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=='''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 superb in her twenties and completely compelling. The characterisation she is excellent slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the plot grips you and won't let gocontent about her. So, what's the problem? Well, the problem Anuri is Chrissiebattling alcoholism, the main character. When we first meet failing to start her she's just eight years oldPhD, small undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for her age and she readily tells us that she's just killed someone - a two-year-old boydoing so. She's completely cold Most importantly, she is desperately worried about what she's done with her main memory being that whilst she was killing - suffocating - her hands seized up. There's a clue that Chrissie isn't completely responsible for her actions a little later in the book: when will Steven come backsister, she wonders? Hasn't he been dead for long enough?}} =='''1 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Darren Shan|title=Archibald Lox and who is the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 new focus of 3|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=The second trilogy in ShanOphelia's ''Merge'' saga opens with our hero, Archie, back in London in the world of the Bornonline empire. It's not been easy, explaining to his foster parents where he's been Can she save her sister, or slipping back into ordinary life and forgetting about Inez perhaps herself and his other friends in the Merge, but Archie has done his best.... well, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Ben's clock tower and except for fiddling her relationship with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every her father at the same time he can sneak away.?|isbn=B093H8DPQZ0861546873

|authorisbn=Alex CotterB0CYV674G2|title=The House on the Edge|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Faith's family home is teetering on the edge of a cliff, literally. Is that crack in the garden getting bigger? Is the house starting to slope a little? And as the house seems to be falling apart, so is Faith's family. Her dad has disappeared, and her mum is struggling to cope, barely leaving her bed. So that leaves Faith in charge, taking care of her little brother Noah, taking care of her mum, feeding everyone, getting Noah to school, and avoiding awkward questions from interfering teachers. Is her little brother okay? Why is he obsessed with what he claims is a ghost in the cellar? What should she do about the house? Can she find a way to raise enough money to fix it? What's happened to her dad? Why did he disappear? Maybe he'll come back if she manages to get funding for the house? She carries the weight of all these worries on her constantly, and she doesn't know how much longer the cliff will hold together, or how long she can keep on keeping on.|isbn=1788008626}} =='''8 JULY'''=={{FrontpageSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Hannah Peck|title=Kate on the CaseDavid Blake

|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet KateIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, although I got covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the impression shepolice station shouting that he hasn'd rather be t killed the man. A body at the bottom of a Catherine – and one specific Catherine freshly dug grave at thatSwanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. For Catherine Rodriguez DCI John Tanner is Kate's idoljust back from his honeymoon, and which coincided with the author birth of our heroinehis daughter Samantha. You would think he's favourite possession, d be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse'The Special Correspondent Manualand 'John Tanner'. 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 were made for the first time in yonkseach other. However, this is a train ride with a difference, for on board is a greedyHe's sleep-seeming harridan and her cat, a thief – and two glowing eyes, shining from deprived to the darkness in a blink-and-youpoint of falling asleep at work but he'lls determined to keep going -miss-them style. Itprobably because he can's definitely a case for a new young investigative journalist..t get any sleep at home.|isbn=184812970X

 =='''13 JULY4 JUNE'''==

|author=Sarah LanganStuart Douglas|title=Good Neighbours|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= If you're of a certain vintage, it's hard to read the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a singLowe and Le Breton Mysteries -song ''that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. Maple Street is no Ramsay Street, though, Arlo and Gertie live a world apart from the Melbourne suburbs. They're one of 18 households on the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved in a year earlier. They're not quite like all the other families (he's an ex rocker, she's a former beauty queen) but they've made some friends and their kids have settled in, and it's all going ok. Until it isn't. One hot, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up in the park across the way. It's a revolting mess of dirt and chaos, but for Death at the residents of Maple Street, the worst is yet to come.|isbn=1789098211}}=='''14 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Eshman Smith|title=Word of Another NatureDress Rehearsal

|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Why does mass protest continually fail to fundamentally change thedirection of the modern world?Floggit and Leggit'' This is , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the question Eshman Smith asks in Word dead body of an Other Nature. He's right to wonder since we as humans often seem to be making a pretty bad job woman on the edge of our efforts to create a world of peace, stability and prosperity for allreservoir. |isbn=B093B2L1Z4}} =='''15 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Emily Critchley|title= The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers had all the hallmarks of police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something good. I was intrigued by about the plotwhole thing bothers Lowe, liked and he enlists the design help of the booka fellow actor, and thought the author's work sounded interestingJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. From They travel across 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 country during their noirish thrillers and crime books before now. You think, seeing on the map that we're set in Akranesdays off filming, uncovering more possible murders 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 feelseemingly, it's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago a woman failed link 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 death during the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for the girl back, and a couple of delighted adoptersSecond World War. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until it stopped all of is there really a sudden, in one place, link between 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. deaths? Meanwhile, this narrative is interrupted by a confessional monologue from a mother And will they manage to uncover 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 oneresponsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=191319373X1803368209

|author=Claire NorthKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Notes from the Burning AgeDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|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 FlemingMeet Kit. However, as with Like most of the best novelspeople in his world, it wears many masks and its most affecting one seems, he is that an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a new team of warrior, mage and timely genrehealer enter specially prepared, clicentury-fiold, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or climate change fictionthe big bad and the points they grant you along the way. North Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's novel tells seen of a world devastated by climate change where humans have the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been forced to start anew retired, eaten, and live alongside nature without any a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the modern goading from the token bully of his world and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons of mass destruction, intensive farming)stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. There is a growing unhappiness with What chance does this limiting worldfriendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and one group, the Brotherhood, aims how could he possibly hope to master these processes no matter the cost to the Earth.succeed?|isbn=03565147571839945184

 =='''3 AUGUST13 JUNE'''==

|authorisbn=Darren Shan1635866847|title=Archibald Lox The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=So. Having done the impossible and unpicked the lock to the Forgotten CryptIt's strange, from which the Departed communicate with things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the Merge, Archie now has book for you. Before I started reading ''gropThe Lavender Companion'' to think about, I visited the author's [https://www. But before that, soireespinelavenderfarm. Soirees! Archie, much to Inezcom/ website] and there's amusement, doesna picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't even know what one of those iseat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. But he manages to come through (There's a recipe in the fancy party unscathedbook, even after an uncomfortable encounter which I'm avoiding with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was crushed told to make a mess of it. Notes in the first volume margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this seriesbook already. |isbn=B093J9TF73

=='''5 AUGUST4 JULY'''==

|author=John BoyneMax Boucherat|title=The Echo Chamber|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Meet George Cleverley. He is self-defined as "one of the few television personalities over the age Last Life 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 with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. They have three children, who 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 the world's homeless with out-of-date food, and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thing. 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 the farcical approach even more, however, is the fact this is bloody funny.|isbn=0857526219}}{{Frontpage|author=Louise Candlish|title=The HeightsLori Mills

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Ellen doesnWe meet Lori on the first evening she't expect s got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to see Kieran Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that dayis a hit in Lori's world. She But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn's t find herself entirely on siteher own, visiting a client for a lighting consultation when and then she spies him in a building across finds something even more spooky. For the wayserver she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. There are lots of things When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, lots of people, you might see when you look out across London, but this isn't one Ellen expected that day or and her safe place in fact any other day. Why? Because Kieran the game has been dead for over two yearsdoctored – well, and Ellen knows this for where is a fact, because she had a hand in his murder.girl to turn?|isbn=14711834830008666482

|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de FrestonJenny Lecoat|title=Julia and the SharkBeyond Summerland

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off Jean lives on Jersey with her parents and their cat from mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. During the family home in SW England war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to be lighthousekeepers for a summerbanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, in leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. As the far NE of British finally free the Scottish Channel islands. Here be Vikingsfrom the Nazis, and the war 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 lantern, which is his specialist thingtruth come as a relief, 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