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=='''6 APRIL9 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=1785633457Tom Percival|title=Charging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car|author=Clive WilkinsonThe Wrong Shoes
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|genre=TravelConfident Readers|summary=Clive Wilkinson has Will's life is difficult, in a history multitude of travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travelways. As He is bullied because he neared his eightieth birthday has 'the idea of exploring wrong shoes', he has the edges of England in an electric car was not totally outrageous. In fact, it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and wrong shoes because his wife, Joan, shouldndad can't it?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861544056|title=Twin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Belle work and Daviddoesn's twin daughters are just coming to t have enough money for even the end most basic of their first term at university. Kitthings like food, and his dad can's been t work because he lost his job at Bristol and Jess's the college, was working a cash-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 hand job on a whilebuilding site and had an accident. Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer Throw into that mix the fact that he didn't come but doesn't want to upset Kit. Ivohis mum and dad are separated, and Will's apparently 'older': he's twenty-four to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with thatlife seems bleak in every direction. And they'll be sharing yet, he still has a bedroomtiny amount of hope.}}=='''13 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author=Emily Tesh|title=Some Desperate Glory|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=''While Earth's children live He is good at art, and clings to the enemy shall fear us'' Following the destruction moments of the Earthjoy when he is drawing, amongst that feel like a rare number of survivors, Kyr has been raised on Gaea Station – light at the home end of the last scraps of humanity – and trained relentlessly to avenge her people and the world that should have been hers. All her lifea long, she has been conditioned to fall in line, to fulfil her duty and ensure that humanity perseveresdark tunnel.|isbn=03565218341398527122
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=='''23 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=0008551278Onyi Nwabineli|title=Blood Runs Cold (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil LancasterAllow Me to Introduce Myself
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|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Affi Smith was snatched from Anuri spent her childhood on display to the bottom of Fyrishworld, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where sheposted every step of Anuri'd been doing her trainings childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. She'd been a bit of a wayward teenager until Now Anuri is in her twenties and she discovered athletics is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step- and it now looks as though she could be heading for mother to take down the national squadcontent about her. That's quite an achievement for someone with Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her background: you seePhD, Affo came to Scotland undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from Albania as Afrodita Dushku at the age of twelvethem for doing so. She was rescued when Most importantly, she was carrying a kilo is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of drugs and three years later sheOphelia's happy with her foster familyonline empire. There's just one cloud on her horizon: Can she save her little sister, Melodi is in a children's home in Tirana - and anyone could get to perhaps herself and her relationship with her.father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|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 Kieran Larwood and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, it will be her undoing.|isbn=1472292154}}=='''11 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|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 wellJoe Todd-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=Emily CritchleyStanton|title=One Puzzling AfternoonDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=84 year old Edie has lived Meet Kit. Like most of the people 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 familyworld, as Edie is starting to lose her memory. Howeverit seems, Edie he is tormented by an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the memory sport where a team of her childhood friendwarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, Lucycentury-old, who went missing over 60 years agomagical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be big bad and the thing that reveals points they grant you along the truth of what happened all that time agoway. After Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he'seeing' Lucy in s seen of the latest race on the high streetinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, just as she was the last time she saw hereaten, she starts to find pockets and a new trio of memories coming back to herquestors is needed. And yet as she remembers Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the past, she is forgetting more token bully of his world and more in her day to day lifestumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her moveWhat chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and before her memories are gone foreverhow could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=18041812501839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Lex Croucher1635866847|title=Gwen The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Art Are Not in LoveTerry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=TeensLifestyle|summary=Who knew It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that what this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I really needed to read right now was visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in picture of a most delightful wayslice of chocolate cake on the homepage. In this story, Gwen I don't eat cakes and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdomThere'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 alliesrecipe in the book, creating which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the subterfuge book and I was told to make a mess of falling it. Notes in love with each other, when really they the margins are enabling their own other romantic attachmentssanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. 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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