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=='''11 23 MAY'''==
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|author=Madelaine LucasOnyi Nwabineli|title=Thirst for SaltAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary= Anuri 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'Loves childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, I'd readbasically, was supposed monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to be a light regain her confidence and weightless feelingto get her life back, but I had always longed suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for gravitydoing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873}}=='''30 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Swanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David BlakeTold from |rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a retrospective viewknife, a young woman unravels comes into the year-long relationship police station shouting that once defined herhe hasn't killed the man. Overlaid with later wisdom, A body at the narrator relives the affair with bottom of a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to its sorrowful end the summer afterdeath. Set against DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the backdrop birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an isolated Australian coastal town easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner'Thirst were made for Salteach other. He'' details s sleep-deprived to the 24-year-old narratorpoint of falling asleep at work but he's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its alldetermined to keep going -consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocablyprobably because he can't get any sleep at home.|isbn=0861546490
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=='''25 MAY4 JUNE'''==
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|author=Thomas D LeeStuart Douglas|title=Perilous TimesLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre= FantasyCrime|summary= During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit'Hate is , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the path dead body of least resistance'' Set in the near-distant future, in a world woman on the verge edge of climate collapse, Britain is in great perila reservoir. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) police seem happy to save assign it as an accidental death, but something about the day whole thing bothers Lowe, and rescue what little remains. What no one expected was that one of he enlists the Knights help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the Round Table would answer country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the callSecond 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=03565185231803368209
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Laura NoakesKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a StarDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Number OneKit. Or ratherLike most of the people in his world, Cosima Unfortunate. Or ratherit seems, just Cos to her friends. The practice in the home she lives in he is for an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the girls sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to just be named by the number they correspond to in exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the ledger, big bad and the points they're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upongrant you along the way. But Cosima bears Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the tag as a surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came fromlatest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, as the first ever inmateeaten, and unique in having no known family in the outside worlda new trio of questors is needed. During a daring escapade Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to steal some posh cakes the goading from the kitchen one afternoon, she discovers a plan involving said outside token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for his Instituteteam. But whyWhat chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and what does that body entail? And how could it he possibly bring Cos closer hope to the past she has so little link withsucceed?|isbn=00085790591839945184
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=='''30 MAY13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Mark Edwards1635866847|title=Keep Her SecretThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersLifestyle|summary= Matthew and Helena are in IcelandIt's strange, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first metthe things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The alien-landscape Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the lava fields homepage. I don't eat cakes and black beaches is breathdesserts -taking and Helena seems intent on getting but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is feeling in this momentbook, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the edge of a ravine gives way book and Helena finds herself clinging I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the rockface with just margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the snagged strap corners of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death belowpages. Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself You suspect that smears of the shocking secret she has been keeping and makes butter would not be a panicked, cryptic declaration to Matthewproblem. Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about HelenaI ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=166250893X
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 =='''1 JUNE4 JULY'''==
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|author=Simon FoxMax Boucherat|title=DeadlockThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift We meet Lori on the forcefirst evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, and then suddenly rings Archiejust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, demanding he fetch something from on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a secret placeblanket fort, she has one main intention, and join him that is to log on to Voxminer, the runworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. They get togetherBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, but barely begin and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to smell the whiff enter shows signs of Southern trains when the father is arrestedtampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, leaving Archie on and her safe place in the late express to Brightongame has been doctored – well, toting where is a tin his father was determined girl to keep away from his colleagues, and the bearer of a whole heap of questions.turn?|isbn=18399444200008666482
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=='''8 JUNE'''==
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|author=Amanda CraigJenny Lecoat|title=Three GracesBeyond Summerland|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the state-end of-the-nation noveloccupation. There During the war, Jean's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of the atmosphere of the day father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and capture itsoldiers took him away one night, crafting an image leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of the country as it stands in one particular momenthim. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with As the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a gift for weaving British finally free the ongoing issues of the day into Channel islands from the lives of her characters in a way that feels natural and lived-inNazis, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|isbn= 140871468X}}=='''28 SEPTEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=Hannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=Finding Bear|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]]the war is finally over, April had been on Bear Island, a lot further north than many people would venture, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a polar bear – their hopes rise that she called Bearthey will finally learn what became of him. Back home, things on But will the domestic and family front are truth come as a bit advancedrelief, but not perfect for her, and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the islands Bear war? Who was last left on. the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? For a bear doing very Bear-y things has And what other secrets have been shot and wounded. Desperate to make sure he's OK, she and her father return to the Arctic and hope that in a world of very white and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that kept throughout the friendship can continue.occupation?|isbn=00085820171846976537
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