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 =='''23 APRIL9 MAY'''== 

|author=J Paul Henderson|title=Daisy|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=This is the story of Herod S. Pinkney, a rather unusual (yet somehow charming) man who is in search of a woman called Daisy, whom he first sees in an episode of Judge Judy on television and instantly falls in love with her! Rod is writing the novel of his quest, guided by an embittered ex-literary agent who is now clearing glasses in a pub for a living. Determined to find and meet Daisy, the book takes us through Rod's life, introduces us to his friends, and tells us of what happens in his quest for love.|isbn=0857303309}}{{Frontpage|author= Linda ScottTom Percival|title= The Double X EconomyWrong Shoes

|genre= Politics and SocietyConfident Readers|summary=Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'Women are economically disadvantaged in every country in the worldwrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can'. Itt work and doesn's a bold statement t have enough money for an opening chaptereven the most basic of things like food, but itand his dad can's far from hyperbole as t work because he lost his job at the following pages explain. This book shines college, was working a light on what is happening cash-in different places, and the impact -hand job on the local a building site and world economyhad an accident. What can be learnt from Throw into that mix the great strides in gender-equalising legislation fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the west? What can be done about moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the selling end of young women into marriagea long, and what can chimpanzees and bonobos teach us about mothering?dark tunnel.|isbn=05713536061398527122

 =='''30 APRIL23 MAY'''==

|isbnauthor=B084H8F2CFOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Body Under the Bridge|author=Nick LouthAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=DCI Craig Gillard was annoyed Anuri spent her childhood on display to be pulled away from the funeral service world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for a serving police officersponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, particularly when he discovered that he was 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 take charge of down the enquiry into a missing womancontent about her. Beatrice Ulbricht was twenty-five years old Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and a student of music at the Royal College of Musicreceiving money from them for doing so. She had been due to play with Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the other members new focus of the Lysander String Quartet at the Church of St Martin-in-the-Fields but hadnOphelia't turned ups online empire. Gillard didn't understand why his immediate involvement was necessary until Chief Constable Alison Rigby explained that Beatrice's Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father was Karl-Otto Ulbricht, Germany's Minister of Justice.at the same time?|isbn=0861546873

 =='''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

|authorisbn=Kat Dunn1635866847|title=Dangerous RemedyThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=TeensLifestyle|summary= It's Parisstrange, 1794the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Revolution is five years old and the country in the midst of violent political turmoil between the RevolutionariesLavender Companion'', trying to maintain their control by whatever means necessary, and I visited the Royalists, still loyal to monarchy intentauthor's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm. Caught in a no mancom/ website] and there's land between the two warring factions is the Battalion a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the Deadhomepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. Led by a disillusioned revolutionary (There's daughter, the band of outcasts have made a name for themselves rescuing innocent citizens from recipe in the violent fallout. But they may have gotten in over their heads with their latest rescuebook, Olympe, a girl which I'm avoiding with a disturbing history some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and powers that might just I was told to make her a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the spark corners of pages. You suspect that blows up the powder-keg smears of revolutionary Parisbutter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already. |isbn=1789543649

=='''14 MAY4 JULY'''== {{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}}

|author= Hana TookeMax Boucherat|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}}{{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 characters. In an interview with [Books For Keeps], she described visualising her characters "wearing head torches which gradually reveal the world they are seeing to her and to the reader." Just as the darkness of a mine is cut through by a spear of light so too do quarrelsome Fox and Fibber get their first glimpse of the phantasmagorical glow-in-the-dark realm of Jungle Drop when they emerge through the mouth of a Dragon on the Here and There Express. Running from the opprobrium of their demanding and selfish parents, they must address what is in their hearts to find what they seek.|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 Last 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}} =='''24 MAY'''== {{Frontpage|isbn=B083Z3ZZ61|title=Broken Silence (DS Nikki Parekh 2)|author=Liz Mistry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=When we first meet him Stefan Marcovici has been in the UK with his daughter Maria for a while. He came expecting to work as a gardener and Maria was to be a nanny. Stefan ends up doing slave labour in a chicken factory: you can imagine what happens to an eighteen-year-old girl.}} =='''16 JUNE'''== {{Frontpage|author= Ashley Poston|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 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. Poor Frankie! |isbn= 0857535897 }}{{Frontpage|author= Adrian Tchaikovsky|title= The Doors For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of Eden|rating= 4tampering.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= Wow – this novel is gigantic When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in every sense of the word. "Epic" game has been doctored – well, where is a word that's thrown around a lot these days, but if a book ever earned the name it's this one. It's a doorstopper full of big ideas, and at times it almost felt too big for my brain.girl to turn?|isbn=15098658880008666482