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|author=Claire NorthMax Boucherat|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 thriller, 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 is that of a new and timely genre, 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 The Last Life of 3Lori Mills

|summary=So. Having done We meet Lori on the impossible and unpicked first evening she's got the lock house to the Forgotten Cryptherself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, from which the Departed communicate with the Mergeon her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, Archie now she has ''grop'' one main intention, and that is to log on to think about. But before thatVoxminer, soirees. Soirees! Archiethe world-building, much to Inezcritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's amusement, world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even know what one more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of those istampering. But he manages to come through the fancy party unscathed When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed and her safe place in the first volume of this series. game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=B093J9TF730008666482

|author=John BoyneJenny Lecoat|title=The Echo ChamberBeyond Summerland|rating=54

|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=Juliafinally over, 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, hopes rise 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 they will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|isbn=1510107789}}{{Frontpage|author=Ian Mark and Louis Ghibault|title=Monster Hunting For Beginners|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Jack. Now Jack knows very little about being fearless and nimble and quick, for he's a slight boy, and although he wants for danger and peril and interesting things his dad refuses to let him out of his sight. That's because Jack's mother knew all about monsters, and look finally learn what happened to her – she died. Luckily or unluckily then, depending on your point became of view, a giant ogre will threaten his aunt when Jack's father also goes AWOL, Jack will fluke the ogre's death, a dwarfish wizard-type will make him an apprentice monster hunter, and he'll be given a book that tells him all he needs to know about the perils he always wanted closer contact with. The book's name? ''Monster Hunting for Beginners''...|isbn=0755501942}}{{Frontpage|author=Emma Carroll|title=The Week at World's End|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=First, the title. We're in World's End Close, a mediocre set of houses, where Stevie (Vie to her friends) finds fun only with the family dog and with the boy over the road. But we could also be at World's End, because something taking a great chunk of will the fun away is the fact that the Cuban Missile Crisis is kicking off. The Soviet boats are getting blockaded truth come as America tries to reduce the risk of nuclear missiles offshore, and not much else is able to make the news. That said, Vie has news of her own – Anna, a secretive young woman hiding in their coal shed. Anna hasrelief, in no short time, taken a strong interest in the American airforce base behind the Close, said she'd locate something she wanted and leave, failed to leave, and implied her life was at risk. But surely this bit of intrigue has got nothing to do with or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the Cold War is doing miles awaywar?|isbn=0571364438}}{{Frontpage|author= Angharad Walker|title= The Ash House|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= A new boy arrives at The Ash House. He doesn't know his name, or why he is there but he is used to Who was the system, used to different places and different faces. He meets Dom informer who names him Sol and sets out to teach him told the rules of The Ash House. These rules centre on a variety of Nicenesses set out by Nazis about the absent Headmaster. All children must remember their Niceness and complete their chores, working as a hive in the smouldering shadows of The Ash House. But soon their easy peace is shattered by the arrival of the Doctor. By the end of the story, lives will be changed forever and The Ash House will never be the same again.|isbn=1912626977}} =='''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 radio? And what other secrets have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to see. This story is 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.|isbn=0356514218}}{{Frontpage|author=Peter Papathanasiou|title=The Stoning|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=In a town sleazy enough to make sh*tholes elsewhere look glamorous in comparison, a teacher has been transported across town at night in a shopping trolley, and she's been taped to a tree and she's had rocks bowled at her as if she were kept throughout the world's tallest cricket stumps. When she's discovered by the town gossip everyone, including the local cops, are quite confident the culprit has come from the immigrant detention centre the place is reluctantly home to. An arson attack on that shows the feeling – and it's only fair, is the general opinion, for the occupants are often setting their own fires in protest at their conditions. Cue the arrival of George Manolis, a higher rank from the city, to sort everything out. Because such an aggrieved, insular community is really going to welcome a Greek-heritaged city boy laying down the law...occupation?|isbn=15294169731846976537