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=='''11 MARCH30 MAY'''==

|isbn=0857527231B0CYV674G2|title=Dog DaysSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Ericka WallerDavid Blake|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=George Dempsey is exceedingly angryIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. It's eight days since his wifeA man, Ellencovered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, died and it's comes into the first time police station shouting that shehe hasn's let him downt killed the man. HeA body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's lostbeen stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, bereft without her ( which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he 'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'needs his wife, like a snail needs its shellperverse'and '). He misses their ordered life and rather than bringing him meals to leave on the doorstep, heJohn Tanner'd much rather have a good row with someonewere made for each other. He's particularly angry about the dachshund puppy which Helen brought home just three weeks before she died. She even dared sleep-deprived to contradict him when he told her that the dog wasn't staying. Now point of falling asleep at work but he's lumbered with a dog determined to keep going - probably because he doesncan't want and a load of busybodies who are trying to interfere in his life. Worst of all is Betty, who won't take no for an answer. Betty knits jumpers for Lucky, her greyhound. Lucky spends a lot of time trying to escape from and destroy themget any sleep at home.

|isbn=1529109116|title=Call Me Red: A Shepherd's Journey|author=Hannah Jackson|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=''I want the image of a British farmer to simply be that of a person who is proudly employed in feeding the nation. I don't think that is too much to ask.'' The stereotypical farmer was probably born on the land where ''his'' family have farmed for generations. He's probably grown up without giving much thought as to what he really wants to do: he knows that he'll be a farmer. It's not always the case though. Hannah Jackson was born and brought up on the Wirral: she'd never set foot on a commercial farm until she was twenty although she'd always had a deep love of animals. Her original intention was that she would become 'Dr Jackson, whale scientist' and she was well on her way to achieving this when her life changed on a family holiday to the Lake District. She saw a lamb being born and, although 'Hannah Jackson, farmer' lacked the kudos of her original intention, she knew that she wanted to be a shepherd. With the determination that you'll soon realise is an essential part of her, she set about achieving her ambition.}} =='''18 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Danny Wallace and Gemma CorrellStuart Douglas|title=The Day the Screens Went Blank|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Stella Lowe and her family. They're just innocently trying to have a Sunday evening in together, watching a film – using three different screens to watch three different things, mind – when ''poof'' everything goes blank. And it's not just their home, but the entire southLe Breton Mysteries -western village of Mousehole, and not just that, either, but the whole country, if not world. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping they're first to get a screen back, and not what they were constantly doing on them before. Toasters can toast, but TVs cannot do Death at the V part of their job, and no computer can show its computations. You might think this is going to be a social comedy about people stuck in such a Luddite experience against their will, but no. For the family finally remember Stella's grandma, and see if they can get across country to her. Hence this has to go down as a road-trip book. But not just that, a slapstick road-trip comedy. And more than that, too – for it's a slapstick, high-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart that kids of all ages will love.|isbn=1471196887}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1913193527|title=Bound (Detective Sam Shephard)|author=Vanda SymonDress Rehearsal|rating=43.5

|summary=Dunedin was shocked when it heard During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the murder edge of a wealthy and apparently respectable businessman out at Seacliffreservoir. His wife had been bound and gagged and placed so that she was forced The police seem happy to watch assign it as an accidental death, but something about the murderwhole thing bothers Lowe, with and he enlists the scene being discovered by their son, Declanhelp of a fellow actor, when he returned home from an evening out. The subsequent investigation would prove that John Henderson had been involved in some activities which might have been considered shady and certainly questionable if not illegalLe Breton to help him investigate matters further. His companyThey travel across the country during their days off filming, Eros Global, manufactured and marketed ''vitamin-type supplements uncovering more possible murders and, wellseemingly, sexual enhancers, that kind of thing'', as Henderson's employee, Blair Harvey-Boyd explaineda link to death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

 =='''23 MARCH6 JUNE'''==

|author=Dean KoontzSaima Mir|title=The Other EmilyVengeance|rating=43.5

|summary=Our hero David Thorne is I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an author, who shares his life between organised crime syndicate in the two US coastsnorth of England run by a Muslim woman. ItThe fact that it was the second in a series I hadn't read didn's the western coast wet stop me – I're concerned with, ve jumped midway into a place he has to return to, few series before (on page and screen) and a place he has to it needn't be able to leave. David lost contact with his partner there ten years ago, when she vanished from a remote road late at nighthindrance if it's good enough. HeAnd that wasn's paying for contact with the man he thinks the only suspect, t a lifer now, who went a bit Hannibal Lecter, and has a dozen and more unfound Jane Does on his recordproblem here. David is trying Vengeance swiftly brings you up to pry the connection between the murderer speed, and his girl from the man's mind, but to no availI never felt lost. He's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting image, the very embodiment, the virtual resurrection, of his love. What is a man to do?|isbn=15420199580861541561

|isbnauthor=B08R7LXQ9SKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=RemyDungeon Runners: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline SiegalHero Trial

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=Remy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''Meet Kit. The school bully Jayden, together with Like most of the people in his sidekicks Ryan and Brandonworld, have been laughing at Remyit seems, calling him names because he is short an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to wind up Remy when nobody can see the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and then push him just that little bit further when the other kids are aroundpoints they grant you along the way. So Unfortunately for Kit, when Remy reacts, it looks as though the only thing he was 's seen of the latest race on the instigatorinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. And then Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he gets has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into trouble at school declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and the teachers don't believe him when how could he tries possibly hope to explain what happened.succeed?|isbn=1839945184

|author=Ruth HoganJenny Valentine|title=Madame Burova|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), a girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to use her family's sea-front booth. The singer, the scryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stall. We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, Us in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is she, and who delivered the secrets about her to Imelda, and why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|isbn=152937331X}} =='''14 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author=Polly Barton|title=Fifty Sounds|rating=4.5|genre=Politics and Society|summary= Where do I start? I could start with where Barton herself starts, with the question ''Why Japan?'' Japan has been on my radar for a while and if the world hadn't gone into melt-down I would have visited by now. I may get there later this year, but I am not hopeful. And like Barton, I don't know the answer to the question ''why Japan?'' She explains her feelings in respect of the question in the first essay, which is on the sound ''giro' '' – which she describes as being, among other things, the sound of ''every party where you have to introduce yourself''.|isbn=1913097501}} =='''15 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author=Lucy Holland|title=Sistersong|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Sistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, the modern retelling of folk and fairy tales. These stories, for most of us, are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating the role of women. Sistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done well, the plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to come to life, to feel real and human, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to end.|isbn=1529039037}}{{Frontpage|author=Goldy Moldavsky|title=The Last Girl|rating=5|genre=teens|summary= Rachel Chavez is the new girl at Manchester Prep. A school filled to the brim with the richest children in the city – and Rachel doesn't belong. She's not rich, she has no ties to some royal family in Serbia, and most of all, she spends the majority of her spare time watching horror movies as a source of comfort. She struggles to find anyone to connect with, until one day she stumbles upon the Mary Shelley Club. A secret society with one aim: pull off the best prank in true horror movie style, and unless someone screams, you have failed. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed in the competition. But as the pranks escalate, and Rachel finally feels like she has found her place in this school, things start to go wrong; a masked figure keeps showing up to the pranks, and people begin to get hurt. When the competition then takes a deadly turn, Rachel must figure out who this masked figure is before it's too late.|isbn=0755501527}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Sultoon|title=The Source|rating=2.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=1996. Essex. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in a disenfranchised town dominated by a military base, struggling to care for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another binge. When her squaddie brother brings food and treats, and offers an exclusive invitation to army parties, things start to look a little less bleak...|isbn=1913193594}} =='''27 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author=Kristen O'Neal|title=Lycanthropy Before and Other Chronic IllnessesAfter

|summary= Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme diseaseElk and Mab are best friends, Priya has to come to terms with the fact or more than that she may be even, their friendship is a once in constant pain for the rest of her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesseslifetime connection. They talk about their troubles and help each other meet as children one day on a trip out, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesnbut unfortunately they don't respond to the chat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigidget each other's house to check up on hercontact details at the time. But what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – then chance brings them back together, and for that werewolf to be the girl she they are inseparable. Something has been talking to online for the past few monthshappened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=16836923491471196585

 =='''29 APRIL13 JUNE'''==

|authorisbn= Jennifer Saint 1635866847|title= Ariadne The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating= 4.5 |genre= Women's Fiction Lifestyle|summary= This re-telling of It's strange, the myth of Ariadne and the Minotaur is interesting and unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way things that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to a modern audience. Saintmake you ''immediately''s narrative feel that this is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to her death, allowing the reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a prop in the heroics of Theseusbook for you. |isbn=1472273869}}  == Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'17 JUNE', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there'=={{Frontpage|author=Joseph Knox|title=True Crime Story|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary= Joseph Knox, known for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waits, has created s a new genre with his latest novel, "True Crime Story". The story follows the disappearance picture of Zoe Nolan from her university halls a slice of residencechocolate cake on the homepage. Split into four parts I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the reader is taken through the life book and disappearance I was told to make a mess of Zoe through the eyes of her twin sister, other family, friends and professionals, such as it. Notes in the policemargins are sanctioned. The various accounts help the reader You get to know Zoe, or at least fold down the Zoe she presented to otherscorners of pages. However, the twists and turns at the end You suspect that smears of each chapter leave you shocked, confused and unsure of what is true or fabricatedbutter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=0857527703

 =='''24 JUNE4 JULY'''==

|author=Catherine SteadmanMax Boucherat|title=The Disappearing ActLast Life of Lori Mills

|summary=Meet Kate, although I got We meet Lori on the impression first evening she'd rather be a Catherine s got the house to herself – and one specific Catherine no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at that. For Catherine Rodriguez is Kate's idolwork, and the author of our heroine's favourite possessionjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, ''The Special Correspondent Manual''on her lonesome. Armed with What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a plucky fatherblanket fort, that bookshe has one main intention, and her talking mouse called Rupert, she that is all equipped to manage a train ride log on to Voxminer, the Arcticworld-building, to see her scientist mother for the first time critter-collecting game that is a hit in yonksLori's world. However, But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this is a train ride with a difference, for stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on board is a greedy-seeming harridan and her catown, a thief – and two glowing eyes, shining from then she finds something even more spooky. For the darkness in a blink-server she and her bestie and-you'll-miss-them stylenobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. It's definitely When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a case for a new young investigative journalist...girl to turn?|isbn=184812970X0008666482

|author=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)Jenny Lecoat|title=Girls Who LieBeyond Summerland|rating=34|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the dark corners end of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before nowthe occupation. You think, seeing on During the map that we're set in Akraneswar, and finding itJean'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 father was arrested for the usual small-town feel, it's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago listening to a woman failed to turn up for her date eveningbanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and was never seen againher mother waiting for years for news of him. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently with As the British finally free the couple who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for Channel islands from the girl backNazis, and a couple the war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of delighted adoptershim. But it left our three detectives at will the truth come as a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until relief, or will it stopped all of a sudden, in one place, raise further questions around what else happened during the woman's car war? Who 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 informer who found herself with heavy post-natal depression, and very little maternal feeling in her body. Is told the assumption that is so easy for Nazis about the reader to make radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the right oneoccupation?|isbn=191319373X1846976537