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=='''25 APRIL30 MAY'''==
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|authorisbn=Sylvie CathrallB0CYV674G2|title=A Letter to the Luminous DeepSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=3.5|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary= There are few greater joys than 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 man. A body at the bottom of a book which lives up freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to a compelling premisedeath. And this DCI John Tanner is one just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of themhis daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.|isbn= 0356522776
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=='''9 MAY4 JUNE'''==
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|author=Tom PercivalStuart Douglas|title=The Wrong ShoesLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=WillDuring location filming for his 1970's life is difficultsitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', in leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a multitude woman on the edge of waysa reservoir. He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes'The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, he has but something about the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like foodwhole thing bothers Lowe, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at enlists the collegehelp of a fellow actor, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accidentJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Throw into that mix They travel across the fact that his mum country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yetseemingly, he still has a tiny amount of hopelink to death during the Second World War. He But is good at art, and clings there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to the moments of joy when he uncover who is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=13985271221803368209
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=='''23 MAY6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Onyi NwabineliSaima Mir|title=Allow Me to Introduce MyselfVengeance|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to I was instantly intrigued by the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step premise of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is this novel – an organised crime syndicate in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about hernorth of England run by a Muslim woman. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy The fact that it was the second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and secretly abusing people online screen) and receiving money from them for doing soit needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of OpheliaAnd that wasn's online empiret a problem here. Can she save her sisterVengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?I never felt lost.|isbn=08615468730861541561
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|author=Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton
|summary=Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. 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 questors 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=1839945184
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|author=Jenny Valentine
|title=Us in the Before and After
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the time. But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.
|isbn=1471196585
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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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