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=='''4 FEBRUARY25 APRIL'''==

|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: a depiction of three homeless men in glass cabinets surrounded by liquid. Only this time it's not a depiction: these are the bodies of Billy Perrin, Stan Buxton and 34-year-old Noel Tipping. The installation is the work of @nonymous, underground artist and extreme version of Banksy. He's made a macabre promise: more will follow. In fact, 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 iPhone. Elaine Kelly is there with her son, Jordan, and she's explaining to her best friend, Jackie Morris about the state 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 is behind the counter. There's someone online, CassandraH, that the artist has his eye on, too.}}{{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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529378648|title=Slough House (Jackson Lamb 7)|author=Mick Herron|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.}}{{Frontpage|author=Helen Fisher|title=Space Hopper|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Faye lost 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 to the 70's and her mum, she revels in the chance to create some memories and get to know the woman who meant so much to her. The time travelling, however, is neither easy nor safe, and Faye fears that her husband won't believe what's happening and so lies to him instead. The lies grow more tangled, and Faye begins to wonder if it's safe 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, and undertake a grand journey to raid Bad Island with their friends! They get up to all kinds of mischief and naughty behaviour, along with their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, and their crazy cast of friends.|isbn=0571349498}}=='''18 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1471187179Sylvie Cathrall|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 suburb. The book is set in the 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother's expectations and find a nice young man to marry, produce children and spend the rest of 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 espionage, working for the secret service and effectively living a double life - attempting Letter to infiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britain. Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and the friends she has made - 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 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 her to experience the island and all its natural beauty. April already has an affinity with nature, and she's excited to travel with her father, 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 and recording the temperatures just takes up too much of his time, and 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 Bear, and then when she sees he is injured, to befriend and help him.|isbn=000841128X}} =='''4 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Saima Mir|title=The KhanLuminous Deep

|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by the motto be twice as good as men and four times as good as white menThere are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. This has served her well in her rise through the criminal justice system and by the time she is called home for her sister's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exile, she And this is at the top of her game. Returning to the city of her birth, to old scars and fresh wounds, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for the future with her sense one of honour and dutythem.|isbn=17860790970356522776

|author=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)|title=If You Kept a Record of Sins|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=This was an incredibly readable novella, but one 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 he'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 is buried the following day. 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 (well, this came out in the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, to the lad's childhood, and see just what he has to tell her as a private farewell address.|isbn=1939810965}}{{Frontpage|author=Mary H.K. Choi|title=Yolk|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Jayne Baek is a fashion student that's barely getting by. She drinks. She smokes. She makes bad decisions about the men she sleeps with. She's an all-round messy character; and that's her charm. June, on the other hand, is a complete contrast to Jayne. She's a typical older sister: she's smart, thinks she knows 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 in the same city for the past two years. This is until June finds out she's sick, and Jayne is the only person she can turn to. The two sisters have to come together and decide how far they'll go to save each other's lives – even if it means swapping identities.|isbn= 0349003696}} =='''18 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Danny Wallace and Gemma CorrellTom Percival|title=The Day the Screens Went BlankWrong Shoes

|summary=Meet Stella and her family. TheyWill're just innocently trying to have a Sunday evening s life is difficult, in together, watching a film – using three different screens to watch three different things, mind – when ''poof'' everything goes blankmultitude of ways. And itHe is bullied because he has 's not just their home, but the entire south-western village of Mouseholewrong shoes', and not just that, either, but he has the whole country, if not world. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping theywrong shoes because his dad can're first to get a screen back, t work and not what they were constantly doing on them before. Toasters can toast, but TVs cannot do doesn't have enough money for even the V part most basic of their jobthings like food, and no computer his dad can show its computations. You might think this is going to be 't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a social comedy about people stuck cash-in such -hand job on a Luddite experience against their will, but no. For the family finally remember Stella's grandma, building site and see if they can get across country to herhad an accident. Hence this has to go down as a road-trip book. But not just Throw into that, a slapstick road-trip comedy. And more than mix the fact thathis mum and dad are separated, too – for itand Will's a slapstick, high-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart that kids of all ages will love.|isbn=1471196887}} =='''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 coastsseems bleak in every direction. It's the western coast we're concerned withAnd yet, a place he still has to return to, and a place he has to be able to leavetiny amount of hope. David lost contact with his partner there ten years ago, when she vanished from a remote road late He is good at night. He's paying for contact with the man he thinks the only suspect, a lifer now, who went a bit Hannibal Lecterart, and has a dozen and more unfound Jane Does on his record. David is trying clings to pry the connection between the murderer and his girl from the man's mindmoments of joy when he is drawing, but to no avail. He's also having that feel like a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into light at the restaurant walks the sheer spitting image, the very embodiment, the virtual resurrectionend of a long, of his lovedark tunnel. What is a man to do?|isbn=15420199581398527122

 =='''1 APRIL23 MAY'''==

|isbnauthor=B08R7LXQ9SOnyi Nwabineli|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

 =='''15 APRIL13 JUNE'''==

|authorisbn=Lucy Holland1635866847|title=SistersongThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionLifestyle|summary=Sistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoyIt's strange, 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 things that make you ''immediately'' feel 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 this 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 book for the pre-Saxon age they live inyou. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and Before I was captivated from beginning to end.|isbn=1529039037}}{{Frontpage|author=Goldy Moldavsky|title=started reading ''The Last Girl|rating=5|genre=teens|summary= Rachel Chavez is Lavender Companion'', I visited the new girl at Manchester Prepauthor's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm. A school filled to the brim with the richest children in the city – com/ website] and Rachel doesn't belong. Shethere's not rich, she has no ties to some royal family in Serbia, and most of all, she spends the majority a picture of her spare time watching horror movies as a source slice of comfort. She struggles to find anyone to connect with, until one day she stumbles upon chocolate cake on the Mary Shelley Clubhomepage. A secret society with one aim: pull off the best prank in true horror movie style, I don't eat cakes and unless someone screams, you have faileddesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed (There's a recipe in the competition. But as the pranks escalatebook, 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 which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the pranks, book and people begin I was told to get hurt. When the competition then takes make a deadly turn, Rachel must figure out who this masked figure is before mess of it's too late.|isbn=0755501527}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Sultoon|title=The Source|rating=2 Notes in the margins are sanctioned.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=1996. Essex. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in a disenfranchised town dominated by a military base, struggling You get to care for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another bingefold down the corners of pages. When her squaddie brother brings food and treats, and offers an exclusive invitation to army parties, things start to look You suspect that smears of butter would not be a little less bleak.problem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=1913193594