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 =='''30 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=B084H8F2CF|title=The Body Under the Bridge|author=Nick Louth|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=DCI Craig Gillard was annoyed to be pulled away from the funeral service for a serving police officer, particularly when he discovered that he was to take charge of the enquiry into a missing woman. Beatrice Ulbricht was twenty-five years old and a student of music at the Royal College of Music. She had been due to play with the other members of the Lysander String Quartet at the Church of St Martin-in-the-Fields but hadn't turned up. Gillard didn't understand why his immediate involvement was necessary until Chief Constable Alison Rigby explained that Beatrice's father was Karl-Otto Ulbricht, Germany's Minister of Justice.}}{{Frontpage|author=Holly Jackson|title=Good Girl, Bad Blood|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=A month on from the explosive conclusion to the Andie Bell mystery, a new normal has settled over Little Kilton. Max Hastings' assault trial thunders on, Pippa's viral podcast detailing her journey of discovering the truth about Andie and Sal's deaths has gained massive media attention, Cara and her sister Naomi are reeling from the realisation that their father, Elliot Ward, had murdered Sal Singh and kidnapped a girl he thought was Andie after she stumbled out of his house, bleeding, and disappeared into the night. As the town tries to heal again, six years on from the events of that night, tragedy strikes again. Jamie Reynolds, older brother to one of Pippa's best friends has gone missing. And so, alongside her difficult life as a semi-famous eighteen-year-old, she is once again taken down a dark, twisted path to discover the truth.|isbn=1405297751}} =='''5 MAY'''== {{Frontpage|author= Maggie Tokuda-Hall|title= The Mermaid, the Witch and the Sea|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= On the pirate ship Dove, Flora the girl has assumed the identity of Florian the man in an attempt to fit in with the crew. Life is hard as a pirate, trust and empathy are the first things to be discarded, but anything has to be better than starving on the streets. Meanwhile, the young Lady Evelyn Hasegawa boards the Dove, headed off to be married to a military man she's never met on some far-flung colony of the Nipran Empire. Neither of them expects to be thrown together by fate, never mind fall in love…|isbn=1536204315}} =='''7 9 MAY'''== 

|author=Patrick NessTom Percival|title=BurnThe Wrong Shoes

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Will''On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957 - the very days life is difficult, in fact, that Dwight David Eisenhower took the oath a multitude of office for the second time as President of the United States of America - Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father in the parking lot of the Chevron gas station for the dragon ways. He is bullied because hehas 'd hired to help on the farm.wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can'Itt work and doesn's 1950s America but not as we know it. In this alternate USt have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, there is still a Cold War with and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the Russianscollege, still was working a concomitant arms race. And the stain of racism is just as crushing cash- something mixedin-race Sarah hand job on a building site and her Japanese American friend Jason are only too well aware ofhad an accident. As is Throw into that mix the deeply unpleasant town deputyfact that his mum and dad are separated, Kelby. But one thing is and Will''very'' differents life seems bleak in every direction. In this alternate world And yet, there are dragons. The dragons live in an uneasy peace with humans and communication is minimal. But he still has a few tiny amount of these winged creatures do hire out their labour to human in return for gold - they are dragons, after allhope.Poor Frankie! |isbn= 1406375500}}{{Frontpage|author= Angela Woolfe|title= Roxy He is good at art, and Jones: The Great Fairytale Cover-Up|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= After her father gets married for clings to the umpteenth time, Roxy Humperdinck moments of joy when he is sent to live with her half-sister Gretel in Rexopolisdrawing, the capital city of the Kingdom of Illustria. Gretel works as that feel like a toilet cleaner for light at the Ministry end of Soup. Why does a country like Illustria need an entire ministry dedicated to souplong, you ask? Well, after Roxy finds a secret passage in her bathroom and meets a snarky young woman known only as Jones, she soon finds out whydark tunnel. Turns out, fairy tales are real, and the Ministry’s official job is to safeguard all knowledge of them and monitor the living fairy tales. And, when an evil queen breaks out of a maximum-security prison and threatens to reinstate her reign of terror, Roxy and Jones hold the fate of the world in their young hands…so, no pressure then!|isbn=14063913791398527122

|author=Kat DunnOnyi Nwabineli|title=Dangerous RemedyAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= ItAnuri 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 Parischildhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, 1794basically, monetary gain. The Revolution Now Anuri is five years old in her twenties and the country in the midst of violent political turmoil between the Revolutionaries, she is slowly trying to maintain their control by whatever means necessaryregain her confidence and to get her life back, and suing her step-mother to take down the Royalistscontent about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, still loyal failing to monarchy intentstart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Caught in a no man's land between the two warring factions Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the Battalion new focus of the Dead. Led by a disillusioned revolutionaryOphelia's daughter, the band of outcasts have made a name for themselves rescuing innocent citizens from the violent falloutonline empire. But they may have gotten in over their heads with their latest rescue Can she save her sister, Olympe, a girl and perhaps herself and her relationship with a disturbing history and powers that might just make her father at the spark that blows up the powder-keg of revolutionary Paris. same time?|isbn=17895436490861546873

 =='''13 MAY4 JUNE'''==

|isbnauthor=B084VNRRD6Stuart Douglas|title=Killing Mind (D I Kim Stone)|author=Angela MarsonsLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5

|summary=It looked very like a suicide, During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and to begin with, that was how both DI Kim Stone and KeatsLeggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the pathologist called it. It was only later that Stone and her team realised that when Samantha Brown cut her throat, hers was not dead body of a woman on the only hand holding the knife. It was murder. Sammy's parents. Myles and Kate were edge of a little bit reluctant to say what their daughter had been doing recentlyreservoir. The property where she was found was less homely than most hotel rooms: her mother was about police seem happy to accuse her husband of saying that Sammy was ready... But what was Sammy ready ''for'' and where was their other daughterassign it as an accidental death, Sophie?}} =='''14 MAY'''== {{Frontpage|isbn=1405946172|title=The Glass House|author=Eve Chase|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Rita lost both her parents in a car crash when she was just six years old: since then she's always craved a family. She'd lived with her grandmother in Torquay until she got a job as a nanny with but something about the Harrington family in London. Soon her engagement to Fredwhole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a Torquay butcherfellow actor, fell through and the Harringtons became her familyJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. In 1971, after a fire at They travel across the London housecountry during their days off filming, Jeannie Harringtonuncovering more possible murders and, her childrenseemingly, 13-year-old Hera and 6-year-old Teddy, along with Rita went a link to death during the family's house in the Forest of DeanSecond World War. It wasn't ''quite'' dilapidated, but it certainly wasn't But is there really a link between the same standard as the London house had been deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before the fire.more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

|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 Kieran Larwood 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 clawJoe Todd-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 ElphinstoneStanton|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-worldDungeon Runners: 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}} =='''24 MAY'''== {{Frontpage|isbn=B083Z3ZZ61|title=Broken Silence (DS Nikki Parekh 2)|author=Liz MistryHero Trial

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=When we first meet him Stefan Marcovici has been Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the UK exit, perhaps bothering with his daughter Maria the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, 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 whilenew trio of questors is needed. He came expecting Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to work the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a gardener and Maria was to be a nannyteam. Stefan ends up doing slave labour What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in a chicken factory: you can imagine what happens actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to an eighteen-year-old girl.succeed?|isbn=1839945184

 =='''16 13 JUNE'''== 

|authorisbn= Ashley Poston1635866847|title= Bookish The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and the BeastTerry Barlin Vesci|rating= 34.5|genre= TeensLifestyle|summary= Set after It's strange, the ExcelsiCon, we are introduced to Rosie Thorne, a Small Town, USA girl who has recently lost her mother and things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is entering her final year of high schoolthe book for you. Things keep piling up for Rosie Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and when she follows there's a stray dog into what she thinks is an abandoned castle in her town, things just get worsepicture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. Rosie accidentally destroys a rare book I don't eat cakes and with her motherdesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's hospital and funeral costs she has no money to cover a recipe in the damage. She finds herself working for Vance Reigns, Hollywood royalty on a paparazzi escapebook, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to repay the debt.  For most Starfield superfans this would be make a dream but Rosie soon realises Vance is a jerk - and he isn't too fond mess of her eitherit. However, as Notes in the two margins are forced to sanctioned. You get to know each other, their guards begin to lower and they discover fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that maybe this situation might smears of butter would not be so terrible after alla problem. I ''loved'' this book already. |isbn=1683691938

=='''18 JUNE4 JULY'''== 

|author= Ukamaka OlisakweMax Boucherat|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 Last Life 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