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=='''21 JANUARY9 MAY'''==

|author=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)Tom Percival|title=Kokoschka's DollThe Wrong Shoes|rating=2.5|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=WellWill's life is difficult, this looked very much like in a book I could love from multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the get-gowrong shoes', which is why I picked my review copy up he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of it. I found things to potentially delight me each time – like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a weird section cash-in the middle -hand job on darker stock paper, a chapter whose number was in building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the 20,000s, letters used as narrative formfact that his mum and dad are separated, and so onWill's life seems bleak in every direction. It intrigued with the subterranean voice And yet, he still has a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew tiny amount of it mentioned, toohope. But you've seen He is good at art, and clings to the star rating that comes with this reviewmoments of joy when he is drawing, and can tell that if love was on these pagesfeel like a light at the end of a long, it was not actually caused by themdark tunnel. So what happened?|isbn=15294026971398527122

=='''26 JANUARY23 MAY'''==

|isbnauthor=1529124417Onyi Nwabineli|title=Before She Disappeared|author=Lisa GardnerAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Frankie Elkin found Lani WhitehorseAnuri 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 body childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her car at twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the bottom of the lakecontent about her. She knew that the twenty-two-year-old waitress wouldn't have left Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her three-year-old daughter PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and run awayreceiving money from them for doing so. Lani was the fourteenth missing person to be located by Frankie and now Most importantly, she's moving on againis desperately worried about her little sister, this time to Boston where therewho is the new focus of Ophelia's a strong Haitian community which was home to Angelique Lovelie Badeau until her disappearance eleven months agoonline empire. FrankieCan she save her sister, middle-aged and white, gets a job perhaps herself and accommodation her relationship with her father at Stoney's bar and sets out to investigate the community which is just about exclusively black.same time?|isbn=0861546873

=='''28 JANUARY4 JUNE'''==

|author=Rob KeeleyStuart Douglas|title=The Treasure in the Tower|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Rob Keeley is back! Hooray! We here Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at Bookbag Towers are always happy to read a new adventure from Rob - his stories combine fast pace and lots of action, an easy to read style, an unerring eye for children's friendships and rivalries, and always a good dollop of naughty humour. They're all present here, in ''The Treasure in the Tower''. The chance purchase of a book during a school trip sparks the whole adventure. Who can follow the clues best and find the treasure? Jess, her brother Mason and their friend Kessie through sheer persistence? Or spoiled brat Perdita with her money and tech gadgets and willingness to cheat?|isbn=1800461321}}=='''1 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=B08LKT7HSR|title=Murder in the Belltower (A Miss Underhay Mystery)|author=Helena DixonDress Rehearsal

|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=In December 1933 the remains of Elowed Underhay were discovered in the cellar of the Glass Bottle Public House. Ezekiel Hamett was sought in connection with the murder of Elowed and During location filming for his half-brother, Denzil Hammett, whose body was also discovered. Kitty Underhay1970's long search for her mothersitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', who disappeared in June 1916 was over. Now she's determined that the leading man responsible for her murder will be brought to justice.}} =='''2 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Anna Carey|title=This is Not Edward Lowe stumbles across the Jess Show|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Jess is dead body of a normal 90's teenage girl, just trying to navigate woman on the usual stresses edge of school, and boys, and parent troublesa reservoir. But strange things The police seem happy to be happening in her small town, with a mystery flu keeping lots of people indoors, and a strange metal device, with assign it as an apple on it, that slips out of her friend's bagaccidental death, but that her friends just won't talk to her something about. Jess feels like she might be hearing voicesthe whole thing bothers Lowe, and her sister (who is very ill) seems to be responding to her in strange ways sometimes. Is there something going on beneath he enlists the surface help of Jess' life?|isbn=1683691970}}=='''4 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1529378648|title=Slough House (Jackson Lamb 7)|author=Mick Herron|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Someone is killing secret service agentsa fellow actor, past and present, from the Slough House teamJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Jackson Lamb can't understand it. WellThey travel across the country during their days off filming, what he actually can't understand is whyuncovering more possible murders and, having seen themseemingly, anyone would bothera link to death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths are mounting up and something needs to be done. ? After all ''when things went awry on Spook Street, And will they generally went the full Chris Grayling.'' Over at Regent's Park, Diana Taverner manage to uncover who is quietly jubilant about an operation which saw the perpetrator of a Novichok poisoning in the UK (three responsible before more people seriously injured and one dead) dispatched. It isn't just the message that was sent: she's also delighted that she managed to fund the operation off the books. Some private money was brought in. She won't always be so jubilant about this.lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

|isbnauthor=0008379300Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Shadow Man|author=Helen FieldsDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Fergus Ariss is Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his late thirties and he knows that world, it seems, he's dying. His body is giving up on himan avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, his internal organs beginning and race to putrify but before he dies he wants a wifethe exit, a child perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and a brotherthe points they grant you along the way. He's been on the lookout Unfortunately for Kit, the perfect people and only thing he's made certain preparations. The flat where seen of the latest race on the family will live inn TV equivalent is prepared and even windows with curtains, and pictures in frames have that one team has been painted onto the walls. Angela Fernycroft was to be his wife. Her husbandretired, Caleaten, had taken the children - a boy of seven and a girl new trio of five, away for the weekendquestors is needed. UnfortunatelyPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, it doesn't go according he has taken to plan and Angela dies.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178089905X|title=Serpentine|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It wasn't exactly the case Lt Milo Sturgis had been dreaming about: a death goading from thirty-six years ago and the daughter token bully of the woman who died wanted some answers. She had money his world and money translated stumbled into clout and so the problem was dropped onto Milodeclaring he's toesll enter as a team. Dorothy Swoboda was twentyWhat chance does this friendless, muscle-four years old when she died free-zone have in a car which went off a cliff on Mulholland Drive and burst into flames. It turned out actually managing that she wasn't actually married to the man with whom she'd left her daughter but Dr Stanley R Barker, optometrist, was a good man and how could he took out adoption papers for Ellie - and she took his name. Ellie was three when her mother left her with Dr Barker and she has nothing of her but one photograph of her mother and father and a necklace made of serpentine.possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184

|isbn=14711913031635866847|title=The InvisibleLavender Companion|author=Tom Percival|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=This is the story of Isobel, a little girl who made a big difference. Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on: ''Ice curled across the inside of the window and crept up the corner of the bedpost.'' The family didn't go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy. Then the day came when they couldn't afford the rent for the house and they had to move to the far side of the city. This part of the city was cold, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.}}{{Frontpage|author=Helen Fisher|title=Space Hopper|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Faye lost her mum when she was very young. She was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from a cold that got worse, Jessica Dunham and although they were kind and very good to her she of course missed her mum enormously. So when, unexpectedly, she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) that takes her back to the 70's and her mum, she revels in the chance to create some memories and get to know the woman who meant so much to her. The time travelling, however, is neither easy nor safe, and Faye fears that her husband won't believe what's happening and so lies to him instead. The lies grow more tangled, and Faye begins to wonder if it's safe for her to return one last time to the past. Should she try to see her mum one last time before her mum's death, or will it change her own future forever to attempt it?|isbn=1471188663}} =='''18 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Hannah Gold|title=The Last BearTerry Barlin Vesci

|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=AprilIt's fatherstrange, a scientist, has been given a job on a remote island called Bear Island, and he accepts the job deciding to take his daughter April with himthings that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. They live alone anywayBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', since AprilI visited the author's mother died some time before, [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and he feels it will be educational for her to experience there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the island homepage. I don't eat cakes and all its natural beautydesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. April already has an affinity with nature(There's a recipe in the book, and shewhich I's excited to travel m avoiding with her father, thinking of all some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the fun things they will be able book and I was told to experience together on make a mess of it. Notes in the islandmargins are sanctioned. But when they You get there, her father finds that his work monitoring and recording to fold down the temperatures just takes up too much corners of his time, and so April is left to explore by herselfpages. Her father had reassured her You suspect that there were no longer any bears living on Bear Island, but one day April thinks she catches smears of butter would not be a glimpse of one, and so she sets out to find the Bear, and then when she sees he is injured, to befriend and help himproblem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=000841128X

=='''4 MARCHJULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Saima Mir|title=The Khan|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by the motto be twice as good as men and four times as good as white men. This has served her well in her rise through the criminal justice system and by the time she is called home for her sister's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exile, she is at the top of her game. Returning to the city of her birth, to old scars and fresh wounds, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for the future with her sense of honour and duty.|isbn=1786079097}}

|author=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)Max Boucherat|title=If You Kept a Record The Last Life of SinsLori Mills

|summary=Meet Stella and her family. TheyWe meet Lori on the first evening she're just innocently trying s got the house to have a Sunday evening in together, watching a film herself – using three different screens no neighbour to watch three different thingspop in, mind – when ''poof'' everything goes blank. And it's not just their homebabysitter poorly, but the entire south-western village of Mouseholemother at work, and not just that, either, but the whole countryan avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, if not world. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping they're first to get a screen back, and not what they were constantly doing on them beforeher lonesome. Toasters can toast, but TVs cannot do the V part of their job, and no computer can show its computations. What could possibly go wrong? You might think this is going to be a social comedy about people stuck Snuggled in such a Luddite experience against their willblanket fort, but no. For the family finally remember Stella's grandmashe has one main intention, and see if they can get across country that is to her. Hence this has log on to go down as a road-trip book. But not just thatVoxminer, a slapstick roadthe world-trip comedy. And more than thatbuilding, too – for it's a slapstick, highcritter-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart collecting game that kids of all ages will love.|isbn=1471196887}} =='''23 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Other Emily|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Our hero David Thorne is an author, who shares his life between the two US coasts. Ita hit in Lori's the western coast we're concerned with, a place he has to return to, and a place he has to be able to leaveworld. David lost contact with his partner there ten years ago, when she vanished from But first Lori has a remote road late at tiny inkling that this stormy night. Hedoesn's paying for contact with the man he thinks the only suspect, a lifer now, who went a bit Hannibal Lectert find herself entirely on her own, and has a dozen and then she finds something even more unfound Jane Does on his recordspooky. David is trying to pry For the connection between the murderer server she and her bestie and his girl from the man's mind, but nobody else should be able to no avail. He's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting image, the very embodiment, the virtual resurrection, enter shows signs of his love. What is a man to do?|isbn=1542019958}} =='''1 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Remy is feeling miserabletampering. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling him names because he is short and has small When malevolent eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to wind spark up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the other kids are around. Soon her phone screen, when Remy reacts, it looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened.}}{{Frontpage|author=Ruth Hogan|title=Madame Burova|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life her safe place in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have game has been called then)doctored – well, where is a girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to use her family's sea-front booth. The singer, the scryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stall. We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is she, and who delivered the secrets about her to Imelda, and why did it have to remain a secret all this timeturn?|isbn=152937331X0008666482