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 =='''7 APRIL9 MAY'''== {{Frontpage|author= Grady Hendrix|title= The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires|rating= 5|genre= Horror|summary= Women, by and large, have always been the subjugated sex. Throughout history, they have been confined to mere bit players who occasionally help hold up the powerful man and let nothing stand in his way. Grady Hendrix's new novel ''The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires'' gives women their due. It is an ode to the strong selfless housewife. Hendrix illustrates this by having them go toe to toe with a predatory male vampire who moves into their quiet cul de sac.|isbn=1683691431}} =='''14 APRIL'''== {{Frontpage|author= M R Carey|title= The Book of Koli|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= ''The Book of Koli'' is the first in a post-apocalyptic trilogy, titled ''The Rampart Trilogy'', by M.R. Carey. The novel is set in a world where nature has turned against humans. Trees move as fast as animals to crush their prey and then soak up their blood. Humans have eked out a small existence in isolated villages. They are primitive except for their reverence of 'old tech'. This is technology from the old world that seems to only work for certain chosen people. However, Koli, a young woodsmith, uncovers a secret about this technology that will upend his life and take him on a perilous journey.|isbn=0316477532}}{{Frontpage|author=Danny Dorling|title=Slowdown|rating=4|genre=Politics and Society|summary= We are living in a time of rapid change, and we're worried about it. Dorling tells us that the latter is normal, natural and probably good for us. We are designed to worry and with the current state of what we're doing in the world, we have much to be worried about. However, over the next three-hundred-and-some pages, if you can follow the arguments, it sets out in scientific detail why either we shouldn't be as worried as we are, or in some cases that we're worrying about the wrong things. Mostly. Because mostly, things are not changing as rapidly as we think they are. In fact, the rate of change in many things is slowing down and the direction of change will in some cases go into reverse.|isbn=0300243405}} =='''15 APRIL'''== 

|isbnauthor=1781129312Tom Percival|title=Sequin and Stitch|author=Laura Dockrill and Sara Ogilvie (illustrator)The Wrong Shoes

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyConfident Readers|summary=Sequin loved her mum to bitsWill's life is difficult, but sometimes she got very cross with herin a multitude of ways. It wasnHe is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't that mum wouldnwork and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't go outside their flat work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash- Sequin coped with that in- it was because she never pushed to get credit for what she didhand job on a building site and had an accident. Mum is a seamstress and she makes Throw into that mix the sort of clothes fact that you see on red carpets or at important weddingshis mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. She's not the designer - they're the people who make And yet, he still has a lot tiny amount of money from the clotheshope. Mum He is good at art, and clings to the person who actually ''makes'' the garments and she's really talentedmoments of joy when he is drawing, but when people talk about that feel like a light at the dress or the suitend of a long, they talk about the designer. The seamstress is never mentioneddark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

|author=AkalaOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Dark LadyAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=''For a street kid from Anuri spent her childhood on display to the Devilworld, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's Gapincreasingly popular presence on social media, Londonwhere she posted every step of Anuri's most notorious slumchildhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, life basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is short slowly trying to regain her confidence and tough. For Henryto get her life back, a boy thief with brown skin inherited from a suing her step-mother who abandoned himto take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, life is tougher still. The Dark Lady enters his dreams at night. She seems failing to represent a paststart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and possibly a future.receiving money from them for doing so..''Henry and his friends Most importantly, brother and she is desperately worried about her little sister Matthew and Mary, have various ways of getting by. Sometimes they pickpockets. Sometimes they rob who is the houses new focus of the rich. ItOphelia's crime or starve - but crime is dangerous and they risk the terrible punishments of Elizabethan England if they are caughtonline empire. Impossible choices. But there are pleasures too Can she save her sister, and for Henry, the chief pleasure is the Globe Theatre perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the plays of William Shakespeare. Henry loves language and often makes up sonnets about what he sees around him and how he feels. same time?|isbn= 14449436930861546873

 =='''7 MAY4 JUNE'''==

|author=Patrick NessStuart Douglas|title=BurnLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit'On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957 - the very day, in fact, that Dwight David Eisenhower took leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the oath dead body of office for a woman on the second time edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as President of an accidental death, but something about the United States of America - Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father in whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the parking lot help of the Chevron gas station for the dragon he'd hired a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help on him investigate matters further. They travel across the farm.''It's 1950s America but not as we know it. In this alternate UScountry during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, there is still a Cold War with the Russiansseemingly, still a concomitant arms race. And link to death during the stain of racism is just as crushing - something mixed-race Sarah and her Japanese American friend Jason are only too well aware of. As is the deeply unpleasant town deputy, KelbySecond World War. But one thing is ''very'' different. In this alternate world, there are dragons. The dragons live in an uneasy peace with humans and communication really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is minimal. But a few of these winged creatures do hire out responsible before more people lose their labour to human in return for gold - they are dragons, after all.Poor Frankie! lives?|isbn= 14063755001803368209

|author= Angela WoolfeKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title= Roxy and JonesDungeon Runners: The Great Fairytale Cover-UpHero Trial|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= After her father gets married for Meet Kit. Like most of the umpteenth timepeople in his world, it seems, Roxy Humperdinck he is sent to live with her half-sister Gretel in Rexopolis, the capital city an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the Kingdom of Illustria. Gretel works as sport where a toilet cleaner for the Ministry team of Soup. Why does a country like Illustria need an entire ministry dedicated to soup, you ask? Wellwarrior, after Roxy finds a secret passage in her bathroom mage and meets a snarky young woman known only as Joneshealer enter specially prepared, she soon finds out why. Turns outcentury-old, fairy tales are realmagical mazes, and race to the Ministry’s official job is to safeguard all knowledge of them exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and monitor the living fairy talespoints they grant you along the way. And Unfortunately for Kit, when an evil queen breaks out the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a maximum-security prison and threatens to reinstate her reign new trio of terrorquestors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, Roxy and Jones hold he has taken to the goading from the fate token bully of the his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in their young hands…soactually managing that, no pressure then!and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=14063913791839945184

=='''14 MAY13 JUNE'''== 

|authorisbn= Alison Weir1635866847|title= Six Tudor Queens: Katheryn Howard The Tainted QueenLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical FictionLifestyle|summary= It's strange, the things that make you ''Katheryn was seven when her mother diedimmediately'', thus we are thrust into feel that 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 the book for something in the end, wonyou. Before I started reading ''t it?|isbn=1472227778}}{{Frontpage|author= Hana Tooke|title= The Unadoptables|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= In the winter of 1880Lavender Companion'', five babies are abandoned at I visited the Little Tulip orphanage in Amsterdam, much to the annoyance of matron Gasbeekauthor's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm. Twelve years later, Milou, the last com/ website] and there's a picture of the five babies to be abandoned back in that winter, struggles to work out the identity a slice of her parents from the clues she was abandoned with: a small coffin with claw-marks chocolate cake on the outside, a cat doll made by someone called Bram Poppenmaker homepage. I don't eat cakes and a velvet blanketdesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. She, along with the other four, patiently wait for Milou (There's parents to come back and take her home. However, when the five children are sold to a recipe in the dodgy merchant Meneer Rotmanbook, they know they have to escape. And so begins the adventure of a lifetime as the Unadoptables join forces to reunite Milou which I'm avoiding with her parents, all the time being pursued by some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the Kinderbureau book and Rotman…|isbn=0241417465}}{{Frontpage|author= Abi Elphinstone|title= Jungle Drop (The Unmapped Chronicles)|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Abi Elphinstone has said that she connects with her world-building through her charactersI was told to make a mess of it. In an interview with [Books For Keeps], she described visualising her characters "wearing head torches which gradually reveal Notes in the world they margins are seeing to her and to the readersanctioned." Just as the darkness of a mine is cut through by a spear of light so too do quarrelsome Fox and Fibber You get their first glimpse of the phantasmagorical glow-in-to fold down the-dark realm corners of Jungle Drop when they emerge through the mouth pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a Dragon on the Here and There Expressproblem. Running from the opprobrium of their demanding and selfish parents, they must address what is in their hearts to find what they seek I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn= 1471173682

=='''21 MAY'''== {{Frontpage|author= Maryse Condé|title= The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= We live in a post-world: post-colonialism, post-modernism, post-truth. The list goes on. There are numerous works that utilise the prefix post- in their categorisation, but perhaps none more so than Maryse Condé. In her new novel, ''The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana'', Condé writes with fervour about the scars left by colonialism on the countries to which it latched itself. Ivan and Ivana are twins born in Guadeloupe, a French overseas department. They grow up with intense and passionate feelings for each other. As they grow up and move overseas, the ravages of a post-colonial society drive them apart with tragic consequences.|isbn=1642860697}} =='''16 JUNEJULY'''== 

|author= Ashley PostonMax Boucherat|title= Bookish and the Beast|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary= Set after the ExcelsiCon, we are introduced to Rosie Thorne, a Small Town, USA girl who has recently lost her mother and is entering her final year of high school. Things keep piling up for Rosie, and when she follows a stray dog into what she thinks is an abandoned castle in her town, things just get worse. Rosie accidentally destroys a rare book and with her mother's hospital and funeral costs she has no money to cover the damage. She finds herself working for Vance Reigns, Hollywood royalty on a paparazzi escape, to repay the debt.  For most Starfield superfans this would be a dream but Rosie soon realises Vance is a jerk - and he isn't too fond of her either. However, as the two are forced to get to know each other, their guards begin to lower and they discover that maybe this situation might not be so terrible after all. |isbn=1683691938}} =='''18 JUNE'''== {{Frontpage|author= Ukamaka Olisakwe|title= Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= The new novel by Ukamaka Olisakwe is a look at the trauma and heartache Last Life of being a woman in 1980s Nigeria. The title is ''Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right''. Ogadinma is the eponymous heroine of the story. We are with her in every scene and it is her narrative voice that leads the story, although Olisakwe writes in the third person. This provides a sense of detachment for the reader and highlights the isolation of Ogadinma. She is exiled from her father's home and sent to Lagos where she is married to an older man named Tobe. Their marriage descends into violence and indignities and Ogadinma must utilise her resourcefulness to escape.|isbn=1911648160}} =='''9 JULY'''== {{Frontpage|author= Helly Acton|title= The Shelf|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= When we meet Amy, she's in a relationship with Jamie. You can't really call it a partnership, because things tend to get done on his terms, but she's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, yes. Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to pack for a surprise trip. Could this be it? Is he ''finally'' going to get down on one knee? Was the work (and the wait) worth it?|isbn=1838770879}} =='''20 AUGUST'''== {{Frontpage|author=Jacqueline Wilson|title=Love FrankieLori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Frankie is nearly fourteen. Being nearly fourteen is not easy when your mum has been diagnosed with MS when your dad has decided We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to leave her for another womanpop in, babysitter poorly, when your older sister has turned into the girliest girl who ever livedmother at work, andjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, above all when Sally and on her mates are bullying you at schoollonesome. Oh What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and when Samthat is to log on to Voxminer, your best friend since foreverthe world-building, suddenly starts sending out signs critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that he might fancy you - and you donthis stormy night doesn't fancy him backfind herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. Poor Frankie! When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn= 0857535897 0008666482