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|author=Hadeer ElsbaiOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Daughters of IzdiharAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyGeneral Fiction|summary= Drawing inspiration from EgyptAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia''The Daughters s increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of IzdiharAnuri'' explores the lives of two women who could not be more different, yet find themselves fighting s childhood for the rights of women sponsorships and influencer deals and weavers – those with magical abilities - , basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in a society pitted against them. Nehalher twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, born into suing her step-mother to take down the upper classcontent about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, wishes to attend the Weaving Academy to learn failing to control start her abilities PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and then join the militaryreceiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, but instead she is forced into an arranged marriage with Nico. Giorgina on the other hand did not have a privileged upbringing like Nehal and feels great pressure to provide for desperately worried about her family and maintain their reputationlittle sister, whilst secretly attending meetings of who is the Daughters new focus of Izdihar – a group campaigning for womenOphelia's rightsonline empire. Giorgina also happens to be in love with Nico. What follows is a story of an unjust society Can she save her sister, filled with hypocrisy and cruelty, from which blossoms a group of admirable women fighting for their rights perhaps herself and overcoming their personal obstacles.her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=03565204710861546873

|isbn=178563335XB0CYV674G2|title=Sea DefencesSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Hilary TaylorDavid Blake|rating=3.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=When we first meet Rachel Bird she's a trainee vicarIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, sitting covered in on mud and blood - and carrying a PCC meeting and wondering why theyknife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn're held when you need to pick t killed the children upman. Her husband, Christopher, collects sixA body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church -year-old Hannah and her elder brother, Jamie, whilst Rachel holds a sobbing parishioner. Thelmahe's daughter-in-law won't let her see her grandsonbeen stabbed to death. HolthorpeDCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, on which coincided with the Norfolk coast, is a lovely place, birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but Rachel is struggling to develop a real bond with the parish - words 'perverse' and she'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's in awe sleep-deprived to the point of the vicar, Gail, falling asleep at work but then shehe's been doing the job for more than thirty years. Rachel and Christopher hoped that a walk on the beach would do them some good determined to keep going - it was stormy but it was probably what they needed. And then Hannah went missingbecause he can't get any sleep at home.

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|isbnauthor=1848458436Stuart Douglas|title=Just Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Nicest Couple|author=Mary KubicaDress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit'The whole thing has spiralled out of control, turning into someone I'm not.''  ''Just leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the Nicest Couple'' is dead body of a woman on the story edge of two couples: Christian and Lily Scott, and Nina and Jake Hayesa reservoir. The connection between police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the two is that Lily whole thing bothers Lowe, and Nina teach in he enlists the same school: Nina teaches English and Lily covers high school algebrahelp of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. The couples have mixed as They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a foursome but it's not a regular thinglink to death during the Second World War. Christian But is there really a market research analyst and Jake link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is a neurosurgeon: they don't have much in common except responsible before more people lose their wives. Lily hasn't said anything yet, but she's pregnant. She has a lengthy history of miscarriages so she doesn't want to tempt fate by making the knowledge public.lives?|isbn=1803368209

|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=Julia Bartz|title=The Writing Retreat|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary= Roza Vallo. Anyone in the world of publishing knows the name. Writers want to be her, agents want to represent her. She's something of as a legend with an impressiverelief, if compact, back catalogue of works that started with her breakthrough novel, published when she was barely out of childhood. Alex, a writer-slash-editor, is more than a little obsessed with Roza, and is stunned when, following a series of unexpected events, she is invited to be part of her month-long writers' retreat.|isbn=0861544439}}{{Frontpage|author=Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Different for Boys|rating=4.5|genre=Teens |summary=Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, 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 kept throughout the relationship and the sex with.occupation?|isbn=15295094911846976537