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=='''3 AUGUST23 MAY'''==
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|author=Darren ShanOnyi Nwabineli|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3Allow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=So. Having done the impossible and unpicked the lock to the Forgotten Crypt, from which the Departed communicate with the Merge, Archie now has ''grop'' to think about. But before that, soirees. Soirees! Archie, much to Inez's amusement, doesn't even know what one of those is. But he manages to come through the fancy party unscathed, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume of this series. 
|isbn=B093J9TF73
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=='''5 AUGUST'''==
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|isbn=0241989094
|title=The Perfect Life
|author=Nuala Ellwood
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=In August 2018 we meet a young woman called Imogen and she's viewing a house in Goring-on-Thames and telling the estate agent about her three children, Lavender, Freddie and Barclay. The boys are a bit of a handful which is why she's making this trip on her own. The house would be perfect for them.
 
It's the same month but now we're in Wimbledon and we encounter the same young woman, only this time she's job hunting and living in her sister, Georgie's, spare room, where she's been since she broke up with her boyfriend, Connor.
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{{Frontpage
|author=John Boyne
|title=The Echo Chamber
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Meet George Cleverley. He is selfAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-defined as "one of the few television personalities over the age mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of fifty without a criminal record". He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him sheAnuri's carrying his childchildhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, but then his author wife basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is getting in her kicks with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her with. They have three childrenlife back, who are a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, a girl who hangs around with a virtuesuing her step-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants mother to save take down the world's homeless with out-of-date food, and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thingcontent about her. Add in a few other characters – therapists Anuri is battling alcoholism, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections failing to his lifestart her PhD, undergoing therapy and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to the modern worldsecretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. What suggests the farcical approach even more Most importantly, howevershe is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the fact this is bloody funnynew 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=08575262190861546873
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=='''30 MAY'''==
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|authorisbn=Louise CandlishB0CYV674G2|title=The HeightsSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Ellen doesnIt 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 expect to see Kieran that daykilled the man. SheA body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's on sitebeen stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, visiting a client which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for a lighting consultation when she spies him in a building across an easy answer but the waywords 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. There are lots He's sleep-deprived to the point of things, lots of people, you might see when you look out across London, falling asleep at work but this isnhe's determined to keep going - probably because he can't one Ellen expected that day or in fact get any other day. Why? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years, and Ellen knows this for a fact, because she had a hand in his murdersleep at home.|isbn=1471183483
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 =='''19 AUGUST4 JUNE'''==
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|author=Doug JohnstoneStuart Douglas|title=The Great SilenceLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=For those who, like meDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', haven't come leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the Skelfs before, I'll risk dead body of a quick synopsis woman on the edge of who's who – although Johnstone does a good job of bringing the backstory in without being heavy handed about itreservoir. Skelf isn't some fantastic creature, though The police seem happy to assign it sounds as though it ought to bean accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, it is merely and he enlists the surname help of a family of undertakersfellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Undertakers and private investigators. Dorothy is They travel across the matriarch – Californian by birth country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and instinct, she married seemingly, a scot and ended up helping link to run the Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been in death during the family for generations. Recently widowed and now involved with a black Swedish police officerSecond World War. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jenny, 46, But is haunted by her still-living husband – there really a violent escaped prisoner. link between the deaths? And grand-daughter will they manage to uncover who is about to graduate with a first-class physics degree and join the academic staff next term.responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=19131938371803368209
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 =='''2 SEPTEMBER6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave Kieran Larwood and Tom de FrestonJoe Todd-Stanton|title=Julia and the SharkDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=JuliaMeet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, our premage and healer enter specially prepared, century-teen heroineold, magical mazes, and race to the exit, has been packed off perhaps bothering with her parents the treasure or the big bad and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for a summerKit, in the far NE only thing he's seen of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikingslatest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, that kind and a new trio of Scottish islandquestors is needed. Dad is going Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to be automating the lantern, which is goading from the token bully of his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland sharkworld and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. And JuliaWhat chance does this friendless, wellmuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=15101077891839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Ian Mark and Louis Ghibault1635866847|title=Monster Hunting For BeginnersThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=Meet Jack. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless and nimble and quick, for heIt's a slight boystrange, and although he wants for danger and peril and interesting the things his dad refuses to let him out of his sight. Thatthat make you 's because Jack's mother knew all about monsters, and look what happened to her – she died. Luckily or unluckily then, depending on your point of view, a giant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jackimmediately's father also goes AWOL, Jack will fluke the ogre's death, a dwarfish wizard-type will make him an apprentice monster hunter, and he'll be given a book feel that tells him all he needs to know about this is the perils he always wanted closer contact withbook for you. The book Before I started reading 's name? 'The Lavender Companion'Monster Hunting for Beginners''...|isbn=0755501942}}{{Frontpage|, I visited the author=Emma Carroll|title=The Week at World's End|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=First, the title[https://www.pinelavenderfarm. We're in Worldcom/ website] and there's End Close, a mediocre set picture of houses, 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 slice of chocolate cake on the fun away is the fact that the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking offhomepage. The Soviet boats are getting blockaded as America tries to reduce the risk of nuclear missiles offshore, I don't eat cakes and not much else is able to make the newsdesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. 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 (There's a strong interest recipe in the American airforce base behind the Closebook, said shewhich I'd locate something she wanted and leave, failed to leave, and implied her life was at risk. But surely this bit of intrigue has got nothing to do m avoiding with what some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the Cold War is doing miles away?|isbn=0571364438}}{{Frontpage|author= Angharad Walker|title= The Ash House|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= A new boy arrives at The Ash House. He doesn't know his name, or why he is there but he is used to the system, used to different places book and different faces. He meets Dom who names him Sol and sets out I was told to teach him the rules of The Ash House. These rules centre on make a variety mess of Nicenesses set out by the absent Headmasterit. All children must remember their Niceness and complete their chores, working as a hive Notes in the smouldering shadows of The Ash Housemargins are sanctioned. But soon their easy peace is shattered by You get to fold down the arrival corners of the Doctorpages. By the end You suspect that smears of the story, lives will be changed forever and The Ash House will never butter would not be the same again.|isbn=1912626977}}{{Frontpage|author=Freya Sampson|title=The Last Library|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=I am always a little nervous to start a story about a library, since I am a librarianproblem. I always grit my teeth slightly at the thought of the incoming cardigan-wearing, hair in a bun, cat-owning, glasses on a chain stereotypes! In this story, the main character, June, does put her hair in a bun, and she does own a cat (called Alan Bennett), and she has barely any friends and spends her evenings eating the same Chinese takeaway meal once a week whilst reading books alone! But I didn't immediately throw the book out of the window, because I found I was interested in June, and why she lived as she did. Her mum used to be a librarian at the village library, but when she got sick, June gave up on going to University and stayed at home to take care of her mum, as well as taking on a job as library assistant at the local library. And even though her mum sadly died some years ago, she is still working there, still eating her mum's favourite takeaway meal, and still reading her mumloved''s old booksthis book already. June is stuck, but little does she know, everything in her life is about the change.|isbn=183877369X
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=='''16 SEPTEMBER4 JULY'''==
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|author=Alex FoulkesMax Boucherat|title=Rules for VampiresThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary= Eleonore Von Motteberg (or We meet Lori on the first evening she'Leo' for short) is a Vampire. She drinks bloods got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, she sleeps during the daybabysitter poorly, and she can Grimwalk (turning into a flock of bats to travel aroundmother at work, although not all of them remember to come back). Pretty cool stuff. Nowjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on the night of her hundredth birthnightlonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has to go out and hunt her first human. Howeverone main intention, instead she ends up killing two humans by accident and burning down an orphanage. Oops! And that is to make things worse, the ghosts of one of the orphans and the evil master of the orphanage come back log on to haunt her. SoVoxminer, not only does Leo have to team up with the friendly ghost Minna to stop the ghost of the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerfulworld-building, she has to do it all while hiding it from her family. Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each other? Yeah, therecritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a reason why there are rules for vampires…|isbn=147119955X}} ==tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn'''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 Sagat find herself entirely on her own, set in and then she finds something even more spooky. For the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled server she and her bestie and their bones lie scattered for all nobody else should be able to seeenter shows signs of tampering. This story is the ultimate in High Fantasy When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to her safe place in the genregame has been doctored – well, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. This where is a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together girl to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.turn?|isbn=03565142180008666482
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{{Frontpage
|author=Peter PapathanasiouJenny Lecoat|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 night in a shopping trolley, 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 stumps. When she's discovered by the town gossip everyone, including the local cops, are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to. An arson attack on that shows the feeling – and it's only fair, is the general opinion, for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. Cue the arrival of George Manolis, a higher rank from the city, to sort everything out. Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really going to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the law...|isbn=1529416973}} =='''19 OCTOBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=Claire McGowan|title=I Know YouBeyond Summerland
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=''Then:'' Casey returns from a walk Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the baby, Carson, and comes across three bodiesend of the occupation. During the war, almost a whole family taken down. Jean''Now:'' Rachel is out s father was arrested for listening to a walk with banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her dogmother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, Brandyand the war is finally over, when she comes across their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. But will the truth come as a body in relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the woods.war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=15420199741846976537
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