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=='''13 25 APRIL'''==
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|author=Emily TeshSylvie Cathrall|title=Some Desperate GloryA Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=4.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=''While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us'' Following the destruction of the Earth, amongst There are few greater joys than a rare number of survivors, Kyr has been raised on Gaea Station – the home of the last scraps of humanity – and trained relentlessly book which lives up to avenge her people and the world that should have been hersa compelling premise. All her life, she has been conditioned to fall in line, to fulfil her duty and ensure that humanity perseveresAnd this is one of them.|isbn=03565218340356522776
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=='''9 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=0008551278Tom Percival|title=Blood Runs Cold (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil LancasterThe Wrong Shoes|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Affi Smith was snatched from Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the bottom of Fyrishwrong shoes', where shehe has the wrong shoes because his dad can'd been doing her training. Shet work and doesn'd been a bit t have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a wayward teenager until she discovered athletics cash-in- hand job on a building site and it now looks as though she could be heading for the national squadhad an accident. ThatThrow into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's quite an achievement for someone with her background: you see, Affo came to Scotland from Albania as Afrodita Dushku at the age of twelvelife seems bleak in every direction. She was rescued when she was carrying And yet, he still has a kilo tiny amount of drugs and three years later she's happy with her foster familyhope. There's just one cloud on her horizon: her little sisterHe is good at art, Melodi and clings to the moments of joy when he is in drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a children's home in Tirana - and anyone could get to herlong, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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=='''23 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=152915118XOnyi Nwabineli|title=Pineapple Street|author=Jenny JacksonAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=''Pineapple Street'' is Anuri spent her childhood on display to the story of three women: Sashaworld, Darley and Georgiana. Darley and George are sisters and Sasha is married thanks to their brother Cord. Theyher step-mother Ophelia're Stocktonss increasingly popular presence on social media, only Sasha isn't a Stockton by birth so where she isn't readily accepted into the tribe. The problemposted every step of Anuri's exacerbated when the clan matriarch, Tilda, asks Cord and Sasha if they'd like to move into the Pineapple Street property. Tilda childhood for sponsorships and Chip have renovated influencer deals and downsized to another property, a street or so awaybasically, which they ownmonetary gain. They won't need any of the furniture from Pineapple Street, so Sasha and Cord can move straight Now Anuri is in. Nominally, they had a choice but that wasn't the reality. Darley her twenties and Georgiana start she is slowly trying to call Sasha 'the gold digger'. She's living in ''their'' family home. They use it so often that they abbreviate it regain her confidence and to 'the GD'.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Saint|title=Atalanta|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that shipher life back, I vowed. I would suing her step-mother to take my place, not just in down the name of the goddesscontent about her. It was Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for the sake of my name, toodoing so. Atalanta'' Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son Most importantly, Atalanta she is raised under the protective eye of the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntressdesperately worried about her little sister, one who longs for adventure. When is the opportunity comes – to join the Argonauts, a fierce band new focus of warriors, descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in ArtemisOphelia' name and carve out s online empire. Can she save her own legendary place in history. What follows is a whirlwind of challenges sister, and discovery perhaps herself and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, it will be her undoing.relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=14722921540861546873
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=='''27 APRIL6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Lauren BravoKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=PrelovedDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Women's FictionConfident Readers|summary= Gwen Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is pressing her middlean avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-aged bosom old, magical mazes, and race to 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 seen of the latest race on a big number the inn TV equivalent is that starts with one team has been retired, eaten, and a four and ends with an oh-my-God-I'm-nearly-fortynew trio of questors is needed. Having been made unexpectedly redundant - any HR officer worth their salt would argue Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the toss - Gwen finds herself having a bit token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a mid-life crisisteam. Catharsis is key What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and Gwen has decided now is the time how could he possibly hope to take back her life'succeed?|isbn=13985106291839945184
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=='''11 MAY13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)1635866847|title=Thirty Days of DarknessThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=34.5|genre=Thrillers Lifestyle|summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fair, she flukes her way into a public argument with the latest hot shot in the world of crime fiction, saying heIt's populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Cue strange, the bet things that she cannot live up to make you ''immediately'' feel that accusation. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she this is put up the book for a wintry month away from it allyou. Just on the point of despairing – about her writingBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', about I visited the people author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and the lack of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the landladythere's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615}}{{Frontpage|author=Emily Critchley|title=One Puzzling Afternoon|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memory. However, Edie is tormented by the memory picture of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be slice of chocolate cake on the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time agohomepage. After 'seeingI don' Lucy in the high street, just as she was the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets of memories coming back to her. And yet as she remembers the past, she is forgetting more t eat cakes and more in her day to day lifedesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy(There's disappearance before her movea recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and before her memories are gone forever?|isbn=1804181250}}{{Frontpage|author=Lex Croucher|title=Gwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Who knew that what I really needed was told to read right now was make a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, mess of 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 Notes in love with Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diariesmargins are sanctioned. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating You get to fold down the subterfuge corners of falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachmentspages. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly You suspect that smears of butter would not be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|isbn=1526651793problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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|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 MAY4 JULY'''==
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|author=Laura NoakesMax Boucherat|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a StarThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|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
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