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=='''28 JUNE4 JULY'''==

|isbn=0008269041|title=Risk of Harm|author=Lucie Whitehouse|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=DCI Robin Lyons is back in her native Birmingham after her less-than-comfortable departure from the Met. She might have been reinstated but the whole episode left a nasty taste in her mouth. She was now working for Detective Chief Superintendent Samir Jaffrey - then the man who had broken her heart nearly twenty years before. She and her fifteen-year-old daughter have moved out of her parent's home into a rented house but there's still a difficult situation with her brother Luke who has gone out of his way to make life difficult for Robin since she was a young child. He's married to Natalie, now and has a young child but he's still got it in for Robin.}} =='''1 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0571365884Max Boucherat|title=My Mess is a Bit of Life: Adventures in Anxiety|author=Georgia Pritchett|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=Georgia Pritchett has always been anxious, even as a child. She would worry about whether the monsters under the bed were comfortable: it was the sort of life where if she had nothing to worry about she would become anxious but such occasions were few and far between. On a visit to a therapist, as an adult, when she was completely unable to speak about what was wrong with her it was suggested that she should write it down and ''My Mess is a Bit of a The Last Life: Adventures in Anxiety'' is the result - or so we are given to believe.}}{{Frontpage|author=Darren Shan|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3Lori Mills

|summary=The second trilogy in ShanWe meet Lori on the first evening she's ''Merge'' saga opens with our herogot the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, Archiejust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, back in London on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world of the Born. It-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's not been easy, explaining to his foster parents where heworld. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn's beent find herself entirely on her own, or slipping back into ordinary life and forgetting about Inez then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and his other friends in the Mergenobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, but Archie and her safe place in the game has done his best.... been doctored – well, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Ben's clock tower and except for fiddling with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak away.where is a girl to turn?|isbn=B093H8DPQZ0008666482

|author=Alex CotterJenny Lecoat|title=The House on the EdgeBeyond Summerland

|summary= The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers had all Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the hallmarks end of something good. I was intrigued by the plot, liked the design of the book, and thought the author's work sounded interesting. From the outset it all looked incredibly promising. So what on earth went wrong here?|isbn= 1911427091}}  =='''22 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)|title=Girls Who Lie|rating=3|genre=Thrillers|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all the dark corners of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before nowoccupation. You think, seeing on During the map that we're set in Akraneswar, and finding itJean's only twenty kilometres from the capital city, that this author is clutching at the few final straws left. However just because the book aims father was arrested for the usual small-town feel, it's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago listening to a woman failed to turn up for her date eveningbanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and was never seen again. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently with the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked waiting for the girl back, and a couple years for news of delighted adoptershim. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until it stopped all of a sudden, in one place, As the woman's car was found miles away in a second place, and now, after six months, British finally free the body has been discovered, in a third, even more remote place. Meanwhile, this narrative is interrupted by a confessional monologue Channel islands from a mother who found herself with heavy post-natal depression, and very little maternal feeling in her body. Is the assumption that is so easy for the reader to make the right one?|isbn=191319373X}}{{Frontpage|author=Claire North|title=Notes from the Burning Age|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=At its core ''Notes From the Burning Age'' by Claire North is a spy thrillerNazis, with as many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. However, as with the best novels, it wears many masks and its most affecting one war is that of a new and timely genrefinally over, cli-fi, or climate change fiction. North's novel tells of a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to start anew and live alongside nature without any of the modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons of mass destruction, intensive farming). There is a growing unhappiness with this limiting world, and one group, the Brotherhood, aims to master these processes no matter the cost to the Earth.|isbn=0356514757}} =='''3 AUGUST'''=={{Frontpage|author=Darren Shan|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=So. Having done the impossible and unpicked the lock to the Forgotten Crypt, from which the Departed communicate with the Merge, Archie now has ''grop'' to think about. But before their hopes rise that, soirees. Soirees! Archie, much to Inez's amusement, doesn't even know they will finally learn what one became of those ishim. But he manages to will the truth come through the fancy party unscathed, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume of this series. |isbn=B093J9TF73}} =='''5 AUGUST'''=={{Frontpage|author=John Boyne|title=The Echo Chamber|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Meet George Cleverley. He is self-defined as "one of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without a criminal record". He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him she's carrying his childrelief, but then his author wife is getting her kicks with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. They have three children, who are a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, a girl who hangs or will it raise further questions around with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save what else happened during the world's homeless with out-of-date food, and a fit young lad doing war? Who was the gay hustle thing. Add in a few other characters – therapists, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to his life, and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to informer who told the modern world. What suggests the farcical approach even more, however, is Nazis about the fact this is bloody funny.|isbn=0857526219}}{{Frontpage|author=Louise Candlish|title=The Heights|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Ellen doesn't expect to see Kieran that day. She's on site, visiting a client for a lighting consultation when she spies him in a building across the way. There are lots of things, lots of people, you might see when you look out across London, but this isn't one Ellen expected that day or in fact any other day. Whyradio? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years, and Ellen knows this for a fact, because she had a hand in his murder.|isbn=1471183483}} =='''2 SEPTEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Julia and the Shark|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|isbn=1510107789}} =='''7 OCTOBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=John Gwynne|title=The Shadow Of The Gods|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, when the Gods what other secrets have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to see. This story is been kept throughout the ultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. This is a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.occupation?|isbn=03565142181846976537