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

|author=Francesca Simon and Steve MayOnyi Nwabineli|title=Two Terrible VikingsAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=In a small Viking village there live two twinsAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, Hack where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and Whack, who are eager basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to be take down the very worst Vikings ever! content about her. Nothing can stop their mad maraudingAnuri is battling alcoholism, as they cause havoc at a birthday party, chaos whilst tracking a trollfailing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and undertake a grand journey to raid Bad Island with their friends! receiving money from them for doing so. They get up to all kinds of mischief and naughty behaviourMost importantly, along with their wolf-cub Bitey-Biteyshe is desperately worried about her little sister, and their crazy cast who is the new focus of friendsOphelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=05713494980861546873

=='''17 FEBRUARY30 MAY'''==

|isbn=000845552XB0CYV674G2|title=Where Ravens RoostSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Karin NordinDavid Blake|rating=43.5

|summary=Inspector Kjeld Nygaard had been estranged from his fatherIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, Stenarcovered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, for more than a decade but when he got comes into the rather muddled phone call from him saying police station shouting that hehasn'd seen t killed the man. A body at the bottom of a murder in the barn on his land freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he didn't hesitate s been stabbed to drop everything and go to Varsunddeath. ActuallyDCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, 'drop everything' rather overstates which coincided with the situationbirth of his daughter Samantha. Nygaard was on suspension following You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the shooting of a suspect in the Aubuchon murder enquirywords 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. There had been a complication: the Kattegat Killer turned out to be Nils Hedin, NygaardHe's best friend. Still, the tensleep-hour drive from Gothenburg in deprived to the south point of Sweden falling asleep at work but he's determined to Varsund in the far north shouldnkeep going - probably because he can't be underestimatedget any sleep at home.

=='''18 FEBRUARY4 JUNE'''==

|isbnauthor=1471187179Stuart Douglas|title=A Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel HoreLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Minnie is an During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'ordinaryFloggit and Leggit' girl living an unexciting life in , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a leafy provincial suburbreservoir. The book is set in police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother's expectations and find a nice young man to marrywhole thing bothers Lowe, produce children and spend he enlists the rest help of her days looking after her husband and their homea fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. UnfortunatelyThey travel across the country during their days off filming, this isn't what she wants to do at all uncovering more possible murders and neither does she want to continue working as a secretary. As a result of a chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into espionageseemingly, working for the secret service and effectively living a double life - attempting link to infiltrate death during the Communist Party of Great BritainSecond World War. Minnie finds herself torn But is there really a link between what she perceives as her duty and the friends she has made - and likes - whilst working for the Communist Party.deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

|author=Hannah GoldKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Last BearDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4.5

|summary=April's fatherMeet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, a scientistit seems, has been given he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a job on a remote island called Bear Islandteam of warrior, mage and he accepts the job deciding to take his daughter April with him. They live alone anywayhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, since April's mother died some time beforemagical mazes, and he feels it will be educational for her race to experience the island exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and all its natural beautythe points they grant you along the way. April already has an affinity with natureUnfortunately for Kit, and shethe only thing he's excited to travel with her father, thinking seen of all the fun things they will be able to experience together latest race on the island. But when they get thereinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, her father finds that his work monitoring and recording the temperatures just takes up too much a new trio of his time, and so April questors is left to explore by herselfneeded. Her father had reassured her that there were no longer any bears living on Bear IslandPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, but one day April thinks she catches a glimpse of one, and so she sets out he has taken to find the Bear, goading from the token bully of his world and then when she sees stumbled into declaring he is injured, to befriend and help him.|isbn=000841128X}} =='''4 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Saima Mir|title=The Khan|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by the motto be twice ll enter as good as men and four times as good as white mena team. This has served her well What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in her rise through the criminal justice system actually managing that, 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, how could he possibly hope 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.succeed?|isbn=17860790971839945184

|authorisbn=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)1635866847|title=If You Kept a Record of SinsThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=Literary FictionLifestyle|summary=This was an incredibly readable novellaIt's strange, but one the things that left me a little conflicted. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airport, and before we even know his gender or the nature of the person hemake you ''immediately's addressing in his second person monologue of a narration, we see him picked up by his mother's chauffeur, and carted off to do all the necessary introductions before said mother feel that this is buried the following daybook for you. Before I started reading ''The mother was a businesswoman, who clearly left northern Italy and settled in Romania with her (night-time and business) partner, and feelings of abandonment are still strong. And so we flit from current (wellLavender Companion'', this came out in I visited the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, to the ladauthor's childhood, and see just what he has to tell her as a private farewell address.|isbn=1939810965}}{{Frontpage|author=Mary H[https://www.Kpinelavenderfarm. Choi|title=Yolk|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Jayne Baek is a fashion student thatcom/ website] and there's barely getting by. She drinks. She smokes. She makes bad decisions about a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the men she sleeps withhomepage. She I don's an allt eat cakes and desserts -round messy character; and but I wanted thatcake viscerally. (There's her charm. Junea recipe in the book, on which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the other hand, is a complete contrast book and I was told to Jayne. She's make a typical older sister: she's smart, thinks she knows mess of it all, and has a successful job. She constantly criticises Jayne for her life choices, and the two have barely kept in contact despite living Notes in the same city for margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the past two yearscorners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. This is until June finds out she I ''s sick, and Jayne is the only person she can turn to. The two sisters have to come together and decide how far theyloved'll go to save each other's lives – even if it means swapping identitiesthis book already.|isbn= 0349003696

=='''18 MARCH4 JULY'''==

|author=Danny Wallace and Gemma CorrellMax Boucherat|title=The Day the Screens Went BlankLast Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5

|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

|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 Burovasoldiers took him away one night, ''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 for news of a pair 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 stories, 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 charactersNazis, 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 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 the pranks, and people begin to get hurt. When the competition then takes a deadly turn, Rachel must figure out who this masked figure is before or will 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 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 about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess raise further questions 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 what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in else happened during the basement – and for that werewolf to be war? Who was the girl she has been talking to online for the past few months.|isbn=1683692349}} =='''29 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author= Jennifer Saint |title= Ariadne |rating= 4.5 |genre= Women's Fiction |summary= This re-telling of the myth of Ariadne and the Minotaur is interesting and unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to a modern audience. Saint's narrative is informer who told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to her death, allowing Nazis about the reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a prop in the heroics of Theseus. |isbn=1472273869}}  =='''24 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|author=Catherine Steadman|title=The Disappearing Act|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= British actress Mia Eliot is on the cusp of success. Great success. If the rumours are true, award season is going to treat her well, acknowledging her for her latest, critically acclaimed production. She's going places but so, unfortunately, is her partner. radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the places he's going take him towards lies, deceit and a pretty young thing in the form of his new co-star. It's a good time for Mia to escape, and pilot season in LA provides just the excuse.occupation?|isbn=14711897831846976537