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=='''14 APRIL23 MAY'''==

|author=Polly BartonOnyi Nwabineli|title=Fifty SoundsAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|genre=Politics and SocietyGeneral Fiction|summary= Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself startsAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, with the question thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri'Why Japan?'' Japan has been on my radar s childhood for a while sponsorships and influencer deals and if the world hadn't gone into melt, 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 take down I would have visited by nowthe content about her. I may get there later this year Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, but I am not hopefulundergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. And like Barton Most importantly, I don't know the answer to the question ''why Japan?'' She explains she is desperately worried about her feelings in respect of the question in the first essaylittle sister, which who is on the sound new focus of Ophelia''giro' '' – which s online empire. Can she describes as being, among other thingssave her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the sound of ''every party where you have to introduce yourself''.same time?|isbn=19130975010861546873

 =='''15 APRIL30 MAY'''==

|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}} =='''27 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0753558378|title=Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters|author=Greg McKeown|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=''The marginal return of working harder was, in fact, negative.'' That's what happened to Patrick McGinnis. It's no exaggeration to say that he devoted his life to the company he worked for, struggling through, even when he was ill, only to find that he was working for a bankrupt company. His stock had fallen by 97%, he had lost his health and his job had little value. He made a bargain with God; if he survived, he would make some changes. He did survive and came through stronger - and richer. There is, you see, a different way: ''great things are not reserved for those who bleed, for those who almost break.''}}{{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 re-telling of the myth of Ariadne Lowe 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}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0241985137|title=The Whole Truth (D I Fawley)|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. There had been an accusation of sexual assault by a professor on a student. 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' and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fisher. Just to complicate matters further, Caleb's mother is Petra Newson, the local MP, and Professor Fisher is a big name is Artificial Intelligence. She has an eightLe Breton Mysteries -year-old son, buys her wine by the case from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more than £1000 a month on clothes and has more than ten thousand Twitter followers. When the excrement encounters Death at the ventilation equipment, this is going to be ''very'' public.}}{{Frontpage|author=Mercedes Helnwein|title=Slingshot|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is used to not being a priority in people's lives. But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|isbn=152905818X}} =='''30 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author=Ananda Devi|title=Eve Out of Her Ruins|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=At not even 200 pages, Eve Out of Her Ruins is one of the shortest books I've read in a long while, but it's one of the most dramatic. It's also told in a way that I can only describe as brutal: it spares nothing and pulls very few punches, the descriptions stark and unromantic.|isbn=0993009344}}  =='''3 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1635862353|title=The Sandalmaking Workshop|author=Rachel Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Crafts|summary=A sandal-making workshop? I couldn't really believe it, mainly because I'd always thought that you'd need more equipment than the average home was likely to be able to contain but I was intrigued. Rachel Corry 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 couldn'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.}}=='''6 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Daniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker|title=A Tattoo on my BrainDress Rehearsal

|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, the local MP, and Professor Fisher is a big name is Artificial Intelligence. She has an eight-year-old son, buys her wine by They travel across the case from Berry Brothers & Ruddcountry during their days off filming, spends uncovering more than £1000 a month on clothes possible murders and has more than ten thousand Twitter followers. When the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, this is going to be ''very'' public.}}=='''11 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1523092734|title=A Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=''She brings seemingly, a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Again and again and again.'' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD) ''To claim space is link to live death during the life of choosing unapologetically and bravelySecond World War. It But is to live the life you've always wanted.'' Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at there really a time when violence against women is much in link between the news, ''A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. deaths? Now - And will they manage to be clear - this book uncover who is not a 'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's something far responsible before more effective, but discussion at the moment seems to be about how women can be ''protected''. I've always thought that women need to rise above this, to be people who don't need protection, people who claim lose their own space. If all women did this, those few men who are violent to women would realise that we are not just an easy target to be used to prove that they are big men.lives?|isbn=1803368209

=='''27 MAY6 JUNE'''==

|isbnauthor=walker14Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Coldest Case (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin WalkerDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=Twitch Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a boy who loves birds. He keeps pigeons at hometeam of warrior, mage and chickenshealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and even has swallows nesting in his bedroom! His time spent watching race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and helping birds is easy compared to that of his time in schoolthe points they grant you along the way. But things are about to change Unfortunately for Twitch in all aspects Kit, the only thing he's seen of his life as there is a dangerous bank robber the latest race on the runinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and it's possible that the missing bank haul a new trio of questors is hidden somewhere in Aves Woodneeded. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the place where Twitch has token bully of his secret hide world and that stumbled into declaring he knows like the back of his hand! 'll enter as a team. Can Twitch solve the mysteryWhat chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and find the missing millionshow could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=14063893741839945184

 =='''10 13 JUNE'''==

|authorisbn=C J Carey1635866847|title=WidowlandThe Lavender Companion|rating=4|genreauthor=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 in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. 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 to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. 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 of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, Jessica Dunham and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|isbn=152941198X}}{{Frontpage|author=Terry Miles|title=RabbitsBarlin Vesci

|genre=Science FictionLifestyle|summary=Welcome to the world of The Game. Or should that be the game, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. It's also called Rabbitsstrange, although only as a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and to the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game of life then. Yes, things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the game of life book for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of websyou. People like our hero, K Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', named like that in I visited the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to be historians of the game, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the lists of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, and are still very short. However this time itauthor's different[https://www. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it's ever been – morally pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the game is doing, if itthere's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only to find out that the line between observing and learning about a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed..homepage.|isbn=1529016932}}{{Frontpage|author=Louise Beech|title=This Is How We Are Human|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Veronica is a devoted single mother to her son, Sebastian - but she can I don't give him everything he wants. Sebastian has decided that it's time for him to have sex. But as an autistic 20 yeareat cakes and desserts -old, but I wanted that's easier said than donecake viscerally. And it (There's starting to cause them both problems. |isbn=1913193713}} =='''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 recipe in the disappearance of Zoe Nolan from her university halls of residence. Split into four partsbook, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the reader is taken through the life book and disappearance I was told to make a mess of Zoe through it. Notes in the eyes of her twin sister, other family, friends and professionals, such as the policemargins are sanctioned. The various accounts help the reader You get to know Zoe, or at least fold down the Zoe she presented to otherscorners of pages. However, the twists and turns at the end You suspect that smears of each chapter leave you shocked, confused and unsure of what is true or fabricatedbutter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already. 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 again. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently with the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked waiting for years for the girl back, and a couple news of delighted adoptershim. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until it stopped all of a sudden, in one place, As the British finally free the Channel islands from the woman's car was found miles away in a second placeNazis, and now, after six months, the body has been discoveredwar is finally over, in a third, even more remote placetheir hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. Meanwhile, this narrative is interrupted by But will the truth come as a confessional monologue from a mother who found herself with heavy post-natal depressionrelief, and very little maternal feeling in her body. or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Is Who was the assumption that is so easy for informer who told the reader to make Nazis about the right oneradio?|isbn=191319373X}} =='''7 OCTOBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=John Gwynne|title=The Shadow Of The Gods|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods is the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, when the Gods And what other secrets have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to see. This story is been kept throughout the ultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to the genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. This is a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.occupation?|isbn=03565142181846976537