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=='''30 MARCH23 MAY'''==

|isbnauthor=1398509582Onyi Nwabineli|title=The Favour|author=Nicci FrenchAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It was 2 amAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, not long after A levelsthanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, when the car crash happened. It would cause problems where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for Liam Birch but then no one could really understand why he sponsorships and influencer deals and Jude Winter were together, basically, monetary gain. She was utterly driven by Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her determination confidence and to go get her life back, suing her step-mother to medical school. Liam was take down the reversecontent about her. He just acted ''as if life just rolled him over Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and carried him along''receiving money from them for doing so. A bit of weed hereMost importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, a few drinks there: who is the legal effects new focus of the car crash really didnOphelia't worry him at alls online empire. The Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship broke up soon after that - or rather, Liam simply didn't see Jude any more.with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873

|authorisbn=Julia BartzB0CYV674G2|title=The Writing RetreatSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Roza ValloIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. Anyone A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the world of publishing knows police station shouting that he hasn't killed the nameman. Writers want A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to be herdeath. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, agents want to represent herwhich coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. SheYou would think he's something of a legend with d be grateful for an impressive, if compact, back catalogue of works that started with her breakthrough novel, published when she was barely out of childhoodeasy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. Alex, a writerHe's sleep-slash-editor, is more than a little obsessed with Roza, and is stunned when, following a series deprived to the point of unexpected events, she is invited falling asleep at work but he's determined to be part of her monthkeep going -long writersprobably because he can' retreatt get any sleep at home.|isbn=0861544439

|author=Patrick Ness and Tea BendixStuart Douglas|title=Different for BoysLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=Teens Crime|summary=Ant is in Year Eleven at quite 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 standard school, and is surprised reservoir. The police seem happy to find his geography class (within which assign it seems absolutely nothing as an accidental death, but something about geography is ever learnt) has been restructuredthe whole thing bothers Lowe, so his desk is one and he enlists the help of four with both his best buddy from the football teama fellow actor, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back John Le Breton to primary school days togetherhelp him investigate matters further. As they're all fired up, straining at They travel across the leash only a single-sex school can formcountry during their days off filming, the talk in class uncovering more possible murders and out often turns , seemingly, a link to sexdeath during the Second World War. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score But is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, there really a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up link between the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. deaths? And that's mostly because of will they manage to uncover who he's been having the relationship and the sex with.is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=15295094911803368209

|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 – Kieran Larwood 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 highJoe Todd-stakes gamble: if it was done well, it'd be fantastic. So this is where I sum up that premise.|isbn=0356518043}}=='''6 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0571370977Stanton|title=The Lock-Up|author=John BanvilleDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=Crime (Historical)Confident Readers|summary=It's six months since Meet Kit. Like most of the dramatic events which we read about people in [[April in Spain by John Banville|April in Spain]] his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and Dr Quirke is now back in Dublin healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and living (if somewhat uneasily) race to the exit, perhaps bothering with his daughter, Phoebethe treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. The worst Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of his grief the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is over but needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened and this has made taken to the already strained relationship between them more difficult. They're brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when goading from the body token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a young, Jewish scholar, Rosa Jacobs, is found in a lock-upteam. At firstWhat chance does this friendless, it looked as though she'd gassed herself but Quirke is convinced muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that it was murder rather than suicide., and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184

|isbn=17856334571635866847|title=Charging Around: Exploring the Edges of England by Electric CarThe Lavender Companion|author=Clive WilkinsonJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=TravelLifestyle|summary=Clive Wilkinson has a history of travelling by unconventional means with a preference for slow travel. As he neared his eightieth birthday It's strange, the idea of exploring things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the edges of England in an electric car was not totally outrageousbook for you. In fact Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', it should be a pleasant holiday for Clive and his wife, Joan, shouldnI visited the author't it?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0861544056|title=Twin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Belle s [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and Davidthere's twin daughters are just coming to a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the end of their first term at universityhomepage. KitI don's been at Bristol t eat cakes and Jess's in Exeterdesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. It(There's not only a recipe in the first time theybook, which I've been away from their parents for any length m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of time - but they've also been apart from each otherit. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. Belle can't wait You get to have them all to herself for a whilefold down the corners of pages. Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle You suspect that smears of butter would prefer that he didn't come but doesn't want to upset Kitnot be a problem. IvoI 's apparently 'older': he's twenty-four to Kitloved's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. And they'll be sharing a bedroomthis book already.

Following the destruction of the Earth, amongst a rare number of survivors, Kyr has been raised on Gaea Station – the home of the last scraps of humanity – and trained relentlessly to avenge her people and the world that should have been hers. All her life, she has been conditioned to fall in line, to fulfil her duty and ensure that humanity perseveres.|isbn=0356521834}}='''4 JULY'''==

|isbnauthor=0008551278Max Boucherat|title=Blood Runs Cold (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil LancasterThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Affi Smith was snatched from We meet Lori on the bottom of Fyrish, where first evening she'd been doing 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 traininglonesome. She'd been What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a bit of a wayward teenager until blanket fort, she discovered athletics - has one main intention, and it now looks as though she could be heading for that is to log on to Voxminer, the national squadworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. ThatBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn's quite an achievement for someone with t find herself entirely on her background: you seeown, Affo came to Scotland from Albania as Afrodita Dushku at the age of twelveand then she finds something even more spooky. She was rescued when For the server she was carrying a kilo of drugs and three years later she's happy with her foster familybestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. There's just one cloud When malevolent eyes spark up on her horizon: phone screen, and her little sistersafe place in the game has been doctored – well, Melodi where is in a children's home in Tirana - and anyone could get girl to her.turn?|isbn=0008666482

|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 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)|title=Thirty Days of Darkness|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter woman, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fair, she flukes her way into a public argument with the latest hot shot in the world of crime fiction, saying he's populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Cue the bet that she cannot live up to that accusation. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she is put up for a wintry month away from it all. Just on the point of despairing – about her writing, about the people and the lack of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the landlady's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615}}{{Frontpage|author=Lex Croucher|title=Gwen and Art Are Not in Love|rating=4|genre=Teens|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 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 they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. 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= ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior 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 nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|isbn=0861546490}}=='''25 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Laura NoakesLecoat|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a StarBeyond Summerland

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Number OneJean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. Or ratherDuring the war, Cosima Unfortunate. Or ratherJean's father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, just Cos to leaving Jean and her friendsmother waiting for years for news of him. The practice in the home she lives in is for As the girls to just be named by British finally free the number they correspond to in Channel islands from the ledgerNazis, and they're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilitiesthe war is finally over, uncommon mentalities or suchlike their hopes rise that Victorian society frowns greatly uponthey will 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