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 =='''30 APRIL23 MAY'''==

|isbnauthor=B084H8F2CFOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Body Under the Bridge|author=Nick LouthAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|summary=DCI Craig Gillard was annoyed to be pulled away from It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the funeral service for a serving police officer, particularly when he discovered station shouting that he was to take charge of hasn't killed the enquiry into a missing womanman. Beatrice Ulbricht was twenty-five years old and a student of music A body at the Royal College bottom of Music. She had a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been due stabbed to play death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the other members birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the Lysander String Quartet at words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the Church point of St Martin-in-the-Fields falling asleep at work but hadn't turned up. Gillard didn't understand why his immediate involvement was necessary until Chief Constable Alison Rigby explained that Beatricehe's father was Karldetermined to keep going -Otto Ulbricht, Germanyprobably because he can's Minister of Justicet get any sleep at home.

|author=Holly JacksonStuart Douglas|title=Good Girl, Bad BloodLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=A month During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on from the explosive conclusion to the Andie Bell mystery, edge of a new normal has settled over Little Kiltonreservoir. Max Hastings' assault trial thunders on The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, Pippa's viral podcast detailing her journey of discovering the truth but something about Andie and Sal's deaths has gained massive media attention, Cara and her sister Naomi are reeling from the realisation that their father, Elliot Wardwhole thing bothers Lowe, had murdered Sal Singh and kidnapped a girl he thought was Andie after she stumbled out enlists the help of his housea fellow actor, bleeding, and disappeared into the nightJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. As They travel across the town tries to heal againcountry during their days off filming, six years on from the events of that nightuncovering more possible murders and, tragedy strikes again. Jamie Reynoldsseemingly, older brother a link to one of Pippa's best friends has gone missingdeath during the Second World War. And so, alongside her difficult life as a semi-famous eighteen-year-old, she But is once again taken down there really a dark, twisted path link between the deaths? And will they manage to discover the truth.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=14052977511803368209

|author=Frederic Beigbeder Kieran Larwood and Frank Wynne (translator)Joe Todd-Stanton|title=A Life Without EndDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=I looked at the calendar the other week, and disappointedly realised I have a birthday this year – I know, yet another oneMeet Kit. It won't be one Like most of the major numberspeople in his world, but the time when I have the same number as Heinz varieties looms on the horizon. And then a few of the big 0-numbersit seems, and if all goes well, I'll be he is an OBE. (Which avid fan of course stands for Over Bloody Eighty.) Now if that's the extent of my mid-life crisis, I guess I have to be happy. Our author here doesn't use that exact phrase, but he might be said to be living one. Determined to find out how to prolong life for as long as he wants – he would like to see 400 Dungeon Running – he hops right into bed with the assistant to the first geneticist he interviews, and they end up with sport where a child, which is at least a way of continuing the life team of his geneswarrior, mage and a motive to keep on going. But how can he get to not flick the 'final way out' switchhealer enter specially prepared, especially when foie gras tastes so nice?|isbn=1642860670}} =='''5 MAY'''== {{Frontpage|author= Maggie Tokudacentury-Hall|title= The Mermaidold, magical mazes, the Witch and race to the Sea|rating= 5|genre= Teens|summary= On the pirate ship Doveexit, Flora perhaps bothering with the girl has assumed treasure or the identity of Florian the man in an attempt to fit in with the crew. Life is hard as a pirate, trust big bad and empathy are the first things to be discarded, but anything has to be better than starving on points they grant you along the streetsway. Meanwhile Unfortunately for Kit, the young Lady Evelyn Hasegawa boards the Dove, headed off to be married to a military man sheonly thing he's never met on some far-flung colony seen of the Nipran Empire. Neither of them expects to be thrown together by fate, never mind fall in love…|isbn=1536204315}} =='''7 MAY'''== {{Frontpage|author=Patrick Ness|title=Burn|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=''On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957 - the very day, in fact, that Dwight David Eisenhower took the oath of office for the second time as President of the United States of America - Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father in the parking lot of the Chevron gas station for the dragon he'd hired to help latest race on the farm.''It's 1950s America but not as we know it. In this alternate US, there is still a Cold War with the Russians, still a concomitant arms race. And the stain of racism inn TV equivalent is just as crushing - something mixed-race Sarah and her Japanese American friend Jason are only too well aware of. As is the deeply unpleasant town deputythat one team has been retired, Kelby. But one thing is ''very'' different. In this alternate worldeaten, there are dragons. The dragons live in an uneasy peace with humans and communication is minimal. But a few new trio of these winged creatures do hire out their labour to human in return for gold - they are dragons, after allquestors is needed.Poor Frankie! |isbn= 1406375500}}{{Frontpage|author= Angela Woolfe|title= Roxy and Jones: The Great Fairytale Cover-Up|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= After her father gets married Possibly very unfortunately indeed for the umpteenth timeKit, Roxy Humperdinck is sent he has taken to live with her half-sister Gretel in Rexopolis, the capital city of goading from the Kingdom token bully of Illustria. Gretel works his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a toilet cleaner for the Ministry of Soupteam. Why What chance does a country like Illustria need an entire ministry dedicated to soupthis friendless, you ask? Well, after Roxy finds a secret passage muscle-free-zone have in her bathroom and meets a snarky young woman known only as Jones, she soon finds out why. Turns out, fairy tales are realactually managing that, and the Ministry’s official job is how could he possibly hope to safeguard all knowledge of them and monitor the living fairy tales. And, when an evil queen breaks out of a maximum-security prison and threatens to reinstate her reign of terror, Roxy and Jones hold the fate of the world in their young hands…so, no pressure then!succeed?|isbn=14063913791839945184

|authorisbn=Kat Dunn1635866847|title=Dangerous RemedyThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=TeensLifestyle|summary= It's Parisstrange, 1794the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Revolution is five years old and the country in the midst of violent political turmoil between the RevolutionariesLavender Companion'', trying to maintain their control by whatever means necessary, and I visited the Royalists, still loyal to monarchy intentauthor's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm. Caught in a no mancom/ website] and there's land between the two warring factions is the Battalion a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the Deadhomepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. Led by a disillusioned revolutionary (There's daughter, the band of outcasts have made a name for themselves rescuing innocent citizens from recipe in the violent fallout. But they may have gotten in over their heads with their latest rescuebook, Olympe, a girl which I'm avoiding with a disturbing history some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and powers that might just I was told to make her a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the spark corners of pages. You suspect that blows up the powder-keg smears of revolutionary Parisbutter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already. |isbn=1789543649

=='''13 MAY4 JULY'''==

|isbnauthor=B084VNRRD6Max Boucherat|title=Killing Mind (D I Kim Stone)|author=Angela Marsons|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It looked very like a suicide, and to begin with, that was how both DI Kim Stone and Keats, the pathologist called it. It was only later that Stone and her team realised that when Samantha Brown cut her throat, hers was not the only hand holding the knife. It was murder. Sammy's parents. Myles and Kate were a little bit reluctant to say what their daughter had been doing recently. The property where she was found was less homely than most hotel rooms: her mother was about to accuse her husband Last Life of saying that Sammy was ready... But what was Sammy ready ''for'' and where was their other daughter, Sophie?}} =='''14 MAY'''== {{Frontpage|isbn=1405946172|title=The Glass House|author=Eve ChaseLori Mills

|genre=Historical FictionConfident Readers|summary=Rita lost both her parents in a car crash when she was just six years old: since then We meet Lori on the first evening she's always craved a family. She'd lived with her grandmother in Torquay until she got a job as a nanny with the Harrington family house to herself – no neighbour to pop in London. Soon her engagement to Fred, a Torquay butcherbabysitter poorly, fell through and the Harringtons became her family. In 1971, after a fire mother at the London housework, Jeannie Harrington, her children, 13just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year-old Hera and 6-year-old Teddy, along with Rita went to the family's house in the Forest of Deanon her lonesome. It wasn't ''quite'' dilapidated, but it certainly wasn't the same standard as the London house had been before the fire.}} {{Frontpage|author= Alison Weir|title= Six Tudor Queens: Katheryn Howard The Tainted Queen|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary= ''Katheryn was seven when her mother died'', thus we are thrust into this tumultuous time What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in young Katheryn's life, trying to find a home, both figuratively and literallyblanket fort, where she can grow and grieve. Unfortunatelyhas one main intention, Katheryn is followed by bad luck and she learns an important lesson, she that is too young, too poor and too unimportant to be of any value log on to anyoneVoxminer, but she is beautiful and surely, that will count for something in the endworld-building, won't it?|isbn=1472227778}}{{Frontpage|author= Hana Tooke|title= The Unadoptables|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= In the winter of 1880, five babies are abandoned at the Little Tulip orphanage in Amsterdam, much to the annoyance of matron Gasbeek. Twelve years later, Milou, the last of the five babies to be abandoned back in critter-collecting game that winter, struggles to work out the identity of her parents from the clues she was abandoned with: is a small coffin with claw-marks on the outside, a cat doll made by someone called Bram Poppenmaker and a velvet blanket. She, along with the other four, patiently wait for Milouhit in Lori's parents to come back and take her homeworld. However, when the five children are sold to the dodgy merchant Meneer Rotman, they know they have to escape. And so begins the adventure of But first Lori has a lifetime as the Unadoptables join forces to reunite Milou with tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her parentsown, all the time being pursued by the Kinderbureau and Rotman…|isbn=0241417465}}{{Frontpage|author= Abi Elphinstone|title= Jungle Drop (The Unmapped Chronicles)|rating= 4|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Abi Elphinstone has said that then she connects with her world-building through her charactersfinds something even more spooky. In an interview with [Books For Keeps], the server she described visualising her characters "wearing head torches which gradually reveal the world they are seeing to and her bestie and nobody else should be able to the reader." Just as the darkness enter shows signs of a mine is cut through by a spear of light so too do quarrelsome Fox and Fibber get their first glimpse of the phantasmagorical glow-in-the-dark realm of Jungle Drop when they emerge through the mouth of a Dragon on the Here and There Expresstampering. Running from the opprobrium of their demanding and selfish parents, they must address what is in their hearts to find what they seek.|isbn= 1471173682}} =='''21 MAY'''== {{Frontpage|author= Maryse Condé|title= The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= We live in a post-world: post-colonialism, post-modernism, post-truth. The list goes When malevolent eyes spark up on. There are numerous works that utilise the prefix post- in their categorisation, but perhaps none more so than Maryse Condé. In her new novelphone screen, ''The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana'', Condé writes with fervour about her safe place in the scars left by colonialism on the countries to which it latched itself. Ivan and Ivana are twins born in Guadeloupegame has been doctored – well, where is a French overseas department. They grow up with intense and passionate feelings for each other. As they grow up and move overseas, the ravages of a post-colonial society drive them apart with tragic consequences.girl to turn?|isbn=16428606970008666482

|isbnauthor=B083Z3ZZ61Jenny Lecoat|title=Broken Silence (DS Nikki Parekh 2)|author=Liz MistryBeyond Summerland

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=When we first meet him Stefan Marcovici has been in the UK Jean lives on Jersey with his daughter Maria for a while. He came expecting to work as a gardener and Maria was to be a nanny. Stefan ends up doing slave labour in a chicken factory: you can imagine what happens to an eighteen-year-old girl.}} =='''16 JUNE'''== {{Frontpage|author= Ashley Poston|title= Bookish and the Beast|rating= 3.5|genre= Teens|summary= Set after the ExcelsiCon, we are introduced to Rosie Thorne, a Small Town, USA girl who has recently lost her mother and is entering her final year where they are celebrating the end of high schoolthe occupation. Things keep piling up for Rosie, and when she follows a stray dog into what she thinks is an abandoned castle in her town During the war, things just get worse. Rosie accidentally destroys a rare book and with her motherJean's hospital and funeral costs she has no money to cover the damage. She finds herself working father was arrested for Vance Reigns, Hollywood royalty on a paparazzi escape, listening to repay the debt.  For most Starfield superfans this would be a dream but Rosie soon realises Vance is a jerk - banned radio and he isn't too fond of her either. However, as the two are forced to get to know each othersoldiers took him away one night, their guards begin to lower leaving Jean and they discover that maybe this situation might not be so terrible after all. |isbn=1683691938}} =='''18 JUNE'''== {{Frontpage|author= Ukamaka Olisakwe|title= Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right|rating= 5|genre= Literary Fiction|summary= The new novel by Ukamaka Olisakwe is a look at the trauma and heartache her mother waiting for years for news of being a woman in 1980s Nigeriahim. The title is ''Ogadinma Or, Everything Will Be All Right''. Ogadinma is As the eponymous heroine of British finally free the story. We are with her in every scene and it is her narrative voice that leads Channel islands from the storyNazis, although Olisakwe writes in the third person. This provides a sense of detachment for the reader and highlights the isolation of Ogadinma. She war is exiled from her father's home and sent to Lagos where she is married to an older man named Tobe. Their marriage descends into violence and indignities and Ogadinma must utilise her resourcefulness to escape.|isbn=1911648160}} =='''9 JULY'''== {{Frontpage|author= Helly Acton|title= The Shelf|rating= 4|genre= Women's Fiction|summary= When we meet Amyfinally over, she's in a relationship with Jamie. You can't really call it a partnership, because things tend to get done on his terms, but she's sticking around because she their hopes she can change rise that they will finally learn what became of him. Ah But will the truth come as a relief, yes. Haven't we all been there? Things are looking up when he tells her to pack for a surprise trip. Could this be or will itraise further questions around what else happened during the war? Is he ''finally'' going to get down on one knee? Was Who was the informer who told the work (and Nazis about the wait) worth itradio?|isbn=1838770879}} =='''20 AUGUST'''== {{Frontpage|author=Jacqueline Wilson|title=Love Frankie|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary= Frankie is nearly fourteen. Being nearly fourteen is not easy when your mum has And what other secrets have been diagnosed with MS when your dad has decided to leave her for another woman, when your older sister has turned into kept throughout the girliest girl who ever lived, and, above all when Sally and her mates are bullying you at school. Oh, and when Sam, your best friend since forever, suddenly starts sending out signs that he might fancy you - and you don't fancy him back. Poor Frankie! occupation?|isbn= 0857535897 1846976537