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=='''28 MARCH23 MAY'''==
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|author=Robert DugoniOnyi Nwabineli|title=Her Deadly GameAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=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 in her twenties and she is slowly trying to 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 doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873}}=='''30 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Swanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary= Patrick Duggan & Associates has been It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the lifepolice station shouting that he hasn's work t killed the man. A body at the bottom of Patsy Duggan – rather charmingly nicknamed a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he'The Irish Brawler' due s been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his reputation for no holds barred courtroom performances in defence honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his clientsdaughter Samantha. Along with You would think he'd be grateful for an indisputable talent for easy answer but the law, Patsy also has a gift words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for drinking himself to oblivion and inevitably the latter was beginning each other. He's sleep-deprived to overshadow the former. Enter Keera Duggan, former competitive chess prodigy and proven Seattle Prosecutor who finds herself in the hideous position point of asking her father for a job falling asleep at the family firm work but he's determined to keep going - probably because a romantic entanglement with a senior colleague, Miller Ambrose, had gone, rather spectacularly, southhe can't get any sleep at home.|isbn=1662500181
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=='''30 MARCH4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=1398509582Stuart Douglas|title=The Favour|author=Nicci FrenchLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was 2 amDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', not long after A levels, when leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the car crash happenededge of a reservoir. It would cause problems for Liam Birch The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but then no one could really understand why something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he and Jude Winter were together. She was utterly driven by her determination enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to go to medical schoolhelp him investigate matters further. Liam was They travel across the reverse. He just acted ''as if life just rolled him over country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and carried him along'', seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. A bit of weed here, But is there really a few drinks there: the legal effects of link between the car crash really didn't worry him at all. deaths? The relationship broke up soon after that - or rather, Liam simply didn't see Jude any And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more.people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Julia BartzKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Writing RetreatDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary= Roza ValloMeet Kit. Anyone Like most of the people in the his world , it seems, he is an avid fan of publishing knows Dungeon Running – the name. Writers want sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to be herthe exit, agents want to represent herperhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. She Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's something seen of a legend with an impressivethe latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, if compacteaten, back catalogue and a new trio of works that started with her breakthrough novelquestors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, published when she was barely out he has taken to the goading from the token bully of childhoodhis world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. Alex What chance does this friendless, a writermuscle-slashfree-editor, is more than a little obsessed with Rozazone have in actually managing that, and is stunned when, following a series of unexpected events, she is invited how could he possibly hope to be part of her month-long writers' retreat.succeed?|isbn=08615444391839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Patrick Ness and Tea Bendix1635866847|title=Different for BoysThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens Lifestyle|summary=Ant is in Year Eleven at quite a standard school, and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is ever learnt) has been restructuredIt's strange, so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the football team, and two other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. As theythings that make you ''immediately''re all fired up, straining at feel that this is the leash only a single-sex school can form, the talk in class and out often turns to sexbook for you. Which is confusing for Ant, as he doesnBefore I started reading '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 the ladder headed by The Lavender Companion'experienced', but whether thatI visited the author's set in stone, he can't be sure[https://www. And that's mostly because of who he's been having the relationship and the sex withpinelavenderfarm.|isbn=1529509491}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0857051741|title=The Sins of Our Fathers: A Rebecka Martinsson Investigation|author= Asa Larsson com/ website] and Frank Perry (Translator)|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Lars Pohjanen has only a few weeks to live but hethere's determined that Rebecka Martinsson is going to investigate the case of a body found in a freezer at the home picture of a deceased alcoholic. The problem is that the case has long passed the statute slice of limitations. Raimo Koskela disappeared without a trace in 1962. He was chocolate cake on the father of Olympic boxing champion Borje Stromhomepage. Rebecka wants nothing to do with a fiftyI don't eat cakes and desserts -year-old case on which she can take no action: the problem is but I wanted that this is a dying mancake viscerally. (There's wish. The situation changes when a post-mortem establishes that Henry Pekkari, recipe in the dead alcoholicbook, was also murdered. Is there a connection between the two deaths?}}{{Frontpage|author=M R Carey|title=Infinity Gate|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= which I'm annoyingly picky when it comes to science fiction. Not because it's a genre avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I dislike – nothing of started reading the sort. My standards are high precisely because it's a hard genre to get right – book and when it's bad, it's often terrible. But the premise of Infinity Gate had me hooked. A concept this intriguing felt like a high-stakes gamble: if it I was done well, it'd be fantastic. So this is where I sum up that premise.|isbn=0356518043}}=='''6 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0861544056|title=Twin Truths|author=Jacqueline Sutherland|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Belle and David's twin daughters are just coming told to the end make a mess of their first term at universityit. Kit's been at Bristol and Jess's Notes in Exeterthe margins are sanctioned. It's not only You get to fold down the first time they've been away from their parents for any length corners of time - but they've also been apart from each otherpages. Belle can't wait to have them all to herself for You suspect that smears of butter would not be a whileproblem. Then Kit rings up - can she bring her boyfriend home with her? Belle would prefer that he didnI 't come but doesn't want to upset Kit. Ivo's apparently loved'older': he's twenty-four to Kit's eighteen but Belle figures that she can cope with that. And they'll be sharing a bedroomthis book already.
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=='''13 APRIL'''==
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|author=Jennifer Saint
|title=Atalanta
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=''I was as worthy as any one of them. I would get on board that ship, I vowed. I would take my place, not just in the name of the goddess. It was for the sake of my name, too. Atalanta''
 
Princess. Warrior. Lover. Hero.
Abandoned at birth for being born a daughter rather than a son, Atalanta is raised under the protective eye of the goddess Athemis and fashioned into a formidable huntress, one who longs for adventure. When the opportunity comes – to join the Argonauts, a fierce band of warriors, descendent from the Gods themselves – Atalanta seizes the chance to fight in Artemis' name and carve out her own legendary place in history. What follows is a whirlwind of challenges and discovery and through it, Atalanta must remember Artemis' fatal warning: that if she marries, it will be her undoing.|isbn=1472292154}}=='''11 MAY4 JULY'''==
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|author=Lex CroucherMax Boucherat|title=Gwen and Art Are Not in LoveThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Who knew that what I really needed We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCompop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? But honestly, it lifted my spirits Snuggled in a most delightful way. In this storyblanket fort, she has one main intention, Gwen and Arthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much that is to log on to their mutual disgust! GwenVoxminer, you seethe world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in love with Bridget (the kingdomLori's only female knight) - something that Art discovers from her private diariesworld. And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing But first Lori has a boy they tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find themselves becoming reluctant alliesherself entirely on her own, creating and then she finds something even more spooky. For the subterfuge server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of falling in love with each other, when really they are enabling their own other romantic attachmentstampering. But as their impending wedding draws ever closerWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, will they find a way and her safe place in which they can both truly be themselvesthe game has been doctored – well, or are they destined where is a girl to live a lie their whole livesturn?|isbn=15266517930008666482
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|author=Madelaine LucasJenny Lecoat|title=Thirst for Salt|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= ''Love, I'd read, was supposed to be a light and weightless feeling, but I had always longed for gravity'' Told from a retrospective view, a young woman unravels the year-long relationship that once defined her. Overlaid with later wisdom, the narrator relives the affair with a man twenty years her senior from its inception – the summer after finishing university – to its sorrowful end the summer after. Set against the backdrop of an isolated Australian coastal town ''Thirst for Salt'' details the 24-year-old narrator's deepening relationship with her older lover, depicting its all-consuming nature, how it changed her perspective on both romantic and familial relationships and how it altered her irrevocably.|isbn=0861546490}}=='''25 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Laura Noakes|title=Cosima Unfortunate Steals a StarBeyond Summerland
|rating=4
|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Number OneJean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. Or ratherDuring the war, Cosima Unfortunate. Or ratherJean's father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, just Cos to leaving Jean and her friendsmother waiting for years for news of him. The practice in the home she lives in is for As the girls to just be named by British finally free the number they correspond to in Channel islands from the ledgerNazis, and they're all Unfortunates – young people with disabilitiesthe war is finally over, uncommon mentalities or suchlike their hopes rise that Victorian society frowns greatly uponthey will finally learn what became of him. But Cosima bears will the tag truth come as a surname because nothing relief, or will it raise further questions around what else seems to be known about where she came from, as happened during the first ever inmate, and unique in having no known family in war? Who was the outside world. During a daring escapade to steal some posh cakes from informer who told the kitchen one afternoon, she discovers a plan involving said outside world – a devilish Lord Fitzroy seems to want to adopt all Nazis about the girls for his Institute. But why, and what does that body entailradio? And could it possibly bring Cos closer to what other secrets have been kept throughout the past she has so little link withoccupation?|isbn=00085790591846976537
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