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=='''27 30 MAY'''==
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|isbn=0008404925B0CYV674G2|title=The Killing KindSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Jane CaseyDavid Blake|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Difficult clients were nothing new to barrister Ingrid Lewis but John Webster came as something of a surpriseIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. After allA man, it was her crosscovered in mud and blood -examination of and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn'victimt killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he' s been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which saved him from a lengthy prison sentencecoincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. HeYou would think he'd been accused of stalking be grateful for an easy answer but the woman but it didnwords 'perverse' and 'John Tanner't take long to establish that - if anything - it was the were made for each other way around. Soon Ingrid never seemed He's sleep-deprived to be free the point of John Webster and then she came to see him as a threat and was forced to remember that the police officer falling asleep at his trial had told her that this was the best chance theywork but he'd had s determined to put Webster away for a long time: keep going - probably because he was a very dangerous mancan't get any sleep at home.
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=='''3 4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=1838853804Stuart Douglas|title=The Cursed Girls|author=Caro RamsayLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Megan MelvickDuring location filming for his 1970's earliest memory is of her fourth birthday: she followed her grandfather down to the pond, only to find that hesitcom 'd hanged himself. Twenty years later sheFloggit and Leggit's back home again and this time , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the occasion is no less sadedge of a reservoir. She's there The police seem happy to say her final farewells to her sisterassign it as an accidental death, Melissabut something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, who is dying and he enlists the help of anorexia. As she diesa fellow actor, Melissa whispers 'sorry' John Le Breton to Megan but what did she mean? help him investigate matters further. There were lots of thingsThey travel across the country during their days off filming, minor uncovering more possible murders and major cruelties, for which Melissa might have been sorry - or was it even seemingly, a question? Was she asking if Megan was sorry for sleeping with Melissa's husband, Jago, on their wedding day? The Melvicks might seem link to have everything - Ivan Melvick was Lord Lieutenant of death during the County and money was never in short supply - but Second World War. But is there did seem to be really a curse. link between the deaths? In addition And will they manage to Melissa's health problems, Megan was deaf and uncover who is responsible before more people lose their mother, Beth, had left suddenly three years before. Would she come back for her elder daughter's funerallives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=1846975719Saima Mir|title=For Any Other Truth (DCI Jim Daley)|author=Denzil MeyrickVengeance
|rating=3.5
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=We learn that MI5 is having its problems with environmental terrorists supergluing themselves to awkward placesI was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a Muslim woman. But The fact thatit was the second in a series I hadn's London, isnt read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and it needn't be a hindrance if it? What's happening in Kinloch? When a light aircraft crash lands at Machrie airport, DCI Jim Daley and his colleague, Acting DI Brian Scott, head off for the airport straight awaygood enough. It soon becomes evident though And that both occupants of the plane were dead before take off. How could that be? The sort of tech which would make that possible isnwasn't available a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to the paying publicspeed, and I never felt lost. And why have the man no identification on them - or even labels in their clothes?|isbn=0861541561
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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 Beech|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}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1409181669Max Boucherat|title=The Maidens|author=Alex Michaelides|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Mariana was convinced that Professor Edward Fosca had committed two murders and looked likely to get away with them both. She needed to think carefully about what she knew and decide how she should proceed. Everything - or so she thought - had begun with the death Last Life of Tara Hampton on the Paradise nature reserve in Cambridge. She'd been brutally stabbed and Mariana's niece, Zoe, had telephoned her in distress. Tara had been her best friend and she was struggling to cope. Mariana wasn't ''entirely'' happy about having to go to Cambridge, but she caught the first fast train from King's Cross. Mariana and Zoe were close and had been made all the more so by the death of Mariana's husband, Sebastian, in a swimming accident on Naxos some fourteen months earlier. Zoe had been their surrogate daughter after the death of Zoe's mother and Mariana's sister, Eliza.}}{{Frontpage|author=Maisie Chan|title=Danny Chung Does Not Do MathsLori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Danny is We 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 years year old, and what he really, really loves to do is drawon her lonesome. He creates fantastical comics, whilst his best friend Ravi adds the words. What could possibly go wrong? Danny's dadSnuggled in a blanket fort, howevershe has one main intention, wants Danny and that is to concentrate log on his mathsto Voxminer, and forget about the drawingworld-building, because he says nobody can make critter-collecting game that is a living from drawing! At least Danny has his own room, where he can draw hit in secret and in peaceLori's world. But then one day his parents tell him they have first Lori has a surprise for him, and tiny inkling that this surprise turns out to be his grandmother who has come over from China to live with themstormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and who will not only be sharing Danny's bedroom but then she will also be sleeping on finds something even more spooky. For the top bunk of his bunk bed! Danny is horrified! His Nai Nai (grandmother) speaks no English, server she and Danny finds himself forced into being her babysitter, bestie and showing her around the townnobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. Poor Danny, stuck When malevolent eyes spark up on a maths project, frustrated with his bedroom situationher phone screen, and then he even her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a falling out with Ravi...how on earth will things ever get bettergirl to turn?!|isbn=180078001X0008666482
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|author=Joseph KnoxJenny Lecoat|title=True Crime StoryBeyond Summerland
|rating=4
|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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