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=='''19 SEPTEMBER9 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=1739593901Tom Percival|title=22 Ideas About The Future|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)Wrong Shoes
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|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=Will''Our future will be more complex than we expected. Instead of flying carss life is difficult, we got night-vision killer drones and automated elderly care with geolocation surveillance bracelets to track grandma.'' I've got in a couple multitude of confessions to makeways. IHe is bullied because he has 'm not keen on short stories as I find it easy to read a few stories and then forget to return to the book. Therewrong shoes's got to be a very compelling hook to keep me engaged. Then there, he has the wrong shoes because his dad can's science fiction: far too often itt work and doesn's t have enough money for even the technology which takes centre stage along with most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the worldcollege, was working a cash-in-hand job on a buildingsite and had an accident. It's human beings who fascinate me: Throw into that mix the technology fact that his mum and the world scape dad are purely incidentalseparated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. SoAnd yet, what did I think he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a book light at the end of twenty-two science fiction short stories? Wella long, I loved itdark tunnel. |isbn=1398527122
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=='''22 SEPTEMBER23 MAY'''==
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|author=Christopher BowdenOnyi Nwabineli|title=Mr MagentaAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Christopher BowdenAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's latest novel is a patient untangling increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of a seemingly ordinary womanAnuri's lifechildhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, carried out by monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her nephew after twenties and she has died. The aunt who always provided a safe harbour is slowly trying to regain her confidence and a little bit of indulgence to a young nephew had had a much more interesting get her life than that nephew Stephen had ever realised and it seems back, suing her step-mother to him an obligation take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to find it all outstart 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= B0B6Z9VJDW0861546873
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=='''6 OCTOBER4 JUNE'''==
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|author=Alison HughesStuart Douglas|title=FlyLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=This is a very impressive readDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', as it does leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a lot woman on the edge of what mainstream teen and tween fiction still struggles witha reservoir. Its focus is courtesy of The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the first-person narration from Flywhole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a secondary school lad with cerebral palsyfellow actor, a down-on-her-luck single mom nearing retirement from being a cleanerJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, a carer while at schoolseemingly, and a bundle of assumptions people lay on himlink to death during the Second World War. First they assume that with But is there really a broken body comes a broken mind, then link between the deaths? And will they decide he'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 it.manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=15253058321803368209
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=='''13 OCTOBER6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Lilja Sigurdardottir Kieran Larwood and Quentin Bates (translator)Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Red as BloodDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=When Flosi’s wife goes missingMeet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, all the evidence it seems to point towards her having been kidnapped. The ransom note tells him not to have any contact with the police, so instead he enlists is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the help sport where a team of Arorawarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, a financial investigator. She manages century-old, magical mazes, and race to persuade Flosi that the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they will need grant you along the help way. Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the policelatest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and she calls her detective frienda new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, Daniel, whom she met when he was investigating her sister’s disappearance. Together, they start has taken to secretly investigate Gudrun’s disappearance, trying not to arouse the suspicion goading from the token bully of anyonehis world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, since they muscle-free-zone have no idea who the kidnappers might bein actually managing that, yet the more they uncover, the more confusing things become.and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=19145853211839945184
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=='''21 OCTOBER13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams 1635866847|title=The Book of Hope Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society Lifestyle|summary= The done thing It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is to read a the book all the way through before for you sit down to review it. I’m making an exception here Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', because I don’t want to lose any visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the experience of book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading this amazing the book, and I want was told to capture make a mess of it as it hits me. And it is hitting me Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. This beautiful I ''loved'' this book has me in tearsalready. |isbn=024147857X
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 =='''25 OCTOBER4 JULY'''==
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|author=Lisa GrayMax Boucherat|title=The Dark RoomLast Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=What if you knew someone was dead, because youWe meet Lori on the first evening she'd watched them die several years ago, but then you come across a photograph that seemed s got the house to herself – no neighbour to show their murder happened pop in a different place and time, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? This is what happens to Leonard Snuggled in this story. He is an ex-crime reporter for a newspaperblanket fort, and since leaving journalism he's found himself an unusual hobby where he finds oldshe has one main intention, undeveloped rolls of film and develops them in his own dark room at home. One of these photographs turns out that is to log on to show Voxminer, the murder scene of world-building, critter-collecting game that is a young woman he met some years ago, and who he hit in Lori''thought'' he had watched die in front of him one night in a hotels world. He'd felt guilty ever since But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy nightdoesn't find herself entirely on her own, and lost everything because of it - his fiancee and his career - but now then she finds himself wondering if she hadn't really died something even more spooky. For the night server she was with him, what on earth actually happened?|isbn=154203535X}}=='''1 JANUARY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1542037239|title=Death in Heels|author=Kitty Murphy|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Set against the backdrop of Dublin's drag scene, ''Death in Heels'' tells the story of Fi McKinnery and her best friend, Robyn, who is about to debut as drag queen Mae B. What is meant bestie and nobody else should be able to be a night enter shows signs of excitement soon takes a downward turn when fellow drag queen, Eve, takes to the stage to mock Mae Btampering. As if the night could not get any worse When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead and her safe place in a gutter. Fi is adamant that Eve was murdered, yet the drag communitygame has been doctored – well, and the Guards, accept it as an accident. Fi takes it upon herself where is a girl to solve the mystery as she fears for her friends, but instead ruins relationships as she delves deeper.turn?|isbn=0008666482
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