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 =='''23 JULYMAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=1785765698Onyi Nwabineli|title=Shed No Tears|author=Caz FrearAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=In November 2012 Christopher MastersAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, the man who would become known as thanks to her step-mother Ophelia'the roommate killers increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, strangled three women in a fortnightmonetary gain. When he was arrested he admitted the killings. A fourth death was attributed Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to him - that of Holly Kemp - regain her confidence and on occasionsto get her life back, Masters admitted suing her step-mother to take down the killingcontent about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, then he denied it - then admitted itfailing to start her PhD, then denied itundergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. He played with the policeMost importantly, but there was sufficient evidence on the first three killings to put him away for a long time and the CPS were not convinced she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the Holly Kemp casenew focus of Ophelia's online empire. There was no body Can she save her sister, and once Masters was murdered in prison, no hope of progressing perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the case further.same time?|isbn=0861546873
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=='''30 MAY'''==
{{Frontpage
|author=James Patterson|title=Hawk: A Maximum Ride Novel|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Hawk has been waiting on the same street corner, every day, for years. She is waiting for her parents to come and get her. They left her there when she was just tiny, 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 wings, 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 family. But now the city is seemingly even more troubled than usual, there's a mysterious child-killer who has been brought to the prison next door to where the children live, and then one day Hawk comes home to find her family have been taken away. Where have they been taken, and can Hawk rescue them before it's too late?|isbn=1529120004}}=='''4 AUGUST'''=={{Frontpage|author=Christina Hammonds ReedB0CYV674G2|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 AUGUST'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1838951067|title=The Nothing ManSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Catherine Ryan HowardDavid Blake|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=When we first meet Jim Doyle, he's about to get a shock3. He's security at a supermarket and he's watching a woman 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 shocked? 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.}}{{Frontpage|author=Non Pratt|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 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 1983It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, little Billy Nilsson goes missing. He was chasing covered in mud and blood - and carrying a rabbitknife, through comes into the garden, and into police station shouting that he hasn't killed the maize field behindman. He has not A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been seen sincestabbed to death. In DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the present day, Veronica Lindh is a grief counsellor running group therapy sessions birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the bereaved – although she clearly has problems of her own: anxiety, panic attacks, a scar on her arm that she keeps obsessively hidden words 'perverse' and she is barely hanging on to her job'John Tanner' were made for each other. ItHe's clear that she has just returned sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work after an episode that seems but he's determined to have resulted in restraining orders against her, a deal of therapy, a change of location and her supervisor is watching closely. As well, keep going - probably because he needs tocan't get any sleep at home.|isbn=1785768239
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=='''20 AUGUST4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=1542017432Stuart Douglas|title=The Nidderdale Murders|author=J R EllisLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|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 Friday in mid-September when the shoot was held woman on the grouse moor near Niddersgilledge of a reservoir. The shooters at police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the butts were a strange mixture: Alexander Fraser (Sandy to his friends) was whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the owner help of the moor and a retired judgefellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. James Symonds was a local landowner and Henry Saunders was a banker. He and Fraser had known each other since They travel across the country during their school days. The fourth member was Gideon Rawnsleyoff filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, who dealt in exclusive cars in nearby Ripona link to death during the Second World War. Rawnsley had But is there really a gripe with Fraser: he'd sold him an expensive car and Fraser was being slow link between the deaths? And will they manage to pay. Other uncover who is responsible before more 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.lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
{{Frontpage
|isbnauthor=0241433568Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Eight Detectives|author=Alex PavesiDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=54|genre=Crime (Historical)Confident Readers|summary=It's 1930 Meet 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 Megan healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and Henry are staying race to the exit, perhaps bothering with Bunny at his house in Spainthe treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. ItUnfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's unbearably hot seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and Bunny drank too much at lunch: he's going to have a rest and then new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he wants has taken to talk to Megan the goading from the token bully of his world and Henry about something serious. Only it never gets that far: when Bunny doesn't emerge after his siesta his guests find that stumbled into declaring he's been murderedll enter as a team. How can that What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have happened? There's no one else in the houseactually managing that, so one of them must be the killer.and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
{{Frontpage
|authorisbn=Jacqueline Wilson1635866847|title=Love FrankieThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensLifestyle|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 womanIt's strange, when your older sister has turned into the girliest girl who ever lived, and, above all when Sally and her mates are bullying things that make you at school. Oh, and when Sam, your best friend since forever, suddenly starts sending out signs ''immediately'' feel that he might fancy you - and this is the book for you don't fancy him backPoor Frankie! |isbn= 0857535897 }}{{Frontpage|author= Adrian Tchaikovsky|title= Before I started reading ''The Doors of Eden|rating= 4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= Wow – this novel is giganticLavender Companion'', in every sense of I visited the wordauthor's [https://www. "Epic" is a word thatpinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's thrown around a lot these days, but if picture of a book ever earned slice of chocolate cake on the name ithomepage. I don's this onet eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. It (There's a doorstopper full of big ideasrecipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and at times I was told to make a mess of it almost felt too big for my brain.|isbn=1509865888 Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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=='''27 AUGUST4 JULY'''== 
{{Frontpage
|author= Samira AhmedMax Boucherat|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}} =='''3 SEPTEMBER'''=={{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 Last Life of Correction|author=Nicci FrenchLori Mills|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 blood4.}}{{Frontpage|author=Natasha Farrant|title=Voyage of the Sparrowhawk|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Set in England in We meet Lori on the aftermath of World War One, this is first evening she's got the story of two childrenhouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, Lotti and Benbabysitter poorly, who have lost everyone they lovemother at work, but don't want to let go of their lastjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, tiny glimpses of hopeon her lonesome. Ben What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is living on a narrowboat to log on to Voxminer, the canalworld-building, lying to the police about his brothercritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's imminent return from the battlefields to take care of himworld. Lotti, meanwhile, But first Lori has been expelled from school and is back at home; it's a beautiful house tiny inkling that belongs to this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her but that her terrible Aunt own, and Uncle currently have guardianship forthen she finds something even more spooky. The day Lotti meets Ben (For the day server she steals a dog!) is the beginning and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of a deep, and powerful friendshiptampering. It sees them become each other's familyWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and undertake a perilous trip to France, her safe place in the boatgame has been doctored – well, where is a girl to try to find out the truth of the people they both love.turn?|isbn=05713487690008666482
}}
 
=='''8 SEPTEMBER'''==
 
{{Frontpage
|author=Sharon DoeringJenny Lecoat|title=She Lies CloseBeyond Summerland
|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 to light before they moved in.
|isbn=1789094194
}}
 
=='''10 SEPTEMBER'''==
 
{{Frontpage
|author= Andrea Stewart
|title= The Bone Shard Daughter (The Drowning Empire)
|rating=4.5
|genre= Fantasy
|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 to the throne, a smuggler, and a warrior will fight to find their place in the world.
 
Lin 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 for the mysteries of her past and the forbidden art of bone shard magic.
 
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
}}
=='''14 SEPTEMBER'''==
{{Frontpage
|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 lie. Her novel is a meditation on youth and how the things we do as a teenager can seem intensely important and often life-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, 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
}}
=='''22 SEPTEMBER'''==
 
{{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 Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the slush pile end of unsolicited manuscriptsthe occupation. The three people who work in During the Readerswar, Jean' Room s father was arrested for listening 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 would be a huge smashbanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and so it has proven. But there are several 'howevers' to that. As in, however – Violaine herself is not having life all her own way, mother waiting for years 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 news 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 emailhim. What is going to befall Violaine, her memory, her staff – and how much is any of it due to As the hit novel? And just where British finally free the heck did that come Channel islands from?|isbn=1910477974}} =='''1 OCTOBER'''== {{Frontpage|author=Tania Unsworth|title=The Time Traveller and the Tiger|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Elsie is an ordinary sort of girl. The sort of small girl who often gets overlookedNazis, and forgotten. She the war is quietfinally over, and compliant, and makes the best of whatever happens to her. So when her parents forget their hopes rise that her school holidays have started before they are free to take care will finally learn what became of her, they have to arrange for her to go and stay with her Great Uncle for a weekhim. Poor Elsie, forgotten again, just decides to make But will the best of things. On investigating the house she finds that her Great Uncle had lived in India truth come as a boyrelief, 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 has to keep or will it because he was raise further questions around what else happened during the one who shot the tiger when he was 12 years old, and he says it was the worst thing he ever did. war? So when Elsie suddenly finds herself magically transported back many, many years, to the time in India when her Great Uncle Who was 12 years old, she believes that she must try to stop him from killing the tiger, in order 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 Ursula, the stand-in minister, drafted in from outside the leading party to cover the post for a year. You might get to meet her hunky husband she can't believe she deserves, and the children informer who are ignorant of just how she spent all her empathy for them on previous jobs in told the foreign aid charity sector. You'll meet her ministry's cleaner, who bizarrely has fallen into Nazis about the task of helping a famous newsreader with her Tinder profile. radio? You'll certainly meet a homeless tramp, who has taken one look at a newspaper image of Ursula, and, knowing her of old, decided she needs saving from the devil posing beside her. You'll meet the ministerial bodyguard 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 and pronto, nobody can say, for all records of Ursula's meeting with the woman And what other secrets 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 be.'' In 1893, after the purges and the burnings, witching has been reduced to little more than weak charms and simple spells. 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 on kept throughout the road for a long time and being frightened, and some of the faces from the road, but other than that – 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 is, where he is or how he got there.occupation?|isbn=14711921721846976537
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