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=='''13 JULY23 MAY'''==

|author=Sarah LanganOnyi Nwabineli|title=Good NeighboursAllow Me to Introduce 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

=='''15 JULY30 MAY'''==

|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 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}} =='''16 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=B0925KS87NB0CYV674G2|title=Dead Man's Grave Swanton Morley (DS Max CraigieJohn Tanner)|author=Neil LancasterDavid Blake|rating=43.5

|summary=Tam Hardie had been determined to find the grave It seemed like an open- and it took some finding-shut case. A man, covered in an overgrown old cemeterymud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. It was A body at the bottom of a strange thing for Scotlandfreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's premier criminal to do, but Tam was getting old and there were things he wanted been stabbed to dodeath. OnlyDCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his family didn't hear from him again after daughter Samantha. You would think he'd said that hebe grateful for an easy answer but the words 'd found the grave - the one which said that it shouldnperverse't be opened - and his three sons began to worry'John Tanner' were made for each other. Tam Junior, Frankie and Dave wouldnHe't normally go s sleep-deprived to the police point of falling asleep at work but they werenhe's determined to keep going - probably because he can't certain where their father had been and they were worriedget any sleep at home.

=='''22 JULY4 JUNE'''==

|author=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)Stuart Douglas|title=Girls Who LieLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress 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 but something about the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for 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

|summary=SoMeet Kit. Having done Like most of the impossible and unpicked the lock to the Forgotten Cryptpeople in his world, it seems, from which he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the Departed communicate with the Mergesport where a team of warrior, Archie now has ''grop'' to think about. But before thatmage and healer enter specially prepared, soirees. Soirees! Archiecentury-old, much to Inez's amusementmagical mazes, doesn't even know what one of those is. But he manages and race to come through the fancy party unscathed, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtisexit, whose fledgling romance perhaps bothering with Inez was crushed in the first volume of this series. |isbn=B093J9TF73}} =='''5 AUGUST'''=={{Frontpage|author=John Boyne|title=The Echo Chamber|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Meet George Cleverley. He is self-defined as "one of treasure or the few television personalities over big bad and 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 with points they grant you along the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her withway. They have three children, who are a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signalling Unfortunately for Kit, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save the worldonly thing he's homeless with out-seen of-date foodthe latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thingnew trio of questors is needed. Add in a few other characters – therapists, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have two Possibly very different connections to his lifeunfortunately indeed for Kit, and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach he has taken to the modern goading from the token bully of his worldand stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What suggests the farcical approach even morechance does this friendless, howevermuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, is the fact this is bloody funny.and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=08575262191839945184

|authorisbn=Louise Candlish1635866847|title=The HeightsLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=ThrillersLifestyle|summary=Ellen doesnIt't expect to see Kieran s strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that daythis is the book for you. She Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's on site, visiting a client for picture of a lighting consultation when she spies him in a building across slice of chocolate cake on the wayhomepage. There are lots of things, lots of people, you might see when you look out across London, but this isn I don't one Ellen expected eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that day or cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in fact any other day. Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two yearsthe book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and Ellen knows this for I was told to make a fact, because she had mess of it. 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 hand in his murderproblem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=1471183483

=='''19 AUGUST4 JULY'''==

|author=Doug JohnstoneMax Boucherat|title=The Great Silence|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=For those who, like me, haven't come across the Skelfs before, I'll risk a quick synopsis of who's who – although Johnstone does a good job Last Life of bringing the backstory in without being heavy handed about it. Skelf isn't some fantastic creature, though it sounds as though it ought to be, it is merely the surname of a family of undertakers. Undertakers and private investigators. Dorothy is the matriarch – Californian by birth and instinct, she married a scot and ended up helping to run the Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been in the family for generations. Recently widowed and now involved with a black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jenny, 46, is haunted by her still-living husband – a violent escaped prisoner. And grand-daughter is about to graduate with a first-class physics degree and join the academic staff next term.|isbn=1913193837}} =='''2 SEPTEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Julia and the Shark|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|isbn=1510107789}}{{Frontpage|author=Ian Mark and Louis Ghibault|title=Monster Hunting For BeginnersLori Mills

|summary=Meet JackWe meet Lori on the first evening she'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. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and nimble and quickthat is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, for hecritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a slight boytiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and although he wants for danger then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and peril her bestie and interesting things his dad refuses nobody else should be able to let him out enter shows signs of his sighttampering. That's because Jack's mother knew all about monsters When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and look what happened to her safe place in the game has been doctored – she died. Luckily or unluckily then, depending on your point of view, a giant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jack's father also goes AWOL, Jack will fluke the ogre's deathwell, where is a dwarfish wizard-type will make him an apprentice monster hunter, and he'll be given a book that tells him all he needs girl to know about the perils he always wanted closer contact with. The book's nameturn? ''Monster Hunting for Beginners''...|isbn=07555019420008666482

|author=Emma CarrollJenny Lecoat|title=The Week at World's EndBeyond Summerland

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=First, the title. We're in World's End Close, a mediocre set of houses, Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where Stevie (Vie to her friends) finds fun only with the family dog and with the boy over the road. But we could also be at World's End, because something taking a great chunk of the fun away is the fact that the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking off. The Soviet boats they are getting blockaded as America tries to reduce celebrating the risk end of nuclear missiles offshore, and not much else is able to make the newsoccupation. That said, Vie has news of her own – Anna, a secretive young woman hiding in their coal shed. Anna has, in no short time, taken a strong interest in the American airforce base behind During the Closewar, said sheJean'd locate something she wanted and leave, failed to leave, and implied her life s father was at risk. But surely this bit of intrigue has got nothing to do with what the Cold War is doing miles away?|isbn=0571364438}} =='''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 Saga, set in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered arrested for all listening to see. This story is the ultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. This is a thick book, with an intricate plot banned radio and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.|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 soldiers took him away one night in a shopping trolley, leaving Jean 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 stumpsmother waiting for years for news of him. When she's discovered by the town gossip everyone, including As the local cops, are quite confident British finally free the culprit has come Channel islands from the immigrant detention centre Nazis, and the place war is reluctantly home tofinally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. An arson attack on that shows But will the feeling – and truth come as a relief, or will it's only fair, is raise further questions around what else happened during the general opinion, for war? Who was the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. Cue informer who told the arrival of George Manolis, a higher rank from Nazis about the city, to sort everything out. Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really going to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the law...occupation?|isbn=15294169731846976537