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=='''2 MARCH23 MAY'''==
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|author=Alice M RossOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Nowhere ThiefAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=At last there is new stock in Anuri spent her childhood on display to the impoverished yet overworld, thanks to her step-full antiques shop Elsbeth and her mother run in a seaside town. Elsbeth knows this because Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she has stolen itposted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. She also knows Now Anuri is in her twenties and she should be free from worries about being found outis slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, because she has suing her step-mother to take down the ability to leave this worldcontent about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, and use an unworldly portal of kaleidoscope colours failing to enter other worldsstart her PhD, where the sea levels are rising dramatically undergoing therapy and the buildings are generally empty of humans secretly abusing people online and ripe receiving money from them for plunderdoing so. With eviction imminentMost importantly, can Elsbeth nab anything to actually generate custom at the shop? Well yesshe is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the answernew focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, but and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the fact a mysterious man knows exactly which items come from these different Somewheres only raises more questions…same time?|isbn=18399437690861546873
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=='''30 MAY'''==
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|authorisbn=Merryn GloverB0CYV674G2|title=The Hidden FiresSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=3.5|genre=TravelCrime|summary= It is always about seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the book, not police station shouting that he hasn't killed the writer, but there are times when man. A body at the authorbottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's hinterland is also the background been stabbed to the book and so it death. DCI John Tanner is necessary to understand that contextjust back from his honeymoon, in order to appreciate which coincided with the bookbirth of his daughter Samantha. Merryn Glover is of Australian parentage, was born in Kathmandu, grew up in You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the Annapurna words 'perverse' and Himalayan and now lives in Badenoch in Scotland'John Tanner' were made for each other. I can think of noHe's sleep-one better a combination deprived to give us a re-appraisal the point of Nan Shepherds falling asleep at work than the first Writer in Residence in the Cairngorms National Park. Merryn walks, not so much in the shadow of Shepherd, but in her spirithe's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home. I think the two would have gotten along famously.|isbn=1846975751
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=0008404976Stuart Douglas|title=The Close (DS Maeve Kerrigan)|author=Jane CaseyLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was because of Rula Jacques that DS Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent were living together in Jellicoe Close. If you're a regular reader of the [[Jane CaseyDuring location filming for his 1970's Maeve Kerrigan series in Chronological Order|Maeve Kerrigan series]] yousitcom 'll have read that sentence twice Floggit and wondered if itLeggit's , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a massive spoiler because there is woman on the edge of a delicious sexual chemistry between the two which seems very, very realreservoir. But (there's always a 'The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but'something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, isn't there?) Josh has a partner and he dotes on her son, even if enlists the relationship with Melissa can be help of a little rockyfellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. As for MaeveThey travel across the country during their days off filming, she's just come out of an abusive relationship which has left her uncovering more than possible murders and, seemingly, a little uncertainlink to death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''9 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0760378134|title=The First-Time Gardener: Container Food Gardening|author=Pamela Farley|rating=5|genre=Home and Family|summary=If you've ever thought how good it would be to be able to pop out into the garden and pick some fruit and vegetables for a meal – but realised that you wouldn't know where to start, this is the book you need. It's comprehensive: you'll cover everything from why you should grow your own food, what you're going to grow, what you'll grow it in (both containers and soil), where you'll put these containers, how you'll water and fertilise them and you finish the main part of the book with a handy section on troubleshooting. There's also a good glossary. So, is it any good?}} =='''16 MARCH6 JUNE'''==
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|author= Michael GrothausKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Beautiful Shining PeopleDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre= Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary= ''But fearing something and having it come to pass are two different thingsMeet Kit. And I'm willing to bet Like most of what we fear will never happenthe people in his world, or we can take steps to change it.'' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the question sport where a team of identity warrior, mage and acceptance. Of what it means healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to be humanthe exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Of what Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is real that one team has been retired, eaten, and what a new trio of questors is artificialneeded. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, and whether he has taken to the goading from the development token bully of technology is exciting or frighteninghis world and stumbled into declaring 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=191458564X1839945184
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=='''30 MARCH13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Julia Bartz1635866847|title=The Writing RetreatLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLifestyle|summary= Roza Vallo. Anyone in It's strange, the world of publishing knows things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the namebook for you. Writers want to be her Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', agents want to represent herI visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm. 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
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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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