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=='''26 FEBRUARY9 MAY'''==
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|author=Jane LightbourneTom Percival|title= My Cat Called RedThe Wrong Shoes|rating= 45|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary= Robin has red hair. He hates itWill's life is difficult, and the freckles that go along with itin a multitude of ways. He's been is bullied and mocked at school because of it. he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can'Ginger Minger! Carrots!t work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can' Kids are meant work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. But red hair is not RobinThrow into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's only misery life seems bleak in lifeevery direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He's already lost his dad is good at art, and clings to a mountaineering accident the moments of joy when his mum gets ill and he is taken into hospital. She doesn't come home againdrawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn= 18382168121398527122
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=='''4 MARCH23 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=0008336830Onyi Nwabineli|title=Two Wrongs|author=Mel McGrathAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Sondra was Anuri spent her childhood on her way home after work when she saw a young woman looking as though she was going display to jump from the Clifton suspension bridge. She talks world, thanks to herstep-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and Sondra finally persuades Satnam to call her best friend influencer deals and flatmate, Nevis Smithbasically, monetary gain. Nevis Now Anuri is unworldly in her twenties and rather reserved - she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and she can't understand why Satnam hasn't shared to get her life back, suing her problems with step-mother to take down the content about her. She thought they shared everythingAnuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Satnam Most importantly, she is taken to hospital and Nevis calls desperately worried about her motherlittle sister, Honorwho is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. They've not been on good terms since a discovery Nevis made the previous summer but right nowCan she save her sister, Nevis needs and perhaps herself and her relationship with her mother.father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|author=Saima MirStuart Douglas|title=The KhanLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5
|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 and by the time she is called home During location filming for her sisterhis 1970's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exilesitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', she is at leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the top edge of her gamea reservoir. Returning The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the city whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of her birtha fellow actor, John Le Breton to old scars help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and fresh wounds, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for seemingly, a link to death during the future with her sense of honour and dutySecond World War. 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=17860790971803368209
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Andrea Bajani Kieran Larwood and Elizabeth Harris (translator)Joe Todd-Stanton|title=If You Kept a Record of SinsDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=This was an incredibly readable novella, but one that left me a little conflictedMeet Kit. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airport, and before we even know his gender or the nature Like most of the person he's addressing people in his second person monologue of a narrationworld, we see him picked up by his mother's chauffeurit seems, and carted off to do all the necessary introductions before said mother he is buried an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the following day. The mother was sport where a businesswomanteam of warrior, who clearly left northern Italy mage and settled in Romania with her (nighthealer enter specially prepared, century-time old, magical mazes, and business) partnerrace to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and feelings of abandonment are still strongthe points they grant you along the way. And so we flit from current (well Unfortunately for Kit, this came out in the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, to the ladonly thing he's childhoodseen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and see just what a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to tell her the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a private farewell addressteam. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=19398109651839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|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}}{{Frontpage|isbn=15290473151635866847|title=The LamplightersLavender Companion|author=Emma Stonex|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=''A fisherman told him once about the sea having two faces. You have to take them both, he said, the good and the bad, and never turn your back on either one of them.'' In 1972, fifteen miles off the coast of Cornwall, three men disappeared without trace from The Maiden Rock Lighthouse in ''the frigid pause between Christmas and New Year''. Jory Martin had taken out a relief keeper, the weather such that ''the boat [was] rocking and bobbing like a bath toy over the wavelets'' but they were unable to get any response from the Maiden Rock. It was broken into the next day, but there was no sign of the men. The table was set for a meal for two - Jessica Dunham and the clocks were stopped at 8.45. Contact with the light had not been possible as the radio was broken. No explanation was ever found for what happened to the men.}}=='''11 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1529109116|title=Call Me Red: A Shepherd's Journey|author=Hannah JacksonTerry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=It's strange, the things that make you ''I want the image of a British farmer to simply be immediately'' feel that of a person who this is proudly employed in feeding the nationbook for you. Before I donstarted reading 't think that is too much to ask.'' The stereotypical farmer was probably born on the land where Lavender Companion''his'' family have farmed for generations. He, I visited the author's probably grown up without giving much thought as to what he really wants to do[https: he knows that he'll be a farmer//www. It's not always the case thoughpinelavenderfarm. Hannah Jackson was born com/ website] and brought up on the Wirral: shethere'd never set foot on s a commercial farm until she was twenty although she'd always had picture of a deep love slice of animalschocolate cake on the homepage. Her original intention was I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that she would become cake viscerally. (There'Dr Jacksons a recipe in the book, whale scientistwhich I' m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and she I was well on her way told to achieving this when her life changed on make a family holiday to mess of it. Notes in the Lake Districtmargins are sanctioned. She saw a lamb being born and, although 'Hannah Jackson, farmer' lacked You get to fold down the kudos corners of her original intention, she knew pages. You suspect that she wanted to smears of butter would not be a shepherdproblem. With the determination that youI ''loved''ll soon realise is an essential part of her, she set about achieving her ambitionthis book already.
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=='''18 MARCH4 JULY'''==
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|author=Danny Wallace and Gemma CorrellMax Boucherat|title=The Day the Screens Went BlankLast Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Stella and her family. TheyWe meet Lori on the first evening she're just innocently trying s got the house to have a Sunday evening in together, watching a film herself using three different screens no neighbour to watch three different thingspop in, mind – when ''poof'' everything goes blank. And it's not just their homebabysitter poorly, but the entire south-western village of Mouseholemother at work, and not just that, either, but the whole countryan avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, if not world. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping they're first to get a screen back, and not what they were constantly doing on them beforeher lonesome. Toasters can toast, but TVs cannot do the V part of their job, and no computer can show its computations. What could possibly go wrong? You might think this is going to be a social comedy about people stuck Snuggled in such a Luddite experience against their willblanket fort, but no. For the family finally remember Stella's grandmashe has one main intention, and see if they can get across country that is to her. Hence this has log on to go down as a road-trip book. But not just thatVoxminer, a slapstick road-trip comedy. And more than that, too – for it's a slapstick, highthe world-dramabuilding, highcritter-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart collecting game that kids of all ages will love.|isbn=1471196887}} =='''23 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|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. Ita hit in Lori's the western coast we're concerned with, a place he has to return to, and a place he has to be able to leaveworld. David lost contact with his partner there ten years ago, when she vanished from But first Lori has a remote road late at tiny inkling that this stormy night. Hedoesn's paying for contact with the man he thinks the only suspect, a lifer now, who went a bit Hannibal Lectert find herself entirely on her own, and has a dozen and then she finds something even more unfound Jane Does on his recordspooky. David is trying to pry For the connection between the murderer server she and her bestie and his girl from the man's mind, but nobody else should be able to no availenter shows signs of tampering. He's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting imageWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the very embodimentgame has been doctored – well, the virtual resurrection, of his love. What where is a man girl to doturn?|isbn=1542019958}} =='''1 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=Remy: A book about believing in yourself|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 and the teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened.0008666482
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{{Frontpage
|author=Ruth Hogan
|title=Madame Burova
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|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, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to use her family's sea-front booth. The singer, 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 for the first time in the family stall. 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
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=='''14 APRIL'''==
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|author=Polly Barton
|title=Fifty Sounds
|rating=4.5
|genre=Politics and Society
|summary= Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been on my radar for a while and if the world hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by now. I may get there later this year, but I am not hopeful. And like Barton, I don't know the answer to the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the question in the first essay, which is on the sound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being, among other things, the sound of ''every party where you have to introduce yourself''.
|isbn=1913097501
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=='''15 APRIL'''==
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|author=Lucy Holland
|title=Sistersong
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Sistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, the modern retelling of folk and fairy tales. These stories, for most of us, are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and 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 of women. Sistersong is a perfect example 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 the pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to end.
|isbn=1529039037
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{{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 doesn't belong. She's not rich, she has no ties to some royal family 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 with, until one day she stumbles upon the Mary Shelley Club. A secret society with one aim: pull off the best prank in true horror movie style, 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 to go wrong; 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 it's too late.
|isbn=0755501527
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{{Frontpage
|author=Sarah Sultoon
|title=The Source
|rating=2.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=1996. Essex. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in a disenfranchised town dominated by a military base, struggling to care for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another binge. When her squaddie brother brings food and treats, and offers an exclusive invitation to army parties, things start to look a little less bleak...
|isbn=1913193594
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=='''27 APRIL'''==
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|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 that she may 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 illnesses. 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't respond to the chat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid'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 months.
|isbn=1683692349
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=='''29 APRIL'''==
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|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
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=='''17 JUNE'''==
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|author=Joseph Knox
|title=True Crime Story
|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary= Joseph Knox, known for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waits, has created a new genre with his latest novel, "True Crime Story". The story follows the disappearance of Zoe Nolan from her university halls of residence. Split into four parts, the reader is taken through the life and disappearance of Zoe through the eyes of her twin sister, other family, friends and professionals, such as the police. The various accounts help the reader get to know Zoe, or at least the Zoe she presented to others. However, the twists and turns at the end of each chapter leave you shocked, confused and unsure of what is true or fabricated. Whose accounts can we trust?
|isbn=0857527703
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=='''24 JUNE'''==
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|author=Catherine Steadman
|title=The Disappearing Act
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary= British actress Mia Eliot is on the cusp of success. Great success. If the rumours are true, award season is going to treat her well, acknowledging her for her latest, critically acclaimed production. She's going places but so, unfortunately, is her partner. And the places he's going take him towards lies, deceit and a pretty young thing in the form of his new co-star. It's a good time for Mia to escape, and pilot season in LA provides just the excuse.
|isbn=1471189783
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