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=='''13 4 JULY'''==

|author=Sarah LanganMax Boucherat|title=Good NeighboursThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|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 We meet Lori 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 rocker, first evening 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 a revolting mess of dirt and chaos, but for got the residents of Maple Street, the worst is yet house 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 herself – no neighbour to fundamentally change thedirection of the modern world?'' This is the question Eshman Smith asks pop 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=B093B2L1Z4}} =='''15 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Emily Critchley|title=The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers had all the hallmarks of something good. I was intrigued by the plot, liked the design of the bookbabysitter poorly, and thought the author's mother at work sounded interesting. From the outset it all looked incredibly promising. So what on earth went wrong here?|isbn= 1911427091}} =='''16 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=B0925KS87N|title=Dead Man's Grave (DS Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Tam Hardie had been determined to find the grave - and it took some finding, in just an overgrown avidly rule-breaking eleven year old cemetery, on her lonesome. It was What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a strange thing for Scotland's premier criminal to doblanket fort, but Tam was getting old and there were things he wanted to do. Only, his family didn't hear from him again after he'd said that he'd found the grave - the she has one which said that it shouldn't be opened - and his three sons began to worry. Tam Juniormain intention, Frankie and Dave wouldn't normally go that is to the police but they weren't certain where their father had been and they were worried.}}=='''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 now. You think, seeing log on the map that we're set in Akranesto Voxminer, and finding it's only twenty kilometres from the capital cityworld-building, critter-collecting game that this author is clutching at the few final straws left. However just because the book aims for the usual small-town feel, ita hit in Lori's not just in Akranes that our interests lieworld. Six months ago But first Lori has a woman failed to turn up for tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her date eveningown, and was never seen againthen she finds something even more spooky. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that For the server she could now live permanently with the couple who had given her foster care before and her mother had asked for the girl back, bestie and a couple nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of delighted adopterstampering. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone use was at a high level until it stopped all of a suddenscreen, in one and her safe place, the woman's car was found miles away in a second place, and now, after six months, the body game has been discovereddoctored – well, in a third, even more remote place. Meanwhile, this narrative where 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 girl to make the right oneturn?|isbn=191319373X0008666482

|author=Claire NorthJenny Lecoat|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 the modern world. What suggests During the farcical approach even more, howeverwar, 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}} =='''19 AUGUST'''=={{Frontpage|author=Doug Johnstone|title=The Great Silence|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=For those who, like me, haven't come across As the Skelfs before, I'll risk a quick synopsis of who's who – although Johnstone does a good job of bringing British finally free the backstory in without being heavy handed about it. Skelf isn't some fantastic creature, though it sounds as though it ought to be, it is merely the surname of a family of undertakers. Undertakers and private investigators. Dorothy is Channel islands from the matriarch – Californian by birth and instinctNazis, she married a scot and ended up helping to run the Edinburgh undertaking firm that had been in the family for generations. Recently widowed and now involved with a black Swedish police officer. Swedish by nationality. Scottish police. Daughter Jenny, 46, war is haunted by her still-living husband – a violent escaped prisoner. And grand-daughter is about to graduate with a first-class physics degree and join the academic staff next term.|isbn=1913193837}} =='''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 heroinefinally over, 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, 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