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=='''4 FEBRUARY23 MAY'''==

|author=Helen FisherOnyi Nwabineli|title=Space HopperAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=34.5

|summary=Faye lost Anuri spent her mum when she was very young. She was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from a cold that got worsechildhood on display to the world, and although they were kind and very good thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of course missed her mum enormouslyAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. So when, unexpectedly, she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box Now Anuri is in her attic) that takes her back to the 70's twenties and her mum, she revels in the chance is slowly trying to create some memories regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to know take down the woman who meant so much to content about her. The time travellingAnuri is battling alcoholism, however, is neither easy nor safefailing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and Faye fears that her husband won't believe what's happening secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so lies to him instead. The lies grow more tangledMost importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, and Faye begins to wonder if itwho is the new focus of Ophelia's safe for her to return one last time to the pastonline empire. Should Can she try to see save her mum one last time before sister, and perhaps herself and her mum's death, or will it change relationship with her own future forever to attempt itfather at the same time?|isbn=14711886630861546873

|authorisbn=Francesca Simon and Steve MayB0CYV674G2|title=Two Terrible VikingsSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5|genre=Emerging ReadersCrime|summary=In a small Viking village there live two twinsIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, Hack covered in mud and Whackblood - and carrying a knife, who are eager to be comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the very worst Vikings ever! Nothing can stop their mad marauding, as they cause havoc man. A body at the bottom of a birthday partyfreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, chaos whilst tracking a troll, and undertake a grand journey to raid Bad Island which coincided with their friends! They get up to all kinds the birth of mischief his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and naughty behaviour, along with their wolf'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-cub Biteydeprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going -Bitey, and their crazy cast of friendsprobably because he can't get any sleep at home.|isbn=0571349498

=='''17 February4 JUNE'''==

|isbnauthor=000845552XStuart Douglas|title=Where Ravens Roost|author=Karin NordinLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5

|summary=Inspector Kjeld Nygaard had been estranged from During location filming for his father1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', Stenar, for more than leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a decade but when he got woman on the rather muddled phone call from him saying that he'd seen edge of a murder in the barn on his land he didn't hesitate to drop everything and go to Varsundreservoir. ActuallyThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, 'drop everything' rather overstates and he enlists the situationhelp of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Nygaard was on suspension following They travel across the shooting of country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a suspect in link to death during the Aubuchon murder enquirySecond World War. There had been But is there really a complication: link between the Kattegat Killer turned out to be Nils Hedin, Nygaard's best friend. deaths? Still, the ten-hour drive from Gothenburg in the south of Sweden And will they manage to Varsund in the far north shouldn't be underestimated.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'''==

|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

|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 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