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=='''5 AUGUST28 OCTOBER'''==

|author=John BoyneAntti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)|title=The Echo ChamberRabbit Factor|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Meet George CleverleyHenri. He With a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is selfother human beings, he's perfect for his job in the insurance company – until they decide he's not a team-member, that they'd prefer everyone to be all open-plan, holistic and keen on stupid-defined as "one of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without a criminal record"workshopping. He starts this book This is when he finds his brother has died, having a bit worried when heart attack while busy changing his mistress tells him sheVolvo's carrying radio channel, and has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' is just an adventure park, and nothing else. ''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants to occupy his childmind, but then his author wife is getting her kicks with he perks up a little when he sees huge holes in the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. They have three children, who are finances – it runs at a sadsteady money-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoevermoving pace, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signallingdespite some desultory staff ideas, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save the world's homeless with but loans have been made out-of-date food, and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thingamount vanished. Add in Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on the scene to explain that missing money – it's been turned into a few other characters – therapists, lawyers, random transgender types – gambling debt that all have two very different connections to his lifehas also now been inherited by Henri, and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach the activities of these guys are not conducive to the modern worldgetting a cheap life insurance plan.. What suggests the farcical approach even more, however, is the fact this is bloody funny.|isbn=0857526219191319387X

|author=Louise CandlishTeresa Driscoll|title=The HeightsHer Perfect Family|rating=4.5

|summary=Ellen doesn't expect The novel begins by introducing you to Gemma, who at first instance appears to see Kieran be your average student, faced with the familiar horrifying realisation, at the eleventh hour, that dayher graduation outfit is all wrong. SheSuddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''He is not who he says he is…''s on site, visiting a client paving the way for a lighting consultation when she spies him in a building across the waysinister tone that remains throughout the novel. There are lots In a twist of thingsevents, lots and after a change of peopleoutfit, you might see when you look out across London, but this isn't one Ellen expected that day or Gemma is shot in fact any other daythe midst of her graduation ceremony. Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two yearsWith Gemma then in a coma, and Ellen knows this for what follows is a fact, because she had complex whodunit with a hand in his murderlist of suspects that continues to grow the further you read.|isbn=14711834831542028752

=='''19 AUGUST4 NOVEMBER'''==

|author=Doug JohnstoneLucy Hope|title=The Great Silence|rating=4|genre=Crime|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 a good job of bringing the backstory in without being heavy handed about it. Skelf isn't some fantastic creature, though it sounds as though it ought to be, it is merely the surname of a family of undertakers. Undertakers and private investigators. Dorothy is the matriarch – Californian by birth and instinct, she married a scot and ended up helping to run the Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been in the family for generations. Recently widowed and now involved with a black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jenny, 46, is haunted by her still-living husband – a violent escaped prisoner. And grand-daughter is about to graduate with a first-class physics degree and join the academic staff next term.|isbn=1913193837}} =='''2 SEPTEMBER'''=={{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}}{{Frontpage|author=Ian Mark and Louis Ghibault|title=Monster Hunting For BeginnersFledgling

|summary=Meet JackBavaria, 1900. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless and nimble and quickOur scene is a most peculiar hilltop house, for he's a slight boybuilt bit by bit over the decades, and although he wants for danger now looking imperiously down on the village and peril and interesting things his dad refuses to let him out of his sightwoods below. ThatIt's because Jack's mother knew all about monstersan eccentric house, and look what happened to her – she died. Luckily or unluckily thenhost eccentrics, depending on your point of view, a giant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jackso the library shelving system is not as we's father also goes AWOLd know it, Jack will fluke the ogre's deathroof is retractable, there is a dwarfish wizardsteam-type will make him powered, hand-operated lift system cut through it, and so on. At the moment it houses an apprentice monster hunterex-soldier with PTSD and a passion for the long-standing family hobby of taxidermy, a woman who does nothing but quibble, kvetch and he'll be given sing opera loudly, and the dying grandma to our heroine, Cassie, a book that tells him young lass who has to do all he needs to know about the perils he always wanted closer contact withmaintenance of this bizarre machine-like abode. The bookOh but it's name? ''Monster Hunting for Beginners'also going to house someone or something else, when crashing through Cassie's bedroom window one stormy day is a cherub. And if you think such a heavenly arrival is going to be a completely great and wonderful thing, think again...|isbn=0755501942183994188X

|author=Emma CarrollWill Carver|title=The Week at World's EndPsychopaths Anonymous|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=FirstMaeve is a high functioning alcoholic, the title. We're in World's End Closedrinking continuously and also, a mediocre set of housescuriously, where Stevie (Vie addicted to her friends) finds fun only with the family dog and with the boy over the roadattending numerous AA groups. But we could She is also be at World's End, because something taking a great chunk of self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and critiquing the fun away AA steps she is mainly using the fact that the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking offgroups to find targets... The Soviet boats are getting blockaded as America tries targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed her desire to reduce the risk hear of nuclear missiles offshorepeople's misery, and not much else is able to make the news. That said, Vie has news of targets for her own – Anna, a secretive young woman hiding in their coal shedviolent behaviour. Anna hasYet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she does, in no short time, taken a strong interest in the American airforce base behind the Close, said and when she'd locate something she wanted and leave, failed s unable to leave, and implied her life was at risk. But surely this bit find like-minded people in any 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 name, or why he is there but he is used groups she decides to the systemset up her own, used hoping to different places and different faces. He meets Dom encounter others who names him Sol share similar obsessions, and sets out to teach him the rules 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 thus Psychopaths Anonymous 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 againborn.|isbn=19126269771913193756

|author=Freya SampsonMarske|title=The Last LibraryA Marvellous Light

|genre=General Historical Fiction|summary=I am always Robin Blyth is nudged into 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 job 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)Civil Service, much to his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and she has barely any friends and spends her evenings eating learns that the same Chinese takeaway meal once a week whilst reading books alone! But I didn't immediately throw the book out streets of the window, because I found I was interested in June, and why she lived as she didLondon are threaded with magic. Her mum used Desperate to be remove a librarian at the village library, but when she got sickcurse that threatens to swallow him, June gave up on going Robin follows Edwin to University and stayed at home to take care of her mumthe countryside, as well as taking on a job as library assistant at where 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, hedgegrows bristle with incantations and still reading her mum's old booksthe people shimmer with power. June is stuck, but little does she know, everything There they uncover a sinister plot that threatens the lives of all magicians in her life is about the changeBritish Isles.|isbn=183877369X1529080886

=='''16 SEPTEMBER6 JANUARY 2022'''==

|author=Alex FoulkesLucy Strange and Pam Smy|title=Rules for VampiresThe Mermaid in the Millpond

|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or 'Leo' for short) There is no mermaid in the millpond. That at least is what Bess is a Vampiretelling herself. She drinks blood, she sleeps during the day, and she can Grimwalk (turning into Neither will there be a flock of bats to travel around, although not friend for her in amongst all of them remember to come back). Pretty cool stuff. Now, on the night of her hundredth birthnightother kids, she has who have had their entire childhoods sold to go out and hunt her first human. However, instead she ends up killing two humans the mill-owners by accident and burning down an orphanagethe London workhouse they used to call home. Oops! And Bess knows there is no time for friendship in a hand-to make things worse-mouth, the ghosts of one of the orphans and the evil master every man for himself kind of the orphanage come back to haunt herexistence. So, not only But despite herself Bess does Leo have to team up with the friendly ghost Minna to stop the ghost find a bit of a kindred spirit in the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerfulslight little Dot, she and despite everything that life has to do it all while hiding it from taught her family. Did I mention vampires about betrayal and ghosts hate each other? Yeahhow befriending people only leads to harm, theremight be a glimmer of companionship in the tired-out mill workers. But surely that doesn's a reason why t mean there are rules for vampires…is any truth in the existence of the mermaid?|isbn=147119955X180090049X

=='''7 OCTOBER18 JANUARY'''==

|author=John GwynneAntoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=The Shadow Of The GodsRed is My Heart|rating=3.5|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction |summary=The Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set [[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarokmy house. And so was this one, when the Gods although I could have battled spelled that more accurately – this one was, and their bones lie scattered for all to see. This story is the ultimate in High Fantasy, black and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language white and battles galorered. This is a thick bookYes, with he has an intricate plot artistic collaborator on this piece, and fascinating characters that are woven together I think it's possible to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battlesay not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideas.|isbn=03565142181913547183

|author=Peter PapathanasiouChristopher Edge|title=The StoningEscape Room|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=In I've seen junior variants of the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms – the process by which a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous character or characters start by being trapped in comparison, a teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolleyspecific location, and shehave to solve problems in order to get their way out. What I's been taped to ve not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) is seen a tree and she's had rocks bowled at her as if she were prose book describing people in such an adventure, with the world's tallest cricket stumps. When she's discovered regular second person narrative replaced by the town gossip everyonefirst. Here, Ami and four other tweenagers, including all new to each other and booked into the local copsgame without any of their friends, are quite confident a team – starting out at the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to. An arson attack on that shows the feeling – and itgame's only fair, is the general opinionmain offices, where they're told they and their quest for the occupants The Answer are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. Cue the arrival of George Manolis, a higher rank from the city, to sort everything outworld-changer. Because But could watching people engage with such an aggrieveda pastime, insular community is really going to welcome a Greekdespite the ramped-heritaged city boy laying down up threat levels, change much in the law...world of literature?|isbn=15294169731788007964

|author=Claire McGowanLouie Stowell|title=I Know YouLoki: A Bad God's Guide to Being Good|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Meet 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 Loki is spending a month both in exile and in the physical form of a middle-school kid here on Earth. He'Then:'' Casey returns from s guarded by a giant and a walk with god in disguise as his parents, and Thor has come along as well, to be the babymore suave, Carsonmore popular and more successful brother of the two. Loki has a month to redeem his reputation, and comes across three bodiesget his moral compass pointing the right way again, or else, almost and to prove it he has to write the text we read in a whole family taken downsentient notebook, that is able to cry foul of his lies, and judge his progress. ''Now:'' Rachel But Loki is out the kind of god who insists he can do anything, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month is going to be a walk with her dog, Brandy, when she comes across a body in the woodspark...right?|isbn=15420199741406399752

=='''28 OCTOBER3 MARCH'''==

|author=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)Marcus Sedgwick|title=The Rabbit FactorWrath|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Meet HenriFitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. With a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it Lockdown is other human beingsonly just over, and he's perfect for his job in the insurance company – until they decide should be free to do what he's not a team-memberwants, that they'd prefer everyone to be all open-plan, holistic go where he wants and keen on stupid-as workshopping. This is when with whom he finds his brother has died, having a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channel, and has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' is just an adventure park, and nothing else. ''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants to occupy his mind, but he perks up a little cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he sees huge holes in the finances – it runs at talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a steady money-moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideasschool band, but loans have been made out and Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the amount vanishedearth. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the scene to explain that missing money – world is already a done deal? Is itsome spooky new kind of music she's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henridreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, and the activities of these guys are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance planwhen Cassie has gone missing he can't...|isbn=191319387X1800900899