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=='''28 MARCH23 MAY'''==
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|author=Robert DugoniOnyi Nwabineli|title=Her Deadly GameAllow 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= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the lifepolice station shouting that he hasn's work t killed the man. A body at the bottom of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he'The Irish Brawler' due s been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his clientsdaughter Samantha. Along with You would think he'd be grateful for an indisputable talent for easy answer but the law, Patsy also has a gift words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for drinking himself to oblivion and inevitably the latter was beginning each other. He's sleep-deprived to overshadow the former. Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the hideous position point of asking her father for a job falling asleep at the family firm work but he's determined to keep going - probably because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, southhe can't get any sleep at home.|isbn=1662500181
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=='''30 MARCH4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=1398509582Stuart Douglas|title=The Favour|author=Nicci FrenchLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was 2 amDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', not long after A levels, when leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the car crash happenededge of a reservoir. It would cause problems for Liam Birch The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but then no one could really understand why something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he and Jude Winter were together. She was utterly driven by her determination enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to go to medical schoolhelp him investigate matters further. Liam was They travel across the reverse. He just acted ''as if life just rolled him over country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and carried him along'', seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. A bit of weed here, But is there really a few drinks there: the legal effects of link between the car crash really didn't worry him at all. deaths? The relationship broke up soon after that - or rather, Liam simply didn't see Jude any 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=Julia BartzKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Writing RetreatDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary= Roza ValloMeet Kit. Anyone Like most of the people in the his world , it seems, he is an avid fan of publishing knows Dungeon Running – the name. Writers want sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to be herthe exit, agents want to represent herperhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. She Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's something seen of a legend with an impressivethe latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, if compacteaten, back catalogue and a new trio of works that started with her breakthrough novelquestors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, published when she was barely out he has taken to the goading from the token bully of childhoodhis world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. Alex What chance does this friendless, a writermuscle-slashfree-editor, is more than a little obsessed with Rozazone have in actually managing that, and is stunned when, following a series of unexpected events, she is invited how could he possibly hope to be part of her month-long writers' retreat.succeed?|isbn=08615444391839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix1635866847|title=Different for BoysThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens Lifestyle|summary=Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard schoolIt's strange, and the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this 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 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 togetherbook for you. As theyBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion''re all fired up, straining at I visited the leash only author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a single-sex school can form, slice of chocolate cake on the talk in class and out often turns to sexhomepage. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesnI don't know what his score is, where his achievements in eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that regard liecake viscerally. He(There's had a casual relationshiprecipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether corners of pages. You suspect that's set in stone, he can't smears of butter would not be surea problem. And thatI ''loved's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex withthis book already.|isbn=1529509491
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{{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 a few weeks to live but he's determined that Rebecka Martinsson is going to investigate 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. Raimo Koskela disappeared without a trace in 1962. He 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: the problem is that this is a dying man's wish. The situation changes when a post-mortem establishes that Henry Pekkari, the dead alcoholic, was also murdered. Is there a connection between the two deaths?
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|author=M R Carey
|title=Infinity Gate
|rating=5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary= I'm annoyingly picky when it comes to science fiction. Not because it's a genre I dislike – nothing of the sort. My standards are high precisely because it's a hard genre to get right – and when it's bad, it's often terrible. But the premise of Infinity Gate had me hooked. A concept this intriguing felt like a high-stakes gamble: if it was done well, it'd be fantastic. So this is where I sum up that premise.
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=='''6 APRIL'''==
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|isbn=1785633457
|title=Charging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric Car
|author=Clive Wilkinson
|rating=5
|genre=Travel
|summary=Clive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday the idea of exploring the edges of England in an electric car was not totally outrageous. In fact, it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and his wife, Joan, shouldn't it?
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0861544056
|title=Twin Truths
|author=Jacqueline Sutherland
|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Belle and David's twin daughters are just coming to the end of their first term at university. Kit's been at Bristol and Jess's in Exeter. It's not only the first time they've been away from their parents for any length of time - but they've also been apart from each other. Belle can't wait to have them all to herself for a while. Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want to upset Kit. Ivo's apparently 'older': he's twenty-four to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. And they'll be sharing a bedroom.
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=='''13 APRIL'''==
{{Frontpage
|author=Jennifer Saint
|title=Atalanta
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that ship, I vowed. I would take my place, not just in the name of the goddess. It was for the sake of my name, too. Atalanta''
 
Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero.
Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta is raised under the protective eye of the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. When the opportunity comes – to join the Argonauts, a fierce band of warriors, descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in Artemis' name and carve out her own legendary place in history. What follows is a whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, it will be her undoing.|isbn=1472292154}}=='''11 MAY4 JULY'''==
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|author=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)Max Boucherat|title=Thirty Days The Last Life of DarknessLori Mills|rating=34.5|genre=Thrillers Confident Readers|summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeableWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, bitter womanmother at work, just an author of failing if wellavidly rule-regarded literary short novelsbreaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a book fairblanket fort, she flukes her way into a public argument with the latest hot shot in has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world of crime fiction-building, saying hecritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's populist trash and only writing what anyone could writeworld. Cue the bet But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she cannot live up to that accusationfinds something even more spooky. Her publisher duly books For the server she and her flights from Denmark bestie and nobody else should be able to Iceland, where she is put up for a wintry month away from it allenter shows signs of tampering. Just When malevolent eyes spark up on the point of despairing – about her writingphone screen, about the people and the lack of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that safe place in the landlady's nephew game has been found dead…doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=19145856150008666482
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{{Frontpage
|author=Lex CroucherJenny Lecoat|title=Gwen and Art Are Not in LoveBeyond Summerland
|rating=4
|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love Jean lives on Jersey with Bridget (the kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diaries. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy mother where they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating are celebrating the subterfuge end of falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachmentsthe occupation. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|isbn=1526651793}}{{Frontpage|author=Madelaine Lucas|title=Thirst for Salt|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= ''LoveDuring the war, IJean'd read, s father was supposed arrested for listening to be a light banned radio and weightless feelingsoldiers took him away one night, but I had always longed leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined hernews of him. Overlaid with later wisdom, As the narrator relives British finally free the affair with a man twenty years her senior Channel islands from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming natureNazis, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|isbn=0861546490}}=='''25 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Laura Noakes|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a Star|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Number One. Or rather, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, just Cos to her friends. The practice in the home she lives in war is for the girls to just be named by the number they correspond to in the ledgerfinally over, and their hopes rise that they're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly uponwill finally learn what became of him. But Cosima bears will the tag truth come as a surname because nothing relief, or will it raise further questions around what else seems to be known about where she came from, as happened during the first ever inmate, and unique in having no known family in war? Who was the outside world. During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from informer who told the kitchen one afternoon, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all Nazis about the girls for his Institute. But why, and what does that body entailradio? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to what other secrets have been kept throughout the past she has so little link withoccupation?|isbn=00085790591846976537
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