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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'''==

|isbnauthor=0241989094Teresa Driscoll|title=The Her Perfect Life|author=Nuala EllwoodFamily|rating=45

|summary=In August 2018 we meet a young woman called Imogen and she's viewing a house in Goring-on-Thames and telling The 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 estate agent about eleventh hour, that her three childrengraduation outfit is all wrong. Suddenly, LavenderGemma receives an eerie message stating ''He is not who he says he is…'', Freddie and Barclaypaving the way for the sinister tone that remains throughout the novel. The boys are In a bit twist of events, and after a handful which change of outfit, Gemma is why she's making this trip on shot in the midst of her owngraduation ceremony. The house would be perfect for themWith Gemma then in a coma, what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to grow the further you read.|isbn=1542028752}}

It=='s the same month but now we're in Wimbledon and we encounter the same young woman, only this time she's job hunting and living in her sister, Georgie4 NOVEMBER's, spare room, where she's been since she broke up with her boyfriend, Connor.}}'==

|author=John BoyneLucy Hope|title=The Echo ChamberFledgling|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Meet George CleverleyBavaria, 1900. He Our scene is self-defined as "one of a most peculiar hilltop house, built bit by bit over the few television personalities over decades, and now looking imperiously down on the age of fifty without a criminal record"village and woods below. He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him sheIt's carrying his childan eccentric house, to host eccentrics, but then his author wife so the library shelving system is getting her kicks with not as we'd know it, the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. They have three childrenroof is retractable, who are there is a sadsteam-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoeverpowered, a girl who hangs around with a virtuehand-signallingoperated lift system cut through it, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save and so on. At the world's homeless moment it houses an ex-soldier with outPTSD and a passion for the long-standing family hobby of-date foodtaxidermy, and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thing. Add in a few other characters – therapistswoman who does nothing but quibble, lawyerskvetch and sing opera loudly, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections and the dying grandma to his lifeour heroine, and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach Cassie, a young lass who has to do all the modern worldmaintenance of this bizarre machine-like abode. What suggests the farcical approach even more, howeverOh but it's also going to house someone or something else, when crashing through Cassie's bedroom window one stormy day is the fact this a cherub. And if you think such a heavenly arrival is bloody funnygoing to be a completely great and wonderful thing, think again...|isbn=0857526219183994188X

|author=Louise CandlishWill Carver|title=The HeightsPsychopaths Anonymous|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'''=={{Frontpage|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Julia and the Shark|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, 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 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.|isbn=1510107789}}

|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