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=='''28 OCTOBER25 APRIL'''==
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|author=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)Sylvie Cathrall|title=The Rabbit FactorA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=3.5|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Meet Henri. With a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations There are few greater joys than it is other 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 book which lives up to be all open-plan, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshopping. This is when he finds his brother has died, having a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channel, and has left Henri everythingcompelling premise. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' And this 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 when he sees huge holes in the finances – it runs at a steady money-moving pace, despite 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, and the activities one of these guys are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance plan..them.|isbn=191319387X0356522776
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 =='''1 NOVEMBER9 MAY'''==
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|author=Teresa DriscollTom Percival|title=Her Perfect FamilyThe Wrong Shoes
|rating=5
|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=The novel begins by introducing you to GemmaWill's life is difficult, who at first instance appears to be your average student, faced with the familiar horrifying realisation, at the eleventh hour, that her graduation outfit is all wrongin a multitude of ways. Suddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating '' He is not who bullied because he says he is…has 'the wrong shoes', paving he has the way wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the sinister tone most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that remains throughout mix the novelfact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. In And yet, he still has a twist tiny amount of eventshope. He is good at art, and after a change clings to the moments of outfitjoy when he is drawing, Gemma is shot in that feel like a light at the midst end of her graduation ceremony. With Gemma then in a comalong, what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to grow the further you readdark tunnel.|isbn=15420287521398527122
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 =='''4 NOVEMBER23 MAY'''==
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|author=Lucy HopeOnyi Nwabineli|title=FledglingAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Bavaria, 1900. Our scene is a most peculiar hilltop house, built bit by bit over the decades, and now looking imperiously down Anuri spent her childhood on the village and woods below. It's an eccentric house, display to host eccentrics, so the library shelving system is not as we'd know it, the roof is retractable, there is a steam-poweredworld, hand-operated lift system cut through it, and so on. At the moment it houses an ex-soldier with PTSD and a passion for the long-standing family hobby of taxidermy, a woman who does nothing but quibble, kvetch and sing opera loudly, and the dying grandma thanks to our heroine, Cassie, a young lass who has to do all the maintenance of this bizarre machineher step-like abode. Oh but itmother Ophelia's also going to house someone or something elseincreasingly popular presence on social media, when crashing through Cassiewhere she posted every step of Anuri's bedroom window one stormy day is a cherub. And if you think such a heavenly arrival is going to be a completely great childhood for sponsorships and wonderful thing, think again...|isbn=183994188X}} =='''25 NOVEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=Will Carver|title=Psychopaths Anonymous|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Maeve is a high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously influencer deals and also, curiouslybasically, addicted to attending numerous AA groupsmonetary gain. She Now Anuri is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing in her twenties and critiquing the AA steps she is mainly using slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the groups to find targetscontent about her...targets for sexual encounters Anuri is battling alcoholism, targets failing to feed start her desire to hear of PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people's misery, online and targets receiving money from them for her violent behaviourdoing so. Yet Most importantly, she also seems to be searching for others is desperately worried about her little sister, who think as she does, and when sheis the new focus of Ophelia's unable to find like-minded people in any of the groups online empire. Can she decides to set up save her own, hoping to encounter others who share similar obsessionssister, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is born.perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=19131937560861546873
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 =='''9 DECEMBER6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Freya MarskeKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=A Marvellous LightDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Historical FictionConfident Readers|summary=Robin Blyth is nudged into a job Meet Kit. Like most of the people in the Civil Servicehis world, it seems, much to his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the streets sport where a team of London are threaded with magic. Desperate to remove a curse that threatens to swallow himwarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, Robin follows Edwin and race to the countrysideexit, where perhaps bothering with the treasure or the hedgegrows bristle with incantations big bad and the people shimmer with powerpoints they grant you along the way. There they uncover Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a sinister plot that threatens new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the lives token bully of all magicians his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in the British Isles. actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=15290808861839945184
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 =='''6 JANUARY 202213 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Lucy Strange and Pam Smy1635866847|title=The Mermaid in the MillpondLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=There It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is no mermaid in the millpondbook for you. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be a friend for her in amongst all the other kids Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', who have had their entire childhoods sold to I visited the mill-owners by the London workhouse they used to call homeauthor's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm. Bess knows com/ website] and there is no time for friendship in 's a hand-to-mouth, every man for himself kind picture of existence. But despite herself Bess does find a bit slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a kindred spirit recipe in the slight little Dotbook, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads I was told to harm, there might be make a glimmer mess of companionship it. Notes in the tired-out mill workersmargins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. But surely You suspect that doesnsmears of butter would not be a problem. I 't mean there is any truth in the existence of the mermaid?|isbn=180090049X'loved'' this book already.
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=='''18 JANUARY4 JULY'''==
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|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)Max Boucherat|title=Red is My Heart|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in my house. And so was this one, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, and is, black and white and red. Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, and I think it's possible to say not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideas.|isbn=1913547183}} =='''3 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Escape Room|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=I've seen junior variants of the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms – the process by which a character or characters start by being trapped in a specific location, and have to solve problems in order to get their way out. What I've not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) is seen a prose book describing people in such an adventure, with the regular second person narrative replaced by the first. Here, Ami and four other tweenagers, all new to each other and booked into the game without any of their friends, are a team – starting out at the game's main offices, where they're told they and their quest for The Answer are a world-changer. But could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite the ramped-up threat levels, change much in the world Last Life of literature?|isbn=1788007964}}{{Frontpage|author=Louie Stowell|title=Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being GoodLori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Loki. The trickster god has got into trouble again, so We meet Lori on the other gods have decided therefirst evening she's only one thing for it got the house to herself he must be banished. And transformed – for Loki is spending a month both no neighbour to pop in exile and in the physical form of a middle, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-school kid here breaking eleven year old, on Earthher lonesome. He's guarded by a giant and What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a god in disguise as his parentsblanket fort, and Thor she has come along as wellone main intention, and that is to log on to be Voxminer, the more suaveworld-building, more popular and more successful brother of the twocritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. Loki But first Lori has a month to redeem his reputationtiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and get his moral compass pointing then she finds something even more spooky. For the right way again, or server she and her bestie and nobody else, and to prove it he has to write the text we read in a sentient notebook, that is should be able to cry foul enter shows signs of his liestampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and judge his progress. But Loki is her safe place in the kind of god who insists he can do anythinggame has been doctored – well, so surviving a bit more virtuously for where is a month is going girl to be a walk in the park...rightturn?|isbn=14063997520008666482
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=='''3 MARCH'''==
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|author=Marcus Sedgwick
|title=Wrath
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of the world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...
|isbn=1800900899
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