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=='''1 APRIL30 MAY'''==

|authorisbn=Ruth HoganB0CYV674G2|title=Madame BurovaSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the early 1970s, all vaguely connectedman. So we have A body at the bottom of a bullied halffreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church -cast boy (as he would have 's been called then), a girl in a humdrum job wanting stabbed to become a singer, and chiefly, Imeldadeath. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the third generation birth of Madame Burova, his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse'Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'John Tanner', to use her familywere made for each other. He's seasleep-front booth. The singer, deprived to the scryer and the suffererpoint of falling asleep at work but he's mother will all become staff determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stallhome. We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, 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

|author=Jessie GreengrassStuart Douglas|title=The High HouseLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Charles Darwin taught that all living matter evolved to pass During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on its genetic material with the implied belief that your progeny will then pass on theirsedge of a reservoir. However The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, that train but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of thought is slowly seems a fellow actor, John Le Breton to have fallen out of favourhelp him investigate matters further. Today's young generation are discovering that They travel across the country during their parents days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and their parents' parents did not seem , seemingly, a link to think that far ahead. Or they did think that far ahead and thought "it's not my problem" or "there's nothing I can do". Raising a child and living in a world on death during the precipice of catastrophe is what drives ''The High House'' by Jessie GreengrassSecond World War. This But is not there really a science-fiction novel. This is our reality. This is link between the life our children and their children deaths? And will have they manage to live.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=18007500721803368209

|isbn=1787332098|title=How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World|author=Henry Mance|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=''When we do think about animals, we break them down into species and groups: cows, dogs, foxes, elephants and so on. And we assign them places in society: cows go on plates, dogs on sofas, foxes in rubbish bins, elephants in zoos, and millions of wild animals stay out there, ''somewhere,'' hopefully on the next David Attenborough series.'' I was going to argue. I mean, cows are for cheese (I couldn't consider eating red meat...) and I much prefer my elephants in the wild but then I realised that I was quibbling for the sake of it. Essentially that quote sums up my attitude to animals - and I consider myself an animal lover. If I had to choose between the company of humans and the company of animals, I would probably choose the animals. I insisted that I read this book: no one was trying to stop me but I was initially reluctant. I eat cheese, eggs, chicken and fish and I needed to either do so without guilt or change my choices. I suspected that making the decision would not be comfortable.}}=='''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|isbn=1529124255Saima Mir|title=The Whispers|author=Heidi PerksVengeance|rating=43.5

|summary=We know straight away that there's going to be a body. It's on I was instantly intrigued by the beach under Crayne's Cliff near premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the town north of Clearwater and England run by a Muslim woman. The fact that itwas the second in a series I hadn's new yeart read didn's day. To understand what happened wet stop me – I're going to have to go back to the previous September. Grace Goodwin has ve jumped midway into a soft Australian accent - she's lived there since her teens few series before (on page and screen) and now, in her mid-thirties, sheit needn's returned to her home town to live. Her husband, Graham, works in Singapore and she and her eight-year-old daughter, Matilda, might as well t be in the lovely apartment shea hindrance if it's foundgood enough. GraceAnd that wasn's best friend, Anna Robinsont a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, is still in Clearwater and she has an eight-year-old child tooI never felt lost. Ethan's in the class Matilda will be joining. It's perfect!|isbn=0861541561

|author=Lucy HollandKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=SistersongDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=54|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=Sistersong is part Meet Kit. Like most of a genre I particularly enjoythe people in his world, the modern retelling of folk and fairy tales. These storiesit seems, for most he is an avid fan of us, are Dungeon Running – the sport where a cornerstone team of childhood warrior, mage 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 outdatedhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, fleshing out charactersmagical mazes, examining relationships and re-evaluating race to the role of women. Sistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done wellexit, perhaps bothering with the plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing treasure or the characters to come to life, to feel real big bad and human, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age points 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 grant you along the new girl at Manchester Prepway. A school filled to Unfortunately for Kit, the brim with only thing he's seen of the richest children in latest race on the city – and Rachel doesn't belong. She's not richinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, she has no ties to some royal family in Serbiaeaten, and most of all, she spends the majority of her spare time watching horror movies as a source new trio of comfortquestors is needed. She struggles to find anyone Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to connect with, until one day she stumbles upon the Mary Shelley Club. A secret society with one aim: pull off goading from the best prank in true horror movie style, token bully of his world and unless someone screams, you have failed. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed in the competition. But stumbled into declaring he'll enter 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 hurtteam. When the competition then takes a deadly turn What chance does this friendless, 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. Thirteenmuscle-yearfree-old schoolgirl Carly lives zone have in a disenfranchised town dominated by a military baseactually managing that, 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 how could he possibly hope to army parties, things start to look a little less bleak...succeed?|isbn=19131935941839945184

|author=Kristen O'NealJenny Valentine|title=Lycanthropy Us in the 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'''==

|isbn=14711814051635866847|title=NighthawkingThe Lavender Companion|author=Russ ThomasJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary=SheffieldIt's [http://www.sbg.org.uk/ Botanical Gardens] (on Clarkehouse Roadstrange, if the things that make you'd like to visit) are an oasis of calm in what's otherwise thought of as an industrial city but immediately'' feel that this was disrupted when is the body of a young woman was discoveredbook for you. It had obviously been buried in one of the beds but who would have Before I started to dig her up? It had been in the earth for months and could have been undiscovered for years. reading ''The police need to establish who stabbed her - and who left the twoLavender Companion'', very rare, gold aurei on her eyes. DCI Diane Jordan is I visited the Investigating Officer and her foot soldiers are DS Adam Tyler and DC Mina Rabbani. They're joined by DS Guy Daley whoauthor's just returned from extended sick leave. Mina thinks he's as obnoxious as ever but suspects that he's not fully recovered from his injuries[https://www.}}{{Frontpage|author= Jennifer Saint |title= Ariadne |rating= 4pinelavenderfarm.5 |genre= Womencom/ website] and there's Fiction |summary= This re-telling a picture of the myth a slice of Ariadne and chocolate cake on the Minotaur is interesting homepage. I don't eat cakes and unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way desserts - but I wanted that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to a modern audiencecake viscerally. Saint (There's narrative is told predominantly through a recipe in the viewpoint of Ariadnebook, spanning from her childhood to her death, allowing the reader to really connect which I'm avoiding with Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a prop in some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the heroics of Theseus. |isbn=1472273869}} {{Frontpage|isbn=0241985137|title=The Whole Truth (D book and I Fawley)|author=Cara Hunter|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=DI Adam Fawley's team got was told to Edith Launceleve College first, called there by Jancis Appleby to see the Principal, Professor Hilary Reynolds. There had been an accusation make a mess of sexual assault by a professor on a studentit. When Fawley arrived he was almost cross: what was the alleged perpetrator doing Notes in the room before they'd even got the details from the victim? The problem was that Caleb Morgan ''was'' the 'victim' and the alleged perpetrator was Professor Marina Fishermargins are sanctioned. Just You get to complicate matters further, Caleb's mother is Petra Newson, fold down the local MP, and Professor Fisher is a big name is Artificial Intelligencecorners of pages. She has an eight-year-old son, buys her wine by the case from Berry Brothers & Rudd, spends more than £1000 You suspect that smears of butter would not be a month on clothes and has more than ten thousand Twitter followersproblem. When the excrement encounters the ventilation equipment, this is going to be I ''veryloved'' public.}}{{Frontpage|author=Mercedes Helnwein|title=Slingshot|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Gracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with a "real" family, she is used to not being a priority in people's livesthis book already. But when she defends a random boy in her class with her slingshot, her simple existence is changed for good. No longer can she spend her time writing novels in solitude, for her life now has a boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield.|isbn=152905818X

=='''3 MAY4 JULY'''==

|isbnauthor=1635862353Max Boucherat|title=The Sandalmaking Workshop|author=Rachel CorryLast Life of Lori Mills

|summary=Twitch is a boy who loves birdsWe meet Lori on the first evening she's 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. He keeps pigeons at homeWhat could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, and chickensshe has one main intention, and even has swallows nesting in his bedroom! His time spent watching and helping birds that is easy compared to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that of his time is a hit in schoolLori's world. But things are about to change for Twitch in all aspects of his life as there is first Lori has a dangerous bank robber tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on the runher own, and it's possible that then she finds something even more spooky. For the missing bank haul is hidden somewhere in Aves Wood, the place where Twitch has his secret hide server she and her bestie and that he knows like the back nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of his hand! tampering. Can Twitch solve the mysteryWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and find her safe place in the missing millionsgame has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=14063893740008666482

|author=C J CareyJenny Lecoat|title=WidowlandBeyond Summerland

|summary=It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the state funeral end of Joseph Stalin then within weeks coming to London, parading around a bit, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wife, Queen Wallisoccupation. For yes, Britain caved in During the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – wellwar, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on Jean''the mainland''. But this is most certainly a different Britain, s father was arrested for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into listening to a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right on down to the childless, the husbandless and the widows. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, radio and not every story excised immediately from British civilisationsoldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and so they just get a hefty tweak towards the party line before they're stamped ready for reprint. That is her job, at least, until the first emerging signs of female protest come to light, with their potential to spoil Hitler's visit.|isbn=152941198X}}{{Frontpage|author=Terry Miles|title=Rabbits|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Welcome to the world of The Game. Or should that be the game, mother waiting for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. It's also called Rabbits, although only as a slangy term years for it – as far as anyone knows, it has no official title, no official source, no hard and fast structure, and to the average person no obvious entry point. A bit like the game news of life thenhim. Yes, this is As the game of life for a certain tribe of people – British finally free the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack Channel islands from the darkest of webs. People like our hero, K, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to be historians of the game, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the lists of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar placesNazis, and are still very short. However this time it's different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, in trying to sort out what the game war is doingfinally over, if it's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only to find out their hopes rise that the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed...|isbn=1529016932}} =='''17 JUNE'''=={{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 a new genre with his latest novel, "True Crime Story". The story follows the disappearance of Zoe Nolan from her university halls of residence. Split into four parts, the reader is taken through the life and disappearance of Zoe through the eyes of her twin sister, other family, friends and professionals, such as the police. The various accounts help the reader get to know Zoe, or at least the Zoe she presented to others. However, the twists and turns at the end of each chapter leave you shocked, confused and unsure of they will finally learn what is true or fabricated. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=0857527703}} =='''24 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|author=Catherine Steadman|title=The Disappearing Act|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= British actress Mia Eliot is on the cusp became of success. Great success. If the rumours are true, award season is going to treat her well, acknowledging her for her latest, critically acclaimed production. She's going places but so, unfortunately, is her partner. And the places he's going take him towards lies, deceit and a pretty young thing in the form of his new co-star. It's a good time for Mia to escape, and pilot season in LA provides just the excuse.|isbn=1471189783}} =='''8 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Hannah Peck|title=Kate on the Case|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Kate, although I got the impression she'd rather be a Catherine – and one specific Catherine at that. For Catherine Rodriguez is Kate's idol, and But will the author of our heroine's favourite possession, ''The Special Correspondent Manual''. Armed with truth come as a plucky fatherrelief, that book, and her talking mouse called Rupert, she is all equipped to manage a train ride to or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the Arctic, to see her scientist mother for the first time in yonks. However, this is a train ride with a difference, for on board is a greedy-seeming harridan and her cat, a thief – and two glowing eyes, shining from the darkness in a blink-and-you'll-miss-them style. war? It's definitely a case for a new young investigative journalist...|isbn=184812970X}} =='''22 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)|title=Girls Who Lie|rating=3|genre=Thrillers|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking that all the dark corners of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before now. You think, seeing on the map that we're set in Akranes, and finding it'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 for the usual small-town feel, it's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago a woman failed to turn up for her date evening, and was never seen again. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently with the couple informer who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for told the Nazis about the girl back, and a couple of delighted adopters. radio? But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until it stopped all of a sudden, in one place, the woman's car was found miles away in a second place, and now, after six months, the body has And what other secrets have been discovered, in a third, even more remote place. Meanwhile, this narrative is interrupted by a confessional monologue from a mother who found herself with heavy post-natal depression, and very little maternal feeling in her body. Is the assumption that is so easy for kept throughout the reader to make the right oneoccupation?|isbn=191319373X1846976537