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=='''27 9 MAY'''==
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|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Twitch Will's life is difficult, in a boy who loves birdsmultitude of ways. He keeps pigeons at homeis bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and chickensdoesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and even has swallows nesting his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in his bedroom! -hand job on a building site and had an accident. His time spent watching and helping birds is easy compared to Throw into that mix the fact that of his time mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in schoolevery direction. But things are about to change for Twitch in all aspects And yet, he still has a tiny amount of his life as there hope. He is a dangerous bank robber on the rungood at art, and it's possible that clings to the missing bank haul moments of joy when he is hidden somewhere in Aves Wooddrawing, the place where Twitch has his secret hide and that he knows feel like a light at the back end of his hand! Can Twitch solve the mysterya long, and find the missing millions?dark tunnel.|isbn=14063893741398527122
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=='''23 MAY'''==
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|author=Hannah WhittenOnyi Nwabineli|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'''=={{Frontpage|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, 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 Allow Me to spoil Hitler's visit.|isbn=152941198X}}{{Frontpage|author=Terry Miles|title=RabbitsIntroduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Veronica is a devoted single mother Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her sonstep-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, Sebastian - but where she can't give him everything he wants. Sebastian has decided that itposted every step of Anuri's time childhood for him sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to have sextake down the content about her. But as an autistic 20 year-old Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, that's easier said than doneundergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. And it Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's starting to cause them both problemsonline empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=19131937130861546873
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=1409181669Stuart Douglas|title=The Maidens|author=Alex MichaelidesLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Mariana was convinced that Professor During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to get away with them both. She needed to think carefully about what she knew and decide how she should proceed. Everything - or so she thought - had begun with Lowe stumbles across the death dead body of Tara Hampton a woman on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridgeedge of a reservoir. She'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana's niece, Zoe, had telephoned her in distress. Tara had been her best friend and she was struggling to cope. Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' The police seem happy about having to go to Cambridgeassign it as an accidental death, but she caught something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the first fast train from King's Crosshelp of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more so by the death of Mariana's husbandpossible murders and, Sebastianseemingly, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlierlink to death during the Second World War. Zoe had been But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoe's mother and Mariana's sister, Eliza.lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Maisie Chan|title=Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Danny is eleven years old, and what he really, really loves to do is draw. He creates fantastical comics, whilst his best friend Ravi adds the words. Danny's dad, however, wants Danny to concentrate on his maths, and forget about the drawing, because he says nobody can make a living from drawing! At least Danny has his own room, where he can draw in secret and in peace. But then one day his parents tell him they have a surprise for him, and this surprise turns out to be his grandmother who has come over from China to live with them, and who will not only be sharing Danny's bedroom but she will also be sleeping on the top bunk of his bunk bed! Danny is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no English, Kieran Larwood and Danny finds himself forced into being her babysitter, and showing her around the town. Poor Danny, stuck on a maths project, frustrated with his bedroom situation, and then he even has a falling out with Ravi...how on earth will things ever get better?!|isbn=180078001X}} =='''17 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|author=Joseph KnoxJoe Todd-Stanton|title=True Crime StoryDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet KateKit. Like most of the people in his world, although I got it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the impression she'd rather be sport where a Catherine – and one specific Catherine at that. For Catherine Rodriguez is Kate's idolteam of warrior, mage and the author of our heroine's favourite possessionhealer enter specially prepared, ''The Special Correspondent Manual''. Armed with a plucky fathercentury-old, that bookmagical mazes, and her talking mouse called Rupert, she is all equipped to manage a train ride race to the Arcticexit, to see her scientist mother for perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the first time in yonksway. HoweverUnfortunately for Kit, this the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is a train ride with a differencethat one team has been retired, eaten, for on board is a greedy-seeming harridan and her cat, a thief – and two glowing eyesnew trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, shining he has taken to the goading from the darkness in a blink-token bully of his world and-youstumbled into declaring he'llenter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-missfree-them style. It's definitely a case for a new young investigative journalist...zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=184812970X1839945184
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=='''13 JULYJUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Sarah Langan1635866847|title=Good NeighboursThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersLifestyle|summary= If youIt're of a certain vintages strange, it's hard to read the words things that make you ''Good Neighboursimmediately'' without adding a sing-song feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''thatThe Lavender Companion's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends', I visited the author's [https://www. Maple Street is no Ramsay Street, though, Arlo pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and Gertie live there's a world apart from the Melbourne suburbs. They're one picture of a slice of 18 households chocolate cake on the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved in a year earlierhomepage. They I don're not quite like all the other families t eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (heThere's an ex rockera recipe in the book, shewhich I's a former beauty queenm avoiding with some difficulty!!) but they've made some friends Then I started reading the book and their kids have settled in, and it's all going ok. Until I was told to make a mess of it isn't. One hot, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up Notes in the park across margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the waycorners of pages. It You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved''s a revolting mess of dirt and chaos, but for the residents of Maple Street, the worst is yet to comethis book already.|isbn=1789098211
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=='''22 4 JULY'''==
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|author=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)Max Boucherat|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}} =='''3 AUGUST'''=={{Frontpage|author=Darren Shan|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 The Last Life of 3Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=So. Having done We meet Lori on the impossible and unpicked first evening she's got the lock house to the Forgotten Crypt, from which the Departed communicate with the Merge, Archie now has ''grop'' herself – no neighbour to think about. But before that, soirees. Soirees! Archiepop in, much to Inez's amusementbabysitter poorly, doesn't even know what one of those is. But he manages to come through the fancy party unscathedmother at work, even after just an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed in the first volume of this series. |isbn=B093J9TF73}} =='''5 AUGUST'''=={{Frontpage|author=John Boyne|title=The Echo Chamber|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Meet George Cleverley. He is selfavidly rule-defined as "one of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without a criminal record". He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him she's carrying his childbreaking eleven year old, but then his author wife is getting on her kicks with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her withlonesome. They have three children, who are What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoeverblanket fort, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signallingshe has one main intention, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants and that is to log on to save Voxminer, the world's homeless with out-ofbuilding, critter-date food, and collecting game that is a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thinghit in Lori's world. Add in But first Lori has a few other characters – therapists, lawyers, random transgender types – tiny inkling that all have two very different connections to his lifethis stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and you have then she finds something that suggests an almost farcical approach even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to the modern worldenter shows signs of tampering. What suggests When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the farcical approach even more, howevergame has been doctored – well, where is the fact this is bloody funny.a girl to turn?|isbn=08575262190008666482
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