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=='''3 AUGUST25 APRIL'''==
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|author=Darren ShanSylvie Cathrall|title=Archibald Lox and A Letter to the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3Luminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=So. Having done the impossible and unpicked the lock to the Forgotten Crypt, from There are few greater joys than a book which the Departed communicate with the Merge, Archie now has ''grop'' lives up to think abouta compelling premise. But before that, soirees. Soirees! Archie, much to Inez's amusement, doesn't even know what And this is one of those is. But he manages to come through the fancy party unscathed, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume of this seriesthem. |isbn=B093J9TF730356522776
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=='''5 AUGUST9 MAY'''==
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|rating=5
|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Meet George CleverleyWill's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is self-defined as "one of bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the few television personalities over wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the age most basic of fifty without a criminal record". He starts this book a bit worried when things like food, and his mistress tells him shedad can's carrying his child, but then t work because he lost his author wife is getting her kicks with job at the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. They have three childrencollege, who are was working a sadcash-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, in-hand job on a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signallingbuilding site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save the worldand Will's homeless with out-of-date foodlife seems bleak in every direction. And yet, and he still has a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thingtiny amount of hope. Add in a few other characters – therapists He is good at art, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections and clings to his lifethe moments of joy when he is drawing, and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to feel like a light at the modern world. What suggests the farcical approach even moreend of a long, however, is the fact this is bloody funnydark tunnel.|isbn=08575262191398527122
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=='''23 MAY'''==
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|author=Louise CandlishOnyi Nwabineli|title=The HeightsAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Ellen doesn't expect Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to see Kieran that day. Sheher step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on sitesocial media, visiting a client where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for a lighting consultation when sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she spies him in a building across is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the waycontent about her. There are lots of things Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, lots of undergoing therapy and secretly abusing peopleonline and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, you might see when you look out across Londonshe is desperately worried about her little sister, but this isnwho is the new focus of Ophelia't one Ellen expected that day or in fact any other days online empire. Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years Can she save her sister, and Ellen knows this for a fact, because she had a hand in his murder.perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=14711834830861546873
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=='''19 AUGUST6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Doug Johnstone|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 Kieran Larwood 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 grandJoe Todd-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 FrestonStanton|title=Julia and the SharkDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=JuliaMeet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, our premage and healer enter specially prepared, century-teen heroineold, magical mazes, and race to the exit, has been packed off perhaps bothering with her parents the treasure or the big bad and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for a summerKit, in the far NE only thing he's seen of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikingslatest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, that kind and a new trio of Scottish islandquestors is needed. Dad is going Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to be automating the lantern, which is goading from the token bully of his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland sharkworld and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. And JuliaWhat chance does this friendless, wellmuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=15101077891839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Ian Mark and Louis Ghibault1635866847|title=Monster Hunting For BeginnersThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=Meet Jack. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless and nimble and quick, for heIt's a slight boystrange, and although he wants the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for danger and peril and interesting things his dad refuses to let him out of his sightyou. That Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's because Jack[https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's mother knew all about monsters, and look what happened to her – she died. Luckily or unluckily then, depending on your point a picture of view, a giant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jackslice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don's father also goes AWOL, Jack will fluke the ogret eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's death, a dwarfish wizard-type will make him an apprentice monster hunterrecipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and he'll be given I was told to make a book that tells him all he needs mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to know about fold down the perils he always wanted closer contact withcorners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. The book's name? I ''Monster Hunting for Beginnersloved''this book already...|isbn=0755501942
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=='''4 JULY'''==
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|author=Emma CarrollMax Boucherat|title=The Week at World's EndLast Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=First, We meet Lori on the title. Wefirst evening she're s got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in World's End Close, a mediocre set of housesbabysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, where Stevie (Vie to on her friends) finds fun only with the family dog and with the boy over the roadlonesome. But we What could also be at World's Endpossibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, because something taking a great chunk of the fun away is the fact and that the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking off. The Soviet boats are getting blockaded as America tries to reduce log on to Voxminer, the risk of nuclear missiles offshoreworld-building, and not much else critter-collecting game that is able to make the news. That said, Vie has news of her own – Anna, a secretive young woman hiding hit in their coal shedLori's world. Anna But first Lori has, in no short time, taken a strong interest in the American airforce base behind the Closetiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, said and then she'd locate finds something even more spooky. For the server she wanted and leave, failed her bestie and nobody else should be able to leaveenter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and implied her life was at risk. But surely this bit of intrigue safe place in the game has got nothing been doctored – well, where is a girl to do with what the Cold War is doing miles awayturn?|isbn=05713644380008666482
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