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=='''11 30 MAY'''==
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|isbn=1523092734B0CYV674G2|title=A Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Again and again and again.'' Swanton Morley (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSDJohn Tanner) ''To claim space is to live the life of choosing unapologetically and bravely. It is to live the life you've always wanted.'' Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is much in the news, ''A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. Now - to be clear - this book is not a 'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's something far more effective, but discussion at the moment seems to be about how women can be ''protected''. I've always thought that women need to rise above this, to be people who don't need protection, people who claim their own space. If all women did this, those few men who are violent to women would realise that we are not just an easy target to be used to prove that they are big men.}}=='''13 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1529407249|title=The Perfect Lie|author=Jo SpainDavid Blake|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was July 2019 seemed like an open-and Erin was happy-shut case. She A man, covered in mud and Danny Ryan were planning blood - and carrying a few days away: knife, comes into the police station shouting thathe hasn's always t killed the man. A body at the bottom of a dangerous thing to do when youfreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he're married s been stabbed to a cop but she was hopefuldeath. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. TheyYou would think he'd been married be grateful for six months and life was good with a decent apartment by an easy answer but the sea in Newport, Long Island. The knock on the door was insistent words 'perverse' and when it was opened, Danny's partner, Ben Mitchell was there with a couple of John Tanner' were made for each other officers. Danny took one look, turned, walked He's sleep-deprived to the open window and jumped point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to his death from the fourth floor. Eighteen months later, Erin would be on trial for her husbandkeep going - probably because he can's murdert get any sleep at home.
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=0008444501Stuart Douglas|title=The Answer to Everything|author=Luke Kennard|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Life should have been good for Emily. She had a lovely husband, Steven, who was a speech therapist. We'll pass over the fact that they rarely speak to each other Lowe and don't even sleep in Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the same bed. It isn't so much that Emily has left the marital bed as that she's sharing a bed with one of her children as it's the only way to get him to sleep during the night. Arthur and Matty are gorgeous but they are a handful and Emily has a job to cope with too - she teaches drama two days a week. They've not long moved into a new home in Criterion Gardens: it's a trendy area that has been gentrified and it's run on semi-communal lines. The residents even share eco-friendly electric cars rather than owning their own.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1788549759|title=The Distant Dead|author=Lesley ThomsonDress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was December 1940 and twenty-four-year-old Maple Greenhill had gone out During location filming for the evening his 1970's sitcom 'with her friend IdaFloggit and Leggit' leaving her three-year-old son, William, at home with her parentsleading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The boy thought that Maple was his sister - police seem happy to assign it was better for as an accidental death, but something about the family than whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the shame help of illegitimacya fellow actor, but Maple had high hopes of putting her life (and William's) on a better footingJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. She was going to meet her well-to-do fiancéThey travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, hoping to persuade him a link to come and meet her family death during the following weekSecond World War. Later, her body would be found in But is there really a link between the bombed-out home where he had taken her.deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''18 MAY6 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=1848458428Saima Mir|title=Local Woman Missing|author=Mary KubicaVengeance|rating=43.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Eleven years ago, a man regularly came home to his wife with lipstick marks on his collar and lame excuses as to why he was late - again. His wife I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the habit north of going out for a England run late at night. It was the only time she had for herself when she didn't have to look after her baby - but when she was out she would meet up with by a man, grateful for the unquestioning affection he gave herMuslim woman. The locality was stunned when Shelby Tebow disappeared, seemingly without a trace, leaving her husband to look after her disabled baby. Ten days later, a local woman and her six-year-old daughter disappeared. Meredith Dickey fact that it was a birth doula and she'd seemed to be under some strain for the last couple of weeks or so. Her body was eventually found second in a seedy motel - it appeared that sheseries I hadn'd committed suicide. She left a note saying that her daughter, Delilah, was safe and there was no point in looking for her.}}=='''27 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0008395594|title=Both of You|author=Adele Parks|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=You could be forgiven for thinking that Leigh Fletcher has it all: great husband and two gorgeous stepsons whom she adores. Then, one Monday, she went to work and never came home. Mark, Oli and Seb are shattered. Well, Mark and Seb are but Oli's sixteen and at the stage where he thinks boredom is his best look. He's been a bit off with Leigh for a while but she put it down to him growing up and starting to become independent. Seb's only twelve and Leigh's absence hits him hard. Then Daan Janssen, a wealthy Dutch businessman, reports his wife, Kai missing. She too has vanished without trace.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1473685745|title=Unbreak Your Heart|author=Katie Marsh|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=When Beth Carlyle and Simon Withers first met they were on opposite ends of an angry exchange - well, Simon was angry and Beth was doing her best to apologise for having knocked Simon's son, Jake, off his bike. He wasnt read didn't hurt but Jake has history. He has HLHS - thatstop me – I's Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome for those of you who are not ''au fait'' with your medical acronyms. When he was born, the left side of his heart hadn't developed properly and he needed open-heart surgery when he was ve jumped midway into a few days old. So, Simon has every right to be over-protective particularly when someone isn't looking where they're driving.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=walker14|title=The Coldest Case series before (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novelon page and screen)|author=Martin Walker|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=It was when he saw Elisabeth Daynes' work in the prehistory museum at Les Eyzies that chief of police Bruno Courreges had the idea which he thought might help his boss, chief of detectives Jalipeau, known as J-J, to solve a case that had haunted him for thirty years. The body of a young male was found in the woods but he was never identified and his killer never brought to justice. What if an artist could recreate the face from the skull and the resulting publicity be used to identify the young man? J-J calls the skull 'Oscar' and has a picture on his door: he sees it every time he leaves his office: he doesnneedn't want to forget Oscar until his killer has been brought to justice.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008404925|title=The Killing Kind|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Difficult clients were nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of be a surprise. After all, hindrance if it was her cross-examination of the 'victim' which saved him from a lengthy prison sentences good enough. He'd been accused of stalking the woman but it didnAnd that wasn't take long to establish that - if anything - it was the other way around. Soon Ingrid never seemed to be free of John Webster and then she came to see him as a threat and was forced to remember that the police officer at his trial had told her that this was the best chance they'd had to put Webster away for a long time: he was a very dangerous manproblem here.}}{{Frontpage|author= Adrian Tchaikovsky|title= Shards of Earth|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Eighty years ago, Earth was destroyed, warped into an unrecognisable shape by the moon-sized aliens known as the Architects. Humanity is scattered, constantly fleeing as world after world falls Vengeance swiftly brings you up to the architect's reshaping. Then, just when they had the human race on the run, the Architects vanished. And so, the memories of the war fades, heroes are forgottenspeed, and humanity begins to fracture and fight among themselvesI never felt lost. Idris Telemmier, a man genetically engineered to try and communicate with the Architects, does not want to be remembered. But, when he and the crew of the salvage ship he calls home discover what appears to be recent Architect activity, suddenly he is thrust back into the spotlight. As he and his allies bounce from star system to star system, chased by alien crime syndicates, human secret police and rich slavers, he slowly begins to realise that the real war is only just getting started…|isbn=15290518860861541561
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|isbnauthor=0241400120Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Girl Who Died|author=Ragnar Jonasson and Victoria CribbDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Twitch Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a boy who loves birds. He keeps pigeons at hometeam of warrior, mage and chickenshealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and even has swallows nesting in his bedroom! His time spent watching race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and helping birds is easy compared to that of his time in schoolthe points they grant you along the way. But things are about to change Unfortunately for Twitch in all aspects Kit, the only thing he's seen of his life as there is a dangerous bank robber the latest race on the runinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and it's possible that the missing bank haul a new trio of questors is hidden somewhere in Aves Woodneeded. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the place where Twitch has token bully of his secret hide world and that stumbled into declaring he knows like the back of his hand! 'll enter as a team. Can Twitch solve the mysteryWhat chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and find the missing millionshow could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=14063893741839945184
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|author=Hannah WhittenJenny Valentine|title=For Us in the WolfBefore and After
|rating=5
|genre=FantasyTeens|summary=In Red's familyElk and Mab are best friends, the first daughter becomes queenor more than that even, and the second daughter becomes their friendship is a once in a sacrificelifetime connection. To Red They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's misfortune, she is contact details at the second daughtertime. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her But then chance brings them back, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is a wolftogether, and he is the one who will decide the fate of their kingdomthey are inseparable. If she is not a worthy sacrifice Something has happened though, the monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be releasedsomething terrible and tragic, and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woodsnow they must work through their grief, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hourand their friendship, she finds that the legends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a mantogether.|isbn=03565163691471196585
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=='''10 13 JUNE'''==
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|authorisbn=C J Carey1635866847|title=WidowlandThe Lavender Companion|rating=4|genreauthor=General Fiction|summary=It's April 1953, and Adolf Hitler's schedule includes going to Moscow to attend the state funeral 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 Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in the lead-up to the World War Two that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland''. But this is most certainly a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of that gender into 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, and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, Jessica Dunham 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=RabbitsBarlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=Science FictionLifestyle|summary=Welcome to the world of The Game. Or should that be the game, for while it ought to be capitalised to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this book. It's also called Rabbitsstrange, although only as a slangy term 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 of life then. Yes, things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the game of life book for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracyyou. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the computer game, the hack from the darkest of websauthor's [https://www. People like our hero, K, named like that in the least Kafkaesque manner possiblepinelavenderfarm. K com/ website] and his bezzies are trying to be historians there's a picture of the game, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the lists a slice of who has successfully won chocolate cake on the game are in the most peculiar places, homepage. I don't eat cakes and are still very shortdesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. However this time it (There's different. This time a recipe in the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethalbook, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the most broken book and I was told to make a mess of it's ever been – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for K, Notes in trying the margins are sanctioned. You get to sort out what fold down the game is doing, if it's even being played, and how his loved ones might corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be kept safe, he is only to find out that the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeedproblem. I ''loved'' this book already..|isbn=1529016932
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=='''4 JULY'''==
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|author=Louise BeechMax Boucherat|title=This Is How We Are Human|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Veronica is a devoted single mother to her son, Sebastian - but she can't give him everything he wants. Sebastian has decided that it's time for him to have sex. But as an autistic 20 year-old, that's easier said than done. And it's starting to cause them both problems. |isbn=1913193713}} =='''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 Last Life 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 what is true or fabricated. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=0857527703}} =='''24 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|author=Catherine Steadman|title=The Disappearing ActLori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|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
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{{Frontpage
|author=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)Jenny Lecoat|title=Girls Who LieBeyond Summerland|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 who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for the girl back, and a couple of delighted adopters. 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 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 the reader to make the right one?|isbn=191319373X}} =='''5 AUGUST'''=={{Frontpage|author=John Boyne|title=The Echo Chamber|rating=54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Meet George Cleverley. He is self-defined as "one of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without a criminal record". He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him she's carrying his child, but then his author wife is getting her kicks Jean lives on Jersey with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. They have three children, who mother where they are a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save celebrating the world's homeless with out-end of-date food, and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thingoccupation. Add in a few other characters – therapists During the war, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections Jean's father was arrested for listening to his lifea banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to her mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the modern world. What suggests Channel islands from the farcical approach even moreNazis, however, is and the fact this war is bloody funnyfinally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him.|isbn=0857526219}} =='''7 OCTOBER'''=={{Frontpage|author=John Gwynne|title=The Shadow Of The Gods|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=The Shadow Of The Gods is But will the first installment of the Bloodsworn Sagatruth come as a relief, set in or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the era of war? Who was the Vikings in informer who told the shadow of Ragnarok, when Nazis about the Gods radio? And what other secrets have battled and their bones lie scattered for all to see. This story is the ultimate in High Fantasy, and John Gwynne certainly does justice to been kept throughout the genre, with mythical creatures, archaic language and battles galore. This is a thick book, with an intricate plot and fascinating characters that are woven together to create a wonderfully realistic and gritty world in which our heroes must do battle.occupation?|isbn=03565142181846976537
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