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|author=Hadeer ElsbaiTom Percival|title=The Daughters of Izdihar|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary= Drawing inspiration from Egypt, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the military, 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 her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rights. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is a story of an unjust society, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|isbn=0356520471}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178563335X|title=Sea Defences|author=Hilary TaylorWrong Shoes

|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=When we first meet Rachel Bird sheWill's a trainee vicarlife is difficult, sitting in on a PCC meeting multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and wondering why theydoesn're held when you need to pick t have enough money for even the children up. Her husbandmost basic of things like food, Christopherand his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, collects sixwas working a cash-yearin-old Hannah hand job on a building site and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishionerhad an accident. ThelmaThrow into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's daughter-life seems bleak in-law won't let her see her grandsonevery direction. Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coastAnd yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is a lovely placegood at art, but Rachel is struggling and clings to develop a real bond with the parish - and she's in awe moments of the vicar, Gailjoy when he is drawing, but then she's been doing the job for more than thirty years. Rachel and Christopher hoped that feel like a walk on light at the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missingend of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

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|isbnauthor=1848458436Onyi Nwabineli|title=Just the Nicest Couple|author=Mary KubicaAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia''The whole thing has spiralled out s increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of control, turning into someone IAnuri'm not.''  ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is the story of two couples: Christian s childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and Lily Scott, and Nina and Jake Hayesbasically, monetary gain. The connection between the two Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is that Lily slowly trying to regain her confidence and Nina teach in to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the same school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. The couples have mixed as a foursome but it's not a regular thingcontent about her. Christian Anuri is a market research analyst battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and Jake is a neurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except their wivesreceiving money from them for doing so. Lily hasn't said anything yetMost importantly, but sheis desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's pregnantonline empire. She has a lengthy history of miscarriages so Can she doesn't want to tempt fate by making save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the knowledge public.same time?|isbn=0861546873

|author=Heather FawcettKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|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

|isbnauthor=1529421241Max Boucherat|title=Stay Buried|author=Kate Webb|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=DI Matt Lockyer is on Major Crime Review which sounds quite grand until you realise that it's actually a cold case unit and there are just two The Last Life of them doing the job. Lockyer's not unduly worried, though although he's not quite so sure about DC Gemma Broad: she's probably capable of something better. It was a bit of a shock when he got the phone call from Hedy Lambert: she's in H M Prison Eastwood Park for murder - and it was Lockyer who put her there, fourteen years ago. She's keen to see him and to tell him that the man everyone thought she'd murdered - but the body turned out to be someone else - has returned home after being away for decades.}}=='''23 JANUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Jeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy Greene|title=Fritz and KurtLori 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 mother at a vocational school. Kurt has to make sure the lamps are turned on 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 are, unknown initially to each otherbreaking eleven year old, 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=Julia Bartz|title=The Writing Retreat|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary= Roza Vallo. Anyone possibly go wrong? Snuggled in the world of publishing knows the name. Writers want to be her, agents want to represent her. She's something of a legend with an impressiveblanket fort, 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 Rozahas one main intention, and that is stunned whento log on to Voxminer, following a series of unexpected eventsthe world-building, she is invited to be part of her monthcritter-long writers' retreat.|isbn=0861544439}}{{Frontpage|author=Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Different for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens |summary=Ant collecting game that is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised 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 – hit in fact they all go back to primary school days togetherLori's world. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only But first Lori has a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he 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