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 =='''14 SEPTEMBER9 MAY'''==

|author= Tahi SaihateTom Percival|title= Astral Season, Beastly SeasonThe Wrong Shoes|rating= 3.5|genre= Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary= We long for our past even though it Will's life is difficult, in a place to which we can never returnmultitude of ways. Tahi Saihate He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', in her debut novel he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn'Astral Seasont have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, Beastly Seasonand his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will' illustrates how these rose-tinted glasses often lies life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. Her novel He is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a meditation on youth and how light at the things we do as end of a teenager can seem intensely important and often life-alteringlong, dark tunnel.|isbn= 19162771011398527122

=='''17 SEPTEMBER23 MAY'''==

|author=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)Onyi Nwabineli|title=The Seven DoorsAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Come here for a thriller that interestingly doesn't even try Anuri spent her childhood on display to suggest a genre of any kind until we're a full fifth of the way through. We start with our couple, she a literature lecturer, he big in medical provision and decisions at the councilworld, being forced thanks to move out of their home, a building that had existed throughout her life since childhood and which theystep-mother Ophelia'd occupied for over thirty years. The building hes increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's inheritedchildhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, meanwhilebasically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and which they let out to a single get her life back, suing her step-mother, is needed by their adult daughter, who quite blatantly says to its occupant 'take a hike, I'm moving in and you're moving out'down the content about her. Now, at this stage you may well, if you know this Anuri is a genre readbattling alcoholism, think it's going failing to be a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in the 1980sstart her PhD, but noundergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. We avoid genre completelyMost importantly, as I say – instead learning she is desperately worried about Greek tragedyher little sister, in case 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 who is found to have completely vanished.|isbn=1913193381}}{{Frontpage|author=Michael J Malone|title=A Song of Isolation|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=Film star Amelie Hart throws up a career that is only beginning to hit the heights to retire to the highlands with an ordinary guy…an accountant new focus of all things, though to his credit he would rather be working in forestryOphelia's online empire. They have found a hideaway on a small Scottish estateCan she save her sister, but things are starting to feel wrong between them. and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=19131933650861546873

=='''22 SEPTEMBER6 JUNE'''==

|author=Arvin AhmadiKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=How It All Blew UpDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=TeensConfident Readers| summary=18-yearMeet Kit. Like 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 Amir is American Iranian, a Muslimmagical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and gaythe points they grant you along the way. He struggles with his identityUnfortunately for Kit, unable to face telling his parents who the only thing he really 's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent isthat one team has been retired, so when another student at his school starts blackmailing himeaten, threatening to show his parents photographs and a new trio of Amir kissing his boyfriend Amir panics and runs away..questors is needed.to Italy! So begins a journey Possibly very unfortunately indeed for AmirKit, and he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his family, where they all discover more about him, world and who stumbled into declaring he really is'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and who how could he really wants possibly hope to be.succeed?|isbn=14714099291839945184

|authorisbn=Antoine Laurain1635866847|title=The Readers RoomLavender Companion|genreauthor=General FictionJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=34.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=ViolaineIt's publishing house has had a great successstrange, and it was through the slush pile of unsolicited manuscriptsthings that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The three people who work in Lavender Companion'', I visited the Readersauthor' Room to sift through what is ninety-nine per cent dross – plus the fourth advisor in her rarefied mansion up the road – all agreed s [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the book would be a huge smash, and so it has provenhomepage. But there are several I don'howevers' to t eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted thatcake viscerally. As (There's a recipe 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 the book coming round from a coma. And, however – despite all urging, the author of which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book has never once made themselves known and I was told to the publishers in person, and in fact offered up make a most peculiar statement-come-threat mess of it. Notes in their last emailthe margins are sanctioned. What is going You get to befall Violaine, her memory, her staff – and how much is any fold down the corners of it due to the hit novel? pages. And just where the heck did You suspect that come from?|isbn=1910477974smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.

=='''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 unhappy, and he says he has to keep it because he was the one who shot the tiger when he was 12 years oldmain intention, 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 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 else should be.'' In 1893, after the purges and the burnings, witching has been reduced able to little more than weak charms and simple spellsenter shows signs of tampering. If women want to hold power in their hands, to have their voices heard, it is now through women's suffrage.}}=='''29 OCTOBER'''== {{Frontpage|author=Caroline Scott|title= When I Come Home Again|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=1918 and a young man is arrested in Durham Cathedral. He refuses to give a name, no matter how hard they push he will not say who he is. Eventually, they determine this isn't willful obstinance, he doesn't answer because he doesn't know. He remembers being malevolent eyes spark up on the road for a long time and being frightenedher phone screen, and some of her safe place in the faces from the road, but other than that game has been doctored – everything that came before has gone. They need a name for the forms and so they call him Adam and, because he was found in the Galilee Chapel, it becomes Adam Galilee. A fanciful name for a tired young man in a dishevelled uniform who doesn't know who he iswell, where he is or how he got there.|isbn=1471192172}}=='''12 NOVEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|author= Claire McGowan|title=The Push|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Six mums-to-be meet at a prenatal class. It's NCT ''style'', but not the proper NCT. This bit is important, but you have girl to wait a little to see why. This being London, such a class attracts a wide variety of people, from all sorts of backgrounds, but for most of the ladies the thing they have in common is it's their first baby. Probably after the first one, you don't have time for classes, or think you've got child-rearing down pat.turn?|isbn=15420199900008666482