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=='''18 MARCH23 MAY'''==

|author=Charlie CarrollOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Lip|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''Melody Janie Rowe'' even the name is evocative of…probably of whatever we want it to be, and maybe that's the point. To me the name sings of English folk music, but even in my use of that word English, I know I'm putting an emmet take on things. And Melody Janie Rowe is anti-emmet. |isbn=1529334179}} =='''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. It's the western coast we're concerned with, a place he has to return to, and a place he has to be able to leave. David lost contact with his partner there ten years ago, when she vanished from a remote road late at night. He's paying for contact with the man he thinks the only suspect, a lifer now, who went a bit Hannibal Lecter, and has a dozen and more unfound Jane Does on his record. David is trying to pry the connection between the murderer and his girl from the man's mind, but to no avail. He's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting image, the very embodiment, the virtual resurrection, of his love. What is a man to do?|isbn=1542019958}} =='''1 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal|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 Allow Me 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.}}{{Frontpage|author=Ruth Hogan|title=Madame BurovaIntroduce Myself

|summary=This book lets us discover several people in different stages Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of life in the early 1970sAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, all vaguely connectedmonetary gain. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), a girl Now Anuri is in a humdrum job wanting her twenties and she is slowly trying to become a singer, regain her confidence and chieflyto get her life back, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarotsuing her step-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', mother to use take down the content about her family's sea-front booth. The singerAnuri is battling alcoholism, the scryer failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo receiving money from them for the first time in the family stalldoing so. We also see her on Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her last daylittle sister, fifty years later, in possession who is the new focus of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called BillieOphelia's online empire. Just who is Can shesave her sister, and who delivered perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the secrets about her to Imelda, and why did it have to remain a secret all this same time?|isbn=152937331X0861546873

|author=Jessie Greengrass|title=The High House|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Charles Darwin taught that all living matter evolved to pass on its genetic material with the implied belief that your progeny will then pass on theirs. However, that train of thought is slowly seems to have fallen out of favour. Today's young generation are discovering that their parents and their parents' parents did not seem to think that far ahead. Or they did think that far ahead and thought "it's not my problem" or "there's nothing I can do". Raising a child and living in a world on the precipice of catastrophe is what drives ''The High House'' by Jessie Greengrass. This is not a science-fiction novel. This is our reality. This is the life our children and their children will have to live.|isbn=1800750072}}{{Frontpage|author= Jonathan Stroud|title= The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and Faith Houses to wander the wildlands between the Seven Kingdoms of Britain, robbing banks and shooting other outlaws to keep herself alive. But then she meets Albert Browne, a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting them down, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Together, they must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and all the horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the Free Isles, but will they be any more accepted there than they are in the rest of Britain?|isbn=1406394815}} =='''14 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author=Polly Barton|title=Fifty Sounds|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary= Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been on my radar for a while and if the world hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by now. I may get there later this year, but I am not hopeful. And like Barton, I don't know the answer to the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the question in the first essay, which is on the sound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being, among other things, the sound of ''every party where you have to introduce yourself''.|isbn=1913097501}} =='''15 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1529124255|title=The Whispers|author=Heidi Perks|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=We know straight away that there's going to be a body. It's on the beach under Crayne's Cliff near the town of Clearwater and it's new year's day. To understand what happened we're going to have to go back to the previous September. Grace Goodwin has a soft Australian accent - she's lived there since her teens and now, in her mid-thirties, she's returned to her home town to live. Her husband, Graham, works in Singapore and she and her eight-year-old daughter, Matilda, might as well be in the lovely apartment she's found. Grace's best friend, Anna Robinson, is still in Clearwater and she has an eight-year-old child too. Ethan's in the class Matilda will be joining. It's perfect!}}{{Frontpage|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}}{{Frontpage|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}}{{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 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}} =='''29 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1471181405B0CYV674G2|title=NighthawkingSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Russ ThomasDavid Blake|rating=43.5

|summary=Sheffield's [http://www.sbg.orgIt seemed like an open-and-shut case.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse RoadA man, if you'd like to visit) are an oasis of calm covered in whatmud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn's otherwise thought of as an industrial city but this was disrupted when t killed the man. A body at the bottom of a young woman was discovered. It had obviously freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been buried in one of the beds but who would have started stabbed to dig her up? It had been in the earth for months and could have been undiscovered for yearsdeath. The police need to establish who stabbed her - and who left DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the two, very rare, gold aurei on her eyesbirth of his daughter Samantha. DCI Diane Jordan is You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the Investigating Officer and her foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler words 'perverse' and DC Mina Rabbani. They're joined by DS Guy Daley whoJohn Tanner's just returned from extended sick leavewere made for each other. Mina thinks heHe's as obnoxious as ever sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but suspects that he's not fully recovered from his injuriesdetermined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.

|author= Jennifer Saint Stuart Douglas|title= Ariadne |rating= 4.5 |genre= Women's Fiction |summary= This reLowe and Le Breton Mysteries -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 Death at 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}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0241985137|title=The Whole Truth (D I Fawley)|author=Cara HunterDress Rehearsal|rating=3.5

|summary=DI Adam FawleyDuring location filming for his 1970's team got to Edith Launceleve College firstsitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', called there by Jancis Appleby to see leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the Principal, Professor Hilary Reynolds. There had been an accusation dead body of sexual assault by a professor woman on the edge of a studentreservoir. When Fawley arrived he was almost cross: what was the alleged perpetrator doing in the room before they'd even got the details from the victim? The problem was that Caleb Morgan ''was'' police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the 'victim' whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fisher. Just help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to complicate help him investigate matters further, Caleb's mother is Petra Newson, . They travel across the local MPcountry during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and Professor Fisher is a big name is Artificial Intelligence. She has an eight-year-old son, buys her wine by the case from Berry Brothers & Ruddseemingly, spends more than £1000 a month on clothes and has more than ten thousand Twitter followerslink to death during the Second World War. When But is there really a link between the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, this deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is going to be ''very'' public.responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

|author=Mercedes HelnweinKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=SlingshotDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=34|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonelyMeet Kit. As Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a secret illegitimate daughter team of a man warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with a "real" familythe treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, she is used to not being a priority in peoplethe only thing he's lives. But when she defends seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence new trio of questors is changed needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitudeKit, for her life now he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a boy team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in it actually managing that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield., and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=152905818X1839945184

=='''3 MAY13 JUNE'''==

|isbn=16358623531635866847|title=The Sandalmaking WorkshopLavender Companion|author=Rachel CorryJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=CraftsLifestyle|summary=A sandal-making workshop? I couldnIt't really believe its strange, mainly because I'd always thought the things that make you'd need more equipment than 'immediately'' feel that this is the average home was likely to be able to contain but I was intriguedbook for you. Rachel Corry Before I started sandal making accidentally - a small fire destroyed some of her shoes. One pair had come apart and she could see how the sandal was constructed. Then she realised that she couldnreading 't afford to replace all her shoes. Could she combine these two facts to create a new and worthwhile craft? She showed quite a few people her first pair and they all either wanted to know how to do it - or if she'd make them a pair. A new career was born.}}==The Lavender Companion'''7 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0241985137|title=The Whole Truth (D , I Fawley)|visited the author=Cara Hunter|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=DI Adam Fawley's team got to Edith Launceleve College first, called there by Jancis Appleby to see the Principal, Professor Hilary Reynolds[https://www. There had been an accusation of sexual assault by a professor on a studentpinelavenderfarm. When Fawley arrived he was almost cross: what was the alleged perpetrator doing in the room before they'd even got the details from the victim? The problem was that Caleb Morgan ''was'' the 'victim' com/ website] and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fisher. Just to complicate matters further, Calebthere's mother is Petra Newson, the local MP, and Professor Fisher is a big name is Artificial Intelligence. She has an eight-year-old son, buys her wine by the case from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more than £1000 picture of a month slice of chocolate cake on clothes and has more than ten thousand Twitter followersthe homepage. When the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, this is going to be I don''very'' publict eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally.}}=='''27 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=walker14|title=The Coldest Case (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It was when he saw Elisabeth DaynesThere' work s a recipe in the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies that chief of police Bruno Courreges had the idea which he thought might help his boss, chief of detectives Jalipeau, known as J-Jbook, to solve a case which had haunted him for thirty years. The body of a young male was found in I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the woods but he book and I was never identified and his killer never brought told to justice. What if an artist could recreate the face from the skull and the resulting publicity be used to identify the young man? J-J calls the skull 'Oscar' and has make a picture on his door: he sees mess of it every time he leaves his office: he doesn't want to forget Oscar until his killer has been brought to justice.}}=='''10 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|author=C J Carey|title=Widowland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved Notes in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we margins are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''sanctioned. But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs You get to the drudges, and beyond those, right on fold down to the childless, the husbandless and the widowscorners of pages. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out You suspect that smears of it – after all, butter would not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprintproblem. That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil HitlerI 's visit.|isbn=152941198X}} =='loved''17 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|author=Joseph Knox|title=True Crime Story|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary= Joseph Knox, known for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waits, has created a new genre with his latest novel, "True Crime Story". The story follows the disappearance of Zoe Nolan from her university halls of residence. Split into four parts, the reader is taken through the life and disappearance of Zoe through the eyes of her twin sister, other family, friends and professionals, such as the policethis book already. The various accounts help the reader get to know Zoe, or at least the Zoe she presented to others. However, the twists and turns at the end of each chapter leave you shocked, confused and unsure of what is true or fabricated. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=0857527703

=='''24 JUNE4 JULY'''==

|author=Catherine SteadmanMax Boucherat|title=The Disappearing ActLast Life of Lori Mills

|summary=Meet Kate, although I got We meet Lori on the impression first evening she'd rather be a Catherine s got the house to herself – and one specific Catherine no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at that. For Catherine Rodriguez is Kate's idolwork, and the author of our heroine's favourite possessionjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, ''The Special Correspondent Manual''on her lonesome. Armed with What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a plucky fatherblanket fort, that bookshe has one main intention, and her talking mouse called Rupert, she that is all equipped to manage a train ride log on to Voxminer, the Arcticworld-building, to see her scientist mother for the first time critter-collecting game that is a hit in yonksLori's world. However, But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this is a train ride with a difference, for stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on board is a greedy-seeming harridan and her catown, a thief – and two glowing eyes, shining from then she finds something even more spooky. For the darkness in a blink-server she and her bestie and-you'll-miss-them stylenobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. It's definitely When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a case for a new young investigative journalist...girl to turn?|isbn=184812970X0008666482

|author=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)Jenny Lecoat|title=Girls Who LieBeyond Summerland|rating=34|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the dark corners end of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before nowthe occupation. You think, seeing on During the map that we're set in Akraneswar, and finding itJean's only twenty kilometres from the capital city, that this author is clutching at the few final straws left. However just because the book aims father was arrested for the usual small-town feel, it's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago listening to a woman failed to turn up for her date eveningbanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and was never seen againher mother waiting for years for news of him. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently with As the British finally free the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for Channel islands from the girl backNazis, and a couple the war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of delighted adoptershim. But it left our three detectives at will the truth come as a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until relief, or will it stopped all of a sudden, in one place, raise further questions around what else happened during the woman's car war? Who was found miles away in a second place, and now, after six months, the body has been discovered, in a third, even more remote place. Meanwhile, this narrative is interrupted by a confessional monologue from a mother informer who found herself with heavy post-natal depression, and very little maternal feeling in her body. Is told the assumption that is so easy for Nazis about the reader to make radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the right oneoccupation?|isbn=191319373X1846976537