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 =='''7 JULY23 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Alex Cotter|title=The Mermaid Call|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Vivien knows that mermaids don't exist. But she also knows they have to exist – at least in the public eye. For there would be nothing to Lake Splendour – a far northern English resort – without them. A hundred years and change ago, two teenaged girls allegedly spent months with mermaids, but were forced to return to help out with the Great War effort. They also showed female emancipation, which helped create the town's tourism industry, now faded and falling apart but once a feminist success story. Alice, a girl who stumbles into Vivien's gran's tourist shop one day, knows she certainly wants mermaids to exist – she thinks her family's black sheep died searching for them, or else was just too successful in her hunt. When the shy, doubting Thomasina that is Vivien collides with the exuberant, gung-ho Alice, what on earth – or perhaps in water – will they find?|isbn=1839941901}}
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|isbnauthor=0008395632Onyi Nwabineli|title=One Last Secret|author=Adele ParksAllow Me to Introduce Myself
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|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Natalya is an escort. WellAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her namestep-mother Ophelia's not ''actually'' Natalya: thatincreasingly 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 her professional name but it twenties and she is a nod slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her Serbian heritage. She's actually thirty-one-year-old Teodora DziewulskiAnuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, usually known as Dora Wulskiundergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. If you're thinking of 'escort' as being a polite description of a prostituteMost importantly, run by a pimpshe is desperately worried about her little sister, whois the new focus of Ophelia's turning tricks to fund a drug habit, forget itonline empire. Dora is a professional in all senses of the word. She has an agentCan she save her sister, Elspeth, who takes 30% of and perhaps herself and her income and deals relationship with her father at the payments but checks out the clients to see that Dora is going to be safe. Dora describes herself as a self-employed clairvoyant to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs. same time?|isbn=0861546873
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=='''12 JULY30 MAY'''==
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|authorisbn=A C WiseB0CYV674G2|title=HookedSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It’s been twenty two years since Captain HookIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, now going by just ‘James’, has been covered in Neverland. Living mud and blood - and carrying a new life in Londonknife, comes into the police station shouting that he has never completely escaped his pasthasn't killed the man. But now he senses A body at the edges bottom of the beast circling around a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his life in Londonhoneymoon, and when suddenly he finds himself face to face in which coincided with the street with Wendy, birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he knows that 'd be grateful for an easy answer but the line between this world words 'perverse' and Neverland is growing thin'John Tanner' were made for each other. The beast is finally coming He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get him, and in the process will pull Wendy and her daughter Jane back into their past once againany sleep at home.|isbn=1789096839
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=='''15 AUGUST4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=B0B2N7MVYMStuart Douglas|title=The Calculations of Rational Men|author=Daniel GodfreyLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=ItDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the 10th dead body of December 1962 when we first meet Dr Joseph Marr. Just to put what happens in context, a woman on the Cuban missile crisis is still very fresh in people's mindsedge of a reservoir. The world has barely had a chance police seem happy to breathe out. But for Joe Marrassign it as an accidental death, it's not but something about the missile crisis that's at whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the front help of his minda fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. He's been convicted of murder. With the current state of medical knowledge, it's hard to think otherwise than that They travel across the prosecution would never have been brought but Joe Marr has spent his first few country during their days in HMP Queen's Benchoff filming, a relatively new prison. He's just getting used to his roommateuncovering more possible murders and, Mervynseemingly, and learning a link to be wary of death during the McArthur brothersSecond World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''18 AUGUST6 JUNE'''==
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|author= Kit De WaalKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title= Without Warning and Only SometimesDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating= 4|genre= AutobiographyConfident Readers|summary= As Philip Larkin so eloquently put Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, itseems, “They f*** you uphe is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, your mum and dad/ They may not mean race tothe exit, but perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they do” Without Warning and Only Sometimes by grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit De Waal focuses on this idea , the only thing he's seen of parenthood and the bonds that bind family. This book is a memoir focussing latest race on the author’s formative years as inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a teenager living in a lower class area new trio of Birmingham. Her father questors is from Stneeded. Kitts in the Caribbean and her mother is an Irish woman ostracized by her family Possibly very unfortunately indeed for becoming pregnant by and marrying a black man. This intersectionality plays a large role in the autobiography. Kit De Waal faces multiple hurdles due , he has taken to her race, her class the goading from the token bully of his world and her genderstumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. Her parents loom large and are written with care What chance does this friendless, lovemuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and the kind of anger only a child can express how could he possibly hope to their parents.succeed?|isbn=14722848361839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=David Lagercrantz1635866847|title=Dark MusicThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=34.5|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary=How far from It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the original can a book allegedly inspired by Sherlock Holmes get before the allusion breaks? This does have a wonder-mind at the heart of what little investigating is going on, but there is not a lot that Conan Doyle fans could really pin down as on their exact wavelengthfor you. For oneBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the main focus of the narrative, Micaela, is no John Watson MDauthor's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm. Shecom/ website] and there's a Chilean in the Stockholm police, put on a murder squad as she knows the prime suspect picture of old, in a case where a referee slice of a junior football match was found stoned to death shortly after chocolate cake on the match, and just outside the stadiumhomepage. Beppe, the suspect, was drunkenly antagonistic to the ref during the closing minutes, I don't eat cakes and desserts - but refuses to admit anything, through days and weeks of interrogationI wanted that cake viscerally. When some disreputable coppers (There's a recipe in the kind who dismiss anything their superior comes up book, which I'm avoiding with, some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the kind who think they can judge Micaela from her fringe book and how she might dress – that kind) are I was told to go and see what brainbox Professor Rekke thinks make a mess of it all, she can only smirk when he says Beppe is innocent and . Notes in the investigation is a shamblesmargins are sanctioned. But taken off the case, she can no longer help solve You get to fold down the crime, and with Rekke the most erratic, irregular kind corners of guy, she can't get his full verdict on it allpages. Until, You suspect that may smears of butter would not be, she manages to stop him in the middle of an apparent suicide attempta problem. I ''loved'' this book already..|isbn=1529413192
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=='''6 OCTOBER4 JULY'''==
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|author=Alison HughesMax Boucherat|title=FlyThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=This is We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a very impressive readblanket fort, she has one main intention, as it does a lot of what mainstream teen and tween fiction still struggles with. Its focus that is courtesy of to log on to Voxminer, the firstworld-person narration from Flybuilding, critter-collecting game that is a secondary school lad with cerebral palsy, hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a down-tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on-her-luck single mom nearing retirement from being a cleanerown, a carer while at schooland then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a bundle girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Lecoat|title=Beyond Summerland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of assumptions people lay on himthe occupation. First they assume that with a broken body comes a broken mindDuring the war, then they decide heJean's father was arrested for listening to a maths savant – they even believe they can get banned radio and soldiers took him away with calling one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him Fly. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, which isn't his real nameand the war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. But will the truth come as a relief, but everybody just uses 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=15253058321846976537
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