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 =='''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}} =='''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.}}=='''26 9 MAY'''==

|isbnauthor=1787477681Tom Percival|title=A Shooting at Chateau Rock (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin WalkerThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=It was a couple of days after old DriantWill's funeral that Bruno Courrèges got an angry phone call from his son. Gaston's father had sold the family farm life is difficult, in order to buy an insurance policy which he had used to secure a life multitude of luxury at an expensive retirement home near Sarlat, owned by a Russian oligarchways. Before He is bullied because he even got to go there has 'the wrong shoes', he died, apparently of a heart attack, and has the retirement home collected the proceeds of the policy and Gaston and Claudette Driant were left with just the contents of the farmhouse. The family hadnwrong shoes because his dad can't exactly fallen out, but Gaston lived some way away work and Claudette had fallen out of favour when she announced that she was gay, but they werendoesn't expecting to be almost completely disinherited.}}=='''28 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0008273790|title=Remain Silent|author=Susie Steiner|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=When we first meet Matis and Dimitri, Matis is in a bad wayhave enough money for even the most basic of things like food, vomiting and obviously traumatised. When hehis dad can's able to speak t work because he tells Dimitri that ''Lukas is dead''. Lukas lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in his late teens and he -hand job on a building site and Matis had come to Cambridgeshire from Klaipeda in Lithuania. They'd answered an advert offering good money and accommodation in return for their labour: they could have a decent life ''and'' send money home to their familiesaccident. Sadly, it doesn't work out like Throw into that. When they arrive in mix the UK - on an oldfact that his mum and dad are separated, uncomfortable bus, - they're dropped at a filthy house where several men have to share rooms and sleep on dirty mattresses on the floor. ItWill's modern slavery, which isn't uncommon amongst agricultural workers.}}=='''29 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=B07S6DBCFT|title=Little Girls Tell Tales|author=Rachel Bennett|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=In 2004 Rosalie, Beth and Dallin were walking life seems bleak in the boggy wetlands by Rosalie and Dallin's cottageevery direction. Beth and DallinAnd yet, both twelve-years-old, got ahead he still has a tiny amount of ten-year-old Rosalie and it wasn't long before she realised that she was losthope. Trying to find her way back to the main path she found a skeletonHe is good at art, but when she finally got and clings to the road she could never find her way back to the bog moments of joy when she'd seen he is drawing, that feel like a light at the body. Most people didn't believe herend of a long, putting the story down to her vivid imaginationdark tunnel.}}=='''2 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=Pronko|title=Tokyo Traffic (Detective Hiroshi)|author=Michael Pronko|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=There were three young women, 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 an overdose of amphetamines. Then there's Ratana, who's the de facto leader of the group, but she's disappeared too with the group's passports, leaving Sukayana in the midst of a scene of carnage at the Jack and Jill Studios. The dead bodies are definitely not props though.1398527122

|isbnauthor=0727889230Onyi Nwabineli|title=The Red, Red Snow|author=Caro RamsayAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=In Glasgow, Eric Callaghan of Inkermann Tattoo Parlour had been Anuri spent her childhood on display to the ice show with his wife, Geraldine and daughterworld, 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 thanks to investigate in the north of Scotland: it wasnher step-mother Ophelia't thought wise to involve the local murder team as someone s increasingly popular presence on the Glen Riske police force was indirectly involved in the case. Christmas - and a lot social media, where she posted every step of snow were rapidly approaching.}} ==Anuri'''16 JUNE'''== {{Frontpage|author= Ashley Poston|title= Bookish s childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and the Beast|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary= Set after the ExcelsiCon, we are introduced to Rosie Thornebasically, a Small Town, USA girl who has recently lost monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her mother twenties and she is entering slowly trying to regain her final year of high school. Things keep piling up for Rosie, confidence and when she follows a stray dog into what she thinks is an abandoned castle in to get her townlife back, things just get worse. Rosie accidentally destroys a rare book and with suing her step-mother's hospital and funeral costs she has no money to cover take down the damagecontent about her. She finds herself working for Vance Reigns, Hollywood royalty on a paparazzi escape Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing 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 start her either. HoweverPhD, as the two are forced to get to know each other, their guards begin to lower undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and they discover that maybe this situation might not be receiving money from them for doing so terrible after all. |isbn=1683691938}} =='''18 JUNE'''== {{Frontpage|author= Ukamaka Olisakwe|title= Ogadinma Or Most importantly, Everything Will Be All Right|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= The new novel by Ukamaka Olisakwe she is a look at the trauma and heartache of being a woman in 1980s Nigeria. The title is ''Ogadinma Ordesperately worried about her little sister, Everything Will Be All Right''. Ogadinma who is the eponymous heroine new focus of the storyOphelia's online empire. We are with Can she save her in every scene sister, and perhaps herself 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 relationship with 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.at the same time?|isbn=19116481600861546873

=='''25 4 JUNE'''==

|isbnauthor=1780899858Stuart Douglas|title=To Tell You Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Truth|author=Gilly MacmillanDress Rehearsal|rating=43.5

|summary=When Lucy Bewley was nine-years-old she crept out During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of the house a woman on the night edge of the summer solstice to watch the pagan celebrations in Stoke Woodsa reservoir. Her four-year-old brotherThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, Teddybut something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, would have woken and he enlists the house if she hadn't taken help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him with herinvestigate matters further. But in They travel across the early hours of the morningcountry during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, Lucy returned home without Teddyseemingly, hoping that he would have got home before her. He hadn't and no one has seen him since. Lucy's story was crucial a link to death during the police investigation, but it keeps subtly changingSecond World War. Lucy But is being advised by her imaginary friend, Eliza Grey and Eliza says that there are certain things which Lucy must not tell really a link between the police.deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

|isbnauthor=B0859115X5Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Lies to Tell (DI Clare Mackay)|author=Marion ToddDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=When we meet up with DI Clare Mackay again she's at Daisy Cottage on the outskirts of St Andrews with her English Bull Terrier, BenjyMeet Kit. She's just had a postcard from Geoffrey Dark and he's Like most of the people in Provincetownhis world, Cape Cod. He wishes that she was thereit seems, but Clare's struggling to think of what he ''actually'' is to her now. Is he her boyfriend? Her exan avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-boyfriend? She can't work it out old, magical mazes, and thinks that Geoffrey probably can't either. Work's about race to get very busy the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and she can't work out why DCI Alastair Gibson has cancelled a meeting she'd arranged without discussing it with her firstthe points they grant you along the way. They're off somewhere top secret.}} =='''9 JULY'''== {{Frontpage|author= Helly Acton|title= The Shelf|rating= 4|genre= WomenUnfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's Fiction|summary= When we meet Amyseen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, she's in and a relationship with Jamienew trio of questors is needed. You can't really call it a partnership Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, because things tend he has taken to get done on the goading from the token bully of his terms, but she's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, yes. Havenworld and stumbled into declaring he't we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to pack for ll enter as a surprise tripteam. Could What chance does this be it? Is friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he ''finally'' going possibly hope to get down on one knee? Was the work (and the wait) worth itsucceed?|isbn=18387708791839945184

|authorisbn=Kat Ellis1635866847|title=Harrow LakeThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|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

=='''20 AUGUST4 JULY'''== 

|author=Jacqueline WilsonMax Boucherat|title=Love FrankieThe Last Life of Lori 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