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|author=Antti Tuomainen and David Hackston (translator)Max Boucherat|title=The Rabbit Factor|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Meet Henri. With a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is other human beings, he's perfect for his job in the insurance company – until they decide he's not a team-member, that they'd prefer everyone to be all open-plan, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshopping. This is when he finds his brother has died, having a heart attack while busy changing his Volvo's radio channel, and has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that 'everything' is just an adventure park, and nothing else. ''YouMeFun'' is so not what Henri wants to occupy his mind, but he perks up a little when he sees huge holes in the finances – it runs at a steady money-moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideas, but loans have been made out and the amount vanished. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on the scene to explain that missing money – it's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, and the activities Last Life of these guys are not conducive to getting a cheap life insurance plan...|isbn=191319387X}} =='''1 NOVEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=Teresa Driscoll|title=Her Perfect Family|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=The novel begins by introducing you to Gemma, who at first instance appears to be your average student, faced with the familiar horrifying realisation, at the eleventh hour, that her graduation outfit is all wrong. Suddenly, Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''He is not who he says he is…'', paving the way for the sinister tone that remains throughout the novel. In a twist of events, and after a change of outfit, Gemma is shot in the midst of her graduation ceremony. With Gemma then in a coma, what follows is a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues to grow the further you read.|isbn=1542028752}} =='''4 NOVEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=Lucy Hope|title=FledglingLori Mills

|summary=Bavaria, 1900. Our scene is a most peculiar hilltop house, built bit by bit over the decades, and now looking imperiously down We meet Lori on the village and woods below. Itfirst evening she's an eccentric got the house, to host eccentricsherself – no neighbour to pop in, so the library shelving system is not as we'd know it, the roof is retractablebabysitter poorly, there is a steam-poweredmother at work, handjust an avidly rule-operated lift system cut through itbreaking eleven year old, and so onher lonesome. At the moment it houses an ex-soldier with PTSD and What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a passion for the long-standing family hobby of taxidermyblanket fort, a woman who does nothing but quibbleshe has one main intention, kvetch and sing opera loudly, and the dying grandma that is to log on to our heroine, CassieVoxminer, a young lass who has to do all the maintenance of this bizarre machineworld-like abode. Oh but it's also going to house someone or something elsebuilding, when crashing through Cassiecritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's bedroom window one stormy day is a cherubworld. And if you think such But first Lori has a heavenly arrival is going to be a completely great and wonderful thing, think again...|isbn=183994188X}} ==tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn'''25 NOVEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=Will Carver|title=Psychopaths Anonymous|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Maeve is a high functioning alcoholict find herself entirely on her own, drinking continuously and also, curiously, addicted to attending numerous AA groupsthen she finds something even more spooky. She is also a self-acknowledged psychopath. Whilst analysing and critiquing For the AA steps server she is mainly using the groups and her bestie and nobody else should be able to find targetsenter shows signs of tampering...targets for sexual encounters, targets to feed When malevolent eyes spark up on her desire to hear of people's miseryphone screen, and targets for her violent behaviour. Yet she also seems to be searching for others who think as she does, and when she's unable to find like-minded people safe place in any of the groups she decides to set up her owngame has been doctored – well, hoping where is a girl to encounter others who share similar obsessions, and thus Psychopaths Anonymous is born.turn?|isbn=19131937560008666482

|author=Freya MarskeJenny Lecoat|title=A Marvellous LightBeyond Summerland

|genre=Historical General Fiction|summary=Robin Blyth is nudged into a job in the Civil Service, much to his chagrin. There he meets Edwin Courcey and learns that the streets of London are threaded Jean lives on Jersey with magic. Desperate to remove a curse that threatens to swallow him, Robin follows Edwin to the countryside, her mother where the hedgegrows bristle with incantations and the people shimmer with power. There they uncover a sinister plot that threatens are celebrating the lives end of all magicians in the British Islesoccupation. |isbn=1529080886}} =='''6 JANUARY 2022'''=={{Frontpage|author=Lucy Strange and Pam Smy|title=The Mermaid in the Millpond|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=There is no mermaid in the millpond. That at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be a friend for her in amongst all During the other kidswar, who have had their entire childhoods sold to the mill-owners by the London workhouse they used to call home. Bess knows there is no time Jean's father was arrested for friendship in a hand-listening to-mouth, every man for himself kind of existence. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in the slight little Dotbanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads to harm, there might be a glimmer mother waiting for years for news of companionship in him. As the tired-out mill workers. But surely that doesn't mean there is any truth in British finally free the existence of Channel islands from the mermaid?|isbn=180090049X}} =='''18 JANUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Antoine LaurainNazis, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)|title=Red the war is My Heart|rating=3.5|genre=Literary Fiction |summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in my house. And so was this one, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one was, and is, black and white and red. Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on this piece, and I think it's possible to say not one page lacks the influence of some striking visual ideas.|isbn=1913547183}} =='''3 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Escape Room|rating=3|genre=Confident Readers|summary=I've seen junior variants of the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' format cover escape rooms – the process by which a character or characters start by being trapped in a specific locationfinally over, and have to solve problems in order to get their way out. What I've not done (alongside experience one for myself – for hopes rise that would require actual friends) is seen a prose book describing people in such an adventure, with the regular second person narrative replaced by the first. Here, Ami and four other tweenagers, all new to each other and booked into the game without any they will finally learn what became of their friends, are a team – starting out at the game's main offices, where they're told they and their quest for The Answer are a world-changerhim. But could watching people engage with such a pastime, despite will the ramped-up threat levels, change much in the world of literature?|isbn=1788007964}}{{Frontpage|author=Louie Stowell|title=Loki: A Bad God's Guide to Being Good|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Loki. The trickster god has got into trouble again, so the other gods have decided there's only one thing for it – he must be banished. And transformed – for Loki is spending a month both in exile and in the physical form of a middle-school kid here on Earth. He's guarded by a giant and a god in disguise as his parents, and Thor has truth come along as well, to be the more suave, more popular and more successful brother of the two. Loki has a month to redeem his reputation, and get his moral compass pointing the right way againrelief, or will it raise further questions around what else, and to prove it he has to write happened during the text we read in a sentient notebook, that is able to cry foul of his lies, and judge his progress. But Loki is war? Who was the kind of god informer who insists he can do anything, so surviving a bit more virtuously for a month is going to be a walk in told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the park...rightoccupation?|isbn=14063997521846976537