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 =='''9 JULY30 MAY'''== 
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|authorisbn= Helly ActonB0CYV674G2|title= The Shelf|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= When we meet Amy, she's in a relationship with Jamie. You can't really call it a partnership, because things tend to get done on his terms, but she's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, yes. Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to pack for a surprise trip. Could this be it? Is he ''finally'' going to get down on one knee? Was the work Swanton Morley (and the waitJohn Tanner) worth it?|isbn=1838770879}}{{Frontpage|author=Kat Ellis|title=Harrow LakeDavid Blake|rating=43.5|genre=Teens|summary=When we first meet 17-year-old Lola, daughter to legendary horror movie director Nolan Nox, she is saying goodbye to New York City - by sneaking out and stealing from its residents. But when she is found by her father's assistant and forced to come home, she arrives to find an unlocked door, a trail of blood, and her father dying in his study. And so, while he recovers, she is sent off to live with her grandmother in Harrow Lake, the small 1920s town in Indiana that served as the location for the film that made her parents famous. But something about this place isn't right. There's a darkness inside the people here. Secrets about her mother and dark tales of the town's cannibal monster 'Mister Jitters' fill every corner, and disturbing happenings plague Lola. But with every passing hour, secrets long buried come painfully to light and she begins to think that these stories may not be stories at all, and something very real and sinister lurks in Harrow Lake.|isbn=0241397049}} =='''13 JULY'''== {{Frontpage|author=Sakinu Ahronglong|title=Hunter School|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary= The flyleaf to this little collection tells us that it is a work of fiction. That's possibly misleading. I am not sure whether it is "fiction" in the sense that Ahronglong made it all up, or whether it is as the blurb goes on to say ''recollections, folklore and autobiographical stories''. It feels like the latter. It feels like the stories he tells about his experiences as a child, as an adolescent, as an adult are real and true. But memory is a fickle thing, and maybe poetic licence has taken over here and there and maybe calling it fiction means that its safer and therefore more people will read it. More people should.|isbn=1999791282}} =='''16 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1787301435|title=Dark Waters|author=G R Halliday|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=TwentyIt seemed like an open-twoand-yearshut case. A man, covered in mud and blood -old Annabelle Whittaker made her second mistake when she opted to drive down and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the private road in Glen Turritman. It was A body at the bottom of a long road through some breathfreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church -taking scenery and she could push the car he's been stabbed to its limits without fear of being caught speedingdeath. When DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the blond child stepped out in front birth of her she instinctively jerked his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the steering wheel words 'perverse' and hit a tree. When she came round after the accident she couldn't work out where she was, but it obviously wasnJohn Tanner't a conventional hospitalwere made for each other. SheHe'd made her first mistake some time ago, although s sleep-deprived to the realisation wouldnpoint of falling asleep at work but he't be obvious s determined to her for a long time. Shekeep going - probably because he can'd made it when she chose to have her father buy her a pale blue BMW M4t get any sleep at home.
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=='''23 JULY4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=1473682401Stuart Douglas|title=The Turning Tide (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Those who were with us at the end of [[A Step So Grave (Dandy Gilver) by Catriona McPherson|A Step So Grave]] will remember that Donald was engaged to Mallory Dunnoch. They're now married and Mallory is having twins. When they arrive no one can doubt the charms of Lavinia Dahlia Cherry and her brother, Edward Hugh Lachlan Gilver. There are two drawbacks: they're noisy Lowe and they're staying with Dandy and Hugh. Dandy and her detective partner, Alec Osborne, had not taken up the chance to look into a problem Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Cramond ferry when it was offered to them twice before, but suddenly the possibility of being out of the house at Gilverton seems irresistible.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1785765698|title=Shed No Tears|author=Caz FrearDress 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 PattersonSaima Mir|title=Hawk: A Maximum Ride NovelVengeance|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Hawk has been waiting on the same street corner, every day, for years. She is waiting for her parents to come and get her. They left her there when she was just tiny, and although she's almost certain that they are never coming back for her, she continues to head back there each day, just in case. Hawk isn't your ordinary street urchin though...she has wings, and can fly! Since she was abandoned she's been living with a group of other children, all with interesting characteristics of their own and together they've made their own family. But now the city is seemingly even more troubled than usual, there's a mysterious child-killer who has been brought to the prison next door to where the children live, and then one day Hawk comes home to find her family have been taken away. Where have they been taken, and can Hawk rescue them before it's too late?|isbn=1529120004}} =='''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, Anna3.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178089922X|title=Invisible Girl|author=Lisa Jewell|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=''When you wear I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a hood, you're invisibleMuslim woman.The fact that it was the second in a series I hadn't read didnSaffyre Maddox is seventeen-years-old and beautiful. By her own admission, shet stop me – I's a bit of ve jumped midway into a boffin, doing few series before (on page and enjoying maths, physics screen) and biology at A level. Life hasnit needn't been easy for her: most people who have been close to her have died and shebe a hindrance if it's now living with her Uncle Aaron in an eighth-floor flatgood enough. Something And that wasn''really, really bad happened'' to her when she was ten and she self-harmed for t a long timeproblem here. Aaron organised psychological help and for three years Roan Fours was her therapist. He gently unpeeled the layers of her psyche, but somehow managed Vengeance swiftly brings you up to miss that 'something reallyspeed, really bad'. When the therapy ended Saffyre and I never felt cast adrift, but she retained an interest in Roanlost.|isbn=0861541561
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{{Frontpage
|author=Non PrattKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Every Little Piece of My HeartDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Freya was Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a beautifulteam of warrior, popular mage and complex girlhealer enter specially prepared, loved by many and seemingly stable in her existence as a queen bee 16-yearcentury-old student, complete magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with best friend the treasure or the big bad and the promise of points they grant you along the end of GCSEs just months awayway. But one day Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on January 1stthe inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, she just... left. No explanation. No warning. No goodbye. No one heard from her since. A once active social profile left deserted. Soeaten, when her best friend Sophie receives and a mysterious parcel from her 5 months after, she expects it to contain answers new trio of some kindquestors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, but is surprised he has taken 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 goading from the promise token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'treasure' at the end of it allll enter as a team. With each parcel What chance does this friendless, a new layer of the story and of Freya is unwrapped muscle-free- and painful truths come to light zone have in actually managing that threaten to break bonds, both new and old. Can what's been broken be fixed? And why did Freya leavehow could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=14063669431839945184
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=='''20 AUGUST'''==
{{Frontpage
|isbnauthor=0241433568Jenny Valentine|title=Eight Detectives|author=Alex PavesiUs in the Before and After
|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 of them must be the killer.
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{{Frontpage
|author=Jacqueline Wilson
|title=Love Frankie
|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 Elk and her mates Mab are bullying you at school. Oh, and when Sam, your best friend since foreverfriends, suddenly starts sending out signs or more than that he might fancy you - and you don't fancy him back. Poor Frankie! |isbn= 0857535897 }}{{Frontpage|author= Adrian Tchaikovsky|title= The Doors of Eden|rating= 4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= Wow – this novel is giganticeven, in every sense of the word. "Epic" their friendship 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}} =='''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 once 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 Chicagolifetime connection. On a chance encounter with a descendant of Alexandre Dumas, Khayyam finds herself They meet as children one day 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, trip out but uncover the true story of the woman and why it was one that should never have been forgotten.|isbn=0349003556}} =='''3 SEPTEMBER'''== {{Frontpage|author=Natasha Farrant|title=Voyage of the Sparrowhawk|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Set in England in the aftermath of World War One, this is the story of two children, Lotti and Ben, who have lost everyone unfortunately they love, but don't want to let go of their last, tiny glimpses of hope. Ben is living on a narrowboat on the canal, lying to the police about his brotherget each other's imminent return from the battlefields to take care of him. Lotti, meanwhile, has been expelled from school and is back contact details at home; it's a beautiful house that belongs to her but that her terrible Aunt and Uncle currently have guardianship for. The day Lotti meets Ben (the day she steals a dog!) is the beginning of a deep, and powerful friendshiptime. It sees But then chance brings them become each other's familyback together, and undertake a perilous trip to France, in the boat, to try to find out the truth of the people they both loveare inseparable.|isbn=0571348769}} =='''8 SEPTEMBER'''== {{Frontpage|author=Sharon Doering|title=She Lies Close|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary= Ava Boone was five years old when she went missing, around 6 months ago. There Something has been no sign of her sincehappened though, something terrible and no arrests have been made. And yettragic, this book is not about Ava. Not really. This book is about Graceand now they must work through their grief, who has just discovered her neighbour in her new house is a suspect in Ava's disappearance. As a single mother to two young childrenand their friendship, she's really wishing this sort of information had come to light before they moved intogether.|isbn=17890941941471196585
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 =='''10 SEPTEMBER13 JUNE'''== 
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|authorisbn= Andrea Stewart1635866847|title= The Bone Shard Daughter (The Drowning Empire)Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre= FantasyLifestyle|summary=It's strange, the things that make you 'I could never be what he wanted if I did not take what I wanted'immediately'' In an empire controlled by a bone shard magic feel that powers animal-like constructs, an heir to this is the thronebook for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', a smuggler, and a warrior will fight to find their place in I visited the worldauthor's [https://wwwLin is the emperorpinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's forgotten daughter, kept locked away in a palace picture of a slice of secrets chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and closed doorsdesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. When her father refuses to recognise her as heir to the throne, she vows to show him she is capable of reviving (There's a dying empire and recipe in secretthe book, she begins to unlock one door after another, searching for which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the mysteries of her past book and the forbidden art I was told to make a mess of bone shard magic. Yet Lin is playing a deadly game and her quest for power will come at great costit. With revolution Notes in the air and creeping closer and closer margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the gates corners of the palace, Lin must decide just how far she will to go to become pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a catalyst of change and save her peopleproblem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=0356514943
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 =='''22 SEPTEMBER4 JULY'''== 
{{Frontpage
|author=Antoine Laurain and Emily Boyce, Jane Aitken and Polly Mackintosh (translators)Max Boucherat|title=The Readers Room|genre=General Fiction|rating=3.5|summary=Violaine's publishing house has had a great success, and it was through the slush pile of unsolicited manuscripts. The three people who work in the Readers' Room 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 smash, 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, 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 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 email. What is going to befall Violaine, her memory, her staff – and how much is any Last Life of it due to the hit novel? And just where the heck did that come from?|isbn=1910477974}} =='''1 OCTOBER'''== {{Frontpage|author=Tania Unsworth|title=The Time Traveller and the TigerLori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Elsie is an ordinary sort of girl. The sort of small girl who often gets overlooked, and forgotten. She is quiet, and compliant, and makes We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the best of whatever happens house to her. So when her parents forget that her school holidays have started before they are free herself – no neighbour to take care of herpop in, they have to arrange for her to go and stay with her Great Uncle for a week. Poor Elsiebabysitter poorly, forgotten againmother at work, just decides to make the best of thingsan avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. On investigating the house she finds that her Great Uncle had lived What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in India as a boyblanket fort, 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 she has to keep it because he was the one who shot the tiger when he was 12 years oldmain intention, and he says it was the worst thing he ever did. So when Elsie suddenly finds herself magically transported back many, many years, to the time in India when her Great Uncle was 12 years old, she believes that she must try is to stop him from killing the tiger, in order log on 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 UrsulaVoxminer, the standworld-in ministerbuilding, drafted in from outside the leading party to cover the post for critter-collecting game that is a year. You might get to meet her hunky husband she can't believe she deserves, and the children who are ignorant of just how she spent all her empathy for them on previous jobs hit in the foreign aid charity sector. You'll meet her ministryLori's cleaner, who bizarrely has fallen into the task of helping a famous newsreader with her Tinder profileworld. You'll certainly meet a homeless tramp, who But first Lori has taken one look at a newspaper image of Ursulatiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and, knowing her of old, decided then she needs saving from the devil posing beside herfinds something even more spooky. You'll meet For the ministerial bodyguard server she and driver the tramp almost immediately forces Ursula her bestie and nobody else should be able to acceptenter shows signs of tampering. But as for the first ministerial caseWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, of a woman demanding and her daughter's rape get looked at and pronto, nobody can say, for all records of Ursula's meeting with safe place in the woman have game has been wiped…doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=19131934030008666482
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=='''19 AUGUST 2021'''==
 
{{Frontpage
|author=Anders de la MotteJenny Lecoat|title=End of SummerBeyond Summerland
|rating=4
|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary= In Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the summer end of 1983, little Billy Nilsson goes missingthe occupation. He During the war, Jean's father was chasing arrested for listening to a rabbit, through the gardenbanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and into the maize field behindher mother waiting for years for news of him. He has not been seen since. In As the British finally free the Channel islands from the present dayNazis, Veronica Lindh and the war is a grief counsellor running group therapy sessions for the bereaved – although she clearly has problems of her own: anxietyfinally over, panic attacks, a scar on her arm their hopes rise that she keeps obsessively hidden and she is barely hanging on to her jobthey will finally learn what became of him. It's clear that she has just returned to work after an episode that seems to have resulted in restraining orders against her, But will the truth come as a deal of therapyrelief, a change of location and her supervisor is watching closely. or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? As well, he needs to.And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=17857682391846976537
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