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|author=Francesca Simon and Steve MayMax Boucherat|title=Two Terrible Vikings|rating=4|genre=Emerging Readers|summary=In a small Viking village there live two twins, Hack and Whack, who are eager to be the very worst Vikings ever! Nothing can stop their mad marauding, as they cause havoc at a birthday party, chaos whilst tracking a troll, and undertake a grand journey to raid Bad Island with their friends! They get up to all kinds of mischief and naughty behaviour, along with their wolf-cub Bitey-Bitey, and their crazy cast of friends.|isbn=0571349498}}=='''17 February'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=000845552X|title=Where Ravens Roost|author=Karin Nordin|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Inspector Kjeld Nygaard had been estranged from his father, Stenar, for more than a decade but when he got the rather muddled phone call from him saying that he'd seen a murder in the barn on his land he didn't hesitate to drop everything and go to Varsund. Actually, 'drop everything' rather overstates the situation. Nygaard was on suspension following the shooting of a suspect in the Aubuchon murder enquiry. There had been a complication: the Kattegat Killer turned out to be Nils Hedin, Nygaard's best friend. Still, the ten-hour drive from Gothenburg in the south of Sweden to Varsund in the far north shouldn't be underestimated.}}=='''18 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1471187179|title=A Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Minnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. The book is set in the 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother's expectations and find a nice young man to marry, produce children and spend the rest Last Life of her days looking after her husband and their home. Unfortunately, this isn't what she wants to do at all and neither does she want to continue working as a secretary. As a result of a chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into espionage, working for the secret service and effectively living a double life - attempting to infiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britain. Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and the friends she has made - and likes - whilst working for the Communist Party.}}{{Frontpage|author=Hannah Gold|title=The Last BearLori Mills

|summary=AprilWe meet Lori on the first evening she's father, a scientist, has been given a job on a remote island called Bear Island, and he accepts got the job deciding house to herself – no neighbour to take his daughter April with him. They live alone anywaypop in, babysitter poorly, since April's mother died some time beforeat work, and he feels it will be educational for her to experience the island and all its natural beauty. April already has just an affinity with natureavidly rule-breaking eleven year old, and she's excited to travel with on her father, thinking of all the fun things they will be able to experience together on the islandlonesome. But when they get thereWhat could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, her father finds that his work monitoring and recording the temperatures just takes up too much of his timeshe has one main intention, and so April that is left to explore by herself. Her father had reassured her that there were no longer any bears living log on Bear Island, but one day April thinks she catches a glimpse of one, and so she sets out to find the Bear, and then when she sees he is injuredVoxminer, to befriend and help him.|isbn=000841128X}} =='''4 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Saima Mir|title=The Khan|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by the motto be twice as good as men and four times as good as white men. This has served her well in her rise through the criminal justice system and by the time she is called home for her sister's wedding after fifteen years in selfworld-imposed exilebuilding, she is at the top of her critter-collecting game. Returning to the city of her birth, to old scars and fresh wounds, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for the future with her sense of honour and duty.|isbn=1786079097}}{{Frontpage|author=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)|title=If You Kept a Record of Sins|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=This was an incredibly readable novella, but one that left me is a little conflicted. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airport, and before we even know his gender or the nature of the person he's addressing hit in his second person monologue of a narration, we see him picked up by his motherLori's chauffeur, and carted off to do all the necessary introductions before said mother is buried the following dayworld. The mother was a businesswoman, who clearly left northern Italy and settled in Romania with her (night-time and business) partner, and feelings of abandonment are still strong. And so we flit from current (well, this came out in the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, to the lad's childhood, and see just what he But first Lori has to tell her as a private farewell address.|isbn=1939810965}}{{Frontpage|author=Mary H.K. Choi|title=Yolk|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Jayne Baek is a fashion student tiny inkling thatthis stormy night doesn's barely getting by. She drinks. She smokes. She makes bad decisions about the men she sleeps with. She's an all-round messy character; and that's her charm. June, t find herself entirely on the other hand, is a complete contrast to Jayne. She's a typical older sister: she's smart, thinks she knows it all, and has a successful job. She constantly criticises Jayne for her life choicesown, and the two have barely kept in contact despite living in the same city for the past two years. This is until June then she finds out she's sick, and Jayne is the only person she can turn to. The two sisters have to come together and decide how far they'll go to save each other's lives – something even if it means swapping identitiesmore spooky.|isbn= 0349003696}} =='''18 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Danny Wallace and Gemma Correll|title=The Day For the Screens Went Blank|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Stella server she and her family. They're just innocently trying to have a Sunday evening in together, watching a film – using three different screens bestie and nobody else should be able to watch three different things, mind – when ''poof'' everything goes blank. And it's not just their home, but the entire south-western village enter shows signs of Mousehole, and not just that, either, but the whole country, if not worldtampering. Suddenly people are constantly When malevolent eyes spark up on their phones – hoping they're first to get a her phone screen back, and not what they were constantly doing on them before. Toasters can toast, but TVs cannot do her safe place in the V part of their jobgame has been doctored – well, and no computer can show its computations. You might think this where is going to be a social comedy about people stuck in such a Luddite experience against their will, but no. For the family finally remember Stella's grandma, and see if they can get across country girl to her. Hence this has to go down as a road-trip book. But not just that, a slapstick road-trip comedy. And more than that, too – for it's a slapstick, high-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart that kids of all ages will love.turn?|isbn=14711968870008666482

|author=Dean KoontzJenny Lecoat|title=The Other EmilyBeyond Summerland

|summary=This book lets us discover several people in different stages Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connectedoccupation. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then)During the war, a girl in a humdrum job wanting Jean's father was arrested for listening to become a singer, banned radio and chiefly, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Readersoldiers took him away one night, Palmist leaving Jean and Clairvoyant'', to use her family's sea-front boothmother waiting for years for news of him. The singer, As the British finally free the scryer and Channel islands from the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday campNazis, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for and the first time in the family stall. We also see her on her last daywar is finally over, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters their hopes rise that they will change everything for a woman called Billiefinally learn what became of him. Just who is sheBut will the truth come as a relief, and or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who delivered told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets about her to Imelda, and why did it have to remain a secret all this timebeen kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=152937331X1846976537