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 =='''3 SEPTEMBER30 MAY'''==

|isbn=0241425441B0CYV674G2|title=The Thursday Murder ClubSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Richard OsmanDavid Blake|rating=43.5

|summary=The first member of The Thursday Murder Club we encounter is Joyce MeadowcroftIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. She used to be A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a nurse and is thus knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the perfect person for Elizabeth to consult about how long it would take bottom of a person who has freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to bleed outdeath. Details DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of where and how are exchanged and Joyce confirms that it his daughter Samantha. You would have taken about forty-five minutes think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and that the victim could have been saved if she'd received prompt medical helpJohn Tanner' were made for each other. It didnHe't put Joyce off her shepherds sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's pie (which tells us that it was a Monday) but it does determined to keep going - probably because he can't get her interested in The Thursday Murder Club. They meet each Thursday (as you might have guessed) in the Jigsaw Room any sleep at Coopers Chase Retirement Villagehome.

|isbnauthor=1509889515Stuart Douglas|title=The Darkest Evening (D I Vera Stanhope)|author=Ann CleevesLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5

|summary=It was During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a mercy that DI Vera Stanhope took woman on the wrong turning as she drove home in the blizzardedge of a reservoir. If she hadn't The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the car might not have been found until the morning whole thing bothers Lowe, and who knows what would have happened to he enlists the toddler strapped into the car seathelp of a fellow actor, particularly as the car door had been left openJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Vera took They travel across the boy country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and drove , seemingly, a link to death during the nearest habitationSecond World War. She ''thought'' it would be the village but it was Brockburn, the ancestral home of the Stanhopes: her father had been the younger brother of the man who inherited - and Hector was the black sheep of But is there really a link between the family. deaths? Calling there unannounced, particularly as And will they seemed manage to have guests was going to be embarrassing, but there was little else that she could do in the circumstances.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

|isbn=0008314721|title=Truth Be Told|author=Kia Abdullah|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=The Hadids are an ''effortful'' family. Flowers are sent for the slightest problem or achievement: letters are sent to thank and this prompts a phone call in return. There are two sons of the family, seventeen-year-old Kamran and sixteen-year-old Adam. Their mother, Sofia, regrets that she didn't name them the other way round: 'Adam and Kamran' trips off the tongue so much more easily than 'Kamran and Adam'. Sofia worries about that sort of thing. Both boys go to the prestigious Hampton school, where they board, despite the school being less than ten miles from their Belsize Park home. Kamran has a place at Oxford next year and all seemed to be going well until the night when he was raped.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1471179273Saima Mir|title=House of Correction|author=Nicci FrenchVengeance|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=When we first meet Tabitha Hardy, she's in prison, on remand3. She's sharing a cell with Michaela, who's more caring than she first appears. She delivers tough love and gets Tabitha eating and drinking - and encourages her to have a shower, unpleasant as the whole processes might be. And how did Tabitha get here? Well, on 21 December the body of Stuart Robert Rees was discovered in her garden shed by Andrew Kane, who was helping with the renovations to Tabitha's house. So far as the police are concerned, Tabitha is the only person who could have killed Rees - and when they arrived at her house she was covered in his blood.}}{{Frontpage|author=Natasha Farrant|title=Voyage of the Sparrowhawk|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Set in England in the aftermath of World War One, this is the story of two children, Lotti and Ben, who have lost everyone they love, but don't want to let go of their last, tiny glimpses of hope. Ben is living on a narrowboat on the canal, lying to the police about his brother's imminent return from the battlefields to take care of him. Lotti, meanwhile, has been expelled from school and is back at home; it's a beautiful house that belongs to her but that her terrible Aunt and Uncle currently have guardianship for. The day Lotti meets Ben (the day she steals a dog!) is the beginning of a deep, and powerful friendship. It sees them become each other's family, and undertake a perilous trip to France, in the boat, to try to find out the truth of the people they both love.|isbn=0571348769}} =='''8 SEPTEMBER'''== {{Frontpage|author=Sharon Doering|title=She Lies Close|rating=4

|summary= Ava Boone I was five years old when she went missing, around 6 months ago. There has been no sign instantly intrigued by the premise of her since, and no arrests have been made. And yet, this book is not about Ava. Not really. This book is about Grace, who has just discovered her neighbour novel – an organised crime syndicate in her new house is the north of England run by a suspect Muslim woman. The fact that it was the second in Ava's disappearance. As a single mother to two young children, she's really wishing this sort of information had come to light before they moved in.|isbn=1789094194}} ==series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I'10 SEPTEMBER'''== {{Frontpage|author= Andrea Stewart|title= The Bone Shard Daughter ve jumped midway into a few series before (The Drowning Empireon page and screen)|rating=4.5|genre= Fantasy|summary='and it needn'I could never t be what he wanted a hindrance if I did not take what I wantedit'' In an empire controlled by a bone shard magic s good enough. And that powers animal-like constructs, an heir to the throne, a smuggler, and a warrior will fight to find their place in the world. Lin is the emperorwasn's forgotten daughter, kept locked away in t a palace of secrets and closed doorsproblem here. When her father refuses to recognise her as heir Vengeance swiftly brings you up to the thronespeed, she vows to show him she is capable of reviving a dying empire and in secret, she begins to unlock one door after another, searching for the mysteries of her past and the forbidden art of bone shard magic. Yet Lin is playing a deadly game and her quest for power will come at great cost. With revolution in the air and creeping closer and closer to the gates of the palace, Lin must decide just how far she will to go to become a catalyst of change and save her people.|isbn=0356514943}}=='''14 SEPTEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|author= Tahi Saihate|title= Astral Season, Beastly Season|rating= 3.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= We long for our past even though it is a place to which we can I never return. Tahi Saihate, in her debut novel ''Astral Season, Beastly Season'' illustrates how these rose-tinted glasses often lie. Her novel is a meditation on youth and how the things we do as a teenager can seem intensely important and often life-alteringfelt lost.|isbn= 19162771010861541561

|author=Agnes Ravatn Kieran Larwood and Rosie Hedger (translator)Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Seven DoorsDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Come here for a thriller that interestingly doesn't even try to suggest a genre Meet Kit. Like most of any kind until we're a full fifth the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the way through. We start with our couple, she sport where a literature lecturerteam of warrior, he big in medical provision mage and decisions at the councilhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, being forced and race to move out of their homethe exit, a building that had existed throughout her life since childhood perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and which the points they'd occupied for over thirty yearsgrant you along the way. The building Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's inheritedseen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, meanwhileeaten, and which they let out to a single mother, new trio of questors is needed by their adult daughter. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, who quite blatantly says he has taken to its occupant the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'take ll enter as a hike, I'm moving in and you're moving out'team. Now, at What chance does this stage you may well, if you know this is a genre read, think it's going to be a throwback to those 'home invasion' thrillers Hollywood gave us in the 1980s, but no. We avoid genre completely, as I say – instead learning about Greek tragedyfriendless, muscle-free-zone have in case actually managing that has any bearing on what happens here, and seeing how an older-middle aged couple live their lives. Until at that twenty per cent stage we find something that raises an eyebrow as any crime book should – until the point where the evicted tenant is found could he possibly hope to have completely vanished.succeed?|isbn=19131933811839945184

|author=Michael J MaloneJenny Valentine|title=A Song of Isolation|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=Film star Amelie Hart throws up a career that is only beginning to hit Us in the heights to retire to the highlands with an ordinary guy…an accountant of all things, though to his credit he would rather be working in forestry. They have found a hideaway on a small Scottish estate, but things are starting to feel wrong between them. |isbn=1913193365}}=='''22 SEPTEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=Arvin Ahmadi|title=How It All Blew UpBefore and After|rating=45

| summary=18-year-old Amir Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is American Iranian, a Muslim, and gayonce in a lifetime connection. He struggles with his identity, unable to face telling his parents who he really is, so when another student They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at his school starts blackmailing himthe time. But then chance brings them back together, threatening to show his parents photographs of Amir kissing his boyfriend Amir panics and runs away..they are inseparable.to Italy! So begins a journey for Amir Something has happened though, something terrible and his familytragic, where and now they all discover more about himmust work through their grief, and who he really istheir friendship, and who he really wants to betogether.|isbn=14714099291471196585

|authorisbn=Antoine Laurain and Emily Boyce, Jane Aitken and Polly Mackintosh (translators)1635866847|title=The Readers RoomLavender Companion|genreauthor=General FictionJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=34.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=ViolaineIt's publishing house has had a great successstrange, and it was through the slush pile of unsolicited manuscriptsthings that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The three people who work in Lavender Companion'', I visited the Readersauthor' Room to sift through what is ninety nine per cent dross – plus the fourth advisor in her rarefied mansion up s [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the road – all agreed the book would be a huge smash, and so it has provenhomepage. But there are several I don'howevers' to t eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted thatcake viscerally. As (There's a recipe in, however – Violaine herself is not having life all her own way, for she has been involved in a near-fatal accident, and starts this the book coming round from a coma. And, however – despite all urging, the author of which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book has never once made themselves known and I was told to the publishers in person, and in fact offered up make a most peculiar statement-come-threat mess of it. Notes in their last emailthe margins are sanctioned. What is going You get to befall Violaine, her memory, her staff – and how much is any fold down the corners of it due to the hit novel? pages. And just where the heck did You suspect that come from?|isbn=1910477974smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.

 =='''1 OCTOBER4 JULY'''== 

|author=Tania UnsworthMax Boucherat|title=The Time Traveller and the TigerLast Life of Lori Mills

|summary=Elsie is We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an ordinary sort of girlavidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. The sort of small girl who often gets overlookedWhat could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and forgotten. She that is quietto log on to Voxminer, and compliantthe world-building, and makes the best of whatever happens to hercritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. So when her parents forget But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her school holidays have started before they are free to take care of herown, they have to arrange for her to go and stay with her Great Uncle for a week. Poor Elsie, forgotten again, just decides to make the best of thingsthen she finds something even more spooky. On investigating For the house server she finds that and her Great Uncle had lived in India as a boy, bestie and he has an enormous tiger rug on the floor of one nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of the roomstampering. When Elsie asks him about the rug he seems unhappymalevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and he says he has to keep it because he was the one who shot the tiger when he was 12 years old, and he says it was the worst thing he ever did. So when Elsie suddenly finds herself magically transported back many, many years, to the time her safe place in India when her Great Uncle was 12 years old, she believes that she must try to stop him from killing the tigergame has been doctored – well, in order where is a girl to put something right that happened a long time ago.turn?|isbn=17885417070008666482

|author=Lilja Sigurdardottir and Quentin Bates (translator)Jenny Lecoat|title=Betrayal|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=Meet Ursula, the stand-in minister, drafted in from outside the leading party to cover the post for a year. You might get to meet her hunky husband she can't believe she deserves, and the children who are ignorant of just how she spent all her empathy for them on previous jobs in the foreign aid charity sector. You'll meet her ministry's cleaner, who bizarrely has fallen into the task of helping a famous newsreader with her Tinder profile. You'll certainly meet a homeless tramp, who has taken one look at a newspaper image of Ursula, and, knowing her of old, decided she needs saving from the devil posing beside her. You'll meet the ministerial bodyguard and driver the tramp almost immediately forces Ursula to accept. But as for the first ministerial case, of a woman demanding her daughter's rape get looked at and pronto, nobody can say, for all records of Ursula's meeting with the woman have been wiped…|isbn=1913193403}}=='''15 OCTOBER'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0356512479|author= Alix E Harrow|title= The Once and Future Witches|rating= 5|genre= Fantasy|summary=''There's no such thing as witches, but there used to be.'' In 1893, after the purges and the burnings, witching has been reduced to little more than weak charms and simple spells. If women want to hold power in their hands, to have their voices heard, it is now through women's suffrage.}}=='''29 OCTOBER'''== {{Frontpage|author=Caroline Scott|title=When I Come Home AgainBeyond Summerland|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=1918 and a young man is arrested in Durham Cathedral. He refuses to give a name, no matter how hard they push he will not say who he is. Eventually, they determine this isn't willful obstinance, he doesn't answer because he doesn't know. He remembers being on the road for a long time and being frightened, and some of the faces from the road, but other than that – everything that came before has gone. They need a name for the forms and so they call him Adam and, because he was found in the Galilee Chapel, it becomes Adam Galilee. A fanciful name for a tired young man in a dishevelled uniform who doesn't know who he is, where he is or how he got there.|isbn=1471192172}}=='''12 NOVEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|author= Claire McGowan|title=The Push|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Six mums-to-be meet at a prenatal class. It's NCT ''style'', but not the proper NCT. This bit is important, but you have to wait a little to see why. This being London, such a class attracts a wide variety of people, from all sorts of backgrounds, but for most of the ladies the thing they have in common is it's their first baby. Probably after the first one, you don't have time for classes, or think you've got child-rearing down pat.|isbn=1542019990}} =='''4 FEBRUARY 2021'''== {{Frontpage|author=Helen Fisher|title=Space Hopper|rating=3.5

|summary=Faye lost Jean lives on Jersey with her mum when she was very youngmother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. She During the war, Jean's father was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from arrested for listening to a cold that got worsebanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and although they were kind and very good to her she mother waiting for years for news of course missed her mum enormouslyhim. So when, unexpectedly, she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) that takes her back to As the British finally free the Channel islands from the 70's and her mumNazis, she revels in the chance to create some memories and get to know the woman who meant so much to her. The time travelling, however, war is neither easy nor safefinally over, and Faye fears their hopes rise that her husband won't believe they will finally learn what's happening and so lies to became of him instead. The lies grow more tangled, and Faye begins to wonder if it's safe for her to return one last time to But will the past. Should she try to see her mum one last time before her mum's deathtruth come as a relief, or will it change her own future forever to attempt itraise further questions around what else happened during the war?|isbn=1471188663}} =='''19 AUGUST'''== {{Frontpage|author=Anders de la Motte|title=End of Summer|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= In the summer of 1983, little Billy Nilsson goes missing. He Who was chasing a rabbit, through the garden, and into informer who told the Nazis about the maize field behind. radio? He has not And what other secrets have been seen since. In kept throughout the present day, Veronica Lindh is a grief counsellor running group therapy sessions for the bereaved – although she clearly has problems of her own: anxiety, panic attacks, a scar on her arm that she keeps obsessively hidden and she is barely hanging on to her job. It's clear that she has just returned to work after an episode that seems to have resulted in restraining orders against her, a deal of therapy, a change of location and her supervisor is watching closely. As well, he needs to.occupation?|isbn=17857682391846976537