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=='''23 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for 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 take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873}}=='''30 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Swanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.}}=='''15 OCTOBER4 JUNE'''==
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|isbn=0356512479|author= Alix E HarrowStuart Douglas|title= The Once Lowe and Future WitchesLe Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating= 3.5|genre= FantasyCrime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'ThereFloggit and Leggit's no such thing , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as witchesan accidental death, but there used to be.'' In 1893something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, after the purges and he enlists the burningshelp of a fellow actor, witching has been reduced John Le Breton to little help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more than weak charms possible murders and simple spells, seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. If women want But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to hold power in uncover who is responsible before more people lose their hands, to have their voices heard, it is now through women's suffrage.lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Onjali Q RaufKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Night Bus Dungeon Runners: HeroTrial|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Hector is a bullyMeet Kit. Egged on by Like most of the people in his two 'friends'world, it seems, he takes other children's sweetsis an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, harasses mage and threatenshealer enter specially prepared, century-old, plays pranks at schoolmagical mazes, and gets into trouble at every turnrace to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Yet Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he finds himself frustrated when something actually isn't his faults seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, but then he isn't believed as everyone expects him to be telling liesand a new trio of questors is needed. Nothing seems fair. His parents are barely homePossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, and seem he has taken to only care about the goading from the token bully of his perfect sister world and his annoying little brother when they are, and his teachers have abandoned him stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a lost causeteam. So what happens whenWhat chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in trying to tell the truth & fight to be believed, Hector finds himself embroiled with the police; first trying to accuseactually managing that, and then trying how could he possibly hope to save a homeless man from his local parksucceed?|isbn=15101067741839945184
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=='''29 OCTOBER13 JUNE'''== 
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|authorisbn=Caroline Scott1635866847|title=When I Come Home AgainThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical FictionLifestyle|summary=1918 and a young man is arrested in Durham Cathedral. He refuses to give a nameIt's strange, no matter how hard they push he will not say who he the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this isthe book for you. Eventually, they determine this isn Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion''t willful obstinance, he doesnI visited the author't answer because he doesns [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there't knows a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. He remembers being on the road for a long time and being frightened, I don't eat cakes and some of the faces from the road, desserts - but other than I wanted that – everything that came before has gonecake viscerally. They need (There's a name for recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the forms and so they call him Adam book and, because he I was found told to make a mess of it. Notes in the Galilee Chapel, it becomes Adam Galileemargins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. A fanciful name for You suspect that smears of butter would not be a tired young man in a dishevelled uniform who doesnproblem. I ''loved''t know who he is, where he is or how he got therethis book already.|isbn=1471192172
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=='''1 NOVEMBER4 JULY'''== 
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|author= Susi Holliday Max Boucherat|title= The Last Resort Life of Lori Mills|rating= 34.5 |genre= ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=A group of strangers gather We meet Lori on a private island. They have been invited the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an allavidly rule-expenses paid retreat to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology companybreaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. The group includes What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a games designerblanket fort, social media influencershe has one main intention, gossip columnist and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to have an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence is a mystery. We follow the group as they explore the islandto log on to Voxminer, and each other's histories and it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hidden. As the clock ticks downworld-building, these wellcritter-kept secrets are revealed, and it soon becomes clear collecting game that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cagehit in Lori's world. In But first Lori has a race against timetiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, Amelia must struggle to uncover and then she finds something even more spooky. For the reason for server she and her attendance bestie and protect the rest nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall themtampering. |isbn=1542020018}}  =='''12 NOVEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|author= Claire McGowan|title=The Push|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Six mums-to-be meet at a prenatal class. It's NCT ''style'' When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, but not and her safe place in the proper NCT. This bit game has been doctored – well, where is important, but you have to wait a little girl to see why. This being London, such a class attracts a wide variety of people, from all sorts of backgrounds, but for most of the ladies the thing they have in common is it's their first baby. Probably after the first one, you don't have time for classes, or think you've got child-rearing down pat.turn?|isbn=15420199900008666482
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=='''4 FEBRUARY 2021'''==
 
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|author=Helen FisherJenny Lecoat|title=Space HopperBeyond Summerland|rating=3.54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Faye lost Jean lives on Jersey with her mum when she was very youngmother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. She During the war, Jean's father was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from arrested for listening to a cold that got worsebanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and although they were kind and very good to her she mother waiting for years for news of course missed her mum enormouslyhim. So when, unexpectedly, she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) that takes her back to As the British finally free the Channel islands from the 70's and her mumNazis, she revels in the chance to create some memories and get to know the woman who meant so much to her. The time travelling, however, war is neither easy nor safefinally over, and Faye fears their hopes rise that her husband won't believe they will finally learn what's happening and so lies to became of him instead. The lies grow more tangled, and Faye begins to wonder if it's safe for her to return one last time to But will the past. Should she try to see her mum one last time before her mum's deathtruth come as a relief, or will it change her own future forever to attempt itraise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=14711886631846976537
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