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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

|summary=Meet Number One. Or ratherWill's life is difficult, Cosima Unfortunatein a multitude of ways. Or ratherHe is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', just Cos to her friends. The practice in he has the home she lives in is wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the girls to just be named by the number they correspond to in the ledgermost basic of things like food, and theyhis dad can're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilitiest work because he lost his job at the college, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly uponwas working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. But Cosima bears Throw into that mix the tag as a surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, as the first ever inmatefact that his mum and dad are separated, and unique Will's life seems bleak in having no known family in the outside worldevery direction. During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoonAnd yet, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – he still has a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for his Institutetiny amount of hope. But whyHe is good at art, and what does clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to feel like a light at the past she has so little link with?end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=00085790591398527122

=='''30 23 MAY'''==

|author=Mark EdwardsOnyi Nwabineli|title=Keep Her SecretAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary= Matthew 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 Helena are in Icelandinfluencer deals and, basically, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first metmonetary gain. The alien-landscape of the lava fields Now Anuri is in her twenties and black beaches she is breathslowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph mother to encapsulate take down the joy she content about her. Anuri is feeling in this momentbattling alcoholism, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging failing to the rockface with just the snagged strap of her rucksack between start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and a 500 foot drop to certain death belowreceiving money from them for doing so. Convinced Most importantly, she is going to diedesperately worried about her little sister, Helena must purge herself who is the new focus of the shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a panicked, cryptic declaration to MatthewOphelia's online empire. Just moments later their heroicCan she save her sister, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in perhaps herself and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about Helena.her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=166250893X0861546873

=='''1 6 JUNE'''==

|author=Simon FoxKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=DeadlockDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4.5

|summary=Late one night Graham Blake Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is late back from his shift on an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the forcesport where a team of warrior, mage and then suddenly rings Archiehealer enter specially prepared, demanding he fetch something from a secret placecentury-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and join him on the runpoints they grant you along the way. They get togetherUnfortunately for Kit, but barely begin to smell the whiff only thing he's seen of Southern trains when the father latest race on the inn TV equivalent is arrestedthat one team has been retired, leaving Archie on the late express to Brightoneaten, toting and a tin his father was determined new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to keep away the goading from the token bully of his colleagues, world and the bearer of stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a whole heap of questionsteam. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=18399444201839945184

=='''8 13 JUNE'''==

|authorisbn=Amanda Craig1635866847|title=Three GracesThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=General FictionLifestyle|summary= Few styles 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 contemporary fiction interest me like the state-a slice of-chocolate cake on thehomepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts -nation novelbut I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of a recipe in the atmosphere of book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the day book and capture it, crafting an image I was told to make a mess of the country as it stands . Notes in one particular momentthe margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. To say You suspect that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this smears of butter would not be embarrassingly inadequate: shea problem. I ''loved''s practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this pointbook already. She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into the lives of her characters in a way that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|isbn= 140871468X

 =='''28 SEPTEMBER4 JULY'''==

|author=Hannah Gold and Levi PinfoldMax Boucherat|title=Finding BearThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|summary=[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]]We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, April had been on Bear Islandmother at work, a lot further north than many people would venturejust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a polar bear – that she called Bearon her lonesome. Back home, things on the domestic and family front are What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a bit advancedblanket fort, but not perfect for hershe has one main intention, and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from that is to log on to Voxminer, the islands Bear was last left onworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. For But first Lori has a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and woundedthen she finds something even more spooky. Desperate to make sure he's OK, For the server she and her father return bestie and nobody else should be able to the Arctic and hope that in a world enter shows signs of very white and very dangerous thingstampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing her safe place in the game has been doctored – and that the friendship can continue.well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=00085820170008666482