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=='''10 JUNE9 MAY'''==
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|author=C J CareyTom Percival|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 to spoil Hitler's visit.|isbn=152941198X}}{{Frontpage|author=Terry Miles|title=Rabbits|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|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 structure, and to the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game of life then. Yes, this is the game of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. People like our hero, K, named like that in 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 it's different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the game is doing, if it'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 the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed...|isbn=1529016932}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1409181669|title=The Maidens|author=Alex MichaelidesWrong Shoes
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|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Danny Will's life is eleven years olddifficult, and what he really, really loves to do is drawin a multitude of ways. He creates fantastical comics, whilst his best friend Ravi adds is bullied because he has 'the words. Dannywrong shoes's dad, however, wants Danny to concentrate on he has the wrong shoes because his maths, dad can't work and forget about doesn't have enough money for even the drawingmost basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he says nobody can make a living from drawing! At least Danny has lost his own roomjob at the college, where he can draw was working a cash-in secret -hand job on a building site and in peacehad an accident. But then one day Throw into that mix the fact that his parents tell him they have a surprise for him, mum and this surprise turns out to be his grandmother who has come over from China to live with themdad are separated, and who will not only be sharing DannyWill's bedroom but she will also be sleeping on the top bunk life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of his bunk bed! hope. Danny He is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no Englishgood at art, and Danny finds himself forced into being her babysitterclings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, and showing her around that feel like a light at the town. Poor Danny, stuck on end of a maths project, frustrated with his bedroom situationlong, and then he even has a falling out with Ravi..dark tunnel.how on earth will things ever get better?!|isbn=180078001X1398527122
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=='''17 JUNE23 MAY'''==
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|author=Joseph KnoxOnyi Nwabineli|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 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 Allow Me 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 ActIntroduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary= British actress Mia Eliot is Anuri spent her childhood on display to the cusp world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of successAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Great success. If the rumours are true, award season Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is going slowly trying to treat regain her wellconfidence and to get her life back, acknowledging suing her step-mother to take down the content about her for . Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her latestPhD, critically acclaimed productionundergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. She's going places but so, unfortunately Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her partner. And the places he's going take him towards lieslittle sister, deceit and a pretty young thing in who is the form new focus of his new co-star. ItOphelia's a good time for Mia to escapeonline empire. Can she save her sister, and pilot season in LA provides just perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the excuse.same time?|isbn=14711897830861546873
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=='''1 JULY4 JUNE'''==
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|author=Darren ShanStuart Douglas|title=Archibald Lox Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=The second trilogy in Shan's ''Merge'' saga opens with our hero, Archie, back in London in the world of the Born. It's not been easy, explaining to his foster parents where he's been, or slipping back into ordinary life and forgetting about Inez and his other friends in the Merge, but Archie has done his best.... well, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Ben's clock tower and except for fiddling with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak away.|isbn=B093H8DPQZ}} =='''8 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Hannah Peck|title=Kate on the CaseDress Rehearsal
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Meet KateDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', although I got leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the impression she'd rather be dead body of a woman on the edge of a Catherine – and one specific Catherine at thatreservoir. For Catherine Rodriguez is Kate's idolThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the author help of our heroine's favourite possessiona fellow actor, ''The Special Correspondent Manual''John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Armed with a plucky fatherThey travel across the country during their days off filming, that bookuncovering more possible murders and, and her talking mouse called Rupertseemingly, she is all equipped to manage a train ride link to death during the Arctic, to see her scientist mother for the first time in yonksSecond World War. However, this But is there really a train ride with a difference, for on board is a greedy-seeming harridan and her cat, a thief – and two glowing eyes, shining from link between the darkness in a blink-and-you'll-miss-them style. deaths? It's definitely a case for a new young investigative journalist...And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=184812970X1803368209
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=='''13 JULY6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Sarah Langan|title=Good Neighbours|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= If you're of a certain vintage, it's hard to read the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a sing-song ''that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. Maple Street is no Ramsay Street, though, Arlo and Gertie live a world apart from the Melbourne suburbs. They're one of 18 households on the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved in a year earlier. They're not quite like all the other families (he's an ex rocker, she's a former beauty queen) but they've made some friends and their kids have settled in, and it's all going ok. Until it isn't. One hot, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up in the park across the way. It's a revolting mess of dirt and chaos, but for the residents of Maple Street, the worst is yet to come.|isbn=1789098211}}=='''14 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Eshman Smith|title=Word of Another Nature|rating=3.5|genre=Politics Kieran Larwood and Society|summary=''Why does mass protest continually fail to fundamentally change thedirection of the modern world?'' This is the question Eshman Smith asks in Word of an Other Nature. He's right to wonder since we as humans often seem to be making a pretty bad job of our efforts to create a world of peace, stability and prosperity for all. |isbn=B093B2L1Z4}} =='''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 postJoe Todd-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}}{{Frontpage|author=Claire NorthStanton|title=Notes from the Burning AgeDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
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|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=At its core ''Notes From the Burning Age'' by Claire North is a spy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or FlemingMeet Kit. However, as with Like most of the best novelspeople in his world, it wears many masks and its most affecting one seems, he is that an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a new team of warrior, mage and timely genrehealer enter specially prepared, clicentury-fiold, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or climate change fictionthe big bad and the points they grant you along the way. North Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's novel tells seen of a world devastated by climate change where humans have the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been forced to start anew retired, eaten, and live alongside nature without any a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the modern goading from the token bully of his world and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons of mass destruction, intensive farming)stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. There is a growing unhappiness with What chance does this limiting worldfriendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and one group, the Brotherhood, aims how could he possibly hope to master these processes no matter the cost to the Earth.succeed?|isbn=03565147571839945184
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=='''3 AUGUST13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Darren Shan1635866847|title=Archibald Lox The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and the Slides of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=So. Having done the impossible and unpicked the lock to the Forgotten CryptIt's strange, from which the Departed communicate with things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the Merge, Archie now has book for you. Before I started reading ''gropThe Lavender Companion'' to think about, I visited the author's [https://www. But before that, soireespinelavenderfarm. Soirees! Archie, much to Inezcom/ website] and there's amusement, doesna picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't even know what one of those iseat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. But he manages to come through (There's a recipe in the fancy party unscathedbook, even after an uncomfortable encounter which I'm avoiding with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was crushed told to make a mess of it. Notes in the first volume margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this seriesbook already. |isbn=B093J9TF73
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=='''5 AUGUST4 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=John Boyne|title=The Echo Chamber|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Meet George Cleverley. He is self-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 child, but then his author wife is getting her kicks with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. They have three children, who are a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save the world's homeless with out-of-date food, and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thing. Add in a few other characters – therapists, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to his life, and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to the modern world. What suggests the farcical approach even more, however, is the fact this is bloody funny.|isbn=0857526219}}
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|author=Louise CandlishMax Boucherat|title=The HeightsLast Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=JuliaWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, our premother at work, just an avidly rule-teen heroinebreaking eleven year old, has been packed off with on her parents and their cat from the family home lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summerblanket fort, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikingsshe has one main intention, and that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating log on to Voxminer, the lanternworld-building, which critter-collecting game that is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career a hit in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland sharkLori's world. And JuliaBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, well, she will be homesick and alone – until then she suddenly finds company one nightsomething even more spooky.|isbn=1510107789}} =='''7 OCTOBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=John Gwynne|title=The Shadow Of The Gods|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods is For the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, when the Gods have battled server she and her bestie and their bones lie scattered for all nobody else should be able to seeenter shows signs of tampering. This story is the ultimate in High Fantasy When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to her safe place in the genregame has been doctored – well, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. This where is a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together girl to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.turn?|isbn=03565142180008666482
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