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=='''17 JUNE25 APRIL'''==
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|author=Joseph KnoxSylvie Cathrall|title=True Crime StoryA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary= Joseph Knox, known for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waits, has created There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a new genre with his latest novel, "True Crime Story"compelling premise. The story follows the disappearance of Zoe Nolan from her university halls of residence. Split into four parts, the reader And this is taken through the life and disappearance one of Zoe through the eyes of her twin sister, other family, friends and professionals, such as the police. The various accounts help the reader get to know Zoe, or at least the Zoe she presented to others. However, the twists and turns at the end of each chapter leave you shocked, confused and unsure of what is true or fabricatedthem. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=08575277030356522776
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=='''9 MAY'''==
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|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet KateWill's life is difficult, although I got the impression she'd rather be in a Catherine – and one specific Catherine at thatmultitude of ways. For Catherine Rodriguez He is Katebullied because he has 'the wrong shoes's idol, he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the author most basic of our heroinethings like food, and his dad can's favourite possessiont work because he lost his job at the college, ''The Special Correspondent Manual''was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Armed with a plucky father, Throw into that mix the fact that bookhis mum and dad are separated, and her talking mouse called RupertWill's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, she is all equipped to manage he still has a train ride to the Arctic, to see her scientist mother for the first time in yonkstiny amount of hope. However, this He is a train ride with a differencegood at art, for on board and clings to the moments of joy when he is a greedy-seeming harridan and her catdrawing, that feel like a thief – and two glowing eyes, shining from light at the darkness in end of a blink-and-you'll-miss-them style. It's definitely a case for a new young investigative journalist..long, dark tunnel.|isbn=184812970X1398527122
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=='''13 JULY23 MAY'''==
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|author=Sarah LanganOnyi Nwabineli|title=Good NeighboursAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers had all Anuri spent her childhood on display to the hallmarks of something good. I was intrigued by the plotworld, liked the design of the book, and thought the authorthanks to her step-mother Ophelia's work sounded interesting. From the outset it all looked incredibly promising. So what increasingly popular presence on earth went wrong here?|isbn= 1911427091}} ==social media, where she posted every step of Anuri'''22 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir s childhood for sponsorships and Victoria Cribb (translator)|title=Girls Who Lie|rating=3|genre=Thrillers|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all the dark corners of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers influencer deals and crime books before now, basically, monetary gain. You think, seeing on the map that we're set Now Anuri is in Akranes, her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and finding it's only twenty kilometres from the capital cityto get her life back, that this author is clutching at suing her step-mother to take down the few final straws leftcontent about her. However just because the book aims for the usual small-town feelAnuri is battling alcoholism, it's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago a woman failed failing to turn up for start her date eveningPhD, undergoing therapy and was never seen againsecretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that Most importantly, she could now live permanently with the couple is desperately worried about her little sister, who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for is the girl back, and a couple new focus of delighted adopters. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until it stopped all of a sudden, in one place, the womanOphelia's car was found miles away in a second place, and now, after six months, the body has been discovered, in a third, even more remote placeonline empire. MeanwhileCan she save her sister, this narrative is interrupted by a confessional monologue from a mother who found and perhaps herself and her relationship with heavy post-natal depression, and very little maternal feeling in her body. Is the assumption that is so easy for the reader to make father at the right onesame time?|isbn=191319373X0861546873
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Claire NorthKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Notes from the Burning AgeDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=At its core ''Notes From the Burning Age'' by Claire North is a spy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or FlemingMeet Kit. However, as with Like most of the best novelspeople in his world, it wears many masks and its most affecting one seems, he is that an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a new team of warrior, mage and timely genrehealer enter specially prepared, clicentury-fiold, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or climate change fictionthe big bad and the points they grant you along the way. North Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's novel tells seen of a world devastated by climate change where humans have the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been forced to start anew retired, eaten, and live alongside nature without any a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the modern goading from the token bully of his world and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons of mass destruction, intensive farming)stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. There is a growing unhappiness with What chance does this limiting worldfriendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and one group, the Brotherhood, aims how could he possibly hope to master these processes no matter the cost to the Earth.succeed?|isbn=03565147571839945184
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=='''3 AUGUST13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Darren Shan1635866847|title=Archibald Lox The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=So. Having done the impossible and unpicked the lock to the Forgotten CryptIt's strange, from which the Departed communicate with things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the Merge, Archie now has book for you. Before I started reading ''gropThe Lavender Companion'' to think about, I visited the author's [https://www. But before that, soireespinelavenderfarm. Soirees! Archie, much to Inezcom/ website] and there's amusement, doesna picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't even know what one of those iseat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. But he manages to come through (There's a recipe in the fancy party unscathedbook, even after an uncomfortable encounter which I'm avoiding with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was crushed told to make a mess of it. Notes in the first volume margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this seriesbook already. |isbn=B093J9TF73
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=='''5 AUGUST4 JULY'''==
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|author=John BoyneMax Boucherat|title=The Echo Chamber|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Meet George Cleverley. He is self-defined as "one of the few television personalities over the age Last Life 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 HeightsLori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=JuliaWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, our prebabysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-teen heroinebreaking eleven year old, has been packed off with on her parents and their cat from the family home lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summerblanket fort, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikingsshe has one main intention, and that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating log on to Voxminer, the lanternworld-building, which critter-collecting game that is his specialist thinga hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, while mum will and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be leaving her career in algae behind able to hunt the elusive Greenland sharkenter shows signs of tampering. And JuliaWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.where is a girl to turn?|isbn=15101077890008666482
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