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=='''25 9 MAY'''==

|author=Thomas D LeeTom Percival|title=Perilous Times|rating=3|genre= Fantasy|summary= ''Hate is the path of least resistance'' Set in the near-distant future, in a world on the verge of climate collapse, Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the day and rescue what little remains. What no one expected was that one of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the call.|isbn=0356518523}}{{Frontpage|author=Laura Noakes|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a StarWrong Shoes|rating=45

|summary=Meet Number One. Or ratherWill's life is difficult, Cosima Unfortunatein a multitude of ways. Or rather, just Cos to her friends. The practice in the home she lives in He is for bullied because he has 'the girls to just be named by the number they correspond to in the ledger, and theywrong shoes're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upon. But Cosima bears he has the tag as a surname wrong shoes because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, as the first ever inmate, his dad can't work and unique in having no known family in the outside world. During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoon, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls doesn't have enough money for his Institute. But why, and what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to the past she has so little link with?|isbn=0008579059}}{{Frontpage|author=Alan Parks|title=To Die in June|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=What first seems like even the unfortunate, accidental death most basic of a homeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to feel things like something more sinister as another body is discoveredfood, and then another. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so his dad can't work because he lost his own father is job at the college, was working a downcash-andin-out alcoholic, with no fixed abode, and he has been for years. At the same time as facing these possible murders, Harry is also dealing with a move to hand job on a different police station, building site and the arrival there of a woman who claims her little boy has gone missing, only no record of the boy having existed can be foundhad an accident. Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with Throw into that mix the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1787636003|title=The Girls of Summer|author=Katie Bishop|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It was the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen fact that she his mum and Caroline went backpacking around Greece dad are separated, and arrived on the island. Rachel wasnWill't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest s life seems bleak in her, she was flattered rather than waryevery direction. It was quite And yet, he still has a while before he made any sort tiny amount of physical approach to her and by that time she was obsessed by himhope. Alistair worked for Henry TaylorHe is good at art, looking after his interests on the island and in particular in clings to the bar where all moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the girls either worked or partiedend of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

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

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

|summary=It was Anuri spent her childhood on display to the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that 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 Caroline went backpacking around Greece influencer deals and arrived on the island, basically, monetary gain. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but Now Anuri is in her twenties and she wasis slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-yearsuing her step-old Alistair Wright started mother to take an interest in down the content about her, she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and by that time receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she was obsessed by himis desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Alistair worked for Henry TaylorCan she save her sister, looking after his interests on the island and in particular in perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the bar where all the girls either worked or partied.same time?|isbn=0861546873

=='''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

 ==''6 JULY''=={{Frontpage|author=Thiago de Moraes|title=Old Gods New Tricks|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Trixie. Forever getting into scrapes, larks and adventures involving flooding the school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought a young goddess of nuisance. But just when she's being told that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, the world changes. Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a power-out, even of electric cars, hits not just the town the school's in but the entire planet (apart from mobile phones, and all that powers the Internet, just for our convenience's sake). Trixie, luckily, realises what has happened – the ancient Gods have taken the power of power from us. And so she begins her epic quest, to gather all the people that can steal it back – namely the characters from myth that have past form in stealing from the Gods, ie the semi-deities, giants, half-gods and so on known as the tricksters.|isbn=178845295X}}=='''28 SEPTEMBERJULY'''==

|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