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=='''3 AUGUST28 OCTOBER'''==

|author=Darren ShanAntti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3The Rabbit Factor|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=SoMeet Henri. Having done the impossible With a mind so much more focused on maths and unpicked the lock to the Forgotten Cryptcalculations than it is other human beings, from which he's perfect for his job in the Departed communicate with the Mergeinsurance company – until they decide he's not a team-member, Archie now has ''grop'that they' d prefer everyone to think about. But before thatbe all open-plan, soireesholistic and keen on stupid-as workshopping. Soirees! ArchieThis is when he finds his brother has died, much to Inezhaving a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's amusementradio channel, doesnand has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything't even know what one of those isjust an adventure park, and nothing else. But ''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants to occupy his mind, but he perks up a little when he manages to come through sees huge holes in the fancy party unscathedfinances – it runs at a steady money-moving pace, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtisdespite some desultory staff ideas, but loans have been made out and the amount vanished. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on the scene to explain that missing money – it's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in and the first volume activities of this seriesthese guys are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance plan... |isbn=B093J9TF73191319387X

=='''5 AUGUST1 NOVEMBER'''==

|author=John BoyneTeresa Driscoll|title=The Echo ChamberHer Perfect Family

|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=Meet George CleverleyThe novel begins by introducing you to Gemma, who at first instance appears to be your average student, faced with the familiar horrifying realisation, at the eleventh hour, that her graduation outfit is all wrong. Suddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''He is self-defined as "one of not who he says he is…'', paving the way for the few television personalities over sinister tone that remains throughout the age novel. In a twist of fifty without events, and after a criminal record". He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him she's carrying his childchange of outfit, but then his author wife Gemma is getting her kicks with shot in the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired midst of her withgraduation ceremony. They have three children, who are With Gemma then in a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoevercoma, what follows is a girl who hangs around complex whodunit with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save the world's homeless with out-list of-date food, and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thing. Add in a few other characters – therapists, lawyers, random transgender types – suspects that all have two very different connections continues to his life, and grow the further 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 funnyread.|isbn=08575262191542028752

|author=Louise CandlishLucy Hope|title=The HeightsFledgling

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Ellen doesnBavaria, 1900. Our scene is a most peculiar hilltop house, built bit by bit over the decades, and now looking imperiously down on the village and woods below. It't expect s an eccentric house, to see Kieran that day. Shehost eccentrics, so the library shelving system is not as we's d know it, the roof is retractable, there is a steam-powered, hand-operated lift system cut through it, and so on site, visiting . At the moment it houses an ex-soldier with PTSD and a client passion for the long-standing family hobby of taxidermy, a lighting consultation when she spies him in woman who does nothing but quibble, kvetch and sing opera loudly, and the dying grandma to our heroine, Cassie, a building across young lass who has to do all the waymaintenance of this bizarre machine-like abode. There are lots of things, lots of peopleOh but it's also going to house someone or something else, you might see when you look out across London, but this isncrashing through Cassie't s bedroom window one Ellen expected that day or in fact any other stormy dayis a cherub. Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years, And if you think such a heavenly arrival is going to be a completely great and Ellen knows this for a factwonderful thing, because she had a hand in his murderthink again...|isbn=1471183483183994188X

=='''19 AUGUST25 NOVEMBER'''==

|author=Doug JohnstoneWill Carver|title=The Great SilencePsychopaths Anonymous|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=For those whoMaeve is a high functioning alcoholic, like medrinking continuously and also, haven't come across the Skelfs beforecuriously, I'll risk a quick synopsis of who's who – although Johnstone does a good job of bringing the backstory in without being heavy handed about itaddicted to attending numerous AA groups. Skelf isn't some fantastic creature, though it sounds as though it ought to be, it She is merely the surname of also a family of undertakersself-acknowledged psychopath. Undertakers Whilst analysing and private investigators. Dorothy critiquing the AA steps she is mainly using the matriarch – Californian by birth and instinct, she married a scot and ended up helping groups to run the Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been in the family for generationsfind targets. Recently widowed and now involved with a black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jennytargets for sexual encounters, 46targets to feed her desire to hear of people's misery, is haunted by and targets for her still-living husband – a violent escaped prisonerbehaviour. And grandYet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she does, and when she's unable to find like-daughter is about minded people in any of the groups she decides to set up her own, hoping to graduate with a first-class physics degree encounter others who share similar obsessions, and join the academic staff next termthus Psychopaths Anonymous is born.|isbn=19131938371913193756

=='''2 SEPTEMBER9 DECEMBER'''==

|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de FrestonFreya Marske|title=Julia and the SharkA Marvellous Light

|genre=Confident ReadersHistorical Fiction|summary=JuliaRobin Blyth is nudged into a job in the Civil Service, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents much to his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and their cat from learns that the family home in SW England streets of London are threaded with magic. Desperate to be lighthousekeepers for remove a summercurse that threatens to swallow him, in Robin follows Edwin to the countryside, where the far NE of hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the Scottish islandspeople shimmer with power. Here be Vikings, There they uncover a sinister plot that kind threatens the lives of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career all magicians in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland sharkBritish Isles. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|isbn=15101077891529080886

|author=Ian Mark Lucy Strange and Louis GhibaultPam Smy|title=Monster Hunting For BeginnersThe Mermaid in the Millpond

|summary=Meet JackThere is no mermaid in the millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Now Jack Neither will there be a friend for her in amongst all the other kids, who have had their entire childhoods sold to the mill-owners by the London workhouse they used to call home. Bess knows very little about being fearless and nimble and quick, there is no time for he's friendship in a slight boyhand-to-mouth, and although he wants every man for danger and peril and interesting things his dad refuses to let him out himself kind of his sightexistence. That's because Jack's mother knew all about monsters, and look what happened to her – she died. Luckily or unluckily then, depending on your point But despite herself Bess does find a bit of view, a giant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jack's father also goes AWOL, Jack will fluke kindred spirit in the ogre's deathslight little Dot, a dwarfish wizard-type will make him an apprentice monster hunterand despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to harm, and he'll there might be given a book that tells him all he needs to know about glimmer of companionship in the perils he always wanted closer contact withtired-out mill workers. The bookBut surely that doesn's namet mean there is any truth in the existence of the mermaid? ''Monster Hunting for Beginners''...|isbn=0755501942180090049X

|author=Emma CarrollAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=The Week at World's EndRed is My Heart|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction |summary=First, the title[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in my house. We're in World's End CloseAnd so was this one, a mediocre set of houses, where Stevie (Vie to her friends) finds fun only with the family dog and with the boy over the road. But we although I could also be at World's End, because something taking a great chunk of the fun away is the fact have spelled that the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking off. The Soviet boats are getting blockaded as America tries to reduce the risk of nuclear missiles offshoremore accurately – this one was, and not much else is able to make the news. That said, Vie has news of her own – Anna, a secretive young woman hiding in their coal shed. Anna has, in no short time, taken a strong interest in the American airforce base behind the Close, said she'd locate something she wanted black and leave, failed to leave, white and implied her life was at riskred. But surely this bit of intrigue has got nothing to do with what the Cold War is doing miles away?|isbn=0571364438}}{{Frontpage|author= Angharad Walker|title= The Ash House|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= A new boy arrives at The Ash House. He doesn't know his nameYes, or why he is there but he is used to the systemhas an artistic collaborator on this piece, used to different places and different faces. He meets Dom who names him Sol and sets out I think it's possible to teach him say not one page lacks the rules influence of The Ash House. These rules centre on a variety of Nicenesses set out by the absent Headmaster. All children must remember their Niceness and complete their chores, working as a hive in the smouldering shadows of The Ash House. But soon their easy peace is shattered by the arrival of the Doctor. By the end of the story, lives will be changed forever and The Ash House will never be the same againsome striking visual ideas.|isbn=19126269771913547183

=='''7 OCTOBER3 FEBRUARY'''==

|author=John GwynneChristopher Edge|title=The Shadow Of The GodsEscape Room|rating=53|genre=FantasyConfident Readers|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment I've seen junior variants of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in 'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms – the era of the Vikings process by which a character or characters start by being trapped in the shadow of Ragnaroka specific location, when the Gods and have battled and to solve problems in order to get their bones lie scattered way out. What I've not done (alongside experience one for all to see. This story myself – for that would require actual friends) is seen a prose book describing people in such an adventure, with the regular second person narrative replaced by the ultimate in High Fantasyfirst. Here, Ami and John Gwynne certainly does justice four other tweenagers, all new to each other and booked into the genregame without any of their friends, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. This is are a thick bookteam – starting out at the game's main offices, with an intricate plot where they're told they and fascinating characters that their quest for The Answer are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world -changer. But could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite the ramped-up threat levels, change much in which our heroes must do battle.the world of literature?|isbn=03565142181788007964

|author=Peter PapathanasiouLouie Stowell|title=The StoningLoki: A Bad God's Guide to Being Good|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=In a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparison, a teacher Meet Loki. The trickster god has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolleygot into trouble again, and sheso the other gods have decided there's been taped to only one thing for it – he must be banished. And transformed – for Loki is spending a tree month both in exile and she's had rocks bowled at her as if she were in the world's tallest cricket stumpsphysical form of a middle-school kid here on Earth. When sheHe's discovered guarded by the town gossip everyonea giant and a god in disguise as his parents, and Thor has come along as well, including to be the local copsmore suave, are quite confident more popular and more successful brother of the culprit two. Loki has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home a month to. An arson attack on that shows redeem his reputation, and get his moral compass pointing the feeling – right way again, or else, and to prove it's only fairhe has to write the text we read in a sentient notebook, that is the general opinionable to cry foul of his lies, for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditionsand judge his progress. Cue But Loki is the arrival kind of George Manolisgod who insists he can do anything, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a higher rank from the city, to sort everything out. Because such an aggrieved, insular community month is really going to welcome be a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down walk in the lawpark...right?|isbn=15294169731406399752

=='''19 OCTOBER3 MARCH'''==

|author=Claire McGowanMarcus Sedgwick|title=I Know YouWrath|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersTeens|summary=''Then:'' Casey returns from Meet Fitz, a walk young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with the babywhom he wants, Carsonbut he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, and comes across three bodiesCassie. They were half of a desultory school band, almost but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a whole family taken downsubhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she''Now:'' Rachel is s dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out for a walk with her dog, Brandythe truth? Well, not when she comes across a body in the woodsCassie has gone missing he can't... |isbn=15420199741800900899