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=='''23 JULYMAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=B07WWSCGVSOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Lies You Told|author=Harriet TyceAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Year six student Robin Spence isn't happy about having Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to start a new school. Sheher step-mother Ophelia's left the school increasingly popular presence on social media, where she loved posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in New York her twenties and now she's going is slowly trying to Ashams in North London. It's very upmarket; places are rare as hens' teeth regain her confidence and as to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the pupils have all been there ''forever'', they have their established groupscontent about her. Robin's going Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to be an outsiderstart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. And why Most importantly, she is this happening? Welldesperately worried about her little sister, over a matter who is the new focus of a few days her parentsOphelia' marriage fell aparts online empire. Andrew Spence is staying in New York - he works for a securities firm - Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her mother, Sadie Roper, has come back to London to pick up relationship with her practice as a criminal barrister. That's easier said than done when you've been out of father at the market place - and the country - for more than ten years.same time?|isbn=0861546873
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=='''30 MAY'''==
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|isbn=1473682401B0CYV674G2|title=The Turning Tide Swanton Morley (Dandy GilverJohn Tanner)|author=Catriona McPhersonDavid Blake|rating=43.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Those who were with us It 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 killed the man. A body at the end bottom of [[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Catriona McPherson|A Step So Grave]] will remember that Donald was engaged a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to Mallory Dunnochdeath. They're now married and Mallory DCI John Tanner is having twins. When they arrive no one can doubt just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the charms birth of Lavinia Dahlia Cherry and her brother, Edward Hugh Lachlan Gilverhis daughter Samantha. There are two drawbacks: theyYou would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse're noisy and they're staying with Dandy and HughJohn Tanner' were made for each other. Dandy and her detective partner, Alec Osborne, had not taken up He's sleep-deprived to the chance to look into a problem point of falling asleep at the Cramond ferry when it was offered work but he's determined to them twice before, but suddenly the possibility of being out of the house keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at Gilverton seems irresistiblehome.
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=1785765698Stuart Douglas|title=Shed No Tears|author=Caz FrearLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In November 2012 Christopher MastersDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', the leading man who would become known as 'Edward Lowe stumbles across the roommate killer', strangled three women in dead body of a fortnight. When he was arrested he admitted woman on the killingsedge of a reservoir. A fourth The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death was attributed to him - that of Holly Kemp - and on occasions, Masters admitted to but something about the killingwhole thing bothers Lowe, then and he denied it - then admitted itenlists the help of a fellow actor, then denied itJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. He played with They travel across the policecountry during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, but there was sufficient evidence on the first three killings a link to put him away for a long time and death during the CPS were not convinced about the Holly Kemp caseSecond World War. There was no body and once Masters was murdered in prison, no hope of progressing But is there really a link between the case further.deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|author=James PattersonKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=HawkDungeon Runners: A Maximum Ride NovelHero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Hawk has been waiting on Meet Kit. Like most of the same street cornerpeople in his world, every dayit seems, for years. She he is waiting for her parents an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to come the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and get herthe points they grant you along the way. They left her there when she was just tinyUnfortunately for Kit, and although shethe only thing he's almost certain seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that they are never coming back for herone team has been retired, she continues to head back there each day, just in case. Hawk isn't your ordinary street urchin though...she has wingseaten, and can fly! Since she was abandoned she's been living with a group new trio of other children, all with interesting characteristics of their own and together they've made their own familyquestors is needed. But now the city is seemingly even more troubled than usualPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, there's a mysterious child-killer who he has been brought taken to the prison next door to where goading from the children live, token bully of his world and then one day Hawk comes home to find her family have been taken awaystumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. Where What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have they been takenin actually managing that, and can Hawk rescue them before it's too latehow could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=15291200041839945184
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=='''4 AUGUST13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Christina Hammonds Reed1635866847|title=The Black KidsLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens Lifestyle|summary=Christina Hammonds ReedIt's debut novel strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is set against the backdrop of book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the 1992 Los Angeles riots, author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a reaction to the absolution picture of four police officers for beating a black man, Rodney King, nearly to deathslice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. Told from (There's a recipe in the perspective of Ashley Bennettbook, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the novel follows her evolution from book and I was told to make a silent bystander when confronted with matters mess of race, 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 woman finding her voice and embracing her heritageproblem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=1471188191
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=='''6 AUGUST'''==
{{Frontpage
|isbn=1838951067
|title=The Nothing Man
|author=Catherine Ryan Howard
|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=When we first meet Jim Doyle, he's about to get a shock. He's security at a supermarket and he's watching a woman who is acting suspiciously. She has a book tucked under her arm and he wonders if she's planning to pay for it. Suddenly it drops to the floor with the spine splayed upwards. ''Nothing Man'' by Eve Black, is the title. Why is Jim shocked? Well, Jim was - ''is'' - the Nothing Man who, until eighteen years ago raped and killed. The author of the book was twelve years old when Jim raped her mother, and then killed her, her father and her seven-year-old sister, Anna.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=178089922X
|title=Invisible Girl
|author=Lisa Jewell
|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=''When you wear a hood, you're invisible.''
Saffyre Maddox is seventeen-years-old and beautiful. By her own admission, she's a bit of a boffin, doing and enjoying maths, physics and biology at A level. Life hasn't been easy for her: most people who have been close to her have died and she's now living with her Uncle Aaron in an eighth-floor flat. Something ''really, really bad happened'' to her when she was ten and she self-harmed for a long time. Aaron organised psychological help and for three years Roan Fours was her therapist. He gently unpeeled the layers of her psyche, but somehow managed to miss that 'something really, really bad'. When the therapy ended Saffyre felt cast adrift, but she retained an interest in Roan.
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{{Frontpage
|author=Non Pratt
|title=Every Little Piece of My Heart
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
|summary= Freya was a beautiful, popular and complex girl, loved by many and seemingly stable in her existence as a queen bee 16-year-old student, complete with best friend and the promise of the end of GCSEs just months away. But one day, on January 1st, she just... left. No explanation. No warning. No goodbye. No one heard from her since. A once active social profile left deserted. So, when her best friend Sophie receives a mysterious parcel from her 5 months after, she expects it to contain answers of some kind, but is surprised to find the parcel contains another layer addressed to a complete stranger, and then another layer to another person and another, each containing an item unique to them and Freya, connecting 4 strangers through her mystery and the promise of 'treasure' at the end of it all. With each parcel, a new layer of the story and of Freya is unwrapped - and painful truths come to light that threaten to break bonds, both new and old. Can what's been broken be fixed? And why did Freya leave?
|isbn=1406366943
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{{Frontpage
|author= Laura Lam and Elizabeth May
|title= Seven Devils
|rating= 4
|genre= Science Fiction
|summary= Eris is one of the foremost operatives of the Novantae, a resistance movement fighting against the ruthlessly expansionist Tholosian Empire – an Empire she was destined to inherit in her past life as Princess Discordia, whom everyone believed has been dead for years. Clo, an ace pilot for the Novantae, has a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the war effort. Although she's less than pleased to discover that her former friend Eris is her partner on this mission. Things get more interesting as the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with a secret that could potentially cripple the Empire. Eris's brother Damocles, the runner-up heir to the Empire, is plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and the last of the free alien species. It's a race against time as the rebels move to put a stop Damocles' plans, with millions of lives hanging in the balance…
|isbn=1473231140
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=='''19 AUGUST 2021'''==
=='''4 JULY'''==
{{Frontpage
|author=Anders de la MotteMax Boucherat|title=End of Summer|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= In the summer of 1983, little Billy Nilsson goes missing. He was chasing a rabbit, through the garden, and into the maize field behind. He has not been seen since. In the present day, Veronica Lindh is a grief counsellor running group therapy sessions for the bereaved – although she clearly has problems of her own: anxiety, panic attacks, a scar on her arm that she keeps obsessively hidden and she is barely hanging on to her job. It's clear that she has just returned to work after an episode that seems to have resulted in restraining orders against her, a deal of therapy, a change of location and her supervisor is watching closely. As well, he needs to.|isbn=1785768239}}=='''20 AUGUST'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1542017432|title=The Nidderdale Murders|author=J R Ellis|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=It was a Friday in mid-September when the shoot was held on the grouse moor near Niddersgill. The shooters at the butts were a strange mixture: Alexander Fraser (Sandy to his friends) was the owner of the moor and a retired judge. James Symonds was a local landowner and Henry Saunders was a banker. He and Fraser had known each other since their school days. The fourth member was Gideon Rawnsley, who dealt in exclusive cars in nearby Ripon. Rawnsley had a gripe with Fraser: he'd sold him an expensive car and Fraser was being slow to pay. Other people had reason to comment on Fraser's attitude to money: his gamekeeper, Ian Davis thought he was stingy and very difficult to work for.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241433568|title=Eight Detectives|author=Alex Pavesi|rating=5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=It's 1930 and Megan and Henry are staying with Bunny at his house in Spain. It's unbearably hot and Bunny drank too much at lunch: he's going to have a rest and then he wants to talk to Megan and Henry about something serious. Only it never gets that far: when Bunny doesn't emerge after his siesta his guests find that he's been murdered. How can that have happened? There's no one else in the house, so one Last Life of them must be the killer.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jacqueline Wilson|title=Love FrankieLori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary= Frankie is nearly fourteen. Being nearly fourteen is not easy when your mum has been diagnosed with MS when your dad has decided to leave her for another woman, when your older sister has turned into the girliest girl who ever lived, and, above all when Sally and her mates are bullying you at school. Oh, and when Sam, your best friend since forever, suddenly starts sending out signs that he might fancy you - and you don't fancy him back.
Poor Frankie!
|isbn= 0857535897
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{{Frontpage
|author= Adrian Tchaikovsky
|title= The Doors of Eden
|rating= 4.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary= Wow – this novel is gigantic, in every sense of the word. "Epic" is a word that's thrown around a lot these days, but if a book ever earned the name it's this one. It's a doorstopper full of big ideas, and at times it almost felt too big for my brain.
|isbn=1509865888
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=='''27 AUGUST'''==
{{Frontpage
|author= Samira Ahmed
|title= Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know
|rating= 3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=''In the end, we all become stories''
Spending the summer in Paris sounds like a dream for most people, especially art-lovers, but Khayyam can't relax and stop thinking about the mess she left behind in Chicago. On a chance encounter with a descendant of Alexandre Dumas, Khayyam finds herself on a historical journey with him to unveil the truth about the 19th century Muslim woman who may have crossed paths with Alendre Dumas, Eugene Delacroix and Lord Byron. As the two teenagers travel the city they not only discover themselves, but uncover the true story of the woman and why it was one that should never have been forgotten.
|isbn=0349003556
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=='''3 SEPTEMBER'''==
{{Frontpage
|isbn=0008314721
|title=Truth Be Told
|author=Kia Abdullah
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The Hadids are an ''effortful'' family. Flowers are sent for the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent to thank and this prompts a phone call in return. There are two sons of the family, seventeen-year-old Kamran and sixteen-year-old Adam. Their mother, Sofia, regrets that she didn't name them the other way round: 'Adam and Kamran' trips off the tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adam'. Sofia worries about that sort of thing. Both boys go to the prestigious Hampton school, where they board, despite the school being less than ten miles from their Belsize Park home. Kamran has a place at Oxford next year and all seemed to be going well until the night when he was raped.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1471179273
|title=House of Correction
|author=Nicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we first meet Tabitha Hardy, she's in prison, on remand. She's sharing a cell with Michaela, who's more caring than she first appears. She delivers tough love and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - and encourages her to have a shower, unpleasant as the whole processes might be. And how did Tabitha get here? Well, on 21 December the body of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered in her garden shed by Andrew Kane, who was helping with the renovations to Tabitha's house. So far as the police are concerned, Tabitha is the only person who could have killed Rees - and when they arrived at her house she was covered in his blood.
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{{Frontpage
|author=Natasha Farrant
|title=Voyage of the Sparrowhawk
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Set in England in We meet Lori on the aftermath of World War One, this is first evening she's got the story of two childrenhouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, Lotti and Benbabysitter poorly, who have lost everyone they lovemother at work, but don't want to let go of their lastjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, tiny glimpses of hopeon her lonesome. Ben What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is living on a narrowboat to log on to Voxminer, the canalworld-building, lying to the police about his brothercritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's imminent return from the battlefields to take care of himworld. Lotti, meanwhile, But first Lori has been expelled from school and is back at home; it's a beautiful house tiny inkling that belongs to this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her but that her terrible Aunt own, and Uncle currently have guardianship forthen she finds something even more spooky. The day Lotti meets Ben (For the day server she steals a dog!) is the beginning and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of a deep, and powerful friendshiptampering. It sees them become each other's familyWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and undertake a perilous trip to France, her safe place in the boatgame has been doctored – well, where is a girl to try to find out the truth of the people they both love.turn?|isbn=05713487690008666482
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=='''8 SEPTEMBER'''==
{{Frontpage
|author=Sharon DoeringJenny Lecoat|title=She Lies CloseBeyond Summerland
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary= Ava Boone was five years old when she went missing, around 6 months ago. There has been no sign of her since, and no arrests have been made. And yet, this book is not about Ava. Not really. This book is about Grace, who has just discovered her neighbour in her new house is a suspect in Ava's disappearance. As a single mother to two young children, she's really wishing this sort of information had come to light before they moved in.
|isbn=1789094194
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=='''10 SEPTEMBER'''==
{{Frontpage
|author= Andrea Stewart
|title= The Bone Shard Daughter (The Drowning Empire)
|rating=4.5
|genre= Fantasy
|summary=''I could never be what he wanted if I did not take what I wanted''
In an empire controlled by a bone shard magic that powers animal-like constructs, an heir to the throne, a smuggler, and a warrior will fight to find their place in the world.
Lin is the emperor's forgotten daughter, kept locked away in a palace of secrets and closed doors. When her father refuses to recognise her as heir to the throne, she vows to show him she is capable of reviving a dying empire and in secret, she begins to unlock one door after another, searching for the mysteries of her past and the forbidden art of bone shard magic.
Yet Lin is playing a deadly game and her quest for power will come at great cost. With revolution in the air and creeping closer and closer to the gates of the palace, Lin must decide just how far she will to go to become a catalyst of change and save her people.
|isbn=0356514943
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=='''14 SEPTEMBER'''==
{{Frontpage
|author= Tahi Saihate
|title= Astral Season, Beastly Season
|rating= 3.5
|genre= Literary Fiction
|summary= We long for our past even though it is a place to which we can never return. Tahi Saihate, in her debut novel ''Astral Season, Beastly Season'' illustrates how these rose-tinted glasses often lie. Her novel is a meditation on youth and how the things we do as a teenager can seem intensely important and often life-altering.
|isbn= 1916277101
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=='''17 SEPTEMBER'''==
{{Frontpage
|author=Agnes Ravatn and Rosie Hedger (translator)
|title=The Seven Doors
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Come here for a thriller that interestingly doesn't even try to suggest a genre of any kind until we're a full fifth of the way through. We start with our couple, she a literature lecturer, he big in medical provision and decisions at the council, being forced to move out of their home, a building that had existed throughout her life since childhood and which they'd occupied for over thirty years. The building he's inherited, meanwhile, and which they let out to a single mother, is needed by their adult daughter, who quite blatantly says to its occupant 'take a hike, I'm moving in and you're moving out'. Now, at this stage you may well, if you know this is a genre read, think it's going to be a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in the 1980s, but no. We avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedy, in case that has any bearing on what happens here, and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their lives. Until at that twenty per cent stage we find something that raises an eyebrow as any crime book should – until the point where the evicted tenant is found to have completely vanished.
|isbn=1913193381
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=='''22 SEPTEMBER'''==
{{Frontpage
|author=Antoine Laurain and Emily Boyce, Jane Aitken and Polly Mackintosh (translators)
|title=The Readers Room
|genre=General Fiction
|rating=3.5|summary=Violaine's publishing house has had a great success, and it was through Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the slush pile end of unsolicited manuscriptsthe occupation. The three people who work in During the Readerswar, Jean' Room s father was arrested for listening to sift through what is ninety nine per cent dross – plus the fourth advisor in her rarefied mansion up the road – all agreed the book would be a huge smashbanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and so it has proven. But there are several 'howevers' to that. As in, however – Violaine herself is not having life all her own way, mother waiting for years for she has been involved in a near-fatal accident, and starts this book coming round from a coma. And, however – despite all urging, the author news of the book has never once made themselves known to the publishers in person, and in fact offered up a most peculiar statement-come-threat in their last emailhim. What is going to befall Violaine, her memory, her staff – and how much is any of it due to As the hit novel? And just where British finally free the heck did that come Channel islands from?|isbn=1910477974}} =='''1 OCTOBER'''== {{Frontpage|author=Tania Unsworth|title=The Time Traveller and the Tiger|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Elsie is an ordinary sort of girl. The sort of small girl who often gets overlookedNazis, and forgotten. She the war is quietfinally over, and compliant, and makes the best of whatever happens to her. So when her parents forget their hopes rise that her school holidays have started before they are free to take care will finally learn what became of her, they have to arrange for her to go and stay with her Great Uncle for a weekhim. Poor Elsie, forgotten again, just decides to make But will the best of things. On investigating the house she finds that her Great Uncle had lived in India truth come as a boyrelief, and he has an enormous tiger rug on the floor of one of the rooms. When Elsie asks him about the rug he seems unhappy, and he says he has to keep or will it because he was raise further questions around what else happened during the one who shot the tiger when he was 12 years old, and he says it was the worst thing he ever did. war? So when Elsie suddenly finds herself magically transported back many, many years, to the time in India when her Great Uncle Who was 12 years old, she believes that she must try to stop him from killing the tiger, in order to put something right that happened a long time ago.|isbn=1788541707}}{{Frontpage|author=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)|title=Betrayal|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=Meet Ursula, the stand-in minister, drafted in from outside the leading party to cover the post for a year. You might get to meet her hunky husband she can't believe she deserves, and the children informer who are ignorant of just how she spent all her empathy for them on previous jobs in told the foreign aid charity sector. You'll meet her ministry's cleaner, who bizarrely has fallen into Nazis about the task of helping a famous newsreader with her Tinder profile. radio? You'll certainly meet a homeless tramp, who has taken one look at a newspaper image of Ursula, and, knowing her of old, decided she needs saving from the devil posing beside her. You'll meet the ministerial bodyguard and driver the tramp almost immediately forces Ursula to accept. But as for the first ministerial case, of a woman demanding her daughter's rape get looked at and pronto, nobody can say, for all records of Ursula's meeting with the woman And what other secrets have been wiped…|isbn=1913193403}}=='''15 OCTOBER'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0356512479|author= Alix E Harrow|title= The Once and Future Witches|rating= 5|genre= Fantasy|summary=''There's no such thing as witches, but there used to be.'' In 1893, after the purges and the burnings, witching has been reduced to little more than weak charms and simple spells. If women want to hold power in their hands, to have their voices heard, it is now through women's suffrage.}}=='''29 OCTOBER'''== {{Frontpage|author=Caroline Scott|title=When I Come Home Again|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=1918 and a young man is arrested in Durham Cathedral. He refuses to give a name, no matter how hard they push he will not say who he is. Eventually, they determine this isn't willful obstinance, he doesn't answer because he doesn't know. He remembers being on kept throughout the road for a long time and being frightened, and some of the faces from the road, but other than that – everything that came before has gone. They need a name for the forms and so they call him Adam and, because he was found in the Galilee Chapel, it becomes Adam Galilee. A fanciful name for a tired young man in a dishevelled uniform who doesn't know who he is, where he is or how he got there.occupation?|isbn=14711921721846976537
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