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=='''3 FEBRUARY23 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=1787634884Onyi Nwabineli|title=The Herd|author=Emily EdwardsAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Our story opens 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 sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in December 2019her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, before most of us had even heard of Covid or realised that whether or not we should be vaccinated would come failing to be a major issuestart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. WeMost importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia're in Farley County Courts online empire. Can she save her sister, where Elizabeth and Jack Chamberlain are facing Bryony perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873}}=='''30 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Swanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It seemed like an open-and Ash Kohli-shut case. As they were best friends until just A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a few months ago we know knife, comes into the police station shouting that whatever has happened he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is major and thatjust back from his honeymoon, regardless which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the outcome, this is not going words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work out well for anyonebut he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=gareth_steelStuart Douglas|title=Never Work With Animals|author=Gareth SteelLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=Animals and WildlifeCrime|summary=I don't often begin my reviews with a warning but with ''Never Work With Animals'' it seems to be appropriate. Stories of a vetDuring location filming for his 1970's life have proved popular since sitcom ''All Creatures Great Floggit and SmallLeggit'' but ''Never Work With Animals'' is definitely not , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the companion volume you've been looking for. As dead body of a TV show woman on the author would argue that ''All Creatures'' lacked realismedge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, as do other similar programmes. Gareth Steel says that but something about the book is not suitable for younger readers whole thing bothers Lowe, and - after reading - I agree with he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help himinvestigate matters further. He says that he's written it to inform They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and provoke thought, particularly amongst aspiring vetsseemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. It deals with some uncomfortable and distressing issues but it doesn't lack sensitivity, although But is there are occasions when you would be best choosing really a link between reading and eating.the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''12 FEBRUARY6 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=B09MSC981WKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Woke Iliad|author=George BoreasDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Helen Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a popular activistteam of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Or should we call her a popular influencer? Or perhaps a popular franchise owner? Anyway Unfortunately for Kit, Helen the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is so popular that the United States government one team has made her its Ambassador been retired, eaten, and a new trio of Wokequestors is needed. Helen runs all sorts of initiatives on behalf of Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the government, including goading from the Shaming Conference token bully of his world and the Permissible Entertainment Committee stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free- ''for indoctrinating zone have in actually managing that, and legislating against summer fun for any who still knew how could he possibly hope to have it''. Ouch!succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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=='''3 MARCH13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Marcus Sedgwick1635866847|title=WrathThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensLifestyle|summary=Meet FitzIt's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a young Scottish lad full slice of frustration at himselfchocolate cake on the homepage. Lockdown is only just over, I don't eat cakes and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, desserts - but he cannot stop himself from putting his foot in it when he talks to his best friend, CassieI wanted that cake viscerally. They were half of (There's a desultory school bandrecipe in the book, but Cassie which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was also one hundred per cent the enigmatic – saying she could hear told to make a subhuman hum coming from mess of it. Notes in the earthmargins are sanctioned. Is this connected with one You get to fold down the corners of her eco-warrior parents saying the end pages. You suspect that smears of the world is already butter would not be a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music sheproblem. I ''loved's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the truth? Well, not when Cassie has gone missing he can'tthis book already...|isbn=1800900899
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=='''7 APRIL4 JULY'''==
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|author=Justyn EdwardsMax Boucherat|title=The Great Fox IllusionLast Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=The latest incoming reality TV show is a contest with a difference. No singingWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, no dancingbabysitter poorly, this show is looking for magical children! Children who can understand how magic tricks mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and who can attempt that is to win The Great Fox's magical legacy - the secrets log on to all of his tricks! Flick is determined to winVoxminer, but not because she wants to own the tricks. She world-building, critter-collecting game that is interested a hit in just Lori''one'' trick, the trick s world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that The Great Fox stole from her father. And shethis stormy night doesn's hoping if she can t find that trick herself entirely on her own, and then she will finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to bring enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her missing father home.phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=15295019460008666482
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|author=Jennifer SaintJenny Lecoat|title=ElektraBeyond Summerland
|rating=4
|genre=Literary General Fiction|summary='Elektra' by Jennifer Saint tells Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the story end of three women who live in the heavily male dominated world of Ancient Greeceoccupation. Cassandra During the war, ClytemnestraJean's father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and Elektra are all bit players in the story her mother waiting for years for news of him. As the Trojan War. Yet Jennifer Saint shows us that often British finally free the silent women have Channel islands from the most compelling stories Nazis, and the most extreme furieswar is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. But will the truth come as a relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=19130978541846976537
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