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=='''3 JUNE25 APRIL'''==
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|isbnauthor=1838853804Sylvie Cathrall|title=The Cursed Girls|author=Caro RamsayA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary=Megan Melvick's earliest memory is of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to the pond, only to find that he'd hanged himselfa compelling premise. Twenty years later she's back home again and And this time the occasion is no less sad. She's there to say her final farewells to her sister, Melissa, who is dying one of anorexiathem. As she dies, Melissa whispers 'sorry' to Megan but what did she mean? There were lots of things, minor and major cruelties, for which Melissa might have been sorry - or was it even a question? Was she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping with Melissa's husband, Jago, on their wedding day? The Melvicks might seem to have everything - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant of the County and money was never in short supply - but there did seem to be a curse. In addition to Melissa's health problems, Megan was deaf and their mother, Beth, had left suddenly three years before. Would she come back for her elder daughter's funeral?|isbn= 0356522776
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=='''9 MAY'''==
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|author=M G LeonardTom Percival|title=TwitchThe Wrong Shoes
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Twitch Will's life is a boy who loves birds. He keeps pigeons at homedifficult, and chickens, and even has swallows nesting in his bedroom! His time spent watching and helping birds is easy compared to that a multitude of his time in schoolways. But things are about to change for Twitch in all aspects of his life as there He is a dangerous bank robber on bullied because he has 'the run, and itwrong shoes's possible that the missing bank haul is hidden somewhere in Aves Wood, he has the place where Twitch has wrong shoes because his secret hide dad can't work and that he knows like doesn't have enough money for even the back most basic of his hand! Can Twitch solve the mysterythings like food, and find the missing millions?|isbn=1406389374}}{{Frontpage|author=Hannah Whitten|title=For the Wolf|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=In Redhis dad can's family, t work because he lost his job at the first daughter becomes queencollege, and the second daughter becomes was working a sacrifice. To Red's misfortune, she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape cash-in-hand job on her back, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is a wolf, building site and he is the one who will decide the fate of their kingdomhad an accident. If she is not a worthy sacrifice, Throw into that mix the monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be released, fact that his mum and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, she finds that the legends dad are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a man.|isbn=0356516369}} =='''10 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|author=C J Carey|title=Widowland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's April 1953separated, and Adolf HitlerWill'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 Wallislife seems bleak in every direction. For yesAnd yet, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now he still has a protectorate – well, we share enough tiny amount of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''hope. But this He 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 drudgesgood at art, and beyond those, right on down clings to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy moments of joy when he is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existencedrawing, 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 that feel like a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, light at least, until the first emerging signs end of female protest come to lighta long, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visitdark tunnel.|isbn=152941198X1398527122
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=='''23 MAY'''==
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|author=Terry MilesOnyi Nwabineli|title=RabbitsAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|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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{{Frontpage
|author=Louise Beech
|title=This Is How We Are Human
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Veronica is a devoted single mother Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her sonstep-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, Sebastian - but where she can't give him everything he wants. Sebastian has decided that itposted every step of Anuri's time childhood for him 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 have sextake down the content about her. But as an autistic 20 year-old Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, that's easier said than doneundergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. And it Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's starting to cause them both problemsonline empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=19131937130861546873
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|isbn=1409181669|title=The Maidens|author=Alex Michaelides|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to get away with them both. She needed to think carefully about what she knew Kieran Larwood and decide how she should proceed. Everything Joe Todd- or so she thought - had begun with the death of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. She'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana's niece, Zoe, had telephoned her in distress. Tara had been her best friend and she was struggling to cope. Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having to go to Cambridge, but she caught the first fast train from King's Cross. Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all the more so by the death of Mariana's husband, Sebastian, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoe's mother and Mariana's sister, Eliza.}}{{Frontpage|author=Maisie Chan|title=Danny Chung Does Not Do Maths|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Danny is eleven years old, and what he really, really loves to do is draw. He creates fantastical comics, whilst his best friend Ravi adds the words. Danny's dad, however, wants Danny to concentrate on his maths, and forget about the drawing, because he says nobody can make a living from drawing! At least Danny has his own room, where he can draw in secret and in peace. But then one day his parents tell him they have a surprise for him, and this surprise turns out to be his grandmother who has come over from China to live with them, and who will not only be sharing Danny's bedroom but she will also be sleeping on the top bunk of his bunk bed! Danny is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no English, and Danny finds himself forced into being her babysitter, and showing her around the town. Poor Danny, stuck on a maths project, frustrated with his bedroom situation, and then he even has a falling out with Ravi...how on earth will things ever get better?!|isbn=180078001X}} =='''17 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|author=Joseph KnoxStanton|title=True Crime StoryDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|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 the disappearance of Zoe Nolan from her university halls of residence. Split into four parts, the reader is taken through the life and disappearance of Zoe through the eyes of her twin sister, other family, friends and professionals, such as the police. The various accounts help the reader get to know Zoe, or at least the Zoe she presented to others. However, the twists and turns at the end of each chapter leave you shocked, confused and unsure of what is true or fabricated. Whose accounts can we trust?
|isbn=0857527703
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=='''24 JUNE'''==
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|author=Catherine Steadman
|title=The Disappearing Act
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary= British actress Mia Eliot is on the cusp of success. Great success. If the rumours are true, award season is going to treat her well, acknowledging her for her latest, critically acclaimed production. She's going places but so, unfortunately, is her partner. And the places he's going take him towards lies, deceit and a pretty young thing in the form of his new co-star. It's a good time for Mia to escape, and pilot season in LA provides just the excuse.
|isbn=1471189783
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=='''1 JULY'''==
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|author=Darren Shan
|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=The second trilogy in Shan's ''Merge'' saga opens with our hero, Archie, back in London in the world of the Born. It's not been easy, explaining to his foster parents where he's been, or slipping back into ordinary life and forgetting about Inez and his other friends in the Merge, but Archie has done his best.... well, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Ben's clock tower and except for fiddling with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak away.
|isbn=B093H8DPQZ
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=='''8 JULY'''==
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|author=Hannah Peck
|title=Kate on the Case
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet KateKit. Like most of the people in his world, although I got it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the impression she'd rather be sport where a Catherine – and one specific Catherine at that. For Catherine Rodriguez is Kate's idolteam of warrior, mage and the author of our heroine's favourite possessionhealer enter specially prepared, ''The Special Correspondent Manual''. Armed with a plucky fathercentury-old, that bookmagical mazes, and her talking mouse called Rupert, she is all equipped to manage a train ride race to the Arcticexit, to see her scientist mother for perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the first time in yonksway. HoweverUnfortunately for Kit, this the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is a train ride with a differencethat one team has been retired, eaten, for on board is a greedy-seeming harridan and her cat, a thief – and two glowing eyesnew trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, shining he has taken to the goading from the darkness in a blink-token bully of his world and-youstumbled into declaring he'llenter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-missfree-them style. It's definitely a case for a new young investigative journalist...zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=184812970X1839945184
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 =='''13 JULYJUNE'''==
{{Frontpage
|authorisbn=Sarah Langan1635866847|title=Good NeighboursThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersLifestyle|summary= If youIt're of a certain vintages strange, it's hard to read the words things that make you ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a sing-song immediately''feel that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. Maple Street this is no Ramsay Street, though, Arlo and Gertie live a world apart from the Melbourne suburbsbook for you. They're one of 18 households on the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved in a year earlier. They Before I started reading 're not quite like all the other families (he's an ex rocker, sheThe Lavender Companion's a former beauty queen) but they've made some friends and their kids have settled in, and it's all going ok. Until it isn't. One hot, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up in I visited the park across the way. Itauthor's a revolting mess of dirt and chaos, but for the residents of Maple Street, the worst is yet to come[https://www.|isbn=1789098211}}=='''14 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Eshman Smith|title=Word of Another Nature|rating=3pinelavenderfarm.5|genre=Politics com/ website] and Society|summary=''Why does mass protest continually fail to fundamentally change thedirection of the modern world?'' This is the question Eshman Smith asks in Word of an Other Nature. Hethere's right to wonder since we as humans often seem to be making a pretty bad job picture of our efforts to create a world slice of peace, stability and prosperity for allchocolate cake on the homepage|isbn=B093B2L1Z4}} == I don'''22 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir t eat cakes and Victoria Cribb (translator)|title=Girls Who Lie|rating=3|genre=Thrillers|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking desserts - but I wanted that all the dark corners of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before nowcake viscerally. You think, seeing on the map that we(There're set s a recipe 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, itwhich I'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 m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for the girl back, book and I was told to make a couple mess of delighted adoptersit. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until it stopped all of a sudden, Notes in one place, the woman's car was found miles away in a second place, and now, after six months, margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the body has been discovered, in a third, even more remote placecorners of pages. Meanwhile, this narrative is interrupted by a confessional monologue from You suspect that smears of butter would not be a mother who found herself with heavy post-natal depression, and very little maternal feeling in her bodyproblem. Is the assumption that is so easy for the reader to make the right one?|isbn=191319373X}}{{Frontpage|author=Claire North|title=Notes from the Burning Age|rating=4|genre=Science Fiction|summary=At its core I ''Notes From the Burning Age'loved' by Claire North is a spy thriller, with as many double crosses, interrogations and night time escapes as Le Carre or Fleming. However, as with the best novels, it wears many masks and its most affecting one is that of a new and timely genre, cli-fi, or climate change fiction. North's novel tells of a world devastated by climate change where humans have been forced to start anew and live alongside nature without any of the modern and corrupting "luxuries" (read: fossil fuels, weapons of mass destruction, intensive farming). There is a growing unhappiness with this limiting world, and one group, the Brotherhood, aims to master these processes no matter the cost to the Earthbook already.|isbn=0356514757
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=='''3 AUGUST4 JULY'''==
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|author=Darren ShanMax Boucherat|title=Archibald Lox and the Slides The Last Life of Bon Repell: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 2 of 3Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=So. Having done We meet Lori on the impossible and unpicked first evening she's got the lock house to the Forgotten Cryptherself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, from which the Departed communicate with the Mergeon her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, Archie now she has ''grop'' one main intention, and that is to log on to think about. But before thatVoxminer, soirees. Soirees! Archiethe world-building, much to Inezcritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's amusement, world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even know what one more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of those istampering. But he manages to come through the fancy party unscathed When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, even after an uncomfortable encounter with Kurtis, whose fledgling romance with Inez was crushed and her safe place in the first volume of this series. game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=B093J9TF730008666482
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=='''5 AUGUST'''==
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|author=John Boyne
|title=The Echo Chamber
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Meet George Cleverley. He is self-defined as "one of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without a criminal record". He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him she's carrying his child, but then his author wife is getting her kicks with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. They have three children, who are a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save the world's homeless with out-of-date food, and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thing. Add in a few other characters – therapists, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to his life, and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to the modern world. What suggests the farcical approach even more, however, is the fact this is bloody funny.
|isbn=0857526219
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=='''2 SEPTEMBER'''==
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|author=Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston
|title=Julia and the Shark
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Julia, our pre-teen heroine, has been packed off with her parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be lighthousekeepers for a summer, in the far NE of the Scottish islands. Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. Dad is going to be automating the lantern, which is his specialist thing, while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the elusive Greenland shark. And Julia, well, she will be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.
|isbn=1510107789
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=='''7 OCTOBER'''==
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|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.
|isbn=0356514218
}}
 
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