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 =='''23 APRILMAY'''== 

|author=J Paul HendersonOnyi Nwabineli|title=DaisyAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5

|summary=This is Anuri spent her childhood on display to the story of Herod S. Pinkneyworld, a rather unusual (yet somehow charming) man who is in search of a woman called Daisythanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, whom he first sees in an episode where she posted every step of Judge Judy on television Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and instantly falls , basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in love with her! Rod twenties and she is writing the novel of his questslowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, guided by an embittered exsuing her step-literary agent who mother to take down the content about her. Anuri is now clearing glasses in a pub battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for a livingdoing so. Determined to find and meet DaisyMost importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the book takes us through Rodnew focus of Ophelia's life, introduces us to his friendsonline empire. Can she save her sister, and tells us of what happens in his quest for love.perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=08573033090861546873

|authorisbn= Linda ScottB0CYV674G2|title= The Double X EconomySwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=3.5|genre= Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=''Women are economically disadvantaged in every country It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the world'police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. It's A body at the bottom of a bold statement for an opening chapter, but itfreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's far from hyperbole as the following pages explainbeen stabbed to death. This book shines a light on what DCI John Tanner is happening in different placesjust back from his honeymoon, and which coincided with the impact on birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the local words 'perverse' and world economy'John Tanner' were made for each other. What can be learnt from the great strides in genderHe's sleep-equalising legislation in the west? What can be done about deprived to the selling point of young women into marriage, and what falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can chimpanzees and bonobos teach us about mothering?|isbn=0571353606't get any sleep at home.

 =='''30 APRIL4 JUNE'''==

|isbnauthor=B084H8F2CFStuart Douglas|title=The Body Under Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Bridge|author=Nick LouthDress Rehearsal|rating=43.5

|summary=DCI Craig Gillard was annoyed to be pulled away from the funeral service During location filming for a serving police officerhis 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', particularly when he discovered that he was to take charge leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of the enquiry into a missing woman. Beatrice Ulbricht was twenty-five years old and a student of music at on the Royal College edge of Musica reservoir. She had been due The police seem happy to play with assign it as an accidental death, but something about the other members of the Lysander String Quartet at whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the Church help of St Martin-in-the-Fields but hadn't turned upa fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Gillard didn't understand why his immediate involvement was necessary until Chief Constable Alison Rigby explained that Beatrice's father was Karl-Otto UlbrichtThey travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, Germany's Minister of Justicea link to death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

 =='''5 MAY6 JUNE'''== 

|author= Maggie TokudaKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-HallStanton|title= The Mermaid, the Witch and the SeaDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating= 54|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= On the pirate ship Dove, Flora the girl has assumed the identity Meet Kit. Like most of Florian the man people in his world, it seems, he is an attempt to fit in with avid fan of Dungeon Running – the crew. Life is hard as sport where a pirateteam of warrior, trust mage and empathy are the first things to be discardedhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, but anything has and race to be better than starving on the streets. Meanwhileexit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the young Lady Evelyn Hasegawa boards points they grant you along the Doveway. Unfortunately for Kit, headed off to be married to a military man shethe only thing he's never met seen of the latest race on some far-flung colony the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the Nipran Empiregoading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. Neither of them expects to be thrown together by fate What chance does this friendless, never mind fall muscle-free-zone have in love…actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=15362043151839945184

 =='''7 MAY13 JUNE'''== 

|authorisbn=Patrick Ness1635866847|title=Burn|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=''On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957 - the very day, in fact, that Dwight David Eisenhower took the oath of office for the second time as President of the United States of America - Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father in the parking lot of the Chevron gas station for the dragon he'd hired to help on the farm.''It's 1950s America but not as we know it. In this alternate US, there is still a Cold War with the Russians, still a concomitant arms race. And the stain of racism is just as crushing - something mixed-race Sarah and her Japanese American friend Jason are only too well aware of. As is the deeply unpleasant town deputy, Kelby. But one thing is ''very'' different. In this alternate world, there are dragons. The dragons live in an uneasy peace with humans and communication is minimal. But a few of these winged creatures do hire out their labour to human in return for gold - they are dragons, after all.Poor Frankie! |isbn= 1406375500}}{{FrontpageLavender Companion|author= Angela Woolfe|title= Roxy and Jones: The Great Fairytale Cover-Up|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= After her father gets married for the umpteenth time, Roxy Humperdinck is sent to live with her half-sister Gretel in Rexopolis, the capital city of the Kingdom of Illustria. Gretel works as a toilet cleaner for the Ministry of Soup. Why does a country like Illustria need an entire ministry dedicated to soup, you ask? Well, after Roxy finds a secret passage in her bathroom and meets a snarky young woman known only as Jones, she soon finds out why. Turns out, fairy tales are real, Jessica Dunham and the Ministry’s official job is to safeguard all knowledge of them and monitor the living fairy tales. And, when an evil queen breaks out of a maximum-security prison and threatens to reinstate her reign of terror, Roxy and Jones hold the fate of the world in their young hands…so, no pressure then!|isbn=1406391379}}{{Frontpage|author=Kat Dunn|title=Dangerous RemedyTerry Barlin Vesci

|genre=TeensLifestyle|summary= It's Parisstrange, 1794the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Revolution is five years old and the country in the midst of violent political turmoil between the RevolutionariesLavender Companion'', trying to maintain their control by whatever means necessary, and I visited the Royalists, still loyal to monarchy intentauthor's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm. Caught in a no mancom/ website] and there's land between the two warring factions is the Battalion a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the Deadhomepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. Led by a disillusioned revolutionary (There's daughter, the band of outcasts have made a name for themselves rescuing innocent citizens from recipe in the violent fallout. But they may have gotten in over their heads with their latest rescuebook, Olympe, a girl which I'm avoiding with a disturbing history some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and powers that might just I was told to make her a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the spark corners of pages. You suspect that blows up the powder-keg smears of revolutionary Parisbutter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already. |isbn=1789543649

=='''14 MAY4 JULY'''== 

|author= Alison WeirMax Boucherat|title= Six Tudor Queens: Katheryn Howard The Tainted QueenLast Life of Lori Mills|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical FictionConfident Readers|summary= We meet Lori on the first evening she''Katheryn was seven when her s got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother died''at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, thus we are thrust into this tumultuous time on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in young Katheryn's lifea blanket fort, she has one main intention, trying and that is to find a homelog on to Voxminer, both figuratively and literallythe world-building, where she can grow and grievecritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. Unfortunately But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, Katheryn is followed by bad luck and then she learns an important lesson, finds something even more spooky. For the server she is too young, too poor and too unimportant her bestie and nobody else should be able to be enter shows signs of any value to anyonetampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, but she is beautiful and surely, that will count for something her safe place in the endgame has been doctored – well, won't itwhere is a girl to turn?|isbn=14722277780008666482

|author= Hana TookeJenny Lecoat|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}}{{Frontpage|author= Abi Elphinstone|title= Jungle Drop (The Unmapped Chronicles)|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Abi Elphinstone has said that she connects with her world-building through her characters. In an interview with [Books For Keeps], she described visualising her characters "wearing head torches which gradually reveal the world they are seeing to her and to the reader." Just as the darkness of a mine is cut through by a spear of light so too do quarrelsome Fox and Fibber get their first glimpse of the phantasmagorical glow-in-the-dark realm of Jungle Drop when they emerge through the mouth of a Dragon on the Here and There Express. Running from the opprobrium of their demanding and selfish parents, they must address what is in their hearts to find what they seek.|isbn= 1471173682}} =='''21 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 MistryBeyond Summerland

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=When we first meet him Stefan Marcovici has been in the UK Jean lives on Jersey 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.}} =='''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 where they are celebrating the end of high schoolthe occupation. Things keep piling up for Rosie, and when she follows a stray dog into what she thinks is an abandoned castle in her town During the war, things just get worse. Rosie accidentally destroys a rare book and with her motherJean's hospital and funeral costs she has no money to cover the damage. She finds herself working father was arrested for Vance Reigns, Hollywood royalty on a paparazzi escape, listening to repay the debt.  For most Starfield superfans this would be a dream but Rosie soon realises Vance is a jerk - banned radio and he isn't too fond of her either. Howeversoldiers took him away one night, as the two are forced to get to know each other, their guards begin to lower leaving Jean and they discover that maybe this situation might not be so terrible after all. |isbn=1683691938}} =='''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 the trauma and heartache her mother waiting for years for news of being a woman in 1980s Nigeriahim. The title is ''Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right''. Ogadinma is As the eponymous heroine of British finally free the story. We are with her in every scene and it is her narrative voice that leads Channel islands from the storyNazis, although Olisakwe writes in the third person. This provides a sense of detachment for the reader and highlights the isolation of Ogadinma. She war is exiled from her father's home and sent to Lagos where she is married to an older man named Tobe. Their marriage descends into violence and indignities and Ogadinma must utilise her resourcefulness to escape.|isbn=1911648160}} =='''9 JULY'''== {{Frontpage|author= Helly Acton|title= The Shelf|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= When we meet Amyfinally over, she's in a relationship with Jamie. You can't really call it a partnership, because things tend to get done on his terms, but she's sticking around because she their hopes she can change rise that they will finally learn what became of him. Ah But will the truth come as a relief, yes. Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to pack for a surprise trip. Could this be or will itraise further questions around what else happened during the war? Is he ''finally'' going to get down on one knee Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? Was the work (and And what other secrets have been kept throughout the wait) worth itoccupation?|isbn=18387708791846976537