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

|isbn=00083503881800464495|title=We Need 100 Ways in 100 Days 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 t know this either! I think most parents are aware that giving your children a good. I was intrigued by the plotstart in literacy - reading stories, liked the design of the bookteaching pen grips, 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}} =='''16 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=B0925KS87N|title=Dead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Tam Hardie had been determined to find the grave singing rhymes - and it took some finding, in an overgrown old cemeterygives children a solid foundation when they start school. It was a strange thing for Scotland's premier criminal to But do, but Tam was getting old and there were things he wanted to do. Only, his family didn't hear from him again after he'd said that he'd found we think the grave - the one which said that it shouldn't be opened - and his three sons began to worry. Tam Juniorsame way about maths, Frankie and Dave wouldnbeyond counting? I don't normally go to the police but they weren't certain where their father had been and they were worried.}}=='''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 thinkwe do, seeing on the map that we're set in Akranes, and finding it's only twenty kilometres from the capital city, that this author is clutching at the few final straws left. However just part because the book aims for the usual small-town feel, it's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago a woman failed to turn up for her date evening, and was never seen again. 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 the girl back, and a couple so many of us are afraid of delighted adoptersmaths. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone why are we? Most of us use was at a high level until it stopped all of a sudden, maths in one place, the woman's car was found miles away in a second place, daily life without realising and now, after six months, the body has been discovered, 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 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 follows that of giving our children a new and timely genre, clisimilar pre-fi, or climate change fiction. North's novel tells of a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to start anew and live alongside nature without any of the modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons of mass destruction, intensive farming). There is a growing unhappiness with this limiting world, and one group, the Brotherhood, aims to master these processes no matter the cost to the Earthschool 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

=='''14 OCTOBER'''=={{Frontpage|author= Justine Avery and Naday Meldova|title=Everybody Toots! (Everybody Potties!)|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary= Toots, trumps, farts. Whatever your word for them, find us a child that doesn't find them irresistibly funny. Funny to talk about and joke about, that is. But horribly embarrassing if you let one go at the wrong time. In class, say, when everyone will hear it and everyone will laugh. At you. Justine Avery's latest entry in her ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with tooting and gently and calmly, with the familiar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal. Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|isbn= B09C2RVJ2W}}  =='''19 AUGUSTOCTOBER'''==

|author=Doug JohnstoneClaire McGowan|title=The Great SilenceI Know You

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=For those who, like me, haven't come across the Skelfs before, I'll risk a quick synopsis of whoThen:''s who – although Johnstone does Casey returns from a good job of bringing walk with the backstory in without being heavy handed about it. Skelf isn't some fantastic creaturebaby, Carson, though it sounds as though it ought to beand comes across three bodies, it is merely the surname of almost a whole family of undertakerstaken down. Undertakers and private investigators. Dorothy  ''Now:'' Rachel is the matriarch – Californian by birth and instinct, she married out for a scot and ended up helping to run the Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been in the family for generations. Recently widowed and now involved walk with a black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jennyher dog, 46Brandy, is haunted by her still-living husband – when she comes across a violent escaped prisoner. And grand-daughter is about to graduate with 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