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=='''15 AUGUST25 APRIL'''==

|author=T KingfisherSylvie Cathrall|title=ThornhedgeA Letter to the Luminous Deep

|genre=FantasyScience Fiction|summary=''You had There are few greater joys than a right book which lives up to retake your place.'' T Kingfisher's latest novella is a lovely reimagining of a fairytale that is well known and well belovedcompelling premise. But whilst there And this is a princess trapped in a tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is not her story. Instead, our protagonist is Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she was a new-born baby and secreted away to the land one of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from her veins and cast spellsthem.|isbn=18033642380356522776

=='''5 SEPTEMBER9 MAY'''==

|author= Kay ChronisterTom Percival|title= Desert CreaturesThe Wrong Shoes|rating= 45|genre= Dystopian FictionConfident Readers|summary= With a world that Will's life is becoming increasingly inhospitable for humanitydifficult, post-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrill. Whether it is in a robotic takeover, a world devoid multitude of water or a nuclear holocaust, this genre ways. He is a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fears. bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can'Desert Creaturest work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can' by Kay Chronister is t work because he lost his job at the college, was working a new work of postcash-in-apocalyptic fiction hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that aligns many of mix the fears fact that exist for humanity todayhis mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. It He is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a shocking novel that still manages to find hopelong, dark tunnel.|isbn=18033649981398527122

=='''24 AUGUST23 MAY'''==

|author=Christopher FowlerOnyi Nwabineli|title=Word MonkeyAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyGeneral Fiction|summary= ItAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's the first increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of August in the middle of a cool wet summer in East AngliaAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. I decided not Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to swim at the pool in favour of going regain her confidence and to my beach hut. The weather closed inget her life back, rain arrived, and I decided not suing her step-mother to do that eithertake down the content about her. When I finished reading this bookAnuri is battling alcoholism, I realised it was because (a) I wanted failing to finish reading this book start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and (b) I did not want to do receiving money from them for doing so anywhere near my shack. No spoiler alertsMost importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the dust jacket tells us who Christopher Fowler new focus of Ophelia'was' – and his first chapter tells us about his terminal diagnosiss online empire. There is something very strange about being made to laugh by a man who repeatedly reminds you that he is dyingCan she save her sister, and you know he actually is perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at that point, because he does. He did.the same time?|isbn=08575296250861546873

=='''7 SEPTEMBER6 JUNE'''==

|author=Lauren St JohnKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Finding WonderDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=Roo's life has become almost impossibly difficultMeet Kit. Her mum died when she was youngLike most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and now she finds herself awoken in race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the middle of big bad and the night by points they grant you along the police banging on her door to tell her that her dad has dropped dead on his way to the corner shop to buy a lottery ticket. When asked what other family she hasUnfortunately for Kit, she can the only name her aunt, Joni, who she knows her dad didnthing he't think very highly s seen of. But she the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has no one elsebeen retired, eaten, and so off she goes to live with her unreliable aunta new trio of questors is needed. Things continue to get worse Possibly very unfortunately indeed for RooKit, as when she he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and Joni leave London in Jonistumbled into declaring he's old campervanll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, it breaks down muscle-free-zone have in the middle of nowhere actually managing that, and then bursts into flames! Poor Roo!how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=05713761691839945184

=='''28 SEPTEMBER13 JUNE'''==

|authorisbn=Hannah Gold and Levi Pinfold1635866847|title=Finding BearThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]]It's strange, April had been on Bear Island, a lot further north than many people would venture, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a polar bear – the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that she called Bearthis is the book for you. Back homeBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', things on I visited the domestic author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and family front are there's a picture of a bit advanced, but not perfect for her, and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from slice of chocolate cake on the islands Bear was last left onhomepage. For a bear doing very BearI don't eat cakes and desserts -y things has been shot and woundedbut I wanted that cake viscerally. Desperate to make sure he(There's OKa recipe in the book, she which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and her father return I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the Arctic and hope margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that in smears of butter would not be a world of very white and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that the friendship can continueproblem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=0008582017

 =='''26 OCTOBER4 JULY'''==

|author=Adam Baron and Benji DaviesMax Boucherat|title=Oscar's LionThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=34.5

|summary=We start incredibly bluntly, with Oscar hoping meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to have his mother herself – or fatherno neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a couple of times before he blanket fort, she has to be ready for school. But when he enters his parents' bedroomone main intention, all he sees and that is a mahoosive male lion to log on their bedto Voxminer, looking sheepishthe world-building, and admitting critter-collecting game that he wonis a hit in Lori't be hungry for another two dayss world. But there are benefits to having first Lori has a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to the bully tiny inkling that ruined a birthday party for Oscar the other monththis stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. And it can shapeshift, so he can take it For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to school and it can get him out enter shows signs of a problemtampering. And it's wonderful to have around When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the house game has been doctored – not limiting his biscuit intakewell, being much more lax about the rules, and so on. OK, it can't work where is a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.girl to turn?|isbn=00085967510008666482