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=='''6 23 MAY'''==

|author=Daniel Gibbs with Teresa H BarkerOnyi Nwabineli|title=A Tattoo on my Brain|rating=3.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Alzheimer's is a disease that slowly wears away your identity and sense of self. I have been directly affected by this cruel disease, as have many. Your memories and personality worn away like a statue over time affected the elements. It seems as if nature wants that final victory over you and your dignity. This is what makes Daniel Gibbs' memoir so admirable. Daniel Gibbs is a neurologist who was diagnosed with Alzheimers and has documented his journey in ''A Tattoo on my Brain''.|isbn=1108838936}}=='''7 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0241985137|title=The Whole Truth (D I Fawley)|author=Cara Hunter|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=DI Adam Fawley's team got to Edith Launceleve College first, called there by Jancis Appleby to see the Principal, Professor Hilary Reynolds. There had been an accusation of sexual assault by a professor on a student. When Fawley arrived he was almost cross: what was the alleged perpetrator doing in the room before they'd even got the details from the victim? The problem was that Caleb Morgan ''was'' the 'victim' and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fisher. Just to complicate matters further, Caleb's mother is Petra Newson, the local MP, and Professor Fisher is a big name is Artificial Intelligence. She has an eight-year-old son, buys her wine by 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 going to be ''very'' public.}}=='''11 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1523092734|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 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 - 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 at the moment seems Allow Me 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=1529407249|title=The Perfect Lie|author=Jo SpainIntroduce Myself

|summary=Life should have been good Anuri 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 childhood for Emily. She had a lovely husbandsponsorships and influencer deals and, Stevenbasically, who was a speech therapistmonetary gain. We'll pass over the fact that they rarely speak to each other Now Anuri is in her twenties 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 is slowly trying to regain her children as it's the only way confidence and to get him her life back, suing her step-mother to sleep during take down the nightcontent about her. Arthur Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and Matty are gorgeous but they are a handful secretly abusing people online and Emily has a job to cope with too - she teaches drama two days a weekreceiving money from them for doing so. They've not long moved into a Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new home in Criterion Gardens: itfocus of Ophelia's a trendy area that has been gentrified and it's run on semi-communal linesonline empire. The residents even share eco-friendly electric cars rather than owning their own.Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873

|isbn=1788549759B0CYV674G2|title=The Distant DeadSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Lesley ThomsonDavid Blake|rating=43.5

|summary=It was December 1940 seemed like an open-and twenty-fourshut case. A man, covered in mud and blood -year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out for and carrying a knife, comes into the evening police station shouting that he hasn'with her friend Idat killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he' leaving her three-year-old sons been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, William, at home which coincided with her parentsthe birth of his daughter Samantha. The boy thought that Maple was his sister - it was better You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the family than words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the shame point of illegitimacy, falling asleep at work but Maple had high hopes of putting her life (and Williamhe's) on a better footing. She was determined to keep going to meet her well-to-do fiancé, hoping to persuade him to come and meet her family the following week. Later, her body would be found in the bombed-out probably because he can't get any sleep at home where he had taken her.

=='''18 MAY4 JUNE'''==

|isbnauthor=1848458428Stuart Douglas|title=Local Woman Missing|author=Mary Kubica|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Eleven years ago, a man regularly came home to his wife with lipstick marks on his collar Lowe and lame excuses as to why he was late Le Breton Mysteries - again. His wife was in the habit of going out for a run late Death at night. It was the only time she had for herself when she didn't have to look after her baby - but when she was out she would meet up with a man, grateful for the unquestioning affection he gave her. The locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappeared, seemingly without a trace, leaving her husband to look after her disabled baby. Ten days later, a local woman and her six-year-old daughter disappeared. Meredith Dickey was a birth doula and she'd seemed to be under some strain for the last couple of weeks or so. Her body was eventually found in a seedy motel - it appeared that she'd committed suicide. She left a note saying that her daughter, Delilah, was safe and there was no point in looking for her.}}=='''27 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0008395594|title=Both of You|author=Adele Parks|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=You could be forgiven for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adores. Then, one Monday, she went to work and never came home. Mark, Oli and Seb are shattered. Well, Mark and Seb are but Oli's sixteen and at the stage where he thinks boredom is his best look. He's been a bit off with Leigh for a while but she put it down to him growing up and starting to become independent. Seb's only twelve and Leigh's absence hits him hard. Then Daan Janssen, a wealthy Dutch businessman, reports his wife, Kai missing. She too has vanished without trace.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1473685745|title=Unbreak Your Heart|author=Katie Marsh|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and Beth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked Simon's son, Jake, off his bike. He wasn't hurt but Jake has history. He has HLHS - that's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. When he was born, the left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was a few days old. So, Simon has every right to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=walker14|title=The Coldest Case (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin WalkerDress Rehearsal|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes' work in the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies that chief of police Bruno Courreges had the idea which he thought might help his boss, chief of detectives Jalipeau, known as J-J, to solve a case that had haunted him for thirty years3. The body of a young male was found in the woods but he was never identified and his killer never brought to justice. What if an artist could recreate the face from the skull and the resulting publicity be used to identify the young man? J-J calls the skull 'Oscar' and has a picture on his door: he sees it every time he leaves his office: he doesn't want to forget Oscar until his killer has been brought to justice.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008404925|title=The Killing Kind|author=Jane Casey|rating=5

|summary=Difficult clients were nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of a surprise. After all, it was her cross-examination of the During location filming for his 1970'victims sitcom ' which saved him from a lengthy prison sentence. HeFloggit and Leggit'd been accused , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of stalking the a woman but it didn't take long to establish that - if anything - it was on the other way aroundedge of a reservoir. Soon Ingrid never seemed The police seem happy to be free of John Webster and then she came to see him assign it as a threat and was forced to remember that the police officer at his trial had told her that this was the best chance they'd had to put Webster away for a long time: he was a very dangerous man.}}{{Frontpage|author= Adrian Tchaikovsky|title= Shards of Earth|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the moon-sized aliens known as the Architects. Humanity is scatteredaccidental death, constantly fleeing as world after world falls to but something about the architect's reshaping. Thenwhole thing bothers Lowe, just when they had and he enlists the human race on the runhelp of a fellow actor, the Architects vanishedJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. And so, the memories of They travel across the war fadescountry during their days off filming, heroes are forgottenuncovering more possible murders and, and humanity begins to fracture and fight among themselves. Idris Telemmierseemingly, a man genetically engineered link to try and communicate with death during the Architects, does not want to be rememberedSecond World War. But, when he and the crew of the salvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust back into there really a link between the spotlight. As he and his allies bounce from star system deaths? And will they manage to star system, chased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police and rich slavers, he slowly begins to realise that the real war uncover who is only just getting started…responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=15290518861803368209

 =='''3 6 JUNE'''==

|isbnauthor=0241400120Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Girl Who Died|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Victoria CribbDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=Twitch is a boy who loves birdsMeet Kit. He keeps pigeons at home, and chickens, and even has swallows nesting in his bedroom! His time spent watching and helping birds is easy compared to that Like most of his time the people in school. But things are about to change for Twitch in all aspects of his life as there is a dangerous bank robber on the runworld, and it's possible that the missing bank haul seems, he is hidden somewhere in Aves Wood, an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the place sport where Twitch has his secret hide and that he knows like the back a team of his hand! Can Twitch solve the mysterywarrior, mage and find the missing millions?|isbn=1406389374}}{{Frontpage|author=Hannah Whitten|title=For the Wolf|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=In Red's familyhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, the first daughter becomes queenmagical mazes, and race to the second daughter becomes a sacrifice. To Red's misfortuneexit, she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods perhaps bothering with nothing but the cape on her back, Red knows what to expect: within treasure or the woods is a wolf, big bad and he is the one who will decide points they grant you along the fate of their kingdomway. If she is not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be released Unfortunately for Kit, and the fabled kings only thing he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, she finds that the legends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a man.|isbn=0356516369}} =='''10 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|author=C J Carey|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 seen of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to latest race on the throne of Edward VIII with his wifeinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know iteaten, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough new trio of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''questors is needed. But this is most certainly a different Britain, Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purposeKit, he has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs taken to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to goading from the childless, the husbandless token bully of his world and the widowsstumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in What chance does this puritanical existencefriendless, 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 bannedmuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, 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 of female protest come how could he possibly hope to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.succeed?|isbn=152941198X1839945184

|authorisbn=Terry Miles1635866847|title=RabbitsThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=Science FictionLifestyle|summary=Welcome to the world of The Game. Or should that be the game, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. It's also called Rabbitsstrange, although only as a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and to the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game of life then. Yes, things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the game of life book for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of websyou. People like our hero, K Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', named like that in I visited the least Kafkaesque manner possible. 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 has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, and are still very short. However this time itauthor's different[https://www. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it's ever been – morally pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the game is doing, if itthere's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only to find out that the line between observing and learning about a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed..homepage.|isbn=1529016932}}{{Frontpage|author=Louise Beech|title=This Is How We Are Human|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Veronica is a devoted single mother to her son, Sebastian - but she can I don't give him everything he wants. Sebastian has decided that it's time for him to have sex. But as an autistic 20 yeareat cakes and desserts -old, but I wanted that's easier said than donecake viscerally. And it (There's starting 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 novel, "True Crime Story". The story follows recipe in the disappearance of Zoe Nolan from her university halls of residence. Split into four partsbook, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the reader is taken through the life book and disappearance I was told to make a mess of Zoe through it. Notes in the eyes of her twin sister, other family, friends and professionals, such as the policemargins are sanctioned. The various accounts help the reader You get to know Zoe, or at least fold down the Zoe she presented to otherscorners of pages. However, the twists and turns at the end You suspect that smears of each chapter leave you shocked, confused and unsure of what is true or fabricatedbutter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=0857527703

=='''24 JUNE4 JULY'''==

|author=Catherine SteadmanMax Boucherat|title=The Disappearing ActLast Life of Lori Mills

|summary=Meet Kate, although I got We meet Lori on the impression first evening she'd rather be a Catherine s got the house to herself – and one specific Catherine no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at that. For Catherine Rodriguez is Kate's idolwork, and the author of our heroine's favourite possessionjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, ''The Special Correspondent Manual''on her lonesome. Armed with What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a plucky fatherblanket fort, that bookshe has one main intention, and her talking mouse called Rupert, she that is all equipped to manage a train ride log on to the ArcticVoxminer, to see her scientist mother for the first time in yonks. Howeverworld-building, this is a train ride with a difference, for on board critter-collecting game that is a greedy-seeming harridan and her cat, a thief – and two glowing eyes, shining from the darkness hit in a blink-and-youLori'll-miss-them styles world. It's definitely a case for But first Lori has a new young investigative journalist...|isbn=184812970X}} =='''22 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)|title=Girls Who Lie|rating=3|genre=Thrillers|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all the dark corners of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before now. You think, seeing on the map that we're set in Akranes, and finding it's only twenty kilometres from the capital city, tiny inkling that this author is clutching at the few final straws left. However just because the book aims for the usual small-town feel, itstormy night doesn's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago a woman failed to turn up for t find herself entirely on her date eveningown, and was never seen againthen she finds something even more spooky. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that For the server she could now live permanently with the couple who had given her foster care before and her mother had asked for the girl back, bestie and a couple nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of delighted adopterstampering. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone use was at a high level until it stopped all of a suddenscreen, in one and her safe place, the woman's car was found miles away in a second place, and now, after six months, the body game has been discovered, in a third, even more remote place. Meanwhiledoctored – well, this narrative where is interrupted by a confessional monologue from a mother who found herself with heavy post-natal depression, and very little maternal feeling in her body. Is the assumption that is so easy for the reader girl to make the right oneturn?|isbn=191319373X0008666482

|author=John BoyneJenny Lecoat|title=The Echo ChamberBeyond Summerland|rating=54

|summary=Meet George Cleverley. He is self-defined as "one of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without a criminal record". He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him she's carrying his child, but then his author wife is getting her kicks Jean lives on Jersey with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. They have three children, who mother where they are a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save celebrating the world's homeless with out-end of-date food, and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thingoccupation. Add in a few other characters – therapists During the war, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections Jean's father was arrested for listening to his lifea banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to her mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the modern world. What suggests Channel islands from the farcical approach even moreNazis, however, is and the fact this war is bloody funnyfinally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him.|isbn=0857526219}} =='''7 OCTOBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=John Gwynne|title=The Shadow Of The Gods|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods is But will the first installment of the Bloodsworn Sagatruth come as a relief, set in or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the era of war? Who was the Vikings in informer who told the shadow of Ragnarok, when Nazis about the Gods radio? And what other secrets have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to see. This story is the ultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to been kept throughout the genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. This is a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.occupation?|isbn=03565142181846976537