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 =='''13 9 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=B084VNRRD6Tom Percival|title=Killing Mind (D I Kim Stone)|author=Angela MarsonsThe Wrong Shoes
|rating=5
|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=It looked very Will'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 work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like a suicidefood, and to begin withhis dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, that was how both DI Kim Stone working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and Keats, the pathologist called ithad an accident. It was only later Throw into that mix the fact that Stone his mum and her team realised that when Samantha Brown cut her throatdad are separated, hers was not the only hand holding the knife. It was murder. Sammyand Will's parentslife seems bleak in every direction. Myles and Kate were And yet, he still has a little bit reluctant to say what their daughter had been doing recentlytiny amount of hope. The property where she was found was less homely than most hotel rooms: her mother was about He is good at art, and clings to accuse her husband the moments of saying joy when he is drawing, that Sammy was readyfeel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel... But what was Sammy ready ''for'' and where was their other daughter, Sophie?|isbn=1398527122
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 =='''14 23 MAY'''== 
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|author= Abi ElphinstoneOnyi Nwabineli|title= Jungle Drop (The Unmapped Chronicles)Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary= Abi Elphinstone has said that she connects with Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-building through her characters. In an interview with [Books For Keeps]mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she described visualising posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her characters "wearing head torches which gradually reveal the world they are seeing twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence 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-inher life back, suing her step-mother to take down the-dark realm of Jungle Drop when they emerge through the mouth of a Dragon on the Here and There Expresscontent about her. Running from the opprobrium of their demanding and selfish parents Anuri is battling alcoholism, they must address what is in their hearts failing to find what they seek.|isbn= 1471173682}} =='''21 MAY'''== {{Frontpage|author= Maryse Condé|title= The Wondrous start her PhD, undergoing therapy and Tragic Life of Ivan secretly abusing people online and Ivana|rating= 4receiving money from them for doing so.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= We live in a post-world: post-colonialism Most importantly, post-modernismshe is desperately worried about her little sister, post-truth. The list goes on. There are numerous works that utilise who is the prefix post- in their categorisation, but perhaps none more so than Maryse Condé. In her new novel, ''The Wondrous and Tragic Life focus of Ivan and Ivana'Ophelia', Condé writes with fervour about the scars left by colonialism on the countries to which it latched itselfs online empire. Ivan and Ivana are twins born in Guadeloupe Can she save her sister, a French overseas department. They grow up with intense and passionate feelings for each other. As they grow up perhaps herself and move overseas, her relationship with her father at the ravages of a post-colonial society drive them apart with tragic consequences.same time?|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.0861546873
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=='''28 MAY4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=0008273790Stuart Douglas|title=Remain Silent|author=Susie SteinerLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=When we first meet Matis and Dimitri, Matis is in a bad way, vomiting and obviously traumatised. When heDuring location filming for his 1970's able to speak he tells Dimitri that sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit'Lukas is , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead''body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. Lukas was in his late teens The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he and Matis had come enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to Cambridgeshire from Klaipeda in Lithuaniahelp him investigate matters further. They'd answered an advert offering good money and accommodation in return for travel across the country during their labour: they could have a decent life ''days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and'' send money home to their families. Sadly, it doesn't work out like that. When they arrive in the UK - on an old, uncomfortable busseemingly, - they're dropped at a filthy house where several men have link to share rooms and sleep on dirty mattresses on death during the floorSecond World War. It's modern slavery, which isn't uncommon amongst agricultural workers.But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''29 MAY6 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=B07S6DBCFTKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Little Girls Tell Tales|author=Rachel BennettDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=In 2004 Rosalie, Beth and Dallin were walking in the boggy wetlands by Rosalie and Dallin's cottageMeet Kit. Beth and Dallin, both twelve-years-old, got ahead Like most of ten-year-old Rosalie and it wasn't long before she realised that she was lost. Trying to find her way back to the main path she found a skeleton, but when she finally got to the road she could never find her way back to the bog when she'd seen the body. Most people didn't believe herin his world, putting the story down to her vivid imagination.}}=='''2 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=Pronko|title=Tokyo Traffic (Detective Hiroshi)|author=Michael Pronko|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=There were three young womenit seems, girls really if you wanted to be pedantic about their ages. Sukayana was Thai and she'd come to Japan in the belief that she'd be able to pick up the documentation to get to the States. Celeste was just fourteen and when we meet her she's already dead of a heart attack caused by he is an overdose avid fan of amphetamines. Then there's Ratana, who's Dungeon Running – the de facto leader sport where a team of the groupwarrior, but she's disappeared too with the group's passports, leaving Sukayana in the midst of a scene of carnage at the Jack mage and Jill Studios. The dead bodies are definitely not props though.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0727889230|title=The Redhealer enter specially prepared, Red Snow|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=In Glasgowcentury-old, Eric Callaghan of Inkermann Tattoo Parlour had been to the ice show with his wifemagical mazes, Geraldine and daughter, Lisa when he was stabbed in Planet Burger. He died within minutes, but his murder seemed motiveless and there were no clues. He was a genuine man and a talented artist: those investigating his death had hit a dead end. There were two deaths race to investigate in the north of Scotland: it wasn't thought wise to involve exit, perhaps bothering with the local murder team as someone on treasure or the Glen Riske police force was indirectly involved in the case. Christmas - and a lot of snow were rapidly approaching.}} =='''16 JUNE'''== {{Frontpage|author= Ashley Poston|title= Bookish big bad and the Beast|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary= Set after points they grant you along 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 schoolway. Things keep piling up Unfortunately for RosieKit, 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 motherthe only thing he's hospital and funeral costs she has no money to cover seen of the damage. She finds herself working for Vance Reigns, Hollywood royalty latest race on a paparazzi escape, to repay the debt.  For most Starfield superfans this would be a dream but Rosie soon realises Vance inn TV equivalent is a jerk - and he isn't too fond of her either. Howeverthat one team has been retired, as the two are forced to get to know each othereaten, 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 a new novel by Ukamaka Olisakwe is a look at the trauma and heartache trio of being a woman in 1980s Nigeria. The title questors is ''Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right''needed. 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 Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, although Olisakwe writes in he has taken to the third person. This provides a sense of detachment for the reader and highlights goading from the isolation token bully of Ogadinma. She is exiled from her father's home his world and sent to Lagos where she is married to an older man named Tobe. Their marriage descends stumbled into violence and indignities and Ogadinma must utilise her resourcefulness to escape.|isbn=1911648160}} ==declaring he'''9 JULY'''== {{Frontpage|author= Helly Acton|title= The Shelf|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= When we meet Amy, she's in ll enter as a relationship with Jamieteam. You can't really call it a partnership What chance does this friendless, because things tend to get done on his termsmuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, 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 and how could he tells her possibly hope 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 itsucceed?|isbn=18387708791839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Kat Ellis1635866847|title=Harrow LakeThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensLifestyle|summary=When we first meet 17-year-old LolaIt's strange, daughter to legendary horror movie director Nolan Nox, she the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is saying goodbye to New York City - by sneaking out and stealing from its residentsthe book for you. But when she is found by her father Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's assistant [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and forced to come home, she arrives to find an unlocked door, there's a picture of a trail slice of blood, and her father dying in his study. And so, while he recovers, she is sent off to live with her grandmother in Harrow Lake, chocolate cake on the small 1920s town in Indiana that served as the location for the film that made her parents famoushomepage. But something about this place isn I don't righteat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a darkness inside recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the people here. Secrets about her mother book and dark tales I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the town's cannibal monster 'Mister Jitters' fill every corner, and disturbing happenings plague Lolamargins are sanctioned. But with every passing hour, secrets long buried come painfully You get to light and she begins to think fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that these stories may smears of butter would not be stories at all, and something very real and sinister lurks in Harrow Lakea problem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=0241397049
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=='''20 AUGUST4 JULY'''== 
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|author=Jacqueline WilsonMax Boucherat|title=Love FrankieThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|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 tamperingPoor 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
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{{Frontpage
|author= Adrian Tchaikovsky
|title= The Doors of Eden
|rating= 4.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary= Wow – this novel is gigantic, in every sense of the word. "Epic" 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.
|isbn=1509865888
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