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=='''12 JANUARY23 MAY'''==

|author=Sarah Todd TaylorOnyi Nwabineli|title=Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Spoonful of SpyingAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=[[Alice EclairAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, Spy Extraordinaire! A Recipe thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for Trouble by Sarah Todd Taylor|Last time around]]sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, Alice Eclair had monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to prove herself as a spy regain her confidence and as a master at all things French and fancy and fondantto get her life back, as the only way suing her step-mother to save take down the day involved being an expert baker and icer on the French railwayscontent about her. HereAnuri is battling alcoholism, we failing to start on a bateau-mouche in Parisher PhD, undergoing therapy and even though the espionage isn't a complete success it proves to Alice secretly abusing people online and her handlers that things are afootreceiving money from them for doing so. And there will never be more feet than at Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the Worldnew focus of Ophelia's Faironline empire. Can she save her sister, reviving the huge expo that gave the city the Eiffel Tower and this time showing all perhaps herself and her relationship with her interwar glories off to father at the world. Once again Alice will have to present the front to the world of being a humble yet world-class cake decorator, while seeking out clues. At stakesame time? Pioneering flight technology that the enemy just cannot be allowed to smuggle out…|isbn=18399409720861546873

|authorisbn=Hadeer ElsbaiB0CYV674G2|title=The Daughters of IzdiharSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= Drawing inspiration from EgyptIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, ''The Daughters of Izdihar'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for the rights of women covered in mud and weavers – those with magical abilities blood - in and carrying a society pitted against them. Nehalknife, born comes into the upper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join police station shouting that he hasn't killed the military, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nicoman. Giorgina on A body at the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters bottom of Izdihar – a group campaigning for womenfreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's rights. Giorgina also happens been stabbed to be in love with Nicodeath. What follows DCI John Tanner is a story of an unjust societyjust back from his honeymoon, filled which coincided with hypocrisy and cruelty, from which blossoms a group the birth of admirable women fighting his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for their rights an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and overcoming their personal obstacles'John Tanner' were made for each other. 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 any sleep at home.|isbn=0356520471

|isbnauthor=178563335XStuart Douglas|title=Sea Defences|author=Hilary TaylorLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=When we first meet Rachel Bird sheDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a trainee vicar, sitting in woman on the edge of a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need to pick the children upreservoir. Her husbandThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, Christopherbut something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, collects six-year-old Hannah and her elder brotherhe enlists the help of a fellow actor, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishionerJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Thelma's daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on They travel across the Norfolk coastcountry during their days off filming, is a lovely place, but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the parish - uncovering more possible murders and she's in awe of the vicar, Gailseemingly, but then she's been doing a link to death during the job for more than thirty yearsSecond World War. Rachel and Christopher hoped that But is there really a walk on link between the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. deaths? And then Hannah went missing.will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

=='''19 JANUARY6 JUNE'''==

|isbnauthor=1848458436Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Just the Nicest Couple|author=Mary KubicaDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=''The whole thing has spiralled out Meet Kit. Like most of controlthe people in his world, it seems, turning into someone I'm not.''  ''Just the Nicest Couple'' he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the story sport where a team of two couples: Christian warrior, mage and Lily Scotthealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and Nina race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and Jake Hayesthe points they grant you along the way. The connection between Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the two latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that Lily one team has been retired, eaten, and Nina teach in a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the same school: Nina teaches English token bully of his world and Lily covers high school algebra. The couples have mixed stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a foursome but it's not a regular thingteam. Christian is a market research analyst and Jake is a neurosurgeon: they don't What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have much in common except their wives. Lily hasn't said anything yetactually managing that, but she's pregnant. She has a lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want and how could he possibly hope to tempt fate by making the knowledge public.succeed?|isbn=1839945184

|authorisbn=Heather Fawcett1635866847|title=Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of FaeriesThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionLifestyle|summary=Emily Wilde It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is an expert academic scholar on faerie lore, and she has travelled extensivelythe book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and researched meticulously, to write her lifethere's work, a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the very first encyclopaedia of faerieshomepage. Whilst she is brilliant at research I don't eat cakes and speaking to faeries, she is not so good with peopledesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. So when she finds herself far, far North (There's a recipe in the small village of Hrafvsnikbook, having somehow offended which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the village matriarch, she is not sure what she has done, nor how book and I was told to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on make a mess of it. Notes in the right trackmargins are sanctioned. Enter Wendell Bambleby, her dashingly handsome and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much You get to Emily's frustrationfold down the corners of pages. But why is he here? You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. What does he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnik?|isbn=0356519120I ''loved'' this book already.

|author=Joe ThomasMax Boucherat|title=White RiotThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary= Whenever anyone writes fiction about politics thereWe meet Lori on the first evening she's always the danger of making it too reactionary; too raw. Knee-jerk observations and hot takes that don't age well or properly capture the spirit of got the moment. It takes a truly talented writer house to be able herself – no neighbour to capture the zeitgeist of a particular event or era of political history. Austerity Britainpop in, babysitter poorly, the student riotsmother at work, Donald Trumpjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, Brexit – so much of what ison her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, and she has beenone main intention, written in the immediate aftermath of these phenomena has been proven by time and that is to log on to be frothy and insubstantial and ultimately not particularly powerful or incisive. Inevitably (and perhaps disappointingly for people who do enjoy fiction of this nature)Voxminer, the best writing about current political events is world-building, critter-collecting game that which is written when the events a hit in question are no longer current and when time and experience has afforded the writer the benefit of a more objective view.|isbn= 1529423376}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529421241|title=Stay Buried|author=Kate Webb|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=DI Matt Lockyer is on Major Crime Review which sounds quite grand until you realise that itLori's actually a cold case unit and there are just two of them doing the jobworld. LockyerBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn's not unduly worriedt find herself entirely on her own, though although he's not quite so sure about DC Gemma Broad: and then she's probably capable of finds something bettereven more spooky. It was a bit of a shock when he got For the phone call from Hedy Lambert: server she's in H M Prison Eastwood Park for murder - and it was Lockyer who put her there, fourteen years agobestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. She's keen to see him When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and to tell him that her safe place in the man everyone thought she'd murdered - but the body turned out game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to be someone else - has returned home after being away for decades.turn?|isbn=0008666482

|author=Jeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy GreeneJenny Lecoat|title=Fritz and KurtBeyond Summerland

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=We start Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the pair end of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and at a vocational schooloccupation. Kurt has to make sure During the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbourswar, Jean' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them s father was arrested for using anything nearly as mechanical listening to a banned radio and workmanlike as a light switch. But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's willsoldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and instead her mother waiting for years for news of having a national vote to keep the Nazis out, invite them in with open armshim. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all As the round-ups of Jews. These in their turn leave British finally free the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or Channel islands from the USNazis, while Fritz and his father arethe war is finally over, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry theretheir hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. And us wondering how But will the titular event for the adult variant of all this could truth come about…|isbn=024156574X}} =='''2 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Julia Bartz|title=The Writing Retreat|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary= Roza Vallo. Anyone in the world of publishing knows the name. Writers want to be her, agents want to represent her. She's something of as a legend with an impressiverelief, if compact, back catalogue of works that started with her breakthrough novel, published when she was barely out of childhood. Alex, a writer-slash-editor, is more than a little obsessed with Roza, and is stunned when, following a series of unexpected events, she is invited to be part of her month-long writers' retreat.|isbn=0861544439}}{{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 school, 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