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=='''13 JULY28 SEPTEMBER'''==

|authorisbn=Sarah Langan1800464495|title=Good Neighbours100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths: Support All Areas of Your Baby’s Development by Nurturing a Love of Maths|author=Emma 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 Street, thoughwomb, 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 oksubtraction at nine months old. Until it isn't. One hot, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up in the park across the way. It's a revolting mess of dirt and chaos, but for the residents of Maple Street, the worst is yet to come.|isbn=1789098211}}=='''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. Did you know this? I was intrigued by the plot, liked the design of the book, and thought the authordidn's work sounded interesting. From the outset it all looked incredibly promising. So what on earth went wrong here?|isbn= 1911427091t! How about:}} =='''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 Maths ability on entry to find the grave - and it took some finding, in an overgrown old cemetery. It was school is a strange thing for Scotland's premier criminal to dostrong predictor of later achievement, 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 double that he'd found the grave - the one which said that it shouldn't be opened - and his three sons began to worryof literacy skills. Tam Junior, Frankie and Dave wouldn't normally go to the police but they weren't certain where their father had been and they were worried.}}==I didn'''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 t know this either! I 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 But do we think the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for 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 and private investigators. Dorothy is the matriarch – Californian by birth and instinctIn class, say, she married a scot and ended up helping to run the Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been in the family for generations. Recently widowed when everyone will hear it and now involved with a black Swedish police officereveryone will laugh. Swedish by nationalityAt you. Scottish police. Daughter Jenny, 46, is haunted by Justine Avery's latest entry in her still-living husband – a violent escaped prisoner. And grand-daughter is about to graduate ''Everybody Potties!'' series takes aim at any shame associated with a first-class physics degree tooting and gently and join calmly, with the academic staff next termfamiliar humour attached, explains that tooting is perfectly normal.Everybody does it: ''Everybody Toots''!|isbn=1913193837B09C2RVJ2W}}

=='''2 SEPTEMBER19 OCTOBER'''==

|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de FrestonClaire McGowan|title=Julia and the SharkI Know You

|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Julia''Then:'' Casey returns from a walk with the baby, our pre-teen heroineCarson, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the comes across three bodies, almost a whole family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers taken down. ''Now:'' Rachel is out for a summerwalk with her dog, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be VikingsBrandy, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career when she comes across a body in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one nightwoods. |isbn=15101077891542019974

|author=Ian Mark Antti Tuomainen and Louis GhibaultDavid Hackston (translator)|title=Monster Hunting For BeginnersThe Rabbit Factor|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet JackHenri. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless With a mind so much more focused on maths and nimble and quickcalculations than it is other human beings, he's perfect for his job in the insurance company – until they decide he's not a slight boyteam-member, that they'd prefer everyone to be all open-plan, holistic and although keen on stupid-as workshopping. This is when he wants for danger and peril and interesting things finds his dad refuses to let him out of brother has died, having a heart attack while busy changing his sightVolvo's radio channel, and has left Henri everything. ThatUnfortunately (or otherwise) that 's because Jackeverything's mother knew all about monstersis just an adventure park, and look nothing else. ''YouMeFun'' is so not what happened Henri wants to her – she died. Luckily or unluckily then, depending on your point of viewoccupy his mind, but he perks up a giant ogre will threaten his aunt little when Jack's father also goes AWOL, Jack will fluke he sees huge holes in the ogre's death, finances – it runs at a dwarfish wizardsteady money-type will make him an apprentice monster huntermoving pace, despite some desultory staff ideas, but loans have been made out and hethe amount vanished. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on the scene to explain that missing money – it'll be given s been turned into a book gambling debt that tells him all he needs has also now been inherited by Henri, and the activities of these guys are not conducive to know about the perils he always wanted closer contact with. The book's name? ''Monster Hunting for Beginners''getting a cheap life insurance plan...|isbn=0755501942191319387X

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

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

|summary=In a town sleazy enough The novel begins by introducing you to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparisonGemma, a teacher has been transported across town who at night in a shopping trolleyfirst instance appears to be your average student, and she's been taped to a tree and she's had rocks bowled at her as if she were faced with the world's tallest cricket stumps. When she's discovered by the town gossip everyonefamiliar horrifying realisation, including at the local copseleventh hour, are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place that her graduation outfit is reluctantly home toall wrong. An arson attack on that shows the feeling – and itSuddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''He is not who he says he is…''s only fair, is paving the general opinion, way for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditionssinister tone that remains throughout the novel. Cue the arrival In a twist of George Manolisevents, and after a higher rank from change of outfit, Gemma is shot in the city, to sort everything outmidst of her graduation ceremony. Because such an aggrievedWith Gemma then in a coma, insular community what follows is really going a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down grow the law..further you read.|isbn=15294169731542028752