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=='''28 OCTOBER23 MAY'''==
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|author=Antti Tuomainen Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=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 Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, 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 the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and David Hackston her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873}}=='''30 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Swanton Morley (translatorJohn Tanner)|titleauthor=The Rabbit FactorDavid Blake
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|genre=Crime
|summary=Meet HenriIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. With A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a mind so much more focused on maths and calculations than it is other human beingsknife, comes into the police station shouting that hehasn's perfect for his job in t killed the man. A body at the insurance company – until they decide bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's not a team-member, that they'd prefer everyone been stabbed to be all open-plan, holistic and keen on stupid-as workshoppingdeath. This DCI John Tanner is when he finds just back from his brother has diedhoneymoon, having a heart attack while busy changing which coincided with the birth of his Volvodaughter Samantha. You would think he's radio channel, and has left Henri everything. Unfortunately (or otherwise) that d be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'everythingperverse' is just an adventure park, and nothing else. 'John Tanner'YouMeFunwere made for each other. He'' is so not what Henri wants s sleep-deprived to occupy his mind, but he perks up a little when he sees huge holes in the finances – it runs point of falling asleep at a steady money-moving pace, despite some desultory staff ideas, work but loans have been made out and the amount vanished. Fortunately (or otherwise) some people are quickly on the scene to explain that missing money – ithe's been turned into a gambling debt that has also now been inherited by Henri, and the activities of these guys are not conducive determined to getting a cheap life insurance plan..keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.|isbn=191319387X
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=='''1 NOVEMBER4 JUNE'''==
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|author=Teresa DriscollStuart Douglas|title=Her Perfect FamilyLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The novel begins by introducing you police seem happy to Gemma, who at first instance appears to be your average studentassign it as an accidental death, faced with but something about the familiar horrifying realisationwhole thing bothers Lowe, at and he enlists the eleventh hourhelp of a fellow actor, that her graduation outfit is all wrongJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Suddenly They travel across the country during their days off filming, Gemma receives an eerie message stating ''He is not who he says he is…''uncovering more possible murders and, paving the way for the sinister tone that remains throughout the novel. In a twist of eventsseemingly, and after a change of outfit, Gemma is shot in link to death during the midst of her graduation ceremonySecond World War. With Gemma then in a coma, what follows But is there really a complex whodunit with a list of suspects that continues link between the deaths? And will they manage to grow the further you read.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=15420287521803368209
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=='''4 NOVEMBER6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Lucy HopeKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=FledglingDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Bavaria, 1900Meet Kit. Our scene is a Like most peculiar hilltop houseof the people in his world, built bit by bit over the decadesit seems, and now looking imperiously down on the village and woods below. It's he is an eccentric house, to host eccentrics, so avid fan of Dungeon Running – the library shelving system is not as we'd know itsport where a team of warrior, the roof is retractablemage and healer enter specially prepared, there is a steamcentury-poweredold, hand-operated lift system cut through itmagical mazes, and so on. At race to the moment it houses an ex-soldier exit, perhaps bothering with PTSD the treasure or the big bad and a passion the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, the long-standing family hobby only thing he's seen of taxidermythe latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, a woman who does nothing but quibbleeaten, kvetch and sing opera loudly, and the dying grandma to our heroinea new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, Cassie, a young lass who he has taken to do all the maintenance goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this bizarre machinefriendless, muscle-free-like abode. Oh but it's also going to house someone or something elsezone have in actually managing that, when crashing through Cassie's bedroom window one stormy day is a cherub. And if you think such a heavenly arrival is going and how could he possibly hope to be a completely great and wonderful thing, think again...succeed?|isbn=183994188X1839945184
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=='''9 DECEMBER13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Freya Marske1635866847|title=A Marvellous LightThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionLifestyle|summary=Robin Blyth It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is nudged into the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a job in slice of chocolate cake on the Civil Service, much to his chagrinhomepage. There he meets Edwin Courcey I don't eat cakes and learns desserts - but I wanted that the streets of London are threaded with magiccake viscerally. Desperate to remove (There's a curse that threatens to swallow him, Robin follows Edwin to recipe in the countrysidebook, where which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the hedgegrows bristle with incantations book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the people shimmer with powercorners of pages. There they uncover a sinister plot You suspect that threatens the lives smears of all magicians in the British Islesbutter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already. |isbn=1529080886
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=='''6 JANUARY 20224 JULY'''==
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|author=Lucy Strange and Pam SmyMax Boucherat|title=The Mermaid in the MillpondLast Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=There is We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no mermaid neighbour to pop in the millpond. That , babysitter poorly, mother at least is what Bess is telling herself. Neither will there be a friend for her in amongst all the other kidswork, who have had their entire childhoods sold to the milljust an avidly rule-owners by the London workhouse they used to call homebreaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. Bess knows there is no time for friendship What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a hand-to-mouthblanket fort, every man for himself kind of existence. But despite herself Bess does find a bit of a kindred spirit in the slight little Dotshe has one main intention, and despite everything that life has taught her about betrayal and how befriending people only leads is to log on to harmVoxminer, there might be the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a glimmer of companionship hit in the tired-out mill workersLori's world. But surely first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't mean there is any truth in find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the existence server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the mermaidgame has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=180090049X0008666482
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|author=Antoine Laurain, Le Sonneur and Jane Aitken (translator)Jenny Lecoat|title=Red is My HeartBeyond Summerland|rating=3.54|genre=Literary General Fiction |summary=[[:Category:Antoine Laurain|Antoine Laurain]] books have always been black and white and read in my houseJean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. And so During the war, Jean's father was this arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away onenight, although I could have spelled that more accurately – this one wasleaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the war isfinally over, black and white and redtheir hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. Yes, he has an artistic collaborator on this piece But will the truth come as a relief, and I think or will it's possible to say not one page lacks raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the influence of some striking visual ideas.occupation?|isbn=19135471831846976537
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