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=='''4 JULY'''==
=='''1 SEPTEMBER'''==
 
 
{{Frontpage
 
{{Frontpage
|isbn=1509889612
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|author=Max Boucherat
|title=The Rising Tide (D I Vera Stanhope)
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|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills
|author=Ann Cleeves
 
|rating=5
 
|genre=Crime
 
|summary=It's fifty years since a group of teenagers went on a weekend retreat to Holy Island.  Some of them found the Only Connect course transformative and they've been coming back for a reunion every five years since then.  There was a tragedy at the first reunion when Isobel Hall drove off the island too close to high tide and her car was swept away, but her younger sister, Louisa, has returned with the group each year as her husband, Ken, was one of the original teenagers.  Ken now has Alzheimer's and he's a shadow of the man he used to be. Philip Robson now a priest, always gets there early as he likes to have some quiet time alone in the chapel.  Annie Laidler lives locally and she provides much of the food: her deli is famous in the area.
 
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{{Frontpage
 
|isbn=000837936X
 
|title=The Last Girl to Die
 
|author=Helen Fields
 
|rating=5
 
|genre=Crime
 
|summary=Seventeen-year-old Adriana Clarke's family moved to Tobermory, on the Isle of Mull, in search of a new life.  It was a bit of a change from Las Vegas, but the family seemed determined and Adriana had shown signs of developing a social life - until she disappeared.  The local police demonstrated little interest in the case (could it have been because Adriana's mother is obviously Latino?) and Rob and Isabella Clarke called in Sadie Levesque from Banff, who had successfully tracked down missing teenagers.  Brandon, Adriana's twin, was upset and surly.  Four-year-old Luna just knew that she missed her big sister.  It took four days, but Sadie found Adriana in Mackinnon's Cave.  She'd been murdered and it looked like a ritual killing.
 
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=='''10 SEPTEMBER'''==
 
{{Frontpage
 
|isbn=194241028X
 
|title=Azabu Getaway (Detective Hiroshi)
 
|author=Michael Pronko
 
|rating=5
 
|genre=Crime
 
|summary=''You can't put 'good at golf' on your tombstone, can you?''
 
 
 
When we meet Patrick Walsh he's outside his family's home in the Azabu district of Tokyo, hoping that his key will still work but prepared to break in if it doesn't.  He's there to remove his daughters, Jenna and Kiri, and take them back to Honolulu.  It's a quick day trip, with just one purpose in mind.  Patrick's employed by Nine Dragons Wealth Management and for the past year, he's been working in Wyoming because the privacy laws there are conducive to the business he's in.  His wife, Miyuki, hasn't been in Wyoming with him and is in the process of divorcing him after photographs sent to her anonymously suggested that Patrick had not been faithful to her.  Patrick's plan didn't work out and he finds himself on the run in Tokyo with the two girls.
 
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=='''22 SEPTEMBER'''==
 
{{Frontpage
 
|author=Christopher Bowden
 
|title=Mr Magenta
 
|rating=4
 
|genre=General Fiction
 
|summary= Christopher Bowden's latest novel is a patient untangling of a seemingly ordinary woman's life, carried out by her nephew after she has died. The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a little bit of indulgence to a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems to him an obligation to find it all out.
 
|isbn= B0B6Z9VJDW
 
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=='''6 OCTOBER'''==
 
{{Frontpage
 
|author=Alison Hughes
 
|title=Fly
 
 
|rating=4.5
 
|rating=4.5
 
|genre=Confident Readers
 
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=This is a very impressive read, as it does a lot of what mainstream teen and tween fiction still struggles with.  Its focus is courtesy of the first-person narration from Fly, a secondary school lad with cerebral palsy, a down-on-her-luck single mom nearing retirement from being a cleaner, a carer while at school, and a bundle of assumptions people lay on him.  First they assume that with a broken body comes a broken mind, then they decide he's a maths savant – they even believe they can get away with calling him Fly, which isn't his real name, but everybody just uses it.
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|summary=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 avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome.  What could possibly go wrong?  Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world.  But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky.  For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?
|isbn=1525305832
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|isbn=0008666482
 
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=='''13 OCTOBER'''==
 
 
{{Frontpage
 
{{Frontpage
|author=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)
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|author=Jenny Lecoat
|title=Red as Blood
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|title=Beyond Summerland
 
|rating=4
 
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
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|genre=General Fiction
|summary=When Flosi’s wife goes missing, all the evidence seems to point towards her having been kidnapped. The ransom note tells him not to have any contact with the police, so instead he enlists the help of Arora, a financial investigator. She manages to persuade Flosi that they will need the help of the police, and she calls her detective friend, Daniel, whom she met when he was investigating her sister’s disappearance. Together, they start to secretly investigate Gudrun’s disappearance, trying not to arouse the suspicion of anyone, since they have no idea who the kidnappers might be, yet the more they uncover, the more confusing things become.
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|summary=Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. During the war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him.  But will the truth come as a relief, 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 occupation?
|isbn=1914585321
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|isbn=1846976537
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=='''21 OCTOBER'''==
 
{{Frontpage
 
|author=Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams
 
|title=The Book of Hope 
 
|rating=5
 
|genre=Politics and Society
 
|summary= The done thing is to read a book all the way through before you sit down to review it. I’m making an exception here, because I don’t want to lose any of the experience of reading this amazing book, I want to capture it as it hits me. And it is hitting me. This beautiful book has me in tears.
 
|isbn=024147857X
 
 
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Latest revision as of 16:45, 12 June 2024

4 JULY

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Review of

The Last Life of Lori Mills by Max Boucherat

4.5star.jpg Confident Readers

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 avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn? Full Review

1846976537.jpg

Review of

Beyond Summerland by Jenny Lecoat

4star.jpg General Fiction

Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. During the war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. But will the truth come as a relief, 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 occupation? Full Review

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