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=='''11 23 MAY'''==

|author=Jenny Lund Madsen and Megan E Turney (translator)Onyi Nwabineli|title=Thirty Days of DarknessAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=34.5|genre=Thrillers General Fiction|summary=Hannah presents as an unlikeable, bitter womanAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, an author of failing if well-regarded literary short novels. Sorry thanks to leave her bottles of red wine behind her for an afternoon at a book fairstep-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she flukes her way into a public argument with the latest hot shot in the world posted every step of crime fiction, saying heAnuri's populist trash childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and only writing what anyone could write, basically, monetary gain. Cue the bet that Now Anuri is in her twenties and she cannot live up is slowly trying to that accusationregain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. Her publisher duly books Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her flights PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from Denmark to Icelandthem for doing so. Most importantly, where she is put up for a wintry month away from it all. Just on the point of despairing – desperately worried about her writinglittle sister, about who is the people and the lack new focus of stimulus for Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her plotsister, more or less about everything – word comes that and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the landlady's nephew has been found dead…same time?|isbn=19145856150861546873

|authorisbn=Emily CritchleyB0CYV674G2|title=One Puzzling AfternoonSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5

|summary=84 year old Edie has lived 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 It seemed like an open-and bring Edie to live with his family, as Edie is starting to lose her memory-shut case. HoweverA man, Edie is tormented by the memory of her childhood friend, Lucy, who went missing over 60 years agocovered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, and comes into the worry police station shouting that there was a secret she was keeping for Lucy that somehow might be he hasn't killed the thing that reveals man. A body at the truth bottom of what happened all that time agoa freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. After 'seeing' Lucy in the high streetDCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, just as she was which coincided with the last time she saw her, she starts to find pockets birth of memories coming back to herhis daughter Samantha. And yet as she remembers You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the past, she is forgetting more words 'perverse' and more in her day 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to day life. Will she uncover the truth about Lucypoint of falling asleep at work but he's disappearance before her move, and before her memories are gone forever?|isbn=1804181250determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.

|author=Lex CroucherStuart Douglas|title=Gwen Lowe and Art Are Not in LoveLe Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Who knew that what I really needed to read right now was During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, it lifted my spirits in woman on the edge of a most delightful wayreservoir. In this storyThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tinyhe enlists the help of a fellow actor, much John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their mutual disgust! Gwendays off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, you seeseemingly, is in love with Bridget (a link to death during the kingdom's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diariesSecond World War. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing But is there really a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating link between the subterfuge of falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachments. deaths? But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, And will they find a way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined manage to live a lie uncover who is responsible before more people lose their whole lives?|isbn=15266517931803368209

|author=Madelaine Lucas|title=Thirst for Salt|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light Kieran Larwood 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=Thomas D Lee|title=Perilous Times|rating=3|genre= Fantasy|summary= ''Hate is the path of least resistance'' Set in the nearJoe Todd-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}}{{Frontpage|author=Laura NoakesStanton|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a StarDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=Meet Number OneKit. Or ratherLike most of the people in his world, Cosima Unfortunate. Or ratherit seems, just Cos to her friends. The practice in the home she lives in he is for an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the girls sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to just be named by the number they correspond to in exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the ledger, big bad and the points they're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upongrant you along the way. But Cosima bears Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the tag as a surname because nothing else seems to be known about where she came fromlatest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, as the first ever inmateeaten, and unique in having no known family in the outside worlda new trio of questors is needed. During a daring escapade Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to steal some posh cakes the goading from the kitchen one afternoon, she discovers a plan involving said outside token bully of his world – and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for his Instituteteam. But whyWhat chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and what does that body entail? And how could it he possibly bring Cos closer hope to the past she has so little link withsucceed?|isbn=00085790591839945184

=='''30 MAY13 JUNE'''==

|authorisbn=Mark Edwards1635866847|title=Keep Her SecretThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=ThrillersLifestyle|summary= Matthew and Helena are in IcelandIt's strange, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first metthe things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The alien-landscape Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the lava fields homepage. I don't eat cakes and black beaches is breathdesserts -taking and Helena seems intent on getting but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is feeling in this momentbook, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the edge of a ravine gives way book and Helena finds herself clinging I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the rockface with just margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the snagged strap corners of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop to certain death belowpages. Convinced she is going to die, Helena must purge herself You suspect that smears of the shocking secret she has been keeping and makes butter would not be a panicked, cryptic declaration to Matthewproblem. Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena to safety and Matthew is left wondering what he just learned about HelenaI ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=166250893X

 =='''1 JUNE4 JULY'''==

|author=Simon FoxMax Boucherat|title=DeadlockThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|summary=Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift We meet Lori on the forcefirst evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, and then suddenly rings Archiejust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, demanding he fetch something from on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a secret placeblanket fort, she has one main intention, and join him that is to log on to Voxminer, the runworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. They get togetherBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, but barely begin and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to smell the whiff enter shows signs of Southern trains when the father is arrestedtampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, leaving Archie on and her safe place in the late express to Brightongame has been doctored – well, toting where is a tin his father was determined girl to keep away from his colleagues, and the bearer of a whole heap of questions.turn?|isbn=18399444200008666482

|author=Amanda CraigJenny Lecoat|title=Three GracesBeyond Summerland|rating=4.5

|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 of the atmosphere of the day father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and capture itsoldiers took him away one night, crafting an image leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of the country as it stands in one particular momenthim. To say that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this would be embarrassingly inadequate: she's practically synonymous with As the genre of contemporary social fiction at this point. She has such a gift for weaving British finally free the ongoing issues of the day into Channel islands from the lives of her characters in a way that feels natural and lived-inNazis, never making them ciphers for social commentary but instead fully realised people, grappling with issues far larger than themselves.|isbn= 140871468X}}=='''28 SEPTEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=Hannah Gold and Levi Pinfold|title=Finding Bear|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]]the war is finally over, April had been on Bear Island, a lot further north than many people would venture, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a polar bear – their hopes rise that she called Bearthey will finally learn what became of him. Back home, things on But will the domestic and family front are truth come as a bit advancedrelief, but not perfect for her, and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the islands Bear war? Who was last left on. the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? For a bear doing very Bear-y things has And what other secrets have been shot and wounded. Desperate to make sure he's OK, she and her father return to the Arctic and hope that in a world of very white and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that kept throughout the friendship can continue.occupation?|isbn=00085820171846976537