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=='''15 JULY9 MAY'''==
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|author=Emily CritchleyTom Percival|title=The Tiny Gestures of Small FlowersWrong Shoes|rating=35|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary= The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers had all the hallmarks of something good. I was intrigued by the plot, liked the design of the book, and thought the authorWill's work sounded interesting. From the outset it all looked incredibly promising. So what on earth went wrong here?|isbn= 1911427091}} =='''16 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=B0925KS87N|title=Dead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Tam Hardie had been determined to find the grave - and it took some findinglife is difficult, in an overgrown old cemetery. It was a strange thing for Scotland's premier criminal to do, but Tam was getting old and there were things he wanted to domultitude of ways. Only, his family didn't hear from him again after He is bullied because hehas 'd said that he'd found the grave - the one which said that it shouldnwrong shoes't be opened - and his three sons began to worry. Tam Junior, Frankie and Dave wouldn't normally go to he has the police but they werenwrong shoes because his dad can't certain where their father had been work and they were worried.}}==doesn'''22 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)|title=Girls Who Lie|rating=3|genre=Thrillers|summary=You might be forgiven t have enough money for thinking that all even the dark corners most basic of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before now. You think, seeing on the map that we're set in Akranesthings like food, and finding ithis dad can's only twenty kilometres from t work because he lost his job at the capital citycollege, that this author is clutching at the few final straws left. However just because the book aims for the usual smallwas working a cash-town feel, it's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago -hand job on a woman failed to turn up for her date evening, building site and was never seen againhad an accident. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed Throw into that she could now live permanently with mix the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for the girl backfact that his mum and dad are separated, and a couple of delighted adopters. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until it stopped all of a sudden, in one place, the womanWill's car was found miles away life seems bleak in a second placeevery direction. And yet, and now, after six months, the body he still has been discovered, in a third, even more remote placetiny amount of hope. Meanwhile, this narrative He is interrupted by a confessional monologue from a mother who found herself with heavy post-natal depressiongood at art, and very little maternal feeling in her body. Is the assumption that is so easy for the reader clings to make the right one?|isbn=191319373X}}{{Frontpage|author=Claire North|title=Notes from the Burning Age|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=At its core ''Notes From the Burning Age'' by Claire North moments of joy when he is a spy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. Howeverdrawing, as with the best novels, it wears many masks and its most affecting one is that of feel like a new and timely genre, cli-fi, or climate change fiction. North's novel tells of a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to start anew and live alongside nature without any of light at the modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons end of mass destruction, intensive farming). There is a growing unhappiness with this limiting worldlong, and one group, the Brotherhood, aims to master these processes no matter the cost to the Earthdark tunnel.|isbn=03565147571398527122
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 =='''3 AUGUST23 MAY'''==
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|author=Darren ShanOnyi Nwabineli|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3Allow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=So. Having done the impossible and unpicked the lock to the Forgotten Crypt, from which the Departed communicate with the Merge, Archie now has ''grop'' to think about. But before that, soirees. Soirees! Archie, much to Inez's amusement, doesn't even know what one of those is. But he manages to come through the fancy party unscathed, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume of this series. 
|isbn=B093J9TF73
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=='''5 AUGUST'''==
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|author=John Boyne
|title=The Echo Chamber
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Meet George Cleverley. He is selfAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-defined as "one of the few television personalities over the age mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of fifty without a criminal record". He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him sheAnuri's carrying his childchildhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, but then his author wife basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is getting in her kicks with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her with. They have three childrenlife back, who are a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, a girl who hangs around with a virtuesuing her step-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants mother to save take down the world's homeless with out-of-date food, and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thingcontent about her. Add in a few other characters – therapists Anuri is battling alcoholism, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections failing to his lifestart her PhD, undergoing therapy and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to the modern worldsecretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. What suggests the farcical approach even more Most importantly, howevershe is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the fact this is bloody funnynew 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=08575262190861546873
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|author=Louise CandlishStuart Douglas|title=The HeightsLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Ellen doesn't expect to see Kieran that day. She's on site, visiting a client for a lighting consultation when she spies him in a building across the way. There are lots of things, lots of people, you might see when you look out across London, but this isn't one Ellen expected that day or in fact any other day. Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years, and Ellen knows this for a fact, because she had a hand in his murder.|isbn=1471183483}} =='''19 AUGUST'''=={{Frontpage|author=Doug Johnstone|title=The Great Silence|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=For those who, like meDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', haven't come leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the Skelfs before, I'll risk dead body of a quick synopsis woman on the edge of who's who – although Johnstone does a good job of bringing the backstory in without being heavy handed about itreservoir. Skelf isn't some fantastic creature, though The police seem happy to assign it sounds as though it ought to bean accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, it is merely and he enlists the surname help of a family of undertakersfellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Undertakers and private investigators. Dorothy is They travel across the matriarch – Californian by birth country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and instinct, she married seemingly, a scot and ended up helping link to run the Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been in death during the family for generations. Recently widowed and now involved with a black Swedish police officerSecond World War. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jenny, 46, But is haunted by her still-living husband – there really a violent escaped prisoner. link between the deaths? And grand-daughter will they manage to uncover who is about to graduate with a first-class physics degree and join the academic staff next term.responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=19131938371803368209
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 =='''2 SEPTEMBER6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave Kieran Larwood and Tom de FrestonJoe Todd-Stanton|title=Julia and the SharkDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=JuliaMeet 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, our premage and healer enter specially prepared, century-teen heroineold, magical mazes, and race to the exit, has been packed off perhaps bothering with her parents the treasure or the big bad and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for a summerKit, in the far NE only thing he's seen of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikingslatest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, that kind and a new trio of Scottish islandquestors is needed. Dad is going Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to be automating the lantern, which is goading from the token bully of his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland sharkworld and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. And JuliaWhat chance does this friendless, wellmuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=15101077891839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Ian Mark and Louis Ghibault1635866847|title=Monster Hunting For BeginnersThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=Meet Jack. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless and nimble and quick, for heIt's a slight boystrange, and although he wants the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for danger and peril and interesting things his dad refuses to let him out of his sightyou. That Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's because Jack[https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's mother knew all about monsters, and look what happened to her – she died. Luckily or unluckily then, depending on your point a picture of view, a giant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jackslice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don's father also goes AWOL, Jack will fluke the ogret eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's death, a dwarfish wizard-type will make him an apprentice monster hunterrecipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and he'll be given I was told to make a book that tells him all he needs mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to know about fold down the perils he always wanted closer contact withcorners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. The book's name? I ''Monster Hunting for Beginnersloved''this book already...|isbn=0755501942
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=='''4 JULY'''==
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|author=Emma CarrollMax Boucherat|title=The Week at World's EndLast Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=First, We meet Lori on the title. Wefirst evening she're s got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in World's End Close, a mediocre set of housesbabysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, where Stevie (Vie to on her friends) finds fun only with the family dog and with the boy over the roadlonesome. But we What could also be at World's Endpossibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, because something taking a great chunk of the fun away is the fact and that the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking off. The Soviet boats are getting blockaded as America tries to reduce log on to Voxminer, the risk of nuclear missiles offshoreworld-building, and not much else critter-collecting game that is able to make the news. That said, Vie has news of her own – Anna, a secretive young woman hiding hit in their coal shedLori's world. Anna But first Lori has, in no short time, taken a strong interest in the American airforce base behind the Closetiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, said and then she'd locate finds something even more spooky. For the server she wanted and leave, failed her bestie and nobody else should be able to leaveenter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and implied her life was at risk. But surely this bit of intrigue safe place in the game has got nothing been doctored – well, where is a girl to do with what the Cold War is doing miles awayturn?|isbn=05713644380008666482
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=='''7 OCTOBER'''==
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|author=John Gwynne
|title=The Shadow Of The Gods
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to see. This story is the ultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. This is a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.
|isbn=0356514218
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{{Frontpage
|author=Peter Papathanasiou
|title=The Stoning
|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=In a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparison, a teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolley, and she's been taped to a tree and she's had rocks bowled at her as if she were the world's tallest cricket stumps. When she's discovered by the town gossip everyone, including the local cops, are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to. An arson attack on that shows the feeling – and it's only fair, is the general opinion, for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. Cue the arrival of George Manolis, a higher rank from the city, to sort everything out. Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really going to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the law...
|isbn=1529416973
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