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=='''1 JANUARY25 APRIL'''==
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|isbnauthor=1542037239Sylvie Cathrall|title=Death in HeelsA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}=='''9 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Kitty MurphyTom Percival|title=The Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Set against the backdrop of DublinWill's drag scenelife is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes'Death in Heels, he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn' tells t have enough money for even the story most basic of Fi McKinnery things like food, and her best friendhis dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, Robyn, who is about to debut as drag queen Mae B. What is meant to be was working a night of excitement soon takes cash-in-hand job on a downward turn when fellow drag queen, Eve, takes to the stage to mock Mae Bbuilding site and had an accident. As if Throw into that mix the night could not get any worsefact that his mum and dad are separated, when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a guttertiny amount of hope. Fi He is adamant that Eve was murdered, yet the drag communitygood at art, and clings to the Guardsmoments of joy when he is drawing, accept it as an accident. Fi takes it upon herself to solve that feel like a light at the mystery as she fears for her friendsend of a long, but instead ruins relationships as she delves deeperdark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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=='''5 JANUARY23 MAY'''==
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|author=Nigel BainesOnyi Nwabineli|title=A Tricky Kind of MagicAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=Emerging ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Cooper loves Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to perform magic tricksher step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. His father was a magicianNow Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, and named Cooper after suing her step-mother to take down the great Tommy Coopercontent about her. But sadly Cooper's father died suddenlyAnuri is battling alcoholism, and now Cooper doesn't quite know who failing to bestart her PhD, or how to beundergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. And when his dadMost importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's prop rabbit starts talking to himonline empire. Can she save her sister, he ''really'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=14449602610861546873
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=='''12 JANUARY6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Sarah Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd Taylor-Stanton|title=Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Spoonful of SpyingDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=[[Alice EclairMeet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, Spy Extraordinaire! A Recipe for Trouble by Sarah Todd Taylor|Last time around]]it seems, Alice Eclair had to prove herself as he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a spy team of warrior, mage and as a master at all things French healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and fancy and fondantrace to the exit, as perhaps bothering with the only way to save treasure or the day involved being an expert baker big bad and icer on the French railwayspoints they grant you along the way. Here, we start on a bateau-mouche in ParisUnfortunately for Kit, and even though the espionage isnonly thing he't a complete success it proves to Alice and her handlers that things are afoot. And there will never be more feet than at s seen of the World's Fair, reviving latest race on the huge expo inn TV equivalent is that gave the city the Eiffel Tower one team has been retired, eaten, and this time showing all her interwar glories off to the worlda new trio of questors is needed. Once again Alice will have Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to present the front to goading from the token bully of his world of being and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a humble yet world-class cake decorator, while seeking out cluesteam. At stake? Pioneering flight technology What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that the enemy just cannot be allowed , and how could he possibly hope to smuggle out…succeed?|isbn=18399409721839945184
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=='''19 JANUARY13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Heather Fawcett1635866847|title=Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of FaeriesThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionLifestyle|summary=Emily Wilde It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensivelythe book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and researched meticulously, to write her lifethere's work, a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the very first encyclopaedia of faerieshomepage. Whilst she is brilliant at research I don't eat cakes and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with peopledesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. So when she finds herself far, far North (There's a recipe in the small village of Hrafvsnikbook, having somehow offended which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how book and I was told to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on make a mess of it. Notes in the right trackmargins are sanctioned. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much You get to Emily's frustrationfold down the corners of pages. But why is he here? You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|isbn=0356519120I ''loved'' this book already.
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=='''4 JULY'''==
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|author=Joe ThomasMax Boucherat|title=White RiotThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= Whenever anyone writes fiction about politics there's always the danger of making it too reactionary; too raw. Knee-jerk observations 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 to capture the zeitgeist of a particular event or era of political history. Austerity Britain, the student riots, Donald Trump, Brexit – so much of what is, and has been, written in the immediate aftermath of these phenomena has been proven by time to be frothy and insubstantial and ultimately not particularly powerful or incisive. Inevitably (and perhaps disappointingly for people who do enjoy fiction of this nature), the best writing about current political events is that which is written when the events in question are no longer current and when time and experience has afforded the writer the benefit of a more objective view.
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=='''23 JANUARY'''==
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|author=Jeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene
|title=Fritz and Kurt
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=We start with meet Lori on the first evening she's got the pair of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want house to do herself kicking things around the empty market placeno neighbour to pop in, helping the neighboursbabysitter poorly, being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and at a vocational school. Kurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on mother at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical and workmanlike as a light switch. But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's will, and instead of having a national vote to keep the Nazis outwork, invite them in with open arms. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all the roundan avidly rule-ups of Jews. These 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 arebreaking eleven year old, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry thereher lonesome. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this What could come about…|isbn=024156574X}} =='''2 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Different for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens |summary=Ant is possibly go wrong? Snuggled in Year Eleven at quite a standard schoolblanket fort, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) she has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football teammain intention, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back that is to log on to primary school days together. As they're all fired upVoxminer, straining at the leash only a singleworld-sex school can formbuilding, the talk critter-collecting game that is a hit in class and out often turns to sexLori's world. Which is confusing for Ant, as he But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't know what his score isfind herself entirely on her own, where his achievements in that regard lieand then she finds something even more spooky. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, For the server she and her bestie and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't 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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