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=='''27 APRIL23 MAY'''==
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|author=Lauren BravoOnyi Nwabineli|title=PrelovedAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=Women's General Fiction|summary= Gwen is pressing Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her middlestep-aged bosom mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on a big number that starts with a four social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and ends with an oh-my-God-I'm-nearly-forty, basically, monetary gain. Having been made unexpectedly redundant Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step- any HR officer worth their salt would argue mother to take down the toss - Gwen finds herself having a bit of a mid-life crisiscontent about her. Catharsis Anuri is key battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and Gwen has decided now 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 to take back her life'?|isbn=13985106290861546873
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=='''11 30 MAY'''==
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|authorisbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney Swanton Morley (translatorJohn Tanner)|titleauthor=Thirty Days of DarknessDavid Blake
|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers Crime|summary=Hannah presents as It seemed like an unlikeableopen-and-shut case. A man, bitter woman, an author of failing if wellcovered in mud and blood -regarded literary short novels. Sorry to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at and carrying a book fairknife, she flukes her way comes into a public argument with the latest hot shot in police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the world bottom of crime fiction, saying a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's populist trash and only writing what anyone could write. Cue the bet that she cannot live up been stabbed to that accusationdeath. Her publisher duly books her flights DCI John Tanner is just back from Denmark to Icelandhis honeymoon, where she is put up for a wintry month away from it all. Just on which coincided with the point birth of despairing – about her writing, about his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the people words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the lack point of stimulus for her plot, more or less about everything – word comes that the landladyfalling asleep at work but he's nephew has been found dead…|isbn=1914585615determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|author=Emily CritchleyStuart Douglas|title=One Puzzling AfternoonLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=84 year old Edie has lived in the same small town During location filming for almost her whole life, but now she is facing a move as her son wants to move to another house his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and bring Edie to live with his familyLeggit', as Edie is starting to lose her memory. However, Edie is tormented by leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the memory dead body of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years ago, and the worry that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be woman on the thing that reveals the truth edge of what happened all that time agoa reservoir. After 'seeing' Lucy in The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the high streetwhole thing bothers Lowe, just as she was and he enlists the last time she saw herhelp of a fellow actor, she starts John Le Breton to find pockets of memories coming back to herhelp him investigate matters further. And yet as she remembers They travel across the pastcountry during their days off filming, she is forgetting uncovering more possible murders and more in her day , seemingly, a link to day lifedeath during the Second World War. Will she But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover the truth about Lucy's disappearance who is responsible before her move, and before her memories are gone forevermore people lose their lives?|isbn=18041812501803368209
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Lex CroucherKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Gwen and Art Are Not in LoveDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? Meet Kit. But honestlyLike most of the people in his world, it lifted my spirits in seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a most delightful way. In this storyteam of warrior, Gwen mage and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tinyhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, much and race to their mutual disgust! Gwenthe exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you seealong the way. Unfortunately for Kit, is in love with Bridget (the kingdomonly thing he's only female knight) - something seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that Art discovers from her private diariesone team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant alliesPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, creating he has taken to the subterfuge goading from the token bully of falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachmentshis world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. But as their impending wedding draws ever closerWhat chance does this friendless, will they find a way muscle-free-zone have in which they can both truly be themselvesactually managing that, or are they destined and how could he possibly hope to live a lie their whole livessucceed?|isbn=15266517931839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Madelaine Lucas1635866847|title=Thirst for SaltThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionLifestyle|summary= It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately''Love, feel that this is the book for you. Before Istarted reading ''The Lavender Companion''d read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravityvisited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and thereTold from s a retrospective view, picture of a young woman unravels slice of chocolate cake on the yearhomepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts -long relationship but I wanted that once defined hercake viscerally. Overlaid (There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with later wisdom, some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the narrator relives the affair with book and I was told to make a man twenty years her senior from its inception – mess of it. Notes in the summer after finishing university – margins are sanctioned. You get to its sorrowful end fold down the summer aftercorners of pages. Set against the backdrop You suspect that smears of an isolated Australian coastal town 'butter would not be a problem. I 'Thirst for Salt'loved' 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 irrevocablythis book already.|isbn=0861546490
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=='''25 MAY'''==
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|author=Thomas D Lee
|title=Perilous Times
|rating=3
|genre= Fantasy
|summary= ''Hate is the path of least resistance''
Set in the near-distant future, in a world on the verge of climate collapse, Britain is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) to save the day and rescue what little remains. What no one expected was that one of the Knights of the Round Table would answer the call.|isbn=0356518523}}='''4 JULY'''==
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|author=Laura NoakesMax Boucherat|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a StarThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Number One. Or ratherWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rathermother at work, just Cos to an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her friendslonesome. The practice What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in the home a blanket fort, she lives in has one main intention, and that is for the girls to just be named by the number they correspond log on to in Voxminer, the ledgerworld-building, and theycritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upons world. But Cosima bears the tag as first Lori has a surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came from, as the first ever inmatetiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and unique in having no known family in the outside worldthen she finds something even more spooky. During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from For the kitchen one afternoon, server she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want and her bestie and nobody else should be able to adopt all the girls for his Instituteenter shows signs of tampering. But whyWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to her safe place in the past she game has so little link withbeen doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=00085790590008666482
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=='''8 JUNE'''==
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|author=Amanda CraigJenny Lecoat|title=Three GracesBeyond Summerland|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Few styles of contemporary fiction interest me like Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the state-end of-the-nation noveloccupation. There During the war, Jean's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. As the atmosphere of British finally free the Channel islands from the day Nazis, and capture itthe war is finally over, crafting an image their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. But will the country truth come as a relief, or will it stands in one particular moment. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a gift for weaving informer who told the ongoing issues of Nazis about the day into radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the lives of her characters in a way that feels natural and lived-in, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.occupation?|isbn= 140871468X1846976537
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