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 =='''6 FEBRUARY23 MAY'''=={{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 are not especially scientific: Spectre Detecting, the ability to summon the ghosts of the recently deceased. 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 get to the bottom 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 sleep. Maggie knew straight away that something was wrong. Bart might be twenty but he was considerate of his mother and wouldn't have stayed out all night without letting her know. Besides, he didn't have his phone with him and he wouldn't have gone far without that. It'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 already been decided.}} =='''11 FEBRUARY'''== 
{{Frontpage
|author= A K LarkwoodOnyi Nwabineli|title= The Unspoken Name|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= What does it mean Allow Me 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}} =='''20 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=B07ZGL6B1B|title=In Plain Sight (D I Clare Mackay)|author=Marion ToddIntroduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It was a coincidence that Detective Sergeant Chris West 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's childhood for sponsorships and DI Clare Mackay were at the beach when the baby was stoleninfluencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. They were there for the fun run Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and their attention was taken by the NEFEW protesters who tried to disrupt get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the racecontent about her. They're against the planned McIntosh Water bottled water plant Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to be constructed on Priory Marsh start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and the firm receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is sponsoring the fun run. It was Lisa Mitchellnew focus of Ophelia's scream which stopped everythingonline empire. Her daughterCan she save her sister, six-month-old Abi, had been taken from and perhaps herself and her relationship with her pram whilst no one was looking. It's a major incident when ''any'' child is abducted but Abi needs regular medication because of a heart problem: without it, she might have only forty-eight hours to live.father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873
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=='''30 MAY'''==
{{Frontpage
|isbn=0008297169B0CYV674G2|title=The Guest ListSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Lucy FoleyDavid Blake|rating=43.5
|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 yearIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. Will Slater (television personality, if not yet a celebrity) was to marry Jules Keegan, online magazine publisherA man, covered in the ruined chapel on the island. The bride's sister, Olivia, would be her only bridesmaid mud and the wedding planner and chef are Aoife blood - and her husband, Freddy. They gave carrying a huge discount to get the couple to the islandknife, but surely it would be worth it for comes into the publicity?}}{{Frontpage|author=Struan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)|title=Orphans of police station shouting that he hasn't killed the Tide|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= In the last city on Earth, anyone can be man. A body at the vessel bottom of The Enemy a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - the god who drowned the world - who has come he's been stabbed to wreak havoc on the last of humanitydeath. When a mysterious boy DCI John Tanner is pulled just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the corpse birth of a whale, the citizens immediately believe him to his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the Vessel - all except words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for young Ellie Lancaster, a girl inventoreach other. As the ruthless Inquisition prepares He's sleep-deprived to execute the boy, Ellie must prove that point of falling asleep at work but he is innocent - even if it means revealing her deepest, darkest secrets....|isbn=0241384435}}{{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 determined to keep going to be a while before we learn exactly what has happened- probably because he can't get any sleep at home.
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
{{Frontpage
|isbnauthor=1529009677Stuart Douglas|title=A Window Breaks|author=C M EwanLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal
|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.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1529124395
|title=When You See Me
|author=Lisa Gardner
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=For Janet During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and ChuckLeggit', it was leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a hiking break in woman on the Appalachians in Georgia and pure chance that Chuck went off the beaten track to find edge of a stickreservoir. What The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he found was enlists the help of a human bone and SSA Kimberley Quincy was called infellow actor, along with Sergeant D D WarrenJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Both women were experienced in this type of rather gruesome work but they also called on They travel across the services of Keith Edgarcountry during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a computer analyst, and Flora Dane who brought something unique link to death during the tableSecond World War. Flora had been kidnapped and held for 472 days by But is there really a link between the notorious killer, Jacob Ness. deaths? If Ness had anything And will they manage to do with the current discoveries then what Flora had to say could be invaluable.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
{{Frontpage
|author=Gregg Hurwitz|title=Into The Fire|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary= Grant Merriweather is a forensic accountant. Or rather, was. He was brought into an ER room after an alleged car crash, his friend pleading with the medics to keep him alive. He was needed alive just long enough to give up a name. His cousin, Max.|isbn=0718185501}}{{Frontpage|author= Katie Fforde|title= A Springtime Affair|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= I've wanted to read author Katie Fforde for ages Kieran Larwood and this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting Joe Todd- a warm, cosy read focused on romance, family and friendships. This provided two romances for the price of one, but it was actually the family element as opposed to the romance that I really enjoyed. |isbn=1780897561}} =='''3 MARCH'''== {{Frontpage|author=Sara HollandStanton|title=HavenfallDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Maddie Morrow Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is supposed to spending an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the summer with her Grandma Ellen. But after sport where a visit to her mother in prisonteam of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, Maddie wants nothing more than and race to go to Havenfall to see her unclethe exit, Marcusperhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. It's Unfortunately for Kit, the only place she feels truly at home. Maddiething he's fatherseen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, understandablyeaten, and a new trio of questors is not keen on Maddie spending time with her mother's family - because needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the crime Maddie's mum is languishing on death row for committing is goading from the murder token bully of Maddiehis world and stumbled into declaring he's brother..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=1547603798 1839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
{{Frontpage
|authorisbn=Marie O'Regan and Paul Kane (editors)1635866847|title=Cursed: An Anthology of Dark Fairy TalesThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=FantasyLifestyle|summary=Curses. TheyIt're there throughout tales of faery and other fantastical folk – people being cursed to do thiss strange, or not to be able to do the things that make you ''immediately'' feel thatthis is the book for you. Children can be cursed Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', as can princesses on I visited the verge of marrying, author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and older people too. It seems in a way there's no escaping it. Which is why the theme a picture of this book a slice 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, chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that other bewitched person. We'd be very wrongcake viscerally.|isbn=1789091500}}  {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" ==(There'''12 MARCH'''== {{Frontpage|author=Will Dean |title=Black River |rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Tuva Moodyson returns - and this third book s a recipe in the Tuva Moodyson mystery series delves deep into her personal lifebook, returning her to which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the isolated town of Gavrik book and into I was told to make a desperate search for her missing best friendmess of it. With Notes in the Midsommar sun blocked out by margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the dark pines corners of the forest, Tuva fights to save her friendpages. But who’ll You suspect that smears of butter would not be there to save Tuva?|isbn=1786077116a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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=='''31 MARCH4 JULY'''== 
{{Frontpage
|author=Rob HarrellMax Boucherat|title=WinkThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=When Ross is diagnosed with a rare form of cancerWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, aged 12babysitter poorly, his desperate attempts mother at school to work, just be 'normal' become impossiblean avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. Suddenly he is the cancer kidWhat could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, and everything he does, how he looksshe has one main intention, and how he behaves falls under the scrutiny of the other kids in school. Ross that isto log on to Voxminer, understandablythe world-building, angry. He critter-collecting game that is facing potential blindness, whilst dealing with an eye sealed a hit in a permanent winkLori's world. He But first Lori has gloopy eye medicine to try to help with the paina tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, plus and then she finds something even more spooky. For the need server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to wear a hat at all times to protect his face due to the ongoing treatmententer shows signs of tampering. With the sudden ghosting by one of his best friendsWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and a series of horrible memes that someone at school creates about Rossher safe place in the game has been doctored – well, nothing about his life where is normal any more, and he has to find new ways a girl to deal with his feelings, and survive.turn?|isbn=14714091470008666482
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=='''2 APRIL'''==
 
{{Frontpage
|author= Ben OliverJenny Lecoat|title= The LoopBeyond Summerland|rating= 3.54|genre= TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= Set during Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the aftermath end of a Third World War where methods of punishment the occupation. During the war, Jean's father was arrested for criminal activities have been amped up listening to a horrific level by machinesbanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, The Loop follows the precarious existence leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of adolescent Luka Kanehim. In a world of Have As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and Have Nots where Alts [cyborgs] have power the war is finally over Regulars, he is trapped inside a living hell with no chance their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of escapehim. A detonator has been sewn inside his heart connecting him to a trigger held by But will the guards who can end his life with one squeeze. Luka is taunted by limited access to his memories and relentlessly drained of energy through truth come as a gruelling daily torture ritual. Doomed to Delay [a risky medical trial where he is a guinea pig for Alts in place of execution] after Delay he is in despair. His prison is based on relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the model of an infinity loop designed to make its inmates suffer. With war? Who was the only glimmers of hope being informer who told the rumours of rebellion outside and Nazis about the visits of sympathetic Alt guard Wren, can Luka ever be freeradio? Why has he And what other secrets have been imprisoned? What waits for him if he can break kept throughout the loopoccupation?|isbn=19126265511846976537
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=='''7 April'''==
 
{{Frontpage
|author= Grady Hendrix
|title= The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
|rating= 5
|genre= Horror
|summary= Women, by and large, have always been the subjugated sex. Throughout history they have been confined to mere bit players who occasionally help hold up the powerful man and let nothing stand in his way. Grady Hendrix's new novel ''The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires'' gives women their due. It is an ode to the strong selfless housewife. Hendrix illustrates this by having them go toe to toe with a predatory male vampire who moves in to their quiet cul de sac.
|isbn=1683691431
}}
 
=='''15 APRIL'''==
{{Frontpage
|isbn=1781129312
|title=Sequin and Stitch
|author=Laura Dockrill and Sara Ogilvie (illustrator)
|rating=5
|genre=Dyslexia Friendly
|summary=Sequin loved her mum to bits, but sometimes she got very cross with her. It wasn't that mum wouldn't go outside their flat - Sequin coped with that - it was because she never pushed to get credit for what she did. Mum is a seamstress and she makes the sort of clothes that you see on red carpets or at important weddings. She's not the designer - they're the people who make a lot of money from the clothes. Mum is the person who actually ''makes'' the garments and she's really talented, but when people talk about the dress or the suit, they talk about the designer. The seamstress is never mentioned.
}}
 
=='''14 MAY'''==
 
{{Frontpage
|author= Alison Weir
|title= Six Tudor Queens: Katheryn Howard The Tainted Queen
|rating= 4
|genre= Historical Fiction
|summary= ''Katheryn was seven when her mother died'', thus we are thrust into this tumultuous time in young Katheryn's life, trying to find a home, both figuratively and literally, where she can grow and grieve. Unfortunately, Katheryn is followed by bad luck and she learns an important lesson, she is too young, too poor and too unimportant to be of any value to anyone, but she is beautiful and surely, that will count for something in the end, won't it?
|isbn=1472227778
}}
{{Frontpage
|author= Hana Tooke
|title= The Unadoptables
|rating= 5
|genre= Confident Readers
|summary= In the winter of 1880, five babies are abandoned at the Little Tulip orphanage in Amsterdam, much to the annoyance of matron Gasbeek. Twelve years later, Milou, the last of the five babies to be abandoned back in that winter, struggles to work out the identity of her parents from the clues she was abandoned with: a small coffin with claw-marks on the outside, a cat doll made by someone called Bram Poppenmaker, and a velvet blanket. She, along with the other four, patiently wait for Milou's parents to come back and take her home. However, when the five children are sold to the dodgy merchant Meneer Rotman, they know they have to escape. And so begins the adventure of a lifetime as the Unadoptables join forces to reunite Milou with her parents, all the time being pursued by the Kinderbureau and Rotman…
|isbn=0241417465
}}
 
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