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 =='''13 9 MAY'''==

|isbnauthor=B084VNRRD6Tom Percival|title=Killing Mind (D I Kim Stone)|author=Angela MarsonsThe Wrong Shoes

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=It looked very Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like a suicidefood, and to begin withhis dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, that was how both DI Kim Stone working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and Keats, the pathologist called ithad an accident. It was only later Throw into that mix the fact that Stone his mum and her team realised that when Samantha Brown cut her throatdad are separated, hers was not the only hand holding the knife. It was murder. Sammyand Will's parentslife seems bleak in every direction. Myles and Kate were And yet, he still has a little bit reluctant to say what their daughter had been doing recentlytiny amount of hope. The property where she was found was less homely than most hotel rooms: her mother was about He is good at art, and clings to accuse her husband the moments of saying joy when he is drawing, that Sammy was readyfeel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel... But what was Sammy ready ''for'' and where was their other daughter, Sophie?|isbn=1398527122

 =='''14 23 MAY'''== 

|isbnauthor=0008386137Onyi Nwabineli|title=Just My Luck|author=Adele ParksAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=sentence because a faulty gas boiler had caused Anuri spent her childhood on display to the deaths world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of 29-year-old Reveka Albu Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her 2life back, suing her step-year-old son Benkemother to take down the content about her. Toma AlbuAnuri is battling alcoholism, husband failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and fathersecretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, had found them when he returned homewho is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873

|isbnauthor=1405946172Stuart Douglas|title=The Glass House|author=Eve Chase|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Rita lost both her parents in a car crash when she was just six years old: since then she's always craved a family. She'd lived with her grandmother in Torquay until she got a job as a nanny with the Harrington family in London. Soon her engagement to Fred, a Torquay butcher, fell through and the Harringtons became her family. In 1971, after a fire at the London house, Jeannie Harrington, her children, 13-year-old Hera Lowe and 6Le Breton Mysteries -year-old Teddy, along with Rita went to the family's house in the Forest of Dean. It wasn't ''quite'' dilapidated, but it certainly wasn't the same standard as the London house had been before the fire.}} {{Frontpage|author= Alison Weir|title= Six Tudor Queens: Katheryn Howard The Tainted Queen|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= ''Katheryn was seven when her mother died'', thus we are thrust into this tumultuous time in young Katheryn's life, trying to find a home, both figuratively and literally, where she can grow and grieve. Unfortunately, Katheryn is followed by bad luck and she learns an important lesson, she is too young, too poor and too unimportant to be of any value to anyone, but she is beautiful and surely, that will count for something in the end, won't it?|isbn=1472227778}}{{Frontpage|author= Hana Tooke|title= The Unadoptables|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= In the winter of 1880, five babies are abandoned Death at the Little Tulip orphanage in Amsterdam, much to the annoyance of matron Gasbeek. Twelve years later, Milou, the last of the five babies to be abandoned back in that winter, struggles to work out the identity of her parents from the clues she was abandoned with: a small coffin with claw-marks on the outside, a cat doll made by someone called Bram Poppenmaker and a velvet blanket. She, along with the other four, patiently wait for Milou's parents to come back and take her home. However, when the five children are sold to the dodgy merchant Meneer Rotman, they know they have to escape. And so begins the adventure of a lifetime as the Unadoptables join forces to reunite Milou with her parents, all the time being pursued by the Kinderbureau and Rotman…|isbn=0241417465}}{{Frontpage|author= Abi Elphinstone|title= Jungle Drop (The Unmapped Chronicles)|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Abi Elphinstone has said that she connects with her world-building through her characters. In an interview with [Books For Keeps], she described visualising her characters "wearing head torches which gradually reveal the world they are seeing to her and to the reader." Just as the darkness of a mine is cut through by a spear of light so too do quarrelsome Fox and Fibber get their first glimpse of the phantasmagorical glow-in-the-dark realm of Jungle Drop when they emerge through the mouth of a Dragon on the Here and There Express. Running from the opprobrium of their demanding and selfish parents, they must address what is in their hearts to find what they seek.|isbn= 1471173682}} =='''21 MAY'''== {{Frontpage|author= Maryse Condé|title= The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and IvanaDress Rehearsal|rating= 43.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= We live in a post-world: post-colonialism, post-modernism, post-truth. The list goes on. There are numerous works that utilise the prefix post- in their categorisation, but perhaps none more so than Maryse Condé. In her new novel, ''The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana'', Condé writes with fervour about the scars left by colonialism on the countries to which it latched itself. Ivan and Ivana are twins born in Guadeloupe, a French overseas department. They grow up with intense and passionate feelings for each other. As they grow up and move overseas, the ravages of a post-colonial society drive them apart with tragic consequences.|isbn=1642860697}} =='''24 MAY'''== {{Frontpage|isbn=B083Z3ZZ61|title=Broken Silence (DS Nikki Parekh 2)|author=Liz Mistry|rating=4

|summary=When we first meet him Stefan Marcovici has been in During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the UK with his daughter Maria for edge of a whilereservoir. He came expecting The police seem happy to work assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a gardener fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and Maria was , seemingly, a link to be a nannydeath during the Second World War. Stefan ends up doing slave labour in But is there really a chicken factory: you can imagine what happens link between the deaths? And will they manage to an eighteen-year-old girl.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

=='''28 MAY6 JUNE'''==

|isbnauthor=0008273790Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Remain Silent|author=Susie SteinerDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=When we first meet Matis and DimitriMeet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, Matis he is in an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-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, vomiting and obviously traumatised. When Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's able to speak he tells Dimitri seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that ''Lukas one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is dead''needed. Lukas was in Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his late teens world and stumbled into declaring he and Matis had come to Cambridgeshire from Klaipeda in Lithuania. They'd answered an advert offering good money and accommodation in return for their labour: they could have ll enter as a decent life ''and'' send money home to their familiesteam. SadlyWhat chance does this friendless, it doesn't work out like that. When they arrive in the UK muscle- on an old, uncomfortable bus, free- they're dropped at a filthy house where several men zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to share rooms and sleep on dirty mattresses on the floor. It's modern slavery, which isn't uncommon amongst agricultural workers.succeed?|isbn=1839945184

=='''29 MAY13 JUNE'''==

|isbn=B07S6DBCFT1635866847|title=Little Girls Tell Tales|author=Rachel Bennett|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=In 2004 Rosalie, Beth and Dallin were walking in the boggy wetlands by Rosalie and Dallin's cottage. Beth and Dallin, both twelve-years-old, got ahead of ten-year-old Rosalie and it wasn't long before she realised that she was lost. Trying to find her way back to the main path she found a skeleton, but when she finally got to the road she could never find her way back to the bog when she'd seen the body. Most people didn't believe her, putting the story down to her vivid imagination.}}=='''2 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0727889230|title=The Red, Red Snow|author=Caro Ramsay|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=In Glasgow, Eric Callaghan of Inkermann Tattoo Parlour had been to the ice show with his wife, Geraldine and daughter, Lisa when he was stabbed in Planet Burger. He died within minutes, but his murder seemed motiveless and there were no clues. He was a genuine man and a talented artist: those investigating his death had hit a dead end. There were two deaths to investigate in the north of Scotland: it wasn't thought wise to involve the local murder team as someone on the Glen Riske police force was indirectly involved in the case. Christmas - and a lot of snow were rapidly approaching.}} =='''16 JUNE'''== {{Frontpage|author= Ashley Poston|title= Bookish and the Beast|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary= Set after the ExcelsiCon, we are introduced to Rosie Thorne, a Small Town, USA girl who has recently lost her mother and is entering her final year of high school. Things keep piling up for Rosie, and when she follows a stray dog into what she thinks is an abandoned castle in her town, things just get worse. Rosie accidentally destroys a rare book and with her mother's hospital and funeral costs she has no money to cover the damage. She finds herself working for Vance Reigns, Hollywood royalty on a paparazzi escape, to repay the debt.  For most Starfield superfans this would be a dream but Rosie soon realises Vance is a jerk - and he isn't too fond of her either. However, as the two are forced to get to know each other, their guards begin to lower and they discover that maybe this situation might not be so terrible after all. |isbn=1683691938}} =='''18 JUNE'''== {{Frontpage|author= Ukamaka Olisakwe|title= Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= The new novel by Ukamaka Olisakwe is a look at the trauma and heartache of being a woman in 1980s Nigeria. The title is ''Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right''. Ogadinma is the eponymous heroine of the story. We are with her in every scene and it is her narrative voice that leads the story, although Olisakwe writes in the third person. This provides a sense of detachment for the reader and highlights the isolation of Ogadinma. She is exiled from her father's home and sent to Lagos where she is married to an older man named Tobe. Their marriage descends into violence and indignities and Ogadinma must utilise her resourcefulness to escape.|isbn=1911648160}} =='''9 JULY'''== {{FrontpageLavender Companion|author= Helly Acton|title= The Shelf|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= When we meet Amy, she's in a relationship with Jamie. You can't really call it a partnership, because things tend to get done on his terms, but she's sticking around because she hopes she can change him. Ah, yes. Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to pack for a surprise trip. Could this be it? Is he ''finally'' going to get down on one knee? Was the work (Jessica Dunham and the wait) worth it?|isbn=1838770879}}{{Frontpage|author=Kat Ellis|title=Harrow LakeTerry Barlin Vesci

|genre=TeensLifestyle|summary=When we first meet 17-year-old LolaIt's strange, daughter to legendary horror movie director Nolan Nox, she the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is saying goodbye to New York City - by sneaking out and stealing from its residentsthe book for you. But when she is found by her father Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's assistant [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and forced to come home, she arrives to find an unlocked door, there's a picture of a trail slice of blood, and her father dying in his study. And so, while he recovers, she is sent off to live with her grandmother in Harrow Lake, chocolate cake on the small 1920s town in Indiana that served as the location for the film that made her parents famoushomepage. But something about this place isn I don't righteat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a darkness inside recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the people here. Secrets about her mother book and dark tales I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the town's cannibal monster 'Mister Jitters' fill every corner, and disturbing happenings plague Lolamargins are sanctioned. But with every passing hour, secrets long buried come painfully You get to light and she begins to think fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that these stories may smears of butter would not be stories at all, and something very real and sinister lurks in Harrow Lakea problem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=0241397049

=='''20 AUGUST4 JULY'''== 

|author=Jacqueline WilsonMax Boucherat|title=Love FrankieThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= Frankie is nearly fourteen. Being nearly fourteen is not easy when your mum has been diagnosed with MS when your dad has decided We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to leave her for another womanpop in, babysitter poorly, when your older sister has turned into the girliest girl who ever livedmother at work, andjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, above all when Sally and on her mates are bullying you at schoollonesome. Oh What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and when Samthat is to log on to Voxminer, your best friend since foreverthe world-building, suddenly starts sending out signs critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that he might fancy you - and you donthis stormy night doesn't fancy him backfind herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. Poor Frankie! |isbn= 0857535897 }}{{Frontpage|author= Adrian Tchaikovsky|title= The Doors For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of Eden|rating= 4tampering.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= Wow – this novel is gigantic When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in every sense of the word. "Epic" game has been doctored – well, where is a word that's thrown around a lot these days, but if a book ever earned the name it's this one. It's a doorstopper full of big ideas, and at times it almost felt too big for my brain.girl to turn?|isbn=15098658880008666482