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 =='''3 SEPTEMBER9 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0241425441|title=The Thursday Murder Club|author=Richard Osman|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=The first member of The Thursday Murder Club we encounter is Joyce Meadowcroft. She used to be a nurse and is thus the perfect person for Elizabeth to consult about how long it would take a person who has been stabbed to bleed out. Details of where and how are exchanged and Joyce confirms that it would have taken about forty-five minutes and that the victim could have been saved if she'd received prompt medical help. It didn't put Joyce off her shepherd's pie (which tells us that it was a Monday) but it does get her interested in The Thursday Murder Club. They meet each Thursday (as you might have guessed) in the Jigsaw Room at Coopers Chase Retirement Village.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1509889515F|title=The Darkest Evening (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann Cleeves|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was a mercy that DI Vera Stanhope took the wrong turning as she drove home in the blizzard. If she hadn't the car might not have been found until the morning and who knows what would have happened to the toddler strapped into the car seat, particularly as the car door had been left open. Vera took the boy and drove to the nearest habitation. She ''thought'' it would be the village but it was Brockburn, the ancestral home of the Stanhopes: her father had been the younger brother of the man who inherited - and Hector was the black sheep of the family. Calling there unannounced, particularly as they seemed to have guests was going to be embarrassing, but there was little else that she could do in the circumstances.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008314721|title=Truth Be Told|author=Kia Abdullah|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=The Hadids are an ''effortful'' family. Flowers are sent for the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent to thank and this prompts a phone call in return. There are two sons of the family, seventeen-year-old Kamran and sixteen-year-old Adam. Their mother, Sofia, regrets that she didn't name them the other way round: 'Adam and Kamran' trips off the tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adam'. Sofia worries about that sort of thing. Both boys go to the prestigious Hampton school, where they board, despite the school being less than ten miles from their Belsize Park home. Kamran has a place at Oxford next year and all seemed to be going well until the night when he was raped.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1471179273|title=House of Correction|author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=When we first meet Tabitha Hardy, she's in prison, on remand. She's sharing a cell with Michaela, who's more caring than she first appears. She delivers tough love and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - and encourages her to have a shower, unpleasant as the whole processes might be. And how did Tabitha get here? Well, on 21 December the body of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered in her garden shed by Andrew Kane, who was helping with the renovations to Tabitha's house. So far as the police are concerned, Tabitha is the only person who could have killed Rees - and when they arrived at her house she was covered in his blood.}}

|author=Natasha FarrantTom Percival|title=Voyage of the SparrowhawkThe Wrong Shoes

|summary=Set in England in the aftermath of World War One, this Will's life is the story of two childrendifficult, Lotti and Ben, who have lost everyone they love, but don't want to let go of their last, tiny glimpses in a multitude of hopeways. Ben He is living on a narrowboat on bullied because he has 'the canalwrong shoes', lying to he has the police about wrong shoes because his brotherdad can't work and doesn's imminent return from t have enough money for even the battlefields to take care most basic of him. Lotti, meanwhilethings like food, has been expelled from school and is back his dad can't work because he lost his job at home; it's the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a beautiful house building site and had an accident. Throw into that belongs to her but mix the fact that her terrible Aunt his mum and dad are separated, and Uncle currently have guardianship forWill's life seems bleak in every direction. The day Lotti meets Ben (the day she steals And yet, he still has a dog!) is the beginning tiny amount of a deep, and powerful friendshiphope. It sees them become each other's familyHe is good at art, and undertake a perilous trip clings to France, in the boatmoments of joy when he is drawing, to try to find out that feel like a light at the truth end of the people they both lovea long, dark tunnel.|isbn=05713487691398527122

 =='''8 SEPTEMBER23 MAY'''== 

|author=Sharon DoeringOnyi Nwabineli|title=She Lies Close|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary= Ava Boone was five years old when she went missing, around 6 months ago. There has been no sign of her since, and no arrests have been made. And yet, this book is not about Ava. Not really. This book is about Grace, who has just discovered her neighbour in her new house is a suspect in Ava's disappearance. As a single mother to two young children, she's really wishing this sort of information had come Allow Me to light before they moved in.|isbn=1789094194}} =='''10 SEPTEMBER'''== {{Frontpage|author= Andrea Stewart|title= The Bone Shard Daughter (The Drowning Empire)Introduce Myself

|genre= FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=''I could never be what he wanted if I did not take what I wanted'' In an empire controlled by a bone shard magic that powers animal-like constructs, an heir Anuri spent her childhood on display to the throneworld, a smuggler, and a warrior will fight thanks to find their place in the world. Lin is the emperorher step-mother Ophelia's forgotten daughterincreasingly popular presence on social media, kept locked away in a palace where she posted every step of secrets Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and closed doorsinfluencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. When Now Anuri is in her father refuses twenties and she is slowly trying to recognise regain her as heir confidence and to the throneget her life back, she vows suing her step-mother to show him she take down the content about her. Anuri is capable of reviving a dying empire and in secretbattling alcoholism, she begins failing to unlock one door after anotherstart her PhD, searching for the mysteries of her past undergoing therapy and the forbidden art of bone shard magic. Yet Lin is playing a deadly game secretly abusing people online and her quest receiving money from them for power will come at great costdoing so. With revolution in the air and creeping closer and closer to the gates of the palace Most importantly, Lin must decide just how far she will to go to become a catalyst of change and save is desperately worried about her people.|isbn=0356514943}}=='''14 SEPTEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|author= Tahi Saihate|title= Astral Seasonlittle sister, Beastly Season|rating= 3.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= We long for our past even though it who is a place to which we can never returnthe new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Tahi Saihate, in Can she save her debut novel ''Astral Seasonsister, Beastly Season'' illustrates how these rose-tinted glasses often lie. Her novel is a meditation on youth and how perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the things we do as a teenager can seem intensely important and often life-altering.same time?|isbn= 19162771010861546873

=='''17 SEPTEMBER6 JUNE'''==

|author=Agnes Ravatn Kieran Larwood and Rosie Hedger (translator)Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Seven DoorsDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Come here for a thriller that interestingly doesn't even try to suggest a genre Meet Kit. Like most of any kind until we're a full fifth the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the way through. We start with our couple, she sport where a literature lecturerteam of warrior, he big in medical provision mage and decisions at the councilhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, being forced and race to move out of their homethe exit, a building that had existed throughout her life since childhood perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and which the points they'd occupied for over thirty yearsgrant you along the way. The building Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's inheritedseen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, meanwhileeaten, and which they let out to a single mother, new trio of questors is needed by their adult daughter. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, who quite blatantly says he has taken to its occupant the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'take ll enter as a hike, I'm moving in and you're moving out'team. Now, at What chance does this stage you may well, if you know this is a genre read, think it's going to be a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in the 1980s, but no. We avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedyfriendless, muscle-free-zone have in case actually managing that has any bearing on what happens here, and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their lives. Until at that twenty per cent stage we find something that raises an eyebrow as any crime book should – until the point where the evicted tenant is found could he possibly hope to have completely vanished.succeed?|isbn=19131933811839945184

|authorisbn=Michael J Malone1635866847|title=A Song of IsolationThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary=Film star Amelie Hart throws up a career It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is only beginning to hit the heights to retire to the highlands with an ordinary guy…an accountant of all things, though to his credit he would rather be working in forestrybook for you. They have found a hideaway on a small Scottish estate, but things are starting to feel wrong between them. |isbn=1913193365}}==Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'22 SEPTEMBER', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there'=={{Frontpage|author=Arvin Ahmadi|title=How It All Blew Up|rating=4|genre=Teens| summary=18-year-old Amir is American Iranian, s a picture of a Muslim, and gayslice of chocolate cake on the homepage. He struggles with his identity, unable to face telling his parents who he really is, so when another student at his school starts blackmailing him, threatening to show his parents photographs of Amir kissing his boyfriend Amir panics I don't eat cakes and runs away..desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally.to Italy! So begins a journey for Amir, and his family, where they all discover more about him, and who he really is, and who he really wants to be.|isbn=1471409929}}{{Frontpage|author=Antoine Laurain|title=The Readers Room|genre=General Fiction|rating=3.5|summary=Violaine(There's publishing house has had a great successrecipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and it I was through the slush pile told to make a mess of unsolicited manuscriptsit. The three people who work Notes in the Readers' Room margins are sanctioned. You get to sift through what is ninety-nine per cent dross – plus fold down the fourth advisor in her rarefied mansion up the road – all agreed the book corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a huge smash, and so it has provenproblem. But there are several I ''loved'howevers' to that. As in, however – Violaine herself is not having life all her own way, for she has been involved in a near-fatal accident, and starts this book coming round from a comaalready. And, however – despite all urging, the author of the book has never once made themselves known to the publishers in person, and in fact offered up a most peculiar statement-come-threat in their last email. What is going to befall Violaine, her memory, her staff – and how much is any of it due to the hit novel? And just where the heck did that come from?|isbn=1910477974

=='''1 OCTOBER4 JULY'''== 

|author=Tania UnsworthMax Boucherat|title=The Time Traveller and the TigerLast Life of Lori Mills

|summary=Elsie is an ordinary sort of girl. The sort of small girl who often gets overlooked, and forgotten. She is quiet, and compliant, and makes We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the best of whatever happens house to her. So when her parents forget that her school holidays have started before they are free herself – no neighbour to take care of herpop in, they have to arrange for her to go and stay with her Great Uncle for a week. Poor Elsiebabysitter poorly, forgotten againmother at work, just decides to make the best of thingsan avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. On investigating the house she finds that her Great Uncle had lived What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in India as a boyblanket fort, and he she has an enormous tiger rug on the floor of one of the rooms. When Elsie asks him about the rug he seems unhappymain intention, and he says he has to keep it because he was the one who shot the tiger when he was 12 years old, and he says it was the worst thing he ever did. So when Elsie suddenly finds herself magically transported back many, many years, to the time in India when her Great Uncle was 12 years old, she believes that she must try is to stop him from killing the tiger, in order log on to put something right that happened a long time ago.|isbn=1788541707}}{{Frontpage|author=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)|title=Betrayal|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=Meet UrsulaVoxminer, the standworld-in ministerbuilding, drafted in from outside the leading party to cover the post for critter-collecting game that is a year. You might get to meet her hunky husband she can't believe she deserves, and the children who are ignorant of just how she spent all her empathy for them on previous jobs hit in the foreign aid charity sector. You'll meet her ministryLori's cleaner, who bizarrely has fallen into the task of helping a famous newsreader with her Tinder profileworld. You'll certainly meet a homeless tramp, who But first Lori has taken one look at a newspaper image of Ursulatiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and, knowing her of old, decided then she needs saving from the devil posing beside herfinds something even more spooky. You'll meet For the ministerial bodyguard server she and driver the tramp almost immediately forces Ursula to accept. But as for the first ministerial case, of a woman demanding her daughter's rape get looked at bestie and pronto, nobody can say, for all records else should be able to enter shows signs of Ursula's meeting with the woman have been wiped…|isbn=1913193403}}=='''15 OCTOBER'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0356512479|author= Alix E Harrow|title= The Once and Future Witches|rating= 5|genre= Fantasy|summary=''There's no such thing as witches, but there used to betampering.'' In 1893 When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, after the purges and her safe place in the burnings, witching game has been reduced to little more than weak charms and simple spells. If women want to hold power in their handsdoctored – well, where is a girl to have their voices heard, it is now through women's suffrage.turn?|isbn=0008666482