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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'''==

|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 (Vie and have to solve problems in order to her friends) finds fun only with the family dog and with the boy over the roadget their way out. But we could also be at WorldWhat I's End, because something taking a great chunk of the fun away is the fact ve not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that the Cuban Missile Crisis would require actual friends) is kicking off. The Soviet boats are getting blockaded as America tries to reduce the risk of nuclear missiles offshore, and not much else is able to make the news. That said, Vie has news of her own – Anna, seen a secretive young woman hiding in their coal shed. Anna has, prose book describing people in no short timesuch an adventure, taken a strong interest in with the American airforce base behind regular second person narrative replaced by the Closefirst. Here, said she'd locate something she wanted Ami and leavefour other tweenagers, failed to leave, and implied her life was at risk. 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 all new boy arrives at The Ash House. He doesn't know his name, or why he is there but he is used to the system, used to different places and different faces. He meets Dom who names him Sol each other and sets out to teach him booked into the rules game without any of The Ash House. These rules centre on their friends, are a variety of Nicenesses set team – starting out by at the absent Headmaster. All children must remember their Niceness game's main offices, where they're told they and complete their chores, working as quest for The Answer are a hive in the smouldering shadows of The Ash Houseworld-changer. But soon their easy peace is shattered by could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite the arrival of ramped-up threat levels, change much in the Doctor. By the end world of the story, lives will be changed forever and The Ash House will never be the same again.literature?|isbn=19126269771788007964

|author=Freya SampsonLouie Stowell|title=The Last Library|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=I am always a little nervous to start a story about a library, since I am a librarian. I always grit my teeth slightly at the thought of the incoming cardigan-wearing, hair in a bun, cat-owning, glasses on a chain stereotypes! In this story, the main character, June, does put her hair in a bun, and she does own a cat (called Alan Bennett), and she has barely any friends and spends her evenings eating the same Chinese takeaway meal once a week whilst reading books alone! But I didnLoki: A Bad God't immediately throw the book out of the window, because I found I was interested in June, and why she lived as she did. Her mum used s Guide to be a librarian at the village library, but when she got sick, June gave up on going to University and stayed at home to take care of her mum, as well as taking on a job as library assistant at the local library. And even though her mum sadly died some years ago, she is still working there, still eating her mum's favourite takeaway meal, and still reading her mum's old books. June is stuck, but little does she know, everything in her life is about the change.|isbn=183877369X}} =='''16 SEPTEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=Alex Foulkes|title=Rules for VampiresBeing Good

|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or 'LeoMeet Loki. The trickster god has got into trouble again, so the other gods have decided there' s only one thing for it – he must be banished. And transformed – for short) Loki is spending a Vampiremonth both in exile and in the physical form of a middle-school kid here on Earth. She drinks blood, she sleeps during the day, He's guarded by a giant and she can Grimwalk (turning into a flock of bats to travel aroundgod in disguise as his parents, although not all of them remember to and Thor has come back). Pretty cool stuff. Nowalong as well, on to be the night of her hundredth birthnightmore suave, she has to go out more popular and hunt her first human. However, instead she ends up killing more successful brother of the two humans by accident and burning down an orphanage. Oops! And Loki has a month to make things worseredeem his reputation, and get his moral compass pointing the ghosts of one of the orphans right way again, or else, and the evil master of the orphanage come back to haunt her. So, not only does Leo have prove it he has to team up with write the friendly ghost Minna text we read in a sentient notebook, that is able to stop cry foul of his lies, and judge his progress. But Loki is the ghost kind of the Orphanmaster before god who insists he becomes unstoppably powerfulcan do anything, she has so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month is going to do it all while hiding it from her familybe a walk in the park... Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each otherright? Yeah, there's a reason why there are rules for vampires…|isbn=147119955X1406399752

=='''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=1529416973}} =='''19 OCTOBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=Claire McGowan|title=I Know You|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=''Then:'' Casey returns from a walk with the baby, Carson, and comes across three bodies, almost a whole family taken down. ''Now:'' Rachel is out for a walk with her dog, Brandy, when she comes across a body in the woods. |isbn=15420199741800900899