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=='''8 JULY28 SEPTEMBER'''==

|author=Hannah Peck|title=Kate on the Case|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Kate, although I got the impression she'd rather be a Catherine – and one specific Catherine at that. For Catherine Rodriguez is Kate's idol, and the author of our heroine's favourite possession, ''The Special Correspondent Manual''. Armed with a plucky father, that book, and her talking mouse called Rupert, she is all equipped to manage a train ride to the Arctic, to see her scientist mother for the first time in yonks. However, this is a train ride with a difference, for on board is a greedy-seeming harridan and her cat, a thief – and two glowing eyes, shining from the darkness in a blink-and-you'll-miss-them style. It's definitely a case for a new young investigative journalist...|isbn=184812970X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=17876318691800464495|title=The Rising Tide|author=Sam Lloyd|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Lucy Locke's early life hadn't been easy but she'd built a good and decent life 100 Ways in the aftermath. She's now married 100 Days to Daniel, who co-owns Locke-Povey Marine on Penleith Beach, and they live at Wild Ridge on Mortis Point with Billie, Lucy's daughter and Fin, the child she had with Daniel. They have financial difficulties, some caused by Nick Povey, Daniel's partner and so-called best friend. Nick and Daniel have a history together from the time they both spent in a children's home but it's difficult to think that Nick has Daniel's best interests at heart, particularly where Lucy, or money, is concerned.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008350388|title=We Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts...'' ''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba ''0.7% Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of English Literature GCSE students in England study a book Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a writer Love of colour while only 7% study a book by a woman.'' ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came to the UK from Kenya when she was five years old. Her sisters were seven and nine. It was her mother who came first, with her father joining them later. The family was hard-working, principled and determined that their children would have the best education possible. There was always a painful awareness of money although this did not translate into a shortage of anything: it was simply carefully harvested. When Otegha was ten the family acquired a car. For Otegha, education meant a scholarship to a private school in London and then a place at New College, Oxford.}}=='''13 JULY'''=={{FrontpageMaths|author=Sarah Langan|title=Good NeighboursEmma Smith

|genre=ThrillersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= If you're of a certain vintage, it's hard Babies seem to read be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a sing-song ''that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. Maple Street is no Ramsay Streetwomb, though, Arlo and Gertie live a world apart from the Melbourne suburbs. They're one being aware of 18 households on the crescentquantities at seven hours old, quite new arrivals having moved in a year earlier. They're not quite like all the other families (he's an ex rockerassessing probability at six months old, she's a former beauty queen) but they've made some friends and their kids have settled in, comprehending addition and it's all going ok. Until it isn't. One hot, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up in the park across the waysubtraction at nine months old. It's a revolting mess of dirt and chaos, but for the residents of Maple Street, the worst is yet to come.|isbn=1789098211}}=='''14 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Eshman Smith|title=Word of Another Nature|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=''Why does mass protest continually fail to fundamentally change thedirection of the modern world?''

This is the question Eshman Smith asks in Word of an Other Nature. HeDid you know this? I didn's right to wonder since we as humans often seem to be making a pretty bad job of our efforts to create a world of peace, stability and prosperity for all.t! How about:

==I didn'''15 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Emily Critchley|title=The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers had all the hallmarks of something good. t know this either! I was intrigued by the plot, liked the design of the book, and thought the author's work sounded interesting. From the outset it all looked incredibly promising. So what on earth went wrong here?|isbn= 1911427091}}  =='''22 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)|title=Girls Who Lie|rating=3|genre=Thrillers|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all the dark corners of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before now. You think, seeing on the map most parents are aware that we're set giving your children a good start in Akranesliteracy - reading stories, and finding it's only twenty kilometres from the capital cityteaching pen grips, that this author is clutching at the few final straws left. However just because the book aims for the usual smallsinging rhymes -town feel, it's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago gives children a woman failed to turn up for her date evening, and was never seen againsolid foundation when they start school. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently with the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for But do we think the girl backsame way about maths, and a couple of delighted adopters. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until it stopped all of a sudden, in one place, the womanbeyond counting? I don's car was found miles away in a second place, and now, after six months, the body has been discoveredt think we do, in a third, even more remote place. Meanwhile, this narrative is interrupted by a confessional monologue from a mother who found herself with heavy post-natal depression, and very little maternal feeling in her body. Is the assumption that is part because so easy for the reader to make the right one?|isbn=191319373X}}{{Frontpage|author=Claire North|title=Notes from the Burning Age|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=At its core ''Notes From the Burning Age'' by Claire North is a spy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. However, as with the best novels, it wears many masks and its most affecting one is that of a new and timely genre, cli-fi, or climate change fictionus are afraid of maths. North's novel tells But why are we? Most of a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to start anew and live alongside nature us use maths in daily life without any of the modern realising and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons of mass destruction, intensive farming). There is it follows that giving our children a growing unhappiness with this limiting world, and one group, the Brotherhood, aims to master these processes no matter the cost to the Earthsimilar pre-school grounding will be just as beneficial.|isbn=0356514757

=='''3 AUGUST30 SEPTEMBER'''==

|author=Darren ShanNick Lake and Emily Gravett|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3Locked Out Lily

|summary=So. Having done the impossible and unpicked the lock to the Forgotten CryptLily is, from which the Departed communicate with the Mergeor was, Archie now or has ''grop'' to think about. But before thatbeen, soirees. Soirees! Archievery ill, much and to Inezgive her parents relief she's amusement, doesnbeen told to stay with her grandma for a few days. The parents need the relief as Lily't even know what one of those s baby sibling isjust about to be born – a child Lily swears she hates already and wants nothing to do with. But he manages on tracking back home for word of her parents (and her plush toy so she can sleep) she finds stony-eyed simulacra of her parents, and the babe-in-arms, already installed. These devilish interlopers need to come through be ousted to get the fancy party unscathedfamily back intact, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed if it's not the family Lily wants – and all she has to help her in the first volume of this seriestask are some talking animals – Crow, Mole, Mouse and Snake. |isbn=B093J9TF731471194833

=='''5 AUGUST7 OCTOBER'''==

|author=John BoyneGwynne|title=The Echo ChamberShadow Of The Gods

|genre=General FictionFantasy|summary=Meet George Cleverley. He The Shadow Of The Gods is self-defined as "one the first installment of the few television personalities over Bloodsworn Saga, set in the age era of fifty without a criminal record"the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to see. He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him she's carrying his child, but then his author wife This story is getting her kicks with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. They have three childrenultimate in High Fantasy, who are a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants and John Gwynne certainly does justice to save the world's homeless genre, with out-of-date foodmythical creatures, archaic language and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thingbattles galore. Add in This is a few other thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters – therapists, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections are woven together to his life, create a wonderfully realistic and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to the modern gritty world. What suggests the farcical approach even more, however, is the fact this is bloody funnyin which our heroes must do battle.|isbn=08575262190356514218

|author=Louise CandlishPeter Papathanasiou|title=The HeightsStoning|rating=43.5

|summary=Ellen doesnIn a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparison, a teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolley, and she't expect s been taped to see Kieran that daya tree and she's had rocks bowled at her as if she were the world's tallest cricket stumps. SheWhen she's discovered by the town gossip everyone, including the local cops, are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to. An arson attack on sitethat shows the feeling – and it's only fair, is the general opinion, visiting a client for a lighting consultation when she spies him the occupants are often setting their own fires in a building across protest at their conditions. Cue the way. There are lots arrival of thingsGeorge Manolis, lots of peoplea higher rank from the city, you might see when you look to sort everything out across London, but this isn't one Ellen expected that day or in fact any other day. Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two yearssuch an aggrieved, and Ellen knows this for insular community is really going to welcome a fact, because she had a hand in his murderGreek-heritaged city boy laying down the law...|isbn=14711834831529416973

=='''19 AUGUST14 OCTOBER'''==

|author=Doug JohnstoneJustine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=The Great SilenceEverybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)

|genre=CrimeFor Sharing|summary=For those whoToots, like metrumps, haven't come across the Skelfs beforefarts. Whatever your word for them, I'll risk find us a quick synopsis of whochild that doesn's who – although Johnstone does a good job of bringing the backstory in without being heavy handed about itt find them irresistibly funny. Skelf isn't some fantastic creature, though it sounds as though it ought Funny to betalk about and joke about, it that is merely . But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the surname of a family of undertakerswrong time. Undertakers In class, say, when everyone will hear it and private investigatorseveryone will laugh. Dorothy is the matriarch – Californian by birth At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and instinctcalmly, she married a scot and ended up helping to run with the Edinburgh undertaking firm familiar humour attached, explains that had been in the family for generationstooting is perfectly normal. Recently widowed and now involved Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}}  =='''19 OCTOBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=Claire McGowan|title=I Know You|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=''Then:'' Casey returns from a walk with a black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jennythe baby, Carson, 46and comes across three bodies, is haunted by her still-living husband – almost a violent escaped prisonerwhole family taken down. And grand-daughter  ''Now:'' Rachel is about to graduate out for a walk with her dog, Brandy, when she comes across a first-class physics degree and join body in the academic staff next termwoods. |isbn=19131938371542019974

=='''2 SEPTEMBER28 OCTOBER'''==

|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave Antti Tuomainen and Tom de FrestonDavid Hackston (translator)|title=Julia and the SharkThe Rabbit Factor|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=JuliaMeet Henri. With a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is other human beings, our prehe's perfect for his job in the insurance company – until they decide he's not a team-teen heroinemember, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England that they'd prefer everyone to be lighthousekeepers for all open-plan, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshopping. This is when he finds his brother has died, having a summerheart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channel, in the far NE of the Scottish islandsand has left Henri everything. Here be VikingsUnfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' is just an adventure park, that kind of Scottish islandand nothing else. Dad ''YouMeFun'' is going so not what Henri wants to be automating the lantern, which is occupy his specialist thingmind, while mum will be leaving her career but he perks up a little when he sees huge holes in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Juliafinances – it runs at a steady money-moving pace, welldespite some desultory staff ideas, she will be homesick but loans have been made out and alone the amount vanished. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on the scene to explain that missing money – until she suddenly finds company one nightit's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, and the activities of these guys are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance plan...|isbn=1510107789191319387X

=='''7 OCTOBER1 NOVEMBER'''==

|author=John GwynneTeresa Driscoll|title=The Shadow Of The GodsHer Perfect Family

|genre=FantasyThrillers|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods is novel begins by introducing you to Gemma, who at first instance appears to be your average student, faced with the first installment of familiar horrifying realisation, at the Bloodsworn Sagaeleventh hour, that her graduation outfit is all wrong. Suddenly, set in Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''He is not who he says he is…'', paving the era of way for the Vikings in sinister tone that remains throughout the shadow novel. In a twist of Ragnarokevents, when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to see. This story after a change of outfit, Gemma is shot in the ultimate midst of her graduation ceremony. With Gemma then in High Fantasya coma, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. This what follows is a thick book, complex whodunit with an intricate plot and fascinating characters a list of suspects that are woven together continues to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battlegrow the further you read.|isbn=03565142181542028752