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=='''1 JANUARY25 APRIL'''==

|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

=='''5 JANUARY9 MAY'''==

|author=Nigel BainesTom Percival|title=A Tricky Kind of MagicThe Wrong Shoes|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=Cooper loves to perform magic tricks. His father was a magician, and named Cooper after the great Tommy Cooper. But sadly Cooper's father died suddenly, and now Cooper doesn't quite know who to be, or how to be. And when his dad's prop rabbit starts talking to him, he ''really'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!|isbn=1444960261}}=='''12 JANUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Sarah Todd Taylor|title=Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Spoonful of Spying|rating=4

|summary=[[Alice EclairWill's life is difficult, Spy Extraordinaire! A Recipe for Trouble by Sarah Todd Taylor|Last time around]]in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', Alice Eclair had to prove herself as a spy he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and as a master at all doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things French and fancy and fondantlike food, as the only way to save the day involved being an expert baker and icer on his dad can't work because he lost his job at the French railways. Herecollege, we start on was working a bateaucash-mouche in Paris, -hand job on a building site and even though had an accident. Throw into that mix the espionage isn't a complete success it proves to Alice fact that his mum and her handlers that things dad are afootseparated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And there will never be more feet than yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at the World's Fairart, reviving the huge expo that gave the city the Eiffel Tower and this time showing all her interwar glories off clings to the world. Once again Alice will have to present the front to moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the world end of being a humble yet world-class cake decoratorlong, while seeking out cluesdark tunnel. At stake? Pioneering flight technology that the enemy just cannot be allowed to smuggle out…|isbn=18399409721398527122

|author=Hadeer ElsbaiOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Daughters of IzdiharAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary= Drawing inspiration from EgyptAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia''The Daughters s increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of IzdiharAnuri'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting s childhood for the rights of women sponsorships and influencer deals and weavers – those with magical abilities - , basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in a society pitted against them. Nehalher twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, born into suing her step-mother to take down the upper classcontent about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn failing to control start her abilities PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and then join the militaryreceiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for desperately worried about her family and maintain their reputationlittle sister, whilst secretly attending meetings of who is the Daughters new focus of Izdihar – a group campaigning for womenOphelia's rightsonline empire. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is a story of an unjust society Can she save her sister, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights perhaps herself and overcoming their personal obstacles.her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=03565204710861546873

|isbn=178563335X|title=Sea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicar, sitting in on a PCC meeting Kieran Larwood and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the children up. Her husband, Christopher, collects six-yearJoe Todd-old Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coast, is a lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the parish - and she's in awe of the vicar, Gail, but then she's been doing the job for more than thirty years. Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missing.}}=='''19 JANUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Heather FawcettStanton|title=Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of FaeriesDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Emily Wilde Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an expert academic scholar on faerie loreavid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and she has travelled extensivelyhealer enter specially prepared, and researched meticulouslycentury-old, to write her life's workmagical mazes, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking race to faeriesthe exit, she is not so good perhaps bothering with peoplethe treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. So when she finds herself farUnfortunately for Kit, far North in the small village only thing he's seen of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she latest race on the inn TV equivalent is not sure what she that one team has donebeen retired, eaten, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the right tracka new trio of questors is needed. Enter Wendell BamblebyPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, her dashingly handsome he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emilystumbled into declaring he's frustrationll enter as a team. But why is he here? What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnikpossibly hope to succeed?|isbn=03565191201839945184

|authorisbn=Joe Thomas1635866847|title=White RiotThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary= Whenever anyone writes fiction about politics thereIt's always strange, the danger of making it too reactionary; too raw. Knee-jerk observations and hot takes things that donmake you ''immediately''t age well or properly capture feel that this is the spirit of book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the momentauthor's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm. It takes com/ website] and there's a truly talented writer to be able to capture the zeitgeist picture of a particular event or era slice of political historychocolate cake on the homepage. Austerity Britain, the student riots, Donald Trump, Brexit – so much of what is, I don't eat cakes and has been, written desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe 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)book, the best writing about current political events is that which is written when I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the events book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in question the margins are no longer current and when time and experience has afforded sanctioned. You get to fold down the writer the benefit corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a more objective viewproblem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn= 1529423376

 =='''23 JANUARY4 JULY'''==

|author=Jeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy GreeneMax Boucherat|title=Fritz and KurtThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5

|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