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=='''25 NOVEMBER23 MAY'''==

|author=Paul CleaveOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Quiet People|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary= I am not a fan of "the Prologue". Most books are the worse for them. In this case I might make an exception. We start with Luca Pittman who is in a hurry. He has to hurry because he has children that he should not have, and when he hurries, when he bundles things into the back of his car and tries to run and then hears sirens behind him, which he should not hear because this is New Zealand and that is not how they do things there, he takes a risk. It ends badly.|isbn=1913193942}} =='''9 DECEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=Freya Marske|title=A Marvellous Light|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Robin Blyth is nudged into a job in the Civil Service, much to his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the streets of London are threaded with magic. Desperate to remove a curse that threatens Allow Me to swallow him, Robin follows Edwin to the countryside, where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the people shimmer with power. There they uncover a sinister plot that threatens the lives of all magicians in the British Isles. |isbn=1529080886}} =='''6 JANUARY 2022'''=={{Frontpage|author=Lucy Strange and Pam Smy|title=The Mermaid in the MillpondIntroduce Myself

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=There is no mermaid in Anuri spent her childhood on display to the millpondworld, 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. That at least Now Anuri is what Bess in her twenties and she is telling herself. Neither will there be a friend for slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her in amongst all the other kidslife back, who have had their entire childhoods sold suing her step-mother to take down the mill-owners by the London workhouse they used to call homecontent about her. Bess knows there Anuri is no time for friendship in a hand-battling alcoholism, failing to-mouthstart her PhD, every man undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for himself kind of existencedoing so. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in the slight little Dot Most importantly, and despite everything that life has taught she is desperately worried about her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to harmlittle sister, there might be a glimmer of companionship in the tired-out mill workers. But surely that doesn't mean there who is any truth in the existence new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the mermaidsame time?|isbn=180090049X0861546873

 =='''18 JANUARY30 MAY'''==

|authorisbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken Swanton Morley (translatorJohn Tanner)|titleauthor=Red is My HeartDavid Blake

|genre=Literary Fiction Crime|summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and white blood - and read in my house. And so was this onecarrying a knife, although I could have spelled comes into the police station shouting that more accurately – this one was, and he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner isjust back from his honeymoon, black and white and redwhich coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. Yes, You would think he has 'd be grateful for an artistic collaborator on this piece, easy answer but the words 'perverse' and I think it'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's possible sleep-deprived to say not one page lacks the influence point of some striking visual ideasfalling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.|isbn=1913547183

 =='''20 JANUARY4 JUNE'''==

|author=Gunnar StaalesenStuart Douglas|title=Bitter FlowersLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal

|summary=Varg Veum is a Norwegian Private Investigator who has just finished a stint in rehab and is now returning to work. However, the quiet job heDuring location filming for his 1970's supposedly taken on caretaking someonesitcom 'Floggit and Leggit's house quickly turns into a murder investigation, and leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a mystery around woman on the edge of a missing womanreservoir. Varg finds himself not only investigating these The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but also looking into an oldsomething about the whole thing bothers Lowe, cold case and he enlists the help of an eight year old girl who disappeared one night a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and was never found. Somehow, these disparate cases appear seemingly, a link to be linked, but what death during the Second World War. But is the there really a link, and how can Varg possibly unravel between the truthdeaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=191319308X1803368209

 =='''25 JANUARY6 JUNE'''==

|author=Dean KoontzKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=QuicksilverDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=2.54|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Meet Quinn QuicksilverKit. He's not had Like most of the chance to get to be a mercurial character yetpeople in his world, it seems, for he's lived in is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a nunteam of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-run orphanage since he was a three-day old foundling, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and now is starting a career on a needless magazine's staffthe points they grant you along the way. But when this book starts Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he IS now ''subject to sudden or unpredictable changes s seen of mood or mind''the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, for something – call it unearthly intuitioneaten, call it mind-control, call it and a supernatural urge – has demanded new trio of him that questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he go has taken to a derelict diner, find a gold coin worth a fortune, cash the value of it out goading from the token bully of his bank world and prepare for going on the lam. And all this is just in time for two of those typical Men in Black types to turn up and suggest stumbled into declaring he's of interest to themll enter as a team. Helped to escape What chance does this friendless, he finds his flight is interrupted by other instances of him acting without being muscle-free-zone have in controlactually managing that, the discovery that and how could he is not unique in having some kind of burgeoning power – and a whole lot more besides.possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=15420198851839945184

 =='''3 FEBRUARY13 JUNE'''==

|authorisbn=Christopher Edge1635866847|title=Escape RoomThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=34.5|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before Istarted reading 've seen junior variants of 'The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author'Choose Your Own Adventures [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there' format cover escape rooms – the process by which s a character or characters start by being trapped in picture of a specific location, and have to solve problems in order to get their way outslice of chocolate cake on the homepage. What Idon've not done t eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (alongside experience one for myself – for that would require actual friends) is seen There's a prose recipe in the book describing people in such an adventure, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the regular second person narrative replaced by book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the firstmargins are sanctioned. Here, Ami and four other tweenagers, all new You get to each other and booked into fold down the game without any corners of their friends, are pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a team – starting out at the gameproblem. I ''loved's main offices, where they're told they and their quest for The Answer are a world-changerthis book already. But could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite the ramped-up threat levels, change much in the world of literature?|isbn=1788007964

|author=Louie StowellMax Boucherat|title=Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being GoodThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|summary=Meet Loki. The trickster god has got into trouble again, so We meet Lori on the other gods have decided therefirst evening she's only one thing for it got the house to herself – he must be banished. And transformed – for Loki is spending a month both no neighbour to pop in exile and in the physical form of a middle, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-school kid here breaking eleven year old, on Earthher lonesome. He's guarded by a giant and What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a god in disguise as his parentsblanket fort, and Thor she has come along as wellone main intention, and that is to log on to be Voxminer, the more suaveworld-building, more popular and more successful brother of the twocritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. Loki But first Lori has a month to redeem his reputationtiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and get his moral compass pointing then she finds something even more spooky. For the right way again, or server she and her bestie and nobody else, and to prove it he has to write the text we read in a sentient notebook, that is should be able to cry foul enter shows signs of his liestampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and judge his progress. But Loki is her safe place in the kind of god who insists he can do anythinggame has been doctored – well, so surviving a bit more virtuously for where is a month is going girl to be a walk in the park...rightturn?|isbn=14063997520008666482

|author=Marcus SedgwickJenny Lecoat|title=WrathBeyond Summerland|rating=4.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of frustration at himselfthe occupation. Lockdown is only just over During the war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and he should be free to do what he wantssoldiers took him away one night, to go where he wants leaving Jean and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, Cassieher mother waiting for years for news of him. They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent As the British finally free the enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming Channel islands from the earth. Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying Nazis, and the end war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. But will the world is already truth come as a done deal? Is relief, or will it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming ofraise further questions around what else happened during the war? Is she just bonkers Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And can Fitz find out what other secrets have been kept throughout the truthoccupation? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|isbn=18009008991846976537