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=='''1 FEBRUARY23 MAY'''==

|isbn=B08LKT7HSR|title=Murder in the Belltower (A Miss Underhay Mystery)|author=Helena Dixon|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=In December 1933 the remains of Elowed Underhay were discovered in the cellar of the Glass Bottle Public House. Ezekiel Hamett was sought in connection with the murder of Elowed and his half-brother, Denzil Hammett, whose body was also discovered. Kitty Underhay's long search for her mother, who disappeared in June 1916 was over. Now she's determined that the man responsible for her murder will be brought to justice.}} =='''2 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Anna CareyOnyi Nwabineli|title=This is Not the Jess Show|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Jess is a normal 90's teenage girl, just trying to navigate the usual stresses of school, and boys, and parent troubles. But strange things seem to be happening in her small town, with a mystery flu keeping lots of people indoors, and a strange metal device, with an apple on it, that slips out of her friend's bag, but that her friends just won't talk to her about. Jess feels like she might be hearing voices, and her sister (who is very ill) seems to be responding Allow Me to her in strange ways sometimes. Is there something going on beneath the surface of Jess' life?|isbn=1683691970}}=='''4 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1529378648|title=Slough House (Jackson Lamb 7)|author=Mick HerronIntroduce Myself

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Someone is killing secret service agentsAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, past and present, from the Slough House team. Jackson Lamb canthanks to her step-mother Ophelia't understand it. Wells increasingly popular presence on social media, what he actually canwhere she posted every step of Anuri't understand is whys childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, having seen thembasically, anyone would bothermonetary gain. But the deaths are mounting up Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and something needs to be doneget her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. After all ''when things went awry on Spook StreetAnuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, they generally went the full Chris Graylingundergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so.'' Over at Regent's ParkMost importantly, Diana Taverner she is quietly jubilant desperately worried about an operation which saw her little sister, who is the perpetrator new focus of a Novichok poisoning in the UK (three people seriously injured and one dead) dispatchedOphelia's online empire. It isn't just the message that was sent: Can she's also delighted that she managed to fund save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the operation off the books. Some private money was brought in. She won't always be so jubilant about this.same time?|isbn=0861546873

|isbn=0008379300B0CYV674G2|title=The Shadow ManSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Helen FieldsDavid Blake|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Fergus Ariss is in his late thirties and he knows that he's dying. His body is giving up on him, his internal organs beginning to putrify but before he dies he wants a wife, a child and a brother3. He's been on the lookout for the perfect people and he's made certain preparations. The flat where the family will live is prepared and even windows with curtains, and pictures in frames have been painted onto the walls. Angela Fernycroft was to be his wife. Her husband, Cal, had taken the children - a boy of seven and a girl of five, away for the weekend. Unfortunately, it doesn't go according to plan and Angela dies.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178089905X|title=Serpentine|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=5

|summary=It wasn't exactly the case Lt Milo Sturgis had been dreaming about: a death from thirtyseemed like an open-six years ago and the daughter of the woman who died wanted some answers-shut case. She had money A man, covered in mud and money translated into clout blood - and so the problem was dropped onto Milo's toes. Dorothy Swoboda was twenty-four years old when she died in carrying a car which went off a cliff on Mulholland Drive and burst knife, comes into flames. It turned out the police station shouting that she wasnhe hasn't actually married to killed the man . A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with whom shethe birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd left her daughter be grateful for an easy answer but Dr Stanley R Barker, optometrist, was a good man the words 'perverse' and he took out adoption papers 'John Tanner' were made for Ellie each other. He's sleep- and she took his name. Ellie was three when her mother left her with Dr Barker and she has nothing deprived to the point of her falling asleep at work but one photograph of her mother and father and a necklace made of serpentinehe's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.

|isbnauthor=1471191303Stuart Douglas|title=The Invisible|author=Tom Percival|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=This is the story of Isobel, a little girl who made a big difference. Isobel lived with her parents in a house Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - a very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on: ''Ice curled across the inside of the window and crept up the corner of the bedpost.'' The family didn't go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy. Then the day came when they couldn't afford the rent for the house and they had to move to the far side of Death at the city. This part of the city was cold, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.}}{{Frontpage|author=Helen Fisher|title=Space HopperDress Rehearsal

|summary=The night hawks are metal detectorists During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and theyLeggit're out on Blakeney Point where they suspect that there's treasure to be found. Unfortunately, leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the youngest of the group, twenty-one-year-old Troy Evans, finds the dead body of a man floating woman on the incoming tideedge of a reservoir. After pulling The police seem happy to assign it ashoreas an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, they call and he enlists the policehelp of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. DCI Nelson thinks that it's probably They travel across the body of an asylum seeker but there's no evidence of any activity country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to be had from death during the coastguardSecond World War. The dead man turns out But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to be Jem Taylor, a North Norfolk man recently released from prison.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

=='''18 FEBRUARY6 JUNE'''==

|isbnauthor=1471187179Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=A Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel HoreDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=Historical FictionConfident Readers|summary=Minnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburbMeet Kit. The book Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is set in an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the 1930s sport where a team of warrior, mage and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother's expectations healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and find a nice young man race to marrythe exit, produce children perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and spend the rest of her days looking after her husband and their homepoints they grant you along the way. Unfortunatelyfor Kit, this isnthe only thing he't what she wants to do at all s seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and neither does she want to continue working as a secretarynew trio of questors is needed. As a result of a chance meetingPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, she finds herself drawn into espionage, working for he has taken to the goading from the secret service token bully of his world and effectively living stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a double life - attempting to infiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britainteam. Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and the friends she has made What chance does this friendless, muscle-free- zone have in actually managing that, and likes - whilst working for the Communist Party.how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184

|authorisbn=Hannah Gold1635866847|title=The Last BearLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=AprilIt's fatherstrange, a scientist, has been given a job on a remote island called Bear Island, and he accepts the job deciding to take his daughter April with himthings that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. They live alone anywayBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', since AprilI visited the author's mother died some time before, [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and he feels it will be educational for her to experience there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the island homepage. I don't eat cakes and all its natural beautydesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. April already has an affinity with nature(There's a recipe in the book, and shewhich I's excited to travel m avoiding with her father, thinking of all some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the fun things they will be able book and I was told to experience together on make a mess of it. Notes in the islandmargins are sanctioned. But when they You get there, her father finds that his work monitoring and recording to fold down the temperatures just takes up too much corners of his time, and so April is left to explore by herselfpages. Her father had reassured her You suspect that there were no longer any bears living on Bear Island, but one day April thinks she catches smears of butter would not be a glimpse of one, and so she sets out to find the Bear, and then when she sees he is injured, to befriend and help himproblem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=000841128X

=='''4 MARCHJULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Saima Mir|title=The Khan|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by the motto be twice as good as men and four times as good as white men. This has served her well in her rise through the criminal justice system and by the time she is called home for her sister's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exile, she is at the top of her game. Returning to the city of her birth, to old scars and fresh wounds, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for the future with her sense of honour and duty.|isbn=1786079097}}

|author=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)Max Boucherat|title=If You Kept a Record The Last Life of SinsLori Mills

|summary=Meet Stella and her family. TheyWe meet Lori on the first evening she're just innocently trying s got the house to have a Sunday evening in together, watching a film herself – using three different screens no neighbour to watch three different thingspop in, mind – when ''poof'' everything goes blank. And it's not just their homebabysitter poorly, but the entire south-western village of Mouseholemother at work, and not just thatan avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, either, but the whole country, if not world. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping they're first to get a screen back, and not what they were constantly doing on them beforeher lonesome. Toasters can toast, but TVs cannot do the V part of their job, and no computer can show its computations. What could possibly go wrong? You might think this is going to be a social comedy about people stuck Snuggled in such a Luddite experience against their willblanket fort, but no. For the family finally remember Stella's grandmashe has one main intention, and see if they can get across country that is to her. Hence this has log on to go down as a road-trip book. But not just thatVoxminer, a slapstick roadthe world-trip comedy. And more than thatbuilding, too – for it's a slapstick, highcritter-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart collecting game that kids of all ages will love.|isbn=1471196887}} =='''23 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Other Emily|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Our hero David Thorne is an author, who shares his life between the two US coasts. Ita hit in Lori's the western coast we're concerned with, a place he has to return to, and a place he has to be able to leaveworld. David lost contact with his partner there ten years ago, when she vanished from But first Lori has a remote road late at tiny inkling that this stormy night. Hedoesn's paying for contact with the man he thinks the only suspect, a lifer now, who went a bit Hannibal Lectert find herself entirely on her own, and has a dozen and then she finds something even more unfound Jane Does on his recordspooky. David is trying to pry For the connection between the murderer server she and her bestie and his girl from the man's mind, but nobody else should be able to no availenter shows signs of tampering. He's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting imageWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the very embodiment, the virtual resurrectiongame has been doctored – well, of his love. What where is a man girl to doturn?|isbn=15420199580008666482

|isbnauthor=B08R7LXQ9SJenny Lecoat|title=Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline SiegalBeyond Summerland

|summary=This book lets us discover several people in different stages Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connectedoccupation. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then)During the war, a girl in a humdrum job wanting Jean's father was arrested for listening to become a singer, banned radio and chieflysoldiers took him away one night, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist leaving Jean and Clairvoyant'', to use her family's sea-front booth. The singer, the scryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo waiting for the first time in the family stall. We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, in possession of a pair for news of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billiehim. Just who is she, and who delivered As the British finally free the secrets about her to Imelda, and why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|isbn=152937331X}} =='''15 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author=Lucy Holland|title=Sistersong|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Sistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, Channel islands from the modern retelling of folk and fairy tales. These storiesNazis, for most of us, are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating the role of women. Sistersong war is a perfect example of a modern retelling done wellfinally over, the plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to come to life, to feel real and human, most importantly their hopes rise that they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece will finally learn what became of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to endhim.|isbn=1529039037}}{{Frontpage|author=Goldy Moldavsky|title=The Last Girl|rating=5|genre=teens|summary= Rachel Chavez is But will the new girl at Manchester Prep. A school filled to the brim with the richest children in the city – and Rachel doesn't belong. She's not rich, she has no ties to some royal family in Serbia, and most of all, she spends the majority of her spare time watching horror movies truth come as a source of comfort. She struggles to find anyone to connect withrelief, until one day she stumbles upon or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the Mary Shelley Club. A secret society with one aim: pull off the best prank in true horror movie style, and unless someone screams, you have failed. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed in the competition. But as the pranks escalate, and Rachel finally feels like she has found her place in this school, things start to go wrong; a masked figure keeps showing up to war? Who was the pranks, and people begin to get hurt. When the competition then takes a deadly turn, Rachel must figure out informer who this masked figure is before it's too late.|isbn=0755501527}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Sultoon|title=The Source|rating=2.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=1996. Essex. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in a disenfranchised town dominated by a military base, struggling to care for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another binge. When her squaddie brother brings food and treats, and offers an exclusive invitation to army parties, things start to look a little less bleak...|isbn=1913193594}} =='''27 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author=Kristen O'Neal|title=Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for told the rest of her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk Nazis about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's house to check up on her. But radio? And what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has other secrets have been talking to online for kept throughout the past few months.occupation?|isbn=16836923491846976537