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=='''8 SEPTEMBER9 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=B09SGWCXQ8Tom Percival|title=The Night Watch (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Fergus Grigor went out for a run. The lawyer was on his honeymoon but his body was found dashed to pieces below the cliffs at Dunnett Head. Was it suicide, or did he - for some reason - climb over the stone wall and fall to his death? Or was he pushed? On balance, it looked like an accident but then his 'accident' was linked to the deaths of others associated with him. Scott Paterson was released after a 'not-proven' verdict meant that Scotland's most notorious criminal wasn't facing life imprisonment. Paterson was Grigor's last client.}}=='''10 SEPTEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=194241028X|title=Azabu Getaway (Detective Hiroshi)|author=Michael PronkoWrong Shoes
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|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes'You , he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't put work and doesn'good at golf' on your tombstonet have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can you?'' When we meet Patrick Walsh t work because he's outside lost his family's home in job at the Azabu district of Tokyocollege, hoping that his key will still work but prepared to break was working a cash-in if it doesn't-hand job on a building site and had an accident. He's there to remove Throw into that mix the fact that his daughters, Jenna mum and Kiridad are separated, and take them back to Honolulu. ItWill's a quick day trip, with just one purpose life seems bleak in mindevery direction. Patrick's employed by Nine Dragons Wealth Management and for the past yearAnd yet, he's been working in Wyoming because the privacy laws there are conducive to the business he's instill has a tiny amount of hope. His wifeHe is good at art, Miyuki, hasn't been in Wyoming with him and is in clings to the process moments of divorcing him after photographs sent to her anonymously suggested joy when he is drawing, that Patrick had not been faithful to her. Patrick's plan didn't work out and he finds himself on feel like a light at the run in Tokyo with the two girlsend of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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=='''19 SEPTEMBER23 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=1739593901Onyi Nwabineli|title=22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=''Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of flying carsAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, we got nightthanks to her step-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of AnuriI've got a couple of confessions to makes childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. I'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to read a few stories regain her confidence and then forget to return get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the bookcontent about her. There's got Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to be a very compelling hook to keep me engagedstart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Then thereMost importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's science fiction: far too often it's the technology which takes centre stage along with the world-buildingonline empire. It's human beings who fascinate me: the technology Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the world scape are purely incidental. So, what did I think of a book of twenty-two science fiction short storiessame time? Well, I loved it. |isbn=0861546873
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=='''22 SEPTEMBER6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Christopher BowdenKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Mr MagentaDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
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|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary= Christopher Bowden's latest novel Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a patient untangling team of a seemingly ordinary womanwarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's lifeseen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, carried out by her nephew after she has died. The aunt who always provided a safe harbour and a little bit new trio of indulgence questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a young nephew had had a much more interesting life than team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that nephew Stephen had ever realised , and it seems to him an obligation how could he possibly hope to find it all out. succeed?|isbn= B0B6Z9VJDW1839945184
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=='''6 OCTOBER13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Alison Hughes1635866847|title=FlyThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=This It's strange, 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 very impressive read, as it does picture of a lot slice of what mainstream teen chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and tween fiction still struggles withdesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. Its focus is courtesy of (There's a recipe in the first-person narration from Flybook, a secondary school lad which I'm avoiding with cerebral palsy, 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-on-her-luck single mom nearing retirement from being a cleaner, a carer while at school, and a bundle the corners of assumptions people lay on himpages. First they assume You suspect that with smears of butter would not be a broken body comes a broken mind, then they decide heproblem. I ''loved's a maths savant – they even believe they can get away with calling him Fly, which isn't his real name, but everybody just uses itthis book already.|isbn=1525305832
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 =='''13 OCTOBER4 JULY'''==
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|author=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)Max Boucherat|title=Red as BloodThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=When Flosi’s wife goes missing, all We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the evidence seems house to point towards her having been kidnapped. The ransom note tells him not herself – no neighbour to have any contact with the policepop in, babysitter poorly, so instead he enlists the help of Aroramother at work, a financial investigator. She manages to persuade Flosi that they will need the help of the policejust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, and she calls on her detective friendlonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, Daniel, whom she met when he was investigating her sister’s disappearance. Togetherhas one main intention, they start and that is to secretly investigate Gudrun’s disappearance, trying not log on to arouse the suspicion of anyoneVoxminer, since they have no idea who the kidnappers might beworld-building, yet the more they uncovercritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, the and then she finds something even more confusing things becomespooky.|isbn=1914585321}}=='''21 OCTOBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=Jane Goodall For the server she and Douglas Abrams |title=The Book of Hope |rating=5|genre=Politics her bestie and Society |summary= The done thing is nobody else should be able to read a book all the way through before you sit down to review itenter shows signs of tampering. I’m making an exception here When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, because I don’t want to lose any of and her safe place in the experience of reading this amazing bookgame has been doctored – well, I want where is a girl to capture it as it hits me. And it is hitting me. This beautiful book has me in tears. turn?|isbn=024147857X0008666482
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