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=='''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 life is difficult, in a multitude of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed ways. He is bullied because he has 'The Irish Brawlerthe wrong shoes' due to , he has the wrong shoes because his reputation dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence even the most basic of things like food, and his clientsdad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Along with an indisputable talent for Throw into that mix the lawfact that his mum and dad are separated, Patsy also and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a gift for drinking himself to oblivion and inevitably the latter was beginning to overshadow the formertiny amount of hope. Enter Keera DugganHe is good at art, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in clings to the hideous position moments of asking her father for joy when he is drawing, that feel like a job light at the family firm because end of a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularlylong, southdark tunnel.|isbn=16625001811398527122

=='''30 MARCH23 MAY'''==

|isbn=1398509582|title=The Favour|author=Nicci French|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It was 2 am, not long after A levels, when the car crash happened. It would cause problems for Liam Birch but then no one could really understand why he and Jude Winter were together. She was utterly driven by her determination to go to medical school. Liam was the reverse. He just acted ''as if life just rolled him over and carried him along''. A bit of weed here, a few drinks there: the legal effects of the car crash really didn't worry him at all. The relationship broke up soon after that - or rather, Liam simply didn't see Jude any more.}}{{Frontpage|author=Julia BartzOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Writing Retreat|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary= Roza Vallo. Anyone in the world of publishing knows the name. Writers want to be her, agents want Allow Me 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}}{{Frontpage|author=Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Different for BoysIntroduce Myself

|genre=Teens General Fiction|summary=Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised Anuri spent her childhood on display 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 teamworld, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back thanks to primary school days together. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a singleher step-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesnmother Ophelia't know what his score iss increasingly popular presence on social media, where his achievements in that regard lie. Heshe posted every step of Anuri's had a casual relationship, a secret one, childhood for several months now, sponsorships and influencer deals and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stonebasically, he can't be suremonetary gain. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship Now Anuri is in her twenties and the sex with.|isbn=1529509491}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0857051741|title=The Sins of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson Investigation|author= Asa Larsson she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and Frank Perry (Translator)|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks to live but he's determined that Rebecka Martinsson is going get her life back, suing her step-mother to investigate take down the case of a body found in a freezer at the home of a deceased alcoholiccontent about her. The problem Anuri is that the case has long passed the statute of limitationsbattling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. 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 fifty-year-old case on which Most importantly, she can take no action: the problem is that this desperately worried about her little sister, who is a dying manthe new focus of Ophelia's wishonline empire. The situation changes when a post-mortem establishes that Henry PekkariCan she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the dead alcoholic, was also murdered. Is there a connection between the two deathssame time?|isbn=0861546873

|author=M R Carey|title=Infinity Gate|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= I'm annoyingly picky when it comes to science fiction. Not because it's a genre I dislike – nothing of the sort. My standards are high precisely because it's a hard genre to get right – Kieran Larwood and when it's bad, it's often terrible. But the premise of Infinity Gate had me hooked. A concept this intriguing felt like a highJoe Todd-stakes gamble: if it was done well, it'd be fantastic. So this is where I sum up that premise.|isbn=0356518043}}=='''6 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0571370977Stanton|title=The Lock-Up|author=John BanvilleDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=Crime (Historical)Confident Readers|summary=It's six months since the dramatic events which we read about in [[April in Spain by John Banville|April in Spain]] and Dr Quirke is now back in Dublin and living (if somewhat uneasily) with his daughter, PhoebeMeet Kit. The worst Like most of his grief is over but he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened and this has made the already strained relationship between them more difficult. They're brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when the body of a young, Jewish scholar, Rosa Jacobs, is found people in a lock-up. At firsthis world, it looked as though she'd gassed herself but Quirke seems, he is convinced that it was murder rather than suicide.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1785633457|title=Charging Around: Exploring an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive Wilkinson|rating=5|genre=Travel|summary=Clive Wilkinson has sport where a history team of travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday the idea of exploring the edges of England in an electric car was not totally outrageous. In factwarrior, it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive mage and his wifehealer enter specially prepared, century-old, Joanmagical mazes, shouldn't it?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861544056|title=Twin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Belle and David's twin daughters are just coming race to the end of their first term at universityexit, 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 the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been at Bristol retired, eaten, and Jess's in Exetera new trio of questors is needed. It's not only Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the first time they've been away goading from their parents for any length the token bully of time - but theyhis world and stumbled into declaring he've also been apart from each other. Belle can't wait to have them all to herself for ll enter as a whileteam. Then Kit rings up What chance does this friendless, muscle-free- can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer zone have in actually managing that , and how could he didn't come but doesn't want possibly hope to upset Kit. Ivo's apparently 'older': he's twenty-four to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. And they'll be sharing a bedroom.succeed?|isbn=1839945184

=='''13 APRILJUNE'''==

|authorisbn=Emily Tesh1635866847|title=Some Desperate GloryThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|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'While Earth's children live, I visited the enemy shall fear usauthor's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there' Following the destruction s a picture of the Earth, amongst a rare number slice of survivors, Kyr has been raised chocolate cake on Gaea Station – the home of the last scraps of humanity – and trained relentlessly to avenge her people homepage. I don't eat cakes and the world desserts - but I wanted that should have been herscake viscerally. All her life (There's a recipe in the book, she has been conditioned which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to fall make a mess of it. Notes in line, the margins are sanctioned. You get to fulfil her duty and ensure fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that humanity perseveressmears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=0356521834

Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero. 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=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)Max Boucherat|title=Thirty Days The Last Life of Darkness|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |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 he's populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Cue the bet that she cannot live up to that accusation. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she is put up for a wintry month away from it all. Just on the point of despairing – about her writing, about the people and the lack of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the landlady's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615}}{{Frontpage|author=Lex Croucher|title=Gwen and Art Are Not in LoveLori 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