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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 take his daughter April with him. They live alone anywayherself – no neighbour to pop 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 there, her father finds that his work monitoring and recording the temperatures just takes up too much of his time, and so April is left to explore by herself. What could possibly go wrong? Her father had reassured her that there were no longer any bears living on Bear IslandSnuggled in a blanket fort, but one day April thinks she catches a glimpse of has onemain intention, and so she sets out that is to find the Bear, and then when she sees he is injured, log on to befriend and help him.|isbn=000841128X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1472276140|title=What Will Burn (Inspector McLean)|author=James Oswald|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=When Cecily Slater's body was foundVoxminer, she'd already been dead for a week the world- in a house fire in deserted woodland near Edinburgh. Heavy rain had washed away most of the evidencebuilding, but DI Tony McLean, demoted and just returned from suspension, is reluctant to accept critter-collecting game that this is nothing more than a careless accident. There were indications that Slater had been savagely, almost ritualistically beaten before the firehit in Lori's world. But who would hate first Lori has a ninety-year-old woman to the extent of doing something like tiny inkling that? She was a virtual recluse: who could she have upset to that extent?}}==this stormy night doesn'''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 t find herself entirely on her well in her rise through the criminal justice system own, and by the time then she is called home for her sister's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exile, she is at the top of her gamefinds something even more spooky. Returning to For the city of her birth, to old scars server she and fresh wounds, Jia must confront her past bestie and reconcile her visions for the future with her sense nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of honour and dutytampering.|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 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 in his second person monologue of a narration, we see him picked When malevolent eyes spark up by his mother's chauffeur, and carted off to do all the necessary introductions before said mother is buried the following day. The mother was a businesswomanon her phone screen, 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 safe place in the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharestgame has been doctored – well, where is a girl to the lad's childhood, and see just what he has to tell her as a private farewell address.turn?|isbn=19398109650008666482

|author=Mary H.K. ChoiJenny Lecoat|title=Yolk|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Jayne Baek is a fashion student that'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, 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 choices, and the two have barely kept in contact despite living in the same city for the past two years. This is until June 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 – even if it means swapping identities.|isbn= 0349003696}} =='''18 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Danny Wallace and Gemma Correll|title=The Day the Screens Went Blank|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Stella and her family. They're just innocently trying to have a Sunday evening in together, watching a film – using three different screens to watch three different things, mind – when ''poof'' everything goes blank. And it's not just their home, but the entire south-western village of Mousehole, and not just that, either, but the whole country, if not world. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping they're first to get a screen back, and not what they were constantly doing on them before. Toasters can toast, but TVs cannot do the V part of their job, and no computer can show its computations. You might think this 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 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.|isbn=1471196887}} =='''23 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|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 Burovasoldiers took him away one night, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist leaving Jean and Clairvoyant'', to use her family's sea-front booth. The singer, the scryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo waiting for the first time in the family stall. We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, in possession for news of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billiehim. Just who is she, and who delivered As the British finally free the secrets about her to Imelda, and why did it have to remain a secret all this time?|isbn=152937331X}} =='''15 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author=Lucy Holland|title=Sistersong|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Sistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, Channel islands from the modern retelling of folk and fairy tales. These stories, for most of us, are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out charactersNazis, examining relationships and re-evaluating the role of women. Sistersong war is a perfect example of a modern retelling done wellfinally over, the plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to come to life, to feel real and human, most importantly their hopes rise that they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece will finally learn what became of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to endhim.|isbn=1529039037}}{{Frontpage|author=Goldy Moldavsky|title=The Last Girl|rating=5|genre=teens|summary= Rachel Chavez is But will the new girl at Manchester Prep. A school filled to the brim with the richest children in the city – and Rachel doesn't belong. She's not rich, she has no ties to some royal family in Serbia, and most of all, she spends the majority of her spare time watching horror movies truth come as a source of comfort. She struggles to find anyone to connect withrelief, until one day she stumbles upon the Mary Shelley Club. A secret society with one aim: pull off the best prank in true horror movie style, and unless someone screams, you have failed. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed in the competition. But as the pranks escalate, and Rachel finally feels like she has found her place in this school, things start to go wrong; a masked figure keeps showing up to the pranks, and people begin to get hurt. When the competition then takes a deadly turn, Rachel must figure out who this masked figure is before or will it's too late.|isbn=0755501527}}{{Frontpage|author=Sarah Sultoon|title=The Source|rating=2.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=1996. Essex. Thirteen-year-old schoolgirl Carly lives in a disenfranchised town dominated by a military base, struggling to care for her baby sister while her mum sleeps off another binge. When her squaddie brother brings food and treats, and offers an exclusive invitation to army parties, things start to look a little less bleak...|isbn=1913193594}} =='''27 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author=Kristen O'Neal|title=Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess raise further questions around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's house to check up on her. But what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in else happened during the basement – and for that werewolf to be war? Who was the girl she has been talking to online for the past few months.|isbn=1683692349}} =='''29 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author= Jennifer Saint |title= Ariadne |rating= 4.5 |genre= Women's Fiction |summary= This re-telling of the myth of Ariadne and the Minotaur is interesting and unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to a modern audience. Saint's narrative is informer who told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to her death, allowing Nazis about the reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a prop in the heroics of Theseus. |isbn=1472273869}}  =='''24 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|author=Catherine Steadman|title=The Disappearing Act|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= British actress Mia Eliot is on the cusp of success. Great success. If the rumours are true, award season is going to treat her well, acknowledging her for her latest, critically acclaimed production. She's going places but so, unfortunately, is her partner. radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the places he's going take him towards lies, deceit and a pretty young thing in the form of his new co-star. It's a good time for Mia to escape, and pilot season in LA provides just the excuse.occupation?|isbn=14711897831846976537