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=='''14 APRIL9 MAY'''==

|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=1529124255Tom Percival|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 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well these retellings give new Will's life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating the role of women.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 welldifficult, 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 multitude of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to endways.|isbn=1529039037}}{{Frontpage|author=Goldy Moldavsky|title=The Last Girl|rating=5|genre=teens|summary= Rachel Chavez He is bullied because he has 'the new girl at Manchester Prep. A school filled to wrong shoes', he has the brim with the richest children in the city – wrong shoes because his dad can't work and Rachel doesn't belong. She's not rich, she has no ties to some royal family in Serbia, and have enough money for even the most basic 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 stylethings like food, and unless someone screams, you have failed. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed in his dad can't work because he lost his job at the competition. But as the pranks escalatecollege, and Rachel finally feels like she has found her place was working a cash-in this school, things start to go wrong; -hand job on a masked figure keeps showing up to the pranks, building site and people begin to get hurthad an accident. When Throw into that mix the competition then takes a deadly turn, Rachel must figure out who this masked figure is before 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 in a disenfranchised town dominated by a military base, struggling to care for her baby sister while her fact that his mum sleeps off another binge. When her squaddie brother brings food and treatsdad are separated, and offers an exclusive invitation to army parties, things start to look a little less bleak...|isbn=1913193594}} =='''27 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0753558378|title=Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters|author=Greg McKeown|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=''The marginal return of working harder was, in fact, negative.'' ThatWill's what happened to Patrick McGinnis. It's no exaggeration to say that he devoted his life to the company he worked for, struggling through, even when he was ill, only to find that he was working for a bankrupt companyseems bleak in every direction. His stock had fallen by 97%And yet, he had lost his health and his job had little value. He made still has a bargain with God; if he survived, he would make some changestiny amount of hope. He did survive and came through stronger - and richer. There isgood at art, you see, a different way: ''great things are not reserved for those who bleed, for those who almost break.''}}{{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 clings to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest moments of her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones''joy when he is drawing, an online support group where she talks to that feel like a bunch light at the end 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 whilelong, 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 monthsdark tunnel.|isbn=16836923491398527122

 =='''29 APRIL23 MAY'''==

|isbnauthor=1471181405Onyi Nwabineli|title=Nighthawking|author=Russ ThomasAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|summary=At not even 200 pages, Eve Out of Her Ruins is one of Anuri spent her childhood on display to the shortest books I've read in a long whileworld, but itthanks to her step-mother Ophelia's one increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of the most dramatic. ItAnuri's also told in a way that I can only describe as brutal: it spares nothing childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and pulls very few punches, the descriptions stark and unromantic.|isbn=0993009344}}  =='''3 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1635862353|title=The Sandalmaking Workshop|author=Rachel Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Crafts|summary=A sandal-making workshop? I couldn't really believe itbasically, 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 intriguedmonetary gain. Rachel Corry started sandal making accidentally - a small fire destroyed some of Now Anuri is in her shoes. One pair had come apart twenties and she could see how is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the sandal was constructedcontent about her. Then she realised that she couldn't afford Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to replace all start her shoes. Could she combine these two facts to create a new PhD, undergoing therapy and worthwhile craft? She showed quite a few secretly abusing people her first pair online and they all either wanted to know how to do it - or if she'd make receiving money from them a pairfor doing so. A Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new career was bornfocus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873

=='''6 MAY4 JUNE'''==

|author=Daniel Gibbs with Teresa H BarkerStuart Douglas|title=A Tattoo on my BrainLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal

|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, the local MP, and Professor Fisher is a big name is Artificial Intelligence. She has an eight-year-old son, buys her wine by They travel across the case from Berry Brothers & Ruddcountry during their days off filming, spends uncovering more than £1000 a month on clothes possible murders 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 seemingly, 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 link to live death during the life of choosing unapologetically and bravelySecond World War. It But is to live the life you've always wanted.'' Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at there really a time when violence against women is much in link between the news, ''A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. deaths? Now - And will they manage to be clear - this book uncover who is not a 'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's something far responsible before 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 lose 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.lives?|isbn=1803368209

=='''27 MAY6 JUNE'''==

|isbnauthor=walker14Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Coldest Case (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin WalkerDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=Twitch is a boy who loves birdsMeet Kit. He keeps pigeons at home, and chickens, and even has swallows nesting in his bedroom! His time spent watching and helping birds is easy compared to that Like most of his time the people in school. But things are about to change for Twitch in all aspects of his life as there is a dangerous bank robber on the runworld, and it's possible that the missing bank haul seems, he is hidden somewhere in Aves Wood, an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the place sport where Twitch has his secret hide and that he knows like the back a team of his hand! Can Twitch solve the mysterywarrior, mage and find the missing millions?|isbn=1406389374}} =='''10 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|author=C J Carey|title=Widowland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's April 1953healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow race to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bitexit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and watching over the sanctioned return to points they grant you along the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallisway. For yesUnfortunately for Kit, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didnonly thing he't happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough s seen of the same blood as the Germanic peoples latest race on ''the mainland''. But this inn TV equivalent is most certainly a different Britainthat one team has been retired, for Nazi-styled phrenologyeaten, and ideas a new trio of female purposequestors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs taken to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to goading from the childless, the husbandless token bully of his world and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouragedstumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. And in What chance does this puritanical existencefriendless, 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 bannedmuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, 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 how could he possibly hope to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.succeed?|isbn=152941198X1839945184

|authorisbn=Terry Miles1635866847|title=RabbitsThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin 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 Rabbitsstrange, although only as a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, 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 conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of websyou. People like our hero, K Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', named like that in I visited the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to be historians of the game, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the lists of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, and are still very short. However this time itauthor's different[https://www. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it's ever been – morally pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the game is doing, if itthere's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only to find out that the line between observing and learning about a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed..homepage.|isbn=1529016932}}{{Frontpage|author=Louise Beech|title=This Is How We Are Human|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Veronica is a devoted single mother to her son, Sebastian - but she can I don't give him everything he wants. Sebastian has decided that it's time for him to have sex. But as an autistic 20 yeareat cakes and desserts -old, but I wanted that's easier said than donecake viscerally. And it (There's starting to cause them both problems. |isbn=1913193713}} =='''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 recipe in the disappearance of Zoe Nolan from her university halls of residence. Split into four partsbook, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the reader is taken through the life book and disappearance I was told to make a mess of Zoe through it. Notes in 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