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 =='''21 9 MAY'''== {{Frontpage|author= Maryse Condé|title= The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= We live in a post-world: post-colonialism, post-modernism, post-truth. The list goes on. There are numerous works that utilise the prefix post- in their categorisation, but perhaps none more so than Maryse Condé. In her new novel, ''The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana'', Condé writes with fervour about the scars left by colonialism on the countries to which it latched itself. Ivan and Ivana are twins born in Guadeloupe, a French overseas department. They grow up with intense and passionate feelings for each other. As they grow up and move overseas, the ravages of a post-colonial society drive them apart with tragic consequences.|isbn=1642860697}} =='''24 MAY'''== {{Frontpage|isbn=B083Z3ZZ61|title=Broken Silence (DS Nikki Parekh 2)|author=Liz Mistry|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=When we first meet him Stefan Marcovici has been in the UK with his daughter Maria for a while. He came expecting to work as a gardener and Maria was to be a nanny. Stefan ends up doing slave labour in a chicken factory: you can imagine what happens to an eighteen-year-old girl.}} =='''26 MAY'''== {{Frontpage|isbn=1787477681|title=A Shooting at Chateau Rock (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It was a couple of days after old Driant's funeral that Bruno Courrèges got an angry phone call from his son. Gaston's father had sold the family farm in order to buy an insurance policy which he had used to secure a life of luxury at an expensive retirement home near Sarlat, owned by a Russian oligarch. Before he even got to go there he died, apparently of a heart attack, and the retirement home collected the proceeds of the policy and Gaston and Claudette Driant were left with just the contents of the farmhouse. The family hadn't exactly fallen out, but Gaston lived some way away and Claudette had fallen out of favour when she announced that she was gay, but they weren't expecting to be almost completely disinherited.}}{{Frontpage|author=Amin Maalouf|title=The Disoriented|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Adam has lived in Paris for years, speaks French more easily than his native Arabic. In fact he hasn't been back to his homeland for 25 years. An old friend is dying…or as Adam prefers to think of him a former-friend, perhaps not as harsh as an ex-friend, or maybe. The falling out was a long time ago, and Adam's partner has no idea what it was about, even so she urges him to go knowing that he'll regret not doing so. Not knowing whether he's going because he needs or wants to, or simply because he was asked, he's on the next plane. |isbn=B07ZQSK9CY}} =='''28 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0008273790|title=Remain Silent|author=Susie Steiner|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=When we first meet Matis and Dimitri, Matis is in a bad way, vomiting and obviously traumatised. When he's able to speak he tells Dimitri that ''Lukas is dead''. Lukas was in his late teens and he and Matis had come to Cambridgeshire from Klaipeda in Lithuania. They'd answered an advert offering good money and accommodation in return for their labour: they could have a decent life ''and'' send money home to their families. Sadly, it doesn't work out like that. When they arrive in the UK - on an old, uncomfortable bus, - they're dropped at a filthy house where several men have to share rooms and sleep on dirty mattresses on the floor. It's modern slavery, which isn't uncommon amongst agricultural workers.}}=='''29 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=B07S6DBCFT|title=Little Girls Tell Tales|author=Rachel Bennett|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=In 2004 Rosalie, Beth and Dallin were walking in the boggy wetlands by Rosalie and Dallin's cottage. Beth and Dallin, both twelve-years-old, got ahead of ten-year-old Rosalie and it wasn't long before she realised that she was lost. Trying to find her way back to the main path she found a skeleton, but when she finally got to the road she could never find her way back to the bog when she'd seen the body. Most people didn't believe her, putting the story down to her vivid imagination.}}=='''2 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=Pronko|title=Tokyo Traffic (Detective Hiroshi)|author=Michael Pronko|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=There were three young women, girls really if you wanted to be pedantic about their ages. Sukayana was Thai and she'd come to Japan in the belief that she'd be able to pick up the documentation to get to the States. Celeste was just fourteen and when we meet her she's already dead of a heart attack caused by an overdose of amphetamines. Then there's Ratana, who's the de facto leader of the group, but she's disappeared too with the group's passports, leaving Sukayana in the midst of a scene of carnage at the Jack and Jill Studios. The dead bodies are definitely not props though.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0727889230|title=The Red, Red Snow|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=In Glasgow, Eric Callaghan of Inkermann Tattoo Parlour had been to the ice show with his wife, Geraldine and daughter, Lisa when he was stabbed in Planet Burger. He died within minutes, but his murder seemed motiveless and there were no clues. He was a genuine man and a talented artist: those investigating his death had hit a dead end. There were two deaths to investigate in the north of Scotland: it wasn't thought wise to involve the local murder team as someone on the Glen Riske police force was indirectly involved in the case. Christmas - and a lot of snow were rapidly approaching.}} =='''16 JUNE'''== {{Frontpage|author= Ashley Poston|title= Bookish and the Beast|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary= Set after the ExcelsiCon, we are introduced to Rosie Thorne, a Small Town, USA girl who has recently lost her mother and is entering her final year of high school. Things keep piling up for Rosie, and when she follows a stray dog into what she thinks is an abandoned castle in her town, things just get worse. Rosie accidentally destroys a rare book and with her mother's hospital and funeral costs she has no money to cover the damage. She finds herself working for Vance Reigns, Hollywood royalty on a paparazzi escape, to repay the debt.  For most Starfield superfans this would be a dream but Rosie soon realises Vance is a jerk - and he isn't too fond of her either. However, as the two are forced to get to know each other, their guards begin to lower and they discover that maybe this situation might not be so terrible after all. |isbn=1683691938}}

|author= Joan HeTom Percival|title= Descendant of the CraneThe Wrong Shoes

|genre= FantasyConfident Readers|summary=Will''Heroes cannot be forged without villains''Princess Hesina s life is difficult, in a multitude of the kingdom of Yan ways. He is bullied because he has never wanted 'the throne. Instead of craving powerwrong shoes', she he has always considered the crown her inescapable duty wrong shoes because his dad can't work and shrank away from doesn't have enough money for even the responsibilities most basic of being Queen. To herthings like food, it has always been a distant, faraway future. Until that is, it isnand his dad can't. When her beloved father suddenly dies, she is thrust into ruling. But contrary to work because he lost his job at the official report, Hesina knows all is not as it seemscollege, her father didn't die. He was murderedworking a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident.Determined to seek Throw into that mix the truth fact that his mum and dad are separated, and discover her fatherWill's killerlife seems bleak in every direction. And yet, Princess Hesina will stop he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at nothing art, and clings to find justice, even committing treason. Under the cover moments of darknessjoy when he is drawing, her feet lead her to that feel like a soothsayer to learn what happened that day and who killed light at the Kingend of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=17890940461398527122

|author=Lun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)Onyi Nwabineli|title=Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered HopesAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|genre=Graphic NovelsGeneral Fiction|summary=I never really followed the events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it was playing out – someone in Anuri spent her childhood on display to the second half of their teens has other prioritiesworld, you know. I certainly didnthanks to her step-mother Ophelia't know s increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of the weeks of protests Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre influencer deals and the birth of the Tank Man image, I didn't know how the area had long been a venue for political protestbasically, and I didn't know more than a spit about the people involved on either sidemonetary gain. This book Now Anuri is practically flawless in giving a general browser's context for the whole season of protests her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back in 1989.|isbn=1684056993}} =='''18 JUNE'''== {{Frontpage|author= Ukamaka Olisakwe|title= Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= The new novel by Ukamaka Olisakwe is a look at suing her step-mother to take down the trauma and heartache of being a woman in 1980s Nigeriacontent about her. The title Anuri is ''Ogadinma Orbattling alcoholism, Everything Will Be All Right''. Ogadinma is the eponymous heroine of the story. We are with failing to start her in every scene PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and it receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her narrative voice that leads the storylittle sister, although Olisakwe writes in who is the third person. This provides a sense of detachment for the reader and highlights the isolation new focus of Ogadinma. She is exiled from her fatherOphelia's home and sent to Lagos where online empire. Can she is married to an older man named Tobe. Their marriage descends into violence save her sister, and indignities perhaps herself and Ogadinma must utilise her resourcefulness to escape.relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=19116481600861546873

=='''25 4 JUNE'''==

|isbnauthor=1780899858Stuart Douglas|title=To Tell You Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Truth|author=Gilly MacmillanDress Rehearsal|rating=43.5

|summary=When Lucy Bewley was nine-years-old she crept out During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of the house a woman on the night edge of the summer solstice to watch the pagan celebrations in Stoke Woodsa reservoir. Her four-year-old brotherThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, Teddybut something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, would have woken and he enlists the house if she hadn't taken help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him with herinvestigate matters further. But in They travel across the early hours of the morningcountry during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, Lucy returned home without Teddyseemingly, hoping that he would have got home before her. He hadn't and no one has seen him since. Lucy's story was crucial a link to death during the police investigation, but it keeps subtly changingSecond World War. Lucy But is being advised by her imaginary friend, Eliza Grey and Eliza says that there are certain things which Lucy must not tell really a link between the police.deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

|isbnauthor=B0859115X5Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Lies to Tell (DI Clare Mackay)|author=Marion ToddDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=When we meet up with DI Clare Mackay again she's at Daisy Cottage on the outskirts of St Andrews with her English Bull Terrier, BenjyMeet Kit. She's just had a postcard from Geoffrey Dark and he's Like most of the people in Provincetownhis world, Cape Cod. He wishes that she was thereit seems, but Clare's struggling to think of what he ''actually'' is to her now. Is he her boyfriend? Her exan avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-boyfriend? She can't work it out old, magical mazes, and thinks that Geoffrey probably can't either. Work's about race to get very busy the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and she can't work out why DCI Alastair Gibson has cancelled a meeting she'd arranged without discussing it with her firstthe points they grant you along the way. They're off somewhere top secret.}} =='''9 JULY'''== {{Frontpage|author= Helly Acton|title= The Shelf|rating= 4|genre= WomenUnfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's Fiction|summary= When we meet Amyseen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, she's in and a relationship with Jamienew trio of questors is needed. You can't really call it a partnership Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, because things tend he has taken to get done on the goading from the token bully of his terms, but she's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, yes. Havenworld and stumbled into declaring he't we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to pack for ll enter as a surprise tripteam. Could What chance does this be it? Is friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he ''finally'' going possibly hope to get down on one knee? Was the work (and the wait) worth itsucceed?|isbn=18387708791839945184

|authorisbn=Kat Ellis1635866847|title=Harrow LakeThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=TeensLifestyle|summary=When we first meet 17-year-old LolaIt's strange, daughter to legendary horror movie director Nolan Nox, she the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is saying goodbye to New York City - by sneaking out and stealing from its residentsthe book for you. But when she is found by her father Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's assistant [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and forced to come home, she arrives to find an unlocked door, there's a picture of a trail slice of blood, and her father dying in his study. And so, while he recovers, she is sent off to live with her grandmother in Harrow Lake, chocolate cake on the small 1920s town in Indiana that served as the location for the film that made her parents famoushomepage. But something about this place isn I don't righteat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a darkness inside recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the people here. Secrets about her mother book and dark tales I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the town's cannibal monster 'Mister Jitters' fill every corner, and disturbing happenings plague Lolamargins are sanctioned. But with every passing hour, secrets long buried come painfully You get to light and she begins to think fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that these stories may smears of butter would not be stories at all, and something very real and sinister lurks in Harrow Lakea problem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=0241397049

=='''20 AUGUST4 JULY'''== 

|author=Jacqueline WilsonMax Boucherat|title=Love FrankieThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|summary=Set in England in We meet Lori on the aftermath of World War One, this is first evening she's got the story of two childrenhouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, Lotti and Benbabysitter poorly, who have lost everyone they lovemother at work, but don't want to let go of their lastjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, tiny glimpses of hopeon her lonesome. Ben What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is living on a narrowboat to log on to Voxminer, the canalworld-building, lying to the police about his brothercritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's imminent return from the battlefields to take care of himworld. Lotti, meanwhile, But first Lori has been expelled from school and is back at home; it's a beautiful house tiny inkling that belongs to this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her but that her terrible Aunt own, and Uncle currently have guardianship forthen she finds something even more spooky. The day Lotti meets Ben (For the day server she steals a dog!) is the beginning and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of a deep, and powerful friendshiptampering. It sees them become each other's familyWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and undertake a perilous trip to France, her safe place in the boatgame has been doctored – well, where is a girl to try to find out the truth of the people they both love.turn?|isbn=05713487690008666482