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=='''2 NOVEMBER23 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=1035025299Onyi Nwabineli|title=Went Allow Me to London, Took the Dog|author=Nina StibbeIntroduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=AutobiographyGeneral Fiction|summary=Nina Stibbe 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 returning in her twenties and she is slowly trying to London 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 a sabbatical after being away for twenty yearsdoing so. SheMost importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's been online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at Victoriathe same time?|isbn=0861546873}}=='s smallholding ''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 Leicestershire which isnmud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't all that conducive killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to writingdeath. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, as therewhich 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 always something smallholding happening sleep- as you might expect. The other side of deprived to the decision was sealed when a room became available (courtesy point of Deborah Moggach) falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at a very reasonable renthome.
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=='''3 NOVEMBER@@@4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=1838954481Stuart Douglas|title=The Misper|author=Kate LondonLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Ryan Kennedy killed a police officer: thereDuring location filming for his 1970's no doubt about that. He was sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the fifteen-year-old holding dead body of a woman on the gun and pointing it at DI Kieran Shawedge of a reservoir. He pulled the trigger The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but due to something about the vagaries of the jury system whole thing bothers Lowe, and he was found not guilty of both enlists the murder and the manslaughter help of the officer. And so lives must go ona fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. For DI Sarah Collins that means leaving They travel across the capital country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and hoping for , seemingly, a quieter life in link to death during the countryside but when a missing teenager Second World War. But is found on her territory she's drawn into there really a wider investigation - and back into link between the orbit of Ryan Kennedy.deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''7 NOVEMBER6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Edel RodriguezKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=WormDungeon Runners: A Cuban American OdysseyHero Trial
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|genre=Graphic NovelsConfident Readers|summary=We're in childhood, and we're in CubaMeet Kit. The revolution has happenedLike most of the people in his world, and Castroit seems, first thought he is an avid fan of as Dungeon Running – the sport where a saviour team of the countrywarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, has proven himself a Communistmagical mazes, and not done nearly enough race to create a level playing field for allthe exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. WellUnfortunately for Kit, those hours-long speeches the only thing he's seen of his were kind the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of taking his time awayquestors is needed. Our narrator's family weren't in the happiest of places herePossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, an uncle refusing he has taken to be the good soldier goading from the country demanded (especially token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as he would probably be shipped off to some minor proa team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-Communism skirmishzone have in actually managing that, such as Angola) and the father being watched how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184}}=='''13 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1635866847|title=The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and watchedTerry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=It's strange, and not liked the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for his successful photography business, success being frowned uponyou. Before I started reading ''The mother gets Lavender Companion'', I visited the couple jobs with the party to ease some author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the heat, homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in this sultry island countrythe book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it remains . Notes in the kind margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of heat forcing you out pages. You suspect that smears of the kitchen…|isbn=1474616720butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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 =='''1 FEBRUARY4 JULY'''==
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|author=Sarah MarshMax Boucherat|title=A Sign The Last Life of Her OwnLori Mills|rating=34.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=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, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Lecoat|title=Beyond Summerland|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=After a bout Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearingthe occupation. Suddenly plunged into During the war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a world of silencebanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, everything about leaving Jean and her life changesmother waiting for years for news of him. Living in a time when As the British finally free the Channel islands from the use of sign language was seen as something only savages doNazis, Ellen is sent to a school where she and the war is taught to lip readfinally over, but physically restrained from signingtheir hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. From hereBut will the truth come as a relief, she ends up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who has been teaching told the Nazis about the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. radio? At And what other secrets have been kept throughout the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideas, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionage.occupation?|isbn=10354016141846976537
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