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=='''12 JANUARY23 MAY'''==

|isbnauthor=178563335XOnyi Nwabineli|title=Sea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the children up. Her husband, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a lovely place, but Rachel is struggling Allow Me to develop a real bond with the parish - and she's in awe of the vicar, Gail, but then she's been doing the job for more than thirty years. Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.}}=='''19 JANUARY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1848458436|title=Just the Nicest Couple|author=Mary KubicaIntroduce Myself|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, turning into someone I'm not.''  ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is the story of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and Nina and Jake Hayes. The connection between the two is that Lily and Nina teach in the same school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. The couples have mixed as a foursome but it's not a regular thing. Christian is a market research analyst and Jake is a neurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except their wives. Lily hasn't said anything yet, but she's pregnant. She has a lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to tempt fate by making the knowledge public.}}{{Frontpage|author=Heather Fawcett|title=Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=45

|summary=Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar Anuri spent her childhood on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulouslydisplay to the world, thanks to write her lifestep-mother Ophelia's workincreasingly popular presence on social media, the very first encyclopaedia where she posted every step of faeriesAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Whilst Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is brilliant at research slowly trying to regain her confidence and speaking to faeriesget her life back, she is not so good with peoplesuing her step-mother to take down the content about her. So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she Anuri is not sure what she has donebattling alcoholism, nor how failing to redeem herself start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and put her final investigations receiving money from them for her book back on the right trackdoing so. Enter Wendell BamblebyMost importantly, she is desperately worried about her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival little sister, who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emilyis the new focus of Ophelia's frustrationonline empire. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the faerie folk around Hravsniksame time?|isbn=03565191200861546873

|authorisbn=Joe ThomasB0CYV674G2|title=White RiotSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5

|summary= Whenever anyone writes fiction about politics there's always the danger of making it too reactionary; too rawIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. KneeA man, covered in mud and blood -jerk observations and hot takes carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that donhe hasn't age well or properly capture killed the spirit of the momentman. It takes a truly talented writer to be able to capture A body at the zeitgeist bottom of a particular event or era of political historyfreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. Austerity Britain, the student riots, Donald Trump, Brexit – so much of what DCI John Tanner isjust back from his honeymoon, and has been, written in which coincided with the immediate aftermath birth of these phenomena has been proven by time to his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be frothy and insubstantial and ultimately not particularly powerful or incisive. Inevitably (and perhaps disappointingly grateful for people who do enjoy fiction of this nature), an easy answer but the best writing about current political events is that which is written when the events in question are no longer current words 'perverse' and when time and experience has afforded 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the writer the benefit point of a more objective viewfalling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.|isbn= 1529423376

|isbnauthor=1529421241Stuart Douglas|title=Stay Buried|author=Kate WebbLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5

|summary=DI Matt Lockyer is on Major Crime Review which sounds quite grand until you realise that itDuring location filming for his 1970's actually a cold case unit sitcom 'Floggit and there are just two Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of them doing a woman on the jobedge of a reservoir. Lockyer's not unduly worriedThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, though although and he's not quite so sure about DC Gemma Broad: she's probably capable enlists the help of something bettera fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. It was a bit of a shock when he got They travel across the phone call from Hedy Lambert: she's in H M Prison Eastwood Park for murder - country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and it was Lockyer who put her there, fourteen years agoseemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. She's keen to see him and to tell him that But is there really a link between the man everyone thought she'd murdered - but the body turned out deaths? And will they manage to be someone else - has returned home after being away for decades.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

=='''23 JANUARY6 JUNE'''==

|author=Jeremy Dronfield Kieran Larwood and David Ziggy GreeneJoe Todd-Stanton|title=Fritz and KurtDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=We start with Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the pair sport where a team of brothers Fritz warrior, mage and Kurthealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want race to do – kicking things around the empty market placeexit, helping perhaps bothering with the neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to treasure or the synagogue choir big bad and at a vocational schoolthe points they grant you along the way. Kurt has to make sure Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the lamps are turned latest race on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and workmanlike as a light switchnew trio of questors is needed. But this is Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the time just before goading from the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitlertoken bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he's will, and instead of having ll enter as a national vote to keep the Nazis out, invite them in with open armsteam. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in GermanyWhat chance does this friendless, as did all the roundmuscle-free-ups of Jews. These zone have in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each otheractually managing that, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=024156574X1839945184

=='''2 FEBRUARY13 JUNE'''==

|authorisbn=Lucy Ashe1635866847|title=Clara The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and OliviaTerry Barlin Vesci

|genre=General FictionLifestyle|summary=The year is 1933. The place? SadlerIt's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but notstrange, we learn, on the inside. And not on stage, either. Because there's a lot that builds a dancer. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – and some things, that make you ''je ne sais quoiimmediately'', feel that don't come from this is the classroombook for you. A stage presence, a charm, a Before I started reading ''joie de vivreThe Lavender Companion''. The difference between a hard-worker, and a star.|isbn=0861544080}} ==I visited the author'''30 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Julia Bartz|title=The Writing Retreat|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary= Roza Vallo. Anyone in the world of publishing knows the names [https://www. Writers want to be her, agents want to represent herpinelavenderfarm. Shecom/ website] and there's something a picture of a legend with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue slice of works chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that started with her breakthrough novel, published when she was barely out of childhoodcake viscerally. Alex, (There's a writer-slash-editorrecipe in the book, is more than a little obsessed which I'm avoiding with Roza, some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and is stunned when, following I was told to make a series mess of unexpected events, she is invited it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be part of her month-long writersa problem. I ''loved'' retreatthis book already.|isbn=0861544439

|author=Patrick Ness and Tea BendixMax Boucherat|title=Different for BoysThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=Teens Confident Readers|summary=Ant is We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in Year Eleven , babysitter poorly, mother at quite work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a standard schoolblanket fort, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) she has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football teammain intention, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back that is to log on to primary school days together. As they're all fired upVoxminer, straining at the leash only a singleworld-sex school can formbuilding, the talk critter-collecting game that is a hit in class and out often turns to sexLori's world. Which is confusing for Ant, as he But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't know what his score isfind herself entirely on her own, where his achievements in that regard lieand then she finds something even more spooky. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, For the server she and her bestie and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't nobody else should be sureable to enter shows signs of tampering. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the sex with.game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=15295094910008666482

|isbnauthor=0857051741Jenny Lecoat|title=The Sins of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson Investigation|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)Beyond Summerland|rating=54|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks to live but heJean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. During the war, Jean's determined that Rebecka Martinsson is going father was arrested for listening to investigate the case of a body found in a freezer at the home banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of a deceased alcoholichim. The problem is that As the case has long passed British finally free the statute of limitations. Raimo Koskela disappeared without a trace in 1962. He was Channel islands from the father of Olympic boxing champion Borje Strom. Rebecka wants nothing to do with a fifty-year-old case on which she can take no action: Nazis, and the problem war is finally over, their hopes rise that this is a dying man's wishthey will finally learn what became of him. The situation changes when But will the truth come as a post-mortem establishes that Henry Pekkarirelief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the dead alcoholic, war? Who was also murdered. the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? Is there a connection between And what other secrets have been kept throughout the two deathsoccupation?|isbn=1846976537