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=='''6 9 MAY'''==
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|author=Daniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker|title=A Tattoo on my Brain|rating=3.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Alzheimer's is a disease that slowly wears away your identity and sense of self. I have been directly affected by this cruel disease, as have many. Your memories and personality worn away like a statue over time affected the elements. It seems as if nature wants that final victory over you and your dignity. This is what makes Daniel Gibbs' memoir so admirable. Daniel Gibbs is a neurologist who was diagnosed with Alzheimers and has documented his journey in ''A Tattoo on my Brain''.|isbn=1108838936}}=='''7 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0241985137Tom Percival|title=The Whole Truth (D I Fawley)|author=Cara HunterWrong Shoes
|rating=5
|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
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=='''11 23 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=1523092734Onyi Nwabineli|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 - Allow Me 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=1529407249|title=The Perfect Lie|author=Jo SpainIntroduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was July 2019 and Erin was happy. She and Danny Ryan were planning a few days away: that's always a dangerous thing to do when you're married to a cop but she was hopeful. They'd been married for six months and life was good with a decent apartment by the sea in Newport, Long Island. The knock on the door was insistent and when it was opened, Danny's partner, Ben Mitchell was there with a couple of other officers. Danny took one look, turned, walked to the open window and jumped to his death from the fourth floor.
Eighteen months later, Erin would be on trial for her husband's murder.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0008444501
|title=The Answer to Everything
|author=Luke Kennard
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Life should have been good Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for Emily. She had a lovely husbandsponsorships and influencer deals and, Stevenbasically, who was a speech therapistmonetary gain. We'll pass over the fact that they rarely speak to each other Now Anuri is in her twenties 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 is slowly trying to regain her children as it's the only way confidence and to get him her life back, suing her step-mother to sleep during take down the nightcontent about her. Arthur Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and Matty are gorgeous but they are a handful secretly abusing people online and Emily has a job to cope with too - she teaches drama two days a weekreceiving money from them for doing so. They've not long moved into a Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new home in Criterion Gardens: itfocus of Ophelia's a trendy area that has been gentrified and it's run on semi-communal linesonline empire. The residents even share eco-friendly electric cars rather than owning their own.Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
{{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=1848458428Stuart Douglas|title=Local Woman Missing|author=Mary Kubica|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Eleven years ago, a man regularly came home to his wife with lipstick marks on his collar Lowe and lame excuses as to why he was late Le Breton Mysteries - again. His wife was in the habit of going out for a run late Death at night. It was the only time she had for herself when she didn't have to look after her baby - but when she was out she would meet up with a man, grateful for the unquestioning affection he gave her. The locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappeared, seemingly without a trace, leaving her husband to look after her disabled baby. Ten days later, a local woman and her six-year-old daughter disappeared. Meredith Dickey was a birth doula and she'd seemed to be under some strain for the last couple of weeks or so. Her body was eventually found in a seedy motel - it appeared that she'd committed suicide. She left a note saying that her daughter, Delilah, was safe and there was no point in looking for her.}}=='''27 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0008395594|title=Both of You|author=Adele ParksDress Rehearsal|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=You could be forgiven for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adores3. Then, one Monday, she went to work and never came home. Mark, Oli and Seb are shattered. Well, Mark and Seb are but Oli's sixteen and at the stage where he thinks boredom is his best look. He's been a bit off with Leigh for a while but she put it down to him growing up and starting to become independent. Seb's only twelve and Leigh's absence hits him hard. Then Daan Janssen, a wealthy Dutch businessman, reports his wife, Kai missing. She too has vanished without trace.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1473685745|title=Unbreak Your Heart|author=Katie Marsh|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and Beth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked Simon's son, Jake, off his bike. He wasn't hurt but Jake has history. He has HLHS - that's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. When he was born, the left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a few days old. So, Simon has every right to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=walker14|title=The Coldest Case (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes' work in the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies that chief of police Bruno Courreges had the idea which he thought might help his boss, chief of detectives Jalipeau, known as J-J, to solve a case that had haunted him for thirty years. The body of a young male was found in the woods but he was never identified and his killer never brought to justice. What if an artist could recreate the face from the skull and the resulting publicity be used to identify the young man? J-J calls the skull 'Oscar' and has a picture on his door: he sees it every time he leaves his office: he doesn't want to forget Oscar until his killer has been brought to justice.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008404925|title=The Killing Kind|author=Jane Casey|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Difficult clients were nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of a surprise. After all, it was her cross-examination of the During location filming for his 1970'victims sitcom ' which saved him from a lengthy prison sentence. HeFloggit and Leggit'd been accused , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of stalking the a woman but it didn't take long to establish that - if anything - it was on the other way aroundedge of a reservoir. Soon Ingrid never seemed The police seem happy to be free of John Webster and then she came to see him assign it as a threat and was forced to remember that the police officer at his trial had told her that this was the best chance they'd had to put Webster away for a long time: he was a very dangerous man.}}{{Frontpage|author= Adrian Tchaikovsky|title= Shards of Earth|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the moon-sized aliens known as the Architects. Humanity is scatteredaccidental death, constantly fleeing as world after world falls to but something about the architect's reshaping. Thenwhole thing bothers Lowe, just when they had and he enlists the human race on the runhelp of a fellow actor, the Architects vanishedJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. And so, the memories of They travel across the war fadescountry during their days off filming, heroes are forgottenuncovering more possible murders and, and humanity begins to fracture and fight among themselves. Idris Telemmierseemingly, a man genetically engineered link to try and communicate with death during the Architects, does not want to be rememberedSecond World War. But, when he and the crew of the salvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust back into there really a link between the spotlight. As he and his allies bounce from star system deaths? And will they manage to star system, chased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police and rich slavers, he slowly begins to realise that the real war uncover who is only just getting started…responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=15290518861803368209
}}
 =='''3 6 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=0241400120Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Girl Who Died|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Victoria CribbDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Una was not thriving in Reykjavik: it was some years since her beloved father had committed suicide without leaving any explanation and since then she'd given up her medical studies and retrained as a teacher. She was thirty years old and money was tight. Her friend, Sara, showed her an advert for a job in Skalar on the Langanes Peninsula. There were only ten people in the village but a teacher was required for two children: a salary would be paid and accommodation provided. Una was the only applicant and the job meant that she could let her flat in Reykjavik and, hopefully, save some money over the winter which her contract covered.
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{{Frontpage
|author=M G Leonard
|title=Twitch
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|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
}}
=='''13 JUNE'''==
{{Frontpage
|authorisbn=Hannah Whitten1635866847|title=For the Wolf|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=In Red's family, the first daughter becomes queen, and the second daughter becomes a sacrifice. To Red's misfortune, she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her back, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is a wolf, and he is the one who will decide the fate of their kingdom. If she is not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be released, and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, she finds that the legends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a man.|isbn=0356516369}} =='''10 JUNE'''=={{FrontpageLavender Companion|author=C J Carey|title=Widowland|rating=4|genre=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
|rating=4.5
|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
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=='''17 JUNE4 JULY'''==
{{Frontpage
|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
|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
}}
 
=='''8 JULY'''==
{{Frontpage
|author=Hannah Peck
|title=Kate on the Case
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|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
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=='''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, 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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=='''7 OCTOBER'''==
{{Frontpage
|author=John Gwynne
|title=The Shadow Of The Gods
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to see. This story is the ultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. This is a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.
|isbn=0356514218
}}
 
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