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=='''4 MARCH9 MAY'''==
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|isbn=0008336830|title=Two Wrongs|author=Mel McGrath|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Sondra was on her way home after work when she saw a young woman looking as though she was going to jump from the Clifton suspension bridge. She talks to her, and Sondra finally persuades Satnam to call her best friend and flatmate, Nevis Smith. Nevis is unworldly and rather reserved - and she can't understand why Satnam hasn't shared her problems with her. She thought they shared everything. Satnam is taken to hospital and Nevis calls her mother, Honor. They've not been on good terms since a discovery Nevis made the previous summer but right now, Nevis needs her mother.}}{{Frontpage|author=Saima MirTom Percival|title=The KhanWrong Shoes
|rating=5
|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Jia Khan Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has alway lived by 'the motto be twice as good as men 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 food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and four times as good as white menhad an accident. This has served her well in her rise through Throw into that mix the criminal justice system fact that his mum and by the time she is called home for her sisterdad are separated, and Will's wedding after fifteen years life seems bleak in self-imposed exileevery direction. And yet, she he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at the top of her game. Returning art, and clings to the city moments of her birthjoy when he is drawing, to old scars and fresh wounds, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for that feel like a light at the future with her sense end of honour and dutya long, dark tunnel.|isbn=17860790971398527122
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=='''23 MAY'''==
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|author=Mary H K ChoiOnyi Nwabineli|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=1529047315|title=The Lamplighters|author=Emma Stonex|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=''A fisherman told him once about the sea having two faces. You have Allow Me 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 - 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 JacksonIntroduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary=''I want the image of a British farmer Anuri spent her childhood on display to simply be that of a person who is proudly employed in feeding the nation. I don't think that is too much world, thanks to ask.her step-mother Ophelia'' The stereotypical farmer was probably born s increasingly popular presence on the land social media, where she posted every step of Anuri''his'' family have farmed s childhood for generations. He's probably grown up without giving much thought as to what he really wants to do: he knows that he'll be a farmer. It's not always the case though. Hannah Jackson was born sponsorships and influencer deals and brought up on the Wirral: she'd never set foot on a commercial farm until she was twenty although she'd always had a deep love of animals, basically, monetary gain. Her original intention was that she would become 'Dr Jackson, whale scientist' Now Anuri is in her twenties and she was well on is slowly trying to regain her way confidence and to achieving this when get her life changed on a family holiday back, suing her step-mother to take down the Lake Districtcontent about her. She saw a lamb being born Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online andreceiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, although 'Hannah Jacksonshe is desperately worried about her little sister, farmer' lacked who is the kudos new focus of her original intention, she knew that she wanted to be a shepherdOphelia's online empire. With the determination that you'll soon realise is an essential part of Can she save hersister, she set about achieving and perhaps herself and her relationship with her ambition.father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873
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 =='''18 MARCH4 JUNE'''==
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|author=Danny Wallace and Gemma CorrellStuart Douglas|title=The Day Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Screens Went BlankDress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet Stella During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and her family. TheyLeggit're just innocently trying to have , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a Sunday evening in together, watching woman on the edge of a film – using three different screens to watch three different things, mind – when ''poof'' everything goes blankreservoir. And The police seem happy to assign it's not just their homeas an accidental death, but something about the entire south-western village of Mouseholewhole thing bothers Lowe, and not just that, either, but he enlists the whole countryhelp of a fellow actor, if not world. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping they're first John Le Breton to get a screen back, and not what they were constantly doing on them beforehelp him investigate matters further. Toasters can toast, but TVs cannot do They travel across the V part of country during their jobdays off filming, uncovering more possible murders and no computer can show its computations. You might think this is going to be a social comedy about people stuck in such a Luddite experience against their will, but no. For the family finally remember Stella's grandmaseemingly, and see if they can get across country a link to her. Hence this has to go down as a road-trip bookdeath during the Second World War. But not just that, is there really a slapstick road-trip comedy. link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more than 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.people lose their lives?|isbn=14711968871803368209
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 =='''23 MARCH6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Dean KoontzKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Other EmilyDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Our hero David Thorne is an author, who shares his life between the two US coastsMeet Kit. It's Like most of the western coast we're concerned withpeople in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a place he has to return team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race tothe exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and a place he has to be able to leavethe points they grant you along the way. David lost contact with his partner there ten years agoUnfortunately for Kit, when she vanished from a remote road late at night. Hethe only thing he's paying for contact with seen of the man he thinks latest race on the only suspect, a lifer nowinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, who went a bit Hannibal Lectereaten, and has a dozen and more unfound Jane Does on his record. David new trio of questors is trying to pry the connection between the murderer and his girl from the man's mind, but to no availneeded. He's also having a recharge ready Possibly very unfortunately indeed for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting imageKit, he has taken to the very embodiment, goading from the virtual resurrection, token bully of his love. What is a man to do?|isbn=1542019958}} =='''1 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo world and Caroline Siegal|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Remy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again'stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and BrandonWhat chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone 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 in actually managing 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 how could he tries possibly hope to explain what happened.succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Ruth Hogan1635866847|title=Madame BurovaThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=General FictionLifestyle|summary=This It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connectedfor you. 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, Before I started reading ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and ClairvoyantThe Lavender Companion'', to use her familyI visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's seaa picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts -front boothbut I wanted that cake viscerally. The singer, the scryer and the sufferer(There's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camprecipe in the book, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the first time book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the family stallmargins are sanctioned. We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, in possession You get to fold down the corners of a pair pages. You suspect that smears of letters that will change everything for butter would not be a woman called Billieproblem. Just who is she, and who delivered the secrets about her to Imelda, and why did it have to remain a secret all I ''loved'' this time?|isbn=152937331Xbook already.
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=='''14 APRIL4 JULY'''==
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|author=Polly BartonMax Boucherat|title=Fifty SoundsThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Politics and SocietyConfident Readers|summary= Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been We meet Lori on my radar for a while and if the world hadnfirst evening she'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 s got the answer house to herself – no neighbour to the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings pop in respect of the question in the first essay, which is on the sound ''giro' '' – which she describes as beingbabysitter poorly, mother at work, among other thingsjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, the sound of ''every party where you have to introduce yourself''on her lonesome.|isbn=1913097501}} =='''15 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author=Lucy Holland|title=Sistersong|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Sistersong is part of What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a genre I particularly enjoyblanket fort, the modern retelling of folk and fairy tales. These stories, for most of usshe has one main intention, 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 log on to lifeVoxminer, to feel real and humanthe world-building, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the precritter-Saxon age they live in. This collecting game that 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 hit in the city – and Rachel doesn't belong. SheLori'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 competitionworld. But as the pranks escalate, and Rachel finally feels like she first Lori 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 tiny inkling that this masked figure is before itstormy night doesn'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 in a disenfranchised town dominated by a military base, struggling to care for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another binge. When t find herself entirely on her squaddie brother brings food and treatsown, and offers an exclusive invitation to army parties, things start to look a little less bleakthen she finds something even more spooky...|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 For the fact that server she may and her bestie and nobody else should be in constant pain for the rest of her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks able to a bunch enter shows signs 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 aroundtampering. When Brigid—one of malevolent eyes spark up on her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a whilephone screen, 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 safe place in the basement game has been doctored and for that werewolf to be the well, where is a girl she has been talking to online for the past few months.turn?|isbn=16836923490008666482
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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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