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=='''4 MARCH9 MAY'''==
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|author=Mary H K ChoiTom Percival|title=YolkThe Wrong Shoes
|rating=5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Jayne Baek Will's life is difficult, in a fashion student thatmultitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes's barely getting by. She drinks. She smokes. She makes bad decisions about , he has the men she sleeps with. Shewrong shoes because his dad can's an all-round messy character; t work and thatdoesn's her charm. Junet have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, on and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the other college, was working a cash-in-hand, is job on a complete contrast to Jaynebuilding site and had an accident. She Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's a typical older sister: she's smartlife seems bleak in every direction. And yet, thinks she knows it all, and he still has a successful jobtiny amount of hope. She constantly criticises Jayne for her life choices He is good at art, and clings to the two have barely kept in contact despite living in the same city for the past two years. This moments of joy when he is until June finds out she's sickdrawing, and Jayne is that feel like a light at 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 identitiesend of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn= 03490036961398527122
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=='''23 MAY'''==
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|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 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=1529109116Onyi Nwabineli|title=Call Allow Me Red: A Shepherd's Journey|author=Hannah Jacksonto Introduce 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 to the Lake District. She saw a lamb being born and, although 'Hannah Jacksonback, farmer' lacked the kudos of suing her original intention, she knew that she wanted step-mother to be a shepherd. With take down the determination that you'll soon realise is an essential part of her, she set content about achieving her ambition.}} =='''18 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Danny Wallace and Gemma Correll|title=The Day the Screens Went Blank|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Stella and her family. They're just innocently trying to have a Sunday evening in togetherAnuri is battling alcoholism, watching a film – using three different screens failing to watch three different things, mind – when ''poof'' everything goes blank. And it's not just their home, but the entire south-western village of Mouseholestart her PhD, undergoing therapy and not just that, either, but the whole country, if not world. Suddenly secretly abusing people are constantly on their phones – hoping they're first to get a screen back, online and not what they were constantly receiving money from them for doing on them beforeso. Toasters can toastMost importantly, but TVs cannot do the V part of their job, and no computer can show its computations. You might think this she is going to be a social comedy desperately worried about people stuck in such a Luddite experience against their willher little sister, but no. For who is the family finally remember Stellanew focus of Ophelia's grandmaonline empire. Can she save her sister, and see if they can get across country to perhaps herself and her. Hence this has to go down as a road-trip book. But not just that, a slapstick road-trip comedy. And more than that, too – for it's a slapstick, high-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy relationship with oodles of cuddly heart that kids of all ages will love.her father at the same time?|isbn=14711968870861546873
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=1913193527Stuart Douglas|title=Bound (Detective Sam Shephard)|author=Vanda SymonLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Dunedin was shocked when it heard During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the murder edge of a wealthy and apparently respectable businessman out at Seacliffreservoir. His wife had been bound and gagged and placed so that she was forced The police seem happy to watch assign it as an accidental death, but something about the murderwhole thing bothers Lowe, with and he enlists the scene being discovered by their son, Declanhelp of a fellow actor, when he returned home from an evening out. The subsequent investigation would prove that John Henderson had been involved in some activities which might have been considered shady and certainly questionable if not illegalLe Breton to help him investigate matters further. His companyThey travel across the country during their days off filming, Eros Global, manufactured and marketed ''vitamin-type supplements uncovering more possible murders and, wellseemingly, sexual enhancers, that kind of thing'', as Henderson's employee, Blair Harvey-Boyd explaineda link to death during the Second 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=1803368209
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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 We meet Lori on the question 'first evening she'Why Japan?'' Japan has been on my radar for a while and if s got the world hadn't gone into melthouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-down I would have visited by now. I may get there later this breaking eleven yearold, but I am not hopefulon her lonesome. And like Barton, I don't know the answer to the question ''why Japan What could possibly go wrong?'' She explains her feelings Snuggled in respect of the question in the first essaya blanket fort, she has one main intention, which and that is to log on to Voxminer, the sound ''giro' '' – which she describes as beingworld-building, among other things, the sound of ''every party where you have to introduce yourself'critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world.|isbn=1913097501}} == But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn'''15 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author=Lucy Holland|title=Sistersong|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Sistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoyt find herself entirely on her own, the modern retelling of folk and fairy talesthen she finds something even more spooky. These stories, for most of us, are a cornerstone of childhood For the server she and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life her bestie and new meaning nobody else should be able to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating the role enter shows signs of womentampering. Sistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done well When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, 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 her safe place in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in. This game has been doctored – well, where is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning girl to end.turn?|isbn=15290390370008666482
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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
}}
 
=='''22 JULY'''==
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|author=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)
|title=Girls Who Lie
|rating=3
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all the dark corners of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before now. You think, seeing on the map that we're set in Akranes, and finding it's only twenty kilometres from the capital city, that this author is clutching at the few final straws left. However just because the book aims for the usual small-town feel, it's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago a woman failed to turn up for her date evening, and was never seen again. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently with the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for the girl back, and a couple of delighted adopters. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until it stopped all of a sudden, in one place, the woman's car was found miles away in a second place, and now, after six months, the body has been discovered, in a third, even more remote place. Meanwhile, this narrative is interrupted by a confessional monologue from a mother who found herself with heavy post-natal depression, and very little maternal feeling in her body. Is the assumption that is so easy for the reader to make the right one?
|isbn=191319373X
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