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=='''3 AUGUST23 MAY'''==

|author=Judith EagleOnyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and 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?|isbn=0861546873}}=='''30 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Swanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.}}=='''4 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|author=Stuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=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 reservoir. The Stolen Songbirdpolice seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209}}=='''6 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|author=Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=Caro's mother, a world-famous whistler, has failed to return home from her recent work trip abroad and is now missingMeet Kit. Her other motherLike most of the people in his world, Ronnieit seems, he is having to go up North to take care an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of her sister who is unwell. So who is going to look after Caro? Sent to stay with Gamwarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, someone Caro has heard her mother despisesmagical mazes, she feels frustrated and confused and worried. All her summer holiday plans of building herself some equipment race to practise her gymnastics are brought to a halt whilst she is stuck inside this staid old Victorian lady's housethe exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along with an orphan boy, Albie, who is living there toothe way. But she soon finds herself caught up in a mysteryUnfortunately for Kit, as she discovers a painting of a bird hidden away inside her mumthe only thing he's old suitcaseseen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and all across London a fearsome gang called the Snakes are thieving artworks and terrorising peoplenew trio of questors is needed. Is Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the painting somehow linked to goading from the gang? And what has happened to Carotoken bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he's mother? ll enter as a team. Is she somehow involved What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in the mystery tooactually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=05713631481839945184

|authorisbn=Tania Unsworth1635866847|title=Nowhere IslandThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=Meet Gil. Just twelveIt's strange, he is so determined to escape the care system – the system things that constantly puts him in futureless places make you ''immediately'' feel that are not homes – and find a home this is the book for himselfyou. He is en route to yet another fosterer, when he jumps into an anonymous carBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and lets it ride him to his futurethere's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. That future seems to be in jeopardy when someone steals his one bag of belongings – I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that someone lives with his brother cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in a camp on an island between the two directions of a motorwaybook, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a place inaccessible and definitely ignored enough mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to provide for their safety and seclusionfold down the corners of pages. Them, and You suspect that smears of butter would not be a mute girl also finding a home there, albeit so much more successfullyproblem. Over a few weeks we see if their oddball destinies can combine, or if I ''loved'' this is one place where life as we would want it just would not work…|isbn=1804540080book already.

T Kingfisher's latest novella is a lovely reimagining of a fairytale that is well known and well beloved. But whilst there is a princess trapped in a tower, sleeping under an eternal enchantment, Thornhedge is not her story. Instead, our protagonist is Toadling, who was stolen away by fairies when she was a new-born baby and secreted away to the land of fairie where her childhood was spent being taught how to draw magic from her veins and cast spells.|isbn=1803364238}}=='''28 SEPTEMBER4 JULY'''==

|author=Hannah Gold and Levi PinfoldMax Boucherat|title=Finding BearThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|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, April had been on Bear Islandmother at work, a lot further north than many people would venturejust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, and finding a ridiculously unexpected but delightful friendship with a polar bear – that she called Bearon her lonesome. Back home, things on the domestic and family front are What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a bit advancedblanket fort, but not perfect for hershe has one main intention, and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from that is to log on to Voxminer, the islands Bear was last left onworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. For But first Lori has a bear doing very Bear-y things has been shot tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and woundedthen she finds something even more spooky. Desperate to make sure he's OK, For the server she and her father return bestie and nobody else should be able to the Arctic and hope that in a world enter shows signs of very white and very dangerous thingstampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing her safe place in the game has been doctored – and that the friendship can continue.well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=00085820170008666482

|author=Adam Baron and Benji DaviesJenny Lecoat|title=Oscar's LionBeyond Summerland|rating=34|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=We start incredibly bluntly, Jean lives on Jersey with Oscar hoping to have his her mother – or father, but mother is more likely – read him his very favourite book a couple where they are celebrating the end of times before he has to be ready for schoolthe occupation. But when he enters his parentsDuring the war, Jean' bedroom, all he sees is s father was arrested for listening to a mahoosive male lion on their bed, looking sheepishbanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and admitting that he won't be hungry her mother waiting for years for another two daysnews of him. But there are benefits to having a lion around – it can be shown as an unspoken threat to As the British finally free the bully that ruined a birthday party for Oscar Channel islands from the other month. And it can shapeshiftNazis, so he can take it to school and it can get the war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him out of a problem. And But will the truth come as a relief, or will it's wonderful to have raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the house – not limiting his biscuit intake, being much more lax informer who told the Nazis about the rules, and so on. radio? OK, it can't work a dimmer switch but it can give Oscar a wonderful time.And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=00085967511846976537