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=='''28 SEPTEMBER25 APRIL'''==

|isbnauthor=1804183210Sylvie Cathrall|title=No Reserve|author=Felix FrancisA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=Thirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on the rostrum when the colt - as yet unnamed - came There are few greater joys than a book which lives up for auction, but Peter Radway, the chairman, hadn't arrived, so he continued his session. To say that he was shocked when the bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. Brian Kitman and Elliot 'Mitch' Mitchell were well-known and respected in the racing industryto a compelling premise. Jennings was in And this is one of the cubicles in the toilets when the two men came in and their conversation revealed that the horse had been deliberately bid up to that figure. Both were happy that they had insurance in place. The following morning, the horse was dead in its stallthem.|isbn= 0356522776

|author=Hannah Gold and Levi PinfoldTom Percival|title=Finding BearThe Wrong Shoes|rating=4.5

|summary=[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]], April had been on Bear IslandWill's life is difficult, in a lot further north than many people would venture, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a polar bear – that she called Bearmultitude of ways. Back homeHe is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', things on he has the domestic wrong shoes because his dad can't work and family front are a bit advanced, but not perfect doesn't have enough money for hereven the most basic of things like food, and so his dad can easily be ignored when word comes through from 't work because he lost his job at the islands Bear college, was last left working a cash-in-hand job ona building site and had an accident. For a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and woundedWill's life seems bleak in every direction. Desperate to make sure And yet, he's OKstill has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, she and her father return clings to the Arctic and hope moments of joy when he is drawing, that in feel like a world light at the end of very white and very dangerous thingsa long, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that the friendship can continuedark tunnel.|isbn=00085820171398527122

|isbnauthor=1472263936Onyi Nwabineli|title=The Figurine|author=Victoria HislopAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5

|summary=It was in 1968 that Helena McCloud made Anuri spent her first trip childhood on display to the world, thanks to Greece. She was alone: her step-motherOphelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, Greek by birthwhere she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, had left the family home basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and refused she is slowly trying to return, but Mary regain her confidence and Hamish (Helena's parents) felt that it would be a pity if Helena grew up without knowing to get her grandparents or understanding life back, suing her Greek heritage. Her trip step-mother to take down the family apartment in up-market Kolonaki would be the first of several annual visitscontent about her. She grew Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to love start her grandmother and the family's maidPhD, Dina, but was wary - undergoing therapy and frightened - of her grandfather, retired general Stamatis Papagiannis. He was proud of his close connections to the Junta secretly abusing people online and expected his family to uphold his values but saw no reason to accommodate receiving money from themfor doing so. His prejudices included HelenaMost importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's red hair online empire. Can she save her sister, and green eyes - inherited from perhaps herself and her relationship with her father's Scottish ancestors.at the same time?|isbn=0861546873

=='''5 OCTOBER6 JUNE'''==

|author=Helen CooperKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Taming of the CatDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=3.54

|summary=Once again, mice are pitched against catMeet Kit. In this caseLike most of the people in his world, principallyit seems, we have Brie he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the mousesport where a team of warrior, up against Gorgonzola the cat – mage and in case you're seeing a connectionhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, they live in a cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem race to be the names of cheeses. Anywayexit, Brie is shunned, scorned perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and, if the points they grant you must, mous-tracised, for along the way his habits don't match the other mice he lives with. They nibble up paper wrapping from Unfortunately for Kit, the cheese for bedding – only thing he displays it as art and makes stories based 's seen of the latest race on the visuals on it. And inn TV equivalent is that story-telling will come in handy one nightteam has been retired, eaten, when he feels all alone and cast outa new trio of questors is needed. ItPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he's almost ll enter as if there were another character from fable who had had to tell stories to keep themselves alivea team. This makes Brie the top dog in the mouse communityWhat chance does this friendless, though, as all the others had the chance to halfmuscle-free-inch some cheese while the cat was distracted. But will the story zone have the successful sequel it needs when in actually managing that cheese runs out, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=05713760101839945184

=='''26 OCTOBER13 JUNE'''==

|isbn=1635866847|title=The Lavender Companion|author=Adam Baron Jessica Dunham and Benji DaviesTerry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|titlesummary=OscarIt's Lionstrange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.}} =='''4 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=The 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