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|author=Ruth HoganTom Percival|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}}{{Frontpage|author=Jessie Greengrass|title=The High House|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Charles Darwin taught that all living matter evolved to pass on its genetic material with the implied belief that your progeny will then pass on theirs. However, that train of thought is slowly seems to have fallen out of favour. Today's young generation are discovering that their parents and their parents' parents did not seem to think that far ahead. Or they did think that far ahead and thought "it's not my problem" or "there's nothing I can do". Raising a child and living in a world on the precipice of catastrophe is what drives ''The High House'' by Jessie Greengrass. This is not a science-fiction novel. This is our reality. This is the life our children and their children will have to live.|isbn=1800750072}} =='''14 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|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}} =='''15 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1529124255|title=The Whispers|author=Heidi Perks|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=We know straight away that there's going to be a body. It's on the beach under Crayne's Cliff near the town of Clearwater and it's new year's day. To understand what happened we're going to have to go back to the previous September. Grace Goodwin has a soft Australian accent - she's lived there since her teens and now, in her mid-thirties, she's returned to her home town to live. Her husband, Graham, works in Singapore and she and her eight-year-old daughter, Matilda, might as well be in the lovely apartment she's found. Grace's best friend, Anna Robinson, is still in Clearwater and she has an eight-year-old child too. Ethan's in the class Matilda will be joining. It's perfect!}}{{Frontpage|author=Lucy Holland|title=SistersongWrong Shoes

|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=Sistersong Will's life is part difficult, in a multitude of a genre I particularly enjoyways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the modern retelling of folk wrong shoes because his dad can't work and fairy tales. These stories, doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of usthings like food, 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 his dad can't work because he lost his job at the role of women. Sistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done wellcollege, 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 was working a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the precash-Saxon age they live in. This is -hand job on a masterpiece of storytelling building site and I was captivated from beginning to endhad an accident.|isbn=1529039037}}{{Frontpage|author=Goldy Moldavsky|title=The Last Girl|rating=5|genre=teens|summary= Rachel Chavez is Throw into that mix the new girl at Manchester Prep. A school filled to the brim with the richest children in the city – fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Rachel doesnWill't belongs life seems bleak in every direction. She's not rich And yet, she he still 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 tiny amount of comforthope. 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 He is good at art, and unless someone screams, you have failed. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed in clings to the competition. But as the pranks escalatemoments of joy when he is drawing, and Rachel finally feels that feel like she has found her place in this school, things start to go wrong; a masked figure keeps showing up to light at the pranks, and people begin to get hurt. When the competition then takes end of a deadly turnlong, Rachel must figure out who this masked figure is before it's too latedark tunnel.|isbn=07555015271398527122

|author=Sarah SultoonOnyi Nwabineli|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}} =='''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 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 Allow Me 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}} =='''29 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1471181405|title=Nighthawking|author=Russ ThomasIntroduce Myself

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=SheffieldAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's [http://www.sbg.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (increasingly popular presence on Clarkehouse Roadsocial media, if you'd like to visit) are an oasis where she posted every step of calm in whatAnuri's otherwise thought of as an industrial city but this was disrupted when the body of a young woman was discoveredchildhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. It had obviously been buried Now Anuri is in one of the beds but who would have started her twenties and she is slowly trying to dig regain her up? It had been in the earth for months confidence and could have been undiscovered for years. The police need to establish who stabbed get her life back, suing her step- and who left mother to take down the two, very rare, gold aurei on content about her eyes. DCI Diane Jordan Anuri is the Investigating Officer battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and her foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler secretly abusing people online and DC Mina Rabbanireceiving money from them for doing so. They're joined by DS Guy Daley Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, whois the new focus of Ophelia's just returned from extended sick leaveonline empire. Mina thinks he's as obnoxious as ever but suspects that he's not fully recovered from his injuries.Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873

|author= Jennifer Saint Stuart Douglas|title= Ariadne |rating= 4.5 |genre= Women's Fiction |summary= This reLowe and Le Breton Mysteries -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 Death at 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}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0241985137|title=The Whole Truth (D I Fawley)|author=Cara HunterDress Rehearsal|rating=3.5

|summary=DI Adam FawleyDuring location filming for his 1970's team got to Edith Launceleve College firstsitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', called there by Jancis Appleby to see leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the Principal, Professor Hilary Reynolds. There had been an accusation dead body of sexual assault by a professor woman on the edge of a studentreservoir. When Fawley arrived he was almost cross: what was the alleged perpetrator doing in the room before they'd even got the details from the victim? The problem was that Caleb Morgan ''was'' police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the 'victim' whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fisher. Just help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to complicate help him investigate matters further, Caleb's mother is Petra Newson, . They travel across the local MPcountry during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and Professor Fisher is a big name is Artificial Intelligence. She has an eight-year-old son, buys her wine by the case from Berry Brothers & Ruddseemingly, spends more than £1000 a month on clothes and has more than ten thousand Twitter followerslink to death during the Second World War. When But is there really a link between the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, this is going deaths? And will they manage to be ''very'' public.}}{{Frontpage|author=Mercedes Helnwein|title=Slingshot|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she uncover who is used to not being a priority in responsible before more people's lose their lives. But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.?|isbn=152905818X1803368209

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|isbn=1635862353|title=The Sandalmaking Workshop|author=Rachel Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Crafts|summary=A sandal-making workshop? I couldn't really believe it, mainly because I'd always thought that you'd need more equipment than the average home was likely to be able to contain but I was intrigued. Rachel Corry started sandal making accidentally - a small fire destroyed some of her shoes. One pair had come apart Kieran Larwood and she could see how the sandal was constructed. Then she realised that she couldn't afford to replace all her shoes. Could she combine these two facts to create a new and worthwhile craft? She showed quite a few people her first pair and they all either wanted to know how to do it Joe Todd- or if she'd make them a pair. A new career was born.}}=='''7 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0241985137Stanton|title=The Whole Truth (D I Fawley)|author=Cara Hunter|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=DI Adam Fawley's team got to Edith Launceleve College first, called there by Jancis Appleby to see the Principal, Professor Hilary Reynolds. There had been an accusation of sexual assault by a professor on a student. When Fawley arrived he was almost crossDungeon Runners: what was the alleged perpetrator doing in the room before they'd even got the details from the victim? The problem was that Caleb Morgan ''was'' the 'victim' and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fisher. Just to complicate matters further, Caleb's mother is Petra Newson, the local MP, and Professor Fisher is a big name is Artificial Intelligence. She has an eight-year-old son, buys her wine by the case from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more than £1000 a month on clothes and has more than ten thousand Twitter followers. When the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, this is going to be ''very'' public.}}=='''11 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1523092734|title=A Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Again and again and again.'' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD) ''To claim space is to live the life of choosing unapologetically and bravely. It is to live the life you've always wanted.'' Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is much in the news, ''A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. Now - to be clear - this book is not a 'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's something far more effective, but discussion at the moment seems to be about how women can be ''protected''. I've always thought that women need to rise above this, to be people who don't need protection, people who claim their own space. If all women did this, those few men who are violent to women would realise that we are not just an easy target to be used to prove that they are big men.}}=='''27 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=walker14|title=The Coldest Case (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin WalkerHero Trial

|summary=Twitch Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a boy who loves birds. He keeps pigeons at hometeam of warrior, mage and chickenshealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and even has swallows nesting in his bedroom! His time spent watching race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and helping birds is easy compared to that of his time in schoolthe points they grant you along the way. But things are about to change Unfortunately for Twitch in all aspects Kit, the only thing he's seen of his life as there is a dangerous bank robber the latest race on the runinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and it's possible that the missing bank haul a new trio of questors is hidden somewhere in Aves Woodneeded. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the place where Twitch has token bully of his secret hide world and that stumbled into declaring he knows like the back of his hand! 'll enter as a team. Can Twitch solve the mysteryWhat chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and find the missing millionshow could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=14063893741839945184

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|authorisbn=C J Carey1635866847|title=WidowlandThe Lavender Companion|rating=4|genreauthor=General Fiction|summary=It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, Jessica Dunham and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|isbn=152941198X}}{{Frontpage|author=Terry Miles|title=RabbitsBarlin Vesci

|genre=Science FictionLifestyle|summary=Welcome to the world of The Game. Or should that be the game, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. It's also called Rabbits, although only as a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official titlestrange, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and to the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game of life then. Yes, things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the game of life book for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracyyou. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the computer game, the hack from the darkest of websauthor's [https://www. People like our hero, K, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possiblepinelavenderfarm. K com/ website] and his bezzies are trying to be historians there's a picture of the game, and have studied amongst many things the most unique a slice of high score boards, for chocolate cake on the lists of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, and are still very shorthomepage. However this time it I don's differentt eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it (There's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, a recipe in trying to sort out what the game is doingbook, if itwhich I's even being played, m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only I was told to find out that the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is make a very thin one indeed...|isbn=1529016932}} =='''17 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|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 mess of Zoe Nolan from her university halls of residenceit. Split into four parts, Notes in 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 policemargins are sanctioned. The various accounts help the reader You get to know Zoe, or at least fold down the Zoe she presented to otherscorners of pages. However, the twists and turns at the end You suspect that smears of each chapter leave you shocked, confused and unsure of what is true or fabricatedbutter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=0857527703

=='''24 JUNE4 JULY'''==

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

|summary=Meet Kate, although I got We meet Lori on the impression first evening she'd rather be a Catherine s got the house to herself – and one specific Catherine no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at that. For Catherine Rodriguez is Kate's idolwork, and the author of our heroine's favourite possessionjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, ''The Special Correspondent Manual''on her lonesome. Armed with What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a plucky fatherblanket fort, that bookshe has one main intention, and her talking mouse called Rupert, she that is all equipped to manage a train ride log on to the ArcticVoxminer, to see her scientist mother for the first time in yonks. Howeverworld-building, this is a train ride with a difference, for on board critter-collecting game that is a greedy-seeming harridan and her cat, a thief – and two glowing eyes, shining from the darkness hit in a blink-and-youLori'll-miss-them styles world. It's definitely a case for But first Lori has a new young investigative journalist...|isbn=184812970X}} =='''22 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|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, tiny inkling that this author is clutching at the few final straws left. However just because the book aims for the usual small-town feel, itstormy night doesn's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago a woman failed to turn up for t find herself entirely on her date eveningown, and was never seen againthen she finds something even more spooky. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that For the server she could now live permanently with the couple who had given her foster care before and her mother had asked for the girl back, bestie and a couple nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of delighted adopterstampering. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone use was at a high level until it stopped all of a suddenscreen, in one and her safe place, the woman's car was found miles away in a second place, and now, after six months, the body game has been discovered, in a third, even more remote place. Meanwhiledoctored – well, this narrative where 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 girl to make the right oneturn?|isbn=191319373X0008666482