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=='''2 FEBRUARY23 MAY'''==
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|author=Lucy AsheOnyi Nwabineli|title=Clara and OliviaAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical Anuri spent her childhood on display to the outside but notworld, we learn, on the inside. And not thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on stagesocial media, either. Because therewhere she posted every step of Anuri's a lot that builds a dancerchildhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, attention suing her step-mother to detail – and some thingstake down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, that ''je ne sais quoi''failing to start her PhD, that don't come undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from the classroomthem for doing so. A stage presence Most importantly, a charmshe is desperately worried about her little sister, a ''joie de vivre'who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. The difference between a hard-worker Can she save her sister, and a star.perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=08615440800861546873
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=='''9 FEBRUARY30 MAY'''==
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|isbn=1787301036B0CYV674G2|title=What July KnewSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Emily KochDavid Blake|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=When we first meet July Hooper on 20 July 1995 she's just ten years oldIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. She's A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a careful, meticulous child. The care has been taught by her father, Mick Hooperknife, who is not prepared to discuss comes into the death of his wife, Julypolice station shouting that he hasn's mother, and any hint that t killed the conversation is heading that way will lead to man. A body at the necessity bottom of a Lesson. Other infractions of his requirements also lead to these Lessons and freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's not even careful about whether or not the injuries are visiblebeen stabbed to death. July's teacher DCI John Tanner is concerned and brings up just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the possibility birth of abuse with the head but her worries are dismissed: Mick has been good to the school, has his daughter Samantha. You would think he not? The playground wouldn't have been resurfaced d be grateful for an easy answer but for him.}} ==the words 'perverse'and '16 FEBRUARYJohn Tanner'''=={{Frontpage|author=Robin Birch and Jobe Anderson|title=Secret Beast Club: The Unicorns of Silver Street|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Jaydenwere made for each other. He's nose is forever in a book, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns of the world, for example. Aisha is addicted sleep-deprived to her new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that might be out there. The problem, as their mothers see it, is that they are never 'out there' themselves, exploring the outside world point of Hackney, London. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and with a past involving Jaydenfalling asleep at work but he's cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existed. For many of those mythological creatures are real, including the one Aisha thinks shedetermined to keep going - probably because he can's seen on a bit of local footaget get any sleep at home. The crew of the boat, including a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters – and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed to join in. Dare they side with Leila, the woman on board, and her relative who lives as a figure in a painting, and become saviours of the unseen?|isbn=0241573483
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|author=Vanda SymonStuart Douglas|title=Expectant (Detective Sam Shephard)Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Detective Sam Shepherd is approaching During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the start dead body of her maternity leave when there is a brutal, shocking murder woman on the edge of an expectant woman in Dunedina reservoir. Suddenly she finds herself embroiled in The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the hunt for whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a killer targeting pregnant womenfellow actor, with all the extra pressure that entails being pregnant herselfJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Finding herself put on desk dutiesThey travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, which she rails againstseemingly, she just can't let a link to death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the case go and she starts to follow every thread deaths? And will they manage to uncover what's actually happening, and the increasingly disturbing worry of just what might happen next.who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=19145855771803368209
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=='''23 FEBRUARY6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Natasha FarrantKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Rescue of RavenwoodDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=54
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=This story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Voyage Meet Kit. Like most of the Sparrowhawk''. Ravenwood people in his world, it seems, he is an old house, in avid fan of Dungeon Running – the North sport where a team of Englandwarrior, where Bea mage and Raffy have been living for most of their lives. They are part of a complexhealer enter specially prepared, extended family arrangementcentury-old, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leomagical mazes, and Raffy is there race to the exit, perhaps bothering with his mum, the treasure or the big bad and the points they are living together as a familygrant you along the way. They have grown up swimming in the coveUnfortunately for Kit, roaming through the trees, completely at one with all only thing he's seen of the nature around latest race on the house inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and loving every inch a new trio of the placequestors is needed. But now Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the house is under threat, as Leo is under pressure goading from the token bully of his other two brothers to sell the property to world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a developer as it's becoming more and more expensive to maintainteam. The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to liveWhat chance does this friendless, but if they'll even be togethermuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=05713487851839945184
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=='''2 MARCH13 JUNE'''==
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|isbn=15295047751635866847|title=The Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)Lavender Companion|author=Amy Sparkes Jessica Dunham and Katie HickeyTerry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=For SharingLifestyle|summary=Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to It's strange, the park and watch things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the red buses drive pastbook for you. Elsie would race Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the buses along the side author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the park but David couldnhomepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficultbut I wanted that cake viscerally. One day Elsie spotted (There's a bus recipe in the toy shop window book, which would help David - I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was happy told to use the coins from her money box to pay for make a mess of it as cash was tight at home. Gradually, David learned to stand up, use Notes in the bus for support, and walk behind itmargins are sanctioned. Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, You get to fold down the Repair Shop, hoping corners of pages. You suspect that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with itsmears of butter would not be a problem.}} == I '''30 MARCH'loved''=={{Frontpage|author=Julia Bartz|title=The Writing Retreat|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary= Roza Vallo. Anyone in the world of publishing knows the namethis book already. Writers want to be her, agents want to represent her. She's something of a legend with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue of works that started with her breakthrough novel, published when she was barely out of childhood. Alex, a writer-slash-editor, is more than a little obsessed with Roza, and is stunned when, following a series of unexpected events, she is invited to be part of her month-long writers' retreat.|isbn=0861544439
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=='''4 JULY'''==
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|author=Patrick Ness and Tea BendixMax Boucherat|title=Different for BoysThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|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
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|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 he's determined that Rebecka Martinsson is going to investigate Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the case end of a body found in a freezer at the home of a deceased alcoholicoccupation. The problem is that During the case has long passed the statute war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of limitationshim. Raimo Koskela disappeared without a trace in 1962. He was As the British finally free 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: Channel islands from the problem is that this is a dying man's wish. The situation changes when a post-mortem establishes that Henry PekkariNazis, and the dead alcoholicwar is finally over, was also murderedtheir hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. Is there a connection between But will the two deaths?}}=='''13 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Saint|title=Atalanta|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''I was truth come as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that shipa relief, I vowed. I would take my place, not just in or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the name of the goddess. It war? Who was for the sake of my name, too. Atalanta'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta is raised under the protective eye of the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntress, one informer who longs for adventure. When told the opportunity comes – to join Nazis about the Argonauts, a fierce band of warriors, descendent from radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in Artemis' name and carve out her own legendary place in history. What follows is a whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, it will be her undoing.occupation?|isbn=14722921541846976537
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