with some difficult issuesBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, such as political corruption and nepotism, then she finds something even more spooky. For the book is neither boring nor preachyserver she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. It educates gently, with vibrant, challenging illustrationsWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and it portrays how social movements need people who will tryher safe place in the game has been doctored – well, even when it seems that they will fail. The message where is a positive one; that in an increasingly uncertain world, we do still have the power girl to instigate change.turn?|isbn=16098093510008666482
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=='''9 JANUARY 2020'''==
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Ava lives a charmed life, but those things sometimes rub other people up the wrong way. One evening she returns from a night out with a friend, and before she can finish her bedtime routine, her home, and her life, are under attack: masked men have broken in and are demanding money from her husband, while her young daughter cowers beside him. In the scuffle than ensues, Ava is hurt, badly. When she wakes up in hospital she can barely remember what happened, but she knows it was life-changing. With her daughter still fighting for her life in a room down the corridor, Ava has a lot to contend with as she tries to recover, wills her daughter to recover, and attempts to piece together what happened and why. [[In Her Eyes by Sarah Alderson|Full Review]]
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