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=='''21 JANUARY23 MAY'''==

|author=David F RossOnyi Nwabineli|title= There's Only One Danny GarveyAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|summary= Years agoAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, Danny Garvey was a footballing prodigy playing where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for his local clubsponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Everyone predicted a bright future – but his career Now Anuri is in professional football never quite worked outher 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 her. Thirteen years on Anuri is battling alcoholism, convinced failing to return home by his "uncle" Higgy to visit his dying motherstart her PhD, Danny takes over the shambolic undergoing therapy and once-great team he used to play for secretly abusing people online and tries to reform receiving money from themfor doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn= 19131935000861546873

|author=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=Kokoschka's Doll|rating=2.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Well, this looked very much like a book I could love from the get-go, which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the middle on darker stock paper, a chapter whose number was in the 20,000s, letters used as narrative form, and so on. It intrigued with the subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, too. But you've seen the star rating that comes with this review, and can tell that if love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|isbn=1529402697}}=='''26 JANUARY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1529124417|title=Before She Disappeared|author=Lisa Gardner|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Frankie Elkin found Lani Whitehorse's body in her car at the bottom of the lake. She knew that the twenty-two-year-old waitress wouldn't have left her three-year-old daughter and run away. Lani was the fourteenth missing person to be located by Frankie and now she's moving on again, this time to Boston where there's a strong Haitian community which was home to Angelique Lovelie Badeau until her disappearance eleven months ago. Frankie, middle-aged and white, gets a job and accommodation at Stoney's bar and sets out to investigate the community which is just about exclusively black.}}=='''28 JANUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Rob Keeley|title=The Treasure in the Tower|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Rob Keeley is back! Hooray! We here at Bookbag Towers are always happy to read a new adventure from Rob - his stories combine fast pace and lots of action, an easy to read style, an unerring eye for children's friendships and rivalries, and always a good dollop of naughty humour. They're all present here, in ''The Treasure in the Tower''. The chance purchase of a book during a school trip sparks the whole adventure. Who can follow the clues best and find the treasure? Jess, her brother Mason and their friend Kessie through sheer persistence? Or spoiled brat Perdita with her money and tech gadgets and willingness to cheat?|isbn=1800461321}}=='''1 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=B08LKT7HSRB0CYV674G2|title=Murder in the Belltower Swanton Morley (A Miss Underhay MysteryJohn Tanner)|author=Helena DixonDavid Blake

|summary=It wasn't exactly the case Lt Milo Sturgis had been dreaming about: a death from thirtyseemed like an open-six years ago and the daughter of the woman who died wanted some answers-shut case. She had money A man, covered in mud and money translated into clout blood - and so the problem was dropped onto Milo's toes. Dorothy Swoboda was twenty-four years old when she died in carrying a car which went off a cliff on Mulholland Drive and burst knife, comes into flames. It turned out the police station shouting that she wasnhe hasn't actually married to killed the man . A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with whom shethe birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd left her daughter be grateful for an easy answer but Dr Stanley R Barker, optometrist, was a good man the words 'perverse' and he took out adoption papers 'John Tanner' were made for Ellie each other. He's sleep- and she took his name. Ellie was three when her mother left her with Dr Barker and she has nothing deprived to the point of her falling asleep at work but one photograph of her mother and father and a necklace made of serpentinehe's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.

|isbnauthor=1471191303Stuart Douglas|title=The Invisible|author=Tom Percival|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=This is the story of Isobel, a little girl who made a big difference. Isobel lived with her parents in a house Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - a very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on: ''Ice curled across the inside of the window and crept up the corner of the bedpost.'' The family didn't go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy. Then the day came when they couldn't afford the rent for the house and they had to move to the far side of Death at the city. This part of the city was cold, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.}}{{Frontpage|author=Helen Fisher|title=Space HopperDress Rehearsal

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Faye lost her mum when she was very young. She was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from a cold that got worse, and although they were kind and very good to her she of course missed her mum enormously. So when, unexpectedly, she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) that takes her back to the 70During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and her mumLeggit', she revels in leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the chance to create some memories and get to know dead body of a woman on the woman who meant so much to heredge of a reservoir. The time travellingpolice seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, howeverbut something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, is neither easy nor safeand he enlists the help of a fellow actor, and Faye fears that her husband won't believe what's happening and so lies John Le Breton to help him insteadinvestigate matters further. The lies grow They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more tangledpossible murders and, and Faye begins to wonder if it's safe for her to return one last time seemingly, a link to death during the pastSecond World War. Should she try But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to see her mum one last time uncover who is responsible before her mum's death, or will it change her own future forever to attempt itmore people lose their lives?|isbn=14711886631803368209

 =='''18 FEBRUARY6 JUNE'''==

|author=Hannah GoldKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Last BearDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4.5

|summary=April's fatherMeet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, a scientistit seems, has been given he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a job on a remote island called Bear Islandteam of warrior, mage and he accepts the job deciding to take his daughter April with him. They live alone anywayhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, since April's mother died some time beforemagical mazes, and he feels it will be educational for her race to experience the island exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and all its natural beautythe points they grant you along the way. April already has an affinity with natureUnfortunately for Kit, and shethe only thing he's excited to travel with her father, thinking seen of all the fun things they will be able to experience together latest race on the islandinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. But when they get therePossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, her father finds that his work monitoring and recording he has taken to the goading from the temperatures just takes up too much token bully of his time, world and so April is left to explore by herselfstumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. Her father had reassured her What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that there were no longer any bears living 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 how could he is injured, possibly hope to befriend and help him.succeed?|isbn=000841128X1839945184

 =='''4 MARCH13 JUNE'''==

|authorisbn=Saima Mir1635866847|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 self-imposed exile, she is at the top of her 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}}{{FrontpageLavender Companion|author=Andrea Bajani Jessica Dunham and Elizabeth Harris (translator)|title=If You Kept a Record of SinsTerry Barlin Vesci

|genre=Literary FictionLifestyle|summary=This was an incredibly readable novellaIt's strange, but one the things 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 hemake you ''immediately's addressing in his second person monologue of a narration, we see him picked up by his mother's chauffeur, and carted off to do all the necessary introductions before said mother feel that this is buried the following daybook for you. Before I started reading ''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 (wellLavender Companion'', this came out in I visited the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, to the ladauthor's childhood, and see just what he has to tell her as a private farewell address.|isbn=1939810965}}{{Frontpage|author=Mary H[https://www.Kpinelavenderfarm. Choi|title=Yolk|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Jayne Baek is a fashion student thatcom/ website] and there's barely getting by. She drinks. She smokes. She makes bad decisions about a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the men she sleeps withhomepage. She I don's an allt eat cakes and desserts -round messy character; and but I wanted thatcake viscerally. (There's her charm. Junea recipe in the book, on which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the other hand, is a complete contrast book and I was told to Jayne. She's make a typical older sister: she's smart, thinks she knows mess of 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 Notes in the same city for margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the past two yearscorners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. This is until June finds out she I ''s sick, and Jayne is the only person she can turn to. The two sisters have to come together and decide how far theyloved'll go to save each other's lives – even if it means swapping identitiesthis book already.|isbn= 0349003696

=='''18 MARCH4 JULY'''==

|author=Danny Wallace and Gemma CorrellMax Boucherat|title=The Day the Screens Went BlankLast Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5

|summary=Meet Stella and her family. TheyWe meet Lori on the first evening she're just innocently trying s got the house to have a Sunday evening in together, watching a film herself – using three different screens no neighbour to watch three different thingspop in, mind – when ''poof'' everything goes blank. And it's not just their homebabysitter poorly, but the entire south-western village of Mouseholemother at work, and not just thatan avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, either, but the whole country, if not worldon her lonesome. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping they're first to get What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a screen backblanket fort, she has one main intention, and not what they were constantly doing that is to log on them before. Toasters can toastto Voxminer, but TVs cannot do the V part of their jobworld-building, and no computer can show its computations. You might think this critter-collecting game that is going to be a social comedy about people stuck hit in such Lori's world. But first Lori has a Luddite experience against their willtiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, but noand then she finds something even more spooky. For the family finally remember Stella's grandma, server she and see if they can get across country to her. Hence this has bestie and nobody else should be able to go down as a road-trip bookenter shows signs of tampering. But not just thatWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, a slapstick road-trip comedy. And more than thatand her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, too – for it's where is a slapstick, high-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart that kids of all ages will love.girl to 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 chieflysoldiers took him away one night, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, ''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 of a pair for news 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 or will it raise further questions around what else happened during 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 war? Who was the pranks, and people begin to get hurt. When the competition then takes a deadly turn, Rachel must figure out informer who this masked figure is before it's too late.|isbn=0755501527}} =='''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 told 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 Nazis about their troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess 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 radio? And what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has other secrets have been talking to online for kept throughout the past few months.occupation?|isbn=16836923491846976537