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|isbn=1523092734|title=A Women's Guide to Claiming Space|author=Eliza Van Cort|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=''She brings a hug-kick-thunderclap that every woman needs in her life. Again and again and again.'' (Alma Derricks, former CMO, Cirque du Soleil RSD) ''To claim space is to live the life of choosing unapologetically and bravely. It is to live the life you've always wanted.'' Sometimes the reviewing gods are generous: at a time when violence against women is much in the news, ''A Women's Guide to Claiming Space'' by Eliza Van Cort dropped onto my desk. Now - to be clear - this book is not a 'how to disable your attacker with two simple jabs' manual: it's something far more effective, but discussion at the moment seems to be about how women can be ''protected''. I've always thought that women need to rise above this, to be people who don't need protection, people who claim their own space. If all women did this, those few men who are violent to women would realise that we are not just an easy target to be used to prove that they are big men.}}=='''13 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1529407249Max Boucherat|title=The Perfect Lie|author=Jo Spain|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was July 2019 and Erin was happy. She and Danny Ryan were planning a few days away: that's always a dangerous thing to do when you're married to a cop but she was hopeful. They'd been married for six months and life was good with a decent apartment by the sea in Newport, Long Island. The knock on the door was insistent and when it was opened, Danny's partner, Ben Mitchell was there with a couple Last Life of other officers. Danny took one look, turned, walked to the open window and jumped to his death from the fourth floor. Eighteen months later, Erin would be on trial for her husband's murder.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1788549759|title=The Distant Dead|author=Lesley ThomsonLori Mills

|summary=Twitch is a boy who loves birds. He keeps pigeons at home, and chickens, and even has swallows nesting in his bedroom! His time spent watching and helping birds is easy compared to that of his time in school. But things are about to change for Twitch in all aspects of his life as there is a dangerous bank robber We meet Lori on the run, and itfirst evening she's possible that got the missing bank haul is hidden somewhere house to herself – no neighbour to pop in Aves Wood, the place where Twitch has his secret hide and that he knows like the back of his hand! Can Twitch solve the mysterybabysitter poorly, and find the missing millions?|isbn=1406389374}}{{Frontpage|author=Hannah Whitten|title=For the Wolf|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=In Red's familymother at work, the first daughter becomes queenjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, and the second daughter becomes a sacrifice. To Red's misfortune, she is the second daughter. Sent alone into the woods with nothing but the cape on her back, Red knows what to expect: within the woods is lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a wolfblanket fort, and he is the she has one who will decide the fate of their kingdom. If she is not a worthy sacrifice, the monsters he keeps contained to the woods will be releasedmain intention, and the fabled kings he keeps hostage will never be returned—or so the stories go. But when Red enters the woods, expecting nothing more than to be killed within the hour, she finds that the legends are lies. The wolf is not a monster—he's a man.|isbn=0356516369}} =='''10 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|author=C J Carey|title=Widowland|rating=4|genre=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 log on to London, parading around a bitVoxminer, and watching over the sanctioned return to the throne of Edward VIII with his wifeworld-building, Queen Wallis. For yes, Britain caved in the leadcritter-up to the World War Two collecting game that certainly didn't happen as we know it, and we are now is a protectorate – well, we share enough of the same blood as the Germanic peoples on ''the mainland'hit in Lori's world. But this is most certainly first Lori has a different Britain, for Nazi-styled phrenology, and ideas of female purpose, has put all of tiny inkling that gender into a caste system, ranging from high-brow office bigwigs to the drudges, and beyond those, right this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on down to the childlessher own, the husbandless and the widowsthen she finds something even more spooky. Female literacy is actively discouraged. And in this puritanical existence, our heroine, Rose Ransom, is employed with For the task of bowdlerising classical literature to take all encouragement for female emancipation out of it – after all, not every book can be banned, server she and not every story excised immediately from British civilisation, her bestie 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=Rabbits|rating=4.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Welcome to the world of The Game. Or nobody else should that be the game, for while it ought to be capitalised able to high heaven, it never leaves lower case throughout this bookenter shows signs of tampering. It's also called Rabbits When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, 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, this is the game of life for a certain tribe of people – the fan of the conspiracy, the computer game, the hack from the darkest of webs. People like our hero, K, named like that her safe place in the least Kafkaesque manner possible. K and his bezzies are trying to be historians of the game, and have studied amongst many things the most unique of high score boards, for the lists of who has successfully won the game are in the most peculiar places, and are still very short. However this time it's different. This time the game seems the most dangerous, nay lethal, the most broken it's ever been doctored – morally and otherwise. Unfortunately for Kwell, in trying to sort out what the game where is doing, if it's even being played, and how his loved ones might be kept safe, he is only a girl to find out that the line between observing and learning about the game, and playing it, is a very thin one indeed...turn?|isbn=15290169320008666482

|author=Louise BeechJenny Lecoat|title=This Is How We Are HumanBeyond Summerland

|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=1409181669|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 Jean lives on Jersey 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 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.}}=='''17 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|author=Joseph Knox|title=True Crime Story|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary= Joseph Knox, known for his series surrounding Detective Aidan Waits, has created a new genre with his latest novel, "True Crime Story". The story follows the disappearance of Zoe Nolan from her university halls of residence. Split into four parts, the reader is taken through the life and disappearance of Zoe through the eyes of her twin sister, other family, friends and professionals, such as the police. The various accounts help the reader get to know Zoe, or at least the Zoe she presented to others. However, the twists and turns at where they are celebrating the end of each chapter leave you shocked, confused and unsure of what is true or fabricated. Whose accounts can we trust?|isbn=0857527703}} =='''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 successoccupation. 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. And During the places he's going take him towards lieswar, deceit and a pretty young thing in the form of his new co-star. ItJean's a good time father was arrested for Mia listening to escape, a banned radio and pilot season in LA provides just the excuse.|isbn=1471189783}} =='''1 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Darren Shan|title=Archibald Lox and the Forgotten Crypt: Archibald Lox series, Volume 2, book 1 of 3|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=The second trilogy in Shan's ''Merge'' saga opens with our hero, Archie, back in London in the world of the Born. It's not been easy, explaining to his foster parents where he's been, or slipping back into ordinary life and forgetting about Inez and his other friends in the Merge, but Archie has done his best.... well, except for visiting veteran locksmith Winston in Big Ben's clock tower and except for fiddling with that sneaky master lock in Seven Dials every time he can sneak soldiers took him away.|isbn=B093H8DPQZ}} =='''8 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Hannah Peck|title=Kate on the Case|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Kate, although I got the impression she'd rather be a Catherine – and one specific Catherine at that. For Catherine Rodriguez is Kate's idolnight, leaving Jean and the author of our heroine's favourite possession, ''The Special Correspondent Manual''. Armed with a plucky father, that book, and her talking mouse called Rupert, she is all equipped to manage a train ride to the Arctic, to see her scientist mother waiting for years for the first time in yonksnews of him. However, this is a train ride with a difference, for on board is a greedy-seeming harridan and her cat, a thief – and two glowing eyes, shining from As the darkness in a blink-and-you'll-miss-them style. It's definitely a case for a new young investigative journalist...|isbn=184812970X}} =='''13 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Sarah Langan|title=Good Neighbours|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= If you're of a certain vintage, it's hard to read British finally free the words ''Good Neighbours'' without adding a sing-song ''that's when Good Neighbours…become…good friends''. Maple Street is no Ramsay Street, though, Arlo and Gertie live a world apart Channel islands from the Melbourne suburbs. They're one of 18 households on the crescentNazis, quite new arrivals having moved in a year earlier. They're not quite like all and the other families (he's an ex rockerwar is finally over, she's a former beauty queen) but they've made some friends and their kids have settled in, and it's all going ok. Until it isn't. One hot, clammy, sticky, sweaty summer, a sinkhole opens up in the park across the way. It's a revolting mess of dirt and chaos, but for the residents of Maple Street, the worst is yet to come.|isbn=1789098211}} =='''22 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Eva Bjorg Aegisdottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)|title=Girls Who Lie|rating=3|genre=Thrillers|summary=You might be forgiven for thinking hopes rise that all the dark corners they will finally learn what became of Iceland have featured in their noirish thrillers and crime books before nowhim. You think, seeing on But will the map that we're set in Akranestruth come as a relief, and finding or will it's only twenty kilometres from raise further questions around what else happened during the capital city, that this author is clutching at the few final straws left. war? However just because the book aims for the usual small-town feel, it's not just in Akranes that our interests lie. Six months ago a woman failed to turn up for her date evening, and Who was never seen again. This left a teenaged girl not at all disappointed that she could now live permanently with the couple informer who had given her foster care before her mother had asked for told the girl back, and a couple of delighted adopters. But it left our three detectives at a quandary – mobile phone use was at a high level until it stopped all of a sudden, in one place, Nazis about the woman's car was found miles away in a second place, and now, after six months, the body has been discovered, in a third, even more remote place. radio? Meanwhile, this narrative is interrupted by a confessional monologue from a mother who found herself with heavy post-natal depression, and very little maternal feeling in her body. Is the assumption that is so easy for the reader to make the right one?|isbn=191319373X}} =='''5 AUGUST'''=={{Frontpage|author=John Boyne|title=The Echo Chamber|rating=5|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 with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. They have three children, who 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 the world's homeless with out-of-date food, and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thing. Add in a few And what other characters – therapists, lawyers, random transgender types – that all secrets have two very different connections to his life, and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to been kept throughout the modern world. What suggests the farcical approach even more, however, is the fact this is bloody funny.|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 the first installment of the Bloodsworn Saga, set in the era of the Vikings in the shadow of Ragnarok, when the Gods 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 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