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=='''28 SEPTEMBER23 MAY'''==
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|author=Onyi 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=1804183210B0CYV674G2|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=No ReserveLowe 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 police 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=Felix FrancisKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial
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|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Thirty-four-year-old Theo Jennings shouldn't have been on Meet Kit. Like most of the rostrum when people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the colt sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century- as yet unnamed - came up for auctionold, but Peter Radwaymagical mazes, and race to the chairmanexit, hadn't arrived, so he continued his session. To say that he was shocked when perhaps bothering with the treasure or the bidding reached three million pounds would be an understatement. A lovely animal - but three million pounds? Two men had been bidding against each other. Brian Kitman big bad and Elliot 'Mitch' Mitchell were well-known and respected in the racing industrypoints they grant you along the way. Jennings was in one Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the cubicles in the toilets when latest race on the two men came in and their conversation revealed inn TV equivalent is that the horse had one team has been deliberately bid up to that figureretired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. Both were happy that they had insurance in placePossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. The following morningWhat chance does this friendless, the horse was dead muscle-free-zone have in its stall.actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Hannah Gold and Levi Pinfold1635866847|title=Finding BearThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=[[The Last Bear by Hannah Gold|Last time]]It's strange, 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 – the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that she called Bearthis is the book for you. Back homeBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', things on I visited the domestic author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and family front are there's a picture of a bit advanced, but not perfect for her, and so can easily be ignored when word comes through from slice of chocolate cake on the islands Bear was last left onhomepage. For a bear doing very BearI don't eat cakes and desserts -y things has been shot and woundedbut I wanted that cake viscerally. Desperate to make sure he(There's OKa recipe in the book, she which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and her father return I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the Arctic and hope margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that in smears of butter would not be a world of very white and very dangerous things, she can find one specific white and dangerous thing – and that the friendship can continueproblem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=0008582017
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 =='''5 OCTOBER4 JULY'''==
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|author=Helen CooperMax Boucherat|title=The Taming Last Life of the CatLori Mills|rating=34.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Once again, mice are pitched against cat. In this case, principally, we have Brie We meet Lori on the mouse, up against Gorgonzola first evening she's got the cat house to herself and no neighbour to pop in case you're seeing a connection, they live babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a cheese shop and therefore all the names used here seem to be the names of cheeses. Anywayblanket fort, Brie is shunnedshe has one main intention, scorned andthat is to log on to Voxminer, if you mustthe world-building, mouscritter-tracised, for the way his habits doncollecting game that is a hit in Lori't match the other mice he lives withs world. They nibble up paper wrapping from the cheese for bedding – he displays it as art and makes stories based on the visuals on it. And But first Lori has a tiny inkling that story-telling will come in handy one this stormy nightdoesn't find herself entirely on her own, when he feels all alone and cast outthen she finds something even more spooky. It's almost as if there were another character from fable who had had For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to tell stories to keep themselves aliveenter shows signs of tampering. This makes Brie the top dog When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the mouse communitygame has been doctored – well, though, as all the others had the chance where is a girl to half-inch some cheese while the cat was distracted. But will the story have the successful sequel it needs when that cheese runs outturn?|isbn=05713760100008666482
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=='''26 OCTOBER'''==
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|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
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