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=='''27 APRIL23 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=0753558378Onyi Nwabineli|title=Effortless: Make It Easier Allow Me to Do What Matters|author=Greg McKeownIntroduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=At not even 200 pages, Eve Out of Her Ruins is one of Anuri spent her childhood on display to the shortest books I've read in a long whileworld, but itthanks to her step-mother Ophelia's one increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of the most dramatic. ItAnuri's also told in a way that I can only describe as brutal: it spares nothing childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and pulls very few punches, the descriptions stark and unromantic.|isbn=0993009344}} =='''3 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1635862353|title=The Sandalmaking Workshop|author=Rachel Corry|rating=4.5|genre=Crafts|summary=A sandal-making workshop? I couldn't really believe itbasically, mainly because I'd always thought that you'd need more equipment than the average home was likely to be able to contain but I was intriguedmonetary gain. Rachel Corry started sandal making accidentally - a small fire destroyed some of Now Anuri is in her shoes. One pair had come apart twenties and she could see how is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the sandal was constructedcontent about her. Then she realised that she couldn't afford Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to replace all start her shoes. Could she combine these two facts to create a new PhD, undergoing therapy and worthwhile craft? She showed quite a few secretly abusing people her first pair online and they all either wanted to know how to do it - or if she'd make receiving money from them a pairfor doing so. A Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new career was bornfocus 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
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=='''6 30 MAY'''==
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|authorisbn=Daniel Gibbs with Teresa H BarkerB0CYV674G2|title=A Tattoo on my BrainSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=DI Adam FawleyIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's team got been stabbed to Edith Launceleve College firstdeath. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, called there by Jancis Appleby to see which coincided with the Principal, Professor Hilary Reynolds. There had been an accusation birth of sexual assault by a professor on a studenthis daughter Samantha. When Fawley arrived You would think he was almost cross: what was the alleged perpetrator doing in the room before they'd even got be grateful for an easy answer but the details from the victim? The problem was that Caleb Morgan words 'perverse'was'' the and 'victimJohn Tanner' and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fisherwere made for each other. Just to complicate matters further, CalebHe's mother is Petra Newson, the local MP, and Professor Fisher is a big name is Artificial Intelligence. She has an eightsleep-year-old son, buys her wine by deprived to the case from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more than £1000 a month on clothes and has more than ten thousand Twitter followers. When the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, this is point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going to be ''very'- probably because he can' publict get any sleep at home.
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=='''11 MAY4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=1523092734Stuart Douglas|title=A Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Again and again and again.'' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD) ''To claim space is to live the life of choosing unapologetically Lowe and bravely. It is to live the life you've always wanted.'' Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is much in the news, ''A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. Now Le Breton Mysteries - to be clear - this book is not a 'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's something far more effective, but discussion Death at the moment seems to be about how women can be ''protected''. I've always thought that women need to rise above this, to be people who don't need protection, people who claim their own space. If all women did this, those few men who are violent to women would realise that we are not just an easy target to be used to prove that they are big men.}}=='''13 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0008444501|title=The Answer to Everything|author=Luke Kennard|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Life should have been good for Emily. She had a lovely husband, Steven, who was a speech therapist. We'll pass over the fact that they rarely speak to each other and don't even sleep in the same bed. It isn't so much that Emily has left the marital bed as that she's sharing a bed with one of her children as it's the only way to get him to sleep during the night. Arthur and Matty are gorgeous but they are a handful and Emily has a job to cope with too - she teaches drama two days a week. They've not long moved into a new home in Criterion Gardens: it's a trendy area that has been gentrified and it's run on semi-communal lines. The residents even share eco-friendly electric cars rather than owning their own.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1788549759|title=The Distant Dead|author=Lesley ThomsonDress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was December 1940 and twenty-four-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out During location filming for the evening his 1970'with her friend Idas sitcom ' leaving her three-year-old son, William, at home with her parents. The boy thought that Maple was his sister - it was better for the family than the shame of illegitimacy, but Maple had high hopes of putting her life (Floggit and WilliamLeggit's) on a better footing. She was going to meet her well-to-do fiancé, hoping to persuade him to come and meet her family leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the following week. Later, her dead body would be found in the bombed-out home where he had taken her.}}=='''18 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1848458428|title=Local Woman Missing|author=Mary Kubica|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Eleven years ago, of a man regularly came home to his wife with lipstick marks woman on his collar and lame excuses as to why he was late - again. His wife was in the habit edge of going out for a run late at nightreservoir. It was the only time she had for herself when she didn't have The police seem happy to look after her baby - assign it as an accidental death, but when she was out she would meet up with a mansomething about the whole thing bothers Lowe, grateful for and he enlists the unquestioning affection he gave her. The locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappeared, seemingly without help of a tracefellow actor, leaving her husband John Le Breton to look after her disabled babyhelp him investigate matters further. Ten They travel across the country during their days lateroff filming, a local woman uncovering more possible murders and her six-year-old daughter disappeared. Meredith Dickey was , seemingly, a birth doula and she'd seemed link to be under some strain for death during the last couple of weeks or soSecond World War. Her body was eventually found in But is there really a seedy motel - it appeared that she'd committed suicide. link between the deaths? She left a note saying that her daughter, Delilah, was safe and there was no point in looking for her.And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''27 MAY6 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=walker14Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Coldest Case (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin WalkerDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Twitch Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a boy who loves birds. He keeps pigeons at hometeam of warrior, mage and chickenshealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and even has swallows nesting in his bedroom! His time spent watching race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and helping birds is easy compared to that of his time in schoolthe points they grant you along the way. But things are about to change Unfortunately for Twitch in all aspects Kit, the only thing he's seen of his life as there is a dangerous bank robber the latest race on the runinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and it's possible that the missing bank haul a new trio of questors is hidden somewhere in Aves Woodneeded. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the place where Twitch has token bully of his secret hide world and that stumbled into declaring he knows like the back of his hand! 'll enter as a team. Can Twitch solve the mysteryWhat chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and find the missing millionshow could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=14063893741839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Hannah Whitten1635866847|title=For the WolfThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyLifestyle|summary=In RedIt's familystrange, the first daughter becomes queenthings that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', and I visited the second daughter becomes a sacrificeauthor's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm. To Redcom/ website] and there's misfortune, she is a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the second daughterhomepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. Sent alone into (There's a recipe in the woods book, which I'm avoiding with nothing but some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the cape on her back, Red knows what book and I was told to expect: within the woods is make a wolf, and he is the one who will decide the fate mess of their kingdomit. If she is not a worthy sacrifice, Notes in the monsters he keeps contained margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the woods will be released, and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories gocorners of pages. But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, she finds You suspect that the legends are lies. The wolf is smears of butter would not be a monster—heproblem. I ''loved''s a manthis book already.|isbn=0356516369
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=='''10 JUNE4 JULY'''==
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|author=C J CareyMax Boucherat|title=Widowland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs The Last Life of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|isbn=152941198X}}{{Frontpage|author=Terry Miles|title=RabbitsLori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary=Welcome to We meet Lori on the world of The Game. Or should that be first evening she's got the game, for while it ought house to be capitalised herself – no neighbour to high heavenpop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, it never leaves lower case throughout this bookon her lonesome. It's also called Rabbits, although only as What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knowsblanket fort, it she has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structureone main intention, and that is to log on to the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game of life then. YesVoxminer, this is the game of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracyworld-building, the computer critter-collecting game, the hack from the darkest of webs. People like our hero, K, named like that is a hit in the least Kafkaesque manner possibleLori's world. K and his bezzies are trying to be historians of the game, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the lists of who But first Lori has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, and are still very short. However a tiny inkling that this time itstormy night doesn's different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethalt find herself entirely on her own, the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwisethen she finds something even more spooky. Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what For the game is doing, if it's even being played, server she and her bestie and how his loved ones might nobody else should be kept safeable to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, he is only to find out that the line between observing and learning about her safe place in the gamehas been doctored – well, and playing it, where is a very thin one indeed...girl to turn?|isbn=15290169320008666482
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|author=Louise BeechJenny Lecoat|title=This Is How We Are HumanBeyond Summerland
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Veronica is a devoted single Jean lives on Jersey with her mother to her sonwhere they are celebrating the end of the occupation. During the war, Sebastian - but she can't give him everything he wants. Sebastian has decided that itJean's time father was arrested for him to have sex. But as an autistic 20 year-old, that's easier said than done. And it's starting listening to cause them both problems. |isbn=1913193713}} =='''17 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|author=Joseph Knox|title=True Crime Story|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary= Joseph Knox, known for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waits, has created a new genre with his latest novelbanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, "True Crime Story". The story follows the disappearance of Zoe Nolan from leaving Jean and her university halls mother waiting for years for news of residencehim. Split into four parts, As the reader is taken through British finally free the life and disappearance of Zoe through Channel islands from the eyes of her twin sister, other familyNazis, friends and professionalsthe war is finally over, such as the policetheir hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. The various accounts help But will the reader get to know Zoetruth come as a relief, or at least will it raise further questions around what else happened during the Zoe she presented to others. However, war? Who was the informer who told the twists and turns at Nazis about the end of each chapter leave you shocked, confused and unsure of radio? And what is true or fabricated. Whose accounts can we trustother secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=08575277031846976537
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