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=='''3 OCTOBER23 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=190874572XOnyi Nwabineli|title=Letters from Tove|author=Tove Jansson (Author), Boel Westin (Editor), Helen Svensson (Editor), Sarah Death (Translator)Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyGeneral Fiction|summary=Back at Anuri spent her childhood on display to the beginning world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of the century I went on holiday Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to Nepal. I met a wonderful Finnish woman regain her confidence and we became sort of friendsto get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. I can't remember if it was on that holiday or a later one that Paula told me I really had Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to read Tove Janssonstart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. I do know that it was four years later that I finally acquired an English translation of The Summer BookMost importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, and that I eagerly awaited the ''Sort Of'' translations of who is the rest new focus of JanssonOphelia's work online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and devoured them as soon as I could get my hands on them.her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873
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=='''30 MAY'''==
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|isbn=1784742783B0CYV674G2|title=The Benefit of Hindsight Swanton Morley (Simon SerraillerJohn Tanner)|author=Susan HillDavid Blake|rating=3.5
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|summary=It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A superficial look would suggest to you that Simon Serrailer has been lucky man, covered in mud and blood - all things considered - his life is as good as it could be. He's back at work after and carrying a long break to recuperate from knife, comes into the violent incident which cost him his arm and almost his life. When police station shouting that hehasn's not t killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at work Swanton Morley church - he's spending been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his time in the cathedral roof drawing honeymoon, which coincided with the medieval angels which are being restored. There's talk of an exhibition birth of his drawingsdaughter Samantha. Lafferton seems to You would think he'd 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. Itgrateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse's the usual story of a broken-down car, and a phone which won't make a callJohn Tanner' were made for each other. The man are generous and welcoming and have no suspicions that the couple are simply there to plan a robbery. ItHe's a serious error of judgement in sleep-deprived to the course point of this investigation which will throw Simon Serraillerfalling asleep at work but he's future into doubtdetermined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=140638853XStuart Douglas|title=Somebody Give This Heart a Pen|author=Sophia ThakurLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=AnthologiesCrime|summary=Sophia ThakurDuring location filming for his 1970's debut anthology is sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a collection woman on the edge of poems that are all unique, whether in relation to their style, length or themea reservoir. The collection is split into four sectionspolice seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, titled 'grow','wait'but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe,'break'and 'grow again', guiding you through a process which is one of he enlists the foundations that the anthology is built on. Each section begins with a foregrounded title page containing various small pieces help of writing, ranging from a quote by a Nigerian playwrightfellow actor, John Le Breton to African proverbshelp him investigate matters further. This provides They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a nice introduction link to death during the section Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before you are immersed into the beautifully written and eloquent poems that Thakur has clearly put her heart and soul into.more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=1910989460Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=FlemberDungeon Runners: The Secret Book|author=Jamie SmartHero Trial|rating=54
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|summary=A mysterious islandMeet Kit. A strange 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 mystical power called Flember. A boyhealer enter specially prepared, century-inventor called Devold, magical mazes, and race to the exit, who uncovers a long forgotten secretperhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. And Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a giant, red robot bear?! The sleepy village new trio of Eden questors is about needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to descend the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into hilarious chaos declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle- can disastrous Dev save his brand new best friendfree-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed? Find out in this fully illustrated mad-cap adventure.|isbn=1839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|isbn=02413552221635866847|title=FrostheartThe Lavender Companion|author=Jamie LittlerJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=Way out in the furthest part of the known worldIt's strange, a tiny stronghold exists all on its own, cut off from the rest of human-kin by monsters things that make you ''immediately'' feel that lurk beneath this is the Snow Seabook for you. There Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a little boy called Ash waits for the return picture of his parents, singing a forbidden lullaby to remind him slice of them..chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and doing his best to avoid his very, VERY grumpy yeti guardian, Tobu. But life is about to get a whole lot more crazydesserts -adventurous for Ashbut I wanted that cake viscerally. When (There's a brave rescue attempt reveals he has amazing magical powersrecipe in the book, hewhich I's whisked aboard m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the Frostheart, book and I was told to make a sleigh packed full mess of daring explorers who could use his helpit. But can they help him find his family?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1913101037|title=The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone|author=Jaclyn Moriarty|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Bronte doesn't miss her parents, and she's not particularly sad when she learns of their terrible fate at Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the hands corners of piratespages. And why should she be? After all, they just dumped her on Aunt Isabelle (without even asking if it You suspect that smears of butter would not be a convenient arrangement for either party) when she was a babyproblem. They swanned off to have adventures, and never once came back to check if their only child was healthy and happy I ''loved'' this book already.
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=='''9 OCTOBER4 JULY'''==
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|isbnauthor=1406389331Max Boucherat|title=In the Key The Last Life of Code|author=Aimee LucidoLori Mills|rating=4.5
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|summary=Emmy is moving with her parents halfway across America, to follow her fatherWe meet Lori on the first evening she's dreams of a big break got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in his music career, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. She leaves behind her friends and her school What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in Wisconsina blanket fort, and moves to California, knowing only what she has heard in songs. Her struggle to settle into her new lifeone main intention, make friends and feel happy and confident again, that is agonisingly told in a way we can all relate to. There are many new opportunities and setbackslog on to Voxminer, taking the reader on a rollercoaster of emotionsworld-building, but it isn't until Emmy joins a coding class using computer language critter-collecting game that she begins to feel she might have is a chance to feel like she truly belongs.}} =='''17 OCTOBER'''=={{Frontpage|author= Karina Sainz Borgo and Elizabeth Bryer (translator)|title= It Would Be Night hit in Caracas|rating= 4|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= Lori''It Would Be Night in Caracas'' illuminates the everyday horrors of modern day Venezuelas world. It begins with the death of Adelaida Falcon But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn's mother and chronicles Adelaida's coming to terms with t find herself entirely on her new solitude in this world own, and her attempts to escape itthen she finds something even more spooky. Danger stalks For the shadows server she and her bestie and, in a society where the establishment is crumbling, who can you turn to? |isbn=0062936867}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0349423067|title=The Body on the Train (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=From Christmas to Easter a train ran from Leeds City Station to King’s Cross, arriving before dawn so that the forced rhubarb it carried could nobody else should be taken able to Covent Garden. In early March 1929 one of the porters who was unloading the boxes discovered the body of a man, stripped naked and with no means enter shows signs of identificationtampering. Scotland Yard hit a dead end and called When malevolent eyes spark up on the services of Kate Shackleton in the hope that her knowledge phone screen, and connections her safe place in Yorkshire would give them the lead they needed. Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her as game has been doctored – well, where is a child and could not come girl to terms with the fact that she was now a woman experienced in dealing with murder. He was reluctant to give her all the information which the police held.turn?|isbn=0008666482
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=='''19 OCTOBER'''==
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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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=='''31 OCTOBER'''==
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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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===[[Salvation Lost by Peter F Hamilton]]===
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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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|author=Innosanto NagaraJenny Lecoat|title=M is for MovementBeyond Summerland
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|genre=Emerging ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Set in Indonesia, in Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the not too distant past, this is a story about social changeoccupation. Dealing with some difficult issuesDuring the war, such as political corruption Jean's father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and nepotismsoldiers took him away one night, the book is neither boring nor preachyleaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. It educates gently, with vibrant, challenging illustrationsAs the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and it portrays how social movements need people who will trythe war is finally over, even when it seems their hopes rise that they will failfinally learn what became of him. The message is But will the truth come as a positive one; that in an increasingly uncertain worldrelief, we do still or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the power to instigate change.occupation?|isbn=16098093511846976537
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=='''9 JANUARY 2020'''==
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===[[In Her Eyes by Sarah Alderson]]===
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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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