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=='''6 JANUARY 202225 APRIL'''==
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|author=Lucy Strange and Pam SmySylvie Cathrall|title=The Mermaid in A Letter to the MillpondLuminous Deep|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=There is no mermaid in the millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be a friend for her in amongst all the other kids, who have had their entire childhoods sold to the mill-owners by the London workhouse they used to call home. Bess knows there is no time for friendship in a hand-to-mouth, every man for himself kind of existence. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of are few greater joys than a kindred spirit in the slight little Dot, and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads book which lives up to harm, there might be a glimmer of companionship in the tired-out mill workers. But surely that doesn't mean there is any truth in the existence of the mermaid?|isbn=180090049X}} =='''18 JANUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|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 housecompelling premise. 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}} =='''20 JANUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Gunnar Staalesen|title=Bitter Flowers|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Varg Veum is a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint in rehab and is now returning to work. However, the quiet job he's supposedly taken on caretaking someone's house quickly turns into a murder investigation, and a mystery around a missing woman. Varg finds himself not only investigating these, but also looking into an old, cold case of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night and was never foundthem. Somehow, these disparate cases appear to be linked, but what is the link, and how can Varg possibly unravel the truth?|isbn=191319308X0356522776
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=='''9 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=0008441618Tom Percival|title=Other Parents|author=Sarah StovellThe Wrong Shoes
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|genre=Women's FictionConfident Readers|summary=Jo Fairburn knew that she was under intense pressure as Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the new head most basic of West Burntridge First School: if she didnthings like food, and his dad can't live up to her retired predecessor there could well be work because he lost his job at the college, was working a house price slump cash-in that part of the town. The school -hand job on a building site and had an active Parent Teacher Association and the funds which they raised were a considerable benefit to the schoolaccident. There was one difficultyThrow into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, though - they were and Will''devastatingly shockable'', with two members, s life seems bleak in particularevery direction. And yet, causing problems for the headhe still has a tiny amount of hope. Laura Spence He is good at art, and Kate Monroe objected clings to Jo's restrictions on the toys children could bring in on Toy Day but moments of joy when he is drawing, that was just feel like a light at the end of a warm-up act for their real gripe: LGBTQ educationlong, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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=='''25 JANUARY23 MAY'''==
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|author=Dean KoontzOnyi Nwabineli|title=QuicksilverAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=24.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Quinn Quicksilver. HeAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's not had the chance to get to be a mercurial character yetincreasingly popular presence on social media, for hewhere she posted every step of Anuri's lived childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in a nun-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, her twenties and now she is starting a career on a needless magazine's staff. But when this book starts he IS now ''subject slowly trying to regain her confidence and to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind'', for something – call it unearthly intuitionget her life back, call it mindsuing her step-control, call it a supernatural urge – has demanded of him that he go mother to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash take down the value of it out of his bank and prepare for going on the lamcontent about her. And all this Anuri is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types battling alcoholism, failing to turn up start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and suggest he's of interest to receiving money from themfor doing so. Helped to escape Most importantly, he finds his flight she is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being in controldesperately worried about her little sister, who is the discovery that he is not unique in having some kind new focus of burgeoning power – Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and a whole lot more besides.perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=15420198850861546873
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=='''3 FEBRUARY6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Christopher EdgeKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Escape RoomDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=34
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|summary=I've seen junior variants Meet Kit. Like most of the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the process by which sport where a character or characters start by being trapped in a specific locationteam of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and have race to solve problems in order to get their the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way out. What I Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he've not done (alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) is s seen a prose book describing people in such an adventure, with of the regular second person narrative replaced by latest race on the first. Hereinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, Ami and four other tweenagersa new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, all new he has taken to each other the goading from the token bully of his world and booked stumbled into the game without any of their friends, are declaring he'll enter as a team – starting out at the game's main offices. What chance does this friendless, where they're told they and their quest for The Answer are a worldmuscle-changer. But could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite the rampedfree-up threat levelszone have in actually managing that, change much in the world of literatureand how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=17880079641839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Louie Stowell1635866847|title=Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being GoodThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=Meet LokiIt's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The trickster god has got into trouble againLavender Companion'', so I visited the other gods have decided author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and 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 picture of a middleslice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts -school kid here on Earthbut I wanted that cake viscerally. He (There's guarded by a giant and a god recipe in disguise as his parentsthe book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and Thor has come along as well, I was told to be the more suave, more popular and more successful brother make a mess of it. Notes in the twomargins are sanctioned. Loki has a month to redeem his reputation, and You get his moral compass pointing the right way again, or else, and to prove it he has to write fold down the text we read in a sentient notebook, that is able to cry foul corners of his lies, and judge his progresspages. But Loki is the kind You suspect that smears of god who insists he can do anything, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month is going to butter would not be a walk in the parkproblem...right?|isbn=1406399752}}{{Frontpage|author=Annabel Abbs|title=The Language of Food|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Eliza Acton is a poet who has never had the slightest inclination to boil an egg. When tasked with writing a cookery I ''loved'' this book, she recruits Ann Kirby, a local woman with a troubled home life. Together, they test, craft, refine and reshape the world of domestic cookery, reinventing the recipe book and changing the face of cookery writing foreveralready.|isbn=1398502227
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=='''3 MARCH4 JULY'''==
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|author=Marcus SedgwickMax Boucherat|title=WrathThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Meet FitzWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, a young Scottish lad full of frustration mother at himself. Lockdown is only work, just overan avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, and he should be free to do what he wants, to on her lonesome. What could possibly go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot wrong? Snuggled in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassie. They were half of a desultory school bandblanket fort, 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 has one of her eco-warrior parents saying the end of main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world -building, critter-collecting game that is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music shehit in Lori's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie world. But first Lori has gone missing he cana tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn'tfind herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering.. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=18009008990008666482
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