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=='''19 JANUARY23 MAY'''==

|author=Joe ThomasOnyi Nwabineli|title=White RiotAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary= Whenever anyone writes fiction about politics thereAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's always the danger increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of making it too reactionary; too rawAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Knee-jerk observations Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and hot takes that don't age well or properly capture the spirit of the moment. It takes a truly talented writer to be able get her life back, suing her step-mother to capture take down the zeitgeist of a particular event or era of political historycontent about her. Austerity Britain, the student riots, Donald Trump, Brexit – so much of what Anuri isbattling alcoholism, and has beenfailing to start her PhD, written in the immediate aftermath of these phenomena has been proven by time to be frothy undergoing therapy and insubstantial secretly abusing people online and ultimately not particularly powerful or incisivereceiving money from them for doing so. Inevitably (and perhaps disappointingly for people who do enjoy fiction of this nature) Most importantly, the best writing she is desperately worried about current political events her little sister, who is that which is written when the events in question are no longer current new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and when time perhaps herself and experience has afforded her relationship with her father at the writer the benefit of a more objective view.same time?|isbn= 15294233760861546873

|isbn=057137493XB0CYV674G2|title=The Other HalfSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Charlotte VassellDavid Blake|rating=3.5

|summary=It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn''The room was full of t killed the man. A body at the sort bottom of people a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he''Tatler'' thinks you should knows been stabbed to death.'' ''The Other Half'' DCI John Tanner is the story of two menjust back from his honeymoon, both which coincided with what looks like the same surnamebirth of his daughter Samantha. Rupert Beauchamp is You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the heir to a baronetcy and his thirtieth birthday party is a catered-with-butler event at McDonalds in Camden Town. Think Bollinger words 'perverse' and cocaine. His surname is pronounced 'BeechamJohn Tanner'were made for each other. Caius Beauchamp is a detective inspector with the Metropolitan police and is biHe's sleep-racial. His surname is pronounced as you see it. The two encounter each other when Caius, out for a run, stumbles across deprived to the body point of Clemmie Ofalling asleep at work but he'Hara, Ruperts determined to keep going - probably because he can's girlfriend. Rupert thought that she was being deliberately late for his party. She was dead under a busht get any sleep at home.

|isbnauthor=1529421241Stuart Douglas|title=Stay Buried|author=Kate WebbLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5

|summary=DI Matt Lockyer is on Major Crime Review which sounds quite grand until you realise that itDuring location filming for his 1970's actually a cold case unit sitcom 'Floggit and there are just two Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of them doing a woman on the jobedge of a reservoir. Lockyer's not unduly worriedThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, though although and he's not quite so sure about DC Gemma Broad: she's probably capable enlists the help of something bettera fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. It was a bit of a shock when he got They travel across the phone call from Hedy Lambert: she's in H M Prison Eastwood Park for murder - country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and it was Lockyer who put her there, fourteen years agoseemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. She's keen to see him and to tell him that But is there really a link between the man everyone thought she'd murdered - but the body turned out deaths? And will they manage to be someone else - has returned home after being away for decades.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

=='''23 JANUARY6 JUNE'''==

|author=Jeremy Dronfield Kieran Larwood and David Ziggy GreeneJoe Todd-Stanton|title=Fritz and KurtDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=We start with Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the pair sport where a team of brothers Fritz warrior, mage and Kurthealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want race to do – kicking things around the empty market placeexit, helping perhaps bothering with the neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to treasure or the synagogue choir big bad and at a vocational schoolthe points they grant you along the way. Kurt has to make sure Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the lamps are turned latest race on at their very Orthodox neighbours' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them for using anything nearly as mechanical inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and workmanlike as a light switchnew trio of questors is needed. But this is Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the time just before goading from the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitlertoken bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he's will, and instead of having ll enter as a national vote to keep the Nazis out, invite them in with open armsteam. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in GermanyWhat chance does this friendless, as did all the roundmuscle-free-ups of Jews. These zone have in their turn leave the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or the US, while Fritz and his father are, unknown initially to each otheractually managing that, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry there. And us wondering how the titular event for the adult variant of all this could come about…he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=024156574X1839945184

=='''2 FEBRUARY13 JUNE'''==

|authorisbn=Lucy Ashe1635866847|title=Clara The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and OliviaTerry Barlin Vesci

|genre=General FictionLifestyle|summary=The year It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is 1933the book for you. Before I started reading ''The place? SadlerLavender Companion''s Wells. Ballerinas Clara and Olivia are sisters, twins no less. Identical on the outside but not, we learn, on I visited the insideauthor's [https://www. And not on stage, eitherpinelavenderfarm. Because com/ website] and there's a lot that builds picture of a dancerslice of chocolate cake on the homepage. Some things that can be taught or learnt – discipline, attention to detail – I don't eat cakes and some things, desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There''je ne sais quoi''s a recipe in the book, that donwhich I't come from m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the classroomcorners of pages. A stage presence, a charm, You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''joie de vivreloved''this book already. The difference between a hard-worker, and a star.|isbn=0861544080

 =='''16 FEBRUARY4 JULY'''==

|author=Robin Birch and Jobe AndersonMax Boucherat|title=Secret Beast Club: The Unicorns Last Life of Silver StreetLori Mills|rating=4.5

|summary=JaydenWe meet Lori on the first evening she's nose is forever got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in a book, which means he knows a lot about mythological creatures – the phoenixes and unicorns of the worldbabysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, for exampleon her lonesome. Aisha is addicted to her new tabletWhat could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, where she can see videos of anything has one main intention, and that might be out there. The problem, as their mothers see it, is that they are never 'out there' themselvesto log on to Voxminer, exploring the outside world of Hackney-building, London. But when a narrowboat turns up carrying a sciencecritter-minded, educational purpose, and with collecting game that is a past involving Jaydenhit in Lori's cousin, they find a magical world they never knew existed. For many of those mythological creatures are realBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, including the one Aisha thinks and then she's seen on a bit of local footagefinds something even more spooky. The crew of For the boat, including a living gargoyle, are tasked with saving the rare critters – server she and her bestie and the kids unknowingly have the magical sight needed nobody else should be able to join inenter shows signs of tampering. Dare they side with Leila, the woman When malevolent eyes spark up on boardher phone screen, and her relative who lives as a figure safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a painting, and become saviours of the unseengirl to turn?|isbn=02415734830008666482

|author=Julia BartzJenny Lecoat|title=The Writing RetreatBeyond Summerland

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary= Roza Vallo. Anyone in Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the world end of publishing knows the nameoccupation. Writers want to be her During the war, agents want to represent her. SheJean's something of a legend with an impressive, if compact, back catalogue of works that started with her breakthrough novel, published when she father was barely out of childhood. Alex, arrested for listening to a writer-slash-editor, is more than a little obsessed with Rozabanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean 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 mother waiting for years 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 it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one news of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days togetherhim. As they're all fired up, straining at the leash only a single-sex school can form, British finally free the Channel islands from 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 nowNazis, and so has effectively progressed up the ladder headed by 'experienced'war is finally over, but whether their hopes rise that's set in stone, he can't be surethey will finally learn what became of him. And that's mostly because of who he's been having But will the relationship and the sex with.|isbn=1529509491}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0857051741|title=The Sins of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson Investigation|author= Asa Larsson and Frank Perry (Translator)|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only truth come as a few weeks to live but he's determined that Rebecka Martinsson is going to investigate relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the case of a body found in a freezer at the home of a deceased alcoholic. The problem is that the case has long passed the statute of limitations. war? Raimo Koskela disappeared without a trace in 1962. He Who was the father of Olympic boxing champion Borje Strom. Rebecka wants nothing to do with a fifty-year-old case on which she can take no action: informer who told the problem is that this is a dying man's wish. The situation changes when a post-mortem establishes that Henry Pekkari, Nazis about the dead alcoholic, was also murdered. radio? Is there a connection between And what other secrets have been kept throughout the two deathsoccupation?|isbn=1846976537