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=='''17 FEBRUARY9 MAY'''==

|isbnauthor=000845552XTom Percival|title=Where Ravens Roost|author=Karin NordinThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Inspector Kjeld Nygaard had been estranged from his fatherWill's life is difficult, Stenar, for more than in a decade but when multitude of ways. He is bullied because he got has 'the rather muddled phone call from him saying that wrong shoes', he'd seen a murder in has the barn on wrong shoes because his land he didndad can't hesitate to drop everything work and go to Varsund. Actuallydoesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can'drop everything' rather overstates t work because he lost his job at the situation. Nygaard college, was working a cash-in-hand job on suspension following the shooting of a suspect in the Aubuchon murder enquirybuilding site and had an accident. There had been a complication: Throw into that mix the Kattegat Killer turned out to be Nils Hedinfact that his mum and dad are separated, Nygaardand Will's best friendlife seems bleak in every direction. StillAnd yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and clings to the ten-hour drive from Gothenburg in moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the south end of Sweden to Varsund in the far north shouldn't be underestimateda long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

=='''18 FEBRUARY23 MAY'''==

|isbnauthor=1471187179Onyi Nwabineli|title=A Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Minnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. The book is set in the 1930s and Minnie is expected Allow Me to live up to her mother's expectations and find a nice young man to marry, produce children and spend the rest of her days looking after her husband and their home. Unfortunately, this isn't what she wants to do at all and neither does she want to continue working as a secretary. As a result of a chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into espionage, working for the secret service and effectively living a double life - attempting to infiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britain. Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and the friends she has made - and likes - whilst working for the Communist Party.}}{{Frontpage|author=Hannah Gold|title=The Last BearIntroduce Myself

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=AprilAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's father, a scientist, has been given a job increasingly popular presence on a remote island called Bear Islandsocial media, and he accepts the job deciding to take his daughter April with him. They live alone anyway, since Aprilwhere she posted every step of Anuri's mother died some time before, childhood for sponsorships and he feels it will be educational for her to experience the island influencer deals and all its natural beauty, basically, monetary gain. April already has an affinity with nature, Now Anuri is in her twenties and she's excited is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to travel with get her fatherlife back, thinking of all the fun things they will be able suing her step-mother to experience together on take down the islandcontent about her. But when they get thereAnuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her father finds that his work monitoring PhD, undergoing therapy and recording the temperatures just takes up too much of his time, secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so April is left to explore by herself. Her father had reassured Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her that there were no longer any bears living on Bear Islandlittle sister, but one day April thinks she catches a glimpse who is the new focus of one, and so Ophelia's online empire. Can she sets out to find the Bearsave her sister, and then when she sees he is injured, to befriend perhaps herself and help him.her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=000841128X0861546873

|isbnauthor=1472276140Stuart Douglas|title=What Will Burn (Inspector McLean)|author=James OswaldLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5

|summary=When Cecily SlaterDuring location filming for his 1970's body was foundsitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', she'd already been leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead for body of a week - in woman on the edge of a house fire in deserted woodland near Edinburghreservoir. Heavy rain had washed away most of the evidenceThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but DI Tony McLeansomething about the whole thing bothers Lowe, demoted and just returned from suspensionhe enlists the help of a fellow actor, is reluctant John Le Breton to accept that this is nothing more than a careless accidenthelp him investigate matters further. There were indications that Slater had been savagelyThey travel across the country during their days off filming, almost ritualistically beaten before uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the fireSecond World War. But who would hate is there really a ninety-year-old woman to link between the extent of doing something like thatdeaths? She was a virtual recluse: And will they manage to uncover who could she have upset to that extentis responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

=='''4 MARCH6 JUNE'''==

|author=Saima Mir|title=The Khan|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by the motto be twice as good as men and four times as good as white men. This has served her well in her rise through the criminal justice system Kieran Larwood and by the time she is called home for her sister's wedding after fifteen years in selfJoe Todd-imposed exile, she is at the top of her game. Returning to the city of her birth, to old scars and fresh wounds, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for the future with her sense of honour and duty.|isbn=1786079097}}{{Frontpage|author=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)Stanton|title=If You Kept a Record of SinsDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=This was an incredibly readable novella, but one that left me a little conflicted. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airport, and before we even know his gender or the nature of the person he's addressing in his second person monologue of a narration, we see him picked up by his mother's chauffeur, and carted off to do all the necessary introductions before said mother is buried the following day. The mother was a businesswoman, who clearly left northern Italy and settled in Romania with her (night-time and business) partner, and feelings of abandonment are still strong. And so we flit from current (well, this came out in the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, to the lad's childhood, and see just what he has to tell her as a private farewell address.|isbn=1939810965}}{{Frontpage|author=Mary H.K. Choi|title=Yolk|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Jayne Baek is a fashion student that's barely getting by. She drinks. She smokes. She makes bad decisions about the men she sleeps with. She's an all-round messy character; and that's her charm. June, on the other hand, is a complete contrast to Jayne. She's a typical older sister: she's smart, thinks she knows it all, and has a successful job. She constantly criticises Jayne for her life choices, and the two have barely kept in contact despite living in the same city for the past two years. This is until June finds out she's sick, and Jayne is the only person she can turn to. The two sisters have to come together and decide how far they'll go to save each other's lives – even if it means swapping identities.|isbn= 0349003696}} =='''18 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Danny Wallace and Gemma Correll|title=The Day the Screens Went Blank|rating=5

|summary=Meet Stella and her familyKit. They're just innocently trying to have a Sunday evening Like most of the people in togetherhis world, watching a film – using three different screens to watch three different thingsit seems, mind he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – when ''poof'' everything goes blank. And it's not just their home, but the entire south-western village sport where a team of Mouseholewarrior, mage and not just thathealer enter specially prepared, eithercentury-old, but the whole countrymagical mazes, if not world. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping they're first and race to get a screen backthe exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and not what the points they were constantly doing on them beforegrant you along the way. Toasters can toastUnfortunately for Kit, but TVs cannot do the V part only thing he's seen of their jobthe latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and no computer can show its computations. You might think this a new trio of questors is going to be a social comedy about people stuck in such a Luddite experience against their will, but noneeded. For the family finally remember Stella's grandmaPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, and see if they can get across country to her. Hence this he has taken to go down the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a road-trip bookteam. But not just thatWhat chance does this friendless, a slapstick roadmuscle-free-trip comedy. And more than zone have in actually managing that, too – for it's a slapstick, high-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart that kids of all ages will love.and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=14711968871839945184

 =='''23 MARCH13 JUNE'''==

|authorisbn=Dean Koontz1635866847|title=The Other Emily|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Our hero David Thorne is an author, who shares his life between the two US coasts. It's the western coast we're concerned with, a place he has to return to, and a place he has to be able to leave. David lost contact with his partner there ten years ago, when she vanished from a remote road late at night. He's paying for contact with the man he thinks the only suspect, a lifer now, who went a bit Hannibal Lecter, and has a dozen and more unfound Jane Does on his record. David is trying to pry the connection between the murderer and his girl from the man's mind, but to no avail. He's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting image, the very embodiment, the virtual resurrection, of his love. What is a man to do?|isbn=1542019958}} =='''1 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=Remy: A book about believing in yourselfLavender Companion|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Remy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the other kids are around. So, when Remy reacts, it looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school Jessica Dunham and the teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened.}}{{Frontpage|author=Ruth Hogan|title=Madame BurovaTerry Barlin Vesci

|genre=General FictionLifestyle|summary=This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), a girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and chiefly, ImeldaIt's strange, the third generation of Madame Burova, things that make you ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyantimmediately'', to use her family's sea-front booth. The singer, feel that this is the scryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo book for the first time in the family stallyou. We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is she, and who delivered the secrets about her to Imelda, and why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|isbn=152937331X}} ==Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'15 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author=Lucy Holland|title=Sistersong|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Sistersong is part of a genre , I particularly enjoy, visited the modern retelling of folk and fairy talesauthor's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm. These stories, for most of us, are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes com/ website] and there's a fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating the role picture of women. Sistersong is a perfect example slice of a modern retelling done well, the plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to come to life, to feel real and human, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for chocolate cake on the pre-Saxon age they live inhomepage. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to end.|isbn=1529039037}}{{Frontpage|author=Goldy Moldavsky|title=The Last Girl|rating=5|genre=teens|summary= Rachel Chavez is the new girl at Manchester Prep. A school filled to the brim with the richest children in the city – and Rachel doesndon't belongeat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. She (There's not rich, she has no ties to some royal family a recipe in Serbia, and most of all, she spends the majority of her spare time watching horror movies as a source of comfort. She struggles to find anyone to connect withbook, until one day she stumbles upon the Mary Shelley Club. A secret society which I'm avoiding with one aim: pull off some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the best prank in true horror movie style, book and unless someone screams, you have failed. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed in the competition. But as the pranks escalate, and Rachel finally feels like she has found her place in this school, things start I was told to go wrong; make a masked figure keeps showing up to the pranks, and people begin to get hurt. When the competition then takes a deadly turn, Rachel must figure out who this masked figure is before mess of it's too late.|isbn=0755501527}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Sultoon|title=The Source|rating=2.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=1996. Essex. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives Notes in a disenfranchised town dominated by a military base, struggling to care for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another bingethe margins are sanctioned. When her squaddie brother brings food and treats, and offers an exclusive invitation You get to army parties, things start to look a little less bleakfold down the corners of pages...|isbn=1913193594}} =='''27 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author=Kristen O'Neal|title=Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact You suspect that she may smears of butter would not be in constant pain for the rest of her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnessesproblem. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn I 't respond to the chat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigidloved's house to check up on her. But what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the past few monthsthis book already.|isbn=1683692349

=='''29 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author= Jennifer Saint |title= Ariadne |rating= 4.5 |genre= Women's Fiction |summary= This re-telling of the myth of Ariadne and the Minotaur is interesting and unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to a modern audience. Saint's narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to her death, allowing the reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a prop in the heroics of Theseus. |isbn=1472273869}}  =='''24 JUNEJULY'''==

|author=Catherine SteadmanMax Boucherat|title=The Disappearing ActLast Life of Lori Mills

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary= British actress Mia Eliot is We meet Lori on the cusp of success. Great success. If first evening she's got the rumours are truehouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, award season is going to treat her welljust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, acknowledging her for on her latest, critically acclaimed productionlonesome. She's going places but so What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, unfortunatelyshe has one main intention, and that is her partner. And to log on to Voxminer, the places heworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's going take him towards liesworld. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, deceit and a pretty young thing in then she finds something even more spooky. For the form server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of his new co-startampering. It's a good time for Mia to escape When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and pilot season her safe place in LA provides just the excuse.game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=14711897830008666482