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=='''11 23 MAY'''==

|isbnauthor=1523092734Onyi Nwabineli|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 - Allow Me 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 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 During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a surprise. After all, it was her cross-examination woman on the edge of the 'victim' which saved him from a lengthy prison sentencereservoir. He'd been accused of stalking the woman but it didn't take long The police seem happy to establish that - if anything - assign it was as an accidental death, but something about the other way around. Soon Ingrid never seemed to be free whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Webster and then she came Le Breton to see help him as investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a threat and was forced link to remember that death during the police officer at his trial had told her that this was Second World War. But is there really a link between the best chance deaths? And will they'd had manage to put Webster away for a long time: he was a very dangerous man.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

|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 moonKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-sized aliens known as the Architects. Humanity is scattered, constantly fleeing as world after world falls to the architect's reshaping. Then, just when they had the human race on the run, the Architects vanished. And so, the memories of the war fades, heroes are forgotten, and humanity begins to fracture and fight among themselves. Idris Telemmier, a man genetically engineered to try and communicate with the Architects, does not want to be remembered. 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 the spotlight. As he and his allies bounce from star system to star system, chased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police and rich slavers, he slowly begins to realise that the real war is only just getting started…|isbn=1529051886}} =='''3 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0241400120Stanton|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 Voxminer, the Arcticworld-building, to see her scientist mother for the first time critter-collecting game that is a hit in yonksLori's world. However, But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this is a train ride with a difference, for stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on board is a greedy-seeming harridan and her catown, a thief – and two glowing eyes, shining from then she finds something even more spooky. For the darkness in a blink-server she and her bestie and-you'll-miss-them stylenobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. It's definitely When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a case for a new young investigative journalist...girl to turn?|isbn=184812970X0008666482

|author=Sarah LanganJenny Lecoat|title=Good NeighboursBeyond Summerland|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= If you're of a certain vintage, it's hard to read the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a sing-song ''that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. Maple Street is no Ramsay Street, though, Arlo and Gertie live a world apart from the Melbourne suburbs. They're one of 18 households on the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved in a year earlier. They're not quite like all the other families (he's an ex rocker, she's a former beauty queen) but they've made some friends and their kids have settled in, and it's all going ok. Until it isn't. One hot, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up in the park across the way. It's a revolting mess of dirt and chaos, but for the residents of Maple Street, the worst is yet to come.|isbn=1789098211}} =='''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, that this author is clutching at the few final straws left. However just because the book aims for the usual small-town feel, it's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago a woman failed to turn up for her date evening, and was never seen again. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently with the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for the girl back, and a couple of delighted adopters. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until it stopped all of a sudden, in one place, the woman's car was found miles away in a second place, and now, after six months, the body has been discovered, in a third, even more remote place. Meanwhile, this narrative 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 to make the right one?|isbn=191319373X}} =='''5 AUGUST'''=={{Frontpage|author=John Boyne|title=The Echo Chamber|rating=5

|summary=Meet George Cleverley. He is self-defined as "one Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the few television personalities over occupation. During the age of fifty without war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a criminal record". He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells banned radio and soldiers took him she's carrying his childaway one night, but then his author wife is getting leaving Jean and her kicks with mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her withwar is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. They have three children, who are But will the truth come as a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoeverrelief, a girl who hangs or will it raise further questions around with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who wants to save told the world's homeless with out-of-date food, and a fit young lad doing Nazis about the gay hustle thing. Add in a few radio? And what other characters – therapists, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to his life, and you secrets have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to the modern world. What suggests the farcical approach even more, however, is been kept throughout the fact this is bloody funny.occupation?|isbn=08575262191846976537