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=='''18 JANUARY30 MAY'''==
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|isbn=0571379559B0CYV674G2|title=The House of Broken BricksSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Fiona WilliamsDavid Blake|rating=3.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=''The House of Broken Bricks'' is the story of four peopleIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. Tess Hembry's roots are A man, covered in Jamaica: temperamentally she might be happier theremud and blood - and carrying a knife, but instead, she lives in comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the house on man. A body at the riverbank, built bottom of broken bricks. Insubstantial as it might look, ita freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's stood the passage of time, storms and floodsbeen stabbed to death. Her husband, Richard, struggles to grow DCI John Tanner is just back from his vegetableshoneymoon, to complete which coincided with the delivery rounds - and to bring in sufficient moneybirth of his daughter Samantha. They have twin boys - Sonny and Max, You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the rainbow twins. Sonnywords 's colouring reflects his motherperverse's Jamaican heritage. Max takes after his father. People donand 't believe that theyJohn Tanner're related, much less twins and therewere made for each other. He's an assumption when Max is out with his mother that shesleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's his nannydetermined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.
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=='''25 JANUARY4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=1803816759Stuart Douglas|title=The Unravelling|author=Will GibsonLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=ItDuring location filming for his 1970's 2038 sitcom 'Floggit and Joe is Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a bored cop policing woman on the wealthy and peaceful New York Cityedge of a reservoir. Joe longs for a bit of adventure and The police seem happy to get stuck into some really gritty crime detection. But then assign it as an accidental death, but something goes horribly wrong with about the AI system that now runs everything, making life easier for manywhole thing bothers Lowe, and riots start to spread. Finally, Joe gets to do some real policing. In he enlists the aftermath help of the rioting global pop star Suki is kidnapped and Joe is assigned a fellow actor, John Le Breton to bring her homehelp him investigate matters further. Joe isn't They travel across the only one trying to save Suki - Dylancountry during their days off filming, a British superfan uncovering more possible murders and tech nerd, is also on seemingly, a link to death during the caseSecond World War. What went wrong? Did But is there really a link between the system fail or was it hackeddeaths? And how will they manage to uncover who is Suki's kidnapping connectedresponsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''31 JANUARY6 JUNE'''==
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|rating=3.5
|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=After a bout I was instantly intrigued by the premise of scarlet fever as a child, Ellen Lark loses her hearing. Suddenly plunged into a world of silence, everything about her life changes. Living this novel – an organised crime syndicate in a time when the use north of sign language England run by a Muslim woman. The fact that it was seen as something only savages do, Ellen is sent to the second in a school where she is taught to lip series I hadn't read, but physically restrained from signingdidn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and it needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. From And that wasn't a problem here, she ends . Vengeance swiftly brings you up in another school studying under Alexander Graham Bell who has been teaching the deaf and using a system called Visible Speech. At the same time, Bell is working on other inventions and ideasto speed, and Ellen finds herself unwittingly caught up in a complicated tangle of espionageI never felt lost.|isbn=10354016140861541561
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|author=Alex Bell Kieran Larwood and Tim McDonaghJoe Todd-Stanton|title=The Glorious Race of Magical BeastsDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Eli Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is a busy lad an avid fan of Dungeon Running – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with himsport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and in race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the evening a helper at treasure or the dessert cafe his gran owns big bad and runsthe points they grant you along the way. Eli lives with his lovely granUnfortunately for Kit, too – for there is a generation missing in the family. A few short years ago, Elionly thing he's parents were both lost to seen of the titular latest raceon the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the world in the company new trio of a magical beastquestors is needed. This Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has made the race anathema taken to the pair – but when a bad incident at goading from the eatery leads to token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a confession from granteam. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, Eli knows his only and how could he possibly hope is to dare to enter what he most hates, with the sole aim the prize of magic at the end – the only thing to possibly save his gran.succeed?|isbn=05713822311839945184
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|genre=Teens
|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, a remote Elk and partially forgotten islandMab are best friends, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before heror more than that even, their friendship is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off once in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sealifetime connection. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, They meet as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smugglerchildren one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's territory, Mira must be determined to stop contact details at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most deartime.|isbn=0008664730}}=='''14 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Christopher Edge|title=Black Hole Cinema Club|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Lucas But then chance brings them back together, and his friends they are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, a place that inseparable. Something has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting filmshappened though, something terrible and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very differenttragic, and now they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinemamust work through their grief, and to their real lives?friendship, together.|isbn=18399427381471196585
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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?
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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?
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