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=='''5 SEPTEMBER23 MAY'''==

|author= Kay ChronisterOnyi Nwabineli|title= Desert CreaturesAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating= 4.5|genre= Dystopian General Fiction|summary= With a Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world that is becoming , thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly inhospitable popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for humanitysponsorships 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, postsuing her step-apocalyptic fiction can become an almost masochistic thrillmother to take down the content about her. Whether it Anuri is a robotic takeoverbattling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, a world devoid of water or a nuclear holocaustshe is desperately worried about her little sister, this genre who is a way for humans to cathartically experience their most existential fearsthe new 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=0861546873}}==''Desert Creatures'30 MAY' by Kay Chronister is ''=={{Frontpage|isbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Swanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a new work knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of posta freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church -apocalyptic fiction that aligns many he's been stabbed to 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 fears that exist words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for humanity todayeach other. It is a shocking novel that still manages He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to find hopekeep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.|isbn=1803364998

=='''24 AUGUST4 JUNE'''==

|author=Christopher FowlerStuart Douglas|title=Word MonkeyLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=AutobiographyCrime|summary= ItDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the first dead body of August in a woman on the middle edge of a cool wet summer in East Angliareservoir. I decided not The police seem happy to swim at assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the pool in favour help of going a fellow actor, John Le Breton to my beach huthelp him investigate matters further. The weather closed inThey travel across the country during their days off filming, rain arriveduncovering more possible murders and, and I decided not to do that either. When I finished reading this bookseemingly, I realised it was because (a) I wanted link to finish reading this book and (b) I did not want to do so anywhere near my shackdeath during the Second World War. No spoiler alerts, But is there really a link between the dust jacket tells us who Christopher Fowler 'was' – and his first chapter tells us about his terminal diagnosis. deaths? There is something very strange about being made And will they manage to laugh by a man uncover who repeatedly reminds you that he is dying, and you know he actually is at that point, because he does. He did.responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=08575296251803368209

=='''7 SEPTEMBER6 JUNE'''==

|author=Lauren St JohnKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Finding WonderDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=Roo's life has become almost impossibly difficultMeet Kit. Her mum died when she was youngLike most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and now she finds herself awoken in race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, the middle only thing he's seen of the night by latest race on the police banging on her door to tell her inn TV equivalent is that her dad one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has dropped dead on his way taken to the corner shop to buy goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a lottery ticketteam. When asked what other family she hasWhat chance does this friendless, she can only name her auntmuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, Joniand how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184}}=='''13 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1635866847|title=The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=It's strange, who she knows her dad didnthe things that make you ''immediately''t think very highly offeel that this is the book for you. But she has no one elseBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and so off she goes to live with her unreliable auntthere's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. Things continue to get worse for Roo, as when she I don't eat cakes and Joni leave London in Jonidesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's old campervana recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it breaks . Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down in the middle corners of pages. You suspect that smears of nowhere and then bursts into flames! butter would not be a problem. Poor Roo!|isbn=0571376169I ''loved'' this book already.

 =='''28 SEPTEMBER4 JULY'''==

|author=Hannah Gold and Levi PinfoldMax Boucherat|title=Finding BearThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|summary=[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]]We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, April had been on Bear Islandmother at work, a lot further north than many people would venturejust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a polar bear – that she called Bearon her lonesome. Back home, things on the domestic and family front are What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a bit advancedblanket fort, but not perfect for hershe has one main intention, and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from that is to log on to Voxminer, the islands Bear was last left onworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. For But first Lori has a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and woundedthen she finds something even more spooky. Desperate to make sure he's OK, For the server she and her father return bestie and nobody else should be able to the Arctic and hope that in a world enter shows signs of very white and very dangerous thingstampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing her safe place in the game has been doctored – and that the friendship can continue.well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=00085820170008666482

|author=Adam Baron and Benji DaviesJenny Lecoat|title=Oscar's LionBeyond Summerland|rating=34|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=We start incredibly bluntly, Jean lives on Jersey with Oscar hoping to have his her mother – or father, but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book a couple where they are celebrating the end of times before he has to be ready for schoolthe occupation. But when he enters his parentsDuring the war, Jean' bedroom, all he sees is s father was arrested for listening to a mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepishbanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and admitting that he won't be hungry her mother waiting for years for another two daysnews of him. But there are benefits to having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to As the British finally free the bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar Channel islands from the other month. And it can shapeshiftNazis, so he can take it to school and it can get the war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him out of a problem. And But will the truth come as a relief, or will it's wonderful to have raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the house – not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax informer who told the Nazis about the rules, and so on. radio? OK, it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=00085967511846976537