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=='''2 FEBRUARY25 APRIL'''==
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|isbnauthor=0008454493Sylvie Cathrall|title=All A Letter to the Dangerous ThingsLuminous 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=Stacy WillinghamTom Percival|title=The Wrong Shoes|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Isabelle Drake hasnWill't really slept for s life is difficult, in a year - well, apart from the odd occasion when she lost track multitude of time or drifted off for a momentways. ItHe is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes's now a year since her son, Mason, was stolen from he has the wrong shoes because his bed in dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the middle most basic of the night things like food, and Izzy is consumed with guilt that she heard nothing and particularly about her relief in his dad can't work because he lost his job at the morning when she thought he college, was sleeping working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. In Throw into that year she's done everything she could to raise awareness about mix the case. She does interviews fact that his mum and when we meet herdad are separated, sheand Will's just been to TrueCrimeCon where she gave a keynote presentationlife seems bleak in every direction. On the plane backAnd yet, she's approached by he still has a podcastertiny amount of hope. He is good at art, Waylon Spencerand clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, who points out that she could do feel like a podcast and get to so many more people than she could by giving speeches to light at the end of a few hundred people at conferenceslong, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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=='''23 MAY'''==
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|author=Lucy AsheOnyi Nwabineli|title=Clara and OliviaAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=The year is 1933. The place? Sadler's Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical Anuri spent her childhood on display to the outside but notworld, we learn, on the inside. And not thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on stagesocial media, either. Because therewhere she posted every step of Anuri's a lot that builds a dancerchildhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, attention suing her step-mother to detail – and some thingstake down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, that ''je ne sais quoi''failing to start her PhD, that don't come undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from the classroomthem for doing so. A stage presence Most importantly, a charmshe is desperately worried about her little sister, a ''joie de vivre'who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. The difference between a hard-worker Can she save her sister, and a star.perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=08615440800861546873
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=='''16 FEBRUARY6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Robin Birch Kieran Larwood and Jobe AndersonJoe Todd-Stanton|title=Secret Beast ClubDungeon Runners: The Unicorns of Silver StreetHero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Jayden's nose is forever in a book, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, for example. Aisha is addicted to her new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that might be out there. The problem, as their mothers see itseems, he is that they are never 'out there' themselves, exploring an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the outside world sport where a team of Hackneywarrior, London. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a sciencemage and healer enter specially prepared, century-mindedold, educational purposemagical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with a past involving Jayden's cousin, the treasure or the big bad and the points they find a magical world they never knew existedgrant you along the way. For many of those mythological creatures are realUnfortunately for Kit, including the one Aisha thinks sheonly thing he's seen of the latest race on a bit of local footage. The crew of the boatinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, including a living gargoyleeaten, are tasked with saving the rare critters – and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight a new trio of questors is needed to join in. Dare they side with LeilaPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the woman on board, token bully of his world and her relative who lives stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a figure team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in a paintingactually managing that, and become saviours of the unseenhow could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=02415734831839945184
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=='''23 FEBRUARY13 JUNE'''==
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|author=Natasha Farrant|title=The Rescue of Ravenwood|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=This story is another excellent adventure from the author of ''Voyage of the Sparrowhawk''. Ravenwood is an old house, in the North of England, where Bea and Raffy have been living for most of their lives. They are part of a complex, extended family arrangement, as Bea is there with her Uncle Leo, and Raffy is there with his mum, and they are living together as a family. They have grown up swimming in the cove, roaming through the trees, completely at one with all of the nature around the house and loving every inch of the place. But now the house is under threat, as Leo is under pressure from his other two brothers to sell the property to a developer as it's becoming more and more expensive to maintain. The children find themselves worrying not only about where they're going to live, but if they'll even be together, and if Ravenwood itself will be torn down.|isbn=0571348785}}=='''2 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=15295047751635866847|title=The Toy Bus (The Repair Shop Stories)Lavender Companion|author=Amy Sparkes Jessica Dunham and Katie HickeyTerry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=For SharingLifestyle|summary=Elsie and her little brother David loved to go to It's strange, the park and watch things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the red buses drive pastbook for you. Elsie would race Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the buses along the side author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the park but David couldnhomepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - he'd been born with cerebral palsy and even just standing up was very difficultbut I wanted that cake viscerally. One day Elsie spotted (There's a bus recipe in the toy shop window book, which would help David - I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was happy told to use the coins from her money box to pay for make a mess of it as cash was tight at home. Gradually, David learned to stand up, use Notes in the bus for support, and walk behind itmargins are sanctioned. Many decades later, Elsie brought the bus, now damaged and rusted, You get to fold down the Repair Shop, hoping corners of pages. You suspect that the experts there could make it so that her grandchildren could play with itsmears of butter would not be a problem.}} == I '''30 MARCH'loved''=={{Frontpage|author=Julia Bartz|title=The Writing Retreat|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary= Roza Vallo. Anyone in the world of publishing knows the namethis book already. Writers want to be her, agents want to represent her. She's something of a legend with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue of works that started with her breakthrough novel, published when she was barely out of childhood. Alex, a writer-slash-editor, is more than a little obsessed with Roza, and is stunned when, following a series of unexpected events, she is invited to be part of her month-long writers' retreat.|isbn=0861544439
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=='''4 JULY'''==
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|author=Patrick Ness and Tea BendixMax Boucherat|title=Different for BoysThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens Confident Readers|summary=Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers herself no neighbour to pop in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining babysitter poorly, mother at the leash only a singlework, just an avidly rule-sex school can formbreaking eleven year old, the talk in class and out often turns to sexon her lonesome. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationshipblanket fort, a secret she has one, for several months nowmain intention, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.|isbn=1529509491}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0857051741|title=The Sins of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson Investigation|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks is to live but he's determined that Rebecka Martinsson is going log on to investigate Voxminer, the case of a body found in a freezer at the home of a deceased alcoholic. The problem is that the case has long passed the statute of limitations. Raimo Koskela disappeared without a trace in 1962. He was the father of Olympic boxing champion Borje Strom. Rebecka wants nothing to do with a fiftyworld-yearbuilding, critter-old case on which she can take no action: the problem is collecting game that this is a dying manhit in Lori's wishworld. The situation changes when But first Lori has a post-mortem establishes tiny inkling that Henry Pekkarithis stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, the dead alcoholic, was also murderedand then she finds something even more spooky. Is there a connection between For the two deaths?}}=='''13 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Saint|title=Atalanta|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''I was as worthy as any one server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of themtampering. I would get When malevolent eyes spark up on board that shipher phone screen, I vowed. I would take my and her safe place, not just in the name of the goddess. It was for the sake of my namegame has been doctored – well, too. Atalanta'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta where is raised under the protective eye of the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. When the opportunity comes – to join the Argonauts, a fierce band of warriors, descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance girl to fight in Artemis' name and carve out her own legendary place in history. What follows is a whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, it will be her undoing.turn?|isbn=14722921540008666482
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