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 =='''23 JANUARY'''== {{Frontpage|author=Chris Hauty|title=Deep State|rating=3|genre=Thrillers|summary= Hayley Chill is a fighter. She is every kind of fighter, and well-trained in most of them. She's army infantry and she boxes for fun – and she wins. Always. She wins because she is focussed. She works hard, mentally and physically, and she knows how to deal with the pain. She is not so much cold as controlled. This fight is against someone she is not expected to beat. And she is being watched.|isbn=1471185605}}{{Frontpage|author=H G Parry |title=The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Brothers Rob and Charley have struggled to see eye to eye for years - Rob a sensible lawyer who exists in the "normal" world - and Charley a man who is blessed with an ability he can't fully control - one which allows him to bring literary characters into the real world. After years of protecting Charley, Rob wants to discharge his duties and leave Charley to his own devices - but circumstances soon take choices out of both their hands. As literary characters begin to appear everywhere, it soon becomes clear that someone out there shares Charley's powers and intends to use them for nefarious gains. Rob and Charley must team up to stop the madness - in a battle to win before they, the characters and the world reach The End…|isbn=0356513777}} =='''1 FEBRUARY'''== {{Frontpage|isbn=1250168546|author=Sarah Kozloff|title=A Queen In Hiding|rating=3|genre=Fantasy|summary= World-building is the backbone by which fantasy novels live and die. And what a pleasure, then, to get a novel with world-building you actually want to delve into. Sarah Kozloff's debut novel presents a startlingly rich and layered world, with a complex history of connecting nations that seems certain to have more to tap, and the characters are interesting – if a little underdeveloped. But it's a world I could – and did – eagerly buy into, and the struggle of each Queen to discover and hone her magical talent felt very real and very apt.}} =='''2 FEBRUARY'''== {{Frontpage|author= B T Keaton|title= Transference|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Barrabus Madzimure is about to die, stranded on a mining planet millions of light-years from home, executed for high crimes against the Church, the ruling body of Earth. Except he's not Barrabus Madzimure, he's Thaniel Kilraven in Barrabus Madzimure's body. Such is the magic of Transference, the ability to transplant a person's soul or consciousness into a different body - and a power that the Church has exclusive control over. As if Thaniel doesn't have enough things to worry about, a Church employee named Corvus has arrived from Earth to interrogate him. All Thaniel wants is to see his family again, and he'll stop at nothing to accomplish this, but the Church isn't going to give in without a hell of a fight...|isbn=B082WPHTHH}} =='''6 FEBRUARY9 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=183895015XTom Percival|title=A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner|author=Chris AtkinsWrong Shoes
|rating=5
|genre=Politics and SocietyConfident Readers|summary=Documentary filmmakers donWill's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't usually get work and doesn't have enough money for even the run most basic of establishments within things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the Mountbattencollege, was working a cash-Windsor Hotel Group, but after getting involved in -hand job on a building site and had an illegal tax scheme to fund accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his latest filmmum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, Chris Atkins was invited for he still has a five-year staytiny amount of hope. The first nine months were spent in HMP WandsworthHe is good at art, which and clings to the moments of joy when he is probably drawing, that feel like a light at the oldestend of a long, largest and most dysfunctional prison in Europedark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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=='''23 MAY'''==
{{Frontpage
|author= Holly RiversOnyi Nwabineli|title= Demelza and the Spectre Detectors|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Demelza Clock is a scientist, often staying up late to work on her various gadgets, much to her Grandma Maeve's irritation. However, she has also inherited a certain set of skills that are not especially scientific: Spectre Detecting, the ability to summon the ghosts of the recently deceased. Under the guidance of her Grandma Maeve, Demelza begins to master her newfound skills. However, there is a mysterious individual on the prowl, kidnapping young Spectre Detectors. It's up to Demelza and her best friend Percy to get to the bottom of this...|isbn=1912626039}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008275246|title=Perfect Kill (D I Callanach)|author=Helen Fields|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=When Maggie Campbell realised that her son, Bart, was missing he was already 200 miles away and just waking from a chemically-induced sleep. Maggie knew straight away that something was wrong. Bart might be twenty but he was considerate of his mother and wouldn't have stayed out all night without letting her know. Besides, he didn't have his phone with him and he wouldn't have gone far without that. It's not long before Bart realises that he's alone, trapped in a shipping container and on his way to France, where his fate has already been decided.}} =='''11 FEBRUARY'''== {{Frontpage|author= A K Larkwood|title= The Unspoken Name|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= What does it mean Allow Me to betray someone? What if that someone is a god? Csorwe has been raised knowing that she would be sacrificed to her god on her fourteenth birthday, yet when the opportunity arises, she chooses to abandon everything she knows and flee with her life. Who can blame her? Her god's reach is limited and Csorwe intends to stay far beyond it, yet fate is a funny thing and when circumstances bring her back within the reach of her god Csorwe learns that her god remembers her, and blames her very much indeed.|isbn=1250238900}} =='''20 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=B07ZGL6B1B|title=In Plain Sight (D I Clare Mackay)|author=Marion ToddIntroduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It was a coincidence that Detective Sergeant Chris West Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and DI Clare Mackay were at the beach when the baby was stoleninfluencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. They were there for the fun run Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and their attention was taken by the NEFEW protesters who tried to disrupt get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the racecontent about her. They're against the planned McIntosh Water bottled water plant Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to be constructed on Priory Marsh start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and the firm receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is sponsoring the fun run. It was Lisa Mitchellnew focus of Ophelia's scream which stopped everythingonline empire. Her daughterCan she save her sister, six-month-old Abi, had been taken from and perhaps herself and her relationship with her pram whilst no one was looking. It's a major incident when ''any'' child is abducted but Abi needs regular medication because of a heart problem: without it, she might have only forty-eight hours to live.father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=0008297169Stuart Douglas|title=The Guest List|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=The boat trip out to Inis Amploir, off the Irish coast, might have been enough to put some guests off, but it was the wedding of the year. Will Slater (television personality, if not yet a celebrity) was to marry Jules Keegan, online magazine publisher, in the ruined chapel on the island. The bride's sister, Olivia, would be her only bridesmaid and the wedding planner and chef are Aoife and her husband, Freddy. They gave a huge discount to get the couple to the island, but surely it would be worth it for the publicity?}}{{Frontpage|author=Struan Murray Lowe and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)|title=Orphans of the Tide|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= In the last city on Earth, anyone can be the vessel of The Enemy Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the god who drowned the world - who has come to wreak havoc on the last of humanity. When a mysterious boy is pulled from the corpse of a whale, the citizens immediately believe him to be the Vessel - all except for young Ellie Lancaster, a girl inventor. As the ruthless Inquisition prepares to execute the boy, Ellie must prove that he is innocent - even if it means revealing her deepest, darkest secrets....|isbn=0241384435}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241985153|title=The House on the Lake|author=Nuala EllwoodDress Rehearsal
|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=We know that something has gone wrong - badly wrong - when the woman who was alone in the house is taken away by the police, but it's going to be a while before we learn exactly what has happened.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529009677
|title=A Window Breaks
|author=C M Ewan
|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Tom Sullivan and his wife Rachel are having problems. It's not just the usual growing apart after more than a decade of marriage. Their son, Michael, was killed in a car crash some months before: he was driving his father's Audi and at sixteen wasn't legally entitled to drive. Not only did he kill himself when the car rammed into a tree, but he also killed his girlfriend, fifteen-year-old Fiona Connor. Tom can't think about Michael without a sense of shame and guilt. Rachel is broken, but she wants to forgive Michael. To give some space, Tom's moved out of the family home, but stresses to his thirteen-year-old daughter, Holly, that it is only a trial separation.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529124395
|title=When You See Me
|author=Lisa Gardner
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=For Janet During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and ChuckLeggit', it was leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a hiking break in woman on the Appalachians in Georgia and pure chance that Chuck went off the beaten track to find edge of a stickreservoir. What he found was a human bone and SSA Kimberley Quincy was called inThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, along with Sergeant D D Warren. Both women were experienced in this type of rather gruesome work but they also called on something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the services help of Keith Edgar, a computer analystfellow actor, and Flora Dane who brought something unique John Le Breton to the tablehelp him investigate matters further. Flora had been kidnapped They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and held for 472 days by the notorious killer, Jacob Ness. If Ness had anything seemingly, a link to do with death during the current discoveries then what Flora had to say could be invaluableSecond World War.}}{{Frontpage|author=Gregg Hurwitz|title=Into The Fire|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary= Grant Merriweather But is there really a forensic accountant. Or rather, was. He was brought into an ER room after an alleged car crash, his friend pleading with link between the medics to keep him alive. deaths? He was needed alive just long enough And will they manage to give up a name. His cousin, Max.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=07181855011803368209
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=='''3 MARCH6 JUNE'''== 
{{Frontpage
|author=Sara HollandKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=HavenfallDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Maddie Morrow Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is supposed to spending an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the summer with her Grandma Ellen. But after sport where a visit to her mother in prisonteam of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, Maddie wants nothing more than and race to go to Havenfall to see her unclethe exit, Marcusperhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. It's Unfortunately for Kit, the only place she feels truly at home. Maddiething he's fatherseen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, understandablyeaten, and a new trio of questors is not keen on Maddie spending time with her mother's family - because needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the crime Maddie's mum is languishing on death row for committing is goading from the murder token bully of Maddiehis world and stumbled into declaring he's brother..ll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1547603798 1839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Marie O'Regan and Paul Kane (editors)1635866847|title=Cursed: An Anthology of Dark Fairy TalesThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=FantasyLifestyle|summary=Curses. TheyIt're there throughout tales of faery and other fantastical folk – people being cursed to do thiss strange, or not to be able to do the things that make you ''immediately'' feel thatthis is the book for you. Children can be cursed Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', as can princesses on I visited the verge of marrying, author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and older people too. It seems in a way there's no escaping it. Which is why the theme a picture of this book a slice of short stories is such a standout – we may well think we know all there is to know about this accursed character, that demonised place, chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that other bewitched person. We'd be very wrongcake viscerally.|isbn=1789091500}}  {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" ==(There'''12 MARCH'''== {{Frontpage|author=Will Dean |title=Black River |rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Tuva Moodyson returns - and this third book s a recipe in the Tuva Moodyson mystery series delves deep into her personal lifebook, returning her to which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the isolated town of Gavrik book and into I was told to make a desperate search for her missing best friendmess of it. With Notes in the Midsommar sun blocked out by margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the dark pines corners of the forest, Tuva fights to save her friendpages. But who’ll You suspect that smears of butter would not be there to save Tuva?|isbn=1786077116a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
}}
=='''31 MARCH4 JULY'''== 
{{Frontpage
|author=Rob HarrellMax Boucherat|title=WinkThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=When Ross is diagnosed with a rare form of cancerWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, aged 12babysitter poorly, his desperate attempts mother at school to work, just be 'normal' become impossible. Suddenly he is the cancer kidan avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, and everything he does, how he looks, and how he behaves falls under the scrutiny of the other kids in schoolon her lonesome. Ross is, understandably, angry. What could possibly go wrong? He is facing potential blindness, whilst dealing with an eye sealed Snuggled in a permanent wink. He blanket fort, she has gloopy eye medicine to try to help with the pain, plus the need to wear a hat at all times to protect his face due to the ongoing treatment. With the sudden ghosting by one of his best friendsmain intention, and a series of horrible memes that someone at school creates about Ross, nothing about his life is normal any more, and he has to find new ways to deal with his feelings, and survive.|isbn=1471409147}} =='''2 APRIL'''== {{Frontpage|author= Ben Oliver|title= The Loop|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary= Set during the aftermath of a Third World War where methods of punishment for criminal activities have been amped up log on to a horrific level by machinesVoxminer, The Loop follows the precarious existence of adolescent Luka Kane. In a world of Have and Have Nots where Alts [cyborgs] have power over Regulars-building, he critter-collecting game that is trapped inside a living hell with no chance of escapehit in Lori's world. A detonator But first Lori has been sewn inside his heart connecting him to a trigger held by the guards who can end his life with one squeeze. Luka is taunted by limited access to his memories and relentlessly drained of energy through a gruelling daily torture ritual. Doomed to Delay [a risky medical trial where he is a guinea pig for Alts in place of execution] after Delay he is in despair. His prison is based on the model of an infinity loop designed to make its inmates suffer. With the only glimmers of hope being the rumours of rebellion outside and the visits of sympathetic Alt guard Wren, can Luka ever be free? Why has he been imprisoned? What waits for him if he can break the loop?|isbn=1912626551}} =='''14 MAY'''=== {{Frontpage|author= Alison Weir|title= Six Tudor Queens: Katheryn Howard The Tainted Queen|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= ''Katheryn was seven when her mother died'', thus we are thrust into tiny inkling that this tumultuous time in young Katherynstormy night doesn's life, trying to t find a homeherself entirely on her own, both figuratively and literally, where then she can grow and grievefinds something even more spooky. Unfortunately, Katheryn is followed by bad luck For the server she and she learns an important lesson, she is too young, too poor her bestie and too unimportant nobody else should be able to be enter shows signs of any value to anyonetampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, but she is beautiful and surely, that will count for something her safe place in the endgame has been doctored – well, won't itwhere is a girl to turn?|isbn=14722277780008666482
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