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=='''4 FEBRUARY25 APRIL'''==
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|isbnauthor=178089905XSylvie Cathrall|title=Serpentine|author=Jonathan KellermanA Letter to the Luminous Deep
|rating=5
|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=It wasn't exactly the case Lt Milo Sturgis had been dreaming about: There are few greater joys than a death from thirty-six years ago and the daughter of the woman who died wanted some answers. She had money and money translated into clout and so the problem was dropped onto Milo's toes. Dorothy Swoboda was twenty-four years old when she died in a car book which went off a cliff on Mulholland Drive and burst into flames. It turned out that she wasn't actually married lives up to the man with whom she'd left her daughter but Dr Stanley R Barker, optometrist, was a good man and he took out adoption papers for Ellie - and she took his namecompelling premise. Ellie was three when her mother left her with Dr Barker and she has nothing of her but And this is one photograph of her mother and father and a necklace made of serpentinethem.|isbn= 0356522776
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=='''9 MAY'''==
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|isbn=1471191303
|title=The Invisible
|author=Tom Percival
|title=The Wrong Shoes
|rating=5
|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=This Will's life is the story of Isobeldifficult, in a little girl who made a big differencemultitude of ways. Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, He is bullied because her parents couldnhe has 't afford to put the heating on: wrong shoes''Ice curled across , he has the inside of the window and crept up the corner of the bedpost.'' The family didnwrong shoes because his dad can't go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other work and they were happy. Then the day came when they couldndoesn't afford the rent have enough money for even the house most basic of things like food, and they had to move to his dad can't work because he lost his job at the far side of the city. This part of the city was coldcollege, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1838773428|title=The Art of Death|author=David Fennell|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was an art installation of the type which does appear in Trafalgar Square: working a depiction of three homeless men cash-in glass cabinets surrounded by liquid. Only this time it's not -hand job on a depiction: these are the bodies of Billy Perrin, Stan Buxton building site and 34-year-old Noel Tippinghad an accident. The installation is Throw into that mix the work of @nonymousfact that his mum and dad are separated, underground artist and extreme version of Banksy. HeWill's made a macabre promise: more will followlife seems bleak in every direction. In factAnd yet, we've already met the artist although not by name: he's been in the Lumberyard Cafe with his Moleskine notebook, Maki-e fountain pen, MacBook Air and iPhonestill has a tiny amount of hope. Elaine Kelly He is there with her son, Jordangood at art, and she's explaining clings to her best friend, Jackie Morris about the state moments of her marriage. Actually, it doesn't take a lot of explaining: Frank's attentions are obvious on her face despite the foundation she's applied. Chau Ho joy when he is behind the counter. There's someone online, CassandraHdrawing, that feel like a light at the artist has his eye onend of a long, toodark tunnel.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787477800|title=The Night Hawks (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=The night hawks are metal detectorists and they're out on Blakeney Point where they suspect that there's treasure to be found. Unfortunately, the youngest of the group, twenty-one-year-old Troy Evans, finds the body of a man floating on the incoming tide. After pulling it ashore, they call the police. DCI Nelson thinks that it's probably the body of an asylum seeker but there's no evidence of any activity to be had from the coastguard. The dead man turns out to be Jem Taylor, a North Norfolk man recently released from prison.1398527122
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=='''23 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=1529378648Onyi Nwabineli|title=Slough House (Jackson Lamb 7)|author=Mick HerronAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Someone is killing secret service agents, past and present, from the Slough House team. Jackson Lamb can't understand it. Well, what he actually can't understand is why, having seen them, anyone would bother. But the deaths are mounting up and something needs to be done. After all ''when things went awry on Spook Street, they generally went the full Chris Grayling.'' Over at Regent's Park, Diana Taverner is quietly jubilant about an operation which saw the perpetrator of a Novichok poisoning in the UK (three people seriously injured and one dead) dispatched. It isn't just the message that was sent: she's also delighted that she managed to fund the operation off the books. Some private money was brought in. She won't always be so jubilant about this.
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{{Frontpage
|author=Helen Fisher
|title=Space Hopper
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Faye lost Anuri spent her mum when she was very young. She was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from a cold that got worse, and although they were kind and very good to her she of course missed her mum enormously. So when, unexpectedly, she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) that takes her back childhood on display to the 70's and her mumworld, she revels in the chance to create some memories and get to know the woman who meant so much thanks to her. The time travelling, however, is neither easy nor safe, and Faye fears that her husband won't believe whatstep-mother Ophelia's happening and so lies to him instead. The lies grow more tangledincreasingly popular presence on social media, and Faye begins to wonder if itwhere she posted every step of Anuri's safe childhood for her to return one last time to the past. Should she try to see her mum one last time before her mum's death, or will it change her own future forever to attempt it?|isbn=1471188663}}{{Frontpage|author=Francesca Simon and Steve May|title=Two Terrible Vikings|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=In a small Viking village there live two twins, Hack and Whack, who are eager to be the very worst Vikings ever! Nothing can stop their mad marauding, as they cause havoc at a birthday party, chaos whilst tracking a troll, sponsorships and undertake a grand journey to raid Bad Island with their friends! They get up to all kinds of mischief influencer deals and naughty behaviour, along with their wolf-cub Bitey-Biteybasically, and their crazy cast of friends.|isbn=0571349498}}=='''18 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1471187179|title=A Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Minnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburbmonetary gain. The book Now Anuri is set in the 1930s her twenties and Minnie she is expected to live up slowly trying to regain her mother's expectations confidence and find a nice young man to marry, produce children and spend the rest of get her days looking after her husband and their home. Unfortunately, this isn't what she wants to do at all and neither does she want to continue working as a secretary. As a result of a chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into espionagelife back, working for the secret service and effectively living a double life - attempting to infiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britain. Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as suing her duty and the friends she has made step- and likes - whilst working for the Communist Party.}}{{Frontpage|author=Hannah Gold|title=The Last Bear|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=April's father, a scientist, has been given a job on a remote island called Bear Island, and he accepts the job deciding mother to take his daughter April with him. They live alone anyway, since April's mother died some time before, and he feels it will be educational for down the content about her to experience the island and all its natural beauty. April already has an affinity with natureAnuri is battling alcoholism, and she's excited failing to travel with start her fatherPhD, thinking of all the fun things they will be able to experience together on the island. But when they get there, her father finds that his work monitoring undergoing therapy and recording the temperatures just takes up too much of his time, secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so April is left to explore by herself. Her father had reassured her 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 BearMost importantly, and then when she sees he is injured, to befriend and help him.|isbn=000841128X}} =='''4 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Saima Mir|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 desperately worried about her little sister's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exile, she who is at the top new focus of her gameOphelia's online empire. Returning to the city of Can she save her birthsister, to old scars and fresh wounds, Jia must confront her past perhaps herself and reconcile her visions for the future relationship with her sense of honour and duty.father at the same time?|isbn=17860790970861546873
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)1635866847|title=If You Kept a Record of SinsThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry 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 MARCH'''==
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|author=Danny Wallace and Gemma Correll
|title=The Day the Screens Went Blank
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Stella and her family. They'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 ''poof'' everything goes blank. And it's not just their home, but the entire south-western village of Mousehole, and not just that, 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 before. Toasters can toast, but TVs cannot do the V part of their job, and no computer can show its computations. You might think this is going to be a social comedy about people stuck in such a Luddite experience against their will, but no. For the family finally remember Stella's grandma, and see if they can get across country to her. Hence this has to go down as a road-trip book. But not just that, a slapstick road-trip comedy. And more than that, too – for it's a slapstick, high-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart that kids of all ages will love.
|isbn=1471196887
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=='''23 MARCH'''==
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|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
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=='''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 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 of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected. So we have a bullied half-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 of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to use her family's sea-front booth. The singer, the scryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stall. We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is she, and who delivered the secrets about her to Imelda, and why did it have to remain a secret all this time?
|isbn=152937331X
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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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{{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
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{{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
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=='''29 APRIL'''==
{{Frontpage
|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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