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=='''10 JUNE23 MAY'''==

|author=C J CareyOnyi Nwabineli|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 Allow Me to spoil Hitler's visit.|isbn=152941198X}}{{Frontpage|author=Terry Miles|title=RabbitsIntroduce Myself

|summary=Veronica is a devoted single mother Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her sonstep-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, Sebastian - but where she can't give him everything he wants. Sebastian has decided that itposted every step of Anuri's time childhood for him 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 have sextake down the content about her. But as an autistic 20 year-old Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, that's easier said than doneundergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. And it Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's starting to cause them both problemsonline empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=19131937130861546873

|isbn=1409181669B0CYV674G2|title=The MaidensSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Alex MichaelidesDavid Blake|rating=3.5

|summary=Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders It seemed like an open-and looked likely to get away with them both-shut case. She needed to think carefully about what she knew A man, covered in mud and decide how she should proceed. Everything blood - or so she thought - had begun with and carrying a knife, comes into the death of Tara Hampton on police station shouting that he hasn't killed the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridgeman. SheA body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he'd s been brutally stabbed and Mariana's nieceto death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, Zoe, had telephoned her in distresswhich coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. Tara had been her best friend and she was struggling to cope. Mariana wasnYou would think he't d be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse'entirelyand 'John Tanner' happy about having to go to Cambridge, but she caught the first fast train from King's Cross. Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all the more so by the death of Marianafor each other. He's husband, Sebastian, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after sleep-deprived to the death point of Zoefalling asleep at work but he's mother and Marianadetermined to keep going - probably because he can's sister, Elizat get any sleep at home.

|author=Maisie ChanStuart Douglas|title=Danny Chung Does Not Do MathsLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Danny is eleven years old, During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and what he reallyLeggit', really loves to do is draw. He creates fantastical comics, whilst his best friend Ravi adds leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the wordsedge of a reservoir. Danny's dad, however, wants Danny The police seem happy to concentrate on his mathsassign it as an accidental death, and forget but something about the drawingwhole thing bothers Lowe, because and he says nobody can make enlists the help of a living from drawing! At least Danny has his own roomfellow actor, where he can draw in secret and in peaceJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. But then one day his parents tell him they have a surprise for himThey travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and this surprise turns out to be his grandmother who has come over from China , seemingly, a link to live with them, and who will not only be sharing Danny's bedroom but she will also be sleeping on death during the top bunk of his bunk bed! Second World War. Danny But is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no English, and Danny finds himself forced into being her babysitter, and showing her around there really a link between the town. deaths? Poor Danny, stuck on a maths project, frustrated with his bedroom situation, and then he even has a falling out with Ravi...how on earth And will things ever get betterthey manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?!|isbn=180078001X1803368209

 =='''17 6 JUNE'''==

|author=Joseph KnoxKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=True Crime StoryDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary= Joseph Knox, known for Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waitsworld, has created a new genre with his latest novelit seems, "True Crime Story". The story follows he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the disappearance of Zoe Nolan from her university halls sport where a team of residence. Split into four partswarrior, the reader is taken through the life mage and disappearance of Zoe through the eyes of her twin sisterhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, other familymagical mazes, friends and professionalsrace to the exit, such as perhaps bothering with the treasure or the police. The various accounts help big bad and the reader get to know Zoe, or at least points they grant you along the Zoe she presented to othersway. However Unfortunately for Kit, the twists and turns at only thing he's seen of the latest race on the end of each chapter leave you shockedinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, confused and unsure a new trio of what questors is true or fabricatedneeded. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. Whose accounts can we trust What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=08575277031839945184

 =='''24 13 JUNE'''==

|authorisbn=Catherine Steadman1635866847|title=The Disappearing ActLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=ThrillersLifestyle|summary= British actress Mia Eliot It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is on the cusp of success. Great success. If the rumours are true, award season is going to treat her well, acknowledging her book for her latest, critically acclaimed productionyou. She Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion''s going places but so, unfortunately, is her partner. And I visited the places heauthor's going take him towards lies, deceit [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a pretty young thing in slice of chocolate cake on the form of his new cohomepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts -starbut I wanted that cake viscerally. It (There's a good time for Mia to escaperecipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and pilot season I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in LA provides just the excusemargins 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 book already.|isbn=1471189783

=='''1 4 JULY'''==

|author=Darren ShanMax Boucherat|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 The Last Life of 3Lori Mills

|summary=The second trilogy in ShanWe meet Lori on the first evening she's ''Merge'' saga opens with our hero, Archie, back in London got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in the world of the Born. It's not been easy, explaining to his foster parents where he's beenbabysitter poorly, or slipping back into ordinary life and forgetting about Inez and his other friends in the Mergemother at work, but Archie has done his best.... welljust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, 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 Case|rating=3her lonesome.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Kate What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, although I got the impression she'd rather be a Catherine – and has one specific Catherine at that. For Catherine Rodriguez is Kate's idolmain intention, and the author of our heroine's favourite possession, ''The Special Correspondent Manual''. Armed with a plucky father, that book, and her talking mouse called Rupert, she is all equipped to manage a train ride log on to the ArcticVoxminer, to see her scientist mother for the first time in yonks. Howeverworld-building, this is a train ride with a difference, for on board critter-collecting game that is a greedy-seeming harridan and her cat, a thief – and two glowing eyes, shining from the darkness hit in a blink-and-youLori'll-miss-them styles world. It's definitely a case for a new young investigative journalist...|isbn=184812970X}} =='''13 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|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 But first Lori has a sing-song ''tiny inkling thatthis stormy night doesn's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. Maple Street is no Ramsay Streett find herself entirely on her own, though, Arlo and Gertie live a world apart from the Melbourne suburbsthen she finds something even more spooky. They're one of 18 households on For 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, server she's a former beauty queen) but they've made some friends and their kids have settled in, her bestie and it's all going oknobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. Until it isn't. One hot When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up and her safe place in the park across the way. It's a revolting mess of dirt and chaosgame has been doctored – well, but for the residents of Maple Street, the worst where is yet a girl to come.turn?|isbn=17890982110008666482

|author=Eshman SmithJenny Lecoat|title=Word of Another Nature|rating=3.5|genre=Politics 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 post-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 North|title=Notes from the Burning AgeBeyond Summerland

|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 Jean lives on Jersey with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. They have three children, who mother where they 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 celebrating the world's homeless with out-end of-date food, and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thingoccupation. Add in a few other characters – therapists During the war, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections Jean's father was arrested for listening to his lifea banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to the modern worldher mother waiting for years for news of him. What suggests As the farcical approach even more, however, is British finally free the fact this is bloody funny.|isbn=0857526219}} =='''2 SEPTEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Julia and Channel islands from the Shark|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=JuliaNazis, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikingswar is finally over, their hopes rise that kind they will finally learn what became of Scottish islandhim. Dad is going to be automating But will the lantern, which is his specialist thingtruth come as a relief, while mum or will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt it raise further questions around what else happened during the elusive Greenland shark. war? And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|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 Who was the first installment of informer who told the Bloodsworn Saga, set in Nazis about the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, when the Gods radio? And what other secrets have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to see. This story is the ultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to been kept throughout the genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. This is a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.occupation?|isbn=03565142181846976537