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 =='''4 AUGUST'''=={{Frontpage|author=Christina Hammonds Reed|title=The Black Kids|rating=4.5|genre=Teens |summary=Christina Hammonds Reed's debut novel is set against the backdrop of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, a reaction to the absolution of four police officers for beating a black man, Rodney King, nearly to death. Told from the perspective of Ashley Bennett, the novel follows her evolution from a silent bystander when confronted with matters of race, to a woman finding her voice and embracing her heritage.|isbn=1471188191}}=='''6 AUGUST9 MAY'''==

|isbnauthor=1838951067Tom Percival|title=The Nothing Man|author=Catherine Ryan HowardWrong Shoes

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=When we first meet Jim Doyle, heWill's about to get life is difficult, in a shockmultitude of ways. Heis bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes's security at a supermarket and , hehas the wrong shoes because his dad can's watching a woman who is acting suspiciously. She has a book tucked under her arm t work and he wonders if shedoesn's planning to pay t have enough money for it. Suddenly it drops to even the floor with the spine splayed upwards. most basic of things like food, and his dad can''Nothing Man'' by Eve Black, is t work because he lost his job at the title. Why is Jim shocked? Wellcollege, Jim was working a cash- ''is'' in- hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the Nothing Man whofact that his mum and dad are separated, until eighteen years ago raped and killedWill's life seems bleak in every direction. The author And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the book was twelve years old moments of joy when Jim raped her motherhe is drawing, and then killed herthat feel like a light at the end of a long, her father and her seven-year-old sister, Annadark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

|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.}}{{Frontpage|author=Non PrattOnyi Nwabineli|title=Every Little Piece of My Heart|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 Allow Me 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}}{{Frontpage|author= Laura Lam and Elizabeth May|title= Seven Devils|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Eris is one of the foremost operatives of the Novantae, a resistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she was destined to inherit in her past life as Princess Discordia, whom everyone believed has been dead for years. Clo, an ace pilot for the Novantae, has a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the war effort. Although she's less than pleased to discover that her former friend Eris is her partner on this mission. Things get more interesting as the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with a secret that could potentially cripple the Empire. Eris's brother Damocles, the runner-up heir to the Empire, is plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and the last of the free alien species. It's a race against time as the rebels move to put a stop Damocles' plans, with millions of lives hanging in the balance…|isbn=1473231140}}=='''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 missing. He was chasing a rabbit, through the garden, and into the maize field behind. He has not been seen since. In the present day, Veronica Lindh is a grief counsellor running group therapy sessions for the bereaved – although she clearly has problems of her own: anxiety, panic attacks, a scar on her arm that she keeps obsessively hidden and she 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 to.|isbn=1785768239}}=='''20 AUGUST'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1542017432|title=The Nidderdale Murders|author=J R Ellis|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=It was a Friday in mid-September when the shoot was held on the grouse moor near Niddersgill. The shooters at the butts were a strange mixture: Alexander Fraser (Sandy to his friends) was the owner of the moor and a retired judge. James Symonds was a local landowner and Henry Saunders was a banker. He and Fraser had known each other since their school days. The fourth member was Gideon Rawnsley, who dealt in exclusive cars in nearby Ripon. Rawnsley had a gripe with Fraser: he'd sold him an expensive car and Fraser was being slow to pay. Other people had reason to comment on Fraser's attitude to money: his gamekeeper, Ian Davis thought he was stingy and very difficult to work for.}}{{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.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jacqueline Wilson|title=Love FrankieIntroduce Myself

|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= Frankie is nearly fourteen. Being nearly fourteen is not easy when your mum has been diagnosed with MS when your dad has decided Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to leave her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for another womansponsorships and influencer deals and, when your older sister has turned into the girliest girl who ever livedbasically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence andto get her life back, above all when Sally and suing her step-mother to take down the content about her mates are bullying you at school. Oh Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and when Samreceiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, your best friend since forevershe is desperately worried about her little sister, suddenly starts sending out signs that he might fancy you - and you donwho is the new focus of Ophelia't fancy him backs online empire. Poor Frankie! Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn= 0857535897 0861546873

|author= Adrian TchaikovskyStuart Douglas|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, Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at times it almost felt too big for my brain.|isbn=1509865888}} =='''27 AUGUST'''== {{Frontpage|author= Samira Ahmed|title= Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Knowthe Dress Rehearsal|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}} =='''3 SEPTEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1509889515|title=The Darkest Evening (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5

|summary=It was During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a mercy that DI Vera Stanhope took woman on the wrong turning as she drove home in the blizzardedge of a reservoir. If she hadn't The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the car might not have been found until the morning whole thing bothers Lowe, and who knows what would have happened to he enlists the toddler strapped into the car seathelp of a fellow actor, particularly as the car door had been left openJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Vera took They travel across the boy country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and drove , seemingly, a link to death during the nearest habitationSecond World War. She ''thought'' it would be the village but it was Brockburn, the ancestral home of the Stanhopes: her father had been the younger brother of the man who inherited - and Hector was the black sheep of But is there really a link between the family. deaths? Calling there unannounced, particularly as And will they seemed manage to have guests was going to be embarrassing, but there was little else that she could do in the circumstances.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

|isbn=0008314721|title=Truth Be Told|author=Kia Abdullah|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=The Hadids are an ''effortful'' family. Flowers are sent for the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent to thank and this prompts a phone call in return. There are two sons of the family, seventeen-year-old Kamran and sixteen-year-old Adam. Their mother, Sofia, regrets that she didn't name them the other way round: 'Adam and Kamran' trips off the tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adam'. Sofia worries about that sort of thing. Both boys go to the prestigious Hampton school, where they board, despite the school being less than ten miles from their Belsize Park home. Kamran has a place at Oxford next year and all seemed to be going well until the night when he was raped.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1471179273|title=House of Correction|author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=When we first meet Tabitha Hardy, she's in prison, on remand. She's sharing a cell with Michaela, who's more caring than she first appears. She delivers tough love and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - Kieran Larwood and encourages her to have a shower, unpleasant as the whole processes might be. And how did Tabitha get here? Well, on 21 December the body of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered in her garden shed by Andrew Kane, who was helping with the renovations to Tabitha's house. So far as the police are concerned, Tabitha is the only person who could have killed Rees Joe Todd- and when they arrived at her house she was covered in his blood.}}{{Frontpage|author=Natasha FarrantStanton|title=Voyage of the SparrowhawkDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=54

|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

 =='''10 SEPTEMBER13 JUNE'''== 

|authorisbn= Andrea Stewart1635866847|title= The Bone Shard Daughter (The Drowning Empire)Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|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 the throne, a smuggler, and a warrior will fight to find their place in the world. Lin this is the emperor'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 of reviving a dying empire and in secret, she begins to unlock one door after another, searching book for the mysteries of her past and the forbidden art of bone shard magicyou. Yet Lin is playing a deadly game and her quest for power will come at great cost. With revolution in the air and creeping closer and closer to the gates of the palace, Lin must decide just how far she will to go to become a catalyst of change and save her people.|isbn=0356514943}}== Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'14 SEPTEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|, I visited the author= Tahi Saihate|title= Astral Season, Beastly Season|rating= 3.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= We long for our past even though it is a place to which we can never return. Tahi Saihate, in her debut novel ''Astral Season, Beastly Season'' illustrates how these rose-tinted glasses often lies [https://www. Her novel is a meditation on youth and how the things we do as a teenager can seem intensely important and often life-alteringpinelavenderfarm.|isbn= 1916277101}}=='''17 SEPTEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=Agnes Ravatn com/ website] and Rosie Hedger (translator)|title=The Seven Doors|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Come here for a thriller that interestingly doesnthere't even try to suggest s a genre picture of any kind until we're a full fifth slice of chocolate cake on the way throughhomepage. We start with our couple, she a literature lecturer, he big in medical provision I don't eat cakes and decisions at the council, being forced to move out of their home, a building desserts - but I wanted that had existed throughout her life since childhood and which they'd occupied for over thirty yearscake viscerally. The building he(There's inherited, meanwhilea recipe in the book, and which they let out to a single mother, is needed by their adult daughter, who quite blatantly says to its occupant 'take a hike, I'm moving in avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and you're moving out'I was told to make a mess of it. Now, at this stage you may well, if you know this is a genre read, think it's going to be a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us Notes in the 1980s, but nomargins are sanctioned. We avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedy, in case that has any bearing on what happens here, and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their livesYou get to fold down the corners of pages. Until at You suspect that twenty per cent stage we find something that raises an eyebrow as any crime book should – until the point where the evicted tenant is found to have completely vanishedsmears of butter would not be a problem.|isbn=1913193381}}== I ''loved'22 SEPTEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=Arvin Ahmadi|title=How It All Blew Up|rating=4|genre=Teens| summary=18-year-old Amir is American Iranian, a Muslim, and gay. He struggles with his identity, unable to face telling his parents who he really is, so when another student at his school starts blackmailing him, threatening to show his parents photographs of Amir kissing his boyfriend Amir panics and runs away...to Italy! So begins a journey for Amir, and his family, where they all discover more about him, and who he really is, and who he really wants to bethis book already.|isbn=1471409929

|author=Tania UnsworthMax Boucherat|title=The Time Traveller and the TigerLast Life of Lori Mills

|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 of Ursula's meeting with the woman have been wiped…|isbn=1913193403}}=='''15 OCTOBER'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0356512479|author= Alix E Harrow|title= The Once and Future Witches|rating= 5|genre= Fantasy|summary=''There's no such thing as witches, but there used to else should be.'' In 1893, after the purges and the burnings, witching has been reduced able to little more than weak charms and simple spellsenter shows signs of tampering. If women want to hold power in their hands, to have their voices heard, it is now through women's suffrage.}}=='''29 OCTOBER'''== {{Frontpage|author=Caroline Scott|title= When I Come Home Again|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=1918 and a young man is arrested in Durham Cathedral. He refuses to give a name, no matter how hard they push he will not say who he is. Eventually, they determine this isn't willful obstinance, he doesn't answer because he doesn't know. He remembers being malevolent eyes spark up on the road for a long time and being frightenedher phone screen, and some of her safe place in the faces from the road, but other than that game has been doctored – everything that came before has gone. They need a name for the forms and so they call him Adam and, because he was found in the Galilee Chapel, it becomes Adam Galilee. A fanciful name for a tired young man in a dishevelled uniform who doesn't know who he iswell, where he is or how he got there.a girl to turn?|isbn=14711921720008666482