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=='''10 JUNE23 MAY'''==
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|author=C J CareyOnyi Nwabineli|title=WidowlandAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=ItAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's April 1953increasingly popular presence on social media, and Adolf Hitlerwhere she posted every step of Anuri's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to Londonchildhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, parading around a bitbasically, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallismonetary gain. For yes, Britain caved Now Anuri is in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, her twenties and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But this she is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, slowly trying to regain her confidence and ideas of female purposeto get her life back, has put all of that gender into a caste system, ranging from highsuing her step-brow office bigwigs mother to the drudges, and beyond those, right on take down to the childless, the husbandless and the widowscontent about her. Female literacy Anuri is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransombattling alcoholism, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature failing to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be bannedstart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and not every story excised immediately receiving money from British civilisation, and them for doing so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her joblittle sister, at least, until who is the first emerging signs new focus of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil HitlerOphelia's visitonline empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=152941198X0861546873
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=='''30 MAY'''==
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|authorisbn=Terry MilesB0CYV674G2|title=RabbitsSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=Welcome to the world of The Game. Or should that be the game, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower It seemed like an open-and-shut case throughout this book. It's also called RabbitsA man, although only as covered in mud and blood - and carrying a slangy term for it – as far as anyone knowsknife, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and to comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the average person no obvious entry pointman. A bit like body at the game bottom of life thena freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. Yes, this DCI John Tanner is the game of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracyjust back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the computer game, the hack from the darkest birth of webshis daughter Samantha. People like our hero, K, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to You would think he'd be historians of the game, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, grateful for an easy answer but the lists of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, words 'perverse' and are still very short. However this time it's differentJohn Tanner' were made for each other. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken itHe's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in trying sleep-deprived to sort out what the game is doing, if itpoint of falling asleep at work but he's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, determined to keep going - probably because he is only to find out that the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed..can't get any sleep at home.|isbn=1529016932
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=1409181669Stuart Douglas|title=The Maidens|author=Alex MichaelidesLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Mariana was convinced that Professor During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to get away with them both. She needed to think carefully about what she knew and decide how she should proceed. Everything - or so she thought - had begun with Lowe stumbles across the death dead body of Tara Hampton a woman on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridgeedge of a reservoir. She'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana's niece, Zoe, had telephoned her in distress. Tara had been her best friend and she was struggling to cope. Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' The police seem happy about having to go to Cambridgeassign it as an accidental death, but she caught something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the first fast train from King's Crosshelp of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more so by the death of Mariana's husbandpossible murders and, Sebastianseemingly, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlierlink to death during the Second World War. Zoe had been But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoe's mother and Mariana's sister, Eliza.lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Maisie ChanKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Danny Chung Does Not Do MathsDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Danny Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is eleven years an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and what he reallyrace to the exit, really loves to do is drawperhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. He creates fantastical comicsUnfortunately for Kit, whilst his best friend Ravi adds the words. Dannyonly thing he's dad, however, wants Danny to concentrate seen of the latest race on his maths, and forget about the drawinginn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, because he says nobody can make a living from drawing! At least Danny has his own roomeaten, where he can draw in secret and in peacea new trio of questors is needed. But then one day his parents tell him they have a surprise Possibly very unfortunately indeed for himKit, and this surprise turns out he has taken to be his grandmother who has come over the goading from China to live with them, and who will not only be sharing Danny's bedroom but she will also be sleeping on the top bunk token bully of his bunk bed! Danny is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no English, world and Danny finds himself forced stumbled into being her babysitter, and showing her around the towndeclaring he'll enter as a team. Poor DannyWhat chance does this friendless, stuck on a maths project, frustrated with his bedroom situationmuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and then how could he even has a falling out with Ravi...how on earth will things ever get betterpossibly hope to succeed?!|isbn=180078001X1839945184
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=='''17 13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Joseph Knox1635866847|title=True Crime Story|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary= Joseph Knox, known for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waits, has created a new genre with his latest novel, "True Crime Story". The story follows the disappearance of Zoe Nolan from her university halls of residence. Split into four parts, the reader is taken through the life and disappearance of Zoe through the eyes of her twin sister, other family, friends and professionals, such as the police. The various accounts help the reader get to know Zoe, or at least the Zoe she presented to others. However, the twists and turns at the end of each chapter leave you shocked, confused and unsure of what is true or fabricated. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=0857527703}} =='''24 JUNE'''=={{FrontpageLavender Companion|author=Catherine Steadman|title=The Disappearing ActJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersLifestyle|summary= British actress Mia Eliot It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is on the cusp of success. Great success. If the rumours are true, award season is going to treat her well, acknowledging her book for her latest, critically acclaimed productionyou. She Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion''s going places but so, unfortunately, is her partner. And I visited the places heauthor's going take him towards lies, deceit [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a pretty young thing in slice of chocolate cake on the form of his new cohomepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts -starbut I wanted that cake viscerally. It (There's a good time for Mia to escaperecipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and pilot season I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in LA provides just the excusemargins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=1471189783
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=='''1 4 JULY'''==
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|author=Darren ShanMax Boucherat|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 The Last Life of 3Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=The second trilogy in ShanWe meet Lori on the first evening she's ''Merge'' saga opens with our herogot the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, Archiejust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, back in London 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 of the Born. It-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's not been easy, explaining to his foster parents where heworld. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn's beent find herself entirely on her own, or slipping back into ordinary life and forgetting about Inez then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and his other friends in the Mergenobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, but Archie and her safe place in the game has done his best.... been doctored – well, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Ben's clock tower and except for fiddling with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak away.where is a girl to turn?|isbn=B093H8DPQZ0008666482
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|author=Hannah PeckJenny Lecoat|title=Kate on the Case|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Kate, although I got the impression she'd rather be a Catherine – and one specific Catherine at that. For Catherine Rodriguez is Kate's idol, and the author of our heroine's favourite possession, ''The Special Correspondent Manual''. Armed with a plucky father, that book, and her talking mouse called Rupert, she is all equipped to manage a train ride to the Arctic, to see her scientist mother for the first time in yonks. However, this is a train ride with a difference, for on board is a greedy-seeming harridan and her cat, a thief – and two glowing eyes, shining from the darkness in a blink-and-you'll-miss-them style. It's definitely a case for a new young investigative journalist...|isbn=184812970X}} =='''13 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Sarah Langan|title=Good Neighbours|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= If you're of a certain vintage, it's hard to read the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a sing-song ''that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. Maple Street is no Ramsay Street, though, Arlo and Gertie live a world apart from the Melbourne suburbs. They're one of 18 households on the crescent, quite new arrivals having moved in a year earlier. They're not quite like all the other families (he's an ex rocker, she's a former beauty queen) but they've made some friends and their kids have settled in, and it's all going ok. Until it isn't. One hot, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up in the park across the way. It's a revolting mess of dirt and chaos, but for the residents of Maple Street, the worst is yet to come.|isbn=1789098211}}=='''14 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Eshman Smith|title=Word of Another Nature|rating=3.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=''Why does mass protest continually fail to fundamentally change thedirection of the modern world?'' This is the question Eshman Smith asks in Word of an Other Nature. He's right to wonder since we as humans often seem to be making a pretty bad job of our efforts to create a world of peace, stability and prosperity for all. |isbn=B093B2L1Z4}} =='''15 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Emily Critchley|title=The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary= The Tiny Gestures of Small Flowers had all the hallmarks of something good. I was intrigued by the plot, liked the design of the book, and thought the author's work sounded interesting. From the outset it all looked incredibly promising. So what on earth went wrong here?|isbn= 1911427091}} =='''22 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)|title=Girls Who Lie|rating=3|genre=Thrillers|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all the dark corners of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before now. You think, seeing on the map that we're set in Akranes, and finding it's only twenty kilometres from the capital city, that this author is clutching at the few final straws left. However just because the book aims for the usual small-town feel, it's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago a woman failed to turn up for her date evening, and was never seen again. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently with the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for the girl back, and a couple of delighted adopters. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until it stopped all of a sudden, in one place, the woman's car was found miles away in a second place, and now, after six months, the body has been discovered, in a third, even more remote place. Meanwhile, this narrative is interrupted by a confessional monologue from a mother who found herself with heavy post-natal depression, and very little maternal feeling in her body. Is the assumption that is so easy for the reader to make the right one?|isbn=191319373X}}{{Frontpage|author=Claire North|title=Notes from the Burning AgeBeyond Summerland
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Meet George Cleverley. He is self-defined as "one of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without a criminal record". He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him she's carrying his child, but then his author wife is getting her kicks Jean lives on Jersey with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. They have three children, who mother where they are a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save celebrating the world's homeless with out-end of-date food, and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thingoccupation. Add in a few other characters – therapists During the war, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections Jean's father was arrested for listening to his lifea banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to her mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the modern world. What suggests Channel islands from the farcical approach even moreNazis, however, is and the fact this war is bloody funny.|isbn=0857526219}}{{Frontpage|author=Louise Candlish|title=The Heights|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Ellen doesn't expect to see Kieran finally over, their hopes rise that daythey will finally learn what became of him. She's on site, visiting a client for But will the truth come as a lighting consultation when she spies him in a building across the way. There are lots of things, lots of people, you might see when you look out across Londonrelief, but this isn't one Ellen expected that day or in fact any 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 day. Whysecrets have been kept throughout the occupation? Because Kieran has been dead for over two years, and Ellen knows this for a fact, because she had a hand in his murder.|isbn=14711834831846976537
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