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=='''16 MARCH25 APRIL'''==

|author= Michael GrothausSylvie Cathrall|title=Beautiful Shining PeopleA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=45|genre= Literary Science Fiction|summary= ''But fearing something and having it come There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to pass are two different thingsa compelling premise. And I'm willing to bet most of what we fear will never happen, or we can take steps to change it.'' ''Beautiful Shining People'' revolves around the question of identity and acceptance. Of what it means to be human. Of what is real and what this is artificial, and whether the development one of technology is exciting or frighteningthem.|isbn=191458564X0356522776

=='''28 MARCH9 MAY'''==

|author=Robert DugoniTom Percival|title=Her Deadly GameThe Wrong Shoes

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been the lifeWill's work of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed 'The Irish Brawler' due to his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances life is difficult, in defence a multitude of his clientsways. Along with an indisputable talent for He is bullied because he has 'the lawwrong shoes', Patsy also he has a gift the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for drinking himself to oblivion and inevitably even the latter was beginning to overshadow the former. Enter Keera Dugganmost basic of things like food, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the hideous position of asking her father for a his dad can't work because he lost his job at the family firm because college, was working a romantic entanglement with cash-in-hand job on a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, building site and had gonean accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, rather spectacularly, south.|isbn=1662500181}}==and Will'''30 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Julia Bartz|title=The Writing Retreat|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary= Roza Vallo. Anyone s life seems bleak in the world of publishing knows the nameevery direction. Writers want to be her And yet, agents want to represent her. She's something of he still has a legend with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue of works that started with her breakthrough novel, published when she was barely out tiny amount of childhoodhope. Alex, a writer-slash-editor, He is more than a little obsessed with Rozagood at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he is stunned whendrawing, following that feel like a series light at the end of unexpected eventsa long, she is invited to be part of her month-long writers' retreatdark tunnel.|isbn=08615444391398527122

|author=Patrick Ness and Tea BendixOnyi Nwabineli|title=Different for BoysAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|genre=Teens General Fiction|summary=Ant Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her 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. Now Anuri is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, her twenties and she is surprised slowly trying 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, regain her confidence and two other old muckers – in fact they all go to get her life back to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a singlesuing her step-sex school can form, mother to take down the talk in class and out often turns to sexcontent about her. Which Anuri is confusing for Antbattling alcoholism, as he doesn't know what his score isfailing to start her PhD, where his achievements in that regard lieundergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. He's had a casual relationshipMost importantly, a secret oneshe is desperately worried about her little sister, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up who is the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether thatnew focus of Ophelia's set in stone, he can't be sureonline empire. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship and with her father at the sex with.same time?|isbn=15295094910861546873

|isbnauthor=0857051741Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Sins of Our FathersDungeon Runners: A Rebecka Martinsson Investigation|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)Hero Trial|rating=54|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a few weeks team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to live but the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's determined that Rebecka Martinsson is going to investigate seen of the case of a body found in a freezer at latest race on the home of a deceased alcoholic. The problem inn TV equivalent is that the case one team has long passed the statute of limitations. Raimo Koskela disappeared without been retired, eaten, and a trace in 1962. He was the father new trio of Olympic boxing champion Borje Stromquestors is needed. Rebecka wants nothing Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to do with a fifty-year-old case on which she can take no action: the problem is that this is goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a dying man's wishteam. The situation changes when a postWhat chance does this friendless, muscle-free-mortem establishes zone have in actually managing that Henry Pekkari, the dead alcoholic, was also murdered. Is there a connection between the two deathsand how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184

|authorisbn=M R Carey1635866847|title=Infinity GateThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Science FictionLifestyle|summary= It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', Ivisited the author'm annoyingly picky when it comes to science fictions [https://www.pinelavenderfarm. Not because itcom/ website] and there's a genre I dislike – nothing picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the sorthomepage. My standards are high precisely because it I don's a hard genre to get right – t eat cakes and when itdesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's bada recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it's often terrible. But Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the premise corners of Infinity Gate had me hookedpages. A concept this intriguing felt like You suspect that smears of butter would not be a high-stakes gamble: if it was done well, itproblem. I ''loved''d be fantastic. So this is where I sum up that premisebook already.|isbn=0356518043

Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta 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 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.|isbn=1472292154}}=='''11 MAY4 JULY'''==

|author=Lex CroucherMax Boucherat|title=Gwen and Art Are Not in LoveThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|isbn=1526651793}}{{Frontpage|author=Madelaine Lucas|title=Thirst for Salt|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|isbn=0861546490}}=='''25 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Laura Noakes|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a Star|rating=4

|summary=Meet Number One. Or ratherWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rathermother at work, just Cos to an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her friendslonesome. The practice What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in the home a blanket fort, she lives in has one main intention, and that is for the girls to just be named by the number they correspond log on to in Voxminer, the ledgerworld-building, and theycritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upons world. But Cosima bears the tag as first Lori has a surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, as the first ever inmatetiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and unique in having no known family in the outside worldthen she finds something even more spooky. During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from For the kitchen one afternoon, server she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want and her bestie and nobody else should be able to adopt all the girls for his Instituteenter shows signs of tampering. But whyWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to her safe place in the past she game has so little link withbeen doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=00085790590008666482