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=='''6 APRIL9 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=0861544056Tom Percival|title=Twin Truths|author=Jacqueline SutherlandThe Wrong Shoes
|rating=5
|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Belle and DavidWill's twin daughters are just coming to the end life is difficult, in a multitude of their first term at universityways. KitHe is bullied because he has 's been at Bristol and Jessthe wrong shoes's in Exeter. It, he has the wrong shoes because his dad can's not only the first time theyt work and doesn've been away from their parents t have enough money for any length even the most basic of time - but they've also been apart from each other. Belle things like food, and his dad can't wait to have them all to herself for work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-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 life, she has been conditioned to fall in linea long, 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
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Affi Smith was snatched from Anuri spent her childhood on display to the bottom of Fyrishworld, where she'd been doing thanks to her training. She'd been a bit of a wayward teenager until she discovered athletics step- and it now looks as though she could be heading for the national squad. Thatmother Ophelia's quite an achievement for someone with her background: you seeincreasingly popular presence on social media, Affo came to Scotland from Albania as Afrodita Dushku at the age of twelve. She was rescued when where she was carrying a kilo posted every step of drugs and three years later sheAnuri's happy with her foster familychildhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. There's just one cloud on her horizon: her little sister, Melodi Now Anuri is in a children's home in Tirana - her twenties and anyone could get she is slowly trying to regain her.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Saint|title=Atalanta|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''I was as worthy as any one of them. I would confidence and to 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 unlikeableIt's strange, bitter womanthe things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', an I visited the author 's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of failing if wellchocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts -regarded literary short novelsbut I wanted that cake viscerally. Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at (There's a recipe in the book fair, she flukes her way into a public argument which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the latest hot shot book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the world of crime fiction, saying he's populist trash and only writing what anyone could writemargins are sanctioned. Cue You get to fold down the bet that she cannot live up to that accusationcorners of pages. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she is put up for You suspect that smears of butter would not be a wintry month away from it allproblem. 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 landladyI ''loved''s nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615this book already.
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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}}=='''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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