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=='''4 FEBRUARY23 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=1838773428Onyi Nwabineli|title=The Art of Death|author=David FennellAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It was an art installation of Anuri spent her childhood on display to the type which does appear in Trafalgar Square: a depiction of three homeless men in glass cabinets surrounded by liquid. Only this time it's not a depiction: these are the bodies of Billy Perrinworld, Stan Buxton and 34thanks to her step-year-old Noel Tipping. The installation is the work of @nonymous, underground artist and extreme version of Banksy. Hemother Ophelia's made a macabre promise: more will follow. In factincreasingly popular presence on social media, we've already met the artist although not by name: hewhere she posted every step of Anuri's been in the Lumberyard Cafe with his Moleskine notebookchildhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, Maki-e fountain penbasically, MacBook Air and iPhonemonetary gain. Elaine Kelly Now Anuri is there with in her son, Jordan, twenties and she's explaining is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her best friendlife back, Jackie Morris suing her step-mother to take down the content about the state of her marriage. ActuallyAnuri is battling alcoholism, it doesn't take a lot of explaining: Frank's attentions are obvious on failing to start her face despite the foundation she's appliedPhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Chau Ho Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is behind the counter. Therenew focus of Ophelia's someone onlineempire. Can she save her sister, CassandraH, that and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the artist has his eye on, too.same time?|isbn=0861546873
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=='''30 MAY'''==
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|isbn=1787477800B0CYV674G2|title=The Night Hawks Swanton Morley (Dr Ruth GallowayJohn Tanner)|author=Elly GriffithsDavid Blake|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The night hawks are metal detectorists It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and they're out on Blakeney Point where they suspect carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that therehe hasn's treasure to be foundt killed the man. Unfortunately, A body at the youngest bottom of the group, twentya freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church -one-year-old Troy Evanshe's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, finds which coincided with the body birth of a man floating on the incoming tidehis daughter Samantha. After pulling it ashore, they call You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the policewords 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. DCI Nelson thinks that itHe's probably sleep-deprived to the body point of an asylum seeker falling asleep at work but therehe's no evidence of determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any activity to be had from the coastguard. The dead man turns out to be Jem Taylor, a North Norfolk man recently released from prisonsleep at home.
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=1529378648Stuart Douglas|title=Slough House (Jackson Lamb 7)|author=Mick Herron|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Someone is killing secret service agents, past and present, from the Slough House team. Jackson Lamb can't understand it. Well, what he actually can't understand is why, having seen them, anyone would bother. But the deaths are mounting up Lowe and something needs to be done. After all ''when things went awry on Spook Street, they generally went the full Chris Grayling.'' Over Le Breton Mysteries - Death at Regent's Park, Diana Taverner is quietly jubilant about an operation which saw the perpetrator of a Novichok poisoning in the UK (three people seriously injured and one dead) dispatched. It isn't just the message that was sent: she's also delighted that she managed to fund the operation off the books. Some private money was brought in. She won't always be so jubilant about this.}}{{Frontpage|author=Helen Fisher|title=Space HopperDress Rehearsal
|rating=3.5
|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Faye lost her mum when she was very young. She was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from a cold that got worse, and although they were kind and very good to her she of course missed her mum enormously. So when, unexpectedly, she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) that takes her back to the 70During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and her mumLeggit', she revels in leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the chance to create some memories and get to know dead body of a woman on the woman who meant so much to heredge of a reservoir. The time travellingpolice seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, howeverbut something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, is neither easy nor safeand he enlists the help of a fellow actor, and Faye fears that her husband won't believe what's happening and so lies John Le Breton to help him insteadinvestigate matters further. The lies grow They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more tangledpossible murders and, and Faye begins to wonder if it's safe for her to return one last time seemingly, a link to death during the pastSecond World War. Should she try But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to see her mum one last time uncover who is responsible before her mum's death, or will it change her own future forever to attempt itmore people lose their lives?|isbn=14711886631803368209
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Francesca Simon Kieran Larwood and Steve MayJoe Todd-Stanton|title=Two Terrible VikingsDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary=In Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a small Viking village there live two twinsteam of warrior, Hack mage and Whackhealer enter specially prepared, who are eager to be the very worst Vikings ever! Nothing can stop their mad marauding, as they cause havoc at a birthday partycentury-old, chaos whilst tracking a trollmagical mazes, and undertake a grand journey race to raid Bad Island the exit, perhaps bothering with their friends! They get up to all kinds of mischief the treasure or the big bad and naughty behaviour, the points they grant you along with their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, and their crazy cast of friends.|isbn=0571349498}}=='''18 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1471187179|title=A Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Minnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburbthe way. The book is set in Unfortunately for Kit, the 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her motheronly thing he's expectations seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and find a nice young man to marry, produce children and spend the rest new trio of her days looking after her husband and their homequestors is needed. UnfortunatelyPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, this isn't what she wants he has taken to do at all the goading from the token bully of his world and neither does she want to continue working stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a secretaryteam. As a result of a What chance meetingdoes this friendless, she finds herself drawn into espionagemuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, working for the secret service and effectively living a double life - attempting how could he possibly hope to infiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britain. Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and the friends she has made - and likes - whilst working for the Communist Party.succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Hannah Gold1635866847|title=The Last BearLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|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
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=='''4 MARCHJULY'''==
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|author=Saima MirMax Boucherat|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}}{{Frontpage|author=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)|title=If You Kept a Record Last Life of SinsLori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|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 worldon her lonesome. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping they're first to get What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a screen backblanket fort, she has one main intention, and not what they were constantly doing that is to log on them before. Toasters can toastto Voxminer, but TVs cannot do the V part of their jobworld-building, and no computer can show its computations. You might think this critter-collecting game that is going to be a social comedy about people stuck hit in such Lori's world. But first Lori has a Luddite experience against their willtiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, but noand then she finds something even more spooky. For the family finally remember Stella's grandma, server she and see if they can get across country to her. Hence this has bestie and nobody else should be able to go down as a road-trip bookenter shows signs of tampering. But not just thatWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, a slapstick road-trip comedy. And more than thatand her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, too – for it's where is a slapstick, high-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart that kids of all ages will love.girl to turn?|isbn=14711968870008666482
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|isbnauthor=B08R7LXQ9SJenny Lecoat|title=Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline SiegalBeyond Summerland
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|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 chiefly, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Readersoldiers took him away one night, Palmist leaving Jean and Clairvoyant'', to use her family's sea-front boothmother waiting for years for news of him. The singer, As the British finally free the scryer and Channel islands from the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday campNazis, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for and the first time in the family stall. We also see her on her last daywar is finally over, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters their hopes rise that they will change everything for a woman called Billiefinally learn what became of him. Just who is sheBut will the truth come as a relief, and or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who delivered told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets about her to Imelda, and why did it have to remain a secret all this timebeen kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=152937331X1846976537
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