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=='''30 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 a legend with an impressive, 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}}=='''6 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0571370977|title=The Lock-Up|author=John Banville|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=It's six months since the dramatic events which we read about in [[April in Spain by John Banville|April in Spain]] and Dr Quirke is now back in Dublin and living (if somewhat uneasily) with his daughter, Phoebe. The worst of his grief is over but he irrationally blames DI St John Strafford for what happened and this has made the already strained relationship between them more difficult. They're brought together by Chief Inspector Hackett when the body of a young, Jewish scholar, Rosa Jacobs, is found in a lock-up. At first, it looked as though she'd gassed herself but Quirke is convinced that it was murder rather than suicide.}}{{Frontpage|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?}}{{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.}}=='''13 APRIL23 MAY'''==

|author=Emily TeshOnyi Nwabineli|title=Some Desperate GloryAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|genre=Science General Fiction|summary=''While EarthAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's children liveincreasingly popular presence on social media, the enemy shall fear uswhere she posted every step of Anuri'' Following the destruction of the Earths childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, amongst a rare number of survivorsbasically, Kyr has been raised on Gaea Station – the home of the last scraps of humanity – monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and trained relentlessly she is slowly trying to avenge regain her people confidence and the world that should have been hers. All to get her lifeback, she has been conditioned suing her step-mother to fall in linetake down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to fulfil start her duty PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and ensure that humanity perseveresreceiving 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=03565218340861546873

|isbn=0008551278B0CYV674G2|title=Blood Runs Cold Swanton Morley (D S Max CraigieJohn Tanner)|author=Neil LancasterDavid Blake|rating=43.5

|summary=Affi Smith was snatched from the bottom of FyrishIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, where she'd been doing her training. She'd been a bit of a wayward teenager until she discovered athletics covered in mud and blood - and it now looks as though she could be heading for carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the national squadman. That's quite an achievement for someone with her background: you see, Affo came to Scotland from Albania as Afrodita Dushku A body at the age bottom of twelve. She was rescued when she was carrying a kilo of drugs and three years later shefreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's happy with her foster familybeen stabbed to death. There's DCI John Tanner is just one cloud on her horizon: her little sisterback from his honeymoon, Melodi is in a children's home in Tirana - and anyone could get to her.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jennifer Saint|title=Atalanta|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=''I was as worthy as any one which coincided with the birth of themhis daughter Samantha. I You would get on board that ship, I vowed. I would take my place, not just in the name of the goddess. It was think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the sake of my name, too. Atalantawords 'perverse' 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 'John Tanner' were made for adventureeach other. When the opportunity comes – He's sleep-deprived to join the Argonauts, a fierce band point of warriors, descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance falling asleep at work but he's determined to fight in Artemiskeep going - probably because he can' 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 undoingt get any sleep at home.|isbn=1472292154

=='''11 MAY4 JUNE'''==

|author=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)Stuart Douglas|title=Thirty Days of DarknessLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal

|genre=Thrillers Crime|summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeableDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', bitter leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman, an author on the edge of failing if well-regarded literary short novelsa reservoir. Sorry The police seem happy to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for assign it as an afternoon at a book fairaccidental death, she flukes her way into a public argument with but something about the latest hot shot in whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the world help of crime fictiona fellow actor, saying he's populist trash and only writing what anyone could writeJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Cue They travel across the bet that she cannot live up country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to that accusationdeath during the Second World War. Her publisher duly books her flights from Denmark to Iceland, where she But is put up for there really a wintry month away from it all. link between the deaths? Just on the point of despairing – about her writing, about the And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more 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…lose their lives?|isbn=19145856151803368209

|author=Emily CritchleyKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=One Puzzling AfternoonDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=84 year old Edie has lived Meet Kit. Like most of the people in the same small town for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house and bring Edie to live with his familyworld, as Edie is starting to lose her memory. Howeverit seems, Edie he is tormented by an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the memory sport where a team of her childhood friendwarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, Lucycentury-old, who went missing over 60 years agomagical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be big bad and the thing that reveals points they grant you along the truth of what happened all that time agoway. After Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he'seeing' Lucy in s seen of the latest race on the high streetinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, just as she was the last time she saw hereaten, she starts to find pockets and a new trio of memories coming back to herquestors is needed. And yet as she remembers Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the past, she is forgetting more token bully of his world and more in her day to day lifestumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. Will she uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance before her moveWhat chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and before her memories are gone foreverhow could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=18041812501839945184

|authorisbn=Lex Croucher1635866847|title=Gwen The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Art Are Not in LoveTerry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=TeensLifestyle|summary=Who knew It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that what this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I really needed to read right now was visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in picture of a most delightful wayslice of chocolate cake on the homepage. In this story, Gwen I don't eat cakes and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdomThere'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 alliesrecipe in the book, creating which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the subterfuge book and I was told to make a mess of falling it. Notes in love with each other, when really they the margins are enabling their own other romantic attachmentssanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, will they find a way in which they can both truly You suspect that smears of butter would not be themselves, or are they destined to live a lie their whole lives?|isbn=1526651793problem. I ''loved'' this book already.

|author=Madelaine LucasMax Boucherat|title=Thirst for SaltThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary= We meet Lori on the first evening she''Loves got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, I'd readbabysitter poorly, was supposed to be a light and weightless feelingmother at work, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective viewjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined on herlonesome. Overlaid with later wisdom What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – she has one main intention, and that is to log on to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against Voxminer, the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24world-yearbuilding, critter-old narratorcollecting game that is a hit in Lori's deepening relationship with world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her older loverown, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her perspective bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on both romantic her phone screen, and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=08615464900008666482

|author=Laura NoakesJenny Lecoat|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