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=='''21 OCTOBER25 APRIL'''==

|author=Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams Sylvie Cathrall|title=The Book of Hope A Letter to the Luminous Deep

|genre=Politics and Society Science Fiction|summary= The done thing is to read There are few greater joys than a book all the way through before you sit down which lives up to review ita compelling premise. I’m making an exception here, because I don’t want to lose any of the experience of reading And this amazing book, I want to capture it as it hits me. And it is hitting me. This beautiful book has me in tearsone of them. |isbn=024147857X0356522776

=='''25 OCTOBER9 MAY'''==

|author=Lisa GrayTom Percival|title=The Dark RoomWrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=What if you knew someone was dead, because youWill'd watched them die several years agos life is difficult, but then you come across a photograph that seemed to show their murder happened in a different place and time? This is what happens to Leonard in this storymultitude of ways. He is an ex-crime reporter 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 a newspapereven the most basic of things like food, and since leaving journalism hehis dad can's found himself an unusual hobby where t work because he finds oldlost his job at the college, undeveloped rolls of film was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and develops them in his own dark room at homehad an accident. One of these photographs turns out to show Throw into that mix the murder scene of a young woman he met some years agofact that his mum and dad are separated, and who he ''thought'Will' s life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he had watched die in front still has a tiny amount of him one night in a hotelhope. He'd felt guilty ever since that nightis good at art, and lost everything because clings to the moments of it - his fiancee and his career - but now finds himself wondering if she hadn't really died joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the night she was with himend of a long, what on earth actually happened?dark tunnel.|isbn=154203535X1398527122

=='''27 OCTOBER23 MAY'''==

|author=Natasha Hastings and Alex T SmithOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Miraculous Sweetmakers: The Frost FairAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=''The River Thames had frozen Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to death in its sleep.her step-mother Ophelia'' And thus the Frost Fair could happen – people trading s increasingly popular presence on the completely iced-over riversocial media, like our heroine Thomasinawhere she posted every step of Anuri's father with his gingerbread childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and confectionery shop, basically, monetary gain. Thomasina will be working the Fair too – but Now Anuri is in her twin brother won't, as he dies in Chapter One. It was a tragedy twenties and she feels no small guilt for, is slowly trying to regain her confidence and which has made to get her father a sullenlife back, closed shop – and suing her bedstep-bound mother has spoken not a word – not even opened to take down the content about her eyes, more or less – in the four years since, either. But into the darkAnuri is battling alcoholism, frosted London comes Inigo, with supreme magical powersfailing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and a willingness to help Thomasinareceiving money from them for doing so. Not only can he introduce Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her to the fantastical Other Frost Fairlittle sister, using who is the river surface at night for no end new focus of mystical beasts Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and characters perhaps herself and their happenings, but he has a unique proposal for Thomasina, which will shake her world to its core.relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=00084960560861546873

=='''1NOVEMBER6 JUNE'''==

|isbnauthor=1916459943Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Squeakily Baby|author=Beth WebbDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=Much as mothers love their babies, there's something they all dread - a squeakily babyMeet Kit. He's so tired but Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he can't is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century- or won't - go to sleep: insteadold, magical mazes, he just lies on his blanket and ''wails''. The sea offers race to help. It rocks Baby gently and the waves sing ''hushexit, hush''. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto a sandy beach perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you have along the sound perfectlyway. The mermaids join in - Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he''la lous seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, la lay.and a new trio of questors is needed..'' And Possibly very unfortunately indeed for a moment it seems Kit, he has taken to have worked the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as Baby closes his eyesa team. Then a seagull '''shouts''' What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and we know exactly what's going how could he possibly hope to happen next.succeed?|isbn=1839945184

=='''1 JANUARY13 JUNE'''==

|isbn=15420372391635866847|title=Death in HeelsThe Lavender Companion|author=Kitty MurphyJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary=Set against the backdrop of DublinIt's drag scenestrange, the things that make you ''Death in Heelsimmediately'' tells feel that this is the story of Fi McKinnery and her best friendbook for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', Robyn, who is about to debut as drag queen Mae BI visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm. What is meant to be com/ website] and there's a night picture of excitement soon takes a downward turn when fellow drag queen, Eve, takes to slice of chocolate cake on the stage to mock Mae Bhomepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. As if (There's a recipe in the night could not get any worsebook, when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead in which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a guttermess of it. Fi is adamant that Eve was murdered, yet Notes in the drag community, and the Guards, accept it as an accidentmargins are sanctioned. Fi takes it upon herself You get to solve fold down the mystery as she fears for her friends, but instead ruins relationships as she delves deepercorners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.

 =='''2 MARCH4 JULY'''==

|author=Patrick Ness and Tea BendixMax Boucherat|title=Different for BoysThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=Teens Confident Readers|summary=Ant is We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in Year Eleven , babysitter poorly, mother at quite work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a standard schoolblanket fort, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) she has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football teammain intention, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back that is to log on to primary school days together. As they're all fired upVoxminer, straining at the leash only a singleworld-sex school can formbuilding, the talk critter-collecting game that is a hit in class and out often turns to sexLori's world. Which is confusing for Ant, as he But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't know what his score isfind herself entirely on her own, where his achievements in that regard lieand then she finds something even more spooky. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, For the server she and her bestie and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't nobody else should be sureable to enter shows signs of tampering. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the sex with.game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=15295094910008666482