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=='''3 JUNE25 APRIL'''==

|isbnauthor=1838853804Sylvie Cathrall|title=The Cursed Girls|author=Caro RamsayA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=Megan Melvick's earliest memory is of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to the pond, only to find that he'd hanged himselfa compelling premise. Twenty years later she's back home again and And this time the occasion is no less sad. She's there to say her final farewells to her sister, Melissa, who is dying one of anorexia. As she dies, Melissa whispers 'sorry' to Megan but what did she mean? There were lots of things, minor and major cruelties, for which Melissa might have been sorry - or was it even a question? Was she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping with Melissa's husband, Jago, on their wedding day? The Melvicks might seem to have everything - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant of the County and money was never in short supply - but there did seem to be a curse. In addition to Melissa's health problems, Megan was deaf and their mother, Beth, had left suddenly three years beforethem. Would she come back for her elder daughter's funeral?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1846975719|title=For Any Other Truth (DCI Jim Daley)|author=Denzil Meyrick|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=We learn that MI5 is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves to awkward places. But that's London, isn't it? What's happening in Kinloch? When a light aircraft crash lands at Machrie airport, DCI Jim Daley and his colleague, Acting DI Brian Scott, head off for the airport straight away. It soon becomes evident though that both occupants of the plane were dead before take off. How could that be? The sort of tech which would make that possible isn't available to the paying public. And why have the man no identification on them - or even labels in their clothes?0356522776

|isbnauthor=0241400120Tom Percival|title=The Girl Who Died|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Victoria Cribb|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Una was not thriving in Reykjavik: it was some years since her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation and since then she'd given up her medical studies and retrained as a teacher. She was thirty years old and money was tight. Her friend, Sara, showed her an advert for a job in Skalar on the Langanes Peninsula. There were only ten people in the village but a teacher was required for two children: a salary would be paid and accommodation provided. Una was the only applicant and the job meant that she could let her flat in Reykjavik and, hopefully, save some money over the winter which her contract covered.}}{{Frontpage|author=M G Leonard|title=TwitchWrong Shoes

|summary=Twitch Will's life is a boy who loves birds. He keeps pigeons at homedifficult, and chickens, and even has swallows nesting in his bedroom! His time spent watching and helping birds is easy compared to that a multitude of his time in schoolways. But things are about to change for Twitch in all aspects of his life as there He is a dangerous bank robber on bullied because he has 'the run, and itwrong shoes's possible that the missing bank haul is hidden somewhere in Aves Wood, he has the place where Twitch has wrong shoes because his secret hide dad can't work and that he knows like doesn't have enough money for even the back most basic of his hand! Can Twitch solve the mysterythings like food, and find the missing millions?|isbn=1406389374}}{{Frontpage|author=Hannah Whitten|title=For the Wolf|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=In Redhis dad can's family, t work because he lost his job at the first daughter becomes queencollege, and the second daughter becomes was working a sacrifice. To Red's misfortune, she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape cash-in-hand job on her back, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is a wolf, building site and he is the one who will decide the fate of their kingdomhad an accident. If she is not a worthy sacrifice, Throw into that mix the monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be released, fact that his mum and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, she finds that the legends dad are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a man.|isbn=0356516369}} =='''10 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|author=C J Carey|title=Widowland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's April 1953separated, and Adolf HitlerWill's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallislife seems bleak in every direction. For yesAnd yet, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now he still has a protectorate – well, we share enough tiny amount of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''hope. But this He is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudgesgood at art, and beyond those, right on down clings to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy moments of joy when he is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existencedrawing, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get that feel like a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, light at least, until the first emerging signs end of female protest come to lighta long, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visitdark tunnel.|isbn=152941198X1398527122

|author=Terry MilesOnyi Nwabineli|title=RabbitsAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|summary=Veronica is a devoted single mother Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her sonstep-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, Sebastian - but where she can't give him everything he wants. Sebastian has decided that itposted every step of Anuri's time childhood for him sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to have sextake down the content about her. But as an autistic 20 year-old Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, that's easier said than doneundergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. And it Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's starting to cause them both problemsonline empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=19131937130861546873

|isbn=1409181669|title=The Maidens|author=Alex Michaelides|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to get away with them both. She needed to think carefully about what she knew Kieran Larwood and decide how she should proceed. Everything Joe Todd- or so she thought - had begun with the death of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. She'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana's niece, Zoe, had telephoned her in distress. Tara had been her best friend and she was struggling to cope. Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having to go to Cambridge, but she caught the first fast train from King's Cross. Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all the more so by the death of Mariana's husband, Sebastian, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoe's mother and Mariana's sister, Eliza.}}{{Frontpage|author=Maisie Chan|title=Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Danny is eleven years old, and what he really, really loves to do is draw. He creates fantastical comics, whilst his best friend Ravi adds the words. Danny's dad, however, wants Danny to concentrate on his maths, and forget about the drawing, because he says nobody can make a living from drawing! At least Danny has his own room, where he can draw in secret and in peace. But then one day his parents tell him they have a surprise for him, and this surprise turns out to be his grandmother who has come over from China to live with them, and who will not only be sharing Danny's bedroom but she will also be sleeping on the top bunk of his bunk bed! Danny is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no English, and Danny finds himself forced into being her babysitter, and showing her around the town. Poor Danny, stuck on a maths project, frustrated with his bedroom situation, and then he even has a falling out with Ravi...how on earth will things ever get better?!|isbn=180078001X}} =='''17 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|author=Joseph KnoxStanton|title=True Crime StoryDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=The second trilogy Meet Kit. Like most of the people in Shan's ''Merge'' saga opens with our herohis world, Archieit seems, back in London in he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the world sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the Bornexit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. It's not been easy Unfortunately for Kit, explaining to his foster parents where the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has beenretired, eaten, or slipping back into ordinary life and forgetting about Inez and his other friends in the Mergea new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, but Archie he has done taken to the goading from the token bully of his best.world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team... well What chance does this friendless, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston muscle-free-zone have in Big Ben's clock tower actually managing that, and except for fiddling with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time how could he can sneak away.possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=B093H8DPQZ1839945184

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|authorisbn=Hannah Peck1635866847|title=Kate on the Case|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Kate, although I got the impression she'd rather be a Catherine – and one specific Catherine at that. For Catherine Rodriguez is Kate's idol, and 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 to manage a train ride to the Arctic, to see her scientist mother for the first time in yonks. However, this is a train ride with a difference, 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 style. It's definitely a case for a new young investigative journalist...|isbn=184812970X}} =='''13 JULY'''=={{FrontpageLavender Companion|author=Sarah Langan|title=Good NeighboursJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=ThrillersLifestyle|summary= If youIt're of a certain vintages strange, it's hard to read the words things that make you ''Good Neighboursimmediately'' without adding a sing-song feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''thatThe Lavender Companion's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends', I visited the author's [https://www. Maple Street is no Ramsay Street, though, Arlo pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and Gertie live there's a world apart from the Melbourne suburbs. They're one picture of a slice of 18 households chocolate cake on the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved in a year earlierhomepage. They I don're not quite like all the other families t eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (heThere's an ex rockera recipe in the book, shewhich I's a former beauty queenm avoiding with some difficulty!!) but they've made some friends Then I started reading the book and their kids have settled in, and it's all going ok. Until I was told to make a mess of it isn't. One hot, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up Notes in the park across margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the waycorners of pages. It You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved''s a revolting mess of dirt and chaos, but for the residents of Maple Street, the worst is yet to comethis book already.|isbn=1789098211

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|author=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)Max Boucherat|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, that this author is clutching at the few final straws left. However just because the book aims for the usual small-town feel, it's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago a woman failed to turn up for her date evening, and was never seen again. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently with the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for the girl back, and a couple of delighted adopters. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until it stopped all of a sudden, in one place, the woman's car was found miles away in a second place, and now, after six months, the body has been discovered, in a third, even more remote place. Meanwhile, this narrative 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 to make the right one?|isbn=191319373X}}{{Frontpage|author=Claire North|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 Crypt, from which the Departed communicate with the Merge, Archie now has ''grop'' herself – no neighbour to think about. But before that, soirees. Soirees! Archiepop in, much to Inez's amusementbabysitter poorly, doesn't even know what one of those is. But he manages to come through the fancy party unscathedmother at work, even after just an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume of this series. |isbn=B093J9TF73}} =='''5 AUGUST'''=={{Frontpage|author=John Boyne|title=The Echo Chamber|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Meet George Cleverley. He is selfavidly rule-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 childbreaking eleven year old, but then his author wife is getting on her kicks with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her withlonesome. They have three children, who are What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoeverblanket fort, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signallingshe has one main intention, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants and that is to log on to save Voxminer, the world's homeless with out-ofbuilding, critter-date food, and collecting game that is a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thinghit in Lori's world. Add in But first Lori has a few other characters – therapists, lawyers, random transgender types – tiny inkling that all have two very different connections to his lifethis stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and you have then she finds something that suggests an almost farcical approach even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to the modern worldenter shows signs of tampering. What suggests When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the farcical approach even more, howevergame has been doctored – well, where is the fact this is bloody funny.a girl to turn?|isbn=08575262190008666482