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=='''25 9 MAY'''==
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|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
|genre=Confident Readers
|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
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=='''23 MAY'''==
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|author=Alan ParksOnyi Nwabineli|title=To Die in June|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=What first seems like the unfortunate, accidental death of a homeless man on the streets, suddenly starts to feel like something more sinister as another body is discovered, and then another. This is worrying enough for detective Harry McCoy, but all the more so because his own father is a down-and-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 Allow Me to a different police station, 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 found. Something feels wrong - not just with the woman’s story but also with the other officers where he has been stationed, but can Harry uncover just what is going on?|isbn=1805300784}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529135389|title=The Fall|author=Gilly MacmillanIntroduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Nicole Booth had spent the morning at the county fair before she returned home. There was no sign of her husband but opera was playing on the state-of-the-art music system installed in The Glass Barn. They'd not been in the architect-designed house on Lancaut Peninsula for long and were still getting used to all the high-tech systems Tom had insisted upon. Some of them fought with each other and didn't work as reliably as they should. It had all come about through a ten-million-pound lottery win and they were still getting used to having that sort of money, too. Eventually, Nicole found Tom dead in the swimming pool with a wound to his head.
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|isbn=1787636003
|title=The Girls of Summer
|author=Katie Bishop
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|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
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=='''30 MAY6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Mark Edwards|title=Keep Her Secret|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= Matthew and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first met. The alien-landscape of the lava fields Kieran Larwood and black beaches is breathJoe Todd-taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is feeling in this moment, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when the edge of a ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to the rockface with just the snagged strap of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death below. Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself of the shocking secret she has been keeping and makes a panicked, cryptic declaration to Matthew. 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 Helena.|isbn=166250893X}}{{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 that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived on the island. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started to take an interest in her, she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a while before he made any sort of physical approach to her and by that time she was obsessed by him. Alistair worked for Henry Taylor, looking after his interests on the island and in particular in the bar where all the girls either worked or partied.}}=='''1 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|author=Simon FoxStanton|title=DeadlockDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Late one night Graham Blake is late back from Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his shift on the forceworld, and then suddenly rings Archieit seems, demanding he fetch something from is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a secret placeteam of warrior, mage and join him on the run. They get togetherhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, but barely begin and race to smell the whiff of Southern trains when exit, perhaps bothering with the father is arrested, leaving Archie on treasure or the late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to keep away from his colleagues, big bad and the bearer of a whole heap of questionspoints they grant you along the way.|isbn=1839944420}}=='''8 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|author=Amanda Craig|title=Three Graces|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary= Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like Unfortunately for Kit, the state-of-the-nation novel. Thereonly thing he's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold seen of the atmosphere of latest race on the day inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and capture it, crafting an image a new trio of the country as it stands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig questors is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this pointneeded. She Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has such a gift for weaving taken to the goading from the ongoing issues token bully of the day his world and stumbled into the lives of her characters in declaring he'll enter as a way that feels natural and livedteam. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have inactually managing that, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn= 140871468X1839945184
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=='''6 JULY13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Thiago de Moraes1635866847|title=Old Gods New TricksThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=Meet TrixieIt's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Forever getting into scrapesBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', larks I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and adventures involving flooding the school aircon with fart powder, she could almost be thought there's a picture of a young goddess slice of nuisancechocolate cake on the homepage. But just when sheI don's being told t eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that by her one-last-chance-giving headteacher, the world changescake viscerally. Suddenly, practically everything electronic stops working – a power-out, even of electric cars, hits not just the town the school(There's a recipe in but the entire planet (apart from mobile phonesbook, and all that powers the Internet, just for our conveniencewhich I's sakem avoiding with some difficulty!!)Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it. Trixie, luckily, realises what has happened – Notes in the ancient Gods have taken margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the power corners of power from uspages. And so she begins her epic quest, to gather all the people You suspect 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 tricksterssmears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=178845295X
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=='''28 SEPTEMBER4 JULY'''==
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|author=Hannah Gold and Levi PinfoldMax Boucherat|title=Finding BearThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|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
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