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=='''22 JULY28 OCTOBER'''==

|author=Claire NorthAntti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)|title=Notes from the Burning AgeThe Rabbit Factor|rating=43.5|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=At its core Meet Henri. With a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is other human beings, he''Notes From s perfect for his job in the Burning Ageinsurance company – until they decide he'' by Claire North is s not a spy thrillerteam-member, with as many double crossesthat they'd prefer everyone to be all open-plan, interrogations holistic and night time escapes keen on stupid-as Le Carre or Flemingworkshopping. HoweverThis is when he finds his brother has died, as with the best novelshaving a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channel, it wears many masks and its most affecting one has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' is that of a new just an adventure park, and timely genrenothing else. ''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants to occupy his mind, clibut he perks up a little when he sees huge holes in the finances – it runs at a steady money-fimoving pace, despite some desultory staff ideas, but loans have been made out and the amount vanished. Fortunately (or climate change fiction. Northotherwise) some people are quickly on the scene to explain that missing money – it's novel tells 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 world devastated cheap life insurance plan...|isbn=191319387X}} =='''1 NOVEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=Teresa Driscoll|title=Her Perfect Family|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=The novel begins by climate change where humans have been forced introducing you to Gemma, who at first instance appears to start anew and live alongside nature without any of be your average student, faced with the modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuelsfamiliar horrifying realisation, weapons of mass destructionat the eleventh hour, intensive farming)that her graduation outfit is all wrong. There Suddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''He is not who he says he is…'', paving the way for the sinister tone that remains throughout the novel. In a growing unhappiness with this limiting worldtwist of events, and one groupafter a change of outfit, Gemma is shot in the Brotherhoodmidst of her graduation ceremony. With Gemma then in a coma, aims what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to master these processes no matter grow the cost to the Earthfurther you read.|isbn=03565147571542028752

=='''3 AUGUST4 NOVEMBER'''==

|author=Darren ShanLucy Hope|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3Fledgling

|summary=SoBavaria, 1900. Having done Our scene is a most peculiar hilltop house, built bit by bit over the impossible decades, and unpicked now looking imperiously down on the lock village and woods below. It's an eccentric house, to host eccentrics, so the Forgotten Cryptlibrary shelving system is not as we'd know it, from which the Departed communicate roof is retractable, there is a steam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through it, and so on. At the moment it houses an ex-soldier with PTSD and a passion for the Mergelong-standing family hobby of taxidermy, a woman who does nothing but quibble, kvetch and sing opera loudly, Archie now has ''grop'' and the dying grandma to think about. But before thatour heroine, soirees. Soirees! ArchieCassie, much a young lass who has to Inezdo all the maintenance of this bizarre machine-like abode. Oh but it's amusementalso going to house someone or something else, doesnwhen crashing through Cassie't even know what s bedroom window one of those stormy day isa cherub. But he manages And if you think such a heavenly arrival is going to come through the fancy party unscathedbe a completely great and wonderful thing, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume of this seriesthink again... |isbn=B093J9TF73183994188X

=='''5 AUGUST25 NOVEMBER'''==

|author=John BoyneWill Carver|title=The Echo ChamberPsychopaths Anonymous|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Meet George Cleverley. He is self-defined as "one of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without a criminal record". He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him she's carrying his child, but then his author wife is getting her kicks with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. They have three children, 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 to save the world's homeless with out-of-date food, and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thing. Add in a few other characters – therapists, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to his life, and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to the modern world. What suggests the farcical approach even more, however, is the fact this is bloody funny.|isbn=0857526219}}{{Frontpage|author=Louise Candlish|title=The Heights|rating=43.5

|summary=Ellen doesn't expect Maeve is a high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously and also, curiously, addicted to see Kieran that dayattending numerous AA groups. She's on site, visiting is also a client for a lighting consultation when self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and critiquing the AA steps she spies him in a building across is mainly using the waygroups to find targets. There are lots of things..targets for sexual encounters, lots targets to feed her desire to hear of people's misery, and targets for her violent behaviour. Yet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she does, you might see and when you look out across London, but this isnshe't one Ellen expected that day or s unable to find like-minded people in fact any other day. Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two yearsof the groups she decides to set up her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and Ellen knows this for a fact, because she had a hand in his murderthus Psychopaths Anonymous is born.|isbn=14711834831913193756

=='''19 AUGUST9 DECEMBER'''==

|author=Doug JohnstoneFreya Marske|title=The Great SilenceA Marvellous Light

|genre=CrimeHistorical Fiction|summary=For those who, like me, haven't come across the Skelfs before, I'll risk a quick synopsis of who's who – although Johnstone does Robin Blyth is nudged into a good job of bringing in the backstory in without being heavy handed about it. Skelf isn't some fantastic creatureCivil Service, though it sounds as though it ought much to be, it is merely his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the surname streets of London are threaded with magic. Desperate to remove a family of undertakers. Undertakers and private investigators. Dorothy is the matriarch – Californian by birth and instinctcurse that threatens to swallow him, she married a scot and ended up helping Robin follows Edwin to run the Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been in countryside, where the family for generations. Recently widowed hedgegrows bristle with incantations and now involved the people shimmer with a black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jenny, 46, is haunted by her still-living husband – a violent escaped prisonerpower. And grand-daughter is about to graduate with There they uncover a first-class physics degree and join sinister plot that threatens the lives of all magicians in the academic staff next termBritish Isles.|isbn=19131938371529080886

=='''2 SEPTEMBER6 JANUARY 2022'''==

|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave Lucy Strange and Tom de FrestonPam Smy|title=Julia and The Mermaid in the SharkMillpond|rating=4.5

|summary=JuliaThere is no mermaid in the millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be a friend for her in amongst all the other kids, our prewho have had their entire childhoods sold to the mill-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from owners by the family London workhouse they used to call home . Bess knows there is no time for friendship in SW England a hand-to be lighthousekeepers -mouth, every man for himself kind of existence. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a summer, kindred spirit in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikingsslight little Dot, and despite everything that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to harm, there might be automating a glimmer of companionship in the lantern, which tired-out mill workers. But surely that doesn't mean there is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career any truth in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.existence of the mermaid?|isbn=1510107789180090049X

|author=Ian Mark Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Louis GhibaultJane Aitken (translator)|title=Monster Hunting For BeginnersRed is My Heart|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction |summary=Meet Jack. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless [[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and nimble white and quickread in my house. And so was this one, for he's a slight boyalthough I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, and although he wants for danger is, black and peril white and interesting things his dad refuses to let him out of his sightred. That's because Jack's mother knew all about monstersYes, and look what happened to her – she died. Luckily or unluckily then, depending he has an artistic collaborator on your point of viewthis piece, a giant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jackand I think it's father also goes AWOL, Jack will fluke the ogre's death, a dwarfish wizard-type will make him an apprentice monster hunter, and he'll be given a book that tells him all he needs possible to know about say not one page lacks the perils he always wanted closer contact with. The book's name? ''Monster Hunting for Beginners''..influence of some striking visual ideas.|isbn=07555019421913547183

|author=Emma CarrollChristopher Edge|title=The Week at World's EndEscape Room|rating=43

|summary=First, I've seen junior variants of the title. We're Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms – the process by which a character or characters start by being trapped in World's End Close, a mediocre set of housesspecific location, where Stevie and have to solve problems in order to get their way out. What I've not done (Vie to her alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) finds fun only with the family dog and is seen a prose book describing people in such an adventure, with the boy over regular second person narrative replaced by the roadfirst. But we could also be at World's EndHere, Ami and four other tweenagers, because something taking a great chunk of the fun away is the fact that the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking off. The Soviet boats are getting blockaded as America tries all new to reduce the risk of nuclear missiles offshore, each other and not much else is able to make booked into the news. That said, Vie has news game without any of her own – Anna, a secretive young woman hiding in their coal shed. Anna hasfriends, in no short time, taken are a strong interest in team – starting out at the American airforce base behind the Closegame's main offices, said shewhere they'd locate something she wanted re told they and leave, failed to leave, and implied her life was at risktheir quest for The Answer are a world-changer. But surely this bit of intrigue has got nothing to do could watching people engage with what such a pastime, despite the ramped-up threat levels, change much in the Cold War is doing miles awayworld of literature?|isbn=05713644381788007964

|author= Angharad WalkerLouie Stowell|title= The Ash HouseLoki: A Bad God's Guide to Being Good|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= A new boy arrives at Meet Loki. The Ash House. He doesn't know his nametrickster god has got into trouble again, or why he is so the other gods have decided there but 's only one thing for it – he must be banished. And transformed – for Loki is used to spending a month both in exile and in the system, used to different places and different facesphysical form of a middle-school kid here on Earth. He meets Dom who names him Sol 's guarded by a giant and a god in disguise as his parents, and sets out Thor has come along as well, to teach him be the rules more suave, more popular and more successful brother of The Ash Housethe two. These rules centre on Loki has a variety of Nicenesses set out by month to redeem his reputation, and get his moral compass pointing the absent Headmaster. All children must remember their Niceness right way again, or else, and complete their choresto prove it he has to write the text we read in a sentient notebook, working as a hive in the smouldering shadows that is able to cry foul of The Ash Househis lies, and judge his progress. But soon their easy peace Loki is shattered by the arrival kind of the Doctor. By the end of the storygod who insists he can do anything, lives will be changed forever and The Ash House will never so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month is going to be a walk in the same againpark...right?|isbn=19126269771406399752

=='''7 OCTOBER3 MARCH'''==

|author=John GwynneMarcus Sedgwick|title=The Shadow Of The GodsWrath|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn SagaMeet Fitz, set in the era a young Scottish lad full of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to seefrustration at himself. This story Lockdown is the ultimate in High Fantasyonly just over, and John Gwynne certainly does justice he should be free to the genredo what he wants, to go where he wants and with mythical creatureswhom he wants, archaic language and battles galore. This is a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in which our heroes must do battle.|isbn=0356514218}}{{Frontpage|author=Peter Papathanasiou|title=The Stoning|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=In a town sleazy enough it when he talks to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparisonhis best friend, Cassie. They were half of a teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolleydesultory school band, and but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she's been taped to could hear a tree and she's had rocks bowled at her as if she were subhuman hum coming from the world's tallest cricket stumpsearth. When she's discovered by Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the town gossip everyone, including end of the local cops, are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place world is reluctantly home to. An arson attack on that shows the feeling – and already a done deal? Is itsome spooky new kind of music she's only fair, is the general opinion, for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. Cue the arrival dreaming of George Manolis, a higher rank from ? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the citytruth? Well, to sort everything out. Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really going to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the lawnot when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|isbn=15294169731800900899