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 =='''6 AUGUST30 MAY'''== 
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|authorisbn= Laura Lam and Elizabeth MayB0CYV674G2|title= Seven DevilsSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating= 43.5|genre= Science FictionCrime|summary= Eris is one of the foremost operatives of the NovantaeIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a resistance movement fighting against knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed 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 yearsman. Clo, an ace pilot for A body at the Novantae, has bottom of a mission: hijack a Tholosian spacecraft to gather information vital to the war effort. Although shefreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's less than pleased been stabbed to discover that her former friend Eris death. DCI John Tanner is her partner on this missionjust back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. Things get more interesting as You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the mission commences; aboard the ship are three defectors with a secret that could potentially cripple the Empirewords 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. ErisHe's brother Damocles, the runnersleep-up heir deprived to the Empire, is plotting to disrupt peace talks between Tholos and the last point of the free alien species. Itfalling asleep at work but he's a race against time as the rebels move determined to put a stop Damocleskeep going - probably because he can' plans, with millions of lives hanging in the balance…|isbn=1473231140t get any sleep at home.
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=='''19 AUGUST 20214 JUNE'''== 
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|author=Anders de la MotteStuart Douglas|title=End of SummerLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= In During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the summer dead body of 1983, little Billy Nilsson goes missinga woman on the edge of a reservoir. He was chasing a rabbitThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, through but something about the gardenwhole thing bothers Lowe, and into he enlists the maize field behind. He has not been seen sincehelp of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. In They travel across the present daycountry during their days off filming, Veronica Lindh is a grief counsellor running group therapy sessions for the bereaved – although she clearly has problems of her own: anxietyuncovering more possible murders and, panic attacksseemingly, a scar on her arm that she keeps obsessively hidden and she is barely hanging on link to her jobdeath during the Second World War. It's clear that she has just returned to work after an episode that seems to have resulted in restraining orders against her, But is there really a deal of therapy, a change of location and her supervisor is watching closely. link between the deaths? As well, he needs And will they manage to.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=17857682391803368209
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=='''20 AUGUST6 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=0008378363Saima Mir|title=One Perfect Morning|author=Pamela CraneVengeance
|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=A husband is about to have his throat cut in his own bed. To find out who - and why - we need to go back nine days and twenty years. Mackenzie, Robin and Lily met when they all went to I was instantly intrigued by the same college premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in Monroeville, Pennsylvania and twenty years later they're still the best north of friendsEngland run by a Muslim woman. When they first met they called themselves The fact that it was the Spicier Girls as second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a nod to the famous girl band of the day. Lily would be Adventure Spice, Robin the Homemaker few series before (on page and screen) and Mackenzie - well, Mackenzie would it needn't be the supporting actress in her own lifea hindrance if it's good enough. And that wasn't a problem here. She married OwenVengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, her college sweetheart and they have a daughter, Aria, who's now fifteen-year-oldI never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561
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|isbnauthor=1526362759Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=DoshDungeon Runners: How to Earn It, Save It, Spend It, Grow It, Give It|author=Rashmi SirdeshpandeHero Trial|rating=54|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=What a relief! Meet Kit. A book about moneyLike most of the people in his world, for childrenit seems, with clear explanations he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of what it iswarrior, why it mattersmage and healer enter specially prepared, how to acquire more of it (nope century- robbing banks is out) old, magical mazes, and what you can do race to the exit, perhaps bothering with it when the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you've managed to get hold of italong the way. Your reasons Unfortunately for wanting money donKit, the only thing he't matter: we all need it to some extent. You might want to go into businesss seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, be a clever shoppereaten, and a saver (you might even become an ''investor'') and there might be something you reallynew trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, ''really'' want he has taken to buy. There's also the possibility goading from the token bully of using to do good in the his worldand stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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|isbnauthor=1542017432Jenny Valentine|title=The Nidderdale Murders|author=J R Ellis|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=It was a Friday Us 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 Before 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 PavesiAfter
|rating=5
|genre=Crime (Historical)Teens|summary=It's 1930 and Megan Elk and Henry Mab are staying with Bunny at his house best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in Spaina lifetime connection. It's unbearably hot and Bunny drank too much at lunch: he's going to have They meet as children one day on a rest and then he wants to talk to Megan and Henry about something serious. Only it never gets that far: when Bunny doesntrip out but unfortunately they don't emerge after his siesta his guests find that heget each other's been murderedcontact details at the time. How can that have But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened? There's no one else in the housethough, something terrible and tragic, so one of them and now they must be the killerwork through their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Jacqueline Wilson1635866847|title=Love FrankieThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensLifestyle|summary= Frankie It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is nearly fourteenthe book for you. 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 Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', when your older sister has turned into I visited the girliest girl who ever lived, author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and, above all when Sally and her mates are bullying you at schoolthere's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. Oh, and when Sam, your best friend since forever, suddenly starts sending out signs that he might fancy you - and you I don't fancy him backeat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerallyPoor Frankie (There's a 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. |isbn= 0857535897 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 problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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=='''4 JULY'''==
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|author= Adrian TchaikovskyMax Boucherat|title= The Doors Last Life 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}} =='''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}} =='''3 SEPTEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1509889515|title=The Darkest Evening (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann CleevesLori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was a mercy that DI Vera Stanhope took the wrong turning as she drove home in the blizzard. If she hadn't the car might not have been found until the morning and who knows what would have happened to the toddler strapped into the car seat, particularly as the car door had been left open. Vera took the boy and drove to the nearest habitation. She ''thought'' it would be the village but it was Brockburn, the ancestral home of the Stanhopes: her father had been the younger brother of the man who inherited - and Hector was the black sheep of the family. Calling there unannounced, particularly as they seemed to have guests was going to be embarrassing, but there was little else that she could do in the circumstances.
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|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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|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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|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'''==
 
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|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'''==
 
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|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'''==
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|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'''==
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|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'''==
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|author=Arvin Ahmadi
|title=How It All Blew Up
|rating=4
|genre=Teens
| summary=18-year-old Amir is American Iranian, a Muslim, and gay. He struggles with his identity, unable to face telling his parents who he really is, so when another student at his school starts blackmailing him, threatening to show his parents photographs of Amir kissing his boyfriend Amir panics and runs away...to Italy! So begins a journey for Amir, and his family, where they all discover more about him, and who he really is, and who he really wants to be.
|isbn=1471409929
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|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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