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 =='''1 FEBRUARY9 MAY'''== {{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 KeatonTom Percival|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 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=183895015X|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't usually get the run of establishments within the Mountbatten-Windsor Hotel Groups life is difficult, but after getting involved in an illegal tax scheme to fund his latest film, Chris Atkins was invited for a five-year staymultitude of ways. The first nine months were spent in HMP Wandsworth, which He is probably bullied because he has 'the oldestwrong shoes', largest and most dysfunctional prison in Europe.}}{{Frontpage|author= Holly Rivers|title= Demelza and he has the Spectre Detectors|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Demelza Clock is a scientist, often staying up late to wrong shoes because his dad can't work on her various gadgets, much to her Grandma Maeveand doesn's irritation. However, she has also inherited a certain set of skills that are not especially scientific: Spectre Detecting, t have enough money for even the ability to summon the ghosts of the recently deceased. Under the guidance most basic of her Grandma Maevethings like food, Demelza begins to master her newfound skills. However, there is a mysterious individual on the prowl, kidnapping young Spectre Detectors. Itand his dad can's up to Demelza and her best friend Percy to get to t work because he lost his job at 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, Bartcollege, was missing he was already 200 miles away and just waking from working a chemicallycash-in-induced sleephand job on a building site and had an accident. Maggie knew straight away Throw into that mix the fact that something was wrong. Bart might be twenty but he was considerate of his mother mum and dad are separated, and wouldnWill't have stayed out all night without letting her knows life seems bleak in every direction. BesidesAnd yet, he didn't have his phone with him and he wouldn't have gone far without thatstill has a tiny amount of hope. It's not long before Bart realises that he's aloneHe is good at art, trapped in a shipping container and on his way clings 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 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 the moments of joy when the opportunity arises, she chooses to abandon everything she knows and flee with her life. Who can blame her? Her god's reach he is limited and Csorwe intends to stay far beyond itdrawing, yet fate is that feel like a funny thing and when circumstances bring her back within light at the reach end of her god Csorwe learns that her god remembers hera long, and blames her very much indeeddark tunnel.|isbn=12502389001398527122
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 =='''20 FEBRUARY23 MAY'''==
{{Frontpage
|isbnauthor=B07ZGL6B1BOnyi Nwabineli|title=In Plain Sight (D I Clare Mackay)|author=Marion ToddAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It was a coincidence that Detective Sergeant Chris West and DI Clare Mackay were at Anuri spent her childhood on display to the beach when the baby was stolen. They were there for the fun run and their attention was taken by the NEFEW protesters who tried world, thanks to disrupt the race. Theyher step-mother Ophelia're against the planned McIntosh Water bottled water plant to be constructed s increasingly popular presence on Priory Marsh and the firm is sponsoring the fun run. It was Lisa Mitchellsocial media, where she posted every step of Anuri's scream which stopped everything. Her daughterchildhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, six-month-old Abibasically, had been taken from her pram whilst no one was lookingmonetary gain. It's a major incident when ''any'' child Now Anuri is abducted but Abi needs regular medication because of a heart problem: without it, in her twenties and she might have only forty-eight hours is slowly trying to live.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008297169|title=The Guest List|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=The boat trip out regain her confidence and to Inis Amploirget her life back, off the Irish coast, might have been enough suing her step-mother to put some guests off, but it was take down the wedding of the yearcontent about her. Will Slater (television personalityAnuri is battling alcoholism, if not yet a celebrity) was failing to marry Jules Keeganstart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online magazine publisher, in the ruined chapel on the islandand receiving money from them for doing so. The bride's sisterMost importantly, Olivia, would be she is desperately worried about 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 and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)|title=Orphans of the Tide|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= In the last city on Earthlittle sister, anyone can be the vessel of The Enemy - 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 new focus of a whale, the citizens immediately believe him to be the Vessel - all except for young Ellie Lancaster, a girl inventorOphelia's online empire. As the ruthless Inquisition prepares to execute the boy Can she save her sister, Ellie must prove that he is innocent - even if it means revealing and perhaps herself and her relationship with her deepest, darkest secrets....|isbn=0241384435}}{{Frontpagefather at the same time?|isbn=0241985153|title=The House on the Lake|author=Nuala Ellwood|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.0861546873
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
{{Frontpage
|isbnauthor=1529009677Stuart Douglas|title=A Window Breaks|author=C M EwanLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal
|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 The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he found was enlists the help of a human bone and SSA Kimberley Quincy was called infellow actor, along with Sergeant D D WarrenJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Both women were experienced in this type of rather gruesome work but they also called on They travel across the services of Keith Edgarcountry during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a computer analyst, and Flora Dane who brought something unique link to death during the tableSecond World War. Flora had been kidnapped and held for 472 days by But is there really a link between the notorious killer, Jacob Ness. deaths? If Ness had anything And will they manage to do with the current discoveries then what Flora had to say could be invaluable.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
{{Frontpage
|author=Gregg HurwitzKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Into The Fire|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary= Grant Merriweather is a forensic accountant. Or rather, was. He was brought into an ER room after an alleged car crash, his friend pleading with the medics to keep him alive. He was needed alive just long enough to give up a name. His cousin, Max.|isbn=0718185501}}=='''3 MARCH'''== {{Frontpage|author=Sara Holland|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'''==
{{Frontpage
|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.
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=='''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 tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the guards who can end his life with one squeeze. Luka is taunted by limited access to his memories server she and her bestie and relentlessly drained of energy through a gruelling daily torture ritual. Doomed nobody else should be able to Delay [a risky medical trial where he is a guinea pig for Alts in place enter shows signs of execution] after Delay he is in despairtampering. His prison is based When malevolent eyes spark up 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 her phone screen, and her safe place in the visits of sympathetic Alt guard Wren, can Luka ever be free? Why game has he been imprisoned? What waits for him if he can break the loopdoctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=19126265510008666482
}}
 
=='''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 this tumultuous time in young Katheryn's life, trying to find a home, both figuratively and literally, where she can grow and grieve. Unfortunately, Katheryn is followed by bad luck and she learns an important lesson, she is too young, too poor and too unimportant to be of any value to anyone, but she is beautiful and surely, that will count for something in the end, won't it?
|isbn=1472227778
}}
{{Frontpage
|author= Hana Tooke
|title= The Unadoptables
|rating= 5
|genre= Confident Readers
|summary= In the winter of 1880, five babies are abandoned at the Little Tulip orphanage in Amsterdam, much to the annoyance of matron Gasbeek. Twelve years later, Milou, the last of the five babies to be abandoned back in that winter, struggles to work out the identity of her parents from the clues she was abandoned with: a small coffin with claw-marks on the outside, a cat doll made by someone called Bram Poppenmaker, and a velvet blanket. She, along with the other four, patiently wait for Milou's parents to come back and take her home. However, when the five children are sold to the dodgy merchant Meneer Rotman, they know they have to escape. And so begins the adventure of a lifetime as the Unadoptables join forces to reunite Milou with her parents, all the time being pursued by the Kinderbureau and Rotman…
|isbn=0241417465
}}
 
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