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=='''3 SEPTEMBER9 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0241425441|title=The Thursday Murder Club|author=Richard Osman|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=The first member of The Thursday Murder Club we encounter is Joyce Meadowcroft. She used to be a nurse and is thus the perfect person for Elizabeth to consult about how long it would take a person who has been stabbed to bleed out. Details of where and how are exchanged and Joyce confirms that it would have taken about forty-five minutes and that the victim could have been saved if she'd received prompt medical help. It didn't put Joyce off her shepherd's pie (which tells us that it was a Monday) but it does get her interested in The Thursday Murder Club. They meet each Thursday (as you might have guessed) in the Jigsaw Room at Coopers Chase Retirement Village.}}{{Frontpage|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 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 - 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=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 - 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.}}
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|author=Natasha FarrantTom Percival|title=Voyage of the SparrowhawkThe Wrong Shoes
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Set in England in the aftermath of World War One, this Will's life is the story of two childrendifficult, Lotti and Ben, who have lost everyone they love, but don't want to let go of their last, tiny glimpses in a multitude of hopeways. Ben He is living on a narrowboat on bullied because he has 'the canalwrong shoes', lying to he has the police about wrong shoes because his brotherdad can't work and doesn's imminent return from t have enough money for even the battlefields to take care most basic of him. Lotti, meanwhilethings like food, has been expelled from school and is back his dad can't work because he lost his job at home; it's the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a beautiful house building site and had an accident. Throw into that belongs to her but mix the fact that her terrible Aunt his mum and dad are separated, and Uncle currently have guardianship forWill's life seems bleak in every direction. The day Lotti meets Ben (the day she steals And yet, he still has a dog!) is the beginning tiny amount of a deep, and powerful friendshiphope. It sees them become each other's familyHe is good at art, and undertake a perilous trip clings to France, in the boatmoments of joy when he is drawing, to try to find out that feel like a light at the truth end of the people they both lovea long, dark tunnel.|isbn=05713487691398527122
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=='''8 SEPTEMBER23 MAY'''==
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|author=Sharon DoeringOnyi Nwabineli|title=She Lies Close|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary= Ava Boone was five years old when she went missing, around 6 months ago. There has been no sign of her since, and no arrests 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 children, she's really wishing this sort of information had come Allow Me to light before they moved in.|isbn=1789094194}} =='''10 SEPTEMBER'''== {{Frontpage|author= Andrea Stewart|title= The Bone Shard Daughter (The Drowning Empire)Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre= FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=''I could never be what he wanted if I did not take what I wanted'' In an empire controlled by a bone shard magic that powers animal-like constructs, an heir Anuri spent her childhood on display to the throneworld, a smuggler, and a warrior will fight thanks to find their place in the world. Lin is the emperorher step-mother Ophelia's forgotten daughterincreasingly popular presence on social media, kept locked away in a palace where she posted every step of secrets Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and closed doorsinfluencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. When Now Anuri is in her father refuses twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to recognise get her life back, suing her as heir step-mother to take down the thronecontent about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, she vows failing to show him she is capable of reviving a dying empire start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and in secretreceiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she begins to unlock one door after anotheris desperately worried about her little sister, searching for who is the mysteries new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her past sister, and the forbidden art of bone shard magic. Yet Lin is playing a deadly game perhaps herself and her quest for power will come relationship with her father 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.same time?|isbn=03565149430861546873
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=='''14 SEPTEMBER4 JUNE'''==
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|author= Tahi SaihateStuart Douglas|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 lie. Her novel is a meditation on youth Lowe and how the things we do as a teenager can seem intensely important and often lifeLe Breton Mysteries -altering.|isbn= 1916277101}}=='''17 SEPTEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)|title=The Seven Doors|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Come here for a thriller that interestingly doesn't even try to suggest a genre of any kind until we're a full fifth of the way through. We start with our couple, she a literature lecturer, he big in medical provision and decisions at the council, being forced to move out of their home, a building that had existed throughout her life since childhood and which they'd occupied for over thirty years. The building he's inherited, meanwhile, 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 and you're moving out'. Now, Death 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 in the 1980s, but no. 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 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}}{{Frontpage|author=Michael J Malone|title=A Song of IsolationDress Rehearsal|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Film star Amelie Hart throws up During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a career that is only beginning reservoir. The police seem happy to hit assign it as an accidental death, but something about the heights to retire to whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the highlands with an ordinary guy…an accountant help of all thingsa fellow actor, though John Le Breton to his credit he would rather be working in forestryhelp him investigate matters further. They have found travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a hideaway on link to death during the Second World War. But is there really a small Scottish estate, but things are starting link between the deaths? And will they manage to feel wrong between them. uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=19131933651803368209
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=='''22 SEPTEMBER6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Arvin AhmadiKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=How It All Blew UpDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=TeensConfident Readers| summary=18-yearMeet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old Amir is American Iranian, a Muslimmagical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and gaythe points they grant you along the way. He struggles with his identityUnfortunately for Kit, unable to face telling his parents who the only thing he really 's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent isthat one team has been retired, so when another student at his school starts blackmailing himeaten, threatening to show his parents photographs and a new trio of Amir kissing his boyfriend Amir panics and runs away..questors is needed.to Italy! So begins a journey Possibly very unfortunately indeed for AmirKit, and he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his family, where they all discover more about him, world and who stumbled into declaring he really is'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and who how could he really wants possibly hope to be.succeed?|isbn=14714099291839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Antoine Laurain and Emily Boyce, Jane Aitken and Polly Mackintosh (translators)1635866847|title=The Readers RoomLavender Companion|genreauthor=General FictionJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=34.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=ViolaineIt's publishing house has had a great successstrange, and it was through the slush pile of unsolicited manuscriptsthings that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The three people who work in Lavender Companion'', I visited the Readersauthor' Room to sift through what is ninety nine per cent dross – plus the fourth advisor in her rarefied mansion up s [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the road – all agreed the book would be a huge smash, and so it has provenhomepage. But there are several I don'howevers' to t eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted thatcake viscerally. As (There's a recipe 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 the book coming round from a coma. And, however – despite all urging, the author of which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book has never once made themselves known and I was told to the publishers in person, and in fact offered up make a most peculiar statement-come-threat mess of it. Notes in their last emailthe margins are sanctioned. What is going You get to befall Violaine, her memory, her staff – and how much is any fold down the corners of it due to the hit novel? pages. And just where the heck did You suspect that come from?|isbn=1910477974smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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=='''1 OCTOBER4 JULY'''==
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|author=Tania UnsworthMax Boucherat|title=The Time Traveller and the TigerLast Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Elsie is We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an ordinary sort of girlavidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. The sort of small girl who often gets overlookedWhat could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and forgotten. She that is quietto log on to Voxminer, and compliantthe world-building, and makes the best of whatever happens to hercritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. So when her parents forget But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her school holidays have started before they are free to take care of herown, they have to arrange for her to go and stay with her Great Uncle for a week. Poor Elsie, forgotten again, just decides to make the best of thingsthen she finds something even more spooky. On investigating For the house server she finds that and her Great Uncle had lived in India as a boy, bestie and he has an enormous tiger rug on the floor of one nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of the roomstampering. When Elsie asks him about the rug he seems unhappymalevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and he says he has to keep it because he was the one who shot the tiger when he was 12 years old, 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 her safe place in India when her Great Uncle was 12 years old, she believes that she must try to stop him from killing the tigergame has been doctored – well, in order where is a girl to put something right that happened a long time ago.turn?|isbn=17885417070008666482
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