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=='''1 JANUARY23 MAY'''==

|isbnauthor=1542037239Onyi Nwabineli|title=Death in Heels|author=Kitty Murphy|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Set against the backdrop of Dublin's drag scene, ''Death in Heels'' tells the story of Fi McKinnery and her best friend, Robyn, who is about to debut as drag queen Mae B. What is meant to be a night of excitement soon takes a downward turn when fellow drag queen, Eve, takes Allow Me to the stage to mock Mae B. As if the night could not get any worse, when Fi heads home she discovers Eve dead in a gutter. Fi is adamant that Eve was murdered, yet the drag community, and the Guards, accept it as an accident. Fi takes it upon herself to solve the mystery as she fears for her friends, but instead ruins relationships as she delves deeper.}}=='''5 JANUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Nigel Baines|title=A Tricky Kind of MagicIntroduce Myself

|genre=Emerging ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Cooper loves Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to perform magic tricksher 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. His father was a magicianNow Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, and named Cooper after suing her step-mother to take down the great Tommy Coopercontent about her. But sadly Cooper's father died suddenlyAnuri is battling alcoholism, and now Cooper doesn't quite know who failing to bestart her PhD, or how to beundergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. And when his dadMost importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's prop rabbit starts talking to himonline empire. Can she save her sister, he ''really'' doesn't know what's going on anymore!and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=14449602610861546873

=='''12 JANUARY30 MAY'''==

|authorisbn=Sarah Todd TaylorB0CYV674G2|title=Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! A Spoonful of SpyingSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=[[Alice Eclair, Spy Extraordinaire! It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A Recipe for Trouble by Sarah Todd Taylor|Last time around]]man, Alice Eclair had to prove herself as a spy covered in mud and as a master at all things French blood - and fancy and fondant, as the only way to save the day involved being an expert baker and icer on the French railways. Here, we start on carrying a bateau-mouche in Parisknife, and even though comes into the espionage isnpolice station shouting that he hasn't a complete success it proves to Alice and her handlers that things are afootkilled the man. And there will never be more feet than A body at the Worldbottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's Fairbeen stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, reviving which coincided with the huge expo that gave birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the city the Eiffel Tower words 'perverse' and this time showing all her interwar glories off to the world'John Tanner' were made for each other. Once again Alice will have He's sleep-deprived to present the front point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to the world of being a humble yet worldkeep going -class cake decorator, while seeking out cluesprobably because he can't get any sleep at home. At stake? Pioneering flight technology that the enemy just cannot be allowed to smuggle out…|isbn=1839940972

|author=Hadeer ElsbaiStuart Douglas|title=The Daughters of IzdiharLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= Drawing inspiration from Egypt, During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'The Daughters of IzdiharFloggit and Leggit'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting for leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the rights dead body of women and weavers – those with magical abilities - in a society pitted against them. Nehal, born into the upper class, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn to control her abilities and then join the military, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina woman on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for her family and maintain their reputation, whilst secretly attending meetings of the Daughters edge of Izdihar – a group campaigning for women's rightsreservoir. Giorgina also happens The police seem happy to be in love with Nico. What follows is a story of assign it as an unjust societyaccidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from which blossoms a group he enlists the help of admirable women fighting for their rights and overcoming their personal obstacles.|isbn=0356520471}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178563335X|title=Sea Defences|author=Hilary Taylor|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicarfellow actor, sitting in on a PCC meeting and wondering why they're held when you need John Le Breton to pick the children uphelp him investigate matters further. Her husbandThey travel across the country during their days off filming, Christopher, collects six-year-old Hannah uncovering more possible murders and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelma's daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandson. Holthorpe, on the Norfolk coastseemingly, is a lovely place, but Rachel is struggling link to develop a real bond with death during the parish - and she's in awe of the vicar, Gail, but then she's been doing the job for more than thirty yearsSecond World War. Rachel and Christopher hoped that But is there really a walk on link between the beach would do them some good - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. deaths? And then Hannah went missing.will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

=='''19 JANUARY6 JUNE'''==

|author=Heather FawcettKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of FaeriesDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Emily Wilde Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an expert academic scholar on faerie loreavid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and she has travelled extensivelyhealer enter specially prepared, and researched meticulouslycentury-old, to write her life's workmagical mazes, the very first encyclopaedia of faeries. Whilst she is brilliant at research and speaking race to faeriesthe exit, she is not so good perhaps bothering with peoplethe treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. So when she finds herself farUnfortunately for Kit, far North in the small village only thing he's seen of Hrafvsnik, having somehow offended the village matriarch, she latest race on the inn TV equivalent is not sure what she that one team has donebeen retired, eaten, nor how to redeem herself and put her final investigations for her book back on the right tracka new trio of questors is needed. Enter Wendell BamblebyPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, her dashingly handsome he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and insufferable rival who arrives unexpectedly, all charm and delight, much to Emilystumbled into declaring he's frustrationll enter as a team. But why is he here? What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he want? And what exactly is going on with the faerie folk around Hravsnikpossibly hope to succeed?|isbn=03565191201839945184

|authorisbn=Joe Thomas1635866847|title=White RiotThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary= Whenever anyone writes fiction about politics thereIt's always strange, the danger of making it too reactionary; too raw. Knee-jerk observations and hot takes things that donmake you ''immediately''t age well or properly capture feel that this is the spirit of book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the momentauthor's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm. It takes com/ website] and there's a truly talented writer to be able to capture the zeitgeist picture of a particular event or era slice of political historychocolate cake on the homepage. Austerity Britain, the student riots, Donald Trump, Brexit – so much of what is, I don't eat cakes and has been, written desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the immediate aftermath of these phenomena has been proven by time to be frothy and insubstantial and ultimately not particularly powerful or incisive. Inevitably (and perhaps disappointingly for people who do enjoy fiction of this nature)book, the best writing about current political events is that which is written when I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the events book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in question the margins are no longer current and when time and experience has afforded sanctioned. You get to fold down the writer the benefit corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a more objective viewproblem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn= 1529423376

|isbnauthor=1529421241Max Boucherat|title=Stay Buried|author=Kate WebbThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=DI Matt Lockyer is We meet Lori on Major Crime Review which sounds quite grand until you realise that itthe first evening she's actually 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 cold case unit blanket fort, she has one main intention, and there are just two of them doing that is to log on to Voxminer, the jobworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. LockyerBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn's not unduly worriedt find herself entirely on her own, though although he's not quite so sure about DC Gemma Broad: and then she's probably capable of finds something bettereven more spooky. It was a bit of a shock when he got For the phone call from Hedy Lambert: server she's in H M Prison Eastwood Park for murder - and it was Lockyer who put her there, fourteen years agobestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. She's keen to see him When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and to tell him that her safe place in the man everyone thought she'd murdered - but the body turned out game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to be someone else - has returned home after being away for decades.turn?|isbn=0008666482

|author=Jeremy Dronfield and David Ziggy GreeneJenny Lecoat|title=Fritz and KurtBeyond Summerland

|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=We start Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the pair end of brothers Fritz and Kurt, and their muckers, doing things any Jewish lad in 1930s Vienna would want to do – kicking things around the empty market place, helping the neighbours, being dutiful when it comes to the synagogue choir and at a vocational schooloccupation. Kurt has to make sure During the lamps are turned on at their very Orthodox neighbourswar, Jean' each Friday night – the Sabbath preventing them s father was arrested for using anything nearly as mechanical listening to a banned radio and workmanlike as a light switch. But this is the time just before the Austrian leader is going to cave to Hitler's willsoldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and instead her mother waiting for years for news of having a national vote to keep the Nazis out, invite them in with open armshim. ''Kristallnacht'' happened in Vienna just as much as in Germany, as did all As the round-ups of Jews. These in their turn leave British finally free the younger Kurt at home with his mother and sisters anxious to hear word of an evacuation to Britain or Channel islands from the USNazis, while Fritz and his father arethe war is finally over, unknown initially to each other, packed off on the same train to Buchenwald and the stone quarry theretheir hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. And us wondering how But will the titular event for the adult variant of all this could truth come about…|isbn=024156574X}} =='''2 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Different for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens |summary=Ant is in Year Eleven at quite as a standard schoolrelief, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which or will it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructured, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from raise further questions around what else happened during the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. war? As they're all fired up, straining at Who was the leash only a single-sex school can form, informer who told the talk in class and out often turns to sex. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesn't know what his score is, where his achievements in that regard lie. He's had a casual relationship, a secret one, for several months now, and so has effectively progressed up Nazis about the ladder headed by 'experienced', but whether that's set in stone, he can't be sure. radio? And that's mostly because of who he's what other secrets have been having the relationship and kept throughout the sex with.occupation?|isbn=15295094911846976537