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=='''8 JULY23 MAY'''==

|author=Hannah PeckOnyi Nwabineli|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}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008350388|title=We Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is Allow Me to be seen as less desirable, less hireable, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts...'' ''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba ''0.7% of English Literature GCSE students in England study a book by a writer of colour while only 7% study a book by a woman.'' ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came to the UK from Kenya when she was five years old. Her sisters were seven and nine. It was her mother who came first, with her father joining them later. The family was hard-working, principled and determined that their children would have the best education possible. There was always a painful awareness of money although this did not translate into a shortage of anything: it was simply carefully harvested. When Otegha was ten the family acquired a car. For Otegha, education meant a scholarship to a private school in London and then a place at New College, Oxford.}}=='''13 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Sarah Langan|title=Good NeighboursIntroduce Myself

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary= If you're of a certain vintageAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, it's hard thanks to read the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a singher step-song mother Ophelia''thats increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Maple Street Now Anuri is no Ramsay Streetin her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, though, Arlo and Gertie live a world apart from suing her step-mother to take down the Melbourne suburbscontent about her. They're one of 18 households on the crescent Anuri is battling alcoholism, quite new arrivals having moved in a year earlier. They're not quite like all the other families (he's an ex rockerfailing to start her PhD, she's a former beauty queen) but they've made some friends undergoing therapy and their kids have settled in, secretly abusing people online and it's all going okreceiving money from them for doing so. Until it isn't. One hot Most importantly, clammyshe is desperately worried about her little sister, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up in who is the park across the way. Itnew focus of Ophelia's a revolting mess of dirt online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and chaos, but for the residents of Maple Street, her relationship with her father at the worst is yet to come.same time?|isbn=17890982110861546873

=='''14 JULY30 MAY'''==

|authorisbn=Eshman SmithB0CYV674G2|title=Word of Another NatureSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake

|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he'Why does mass protest continually fail s been stabbed to fundamentally change thedirection death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the modern world?words 'perverse' This is the question Eshman Smith asks in Word of an Other Natureand 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's right sleep-deprived to wonder since we as humans often seem to be making a pretty bad job the point of our efforts falling asleep at work but he's determined to create a world of peace, stability and prosperity for allkeep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home. |isbn=B093B2L1Z4

 =='''15 JULY4 JUNE'''==

|author=Emily CritchleyStuart Douglas|title=The Tiny Gestures 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, Lowe and thought the author's work sounded interesting. From Le Breton Mysteries - Death at 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 LieDress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=You might be forgiven During location filming 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 wehis 1970's sitcom 're set in Akranes, Floggit and finding itLeggit's only twenty kilometres from the capital city, that this author is clutching at leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the few final straws left. However just because dead body of a woman on the book aims for the usual small-town feel, it's not just in Akranes that our interests lieedge of a reservoir. Six months ago a woman failed The police seem happy to turn up for her date eveningassign it as an accidental death, 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 but something about the girl backwhole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a couple of delighted adoptersfellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. 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, They travel across the woman's car was found miles away in a second placecountry during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and now, after six monthsseemingly, a link to death during the body has been discovered, in a third, even more remote placeSecond World War. Meanwhile, this narrative But is interrupted by there really a confessional monologue from a mother link between the deaths? 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=Doug JohnstoneJenny Lecoat|title=The Great SilenceBeyond Summerland

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=For those who, like me, haven't come across Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the Skelfs before, I'll risk a quick synopsis of who's who – although Johnstone does a good job end of bringing the backstory in without being heavy handed about itoccupation. Skelf isn During the war, Jean't some fantastic creature, though it sounds as though it ought s father was arrested for listening to bea banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, it is merely the surname of a family leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of undertakershim. Undertakers and private investigators. Dorothy is As the British finally free the Channel islands from the matriarch – Californian by birth and instinctNazis, she married a scot and ended up helping to run the Edinburgh undertaking firm war is finally over, their hopes rise that had been in they will finally learn what became of him. But will the family for generations. Recently widowed and now involved with truth come as a black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jennyrelief, 46, is haunted by her still-living husband – a violent escaped prisoner. or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And grand-daughter is about to graduate with a first-class physics degree and join what other secrets have been kept throughout the academic staff next term.occupation?|isbn=19131938371846976537