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 =='''20 FEBRUARY23 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=0008297169Onyi Nwabineli|title=The Guest List|author=Lucy FoleyAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=The boat trip out Anuri spent her childhood on display to Inis Amploir, off the Irish coastworld, might have been enough thanks to put some guests offher step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, but it was the wedding where she posted every step of the year. Will Slater (television personality, if not yet a celebrity) was to marry Jules KeeganAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, online magazine publisherbasically, in the ruined chapel on the islandmonetary gain. The bride's sister, Olivia, would be Now Anuri is in her only bridesmaid twenties and the wedding planner and chef are Aoife she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and her husband, Freddy. They gave a huge discount to get the couple to the islandher life back, but surely it would be worth it for the publicity?}}{{Frontpage|author=Struan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)|title=Orphans of the Tide|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= In the last city on Earth, anyone can be the vessel of The Enemy suing her step- the god who drowned the world - who has come mother to wreak havoc on take down the last of humanitycontent about her. When a mysterious boy Anuri is pulled from the corpse of a whalebattling alcoholism, the citizens immediately believe him failing to be the Vessel - all except start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for young Ellie Lancaster, a girl inventordoing so. As the ruthless Inquisition prepares to execute the boy Most importantly, Ellie must prove that he she is innocent - even if it means revealing desperately worried about her deepestlittle sister, darkest secrets...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=02413844350861546873
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=='''30 MAY'''==
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|isbn=0241985153B0CYV674G2|title=The House on the LakeSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Nuala EllwoodDavid Blake
|rating=3.5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=We know that something has gone wrong It seemed like an open- badly wrong and- when shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the woman who was alone in police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the house bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is taken away by just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the police, words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but ithe'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'''==
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|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 he found was a human bone and SSA Kimberley Quincy was called inThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, along with Sergeant D D Warren. Both women were experienced in this type of rather gruesome work but they also called on something about the services of Keith Edgar, a computer analystwhole thing bothers Lowe, and Flora Dane who brought something unique to he enlists the table. Flora had been kidnapped and held for 472 days by the notorious killer, Jacob Ness. If Ness had anything to do with 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 help of a forensic accountant. Or ratherfellow actor, was. He was brought into an ER room after an alleged car crash, his friend pleading with the medics John Le Breton to keep help him aliveinvestigate matters further. He was needed alive just long enough to give up a name. His cousinThey travel across the country during their days off filming, 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 uncovering more possible murders and this was pretty much exactly what I was expecting - a warm, cosy read focused on romanceseemingly, family and friendshipsa link to death during the Second World War. This provided two romances for But is there really a link between the price of one, but it was actually the family element as opposed deaths? And will they manage to the romance that I really enjoyed. uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=17808975611803368209
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 =='''3 MARCH6 JUNE'''== 
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|author=Sara HollandKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|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'''==
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|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. Children can be cursed, as can princesses on the verge of marrying, and older people too. It seems in a way theremake you ''immediately''s no escaping it. Which feel that this 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 wrongfor you.|isbn=1789091500}}  {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" ==Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'12 MARCH', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there'== {{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 s a picture of Gavrik and into a desperate search for her missing best friend. With the Midsommar sun blocked out by the dark pines slice of chocolate cake on the forest, Tuva fights to save her friendhomepage. But who’ll be there to save Tuva?|isbn=1786077116}} == I don'''26 MARCH'''== {{Frontpage|author= N K Jemisin|title= The City We Became|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= New York is being born, the city has reached critical mass t eat cakes and has matured into a living almostdesserts -breathing entity and is ready to make itbut I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's way out into a recipe in the world. Before it can be establishedbook, an ancient evil appears which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to attempt to destroy it just as make a mess of it destroyed Atlantis and other forgotten places. The city is not alone through the birthing process, people who embody Notes in the values margins are selected sanctioned. You get to become fold down the living embodiment corners of the city, some cities have one, some have twelve and New York has sixpages. Together these human-embodiments must defeat the woman in white and save New York from very real destruction You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. But these are five different boroughs which don I ''loved't always see eye to eye, it's a personality clash on an epic scale and unity is both critical and not remotely guaranteedthis book already.|isbn=0356512665
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=='''31 MARCH4 JULY'''== 
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|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'''==
 
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|author= Ben OliverJenny Lecoat|title= The LoopBeyond Summerland|rating= 3.54|genre= TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= Set during the aftermath of a Third World War Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where methods of punishment for criminal activities have been amped up to a horrific level by machines, The Loop follows the precarious existence of adolescent Luka Kane. In a world of Have and Have Nots where Alts [cyborgs] have power over Regulars, he is trapped inside a living hell with no chance of escape. A detonator has been sewn inside his heart connecting him to a trigger held by they are celebrating 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 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 the model of an infinity loop designed to make its inmates sufferoccupation. With the only glimmers of hope being the rumours of rebellion outside and the visits of sympathetic Alt guard Wren, can Luka ever be free? Why has he been imprisoned? What waits for him if he can break the loop?|isbn=1912626551}} =='''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 During the subjugated sex. Throughout historywar, they have been confined to mere bit players who occasionally help hold up the powerful man and let nothing stand in his way. Grady HendrixJean's new novel ''The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires'' gives women their due. It is an ode father was arrested for listening to the strong selfless housewife. Hendrix illustrates this by having them go toe to toe with a predatory male vampire who moves into their quiet cul de sac.|isbn=1683691431}} =='''15 APRIL'''== {{Frontpage|isbn=1781129312|title=Sequin banned radio and Stitch|author=Laura Dockrill soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean 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 mother waiting for years for what she did. Mum is a seamstress and she makes the sort news of clothes that you see on red carpets or at important weddingshim. She's not As the designer - they're British finally free the people who make a lot of money Channel islands from the clothes. Mum is the person who actually ''makes'' the garments Nazis, and she's really talented, but when people talk about the dress or the suit, they talk about the designer. The seamstress war is never mentioned.}}{{Frontpage|author=Akala|title=The Dark Lady|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=''For a street kid from the Devil's Gapfinally over, London's most notorious slum, life is short and tough. For Henry, a boy thief with brown skin, inherited from a mother who abandoned him, life is tougher still. The Dark Lady enters his dreams at night. She seems to represent a past, and possibly a future...''Henry and his friends, brother and sister Matthew and Mary, have various ways of getting by. Sometimes their hopes rise that they pickpockets. Sometimes they rob the houses will finally learn what became of the rich. It's crime or starve - but crime is dangerous and they risk the terrible punishments of Elizabethan England if they are caught. Impossible choiceshim. But there are pleasures too, and for Henry, will the chief pleasure is the Globe Theatre and the plays of William Shakespeare. Henry loves language and often makes up sonnets about what he sees around him and how he feels. |isbn= 1444943693}} =='''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 truth come as a homerelief, 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 or will count for something in it raise further questions around what else happened during the end, won't itwar?|isbn=1472227778}}{{Frontpage|author= Hana Tooke|title= The Unadoptables|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= In Who was the winter of 1880, five babies are abandoned at informer who told 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 Nazis about the radio? And what 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 secrets have to escape. And so begins been kept throughout 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…occupation?|isbn=02414174651846976537
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