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=='''8 4 JULY'''==

|author=Hannah PeckMax Boucherat|title=Kate on the CaseThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=34.5

|summary=Meet Kate, although I got We meet Lori on the impression first evening she'd rather be a Catherine s got the house to herself – and one specific Catherine no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at that. For Catherine Rodriguez is Kate's idolwork, and the author of our heroine's favourite possessionjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, ''The Special Correspondent Manual''on her lonesome. Armed with What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a plucky fatherblanket fort, that bookshe has one main intention, and her talking mouse called Rupert, she that is all equipped to manage a train ride log on to the ArcticVoxminer, to see her scientist mother for the first time in yonks. Howeverworld-building, this is a train ride with a difference, for on board critter-collecting game that is a greedy-seeming harridan and her cat, a thief – and two glowing eyes, shining from the darkness hit in a blink-and-youLori'll-miss-them styles world. It's definitely But first Lori has a case for a new young investigative journalist...|isbn=184812970X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008350388|title=We Need to Talk About Money|author=Otegha Uwagba|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn''To be a dark-skinned Black woman is to be seen as less desirable, less hireablet find herself entirely on her own, less intelligent and ultimately less valuable than my light-skinned counterparts..then she finds something even more spooky.'' ''We Need to Talk About Money'' by Otegha Uwagba ''0.7% of English Literature GCSE students in England study a book by a writer of colour while only 7% study a book by a woman.'' ''The Bookseller'' 29 June 2021 Otegha Uwagba came to For the UK from Kenya when server she was five years old. Her sisters were seven and nine. It was her mother who came first, with her father joining them later. The family was hard-working, principled bestie and determined that their children would have the best education possible. There was always a painful awareness nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of money although this did not translate into a shortage of anything: it was simply carefully harvestedtampering. When Otegha was ten the family acquired a car. For Oteghamalevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, education meant a scholarship to a private school in London and then a her safe place at New College, Oxford.}}=='''13 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Sarah Langan|title=Good Neighbours|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= If you're of a certain vintage, it's hard to read the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a sing-song ''that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. Maple Street is no Ramsay Street, though, Arlo and Gertie live a world apart from the Melbourne suburbs. They're one of 18 households on the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved in a year earlier. They're not quite like all the other families (he's an ex rockergame has been doctored – well, she's a former beauty queen) but they've made some friends and their kids have settled in, and it's all going ok. Until it isn't. One hot, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up in the park across the way. It's where is a revolting mess of dirt and chaos, but for the residents of Maple Street, the worst is yet to come.|isbn=1789098211}}=='''14 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Eshman Smith|title=Word of Another Nature|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=''Why does mass protest continually fail girl to fundamentally change thedirection of the modern worldturn?'' This is the question Eshman Smith asks in Word of an Other Nature. He's right to wonder since we as humans often seem to be making a pretty bad job of our efforts to create a world of peace, stability and prosperity for all. |isbn=B093B2L1Z40008666482

|author=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)Jenny Lecoat|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 now. You think, seeing on the map that we're set in Akranes, and finding it'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 for the usual small-town feel, it's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago a woman failed to turn up for her date evening, 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 for the girl back, and a couple of delighted adopters. 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, the woman's car was found miles away in a second place, and now, after six months, the body has been discovered, in a third, even more remote place. Meanwhile, this narrative is interrupted by a confessional monologue 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 AgeBeyond Summerland

|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 child, but then his author wife is getting her kicks Jean lives on Jersey with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. They have three children, who mother where they are a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save celebrating the world's homeless with out-end of-date food, and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thingoccupation. 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 During the modern world. What suggests the farcical approach even morewar, however, is 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. SheJean's on site, visiting a client father was arrested for listening to a lighting consultation when she spies banned radio and soldiers took him in a building across the way. There are lots of thingsaway one night, 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. Why? Because Kieran has been dead leaving Jean and her mother waiting for over two years, and Ellen knows this for a fact, because she had a hand in his murdernews of him.|isbn=1471183483}} =='''2 SEPTEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Julia and As the British finally free the Shark|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat Channel islands from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summerNazis, in and the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikingswar is finally over, their hopes rise that kind they will finally learn what became of Scottish islandhim. Dad is going to be automating But will the lanterntruth come as a relief, which is his specialist thing, while mum or will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt it raise further questions around what else happened during the elusive Greenland shark. war? 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 Who was the first installment of informer who told the Bloodsworn Saga, set in Nazis about the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, when the Gods radio? And 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