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=='''22 JULY9 MAY'''==

|author=Claire NorthTom Percival|title=Notes from the Burning AgeThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=At its core Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'Notes From the Burning Agewrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can' by Claire North is a spy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations t work and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. However, as with doesn't have enough money for even the best novels, it wears many masks and its most affecting one is that basic of a new things like food, and timely genrehis dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, cliwas working a cash-fi, or climate change fiction. North's novel tells of in-hand job on a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to start anew building site and live alongside nature without any of had an accident. Throw into that mix the modern fact that his mum and dad are separated, and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuelsWill's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, weapons he still has a tiny amount of mass destruction, intensive farming)hope. There He is a growing unhappiness with this limiting worldgood at art, and one groupclings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the Brotherhoodend of a long, aims to master these processes no matter the cost to the Earthdark tunnel.|isbn=03565147571398527122

 =='''3 AUGUST23 MAY'''==

|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

|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

|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

|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

 =='''2 SEPTEMBER6 JUNE'''==

|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave Kieran Larwood and Tom de FrestonJoe Todd-Stanton|title=Julia and the SharkDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|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

|authorisbn=Ian Mark and Louis Ghibault1635866847|title=Monster Hunting For BeginnersThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|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

|author=Emma CarrollMax Boucherat|title=The Week at World's EndLast Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5

|summary=First, the title. We're in World's End Close, a mediocre set of houses, where Stevie (Vie to her friends) finds fun only with meet Lori on the family dog and with the boy over the road. But we could also be at Worldfirst evening she's End, because something taking a great chunk of the fun away is the fact that got the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking off. The Soviet boats are getting blockaded as America tries house to reduce the risk of nuclear missiles offshore, and not much else is able herself – no neighbour to make the news. That said, Vie has news of her own – Anna, a secretive young woman hiding pop in their coal shed. Anna has, in no short timebabysitter poorly, taken a strong interest in the American airforce base behind the Closemother at work, said she'd locate something she wanted and leavejust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, failed to leave, and implied on her life was at risklonesome. But surely this bit of intrigue has got nothing to do with what the Cold War is doing miles away What could possibly go wrong?|isbn=0571364438}}{{Frontpage|author= Angharad Walker|title= The Ash House|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= A new boy arrives at The Ash House. He doesn't know his name Snuggled in a blanket fort, or why he is there but he is used to the systemshe has one main intention, used to different places and different faces. He meets Dom who names him Sol and sets out that is to teach him the rules of The Ash House. These rules centre log on a variety of Nicenesses set out by to Voxminer, the absent Headmaster. All children must remember their Niceness and complete their choresworld-building, working as critter-collecting game that is a hive hit in the smouldering shadows of The Ash HouseLori's world. But soon their easy peace is shattered by the arrival of the Doctor. By the end of the story, lives will be changed forever and The Ash House will never be the same again.|isbn=1912626977}} ==first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn'''7 OCTOBER'''=={{Frontpage|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 Sagat find herself entirely on her own, 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 seethen she finds something even more spooky. This story is For the ultimate in High Fantasy, server she and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language her bestie and battles galore. This is a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together nobody else should be able to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battleenter shows signs of tampering.|isbn=0356514218}}{{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 When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, 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 safe place in the culprit game has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to. An arson attack on that shows the feeling been doctored – and it's only fairwell, where 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, girl to sort everything out. Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really going to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the law...turn?|isbn=15294169730008666482