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=='''30 MARCH9 MAY'''== 
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|author=Julia BartzTom Percival|title=The Writing RetreatWrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary= Roza Vallo. Anyone Will's life is difficult, in the world a multitude of publishing knows ways. He is bullied because he has 'the name. Writers want to be herwrong shoes', agents want to represent her. Shehe has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn's something t have enough money for even the most basic of a legend with an impressivethings like food, if compact, back catalogue of works that started with her breakthrough noveland his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, published when she was barely out of childhood. Alex, working a writercash-slashin-editor, is more than hand job on a little obsessed with Rozabuilding site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and is stunned whenWill's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, following he still has a series tiny amount of unexpected eventshope. He is good at art, she and clings to the moments of joy when he is invited to be part drawing, that feel like a light at the end of her month-a long writers' retreat, dark tunnel.|isbn=08615444391398527122
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=='''23 MAY'''==
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|author=Patrick Ness and Tea BendixOnyi Nwabineli|title=Different for BoysAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|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
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|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
|rating=4
|genre=Crime (Historical)Confident Readers|summary=It's six months since Meet Kit. Like most of the dramatic events which we read about people in [[April in Spain by John Banville|April in Spain]] his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and Dr Quirke is now back in Dublin healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and living (if somewhat uneasily) race to the exit, perhaps bothering with his daughter, Phoebethe treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. The worst Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of his grief the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is over but needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened and this has made taken to the already strained relationship between them more difficult. They're brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when goading from the body token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a young, Jewish scholar, Rosa Jacobs, is found in a lock-upteam. At firstWhat chance does this friendless, it looked as though she'd gassed herself but Quirke is convinced muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that it was murder rather than suicide., and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|isbn=17856334571635866847|title=Charging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric CarThe Lavender Companion|author=Clive WilkinsonJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=TravelLifestyle|summary=Clive Wilkinson has It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a history slice of travelling by unconventional means chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a preference for slow travelmess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. As he neared his eightieth birthday You get to fold down the idea corners of exploring the edges pages. You suspect that smears of England in an electric car was butter would not totally outrageous. In fact, it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and his wife, Joan, shouldnproblem. I ''loved''t it?this book already.
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|isbn=0861544056
|title=Twin Truths
|author=Jacqueline Sutherland
|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Belle and David's twin daughters are just coming to the end of their first term at university. Kit's been at Bristol and Jess's in Exeter. It's not only the first time they've been away from their parents for any length of time - but they've also been apart from each other. Belle can't wait to have them all to herself for a while. Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want 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.
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=='''13 APRIL'''==
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|author=Emily Tesh
|title=Some Desperate Glory
|rating=4.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=''While Earth's children live, the enemy shall fear us''
Following the destruction of the Earth, amongst a rare number of survivors, Kyr has been raised on Gaea Station – the home of the last scraps of humanity – and trained relentlessly to avenge her people and the world that should have been hers. All her life, she has been conditioned to fall in line, to fulfil her duty and ensure that humanity perseveres.|isbn=0356521834}}='''4 JULY'''==
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|isbnauthor=0008551278Max Boucherat|title=Blood Runs Cold (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil LancasterThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Affi Smith was snatched from the bottom of Fyrish, where she'd been doing her training. She'd been a bit of a wayward teenager until she discovered athletics - and it now looks as though she could be heading for the national squad. That's quite an achievement for someone with her background: you see, Affo came to Scotland from Albania as Afrodita Dushku at the age of twelve. She was rescued when she was carrying a kilo of drugs and three years later she's happy with her foster family. There's just one cloud on her horizon: her little sister, Melodi is in a children's home in Tirana - and anyone could get to her.
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{{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 ship, I vowed. I would take my place, not just in the name of the goddess. It was for the sake of my name, too. Atalanta''
 
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
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=='''11 MAY'''==
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|author=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)
|title=Thirty Days 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
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|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 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 the thing that reveals the truth of what happened all that time ago. After 'seeing' 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 and more in her day to day life. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?
|isbn=1804181250
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|author=Lex Croucher
|title=Gwen and Art Are Not in Love
|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
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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
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=='''25 MAY'''==
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|author=Laura Noakes
|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a Star
|rating=4
|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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