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=='''8 JULY25 APRIL'''==
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|author=Hannah PeckSylvie Cathrall|title=Kate on A Letter to the CaseLuminous Deep|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Meet Kate, although I got the impression she'd rather be There are few greater joys than a Catherine – and one specific Catherine at that. For Catherine Rodriguez is Kate's idol, and the author of our heroine's favourite possession, ''The Special Correspondent Manual''. Armed with a plucky father, that book, and her talking mouse called Rupert, she is all equipped which lives up to manage a train ride to the Arctic, to see her scientist mother for the first time in yonkscompelling premise. However, And this is a train ride with a difference, for on board is a greedy-seeming harridan and her cat, a thief – and two glowing eyes, shining from the darkness in a blink-and-you'll-miss-one of them style. It's definitely a case for a new young investigative journalist...|isbn=184812970X0356522776
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=='''9 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=0008350388Tom Percival|title=We Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha UwagbaThe Wrong Shoes
|rating=5
|genre=Politics and SocietyConfident Readers|summary=Will''To be a dark-skinned Black woman s life is to be seen as less desirable, less hireabledifficult, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts...'' ''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba ''0.7% of English Literature GCSE students in England study a book by a writer multitude of colour while only 7% study a book by a womanways.'' He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes'The Bookseller, he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came to t have enough money for even the UK from Kenya when she was five years old. Her sisters were seven most basic of things like food, and nine. It was her mother who came firsthis dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, with her father joining them later. The family was hardworking a cash-in-working, principled hand job on a building site and determined had an accident. Throw into that their children would have mix the best education possiblefact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. There was always a painful awareness of money although this did not translate into And yet, he still has a shortage tiny amount of anything: it was simply carefully harvestedhope. When Otegha was ten He is good at art, and clings to the family acquired a car. For Oteghamoments of joy when he is drawing, education meant that feel like a scholarship to light at the end of a private school in London and then a place at New Collegelong, Oxforddark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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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'''=={{Frontpage|author=John Boyne|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 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}}
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|author=Louise CandlishMax Boucherat|title=The HeightsLast Life of Lori 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, babysitter poorly, our premother 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 thing, while mum will be leaving her career a hit in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland sharkLori's world. And JuliaBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, well, she will be homesick and alone – until then she suddenly finds company one nightsomething even more spooky.|isbn=1510107789}} =='''7 OCTOBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=John Gwynne|title=The Shadow Of The Gods|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods is For the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled server she and her bestie and their bones lie scattered for all nobody else should be able to seeenter shows signs of tampering. This story is the ultimate in High Fantasy When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to her safe place in the genregame has been doctored – well, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. This where is a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together girl to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.turn?|isbn=03565142180008666482
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