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=='''5 AUGUST23 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=0008421714Onyi Nwabineli|title=Mrs March|author=Virginia FeitoAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary=The problem began just after the publication of George March's most successful novel to date. Everyone but Mrs March (we know Anuri spent her first name only childhood on the last page) seemed to either be reading it or had already done so. Every day Mrs March went display to the local patisserie world, thanks to buy olive bread but her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on that particular morningsocial media, Patricia asked, as where she was wrapping the bread, ''but isn't this the first time heposted every step of Anuri's based a character on you?'' childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. She mentioned that JohannaNow Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the principal character had 'content about her mannerisms''. Perhaps this would not have matteredAnuri is battling alcoholism, except failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for the fact that Johanna doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the whore new focus of Nantes - Ophelia''a weaks online empire. Can she save her sister, plain, detestable, pathetic, unloved, unloveable wretch.''and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873
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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 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 Vampire. She drinks bloodblanket fort, she sleeps during the dayhas one main intention, and she can Grimwalk (turning into a flock of bats that is to travel around, although not all of them remember log on to come back). Pretty cool stuff. NowVoxminer, on the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night of doesn't find herself entirely on her hundredth birthnightown, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she has to go out and hunt her first humanbestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. However, instead she ends When malevolent eyes spark up killing two humans by accident and burning down an orphanage. Oops! And to make things worseon her phone screen, the ghosts of one of the orphans and the evil master of the orphanage come back to haunt her. So, not only does Leo have to team up with safe place in the friendly ghost Minna to stop the ghost of the Orphanmaster before he becomes unstoppably powerfulgame has been doctored – well, she has where is a girl to do it all while hiding it from her family. Did I mention vampires and ghosts hate each otherturn? Yeah, there's a reason why there are rules for vampires…|isbn=147119955X0008666482
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=='''7 OCTOBER'''==
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|author=John GwynneJenny Lecoat|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 for all 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 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 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 end of the baby, Carson, and comes across three bodies, almost a whole family taken downoccupation''Now:'' Rachel is out for a walk with her dog, Brandy, when she comes across a body in During the woods. |isbn=1542019974}} =='''28 OCTOBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)|title=The Rabbit Factor|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Meet Henri. With a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is other human beingswar, heJean's perfect father was arrested for his job in the insurance company – until they decide he's not a team-member, that they'd prefer everyone listening to be all open-plan, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshopping. This is when he finds his brother has died, having a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's banned radio channeland soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and has left Henri everythingher mother waiting for years for news of him. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' is just an adventure park As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and nothing else. ''YouMeFun'' the war is so not finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what Henri wants to occupy his mind, but he perks up a little when he sees huge holes in became of him. But will the finances – it runs at truth come as a steady money-moving pacerelief, despite some desultory staff ideas, but loans have been made out and or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the amount vanished. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on Nazis about the scene to explain that missing money – it's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now radio? And what other secrets have been inherited by Henri, and kept throughout the activities of these guys are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance plan...occupation?|isbn=191319387X1846976537
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