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=='''11 9 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=1523092734Tom Percival|title=A Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van CortThe Wrong Shoes
|rating=5
|genre=Politics and SocietyConfident Readers|summary=Will''She brings s life is difficult, in a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Again and again and againmultitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD) he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn'To claim space is to live t have enough money for even the life most basic of choosing unapologetically things like food, and bravely. It is to live the life youhis dad can've always wanted.'' Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: t work because he lost his job at a time when violence against women is much in the newscollege, ''A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. Now was working a cash- to be clear in- this book is not hand job on a 'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: itbuilding site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's something far more effective, but discussion at the moment life seems to be about how women can be ''protected''bleak in every direction. I've always thought that women need to rise above thisAnd yet, to be people who don't need protection, people who claim their own spacehe still has a tiny amount of hope. If all women did thisHe is good at art, those few men who are violent and clings to women would realise the moments of joy when he is drawing, that we are not just an easy target to be used to prove that they are big menfeel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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=='''13 23 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=1529407249Onyi Nwabineli|title=The Perfect Lie|author=Jo SpainAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|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'''==
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|isbnauthor=1788549759Stuart Douglas|title=The Distant Dead|author=Lesley ThomsonLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was December 1940 and twenty-four-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out During location filming for the evening his 1970's sitcom 'with her friend IdaFloggit and Leggit' leaving her three-year-old son, William, at home with her parentsleading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The boy thought that Maple was his sister - police seem happy to assign it was better for as an accidental death, but something about the family than whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the shame help of illegitimacya fellow actor, but Maple had high hopes of putting her life (and William's) on a better footingJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. She was going to meet her well-to-do fiancéThey travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, hoping to persuade him a link to come and meet her family death during the following weekSecond World War. Later, her body would be found in But is there really a link between the bombed-out home where he had taken her.deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''18 MAY6 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=1848458428Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Local Woman Missing|author=Mary KubicaDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|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
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=='''10 13 JUNE'''==
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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
|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'''==
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|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=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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