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=='''14 MARCH30 MAY'''==
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|isbn=1035906708B0CYV674G2|title=DivaSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Daisy GoodwinDavid Blake|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as GreekIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, but she was born to Greek parents covered in Manhattanmud and blood - and carrying a knife, New Yorkcomes into the police station shouting that he hasn't 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, in December 1923 which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and only moved 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos the point of falling asleep at work but her father changed it he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.}}=='''4 JUNE''Callas' =={{Frontpage|author=Stuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=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 edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to make assign it more manageable in as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the Stateshelp of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under They travel across the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackieseemingly, a 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
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=='''21 MARCH6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Sunny SinghSaima Mir|title=Hotel ArcadiaVengeance
|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over the north of England run by a terrorist groupMuslim woman. Hiding from The fact that it was the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer page and screen) and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms it needn't be a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture whathindrance if it's happened through her photographygood enough. Although they only ever talk over the phoneAnd that wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terroristsI never felt lost.|isbn=086154742X0861541561
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|author=Sylvie CathrallKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=A Letter to the Luminous DeepDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=54|genre=Science FictionConfident Readers|summary= There are few greater joys than Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a book which lives up team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to a compelling premisethe exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. And this Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of themquestors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn= 03565227761839945184
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|author=Tom PercivalJenny Valentine|title=The Wrong ShoesUs in the Before and After
|rating=5
|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=Will's life Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is difficult, a once in a multitude of wayslifetime connection. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad canThey meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't work and doesnget each other't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job s contact details at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accidenttime. Throw into that mix the fact that his mum But then chance brings them back together, and dad they are separatedinseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yettragic, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at artand now they must work through their grief, and clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a longtheir friendship, dark tunneltogether.|isbn=13985271221471196585
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. 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 book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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=='''4 JULY'''==
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|author=Max Boucherat
|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=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 year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?
|isbn=0008666482
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|author=Jenny Lecoat
|title=Beyond Summerland
|rating=4
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. During the war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. But will the truth come as a relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?
|isbn=1846976537
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