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=='''12 JANUARY9 MAY'''==

|isbnauthor=178563335XTom Percival|title=Sea Defences|author=Hilary TaylorThe Wrong Shoes

|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=When we first meet Rachel Bird sheWill's a trainee vicarlife is difficult, sitting in on a PCC meeting multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and wondering why theydoesn're held when you need to pick t have enough money for even the children up. Her husbandmost basic of things like food, Christopherand his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, collects sixwas working a cash-yearin-old Hannah hand job on a building site and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishionerhad an accident. ThelmaThrow into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's daughter-life seems bleak in-law won't let her see her grandsonevery direction. Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coastAnd yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is a lovely placegood at art, but Rachel is struggling and clings to develop a real bond with the parish - and she's in awe moments of the vicar, Gailjoy when he is drawing, but then she's been doing the job for more than thirty years. Rachel and Christopher hoped that feel like a walk on light at the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missingend of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

=='''19 JANUARY23 MAY'''==

|isbnauthor=1848458436Onyi Nwabineli|title=Just the Nicest Couple|author=Mary KubicaAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=''The whole thing has spiralled out of control, turning into someone I'm not.''  ''Just the Nicest Couple'' is the story of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and Nina and Jake Hayes. The connection between the two is that Lily and Nina teach in the same school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebra. The couples have mixed as a foursome but it's not a regular thing. Christian is a market research analyst and Jake is a neurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except their wives. Lily hasn't said anything yet, but she's pregnant. She has a lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to tempt fate by making the knowledge public.}}{{Frontpage|author=Heather Fawcett|title=Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries|rating=45

|summary=Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar Anuri spent her childhood on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulouslydisplay to the world, thanks to write her lifestep-mother Ophelia's workincreasingly popular presence on social media, the very first encyclopaedia where she posted every step of faeriesAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Whilst Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is brilliant at research slowly trying to regain her confidence and speaking to faeriesget her life back, she is not so good with peoplesuing her step-mother to take down the content about her. So when she finds herself far, far North in the small village of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she Anuri is not sure what she has donebattling alcoholism, nor how failing to redeem herself start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and put her final investigations receiving money from them for her book back on the right trackdoing so. Enter Wendell BamblebyMost importantly, she is desperately worried about her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival little sister, who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emilyis the new focus of Ophelia's frustrationonline empire. But why is he here? What does he want? And what exactly is going on Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the faerie folk around Hravsniksame time?|isbn=03565191200861546873

|author=Joe ThomasStuart Douglas|title=White Riot|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary= Whenever anyone writes fiction about politics there's always the danger of making it too reactionary; too raw. KneeLowe and Le Breton Mysteries -jerk observations and hot takes that don't age well or properly capture the spirit of the moment. It takes a truly talented writer to be able to capture the zeitgeist of a particular event or era of political history. Austerity Britain, the student riots, Donald Trump, Brexit – so much of what is, and has been, written in Death at the immediate aftermath of these phenomena has been proven by time to be frothy and insubstantial and ultimately not particularly powerful or incisive. Inevitably (and perhaps disappointingly for people who do enjoy fiction of this nature), the best writing about current political events is that which is written when the events in question are no longer current and when time and experience has afforded the writer the benefit of a more objective view.|isbn= 1529423376}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529421241|title=Stay Buried|author=Kate WebbDress Rehearsal|rating=3.5

|summary=DI Matt Lockyer is on Major Crime Review which sounds quite grand until you realise that itDuring location filming for his 1970's actually a cold case unit sitcom 'Floggit and there are just two Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of them doing a woman on the jobedge of a reservoir. Lockyer's not unduly worriedThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, though although and he's not quite so sure about DC Gemma Broad: she's probably capable enlists the help of something bettera fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. It was a bit of a shock when he got They travel across the phone call from Hedy Lambert: she's in H M Prison Eastwood Park for murder - country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and it was Lockyer who put her there, fourteen years agoseemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. She's keen to see him and to tell him that But is there really a link between the man everyone thought she'd murdered - but the body turned out deaths? And will they manage to be someone else - has returned home after being away for decades.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

=='''23 JANUARY6 JUNE'''==

|author=Jeremy Dronfield Kieran Larwood and David Ziggy GreeneJoe Todd-Stanton|title=Fritz and KurtDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=We start with Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the pair sport where a team of brothers Fritz warrior, mage and Kurthealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want race to do – kicking things around the empty market placeexit, helping perhaps bothering with the neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to treasure or the synagogue choir big bad and at a vocational schoolthe points they grant you along the way. Kurt has to make sure Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the lamps are turned latest race on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and workmanlike as a light switchnew trio of questors is needed. But this is Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the time just before goading from the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitlertoken bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he's will, and instead of having ll enter as a national vote to keep the Nazis out, invite them in with open armsteam. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in GermanyWhat chance does this friendless, as did all the roundmuscle-free-ups of Jews. These zone have in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each otheractually managing that, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=024156574X1839945184

=='''2 FEBRUARY13 JUNE'''==

|authorisbn=Lucy Ashe1635866847|title=Clara The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and OliviaTerry Barlin Vesci

|genre=General FictionLifestyle|summary=The year It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is 1933the book for you. Before I started reading ''The place? SadlerLavender Companion''s Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but not, we learn, on I visited the insideauthor's [https://www. And not on stage, eitherpinelavenderfarm. Because com/ website] and there's a lot that builds picture of a dancerslice of chocolate cake on the homepage. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – I don't eat cakes and some things, desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There''je ne sais quoi''s a recipe in the book, that donwhich I't come from m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the classroomcorners of pages. A stage presence, a charm, You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''joie de vivreloved''this book already. The difference between a hard-worker, and a star.|isbn=0861544080

 =='''16 FEBRUARY4 JULY'''==

|author=Robin Birch and Jobe AndersonMax Boucherat|title=Secret Beast Club: The Unicorns Last Life of Silver StreetLori Mills|rating=4.5

|summary=Jayden's nose is forever in a book, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns of the world, for example. Aisha is addicted to her new tablet, where she can see videos of anything that might be out there. The problem, as their mothers see it, is that they are never 'out there' themselves, exploring the outside world of Hackney, London. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a science-minded, educational purpose, and with a past involving Jayden's cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existed. For many of those mythological creatures are real, including We meet Lori on the one Aisha thinks first evening she's seen on a bit of local footage. The crew of got the boat, including a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters house to herself – and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed no neighbour to join pop in. Dare they side with Leila, the woman on boardbabysitter poorly, and her relative who lives as a figure in a paintingmother at work, and become saviours of the unseen?|isbn=0241573483}} =='''30 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Julia Bartz|title=The Writing Retreat|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary= Roza Vallo. Anyone in the world of publishing knows the name. Writers want to be her, agents want to represent her. She's something of a legend with just an impressive, if compact, back catalogue of works that started with her breakthrough novel, published when she was barely out of childhood. Alex, a writeravidly rule-slash-editorbreaking eleven year old, is more than a little obsessed with Roza, and is stunned when, following a series of unexpected events, she is invited to be part of on her month-long writers' retreatlonesome.|isbn=0861544439}}{{Frontpage|author=Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Different for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens |summary=Ant is What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in Year Eleven at quite a standard schoolblanket fort, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) she has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football teammain intention, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back that is to log on to primary school days together. As they're all fired upVoxminer, straining at the leash only a singleworld-sex school can formbuilding, the talk critter-collecting game that is a hit in class and out often turns to sexLori's world. Which is confusing for Ant, as he But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months nowfind herself entirely on her own, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be surethen she finds something even more spooky. And that's mostly because of who he's been having For the relationship server she and the sex with.|isbn=1529509491}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0857051741|title=The Sins of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson Investigation|author= Asa Larsson her bestie and Frank Perry (Translator)|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks to live but he's determined that Rebecka Martinsson is going nobody else should be able to investigate the case of a body found in a freezer at the home enter shows signs of a deceased alcoholictampering. The problem is that the case has long passed the statute of limitations. Raimo Koskela disappeared without a trace in 1962. He was the father of Olympic boxing champion Borje Strom. Rebecka wants nothing to do with a fifty-year-old case When malevolent eyes spark up on which she can take no action: the problem is that this is a dying man's wish. The situation changes when a post-mortem establishes that Henry Pekkariher phone screen, and her safe place in the dead alcoholicgame has been doctored – well, was also murdered. Is there where is a connection between the two deathsgirl to turn?|isbn=0008666482