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=='''17 JUNE4 JULY'''==
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|author=Joseph Knox|title=True Crime Story|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary= Joseph Knox, known for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waits, has created a new genre with his latest novel, "True Crime Story". The story follows the disappearance of Zoe Nolan from her university halls of residence. Split into four parts, the reader is taken through the life and disappearance of Zoe through the eyes of her twin sister, other family, friends and professionals, such as the police. The various accounts help the reader get to know Zoe, or at least the Zoe she presented to others. However, the twists and turns at the end of each chapter leave you shocked, confused and unsure of what is true or fabricated. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=0857527703}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B088YWF5BCMax Boucherat|title=The Lies We Tell|author=Jane Corry|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Sarah Wallace said that she grew up on a council estate in Kent and that she had two brothers and two sisters. It seemed to have been a loving, stable family. When we first meet her, she can't sleep because her son, Freddie, who's nearly sixteen, hasn't come home by the time he sort Last Life of half-promised he'd be in by. Her husband, Tom, is fast asleep: they're moving house in the morning but he's still going to be going to work and he needs his sleep. He wakes, though, when Freddie does come in and overhears him tell his mother that he's killed someone.}}=='''24 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|author=Catherine Steadman|title=The Disappearing ActLori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary= British actress Mia Eliot is on the cusp of success. Great success. If the rumours are true, award season is going to treat her well, acknowledging her for her latest, critically acclaimed production. She's going places but so, unfortunately, is her partner. And the places he's going take him towards lies, deceit and a pretty young thing in the form of his new co-star. It's a good time for Mia to escape, and pilot season in LA provides just the excuse.
|isbn=1471189783
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=='''1 JULY'''==
{{Frontpage
|author=Darren Shan
|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=The second trilogy in Shan's ''Merge'' saga opens with our hero, Archie, back in London in the world of the Born. It's not been easy, explaining to his foster parents where he's been, or slipping back into ordinary life and forgetting about Inez and his other friends in the Merge, but Archie has done his best.... well, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Ben's clock tower and except for fiddling with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak away.
|isbn=B093H8DPQZ
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{{Frontpage
|author=Alex Cotter
|title=The House on the Edge
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Faith's family home is teetering on the edge of a cliff, literally. Is that crack in the garden getting bigger? Is the house starting to slope a little? And as the house seems to be falling apart, so is Faith's family. Her dad has disappeared, and her mum is struggling to cope, barely leaving her bed. So that leaves Faith in charge, taking care of her little brother Noah, taking care of her mum, feeding everyone, getting Noah to school, and avoiding awkward questions from interfering teachers. Is her little brother okay? Why is he obsessed with what he claims is a ghost in the cellar? What should she do about the house? Can she find a way to raise enough money to fix it? What's happened to her dad? Why did he disappear? Maybe he'll come back if she manages to get funding for the house? She carries the weight of all these worries on her constantly, and she doesn't know how much longer the cliff will hold together, or how long she can keep on keeping on.
|isbn=1788008626
}}
 
=='''8 JULY'''==
{{Frontpage
|author=Hannah Peck
|title=Kate on the Case
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Kate, although I got We meet Lori on the impression first evening she'd rather be a Catherine – and one specific Catherine at that. For Catherine Rodriguez is Kate's idol, and got the author of our heroine's favourite possession, ''The Special Correspondent Manual''. Armed with a plucky father, that book, and her talking mouse called Rupert, she is all equipped house to manage a train ride herself – no neighbour to the Arcticpop in, babysitter poorly, to see her scientist mother for the first time in yonks. Howeverat work, this is a train ride with a differencejust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, for on board is a greedy-seeming harridan and her cat, a thief – and two glowing eyes, shining from the darkness in a blink-and-you'll-miss-them stylelonesome. It's definitely a case for a new young investigative journalist...|isbn=184812970X}} =='''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 What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a year earlier. They're not quite like all the other families (he's an ex rockerblanket fort, she's a former beauty queen) but they've made some friends and their kids have settled inhas one main intention, 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 the residents of Maple Street, the worst that 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 log on to fundamentally change thedirection of Voxminer, the modern world?'' This -building, critter-collecting game that is the question Eshman Smith asks a hit in Word of an Other Nature. HeLori'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 book, and thought the author's work sounded interesting. From the outset it all looked incredibly promising. So what on earth went wrong here?|isbn= 1911427091}}  =='''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 on the map that we're set in Akranes, and finding it's only twenty kilometres from the capital city, But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this author is clutching at the few final straws left. However just because the book aims for the usual small-town feel, itstormy night doesn's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago a woman failed to turn up for 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 and her foster care before 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 discovered, in a thirddoctored – well, 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
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{{Frontpage
|author=Claire NorthJenny Lecoat|title=Notes from the Burning AgeBeyond Summerland
|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 of 3
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=So. Having done the impossible and unpicked the lock to the Forgotten Crypt, from which the Departed communicate with the Merge, Archie now has ''grop'' to think about. But before that, soirees. Soirees! Archie, much to Inez's amusement, doesn't even know what one of those is. But he manages to come through the fancy party unscathed, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume of this series. 
|isbn=B093J9TF73
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=='''5 AUGUST'''==
{{Frontpage
|author=John Boyne
|title=The Echo Chamber
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|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
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