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 =='''10 SEPTEMBER9 MAY'''== 
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|author= Andrea StewartTom Percival|title= The Bone Shard Daughter (The Drowning Empire)Wrong Shoes|rating=4.5|genre= FantasyConfident Readers|summary=Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes'I could never be what , he wanted if I did not take what I wantedhas the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesnIn an empire controlled by a bone shard magic that powers animal-t have enough money for even the most basic of things like constructsfood, an heir to and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the thronecollege, was working a cash-in-hand job on a smuggler, building site and a warrior will fight to find their place in the worldhad an accidentLin is Throw into that mix the emperorfact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's forgotten daughterlife seems bleak in every direction. And yet, kept locked away in he still has a palace tiny amount of secrets and closed doorshope. When her father refuses to recognise her as heir to the throne He is good at art, she vows to show him she is capable of reviving a dying empire and in secret, she begins clings to unlock one door after another, searching for the mysteries moments of her past and the forbidden art of bone shard magic. Yet Lin joy when he is playing drawing, that feel like a deadly game and her quest for power will come light at great cost. With revolution in the air and creeping closer and closer to the gates end of the palacea long, Lin must decide just how far she will to go to become a catalyst of change and save her peopledark tunnel.|isbn=03565149431398527122
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=='''14 SEPTEMBER23 MAY'''==
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|author= Tahi SaihateOnyi Nwabineli|title= Astral Season, Beastly SeasonAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating= 34.5|genre= Literary General Fiction|summary= We long for our past even though it is a place Anuri spent her childhood on display to which we can never return. Tahi Saihatethe world, in thanks to her debut novel step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri'Astral Seasons childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, Beastly Season'' illustrates how these rose-tinted glasses often liemonetary gain. Her novel Now Anuri is a meditation on youth in her twenties and how the things we do as a teenager can seem intensely important she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and often to get her lifeback, suing her step-alteringmother to take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn= 19162771010861546873
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=='''17 SEPTEMBER4 JUNE'''==
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|author=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)Stuart Douglas|title=The Seven DoorsLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Come here During location filming for a thriller that interestingly doesnhis 1970's sitcom 't even try to suggest a genre of any kind until weFloggit and Leggit're a full fifth , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of the way through. We start with our couple, she a literature lecturer, he big in medical provision and decisions at woman on the council, being forced to move out edge of their home, a building that had existed throughout her life since childhood and which they'd occupied for over thirty yearsreservoir. The building he's inheritedpolice seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, meanwhilebut something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and which they let out to he enlists the help of a single motherfellow actor, is needed by their adult daughter, who quite blatantly says John Le Breton to its occupant 'take a hike, I'm moving in and you're moving out'help him investigate matters further. NowThey travel across the country during their days off filming, at this stage you may welluncovering more possible murders and, if you know this is a genre readseemingly, think it's going to be a throwback link to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in death during the 1980s, but noSecond World War. We avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedy, in case that has any bearing on what happens here, and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose 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 to have completely vanished.?|isbn=19131933811803368209
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Michael J MaloneKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|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 of all things, though to his credit he would rather be working in forestry. They have found a hideaway on a small Scottish estate, but things are starting to feel wrong between them. |isbn=1913193365}}=='''22 SEPTEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=Arvin Ahmadi|title=How It All Blew UpDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
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|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
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|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.
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=='''1 OCTOBER4 JULY'''== 
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|author=Tania UnsworthMax Boucherat|title=The Time Traveller and the TigerLast Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|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
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=='''29 OCTOBER'''==
 
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|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 on the road for a long time and being frightened, and some of the faces from the road, but other than that – 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 is, where he is or how he got there.
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=='''12 NOVEMBER'''==
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|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 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.
|isbn=1542019990
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=='''4 FEBRUARY 2021'''==
 
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|author=Helen Fisher
|title=Space Hopper
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Faye lost her mum when she was very young. She was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from a cold that got worse, and although they were kind and very good to her she of course missed her mum enormously. So when, unexpectedly, she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) that takes her back to the 70's and her mum, she revels in the chance to create some memories and get to know the woman who meant so much to her. The time travelling, however, is neither easy nor safe, and Faye fears that her husband won't believe what's happening and so lies to him instead. The lies grow more tangled, and Faye begins to wonder if it's safe for her to return one last time to the past. Should she try to see her mum one last time before her mum's death, or will it change her own future forever to attempt it?
|isbn=1471188663
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