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=='''4 FEBRUARY23 MAY'''==
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|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
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=='''17 FEBRUARY30 MAY'''==
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|isbn=000845552XB0CYV674G2|title=Where Ravens RoostSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Karin NordinDavid Blake|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|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.
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=='''18 FEBRUARY4 JUNE'''==
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|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
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Hannah GoldKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Last BearDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|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 islandinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. But when they get therePossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, her father finds that his work monitoring and recording he has taken to the goading from the temperatures just takes up too much token bully of his time, world and so April is left to explore by herselfstumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. Her father had reassured her What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that there were no longer any bears living on Bear Island, but one day April thinks she catches a glimpse of one, and so she sets out to find the Bear, and then when she sees how could he is injured, possibly hope to befriend and help him.succeed?|isbn=000841128X1839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|isbn=1472276140|title=What Will Burn (Inspector McLean)|author=James Oswald|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=When Cecily Slater's body was found, she'd already been dead for a week - in a house fire in deserted woodland near Edinburgh. Heavy rain had washed away most of the evidence, but DI Tony McLean, demoted and just returned from suspension, is reluctant to accept that this is nothing more than a careless accident. There were indications that Slater had been savagely, almost ritualistically beaten before the fire. But who would hate a ninety-year-old woman to the extent of doing something like that? She was a virtual recluse: who could she have upset to that extent?}}=='''4 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Saima Mir1635866847|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}}{{FrontpageLavender Companion|author=Andrea Bajani Jessica Dunham and Elizabeth Harris (translator)|title=If You Kept a Record of SinsTerry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|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
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=='''18 MARCH4 JULY'''==
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|author=Danny Wallace and Gemma CorrellMax Boucherat|title=The Day the Screens Went BlankLast Life of Lori 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 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
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=='''1 APRIL'''==
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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=For Sharing
|summary=Remy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the other kids are around. So, when Remy reacts, it looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened.
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{{Frontpage
|author=Ruth Hogan
|title=Madame Burova
|rating=4.5
|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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=='''15 APRIL'''==
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|author=Lucy Holland
|title=Sistersong
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Sistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, 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 characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating the role of women. Sistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done well, 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 they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to end.
|isbn=1529039037
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|author=Goldy Moldavsky
|title=The Last Girl
|rating=5
|genre=teens
|summary= Rachel Chavez is 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 as a source of comfort. She struggles to find anyone to connect with, 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 it's too late.
|isbn=0755501527
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|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
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=='''27 APRIL'''==
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|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 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 the basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the past few months.
|isbn=1683692349
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=='''29 APRIL'''==
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|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 told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to her death, allowing 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
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=='''24 JUNE'''==
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|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. And 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.
|isbn=1471189783
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