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 =='''15 JANUARY23 MAY'''==
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|author=Tanya LandmanOnyi Nwabineli|title=Jane Eyre: a Retelling|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=A young woman, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about her, and years in a dreary school, moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to have something like the life she wants – and with only one job, to tutor a young half-French girl, whose father is almost always absent. When he does turn up he seems to be dark, brooding and troubled – but that's nothing compared to the darker, more broody and even more troubled secret in the house. Yes, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the rest – but if you don't, for whatever reason, this is a wonderful book to turn Allow Me to.|isbn=1781129126}}{{Frontpage|author=Penny Chrimes|title=Tiger HeartIntroduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=''Fly never meant Anuri spent her childhood on display to end up in the cage with a manworld, thanks to her step-eating tiger. She just saw her chance to skedaddlemother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, and where she took it. And even when the cloud posted every step of soot cleared Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and she saw the golden eyes of a killer staring into hersinfluencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she still didn't turn round is slowly trying to regain her confidence and climb to get her life back up , suing her step-mother to take down the chimney straightawaycontent about her. 'Cos there was worse waiting Anuri is battling 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 desperately worried about her back on little sister, who is the roof.''What an opener! And therenew focus of Ophelia's plenty more to come!online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=15101070450861546873
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=='''16 JANUARY30 MAY'''==
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|isbn=1529400279B0CYV674G2|title=Six Wicked ReasonsSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Jo SpainDavid Blake|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was early summer 2018 seemed like an open-and Adam Latimer returned home to Spanish Cove after an absence of ten years-shut case. The family had thought him dead A man, covered in mud and blood - in factand carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting thathe hasn's what t killed the private detective his mother had insisted upon had told themman. He was cagey about exactly where A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he'd s been but he seemed content, if not happy, stabbed to be hopedeath. What brought him? WellDCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, nine years ago which coincided with the birth of his mother died and daughter Samantha. You would think he'd seen be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse'in memoriamand 'John Tanner' in were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the paper: this was the first he'd heard about what had happened. His three sisters and two brothers had mixed feelings about his return, point of falling asleep at work but his father is delighted. In fact, he's determined to have a party. Only, with Frazer Latimer, what happens has to be about him. He has an announcement to make keep going - it's nine years since Kathleen died and probably because hecan's been lonely. He's met Ana, a Polish immigrant, and they're getting marriedt get any sleep at home.
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 =='''23 JANUARY4 JUNE'''== 
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|isbnauthor=0241985110Stuart Douglas|title=All Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Rage (D I Fawley)|author=Cara HunterDress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=A very beautifulDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', but extremely distressed teenage girl was picked up by leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a minicab driver woman on the outskirts edge of Oxforda reservoir. She didn't want to go The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the police station or the hospital: she just wanted to be taken home. The driver wasn't so certain though - whole thing bothers Lowe, and after dropping the girl at home he went to enlists the policehelp of a fellow actor, which is why DI Adam Fawley found himself talking John Le Breton to Faith Appleford and her motherhelp him investigate matters further. Both were adamant that this was nothing They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more than an April Fool's joke which had gone wrong. No crime had been committed possible murders and Faith didn't want , seemingly, a link to take death during the matter any furtherSecond World War. Fawley and his team weren't prepared to leave it at that and they began investigating. But is there really a link between the deaths? What And will they found strange was that Faith Appleford didn't seem manage to have much of a history.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Rory ClementsKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Hitler's SecretDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=So, Hitler had a secret? Meet Kit. Two, if you include Like most of the reproductive detail mentioned people in a certain sing-song aspersion. But this his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a secret that is counter to thatteam of warrior, mage and in fact is a secret that Hitler himself doesn't even know about. His neicehealer enter specially prepared, century-old, Geli Raubalmagical mazes, the attractive young woman he seemed and race to be very close to in the early 1930sexit, had had his daughter behind his backperhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Protected under a false identity ever sinceUnfortunately for Kit, the girl only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is completely ignorant of her pastthat one team has been retired, eaten, and the truth a new trio of questors is a very rare thingneeded. Martin BormannPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, the 'gatekeeper' he has taken to Hitler and his right hand man, knows – and is desperately intent on wiping the slate clean and removing all connected with her existence goading from the Reichtoken bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. So it's down to Tom WildeWhat chance does this friendless, an American history professor at Oxbridgemuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to go in and extract her, in this most shadowy race against time.succeed?|isbn=18387702751839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|isbn=14447761851635866847|title=Haven't they GrownThe Lavender Companion|author=Sophie HannahJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersLifestyle|summary=It was when Beth Leeson was ferrying her son, Ben, to a football match that she found herself on Wyddial Lane in Hemingford Abbots. Actually, It's a little disingenuous to say 'found herself' as Beth had made a deliberate detour on strange, the grounds things that she didnmake you 't find herself in this neck of the woods very often and she was curious to see where a family who'd come into money had lived before they'd all lost contact twelve years ago. And it might have gone no further than that had Beth not seen a car draw up and her friend Flora get out along with two children she called Thomas and Emily. Beth remembered the names well - but these children were about three and five and Floraimmediately's children - Thomas and Emily - would now be fifteen and seventeen.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529123763|title=Miss Austen|author=Gill Hornby|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=It's long been known feel that Cassandra Austen burned most of this is the letters which she and other members of the extensive Austen family had exchanged with or about her sister Janebook for you. What is not known is Before I started reading ''whyThe Lavender Companion'' she did this and at this stage - more than two hundred years after Jane's death - a definitive answer is unlikely to forthcoming. Gill Hornby has provided us with some possible answers in a book that proved to be far more emotionally complex than , I was expecting.}}{{Frontpage|visited the author=Chris Hauty|title=Deep State|rating=3|genre=Thrillers|summary= Hayley Chill is a fighter. She is every kind of fighter, and well-trained in most of them. She's army infantry and she boxes for fun – and she wins. Always. She wins because she is focussed. She works hard, mentally and physically, and she knows how to deal with the pain. She is not so much cold as controlled[https://www. This fight is against someone she is not expected to beat. And she is being watched.|isbn=1471185605}}{{Frontpage|author=H G Parry |title=The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Brothers Rob and Charley have struggled to see eye to eye for years - Rob a sensible lawyer who exists in the "normal" world - and Charley a man who is blessed with an ability he can't fully control - one which allows him to bring literary characters into the real worldpinelavenderfarm. After years of protecting Charley, Rob wants to discharge his duties com/ website] and leave Charley to his own devices - but circumstances soon take choices out of both their hands. As literary characters begin to appear everywhere, it soon becomes clear that someone out there shares Charley's powers and intends to use them for nefarious gains. Rob and Charley must team up to stop the madness - in a battle to win before they, the characters and the world reach The End…|isbn=0356513777}} =='''1 FEBRUARY'''== {{Frontpage|isbn=1250168546|author=Sarah Kozloff|title=A Queen In Hiding|rating=3|genre=Fantasy|summary= World-building is the backbone by which fantasy novels live and die. And what a pleasure, then, to get a novel with world-building you actually want to delve into. Sarah Kozloff's debut novel presents picture of a startlingly rich and layered world, with a complex history slice of connecting nations that seems certain to have more to tap, and chocolate cake on the characters are interesting – if a little underdevelopedhomepage. But it I don's a world I could – and did – eagerly buy into, t eat cakes and the struggle of each Queen to discover and hone her magical talent felt very real and very apt.}} =='''2 FEBRUARY'''== {{Frontpage|author= B T Keaton|title= Transference|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Barrabus Madzimure is about to die, stranded on a mining planet millions of lightdesserts -years from home, executed for high crimes against the Church, the ruling body of Earthbut I wanted that cake viscerally. Except he (There's not Barrabus Madzimure, he's Thaniel Kilraven a recipe in Barrabus Madzimure's body. Such is the magic of Transferencebook, the ability to transplant a personwhich I's soul or consciousness into a different body - and a power that m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the Church has exclusive control over. As if Thaniel doesn't have enough things to worry about, a Church employee named Corvus has arrived from Earth to interrogate him. All Thaniel wants is to see his family again, book and he'll stop at nothing I was told to accomplish this, but the Church isn't going to give in without make a hell mess of a fight...|isbn=B082WPHTHH}} =='''6 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=183895015X|title=A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner|author=Chris Atkins|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Documentary filmmakers don't usually get the run of establishments within the Mountbatten-Windsor Hotel Group, but after getting involved in an illegal tax scheme to fund his latest film, Chris Atkins was invited for a five-year stayit. The first nine months were spent in HMP Wandsworth, which is probably the oldest, largest and most dysfunctional prison Notes in Europe.}}{{Frontpage|author= Holly Rivers|title= Demelza and the Spectre Detectors|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Demelza Clock is a scientist, often staying up late to work on her various gadgets, much to her Grandma Maeve's irritation. However, she has also inherited a certain set of skills that margins are not especially scientific: Spectre Detecting, the ability to summon the ghosts of the recently deceasedsanctioned. Under the guidance of her Grandma Maeve, Demelza begins to master her newfound skills. However, there is a mysterious individual on the prowl, kidnapping young Spectre Detectors. It's up to Demelza and her best friend Percy to You get to fold down the bottom corners of this...|isbn=1912626039}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008275246|title=Perfect Kill (D I Callanach)|author=Helen Fields|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=When Maggie Campbell realised that her son, Bart, was missing he was already 200 miles away and just waking from a chemically-induced sleeppages. Maggie knew straight away You suspect that something was wrong. Bart might smears of butter would not be twenty but he was considerate of his mother and wouldn't have stayed out all night without letting her knowa problem. Besides, he didnI 't have his phone with him and he wouldn't have gone far without that. Itloved's not long before Bart realises that he's alone, trapped in a shipping container and on his way to France, where his fate has this book already been decided.}} =='''11 FEBRUARY'''== {{Frontpage|author= A K Larkwood|title= The Unspoken Name|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= What does it mean to betray someone? What if that someone is a god? Csorwe has been raised knowing that she would be sacrificed to her god on her fourteenth birthday, yet when the opportunity arises, she chooses to abandon everything she knows and flee with her life. Who can blame her? Her god's reach is limited and Csorwe intends to stay far beyond it, yet fate is a funny thing and when circumstances bring her back within the reach of her god Csorwe learns that her god remembers her, and blames her very much indeed.|isbn=1250238900
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=='''20 FEBRUARY4 JULY'''==
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|isbnauthor=0008297169Max Boucherat|title=The Guest List|author=Lucy FoleyLast Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The boat trip out to Inis Amploir, off the Irish coast, might have been enough to put some guests off, but it was the wedding of the year. Will Slater (television personality, if not yet a celebrity) was to marry Jules Keegan, online magazine publisher, in the ruined chapel on the island. The bride's sister, Olivia, would be her only bridesmaid and the wedding planner and chef are Aoife and her husband, Freddy. They gave a huge discount to get the couple to the island, but surely it would be worth it for the publicity?
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{{Frontpage
|author=Struan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)
|title=Orphans of the Tide
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary= In the last city We meet Lori on Earth, anyone can be the vessel of The Enemy - first evening she's got the god who drowned the world house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule- who has come to wreak havoc breaking eleven year old, on the last of humanityher lonesome. When What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a mysterious boy blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is pulled from the corpse of a whaleto log on to Voxminer, the citizens immediately believe him to be the Vessel world- all except for young Ellie Lancasterbuilding, critter-collecting game that is a girl inventorhit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. As For the ruthless Inquisition prepares server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to execute enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the boygame has been doctored – well, Ellie must prove that he where is innocent - even if it means revealing her deepest, darkest secrets....a girl to turn?|isbn=02413844350008666482
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0241985153|title=The House on the Lake|author=Nuala Ellwood|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=We know that something has gone wrong - badly wrong - when the woman who was alone in the house is taken away by the police, but it's going to be a while before we learn exactly what has happened.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529009677Jenny Lecoat|title=A Window Breaks|author=C M Ewan|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Tom Sullivan and his wife Rachel are having problems. It's not just the usual growing apart after more than a decade of marriage. Their son, Michael, was killed in a car crash some months before: he was driving his father's Audi and at sixteen wasn't legally entitled to drive. Not only did he kill himself when the car rammed into a tree, but he also killed his girlfriend, fifteen-year-old Fiona Connor. Tom can't think about Michael without a sense of shame and guilt. Rachel is broken, but she wants to forgive Michael. To give some space, Tom's moved out of the family home, but stresses to his thirteen-year-old daughter, Holly, that it is only a trial separation.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529124395|title=When You See Me|author=Lisa GardnerBeyond Summerland
|rating=4
|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=For Janet and Chuck, it was a hiking break in Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the Appalachians in Georgia and pure chance that Chuck went off end of the beaten track to find a stickoccupation. What he found During the war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a human bone banned radio and SSA Kimberley Quincy was called insoldiers took him away one night, along with Sergeant D D Warrenleaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. Both women were experienced in this type of rather gruesome work but they also called on As the British finally free the Channel islands from the services of Keith Edgar, a computer analystNazis, and Flora Dane who brought something unique to the table. Flora had been kidnapped and held for 472 days by the notorious killerwar is finally over, Jacob Nesstheir hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. If Ness had anything to do with But will the current discoveries then what Flora had to say could be invaluable.}}{{Frontpage|author=Gregg Hurwitz|title=Into The Fire|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary= Grant Merriweather is truth come as a forensic accountant. Or ratherrelief, was. He was brought into an ER room after an alleged car crash, his friend pleading with or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the medics to keep him alive. war? He Who was needed alive just long enough to give up a name. His cousin, Max.|isbn=0718185501}}=='''3 MARCH'''== {{Frontpage|author=Sara Holland|title=Havenfall|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= Maddie Morrow is supposed to spending the summer with her Grandma Ellen. But after a visit to her mother in prison, Maddie wants nothing more than to go to Havenfall to see her uncle, Marcus. It's informer who told the only place she feels truly at home. Maddie's father, understandably, is not keen on Maddie spending time with her mother's family - because Nazis about the crime Maddie's mum is languishing on death row for committing is radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the murder of Maddie's brother...occupation?|isbn=1547603798 1846976537
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{{Frontpage
|author=Marie O'Regan and Paul Kane (editors)
|title=Cursed: An Anthology of Dark Fairy Tales
|rating=4.5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary=Curses. They're there throughout tales of faery and other fantastical folk – people being cursed to do this, or not to be able to do that. Children can be cursed, as can princesses on the verge of marrying, and older people too. It seems in a way there's no escaping it. Which is why the theme of this book of short stories is such a standout – we may well think we know all there is to know about this accursed character, that demonised place, and that other bewitched person. We'd be very wrong.
|isbn=1789091500
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=='''12 MARCH'''==
 
{{Frontpage
|author=Will Dean
|title=Black River
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Tuva Moodyson returns - and this third book in the Tuva Moodyson mystery series delves deep into her personal life, returning her to the isolated town of Gavrik and into a desperate search for her missing best friend. With the Midsommar sun blocked out by the dark pines of the forest, Tuva fights to save her friend. But who’ll be there to save Tuva?
|isbn=1786077116
}}
 
=='''31 MARCH'''==
 
{{Frontpage
|author=Rob Harrell
|title=Wink
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=When Ross is diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, aged 12, his desperate attempts at school to just be 'normal' become impossible. Suddenly he is the cancer kid, and everything he does, how he looks, and how he behaves falls under the scrutiny of the other kids in school. Ross is, understandably, angry. He is facing potential blindness, whilst dealing with an eye sealed in a permanent wink. He has gloopy eye medicine to try to help with the pain, plus the need to wear a hat at all times to protect his face due to the ongoing treatment. With the sudden ghosting by one of his best friends, and a series of horrible memes that someone at school creates about Ross, nothing about his life is normal any more, and he has to find new ways to deal with his feelings, and survive.
|isbn=1471409147
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