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=='''4 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1529047315|title=The Lamplighters|author=Emma Stonex|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=''A fisherman told him once about the sea having two faces. You have to take them both, he said, the good and the bad, and never turn your back on either one of them.'' In 1972, fifteen miles off the coast of Cornwall, three men disappeared without trace from The Maiden Rock Lighthouse in ''the frigid pause between Christmas and New Year''. Jory Martin had taken out a relief keeper, the weather such that ''the boat [was] rocking and bobbing like a bath toy over the wavelets'' but they were unable to get any response from the Maiden Rock. It was broken into the next day, but there was no sign of the men. The table was set for a meal for two - and the clocks were stopped at 8.45. Contact with the light had not been possible as the radio was broken. No explanation was ever found for what happened to the men.}}=='''11 MARCH27 APRIL'''==
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|isbn=15291091160753558378|title=Call Me RedEffortless: A Shepherd's JourneyMake It Easier to Do What Matters|author=Hannah JacksonGreg McKeown
|rating=4.5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=''I want the image The marginal return of a British farmer to simply be that of a person who is proudly employed working harder was, in feeding the nation. I don't think that is too much to askfact, negative.''
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|author=Danny Wallace and Gemma CorrellKristen O'Neal|title=The Day the Screens Went BlankLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses
|rating=5
|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Meet Stella and 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 familylife. TheyShe joins 're just innocently trying to have a Sunday evening in together, watching a film – using three different screens to watch three different things, mind – when 'Oof Ouch My Bones'poof'' everything goes blank, an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. And it's not just They talk about their home, but the entire south-western village of Mouseholetroubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and not just that, either, but the whole country, if not worldmess around. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping theyWhen Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn're first t respond to get the chat for a screen backwhile, and not what they were constantly doing on them beforePriya becomes concerned. Toasters can toast, but TVs cannot do the V part of their job, She decides to steal her parents' car and no computer can show its computations. You might think this is going drive to be a social comedy about people stuck in such a Luddite experience against their will, but no. For the family finally remember StellaBrigid's grandma, and see if they can get across country house to check up on her. Hence this has But what she doesn't expect to go down as find there is a road-trip book. But not just that, a slapstick road-trip comedy. And more than that, too werewolf in the basement – and for it's a slapstick, high-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart that kids of all ages will lovewerewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the past few months.|isbn=14711968871683692349
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=='''29 APRIL'''==
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|isbn=19131935271471181405|title=Bound (Detective Sam Shephard)Nighthawking|author=Vanda SymonRuss Thomas
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Dunedin Sheffield's [http://www.sbg.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Road, if you'd like to visit) are an oasis of calm in what's otherwise thought of as an industrial city but this was shocked disrupted when it heard of the murder body of a wealthy and apparently respectable businessman out at Seacliffyoung woman was discovered. His wife It had obviously been bound and gagged and placed so that she was forced buried in one of the beds but who would have started to watch the murder, with the scene being discovered by their son, Declan, when he returned home from an evening out. dig her up? The subsequent investigation would prove that John Henderson It had been involved in some activities which might the earth for months and could have been considered shady and certainly questionable if not illegalundiscovered for years. His companyThe police need to establish who stabbed her - and who left the two, Eros Globalvery rare, manufactured gold aurei on her eyes. DCI Diane Jordan is the Investigating Officer and marketed her foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler and DC Mina Rabbani. They're joined by DS Guy Daley who'vitamin-type supplements and, well, sexual enhancers, that kind of things just returned from extended sick leave. Mina thinks he'', s as obnoxious as Hendersonever but suspects that he's employee, Blair Harvey-Boyd explainednot fully recovered from his injuries.
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|author=Dean KoontzJennifer Saint |title=The Other EmilyAriadne |rating=4.5 |genre=ThrillersWomen's Fiction |summary=Our hero David Thorne This re-telling of the myth of Ariadne and the Minotaur is an author, who shares his life between interesting and unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the two US coastsstory in a way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to a modern audience. ItSaint's narrative is told predominantly through the western coast we're concerned withviewpoint of Ariadne, a place he has to return spanning from her childhood toher death, and a place he has allowing the reader to be able to leave. David lost contact really connect with his partner there ten years ago, when she vanished from Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a remote road late at nightprop in the heroics of Theseus. He|isbn=1472273869}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0241985137|title=The Whole Truth (D I Fawley)|author=Cara Hunter|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=DI Adam Fawley's paying for contact with team got to Edith Launceleve College first, called there by Jancis Appleby to see the man he thinks the only suspectPrincipal, Professor Hilary Reynolds. There had been an accusation of sexual assault by a lifer now, who went a bit Hannibal Lecter, and has professor on a dozen and more unfound Jane Does on his recordstudent. David is trying to pry When Fawley arrived he was almost cross: what was the alleged perpetrator doing in the connection between room before they'd even got the murderer and his girl details from the manvictim? The problem was that Caleb Morgan ''was'' the 's mind, but to no availvictim' and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fisher. HeJust to complicate matters further, Caleb's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into mother is Petra Newson, the restaurant walks the sheer spitting imagelocal MP, the very embodimentand Professor Fisher is a big name is Artificial Intelligence. She has an eight-year-old son, buys her wine by the virtual resurrectioncase from Berry Brothers & Rudd, of his lovespends more than £1000 a month on clothes and has more than ten thousand Twitter followers. What When the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, this is a man going to do?|isbn=1542019958be ''very'' public.
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=='''1 30 APRIL'''==
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|isbnauthor=B08R7LXQ9SAnanda Devi|title=Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline SiegalEve Out of Her Ruins
|rating=4
|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=Remy At not even 200 pages, Eve Out of Her Ruins is feeling miserable. Heone of the shortest books I's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandonve read in a long while, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupidit's one of the most dramatic. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody It's also told in a way that I can see only describe as brutal: it spares nothing and then push him just that little bit further when the other kids are around. Sopulls very few punches, when Remy reacts, it looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school descriptions stark and the teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happenedunromantic.|isbn=0993009344}} =='''3 MAY'''==
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|authorisbn=Ruth Hogan1635862353|title=Madame BurovaThe Sandalmaking Workshop|author=Rachel Corry
|rating=4.5
|genre=General FictionCrafts|summary=This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in A sandal-making workshop? I couldn't really believe it, mainly because I'd always thought that you'd need more equipment than the early 1970s, all vaguely connectedaverage home was likely to be able to contain but I was intrigued. So we have a bullied halfRachel Corry started sandal making accidentally -cast boy (as he would have been called then), a girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, the third generation small fire destroyed some of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to use her family's sea-front boothshoes. The singer, the scryer One pair had come apart and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we she could see Imelda fly solo for the first time in how the family stallsandal was constructed. We also see Then she realised that she couldn't afford to replace all her on her last day, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billieshoes. Just who is Could she, combine these two facts to create a new and who delivered the secrets about worthwhile craft? She showed quite a few people her first pair and they all either wanted to Imelda, and why did know how to do it have to remain - or if she'd make them a secret all this time?|isbn=152937331Xpair. A new career was born.
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=='''14 APRIL6 MAY'''==
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|author=Polly BartonDaniel Gibbs with Teresa H Barker|title=Fifty SoundsA Tattoo on my Brain|rating=43.5|genre=Politics and SocietyAutobiography|summary= Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question Alzheimer''Why Japan?'' Japan has been on my radar for s is a while disease that slowly wears away your identity and if the world hadn't gone into melt-down sense of self. I would have visited been directly affected by now. I may get there later this yearcruel disease, but I am not hopefulas have many. And Your memories and personality worn away like Barton, I don't know a statue over time affected the answer to the question elements. It seems as if nature wants that final victory over you and your dignity. This is what makes Daniel Gibbs'memoir so admirable. Daniel Gibbs is a neurologist who was diagnosed with Alzheimers and has documented his journey in 'why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the question in the first essay, which is A Tattoo on the sound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being, among other things, the sound of ''every party where you have to introduce yourselfmy Brain''.|isbn=19130975011108838936
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=='''15 APRIL7 MAY'''==
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|authorisbn=Lucy Holland0241985137|title=SistersongThe Whole Truth (D I Fawley)|author=Cara Hunter
|rating=5
|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Sistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoyDI Adam Fawley's team got to Edith Launceleve College first, called there by Jancis Appleby to see the modern retelling of folk and fairy talesPrincipal, Professor Hilary Reynolds. These stories, for most There had been an accusation of us, are sexual assault by a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and professor on a fresh perspectivestudent. If handled well these retellings give new life 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 new meaning the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fisher. Just to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdatedcomplicate matters further, Caleb's mother is Petra Newson, fleshing out charactersthe local MP, examining relationships and re-evaluating the role of women. Sistersong Professor Fisher is a perfect example of a modern retelling done well, the plot big name is handled with careArtificial Intelligence. She has an eight-year-old son, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing buys her wine by the characters to come to lifecase from Berry Brothers & Rudd, to feel real spends more than £1000 a month on clothes and humanhas more than ten thousand Twitter followers. When the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in. This this is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning going to endbe ''very'' public.|isbn=1529039037
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=='''11 MAY'''==
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|authorisbn=Goldy Moldavsky1523092734|title=The Last GirlA Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort
|rating=5
|genre=teensPolitics and Society|summary= Rachel Chavez ''She brings 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 to live the new girl at Manchester Preplife of choosing unapologetically and bravely. A school filled It is to live the brim with life you've always wanted.'' Sometimes the richest children reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is much in the city – and Rachel doesnnews, ''t belong. SheA Women's not rich, she has no ties Guide 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 comfortClaiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. She struggles Now - to find anyone be clear - this book is not a 'how to connect disable your attacker with, until one day she stumbles upon the Mary Shelley Club. A secret society with one aimtwo simple jabs' manual: pull off the best prank in true horror movie styleit's something far more effective, and unless someone screams, you have failed. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed in but discussion at the competitionmoment seems to be about how women can be ''protected''. But as the pranks escalate, and Rachel finally feels like she has found her place in I've always thought that women need to rise above this school, things start to go wrong; a masked figure keeps showing up to the pranksbe people who don't need protection, and people begin to get hurtwho claim their own space. When the competition then takes a deadly turn If all women did this, Rachel must figure out those few men who this masked figure is before it's too lateare violent to women would realise that we are not just an easy target to be used to prove that they are big men.|isbn=0755501527
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=='''13 MAY'''==
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|authorisbn=Sarah Sultoon1788549759|title=The SourceDistant Dead|author=Lesley Thomson|rating=24.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was December 1940 and twenty-four-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out for the evening 'with her friend Ida' leaving her three-year-old son, William, at home with her parents. The boy thought that Maple was his sister - it was better for the family than the shame of illegitimacy, but Maple had high hopes of putting her life (and William's) on a better footing. She was going to meet her well-to-do fiancé, hoping to persuade him to come and meet her family the following week. Later, her body would be found in the bombed-out home where he had taken her.}}=='''18 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1848458428|title=Local Woman Missing|author=Mary Kubica|rating=4
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=1996Eleven years ago, a man regularly came home to his wife with lipstick marks on his collar and lame excuses as to why he was late - again. Essex His wife was in the habit of going out for a run late at night. Thirteen It was the only time she had for herself when she didn't have to look after her baby -year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in but when she was out she would meet up with a disenfranchised town dominated by man, grateful for the unquestioning affection he gave her. The locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappeared, seemingly without a military basetrace, struggling leaving her husband to care for look after her disabled baby sister while . Ten days later, a local woman and her mum sleeps off another bingesix-year-old daughter disappeared. When her squaddie brother brings food and treats, Meredith Dickey was a birth doula and offers an exclusive invitation she'd seemed to army parties, things start to look be under some strain for the last couple of weeks or so. Her body was eventually found in a little less bleak.seedy motel - it appeared that she'd committed suicide. She left a note saying that her daughter, Delilah, was safe and there was no point in looking for her.|isbn=1913193594
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=='''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 Daynes' work 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-J, to solve a case that had haunted him for thirty years. The body of a young male was found in the woods but he was never identified and his killer never brought 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 a picture on his door: he sees it every time he leaves his office: he doesn'27 APRILt want to forget Oscar until his killer has been brought to justice.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008404925|title=The Killing Kind|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Difficult clients were nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of a surprise. After all, it was her cross-examination of the 'victim' which saved him from a lengthy prison sentence. He'd been accused of stalking the woman but it didn't take long to establish that - if anything - it was the other way around. Soon Ingrid never seemed to be free of John Webster and then she came to see him as a threat and was forced to remember that the police officer at his trial had told her that this was the best chance they'd had to put Webster away for a long time: he was a very dangerous man.}}=='''3 JUNE'''==
{{Frontpage
|author=Kristen O'NealM G Leonard|title=Lycanthropy and Other Chronic IllnessesTwitch
|rating=5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme diseaseTwitch is a boy who loves birds. He keeps pigeons at home, Priya and chickens, and even has swallows nesting in his bedroom! His time spent watching and helping birds is easy compared to come to terms with the fact that she may be of his time in constant pain school. But things are about to change for the rest Twitch in all aspects of her his life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to as there is 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 dangerous bank robber on the chat for a whilerun, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigidit's house to check up on her. But what she doesn't expect to find there possible that the missing bank haul is a werewolf hidden somewhere in Aves Wood, the basement – place where Twitch has his secret hide and for that werewolf to be he knows like the back of his hand! Can Twitch solve the girl she has been talking to online for mystery, and find the past few months.missing millions?|isbn=16836923491406389374
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=='''29 APRIL10 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 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, 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=Rabbits|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|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 Rabbits, 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, this is the game of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. People like our hero, K, named like that in 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 it's different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the game is doing, if it'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 the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed...|isbn=1529016932}}
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|author= Jennifer Saint Louise Beech|title= Ariadne This Is How We Are Human|rating= 4.5 |genre= Women's General Fiction |summary= This re-telling of the myth of Ariadne and the Minotaur Veronica is interesting and unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way that is sympathetic devoted single mother to its origins her son, Sebastian - but also appealing to a modern audienceshe can't give him everything he wants. SaintSebastian has decided that it's narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood time for him to her deathhave sex. But as an autistic 20 year-old, allowing the reader that's easier said than done. And it's starting to really connect with Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a prop in the heroics of Theseuscause them both problems. |isbn=14722738691913193713}}
=='''17 JUNE'''==
|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all the dark corners of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before now. You think, seeing on the map that we're set in Akranes, and finding it'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 for the usual small-town feel, it's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago a woman failed to turn up for her date evening, 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 for the girl back, and a couple of delighted adopters. 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, the woman's car 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 who found herself with heavy post-natal depression, and very little maternal feeling in her body. Is the assumption that is so easy for the reader to make the right one?
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=='''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 have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to see. This story is 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.
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