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 =='''9 JULYMAY'''== 
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|author=Kat EllisTom Percival|title=Harrow LakeThe Wrong Shoes|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=When we first meet 17-year-old LolaWill's life is difficult, daughter to legendary horror movie director Nolan Nox, she is saying goodbye to New York City - by sneaking out and stealing from its residentsin a multitude of ways. But when she He is found by her fatherbullied because he has 's assistant the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and forced to come home, she arrives to find an unlocked door, a trail doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of bloodthings like food, and her father dying in his study. And so, while dad can't work because he recoverslost his job at the college, she is sent off to live with her grandmother was working a cash-in Harrow Lake, the small 1920s town in Indiana -hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that served as mix the location for the film fact that made her parents famous. But something about this place isn't right. There's a darkness inside the people here. Secrets about her mother his mum and dad are separated, and dark tales of the townWill's cannibal monster 'Mister Jitters' fill life seems bleak in every cornerdirection. And yet, and disturbing happenings plague Lolahe still has a tiny amount of hope. But with every passing hour He is good at art, secrets long buried come painfully to light and she begins clings to think the moments of joy when he is drawing, that these stories may not be stories feel like a light at allthe end of a long, and something very real and sinister lurks in Harrow Lakedark tunnel.|isbn=02413970491398527122
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 =='''13 JULY23 MAY'''== 
{{Frontpage
|author=Sakinu AhronglongOnyi Nwabineli|title=Hunter SchoolAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=AutobiographyGeneral Fiction|summary= The flyleaf Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to this little collection tells us that it is a work her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of fiction. ThatAnuri's possibly misleadingchildhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. I am not sure whether it Now Anuri is "fiction" in the sense that Ahronglong made it all up, or whether it her twenties and she is as the blurb goes on slowly trying to regain her confidence and to say ''recollectionsget her life back, folklore and autobiographical stories''. It feels like suing her step-mother to take down the lattercontent about her. It feels like the stories he tells about his experiences as a child Anuri is battling alcoholism, as an adolescentfailing to start her PhD, as an adult are real undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and truereceiving money from them for doing so. But memory Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is a fickle thingthe new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and maybe poetic licence has taken over here perhaps herself and there and maybe calling it fiction means that its safer and therefore more people will read it. More people should.her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=19997912820861546873
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 =='''16 JULY4 JUNE'''==
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|isbn=1787301435|title=Dark Waters|author=G R Halliday|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Twenty-two-year-old Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when she opted to drive down the private road in Glen Turrit. It was a long road through some breath-taking scenery and she could push the car to its limits without fear of being caught speeding. When the blond child stepped out in front of her she instinctively jerked the steering wheel and hit a tree. When she came round after the accident she couldn't work out where she was, but it obviously wasn't a conventional hospital. She'd made her first mistake some time ago, although the realisation wouldn't be obvious to her for a long time. She'd made it when she chose to have her father buy her a pale blue BMW M4.}}=='''23 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=B07WWSCGVSStuart Douglas|title=The Lies You Told|author=Harriet Tyce|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isn't happy about having to start a new school. She's left the school she loved in New York and now she's going to Ashams in North London. It's very upmarket; places are rare as hens' teeth and as the pupils have all been there ''forever'', they have their established groups. Robin's going to be an outsider. And why is this happening? Well, over a matter of a few days her parents' marriage fell apart. Andrew Spence is staying in New York - he works for a securities firm - Lowe and her mother, Sadie Roper, has come back to London to pick up her practice as a criminal barrister. That's easier said than done when you've been out of the market place - and the country Le Breton Mysteries - for more than ten years.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1473682401|title=The Turning Tide (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Those who were with us at the end of [[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Catriona McPherson|A Step So Grave]] will remember that Donald was engaged to Mallory Dunnoch. They're now married and Mallory is having twins. When they arrive no one can doubt the charms of Lavinia Dahlia Cherry and her brother, Edward Hugh Lachlan Gilver. There are two drawbacks: they're noisy and they're staying with Dandy and Hugh. Dandy and her detective partner, Alec Osborne, had not taken up the chance to look into a problem Death at the Cramond ferry when it was offered to them twice before, but suddenly the possibility of being out of the house at Gilverton seems irresistible.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1785765698|title=Shed No Tears|author=Caz FrearDress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In November 2012 Christopher Masters, the man who would become known as During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'the roommate killerFloggit and Leggit', strangled three women in a fortnight. When he was arrested he admitted leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the killings. A fourth death was attributed to him - that dead body of Holly Kemp - and a woman on occasions, Masters admitted to the killing, then he denied it - then admitted it, then denied itedge of a reservoir. He played with the The policeseem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but there was sufficient evidence on something about the first three killings to put him away for a long time whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the CPS were not convinced about the Holly Kemp case. There was no body and once Masters was murdered in prison, no hope help of progressing the case further.}}{{Frontpage|author=James Patterson|title=Hawk: A Maximum Ride Novel|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Hawk has been waiting on the same street cornera fellow actor, every day, for years. She is waiting for her parents John Le Breton to come and get herhelp him investigate matters further. They left her there when she was just tinytravel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and although she's almost certain that they are never coming back for her, she continues to head back there each day, just in case. Hawk isn't your ordinary street urchin though...she has wingsseemingly, and can fly! Since she was abandoned she's been living with a group of other children, all with interesting characteristics of their own and together they've made their own familylink to death during the Second World War. But now the city is seemingly even more troubled than usual, there's really a mysterious child-killer who has been brought to link between the prison next door to where the children live, and then one day Hawk comes home to find her family have been taken away. deaths? Where have And will they been taken, and can Hawk rescue them before it's too late?|isbn=1529120004}} =='''6 AUGUST'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1838951067|title=The Nothing Man|author=Catherine Ryan Howard|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=When we first meet Jim Doyle, he's about manage to get a shock. He's security at a supermarket and he's watching a woman uncover who is acting suspiciously. She has a book tucked under her arm and he wonders if she's planning to pay for it. Suddenly it drops to the floor with the spine splayed upwards. ''Nothing Man'' by Eve Black, is the title. Why is Jim shockedresponsible before more people lose their lives? Well, Jim was - ''is'' - the Nothing Man who, until eighteen years ago raped and killed. The author of the book was twelve years old when Jim raped her mother, and then killed her, her father and her seven-year-old sister, Anna.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178089922X|title=Invisible Girl|author=Lisa Jewell|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=''When you wear a hood, you're invisible.'' Saffyre Maddox is seventeen-years-old and beautiful. By her own admission, she's a bit of a boffin, doing and enjoying maths, physics and biology at A level. Life hasn't been easy for her: most people who have been close to her have died and she's now living with her Uncle Aaron in an eighth-floor flat. Something ''really, really bad happened'' to her when she was ten and she self-harmed for a long time. Aaron organised psychological help and for three years Roan Fours was her therapist. He gently unpeeled the layers of her psyche, but somehow managed to miss that 'something really, really bad'. When the therapy ended Saffyre felt cast adrift, but she retained an interest in Roan.1803368209
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
{{Frontpage
|author=Non PrattKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Every Little Piece of My HeartDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary= Freya was a beautiful, popular and complex girl, loved by many and seemingly stable in her existence as a queen bee 16-year-old student, complete with best friend and the promise of the end of GCSEs just months away. But one day, on January 1st, she just... left. No explanation. No warning. No goodbye. No one heard from her since. A once active social profile left deserted. So, when her best friend Sophie receives a mysterious parcel from her 5 months after, she expects it to contain answers of some kind, but is surprised to find the parcel contains another layer addressed to a complete stranger, and then another layer to another person and another, each containing an item unique to them and Freya, connecting 4 strangers through her mystery and the promise of 'treasure' at the end of it all. With each parcel, a new layer of the story and of Freya is unwrapped - and painful truths come to light that threaten to break bonds, both new and old. Can what's been broken be fixed? And why did Freya leave?
|isbn=1406366943
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=='''20 AUGUST'''==
{{Frontpage
|isbn=0241433568
|title=Eight Detectives
|author=Alex Pavesi
|rating=5
|genre=Crime (Historical)
|summary=It's 1930 and Megan and Henry are staying with Bunny at his house in Spain. It's unbearably hot and Bunny drank too much at lunch: he's going to have a rest and then he wants to talk to Megan and Henry about something serious. Only it never gets that far: when Bunny doesn't emerge after his siesta his guests find that he's been murdered. How can that have happened? There's no one else in the house, so one of them must be the killer.
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{{Frontpage
|author=Jacqueline Wilson
|title=Love Frankie
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary= Frankie is nearly fourteen. Being nearly fourteen is not easy when your mum has been diagnosed with MS when your dad has decided to leave her for another woman, when your older sister has turned into the girliest girl who ever lived, and, above all when Sally and her mates are bullying you at school. Oh, and when Sam, your best friend since forever, suddenly starts sending out signs that he might fancy you - and you don't fancy him back.
 
Poor Frankie!
|isbn= 0857535897
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{{Frontpage
|author= Adrian Tchaikovsky
|title= The Doors of Eden
|rating= 4.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary= Wow – this novel is gigantic, in every sense of the word. "Epic" is a word that's thrown around a lot these days, but if a book ever earned the name it's this one. It's a doorstopper full of big ideas, and at times it almost felt too big for my brain.
|isbn=1509865888
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=='''27 AUGUST'''==
 
{{Frontpage
|author= Samira Ahmed
|title= Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know
|rating= 3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=''In the end, we all become stories''
 
Spending the summer in Paris sounds like a dream for most people, especially art-lovers, but Khayyam can't relax and stop thinking about the mess she left behind in Chicago. On a chance encounter with a descendant of Alexandre Dumas, Khayyam finds herself on a historical journey with him to unveil the truth about the 19th century Muslim woman who may have crossed paths with Alendre Dumas, Eugene Delacroix and Lord Byron. As the two teenagers travel the city they not only discover themselves, but uncover the true story of the woman and why it was one that should never have been forgotten.
|isbn=0349003556
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=='''3 SEPTEMBER'''==
 
{{Frontpage
|author=Natasha Farrant
|title=Voyage of the Sparrowhawk
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Set Meet Kit. Like most of the people in England in the aftermath of World War Onehis world, it seems, this he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the story sport where a team of two childrenwarrior, Lotti mage and Benhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, who have lost everyone they lovemagical mazes, but don't want and race to let go of their lastthe exit, tiny glimpses of hopeperhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Ben is living on a narrowboat on the canalUnfortunately for Kit, lying to the police about his brotheronly thing he's imminent return from seen of the latest race on the battlefields to take care of him. Lottiinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, meanwhileeaten, has been expelled from school and is back at home; it's a beautiful house that belongs to her but that her terrible Aunt and Uncle currently have guardianship for. The day Lotti meets Ben (the day she steals a dog!) new trio of questors is the beginning of a deep, and powerful friendshipneeded. It sees them become each other's familyPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, and undertake a perilous trip he has taken to France, in the boat, to try to find out goading from the truth token bully of the people they both love.|isbn=0571348769}} ==his world and stumbled into declaring he'''8 SEPTEMBER'''== {{Frontpage|author=Sharon Doering|title=She Lies Close|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary= Ava Boone was five years old when she went missing, around 6 months agoll enter as a team. There has been no sign of her since What chance does this friendless, and no arrests muscle-free-zone have been made. And yet, this book is not about Ava. Not really. This book is about Grace, who has just discovered her neighbour in her new house is a suspect in Ava's disappearance. As a single mother to two young childrenactually managing that, she's really wishing this sort of information had come and how could he possibly hope to light before they moved in.succeed?|isbn=17890941941839945184
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 =='''10 SEPTEMBER13 JUNE'''== 
{{Frontpage
|authorisbn= Andrea Stewart1635866847|title= The Bone Shard Daughter (The Drowning Empire)Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre= FantasyLifestyle|summary=It's strange, the things that make you ''I could never be what he wanted if I did not take what I wantedimmediately'' In an empire controlled by a bone shard magic feel that powers animal-like constructs, an heir to this is the thronebook for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', a smuggler, and a warrior will fight to find their place in I visited the worldauthor's [https://wwwLin is the emperorpinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's forgotten daughter, kept locked away in a palace of secrets and closed doors. When her father refuses to recognise her as heir to the throne, she vows to show him she is capable picture of reviving a dying empire and in secret, she begins to unlock one door after another, searching for the mysteries slice of her past and chocolate cake on the forbidden art of bone shard magichomepageYet Lin is playing a deadly game I don't eat cakes and her quest for power will come at great costdesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. With revolution (There's a recipe in the air and creeping closer and closer to the gates of the palacebook, Lin must decide just how far she will to go to become a catalyst of change and save her people.|isbn=0356514943}} =='''22 SEPTEMBER'which I''== {{Frontpage|author=Antoine Laurain and Emily Boyce, Jane Aitken and Polly Mackintosh (translatorsm avoiding with some difficulty!!)|title=The Readers Room|genre=General Fiction|rating=3.5|summary=Violaine's publishing house has had a great success, Then I started reading the book and it I was through the slush pile told to make a mess of unsolicited manuscriptsit. The three people who work Notes in the Readers' Room margins are sanctioned. You get to sift through what is ninety nine per cent dross – plus fold down the fourth advisor in her rarefied mansion up the road – all agreed the book corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a huge smash, and so it has provenproblem. But there are several I ''loved'howevers' to that. As in, however – Violaine herself is not having life all her own way, for she has been involved in a near-fatal accident, and starts this book coming round from a coma. And, however – despite all urging, the author of the book has never once made themselves known to the publishers in person, and in fact offered up a most peculiar statement-come-threat in their last emailalready. What is going to befall Violaine, her memory, her staff – and how much is any of it due to the hit novel? And just where the heck did that come from?|isbn=1910477974
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=='''1 OCTOBER4 JULY'''== 
{{Frontpage
|author=Tania UnsworthMax Boucherat|title=The Time Traveller and the TigerLast Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Elsie is an ordinary sort of girl. The sort of small girl who often gets overlooked, and forgotten. She is quiet, and compliant, and makes We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the best of whatever happens house to her. So when her parents forget that her school holidays have started before they are free herself – no neighbour to take care of herpop in, they have to arrange for her to go and stay with her Great Uncle for a week. Poor Elsiebabysitter poorly, forgotten againmother at work, just decides to make the best of thingsan avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. On investigating the house she finds that her Great Uncle had lived What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in India as a boyblanket fort, and he has an enormous tiger rug on the floor of one of the rooms. When Elsie asks him about the rug he seems unhappy, and he says he she has to keep it because he was the one who shot the tiger when he was 12 years oldmain intention, and he says it was the worst thing he ever did. So when Elsie suddenly finds herself magically transported back many, many years, to the time in India when her Great Uncle was 12 years old, she believes that she must try is to stop him from killing the tiger, in order log on to put something right that happened a long time ago.|isbn=1788541707}}{{Frontpage|author=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)|title=Betrayal|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=Meet UrsulaVoxminer, the standworld-in ministerbuilding, drafted in from outside the leading party to cover the post for critter-collecting game that is a year. You might get to meet her hunky husband she can't believe she deserves, and the children who are ignorant of just how she spent all her empathy for them on previous jobs hit in the foreign aid charity sector. You'll meet her ministryLori's cleaner, who bizarrely has fallen into the task of helping a famous newsreader with her Tinder profileworld. You'll certainly meet a homeless tramp, who But first Lori has taken one look at a newspaper image of Ursulatiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and, knowing her of old, decided then she needs saving from the devil posing beside herfinds something even more spooky. You'll meet For the ministerial bodyguard server she and driver the tramp almost immediately forces Ursula to accept. But as for the first ministerial case, of a woman demanding her daughter's rape get looked at bestie and pronto, nobody can say, for all records else should be able to enter shows signs of Ursula's meeting with the woman have been wiped…|isbn=1913193403}} =='''19 AUGUST 2021'''== {{Frontpage|author=Anders de la Motte|title=End of Summer|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= In the summer of 1983, little Billy Nilsson goes missingtampering. He was chasing a rabbit, through the gardenWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and into her safe place in the maize field behind. He game has not been seen since. In the present day, Veronica Lindh is a grief counsellor running group therapy sessions for the bereaved doctored although she clearly has problems of her own: anxietywell, panic attacks, a scar on her arm that she keeps obsessively hidden and she where is barely hanging on to her job. It's clear that she has just returned to work after an episode that seems to have resulted in restraining orders against her, a deal of therapy, a change of location and her supervisor is watching closely. As well, he needs girl to.turn?|isbn=17857682390008666482
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