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=='''1 JANUARY25 APRIL'''==
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|isbnauthor=1542037239Sylvie Cathrall|title=Death in Heels|author=Kitty MurphyA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Set against the backdrop of Dublin's drag scene, ''Death in Heels'' tells the story of Fi McKinnery and her best friend, Robyn, who is about to debut as drag queen Mae B. What is meant to be There are few greater joys than a night of excitement soon takes a downward turn when fellow drag queen, Eve, takes to the stage book which lives up to mock Mae B. As if the night could not get any worse, when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead in a guttercompelling premise. Fi And this is adamant that Eve was murdered, yet the drag community, and the Guards, accept it as an accident. Fi takes it upon herself to solve the mystery as she fears for her friends, but instead ruins relationships as she delves deeperone of them.|isbn= 0356522776
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=='''19 JANUARY9 MAY'''==
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|author=Heather FawcettTom Percival|title=Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of FaeriesThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her lifeWill's worklife is difficult, the very first encyclopaedia in a multitude of faeriesways. Whilst she He is brilliant at research bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in doesn't have enough money for even the small village most basic of Hrafvsnikthings like food, having somehow offended and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the village matriarchcollege, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and put her final investigations for her book back on the right trackhad an accident. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedlydad are separated, all charm and delight, much to EmilyWill's frustrationlife seems bleak in every direction. But why is And yet, he here? still has a tiny amount of hope. What does He is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he want? And what exactly is going on with drawing, that feel like a light at the faerie folk around Hravsnik?end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=03565191201398527122
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=='''23 MAY'''==
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|author=Joe ThomasOnyi Nwabineli|title=White RiotAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary= Whenever anyone writes fiction about politics thereAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's always the danger increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of making it too reactionary; too rawAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Knee-jerk observations Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and hot takes that don't age well or properly capture the spirit of the moment. It takes a truly talented writer to be able get her life back, suing her step-mother to capture take down the zeitgeist of a particular event or era of political historycontent about her. Austerity Britain, the student riots, Donald Trump, Brexit – so much of what Anuri isbattling alcoholism, and has beenfailing to start her PhD, written in the immediate aftermath of these phenomena has been proven by time to be frothy undergoing therapy and insubstantial secretly abusing people online and ultimately not particularly powerful or incisivereceiving money from them for doing so. Inevitably (and perhaps disappointingly for people who do enjoy fiction of this nature) Most importantly, the best writing she is desperately worried about current political events her little sister, who is that which is written when the events in question are no longer current new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and when time perhaps herself and experience has afforded her relationship with her father at the writer the benefit of a more objective view.same time?|isbn= 15294233760861546873
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=='''23 JANUARY6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Jeremy Dronfield Kieran Larwood and David Ziggy GreeneJoe Todd-Stanton|title=Fritz and KurtDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
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|summary=We start with Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the pair sport where a team of brothers Fritz warrior, mage and Kurthealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want race to do – kicking things around the empty market placeexit, helping perhaps bothering with the neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to treasure or the synagogue choir big bad and at a vocational schoolthe points they grant you along the way. Kurt has to make sure Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the lamps are turned latest race on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and workmanlike as a light switchnew trio of questors is needed. But this is Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the time just before goading from the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitlertoken bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he's will, and instead of having ll enter as a national vote to keep the Nazis out, invite them in with open armsteam. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in GermanyWhat chance does this friendless, as did all the roundmuscle-free-ups of Jews. These zone have in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each otheractually managing that, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=024156574X1839945184}} =='''2 MARCH13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix1635866847|title=Different for BoysThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens Lifestyle|summary=Ant It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is in Year Eleven at quite a standard schoolthe book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one there's a picture of a slice of four with both his best buddy from chocolate cake on the football team, homepage. I don't eat cakes and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days togetherdesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. As they(There're all fired up, straining at s a recipe in the leash only a single-sex school can formbook, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the talk in class book and out often turns I was told to sexmake a mess of it. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that regard liesmears of butter would not be a problem. HeI ''loved'' this book already.}} =='''4 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's had got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a casual relationshipblanket fort, a secret she has onemain intention, for several months nowand that is to log on to Voxminer, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced'world-building, but whether critter-collecting game thatis a hit in Lori's set in stone, he canworld. 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 more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be sureable to enter shows signs of tampering. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the sex with.game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=15295094910008666482
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