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 =='''3 MARCH23 MAY'''== {{Frontpage|author=Sara Holland|title=Havenfall|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= Maddie Morrow is supposed to spending the summer with her Grandma Ellen. But after a visit to her mother in prison, Maddie wants nothing more than to go to Havenfall to see her uncle, Marcus. It's the only place she feels truly at home. Maddie's father, understandably, is not keen on Maddie spending time with her mother's family - because the crime Maddie's mum is languishing on death row for committing is the murder of Maddie's brother...|isbn=1547603798 }}
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|author=Marie O'Regan and Paul Kane (editors)Onyi Nwabineli|title=Cursed: An Anthology of Dark Fairy TalesAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary=Curses. They're there throughout tales of faery and other fantastical folk – people being cursed Anuri spent her childhood on display to do thisthe world, or not thanks to be able to do that. Children can be cursedher step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, as can princesses on the verge where she posted every step of marrying, and older people too. It seems in a way thereAnuri's no escaping itchildhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Which Now Anuri is why the theme of this book of short stories is such a standout – we may well think we know all there in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to know about this accursed characterget her life back, that demonised place, and that other bewitched person. We'd be very wrong.|isbn=1789091500}}  =='''5 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0571342353|title=Rules for Perfect Murders|author=Peter Swanson|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Malcolm Kershaw was the cosuing her step-owner and manager of mother to take down the Old Devils Bookstore on Beacon Hill in Bostoncontent about her. The store specialises in crime novelsAnuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, but Mal has given up reading crimeundergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. His life's been pretty chaotic of late: It's five years since his wifeMost importantly, Claire Malloryshe is desperately worried about her little sister, died and hewho is the new focus of Ophelia's never really got over itonline empire. She was driving whilst inebriatedCan she save her sister, having just been to see and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the man with whom Kershaw suspected she was having an affair. His interest in crime fiction comes back when he's approached by Special Agent Gwen Mulvey. She's interested in a blog post he wrote a few years ago: '' My Eight Perfect Murders''.same time?|isbn=0861546873
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=='''30 MAY'''==
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|isbn=1786897148B0CYV674G2|title=Bobby March Will Live Forever Swanton Morley (Harry McCoyJohn Tanner)|author=Alan ParksDavid Blake|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=In February 1964 Bobby March was on his way to London with fellow band members TomIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, Scottcovered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, Barry and Jamie. He'd had to get his father to sign comes into the contract for The Beatkickers, as Bobby wasnpolice station shouting that he hasn't old enoughkilled the man. And his father had been reluctant A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he'd have preferred Bobby s been stabbed to get an apprenticeship, for the regular moneydeath. By July 1973 Bobby DCI John Tanner is just back in Glasgowfrom his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. The Beatkickers didnYou would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse't survive and March is on his own, but hardly thriving'John Tanner' were made for each other. ThereHe's an obvious drug habit. Meanwhile, sleep-deprived to the police are consumed by the search for a missing girl, Alice Kellypoint of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=B083NMCSZXStuart Douglas|title=Little Doubt (D I Kelly Porter)|author=Rachel LynchLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ella Watson was in the wrong place at the wrong time. She was out running in the park when she was randomly attacked During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and stabbed to death. Her husbandLeggit', Thomas, and children, Jordan and Millie were devastated and Detective Superintendent Neil Ormond was outraged that leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a decent, middle-class woman should be on the victim of knife crime. Despite being a golfing partner edge of Thomas Jordan he declined to distance himself from the case and told DI Kelly Porter that he would be taking a great deal of interest in how the case was handledreservoir. He wasn't anywhere near The police seem happy to assign it as interested when a second woman was stabbed to an accidental death a few hours later. Keira Bradley lived on , but something about the Beacon estate whole thing bothers Lowe, and Ormond's view seemed to be that anyone living there should expect this sort he enlists the help of thing a fellow actor, John Le Breton to happenhelp him investigate matters further. He could hardly bring himself to mention Keira's name.}} =='''12 MARCH'''== {{Frontpage|author=Will Dean |title=Black River |rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Tuva Moodyson returns - and this third book in They travel across the Tuva Moodyson mystery series delves deep into her personal lifecountry during their days off filming, returning her to the isolated town of Gavrik uncovering more possible murders and into , seemingly, a desperate search for her missing best friend. With link to death during the Midsommar sun blocked out by the dark pines of the forest, Tuva fights to save her friendSecond World War. But who’ll be is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to save Tuvauncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=17860771161803368209
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Elliot ReedKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=A Key to Treehouse LivingDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=This is Meet Kit. Like most of the story of a young boypeople in his world, William Tyceit seems, who he is being raised by his uncle after an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the death sport where a team of his mother warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and his father's abandonment. Howeverrace to the exit, it isn't told in perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the usual narrative way. InsteadUnfortunately for Kit, the book only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is made up of glossary entriesthat one team has been retired, written by Williameaten, as and a way new trio of describing certain eventsquestors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, situations he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and emotionsstumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. It runs alphabeticallyWhat chance does this friendless, starting with ABSENCEmuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, then moving and how could he possibly hope to ALPHABETICAL ORDER. As I began to read I did find myself thinking 'what on earthsucceed?!' but I soon grew used to the style, and was instead caught up in William's story.|isbn=19115454181839945184
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 =='''26 MARCH13 JUNE'''== 
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|authorisbn= N K Jemisin1635866847|title= The City We BecameLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating= 4.5|genre= Science FictionLifestyle|summary= New York It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is being bornthe book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the city has reached critical mass author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and has matured into there's a picture of a living almostslice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts -breathing entity but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and is ready I was told to make its way out into the world. Before it can be established, an ancient evil appears to attempt to destroy a mess of it just as it destroyed Atlantis and other forgotten places. The city is not alone through the birthing process, people who embody Notes in the values margins are selected sanctioned. You get to become fold down the living embodiment corners of the city, some cities have one, some have twelve and New York has sixpages. Together these human-embodiments must defeat the woman in white and save New York from very real destruction You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. But these are five different boroughs which don I ''loved't always see eye to eye, it's a personality clash on an epic scale and unity is both critical and not remotely guaranteedthis book already.|isbn=0356512665
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=='''31 MARCH4 JULY'''== 
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|author=Rob HarrellMax Boucherat|title=WinkThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=When Ross is diagnosed with a rare form of cancerWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, aged 12babysitter poorly, his desperate attempts mother at school to work, just be 'normal' become impossiblean avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. Suddenly he is the cancer kidWhat could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, and everything he does, how he looksshe has one main intention, and how he behaves falls under the scrutiny of the other kids in school. Ross that isto log on to Voxminer, understandablythe world-building, angry. He critter-collecting game that is facing potential blindness, whilst dealing with an eye sealed a hit in a permanent winkLori's world. He But first Lori has gloopy eye medicine to try to help with the paina tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, plus and then she finds something even more spooky. For the need server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to wear a hat at all times to protect his face due to the ongoing treatmententer shows signs of tampering. With the sudden ghosting by one of his best friendsWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and a series of horrible memes that someone at school creates about Rossher safe place in the game has been doctored – well, nothing about his life where is normal any more, and he has to find new ways a girl to deal with his feelings, and survive.turn?|isbn=14714091470008666482
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=='''2 APRIL'''==
 
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|author= Ben OliverJenny Lecoat|title= The LoopBeyond Summerland|rating= 3.54|genre= TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= Set during Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the aftermath end of a Third World War where methods of punishment the occupation. During the war, Jean's father was arrested for criminal activities have been amped up listening to a horrific level by machines, The Loop follows the precarious existence of adolescent Luka Kane. In a world of Have banned radio and Have Nots where Alts [cyborgs] have power over Regulars, he is trapped inside a living hell with no chance of escape. A detonator has been sewn inside his heart connecting soldiers took him to a trigger held by the guards who can end his life with away one squeeze. Luka is taunted by limited access to his memories night, leaving Jean and relentlessly drained of energy through a gruelling daily torture ritual. Doomed to Delay [a risky medical trial where he is a guinea pig her mother waiting for years for Alts in place news of execution] after Delay he is in despairhim. His prison is based on As the model of an infinity loop designed to make its inmates suffer. With British finally free the only glimmers of hope being Channel islands from the rumours of rebellion outside and the visits of sympathetic Alt guard WrenNazis, can Luka ever be free? Why has he been imprisoned? What waits for him if he can break the loop?|isbn=1912626551}} =='''7 APRIL'''== {{Frontpage|author= Grady Hendrix|title= The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires|rating= 5|genre= Horror|summary= Women, by and large, have always been the subjugated sex. Throughout history, they have been confined to mere bit players who occasionally help hold up the powerful man and let nothing stand in his way. Grady Hendrix's new novel ''The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires'' gives women their due. It war is an ode to the strong selfless housewife. Hendrix illustrates this by having them go toe to toe with a predatory male vampire who moves into their quiet cul de sac.|isbn=1683691431}} =='''15 APRIL'''== {{Frontpage|isbn=1781129312|title=Sequin and Stitch|author=Laura Dockrill and Sara Ogilvie (illustrator)|rating=5|genre=Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Sequin loved her mum to bitsfinally over, but sometimes she got very cross with her. It wasn't that mum wouldn't go outside their flat - Sequin coped with hopes rise that - it was because she never pushed to get credit for they will finally learn what she did. Mum is a seamstress and she makes the sort became of clothes that you see on red carpets or at important weddingshim. She's not But will the designer - they're the people who make truth come as a lot of money from relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the clothes. war? Mum is Who was the person informer who actually ''makes'' told the garments and she's really talented, but when people talk Nazis about the dress or radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the suit, they talk about the designer. The seamstress is never mentioned.occupation?|isbn=1846976537
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{{Frontpage
|author=Akala
|title=The Dark Lady
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=''For a street kid from the Devil's Gap, London's most notorious slum, life is short and tough. For Henry, a boy thief with brown skin inherited from a mother who abandoned him, life is tougher still. The Dark Lady enters his dreams at night. She seems to represent a past, and possibly a future...''
Henry and his friends, brother and sister Matthew and Mary, have various ways of getting by. Sometimes they pickpockets. Sometimes they rob the houses of the rich. It's crime or starve - but crime is dangerous and they risk the terrible punishments of Elizabethan England if they are caught. Impossible choices. But there are pleasures too, and for Henry, the chief pleasure is the Globe Theatre and the plays of William Shakespeare. Henry loves language and often makes up sonnets about what he sees around him and how he feels. |isbn= 1444943693
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=='''14 MAY'''==
 
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|author= Alison Weir
|title= Six Tudor Queens: Katheryn Howard The Tainted Queen
|rating= 4
|genre= Historical Fiction
|summary= ''Katheryn was seven when her mother died'', thus we are thrust into this tumultuous time in young Katheryn's life, trying to find a home, both figuratively and literally, where she can grow and grieve. Unfortunately, Katheryn is followed by bad luck and she learns an important lesson, she is too young, too poor and too unimportant to be of any value to anyone, but she is beautiful and surely, that will count for something in the end, won't it?
|isbn=1472227778
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{{Frontpage
|author= Hana Tooke
|title= The Unadoptables
|rating= 5
|genre= Confident Readers
|summary= In the winter of 1880, five babies are abandoned at the Little Tulip orphanage in Amsterdam, much to the annoyance of matron Gasbeek. Twelve years later, Milou, the last of the five babies to be abandoned back in that winter, struggles to work out the identity of her parents from the clues she was abandoned with: a small coffin with claw-marks on the outside, a cat doll made by someone called Bram Poppenmaker and a velvet blanket. She, along with the other four, patiently wait for Milou's parents to come back and take her home. However, when the five children are sold to the dodgy merchant Meneer Rotman, they know they have to escape. And so begins the adventure of a lifetime as the Unadoptables join forces to reunite Milou with her parents, all the time being pursued by the Kinderbureau and Rotman…
|isbn=0241417465
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