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=='''19 JANUARY9 MAY'''==

|author=Heather FawcettTom Percival|title=Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of FaeriesThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Emily Wilde is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensively, and researched meticulously, to write her lifeWill's worklife is difficult, the very first encyclopaedia in a multitude of faeriesways. Whilst she He is brilliant at research bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with people. So when she finds herself far, far North in doesn't have enough money for even the small village most basic of Hrafvsnikthings like food, having somehow offended and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the village matriarchcollege, she is not sure what she has done, nor how to redeem herself was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and put her final investigations for her book back on the right trackhad an accident. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedlydad are separated, all charm and delight, much to EmilyWill's frustrationlife seems bleak in every direction. But why is And yet, he here? still has a tiny amount of hope. What does He is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he want? And what exactly is going on with drawing, that feel like a light at the faerie folk around Hravsnik?end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=03565191201398527122

|author=Joe ThomasOnyi Nwabineli|title=White RiotAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary= Whenever anyone writes fiction about politics thereAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's always the danger increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of making it too reactionary; too rawAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Knee-jerk observations Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence 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 get her life back, suing her step-mother to capture take down the zeitgeist of a particular event or era of political historycontent about her. Austerity Britain, the student riots, Donald Trump, Brexit – so much of what Anuri isbattling alcoholism, and has beenfailing to start her PhD, written in the immediate aftermath of these phenomena has been proven by time to be frothy undergoing therapy and insubstantial secretly abusing people online and ultimately not particularly powerful or incisivereceiving money from them for doing so. Inevitably (and perhaps disappointingly for people who do enjoy fiction of this nature) Most importantly, the best writing she is desperately worried about current political events her little sister, who is that which is written when the events in question are no longer current new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and when time perhaps herself and experience has afforded her relationship with her father at the writer the benefit of a more objective view.same time?|isbn= 15294233760861546873

|isbnauthor=057137493XStuart Douglas|title=The Other Half|author=Charlotte VassellLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5

|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'The room was full of the sort of people ''Tatler'' thinks you should know.'' ''The Other Half'' is the story of two men, both with what looks like the same surname. Rupert Beauchamp is the heir to a baronetcy Floggit and his thirtieth birthday party is a catered-with-butler event at McDonalds in Camden Town. Think Bollinger and cocaine. His surname is pronounced 'BeechamLeggit'. Caius Beauchamp is a detective inspector with the Metropolitan police and is bi-racial. His surname is pronounced as you see it. The two encounter each other when Caius, out for a run, leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of Clemmie O'Hara, Rupert's girlfriend. Rupert thought that she was being deliberately late for his party. She was dead under a bush.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529421241|title=Stay Buried|author=Kate Webb|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=DI Matt Lockyer is woman on Major Crime Review which sounds quite grand until you realise that it's actually the edge of a cold case unit and there are just two of them doing the jobreservoir. 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