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=='''27 APRIL9 MAY'''==

|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.'' That'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 company. His stock had fallen by 97%, he had lost his health and his job had little value. He made a bargain with God; if he survived, he would make some changes. He did survive and came through stronger - and richer. There is, you see, a different way: ''great things are not reserved for those who bleed, for those who almost break.''}} =='''29 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0241985137Tom Percival|title=The Whole Truth (D I Fawley)|author=Cara HunterWrong Shoes

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=DI Adam FawleyWill's team got to Edith Launceleve College firstlife is difficult, called there by Jancis Appleby to see the Principal, Professor Hilary Reynolds. There had been an accusation in a multitude of sexual assault by a professor on a studentways. When Fawley arrived He is bullied because he was almost cross: what was the alleged perpetrator doing in has 'the room before theywrong shoes'd even got , he has the details from the victim? The problem was that Caleb Morgan ''waswrong 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'victim' and t work because he lost his job at the alleged perpetrator college, was Professor Marina Fisherworking a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Just to complicate matters furtherThrow into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, Caleband Will's mother is Petra Newsonlife seems bleak in every direction. And yet, the local MP, and Professor Fisher is he still has a big name is Artificial Intelligencetiny amount of hope. She has an eight-year-old sonHe is good at art, buys her wine by and clings to the case from Berry Brothers & Ruddmoments of joy when he is drawing, spends more than £1000 that feel like a month on clothes and has more than ten thousand Twitter followers. When light at the excrement encounters the ventilation equipmentend of a long, this is going to be ''very'' publicdark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

 =='''30 APRIL23 MAY'''==

|author=Ananda DeviOnyi Nwabineli|title=Eve Out of Her RuinsAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5

|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, . 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 deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is going to be ''very'' public.responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

=='''11 MAY6 JUNE'''==

|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 Kieran Larwood 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 Joe Todd- 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.}}=='''13 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0008444501Stanton|title=The Answer to Everything|author=Luke Kennard|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Life should have been good for Emily. She had a lovely husband, Steven, who was a speech therapist. We'll pass over the fact that they rarely speak to each other and don't even sleep in the same bed. It isn't so much that Emily has left the marital bed as that she's sharing a bed with one of her children as it's the only way to get him to sleep during the night. Arthur and Matty are gorgeous but they are a handful and Emily has a job to cope with too - she teaches drama two days a week. They've not long moved into a new home in Criterion GardensDungeon Runners: it's a trendy area that has been gentrified and it's run on semi-communal lines. The residents even share eco-friendly electric cars rather than owning their own.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1788549759|title=The Distant Dead|author=Lesley Thomson|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was December 1940 and twenty-four-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out for the evening 'with her friend Ida' leaving her three-year-old son, William, at home with her parents. The boy thought that Maple was his sister - it was better for the family than the shame of illegitimacy, but Maple had high hopes of putting her life (and William's) on a better footing. She was going to meet her well-to-do fiancé, hoping to persuade him to come and meet her family the following week. Later, her body would be found in the bombed-out home where he had taken her.}}=='''18 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1848458428|title=Local Woman Missing|author=Mary KubicaHero 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 in school. But things are about to change for Twitch the people 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}}{{Frontpage|author=Hannah Whitten|title=For the Wolf|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=In Red's familyhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, the first daughter becomes queenmagical mazes, and race to the second daughter becomes a sacrifice. To Red's misfortuneexit, she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods perhaps bothering with nothing but the cape on her back, Red knows what to expect: within treasure or the woods is a wolf, big bad and he is the one who will decide points they grant you along the fate of their kingdomway. If she is not a worthy sacrifice Unfortunately for Kit, the monsters only thing he keeps contained to 's seen of the latest race on the woods will be releasedinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories goa new trio of questors is needed. But when Red enters the woods Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, expecting nothing more than he has taken to be killed within the hour, she finds that goading from the legends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—hetoken bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he's ll enter as a manteam. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=03565163691839945184

 =='''10 13 JUNE'''==

|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 title, no official source, no hard and fast structurestrange, 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 of high score boards, for the lists a slice of who has successfully won chocolate cake on 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 make a mess of it, is a very thin one indeed. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages.|isbn=1529016932}}{{Frontpage|author=Louise Beech|title=This Is How We Are Human|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Veronica is You suspect that smears of butter would not be a devoted single mother to her son, Sebastian - but she canproblem. I 't give him everything he wants. Sebastian has decided that it's time for him to have sex. But as an autistic 20 year-old, thatloved's easier said than done. And it's starting to cause them both problemsthis book already. |isbn=1913193713

=='''17 JUNE4 JULY'''==

|author=Joseph KnoxMax Boucherat|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 Last Life 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}} =='''24 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|author=Catherine Steadman|title=The Disappearing ActLori 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 Voxminer, the Arcticworld-building, to see her scientist mother for the first time critter-collecting game that is a hit in yonksLori's world. However, But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this is a train ride with a difference, for stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on board is a greedy-seeming harridan and her catown, a thief – and two glowing eyes, shining from then she finds something even more spooky. For the darkness in a blink-server she and her bestie and-you'll-miss-them stylenobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. It's definitely When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a case for a new young investigative journalist...girl to turn?|isbn=184812970X0008666482