Changes

=='''24 JUNE23 MAY'''==

|isbnauthor=1786332388Onyi Nwabineli|title=The First Day of Spring|author=Nancy TuckerAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Sometimes I wonder if I take my pleasures too sadly Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step- and mother Ophelia''The First Day s increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of SpringAnuri'' was one such occasions childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. The writing Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is superb slowly trying to regain her confidence and completely compellingto get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. The characterisation Anuri is excellent battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and the plot grips you secretly abusing people online and won't let goreceiving money from them for doing so. SoMost importantly, what's the problem? Wellshe is desperately worried about her little sister, the problem who is Chrissie, the main character. When we first meet her she's just eight years old, small for her age and she readily tells us that shenew focus of Ophelia's just killed someone - a two-year-old boyonline empire. She's completely cold about what Can she's done with save her main memory being that whilst she was killing - suffocating - sister, and perhaps herself and her hands seized up. There's a clue that Chrissie isn't completely responsible for relationship with her actions a little later in father at the book: when will Steven come back, she wonders? Hasn't he been dead for long enoughsame time?|isbn=0861546873

|authorisbn=Catherine SteadmanB0CYV674G2|title=The Disappearing ActSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= British actress Mia Eliot is on the cusp of successIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. Great success. If the rumours are trueA man, award season is going to treat her wellcovered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, acknowledging her for her latest, critically acclaimed production. Shecomes into the police station shouting that he hasn's going places but so, unfortunately, is her partnert killed the man. And A body at the places bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's going take him towards liesbeen stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, deceit and a pretty young thing in which coincided with the form birth of his new co-stardaughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. ItHe's a good time for Mia sleep-deprived to escape, and pilot season in LA provides just the excusepoint of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.|isbn=1471189783

 =='''1 JULY4 JUNE'''==

|author=Darren ShanStuart Douglas|title=Archibald Lox Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=The second trilogy in ShanDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit'Merge'' saga opens with our hero, Archie, back in London in leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the world dead body of a woman on the Bornedge of a reservoir. It's not been easy, explaining The police seem happy to his foster parents where he's beenassign it as an accidental death, or slipping back into ordinary life and forgetting but something about Inez the whole thing bothers Lowe, and his other friends in the Mergehe enlists the help of a fellow actor, but Archie has done his bestJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further.... well They travel across the country during their days off filming, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Ben's clock tower uncovering more possible murders and except for fiddling with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak away, seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=B093H8DPQZ1803368209

|author=Alex CotterKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The House on the EdgeDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=Faith's family home is teetering on Meet Kit. Like most of the edge of a cliffpeople in his world, literally. Is that crack in the garden getting bigger? Is the house starting to slope a little? And as the house it seems to be falling apart, so he is Faith's family. Her dad has disappearedan avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and her mum is struggling to copehealer enter specially prepared, barely leaving her bed. So that leaves Faith in chargecentury-old, taking care of her little brother Noahmagical mazes, taking care of her mum, feeding everyone, getting Noah and race to schoolthe exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and avoiding awkward questions from interfering teachersthe points they grant you along the way. Is her little brother okay? Why is Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he obsessed with what he claims is a ghost in 's seen of the cellar? What should she do about latest race on the house? Can she find inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a way to raise enough money to fix it? What's happened to her dad? Why did new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he disappear? Maybe he'll come back if she manages has taken to get funding for the house? She carries goading from the weight token bully of all these worries on her constantly, his world and she doesnstumbled into declaring he't know how much longer the cliff will hold togetherll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, or and how long she can keep on keeping on.could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=17880086261839945184

 =='''8 JULY13 JUNE'''==

|authorisbn=Hannah Peck1635866847|title=Kate on the Case|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Kate, although I got the impression she'd rather be a Catherine – and one specific Catherine at that. For Catherine Rodriguez is Kate's idol, and the author of our heroine's favourite possession, ''The Special Correspondent Manual''. Armed with a plucky father, that book, and her talking mouse called Rupert, she is all equipped to manage a train ride to the Arctic, to see her scientist mother for the first time in yonks. However, this is a train ride with a difference, for on board is a greedy-seeming harridan and her cat, a thief – and two glowing eyes, shining from the darkness in a blink-and-you'll-miss-them style. It's definitely a case for a new young investigative journalist...|isbn=184812970X}} =='''13 JULY'''=={{FrontpageLavender Companion|author=Sarah Langan|title=Good NeighboursJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=ThrillersLifestyle|summary= If youIt're of a certain vintages strange, it's hard to read the words things that make you ''Good Neighboursimmediately'' without adding a sing-song feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''thatThe Lavender Companion's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm. Maple Street is no Ramsay Street, though, Arlo com/ website] and Gertie live there's a world apart from the Melbourne suburbs. They're one picture of a slice of 18 households chocolate cake on the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved in a year earlierhomepage. They I don're not quite like all the other families t eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (heThere's an ex rockera recipe in the book, shewhich I's a former beauty queenm avoiding with some difficulty!!) but they've made some friends and their kids have settled in, Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it's all going ok. Until it isn't. One hot, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up Notes in the park across the waymargins are sanctioned. It's a revolting mess of dirt and chaos, but for You get to fold down the residents corners of Maple Street, the worst is yet to comepages.|isbn=1789098211}}=='''14 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Eshman Smith|title=Word You suspect that smears of Another Nature|rating=3butter would not be a problem.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary= I ''Why does mass protest continually fail to fundamentally change thedirection of the modern world?loved'' This is the question Eshman Smith asks in Word of an Other Naturethis book already. He's right to wonder since we as humans often seem to be making a pretty bad job of our efforts to create a world of peace, stability and prosperity for all. |isbn=B093B2L1Z4

=='''15 4 JULY'''==

|author=Emily CritchleyMax Boucherat|title=The Tiny Gestures Last Life of Small Flowers|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|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 author's work sounded interesting. From the outset it all looked incredibly promising. So what on earth went wrong here?|isbn= 1911427091}}  =='''22 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)|title=Girls Who Lie|rating=3|genre=Thrillers|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all the dark corners of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before now. You think, seeing on the map that we're set in Akranes, and finding it's only twenty kilometres from the capital city, that this author is clutching at the few final straws left. However just because the book aims for the usual small-town feel, it's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago a woman failed to turn up for her date evening, and was never seen again. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently with the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for the girl back, 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 woman's car was found miles away in a second place, and now, after six months, the body has been discovered, in a third, even more remote place. Meanwhile, this narrative is interrupted by a confessional monologue from a mother who found herself with heavy post-natal depression, and very little maternal feeling in her body. Is the assumption that is so easy for the reader 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 is a spy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. However, as with the best novels, it wears many masks and its most affecting one is that of 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 the modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons of mass destruction, intensive farming). There is a growing unhappiness with this limiting world, and one group, the Brotherhood, aims to master these processes no matter the cost to the Earth.|isbn=0356514757}} =='''3 AUGUST'''=={{Frontpage|author=Darren Shan|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3Lori Mills

|summary=So. Having done We meet Lori on the impossible and unpicked first evening she's got the lock house to the Forgotten Cryptherself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, from which the Departed communicate with the Mergeon her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, Archie now she has ''grop'' one main intention, and that is to log on to think about. But before thatVoxminer, soirees. Soirees! Archiethe world-building, much to Inezcritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's amusement, world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even know what one more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of those istampering. But he manages to come through the fancy party unscathed When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed and her safe place in the first volume of this series. game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=B093J9TF730008666482

|author=John BoyneJenny Lecoat|title=The Echo ChamberBeyond Summerland|rating=54

|summary=Meet George Cleverley. He is self-defined as "one of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without a criminal record". He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him she's carrying his child, but then his author wife is getting her kicks Jean lives on Jersey with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. They have three children, who mother where they are a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save celebrating the world's homeless with out-end of-date food, and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thingoccupation. Add in a few other characters – therapists, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to his life, and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to the modern world. What suggests During the farcical approach even morewar, however, is the fact this is bloody funny.|isbn=0857526219}}{{Frontpage|author=Louise Candlish|title=The Heights|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Ellen doesn't expect to see Kieran that day. SheJean's on site, visiting a client father was arrested for listening to a lighting consultation when she spies banned radio and soldiers took him in a building across the way. There are lots of thingsaway one night, 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 leaving Jean and her mother waiting for over two years, and Ellen knows this for a fact, because she had a hand in his murdernews of him.|isbn=1471183483}} =='''2 SEPTEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Julia and As the British finally free the Shark|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat Channel islands from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summerNazis, in and the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikingswar is finally over, their hopes rise that kind they will finally learn what became of Scottish islandhim. Dad is going to be automating But will the lanterntruth come as a relief, which is his specialist thing, while mum or will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the elusive Greenland shark. radio? And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=15101077891846976537