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=='''4 FEBRUARY30 MAY'''==
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|isbn=1471191303B0CYV674G2|title=The Invisible|author=Tom Percival|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=This is the story of Isobel, a little girl who made a big difference. Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on: ''Ice curled across the inside of the window and crept up the corner of the bedpost.'' The family didn't go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy. Then the day came when they couldn't afford the rent for the house and they had to move to the far side of the city. This part of the city was cold, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1838773428|title=The Art of DeathSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David FennellBlake|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was seemed like an art installation of the type which does appear in Trafalgar Square: a depiction of three homeless men in glass cabinets surrounded by liquidopen-and-shut case. Only this time it's not a depiction: these are the bodies of Billy PerrinA man, Stan Buxton covered in mud and 34blood -year-old Noel Tipping. The installation is the work of @nonymous, underground artist and extreme version of Banksy. He's made carrying a macabre promise: more will follow. In factknife, wecomes into the police station shouting that he hasn've already met t killed the artist although not by name: man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been in the Lumberyard Cafe with stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his Moleskine notebookhoneymoon, Maki-e fountain pen, MacBook Air and iPhone. Elaine Kelly is there which coincided with her son, Jordan, and she's explaining to her best friend, Jackie Morris about the state birth of her marriagehis daughter Samantha. Actually, it doesnYou would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner't take a lot of explaining: Frankwere made for each other. He's attentions are obvious on her face despite sleep-deprived to the foundation shepoint of falling asleep at work but he's applied. Chau Ho is behind the counter. Theredetermined to keep going - probably because he can's someone online, CassandraH, that the artist has his eye on, toot get any sleep at home.
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=1787477800Stuart Douglas|title=The Night Hawks (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly GriffithsLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The night hawks are metal detectorists During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and theyLeggit're out on Blakeney Point where they suspect that there's treasure to be found. Unfortunately, leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the youngest of the group, twenty-one-year-old Troy Evans, finds the dead body of a man floating woman on the incoming tideedge of a reservoir. After pulling The police seem happy to assign it ashoreas an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, they call and he enlists the policehelp of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. DCI Nelson thinks that it's probably They travel across the body of an asylum seeker but there's no evidence of any activity country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to be had from death during the coastguardSecond World War. The dead man turns out But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to be Jem Taylor, a North Norfolk man recently released from prison.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=1529378648Saima Mir|title=Slough House (Jackson Lamb 7)|author=Mick HerronVengeance|rating=43.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Someone is killing secret service agents, past and present, from I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the Slough House teamnorth of England run by a Muslim woman. Jackson Lamb canThe fact that it was the second in a series I hadn't understand it. Well, what he actually canread didn't understand is why, having seen them, anyone would bother. But the deaths are mounting up and something needs to be done. After all ''when things went awry on Spook Street, they generally went the full Chris Grayling.'stop me – I' Over at Regent's Park, Diana Taverner is quietly jubilant about an operation which saw the perpetrator of ve jumped midway into a Novichok poisoning in the UK few series before (three people seriously injured on page and one deadscreen) dispatched. It isnand it needn't just the message that was sent: shebe a hindrance if it's also delighted good enough. And that she managed to fund the operation off the books. Some private money was brought in. She wonwasn't always be so jubilant about thisa problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and I never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561
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|author=Helen Fisher|title=Space Hopper|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Faye lost her mum when she was very young. She was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from a cold that got worse, and although they were kind and very good to her she of course missed her mum enormously. So when, unexpectedly, she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) that takes her back to the 70's and her mum, she revels in the chance to create some memories and get to know the woman who meant so much to her. The time travelling, however, is neither easy nor safe, and Faye fears that her husband won't believe what's happening and so lies to him instead. The lies grow more tangled, and Faye begins to wonder if it's safe for her to return one last time to the past. Should she try to see her mum one last time before her mum's death, or will it change her own future forever to attempt it?|isbn=1471188663}}{{Frontpage|author=Francesca Simon and Steve May|title=Two Terrible Vikings|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=In a small Viking village there live two twins, Hack and Whack, who are eager to be the very worst Vikings ever! Nothing can stop their mad marauding, as they cause havoc at a birthday party, chaos whilst tracking a troll, and undertake a grand journey to raid Bad Island with their friends! They get up to all kinds of mischief Kieran Larwood and naughty behaviour, along with their wolf-cub BiteyJoe Todd-Bitey, and their crazy cast of friends.|isbn=0571349498}}=='''18 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1471187179Stanton|title=A Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel HoreDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=April's fatherMeet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, a scientistit seems, has been given he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a job on a remote island called Bear Islandteam of warrior, mage and he accepts the job deciding to take his daughter April with him. They live alone anywayhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, since April's mother died some time beforemagical mazes, and he feels it will be educational for her race to experience the island exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and all its natural beautythe points they grant you along the way. April already has an affinity with natureUnfortunately for Kit, and shethe only thing he's excited to travel with her father, thinking seen of all the fun things they will be able to experience together latest race on the islandinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. But when they get therePossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, her father finds that his work monitoring and recording he has taken to the goading from the temperatures just takes up too much token bully of his time, world and so April is left to explore by herselfstumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. Her father had reassured her What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that there were no longer any bears living on Bear Island, but one day April thinks she catches a glimpse of one, and so she sets out to find the Bear, and then when she sees how could he is injured, possibly hope to befriend and help him.succeed?|isbn=000841128X1839945184
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|author=Saima MirJenny Valentine|title=The KhanUs in the Before and After
|rating=5
|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by the motto be twice as good as men Elk and four times Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as good as white men. This has served her well in her rise through the criminal justice system and by the time she is called home for her sisterchildren one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exile, she is contact details at the top of her gametime. But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Returning to the city of her birth Something has happened though, to old scars something terrible and fresh woundstragic, Jia and now they must confront her past work through their grief, and reconcile her visions for the future with her sense of honour and dutytheir friendship, together.|isbn=17860790971471196585
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)1635866847|title=If You Kept a Record of SinsThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary FictionLifestyle|summary=This was an incredibly readable novellaIt's strange, but one the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that left me a little conflictedthis is the book for you. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airport Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and before we even know his gender or the nature of the person hethere's addressing in his second person monologue a picture of a narration, we see him picked up by his motherslice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don's chauffeur, t eat cakes and carted off to do all the necessary introductions before said mother is buried the following daydesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. The mother was (There's a businesswomanrecipe in the book, who clearly left northern Italy and settled in Romania which I'm avoiding with her (night-time and businesssome difficulty!!) partner, Then I started reading the book and feelings I was told to make a mess of abandonment are still strongit. And so we flit from current (well, this came out Notes in the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the ladcorners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved's childhood, and see just what he has to tell her as a private farewell address' this book already.|isbn=1939810965
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=='''4 JULY'''==
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|author=Mary H.K. ChoiMax Boucherat|title=YolkThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Jayne Baek is a fashion student that's barely getting by4. She drinks. She smokes. She makes bad decisions about the men she sleeps with. She's an all-round messy character; and that's her charm. June, on the other hand, is a complete contrast to Jayne. She's a typical older sister: she's smart, thinks she knows it all, and has a successful job. She constantly criticises Jayne for her life choices, and the two have barely kept in contact despite living in the same city for the past two years. This is until June finds out she's sick, and Jayne is the only person she can turn to. The two sisters have to come together and decide how far they'll go to save each other's lives – even if it means swapping identities.|isbn= 0349003696}} =='''18 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Danny Wallace and Gemma Correll|title=The Day the Screens Went Blank|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Stella and her family. TheyWe meet Lori on the first evening she're just innocently trying s got the house to have a Sunday evening in together, watching a film herself – using three different screens no neighbour to watch three different thingspop in, mind – when ''poof'' everything goes blank. And it's not just their homebabysitter poorly, but the entire south-western village of Mouseholemother at work, and not just thatan avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, either, but the whole country, if not worldon her lonesome. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping they're first to get What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a screen backblanket fort, she has one main intention, and not what they were constantly doing that is to log on them before. Toasters can toastto Voxminer, but TVs cannot do the V part of their jobworld-building, and no computer can show its computations. You might think this critter-collecting game that is going to be a social comedy about people stuck hit in such Lori's world. But first Lori has a Luddite experience against their willtiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, but noand then she finds something even more spooky. For the family finally remember Stella's grandma, server she and see if they can get across country to her. Hence this has bestie and nobody else should be able to go down as a road-trip bookenter shows signs of tampering. But not just thatWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, a slapstick road-trip comedy. And more than thatand her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, too – for it's where is a slapstick, high-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart that kids of all ages will love.girl to turn?|isbn=14711968870008666482
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|author=Dean KoontzJenny Lecoat|title=The Other EmilyBeyond Summerland
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=This book lets us discover several people in different stages Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connectedoccupation. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then)During the war, a girl in a humdrum job wanting Jean's father was arrested for listening to become a singer, banned radio and chiefly, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Readersoldiers took him away one night, Palmist leaving Jean and Clairvoyant'', to use her family's sea-front boothmother waiting for years for news of him. The singer, As the British finally free the scryer and Channel islands from the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday campNazis, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for and the first time in the family stall. We also see her on her last daywar is finally over, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters their hopes rise that they will change everything for a woman called Billiefinally learn what became of him. Just who is sheBut will the truth come as a relief, and or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who delivered told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets about her to Imelda, and why did it have to remain a secret all this timebeen kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=152937331X1846976537
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