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=='''25 23 MAY'''==
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|author=Thomas D LeeOnyi Nwabineli|title=Perilous TimesAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=34.5|genre= FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary= Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia''Hate is the path s increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of least resistanceAnuri'' Set in the near-distant futures childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, in a world on the verge of climate collapsebasically, Britain monetary gain. Now Anuri is in great peril. The British Isles desperately needs a hero (or several) her twenties and she is slowly trying to save the day regain her confidence 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 Noakes|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a Star|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Number One. Or ratherto get her life back, Cosima Unfortunate. Or rather, just Cos suing her step-mother to take down the content about her friends. The practice in the home she lives in Anuri is for the girls battling alcoholism, failing to just be named by the number they correspond to in the ledgerstart her PhD, undergoing therapy and they're all Unfortunates – young secretly abusing people with disabilities, uncommon mentalities or suchlike that Victorian society frowns greatly upononline and receiving money from them for doing so. But Cosima bears the tag as a surname because nothing else seems to be known Most importantly, she is desperately worried about where she came fromher little sister, as who is the first ever inmate, and unique in having no known family in the outside worldnew focus of Ophelia's online empire. During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from the kitchen one afternoon, Can she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all the girls for his Institute. But whysave her sister, and what does that body entail? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the past she has so little link withsame time?|isbn=00085790590861546873
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=='''30 MAY'''==
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|authorisbn=Mark EdwardsB0CYV674G2|title=Keep Her SecretSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary= Matthew It seemed like an open-and Helena are in Iceland, rekindling their university romance some twenty-odd years after they first metshut case. The alien-landscape of the lava fields A man, covered in mud and black beaches is breathblood -taking and Helena seems intent on getting the perfect photograph to encapsulate the joy she is feeling in this momentcarrying a knife, even if it kills her… which it nearly does when comes into the edge of a ravine gives way and Helena finds herself clinging to police station shouting that he hasn't killed the rockface with just man. A body at the snagged strap bottom of her rucksack between her and a 500 foot drop freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to certain death below. Convinced she DCI John Tanner is going to diejust back from his honeymoon, Helena must purge herself which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the shocking secret she has been keeping words 'perverse' and makes a panicked, cryptic declaration 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to Matthew. Just moments later their heroic, and frankly very well prepared, Icelandic tour guide swoops in and hauls Helena the point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to safety and Matthew is left wondering what keep going - probably because he just learned about Helenacan't get any sleep at home.|isbn=166250893X
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=1787636003Stuart Douglas|title=The Girls of Summer|author=Katie BishopLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It was During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the summer when Rachel Evans turned eighteen that she and Caroline went backpacking around Greece and arrived dead body of a woman on the islandedge of a reservoir. Rachel wasn't exactly innocent but she was, perhaps, naive, so when thirty-four-year-old Alistair Wright started The police seem happy to take assign it as an interest in heraccidental death, she was flattered rather than wary. It was quite a while before but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he made any sort enlists the help of physical approach a fellow actor, John Le Breton to her and by that time she was obsessed by help himinvestigate matters further. Alistair worked for Henry TaylorThey travel across the country during their days off filming, looking after his interests on the island uncovering more possible murders and in particular in , seemingly, a link to death during the bar where all Second World War. But is there really a link between the girls either worked or partied.deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''1 6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Simon FoxKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=DeadlockDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4.5
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|summary=Late one night Graham Blake Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is late back from his shift on an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the forcesport where a team of warrior, mage and then suddenly rings Archiehealer enter specially prepared, demanding he fetch something from a secret placecentury-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and join him on the runpoints they grant you along the way. They get togetherUnfortunately for Kit, but barely begin to smell the whiff only thing he's seen of Southern trains when the father latest race on the inn TV equivalent is arrestedthat one team has been retired, leaving Archie on the late express to Brightoneaten, toting and a tin his father was determined new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to keep away the goading from the token bully of his colleagues, world and the bearer of stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a whole heap of questionsteam. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=18399444201839945184
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=='''8 13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Amanda Craig1635866847|title=Three GracesThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=General FictionLifestyle|summary= Few styles It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of contemporary fiction interest me like the state-a slice of-chocolate cake on thehomepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts -nation novelbut I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's something so utterly compelling about any writer who can catch hold of a recipe in the atmosphere of book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the day book and capture it, crafting an image I was told to make a mess of the country as it stands . Notes in one particular momentthe margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. To say You suspect that Amanda Craig is skilled at doing this smears of butter would not be embarrassingly inadequate: shea problem. I ''loved''s practically synonymous with the genre of contemporary social fiction at this pointbook already. She has such a gift for weaving the ongoing issues of the day into 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.|isbn= 140871468X
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 =='''28 SEPTEMBER4 JULY'''==
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|author=Hannah Gold and Levi PinfoldMax Boucherat|title=Finding BearThe Last Life of Lori Mills
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|summary=[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]]We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, April had been on Bear Islandher lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, a lot further north than many people would ventureshe has one main intention, and finding that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a polar bear – tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she called Bearfinds something even more spooky. Back home, things on For the domestic server she and family front are a bit advanced, but not perfect for her, bestie and so can easily nobody else should be ignored when word comes through from the islands Bear was last left onable to enter shows signs of tampering. For a bear doing very Bear-y things When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been shot and woundeddoctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Lecoat|title=Beyond Summerland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. Desperate to make sure heDuring the war, Jean's OKfather was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, she leaving Jean and her father return to mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Arctic Nazis, and hope the war is finally over, their hopes rise that in they will finally learn what became of him. But will the truth come as a world of very white and very dangerous thingsrelief, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the friendship can continue.occupation?|isbn=00085820171846976537
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