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 =='''19 AUGUST 20219 MAY'''== {{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=0008378363|title=One Perfect Morning|author=Pamela Crane|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=A husband is about to have his throat cut in his own bed. To find out who - and why - we need to go back nine days and twenty years. Mackenzie, Robin and Lily met when they all went to the same college in Monroeville, Pennsylvania and twenty years later they're still the best of friends. When they first met they called themselves the Spicier Girls as a nod to the famous girl band of the day. Lily would be Adventure Spice, Robin the Homemaker and Mackenzie - well, Mackenzie would be the supporting actress in her own life. She married Owen, her college sweetheart and they have a daughter, Aria, who's now fifteen-year-old.}}

|isbnauthor=1526362759Tom Percival|title=Dosh: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi SirdeshpandeThe Wrong Shoes

|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=What a relief! A book about money, for children, with clear explanations of what it Will's life isdifficult, why it matters, how to acquire more in a multitude of it (nope - robbing banks ways. He is out) and what you can do with it when youbullied because he has 've managed to get hold of it. Your reasons for wanting money donthe wrong shoes't matter: we all need it to some extent. You might want to go into business, be a clever shopper, a saver (you might even become an he has the wrong shoes because his dad can''investor'') t work and there might be something you really, doesn''really'' want to buy. There's also t have enough money for even the possibility most basic of using to do good in things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the world.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1542017432|title=The Nidderdale Murders|author=J R Ellis|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=It college, was working a Friday cash-in mid-September when the shoot was held hand job 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 building site 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 payaccident. Other people had reason to comment on Fraser's attitude to money: Throw into that mix the fact that his gamekeepermum and dad are separated, 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=ItWill's 1930 and Megan and Henry are staying with Bunny at his house life seems bleak in Spainevery direction. It's unbearably hot and Bunny drank too much at lunch: And yet, he's going to have still has a rest tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and then he wants clings to talk to Megan and Henry about something serious. Only it never gets that far: the moments of joy when Bunny doesn't emerge after his siesta his guests find that he's been murdered. How can is drawing, that have happened? There's no one else in feel like a light at the houseend of a long, so one of them must be the killerdark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

|author=Jacqueline WilsonOnyi Nwabineli|title=Love FrankieAllow Me to Introduce 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=0241425441|title=The Thursday Murder Club|author=Richard Osman|rating=4.5

|summary=The first member During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of The Thursday Murder Club we encounter is Joyce Meadowcroft. She used to be a nurse and is thus woman on the perfect person for Elizabeth to consult about how long it would take edge of a person who has been stabbed to bleed outreservoir. Details of where and how are exchanged and Joyce confirms that The police seem happy to assign it would have taken as an accidental death, but something about forty-five minutes the whole thing bothers Lowe, and that he enlists the victim could have been saved if she'd received prompt medical helpof a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. It didn't put Joyce They travel across the country during their days off her shepherd's pie (which tells us that it was filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a Monday) but it does get her interested in The Thursday Murder Clublink to death during the Second World War. They meet each Thursday (as you might have guessed) in But is there really a link between the Jigsaw Room at Coopers Chase Retirement Village.deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

|isbn=1509889515|title=The Darkest Evening (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was a mercy that DI Vera Stanhope took the wrong turning as she drove home in the blizzard. If she hadn't the car might not have been found until the morning Kieran Larwood and who knows what would have happened to the toddler strapped into the car seat, particularly as the car door had been left open. Vera took the boy and drove to the nearest habitation. 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 Joe Todd- and Hector was the black sheep of the family. Calling there unannounced, particularly as they seemed to have guests was going to be embarrassing, but there was little else that she could do in the circumstances.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008314721Stanton|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 roundDungeon Runners: '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 FrenchHero Trial|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 - 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 - and when they arrived at her house she was covered in his blood.}}{{Frontpage|author=Natasha Farrant|title=Voyage of the Sparrowhawk|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'. Now, at this stage you may well, if you know this is I was told to make a genre read, think mess of it's going to be a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in the 1980s, but no. We avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedy, Notes in case that has any bearing on what happens here, and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their lives. Until at 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 vanished.|isbn=1913193381}}=='''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 gaymargins are sanctioned. He struggles with his identity, unable You get 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 fold down the corners of Amir kissing his boyfriend Amir panics and runs away..pages.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 be.|isbn=1471409929}}{{Frontpage|author=Antoine Laurain and Emily Boyce, Jane Aitken and Polly Mackintosh (translators)|title=The Readers Room|genre=General Fiction|rating=3.5|summary=Violaine's publishing house has had a great success, and it was through the slush pile You suspect that smears of unsolicited manuscripts. The three people who work in the Readers' Room to sift through what is ninety nine per cent dross – plus the fourth advisor in her rarefied mansion up the road – all agreed the book 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 comaalready. 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 email. 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

=='''1 OCTOBER4 JULY'''== 

|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 she 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 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.|isbn=1471192172}}=='''12 NOVEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|author= Claire McGowan|title=The Push|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Six mums-to-be meet at a prenatal class. It's NCT ''style'', but not the proper NCT. This bit is important, but you have girl to wait a little to see why. This being London, such a class attracts a wide variety of people, from all sorts of backgrounds, but for most of the ladies the thing they have in common is it's their first baby. Probably after the first one, you don't have time for classes, or think you've got child-rearing down pat.turn?|isbn=15420199900008666482