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=='''28 OCTOBER23 MAY'''==
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|author=Antti Tuomainen Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now 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 content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and David Hackston her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873}}=='''30 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Swanton Morley (translatorJohn Tanner)|titleauthor=The Rabbit FactorDavid Blake
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet HenriIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. With A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is other human beingsknife, comes into the police station shouting that hehasn's perfect for his job in t killed the man. A body at the insurance company – until they decide bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's not a team-member, that they'd prefer everyone been stabbed to be all open-plan, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshoppingdeath. This DCI John Tanner is when he finds just back from his brother has diedhoneymoon, having a heart attack while busy changing which coincided with the birth of his Volvodaughter Samantha. You would think he's radio channel, and has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that d be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'everythingperverse' is just an adventure park, and nothing else. 'John Tanner'YouMeFunwere made for each other. He'' is so not what Henri wants s sleep-deprived to occupy his mind, but he perks up a little when he sees huge holes in the finances – it runs point of falling asleep at a steady money-moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideas, work but loans have been made out and the amount vanished. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on the scene to explain that missing money – ithe's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, and the activities of these guys are not conducive determined to getting a cheap life insurance plan..keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.|isbn=191319387X
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=='''1 NOVEMBER4 JUNE'''==
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|author=Teresa DriscollStuart Douglas|title=Her Perfect Family|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=The novel begins by introducing you to Gemma, who at first instance appears to be your average student, faced with the familiar horrifying realisation, at the eleventh hour, that her graduation outfit is all wrong. Suddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''He is not who he says he is…'', paving the way for the sinister tone that remains throughout the novel. In a twist of events, and after a change of outfit, Gemma is shot in the midst of her graduation ceremony. With Gemma then in a coma, what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to grow the further you read.|isbn=1542028752}} =='''4 NOVEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=Lucy Hope|title=Fledgling|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Bavaria, 1900. Our scene is a most peculiar hilltop house, built bit by bit over the decades, Lowe and now looking imperiously down on the village and woods below. It's an eccentric house, to host eccentrics, so the library shelving system is not as we'd know it, the roof is retractable, there is a steamLe Breton Mysteries -powered, hand-operated lift system cut through it, and so on. At the moment it houses an ex-soldier with PTSD and a passion for Death at the long-standing family hobby of taxidermy, a woman who does nothing but quibble, kvetch and sing opera loudly, and the dying grandma to our heroine, Cassie, a young lass who has to do all the maintenance of this bizarre machine-like abode. Oh but it's also going to house someone or something else, when crashing through Cassie's bedroom window one stormy day is a cherub. And if you think such a heavenly arrival is going to be a completely great and wonderful thing, think again...|isbn=183994188X}} =='''25 NOVEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=Will Carver|title=Psychopaths AnonymousDress Rehearsal
|rating=3.5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Maeve is a high functioning alcoholic, drinking continuously During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and alsoLeggit', curiously, addicted to attending numerous AA groups. She is also leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a self-acknowledged psychopathreservoir. Whilst analysing The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and critiquing he enlists the AA steps she is mainly using the groups help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to find targetshelp him investigate matters further...targets for sexual encounters They travel across the country during their days off filming, targets to feed her desire to hear of people's miseryuncovering more possible murders and, and targets for her violent behaviour. Yet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she doesseemingly, and when she's unable a link to find like-minded people in any of death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the groups she decides to set up her own, hoping deaths? And will they manage to encounter others uncover who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is born.responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=19131937561803368209
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=='''9 DECEMBER6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Freya MarskeKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=A Marvellous LightDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Historical FictionConfident Readers|summary=Robin Blyth is nudged into a job Meet Kit. Like most of the people in the Civil Servicehis world, it seems, much to his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the streets sport where a team of London are threaded with magic. Desperate to remove a curse that threatens to swallow himwarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, Robin follows Edwin and race to the countrysideexit, where perhaps bothering with the treasure or the hedgegrows bristle with incantations big bad and the people shimmer with powerpoints they grant you along the way. There they uncover Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a sinister plot that threatens new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the lives token bully of all magicians his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in the British Isles. actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=15290808861839945184
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=='''6 JANUARY 202213 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Lucy Strange and Pam Smy1635866847|title=The Mermaid in the MillpondLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=There It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is no mermaid in the millpondbook for you. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be a friend for her in amongst all the other kids Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', who have had their entire childhoods sold to I visited the mill-owners by the London workhouse they used to call homeauthor's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm. Bess knows com/ website] and there is no time for friendship in 's a hand-to-mouth, every man for himself kind picture of existence. But despite herself Bess does find a bit slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a kindred spirit recipe in the slight little Dotbook, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads I was told to harm, there might be make a glimmer mess of companionship it. Notes in the tired-out mill workersmargins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. But surely You suspect that doesnsmears of butter would not be a problem. I 't mean there is any truth in the existence of the mermaid?|isbn=180090049X'loved'' this book already.
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=='''18 JANUARY4 JULY'''==
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|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)Max Boucherat|title=Red is My HeartThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=34.5|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in my house. And so was this one, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, and is, black and white and red. Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, and I think it's possible to say not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideas.|isbn=1913547183}} =='''3 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Escape Room|rating=3
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=IWe meet Lori on the first evening she've seen junior variants of s got the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms house to herself – the process by which a character or characters start by being trapped no neighbour to pop in a specific location, and have to solve problems in order to get their way outbabysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What I've not done (alongside experience could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one for myself – for main intention, and that would require actual friends) is seen a prose book describing people in such an adventureto log on to Voxminer, with the regular second person narrative replaced by the first. Hereworld-building, Ami and four other tweenagers, all new to each other and booked into the critter-collecting game without any of their friends, are that is a team – starting out at the gamehit in Lori's main offices, where they're told they and their quest for The Answer are a world-changer. But could watching people engage with such first Lori has a pastimetiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, despite and then she finds something even more spooky. For the ramped-server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up threat levelson her phone screen, change much and her safe place in the world of literaturegame has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=17880079640008666482
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|author=Louie StowellJenny Lecoat|title=Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being GoodBeyond Summerland|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet LokiJean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. The trickster god has got into trouble again During the war, so the other gods have decided thereJean's only father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one thing night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for it – he must be banished. And transformed – years for Loki is spending a month both in exile and in the physical form news of a middle-school kid here on Earthhim. He's guarded by a giant and a god in disguise as his parents As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and Thor has come along as well, to be the more suavewar is finally over, more popular and more successful brother their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. But will the two. Loki has truth come as a month to redeem his reputation, and get his moral compass pointing the right way againrelief, or will it raise further questions around what else, and to prove it he has to write happened during the text we read in a sentient notebook, that is able to cry foul of his lies, and judge his progress. But Loki is war? Who was the kind of god informer who insists he can do anything, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month is going to be a walk in told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the park...rightoccupation?|isbn=14063997521846976537
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