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 =='''7 JULY23 MAY'''==
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|author=David SolomonsOnyi Nwabineli|title=A Beginner’s Guide Allow Me to Ruling the GalaxyIntroduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Gavin is being followedAnuri 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, seemingly constantlybasically, by the new (very annoying) girl at schoolmonetary gain. Only this Now Anuri is not your typical boy meets girl story. Because in this instanceher twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the girl in question content about her. Anuri is Nikibattling 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 a galactic princess (no, reallydesperately worried about her little sister, she who is!) the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. So what will Gavin do when he becomes embroiled in a situation whereCan she save her sister, potentially, Earth and everyone on it will be blown to smithereens, all because of Nikiperhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=08576399350861546873
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=='''30 MAY'''==
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|authorisbn=Alex CotterB0CYV674G2|title=The Mermaid CallSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Vivien knows 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 mermaids donhe hasn't existkilled the man. But she also knows they have to exist – A body at least in the public eye. For there would be nothing bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to Lake Splendour – a far northern English resort – without themdeath. A hundred years and change agoDCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, two teenaged girls allegedly spent months with mermaids, but were forced to return to help out which coincided with the Great War effortbirth of his daughter Samantha. They also showed female emancipation, which helped create You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the townwords 'perverse's tourism industry, now faded and falling apart but once a feminist success story'John Tanner' were made for each other. Alice, a girl who stumbles into VivienHe's gransleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's tourist shop one day, knows she certainly wants mermaids determined to exist – she thinks her familykeep going - probably because he can's black sheep died searching for them, or else was just too successful in her huntt get any sleep at home. When the shy, doubting Thomasina that is Vivien collides with the exuberant, gung-ho Alice, what on earth – or perhaps in water – will they find?|isbn=1839941901
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=0008395632Stuart Douglas|title=One Last Secret|author=Adele ParksLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Natalya is an escort. Well, her nameDuring location filming for his 1970's not sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit'actually'' Natalya: that's her professional name but it is a nod to her Serbian heritage. She's actually thirty-one-year-old Teodora Dziewulski, usually known as Dora Wulski. If you're thinking leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of 'escort' as being a polite description woman on the edge of a prostitutereservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, run by but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a pimpfellow actor, who's turning tricks John Le Breton to fund a drug habit, forget ithelp him investigate matters further. Dora is a professional in all senses of They travel across the word. She has an agentcountry during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, Elspethseemingly, who takes 30% of her income and deals with the payments but checks out a link to death during the clients to see that Dora is going to be safeSecond World War. Dora describes herself as But is there really a self-employed clairvoyant link between the deaths? And will they manage to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs. uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''12 JULY6 JUNE'''==
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|author=A C WiseKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=HookedDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=It’s been twenty two years since Captain Hook, now going by just ‘James’, has been in NeverlandMeet Kit. Living a new life Like most of the people in Londonhis world, it seems, he has never completely escaped his past. But now he senses is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the edges sport where a team of the beast circling around his life in Londonwarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and when suddenly he finds himself face race to face in the street exit, perhaps bothering with Wendythe treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he knows 's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that the line between this world one team has been retired, eaten, and Neverland a new trio of questors is growing thinneeded. The beast is finally coming Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to get him, and in the process will pull Wendy goading from the token bully of his world and her daughter Jane back stumbled into their past once againdeclaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=17890968391839945184
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=='''15 AUGUST13 JUNE'''==
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|isbn=B0B2N7MVYM1635866847|title=The Calculations of Rational MenLavender Companion|author=Daniel GodfreyJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionLifestyle|summary=It's the 10th of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens in contextstrange, the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in peoplethings that make you ''immediately's minds. The world has barely had a chance to breathe out. But for Joe Marr, it's not the missile crisis feel that's at this is the front of his mindbook for you. HeBefore I started reading 's been convicted of murder. With the current state of medical knowledge, it's hard to think otherwise than that the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few days in HMP QueenThe Lavender Companion's Bench, a relatively new prison. He's just getting used to his roommate, Mervyn, and learning to be wary of I visited the McArthur brothers.}}==author'''18 AUGUST'''=={{Frontpage|author= Kit De Waal|title= Without Warning and Only Sometimes|rating= 4|genre= Autobiography|summary= As Philip Larkin so eloquently put it, “They f*** you up, your mum and dads [https:// They may not mean to, but they do” Without Warning and Only Sometimes by Kit De Waal focuses on this idea of parenthood and the bonds that bind familywww. This book is a memoir focussing on the author’s formative years as a teenager living in a lower class area of Birminghampinelavenderfarm. Her father is from St. Kitts in the Caribbean com/ website] and her mother is an Irish woman ostracized by her family for becoming pregnant by and marrying there's a black man. This intersectionality plays picture of a large role in slice of chocolate cake on the autobiographyhomepage. Kit De Waal faces multiple hurdles due to her race, her class and her gender. Her parents loom large and are written with care, love, I don't eat cakes and the kind of anger only a child can express to their parents.|isbn=1472284836}}{{Frontpage|author=David Lagercrantz|title=Dark Music|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary=How far from the original can a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get before the allusion breaks? This does have a wonderdesserts -mind at the heart of what little investigating is going on, but there is not a lot I wanted that Conan Doyle fans could really pin down as on their exact wavelengthcake viscerally. For one, the main focus of the narrative, Micaela, is no John Watson MD. She(There's a Chilean recipe in the Stockholm policebook, put on a murder squad as she knows which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the prime suspect of old, in a case where a referee of a junior football match was found stoned to death shortly after the match, book and just outside the stadium. Beppe, the suspect, I was drunkenly antagonistic told to the ref during the closing minutes, but refuses to admit anything, through days and weeks make a mess of interrogationit. When some disreputable coppers (the kind who dismiss anything their superior comes up with, Notes in the kind who think they can judge Micaela from her fringe and how she might dress – that kind) margins are told to go and see what brainbox Professor Rekke thinks of it all, she can only smirk when he says Beppe is innocent and the investigation is a shamblessanctioned. But taken off the case, she can no longer help solve You get to fold down the crime, and with Rekke the most erratic, irregular kind corners of guy, she can't get his full verdict on it allpages. Until, You suspect that may smears of butter would not be, she manages to stop him in the middle of an apparent suicide attempta problem. I ''loved'' this book already..|isbn=1529413192
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=='''6 OCTOBER4 JULY'''==
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|author=Alison HughesMax Boucherat|title=FlyThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=This is We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a very impressive readblanket fort, she has one main intention, as it does a lot of what mainstream teen and tween fiction still struggles with. Its focus that is courtesy of to log on to Voxminer, the firstworld-person narration from Flybuilding, critter-collecting game that is a secondary school lad with cerebral palsy, hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a down-tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on-her-luck single mom nearing retirement from being a cleanerown, a carer while at schooland then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a bundle girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Lecoat|title=Beyond Summerland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of assumptions people lay on himthe occupation. First they assume that with a broken body comes a broken mindDuring the war, then they decide heJean's father was arrested for listening to a maths savant – they even believe they can get banned radio and soldiers took him away with calling one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him Fly. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, which isn't his real nameand the war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. But will the truth come as a relief, but everybody just uses or will it.raise 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=15253058321846976537
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