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=='''11 9 MAY'''==

|author=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)Tom Percival|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}}{{Frontpage|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}}{{Frontpage|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}}{{Frontpage|author=Madelaine Lucas|title=Thirst for SaltThe Wrong Shoes

|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary= Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes'Love, Ihe has the wrong shoes because his dad can'd readt work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was supposed to be working a cash-in-hand job on a light building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and weightless feelingdad are separated, but I had always longed for gravityand Will'' Told from a retrospective views life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined hertiny amount of hope. Overlaid with later wisdom He is good at art, and clings to the narrator relives the affair with moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a man twenty years her senior from its inception – light at 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 lovera long, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocablydark tunnel.|isbn=08615464901398527122

=='''25 23 MAY'''==

|author=Thomas D LeeOnyi Nwabineli|title=Perilous TimesAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=34.5|genre= FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary= Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia''Hate is the path s increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of least resistanceAnuri'' Set in the near-distant futures childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, in a world on the verge of climate collapsebasically, Britain monetary gain. Now Anuri is in great perilher twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to save the day start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and rescue what receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little remains. What no one expected was that one of sister, who is the Knights new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the Round Table would answer the call.same time?|isbn=03565185230861546873

|author=Laura NoakesKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a StarDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=Meet Number OneKit. Or ratherLike most of the people in his world, Cosima Unfortunate. Or ratherit seems, just Cos to her friends. The practice in the home she lives in he is for an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the girls sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to just be named by the number they correspond to in exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the ledger, big bad and the points they're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upongrant you along the way. But Cosima bears Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the tag as a surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came fromlatest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, as the first ever inmateeaten, and unique in having no known family in the outside worlda new trio of questors is needed. During a daring escapade Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to steal some posh cakes the goading from the kitchen one afternoon, she discovers a plan involving said outside token bully of his world – and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for his Instituteteam. But whyWhat chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and what does that body entail? And how could it he possibly bring Cos closer hope to the past she has so little link withsucceed?|isbn=00085790591839945184

=='''30 MAY13 JUNE'''==

|authorisbn=Mark Edwards1635866847|title=Keep Her SecretThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=ThrillersLifestyle|summary= Matthew and Helena are in IcelandIt's strange, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first metthe things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The alien-landscape Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the lava fields homepage. I don't eat cakes and black beaches is breathdesserts -taking and Helena seems intent on getting but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is feeling in this momentbook, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the edge of a ravine gives way book and Helena finds herself clinging I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the rockface with just margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the snagged strap corners of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death belowpages. Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself You suspect that smears of the shocking secret she has been keeping and makes butter would not be a panicked, cryptic declaration to Matthewproblem. Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about HelenaI ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=166250893X

 =='''8 JUNE4 JULY'''==

|author=Amanda CraigMax Boucherat|title=Three GracesThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary= Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like We meet Lori on the state-of-the-nation novel. Therefirst evening she's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of got the atmosphere of the day and capture ithouse to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, crafting just an image of the country as it stands avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one particular moment. To say main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: shea hit in Lori's practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this pointworld. She But first Lori has such a gift for weaving tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the ongoing issues of the day into the lives server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her characters in a way that feels natural phone screen, and lived-her safe place inthe game has been doctored – well, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.where is a girl to turn?|isbn= 140871468X0008666482