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=='''25 OCTOBER23 MAY'''==
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|author=Lisa GrayOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Dark RoomAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=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 her 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, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus 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}}=='''30 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Swanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=What if you knew someone was deadIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, because you'd watched them die several years ago, but then you come across a photograph that seemed to show their murder happened covered in a different place mud and time? This is what happens to Leonard in this story. He is an exblood -crime reporter for and carrying a newspaperknife, and since leaving journalism comes into the police station shouting that hehasn's found himself an unusual hobby where he finds old, undeveloped rolls of film and develops them in his own dark room t killed the man. A body at home. One of these photographs turns out to show the murder scene bottom of a young woman freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he met some years ago's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, and who which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he 'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'thoughtperverse'and ' he had watched die in front of him one night in a hotelJohn Tanner' were made for each other. He'd felt guilty ever since that night, and lost everything because s sleep-deprived to the point of it falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - his fiancee and his career - but now finds himself wondering if she hadnprobably because he can't really died the night she was with him, what on earth actually happened?|isbn=154203535Xget any sleep at home.
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=='''27 OCTOBER4 JUNE'''==
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|author=Natasha Hastings and Alex T SmithStuart Douglas|title=The Miraculous Sweetmakers: The Frost FairLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the Second 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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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton
|title=Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=''The River Thames had frozen to death in its sleepMeet Kit.'' And thus Like most of the Frost Fair could happen – people trading on the completely iced-over riverin his world, like our heroine Thomasina's father with his gingerbread and confectionery shop. Thomasina will be working the Fair too – but her twin brother won'tit seems, as he dies in Chapter One. It was is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a tragedy she feels no small guilt forteam of warrior, mage and which has made her father a sullenhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, closed shop – and her bed-bound mother has spoken not a word – not even opened her eyesrace to the exit, more perhaps bothering with the treasure or less – in the four years since, eitherbig bad and the points they grant you along the way. But into Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the dark, frosted London comes Inigoinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, with supreme magical powerseaten, and a willingness to help Thomasinanew trio of questors is needed. Not only can Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he introduce her has taken to the fantastical Other Frost Fair, using goading from the river surface at night for no end token bully of mystical beasts his world and characters and their happenings, but stumbled into declaring he has 'll enter as a unique proposal for Thomasinateam. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, which will shake her world and how could he possibly hope to its core.succeed?|isbn=00084960561839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|isbn=13985153881635866847|title=The Boy and the DogLavender Companion|author=Seishu Hase Jessica Dunham and Alison Watts (translator)Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=General FictionLifestyle|summary=First of allIt's strange, it was the earthquake, deep in things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the ocean floorbook for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', which created I visited the tsunami author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and this, in turn, caused there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the nuclear meltdownhomepage. The result was complete I don't eat cakes and utter devastationdesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. The deaths were uncountable(There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the loss margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of livelihoods was widespreadpages. The fact You suspect that many pets were separated from their owners came far down the list smears of priorities but - six months after the tsunami - Kazumasa Nakagaki discovered butter would not be a dog outside a convenience storeproblem. He wasnI ''loved't a dog person but the convenience store owner's comment that he would call Public Health prompted Kazumasa to open his car door and Tamon the dog jumped inthis book already.
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=='''1NOVEMBER4 JULY'''==
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|isbnauthor=1916459943Max Boucherat|title=Squeakily Baby|author=Beth WebbThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=Much as mothers love their babies, thereWe meet Lori on the first evening she's something they all dread - a squeakily baby. He's so tired but he can't - or won't - go got the house to herself – no neighbour to sleep: insteadpop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, he just lies an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on his blanket and ''wails''her lonesome. The sea offers to help. What could possibly go wrong? It rocks Baby gently Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the waves sing ''hushworld-building, hush'critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. Think of gentle wavelets falling onto But first Lori has a sandy beach and you have the sound perfectly. The mermaids join in - tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn''la lout find herself entirely on her own, la layand then she finds something even more spooky...'' And for a moment it seems For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to have worked as Baby closes his eyesenter shows signs of tampering. Then When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a seagull '''shouts''' and we know exactly what's going girl to happen next.turn?|isbn=0008666482
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=='''1 JANUARY'''==
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|isbnauthor=1542037239Jenny Lecoat|title=Death in Heels|author=Kitty MurphyBeyond Summerland
|rating=4
|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=Set against Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the backdrop end of Dublinthe occupation. During the war, Jean's drag scenefather was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, ''Death in Heels'' tells the story of Fi McKinnery leaving Jean and her best friend, Robyn, who is about to debut as drag queen Mae B. What is meant to be a night mother waiting for years for news of excitement soon takes a downward turn when fellow drag queen, Eve, takes to the stage to mock Mae Bhim. As if the night could not get any worse, when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead in a gutter. Fi is adamant that Eve was murdered, yet British finally free the Channel islands from the drag communityNazis, and the Guardswar is finally over, accept it as an accidenttheir hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. Fi takes it upon herself to solve But will the mystery as she fears for her friends, but instead ruins relationships truth come as she delves deeper.}}=='''2 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Different for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens |summary=Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard schoolrelief, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which or will it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from raise further questions around what else happened during the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. war? As they're all fired up, straining at Who was the leash only a single-sex school can form, informer who told the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up Nazis about the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. radio? And that's mostly because of who he's what other secrets have been having kept throughout the relationship and the sex with.occupation?|isbn=15295094911846976537
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