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{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" ='''30 MAY'''==JUNE 13 <!-- Pye -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=B0CYV674G2| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Swanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake[[image:1471170233.jpg|linkrating=http://www3.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471170233/ref5|genre=nosim?tagCrime|summary=thebookbag-21]]  | style="verticalIt seemed like an open-and-align: top; textshut case. A man, covered in mud and blood -align: left;"|===[[The Adventures of Harry Stevenson by Ali Pye]]=== [[image:5starand carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Meet Harry Stevenson. HeA body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's a typical guinea pig, except he's perhaps a bit more ginger than normalbeen stabbed to death. And more lazy than usual. And DCI John Tanner is just back from his appetite is possibly bigger than honeymoon, which coincided with the normbirth of his daughter Samantha. Apart from that You would think he's a regular guinea pig. But d be grateful for an easy answer but the stories in which he features are nothing likewords 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. In He's sleep-deprived to the first one here, the lad who owns and looks after him is being forced point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to move house. It should be a simple journey for Harry, safe in his cage from all the predators that watching nature documentaries have put into his imagination, but keep going - probably because he gets distracted and – shock horror – left behindcan't get any sleep at home. It takes some bravura slapstick and a charming contrivance for him to be found again. In the second, for we get two full-length stories in this volume, there}}=='''4 JUNE'''s a party being held to get the lad used to his new schoolmates, and Harry used to life in a garden hutch. And one more wonderful conceit that drives high drama. [[The Adventures of Harry Stevenson by Ali Pye|Full Review]]=={{FrontpageJUNE 20|author=Stuart Douglas <!|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries -- Ford -->Death at the Dress Rehearsal|-rating=3.5| stylegenre="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Crime[[image:0356510441.jpg|linksummary=http://wwwDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir.amazon.co.uk/dp/0356510441/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t With Her Mind by Jackson Ford]]=== [[image:4star The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] As They travel across the title suggestscountry during their days off filming, this book is all about a girluncovering more possible murders and, Teagan Frostseemingly, who has psychokinesis. Forced a link to secretly work for death during the government along with Second World War. But is there really a few unique (and shady) individuals, Teagan has link between the deaths? And will they manage to use her power for unimaginable tasks. All of this whilst under the pretence of working for a moving-company. After her latest job goes wrong and her and the team escape by the skin of their teeth, Teagan finds herself as a murder suspect when the victim is found in such a way that only she could have committed the crimeuncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209}}=='''6 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|author=Saima Mir|title=Vengeance|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary= I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a Muslim woman. The rest of fact that it was the story unfolds second in a fast-paced race against time to clear Teaganseries I hadn't read didn't stop me – I's name ve jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and find out exactly what has happened. Is it possible that someone with needn't be a gift like Teaganhindrance if it's has managed good enough. And that wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to fly under the radar? [[The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t With Her Mind by Jackson Ford|Full Review]]speed, and I never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561}}<!-- Laurain -->{{Frontpage|author=Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton| styletitle="widthDungeon Runners: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Hero Trial|rating=4[[image:1910477672.jpg|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1910477672/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Confident Readers| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Vintage 1954 by Antoine LaurainMeet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, Jane Aitken (translator) mage and Emily Boyce (translator)]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Vintage 1954 starts by thrusting several completely different characters upon ushealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, before deciding to run with them and formulate a plotand a new trio of questors is needed. So we have an American biker Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, just landing in Paris but unfortunately not with he has taken to the goading from the wife who shared token bully of his dream of visiting the city togetherworld and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. We What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have a goth girl who everyone recognises from an American crime showin actually managing that, but actually is a humble restorer of antiques. We have a cocktail barman, infatuated with the goth girl. We also have a man ruling the roost over a whole suite of individual apartments fabricated from the Haussmann-era mansion his family once owned. Finally something conspires and how could he possibly hope to get them together, succeed?|isbn=1839945184}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Valentine|title=Us in the Before and drinking from the same bottle of a rare 1954 red wine. Only, one of them has After|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a bizarre incidence once in his family history that also features the same plonk – where a grandfather imbibed, and walked lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the door one rainy morning, never to be seen againtime. But of course nobody will be doing any disappearing nowthen chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though – will they? [[Vintage 1954 by Antoine Laurain, Jane Aitken (translator) something terrible and tragic, and Emily Boyce (translator)now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|Full Review]]isbn=1471196585}}=='''13 JUNE 27'''==<!-- Koomson -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1635866847| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci[[image:1472260376|rating=4.jpg5|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472260376/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Lifestyle| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Tell Me Your Secret by Dorothy Koomson]]=== [[image:5starIt's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [ Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers//www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website]] Despite Dorothy Koomson regularly being suggested as an author and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I might like, ie people who like this author also like Dorothy Koomson, don't eat cakes and desserts - but I have never read her beforewanted that cake viscerally. Having done so I can totally see why she (There's a recipe in the bestselling author of fifteen books. [[Tell Me Your Secret by Dorothy Koomson|Full Review]] <book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!-- Various-->|-| style=) 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 ''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;loved''|this book already.}}[[image:1529006031.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1529006031/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|4 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=[[Return to Wonderland by Various Authors]]Max Boucherat|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers [[image:4.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] In following a young girl called Alice down the rabbit hole a few years agobabysitter poorly, mother at work, when the first book she was in [[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition) by Lewis Carroll and Anthony Browne|hit 150 years of age]]just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, I found that I didn't really find too much favour with iton her lonesome. The wacky-for-What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, theworld-sakebuilding, critter-of-it did not gel, and I doncollecting game that is a hit in Lori't remember loving it more as a childs world. But I would suggest I am the perfect audience for first Lori has a tiny inkling that this book. I had every chance to enjoy these short stories that come at the core from a tangentstormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, that show and then she finds something even more spooky. For the benefits server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of the oblique glancetampering. I've always preferred coming to an author's output through their least obvious, allegedly throw-away piecesWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and it's her safe place in the same with franchises game has been doctored – I'd more likely go for Bree Tanner's short novella than the whole Twilight saga (although that remains just a hunch, for obvious reasons). For another thing, there was every reason well, where is a girl to expect some kind of greatness here – with Carroll much loved by millions, surely pieces written with that love in mind could only provide for success after success? [[Return to Wonderland by Various Authors|Full Review]]turn?|isbn=0008666482}}<!-- Foster -->{{Frontpage|-author=Jenny Lecoat| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Beyond Summerland|rating=4[[image:1471172236.jpg|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471172236/refGeneral Fiction|summary=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Check Mates by Stewart Foster]]=== [[image:5starJean 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] In many ways Felix is 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 typical boy in Year 7relief, enjoying playing games on his PS4 and hanging out with his friend Jake at or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the weekend. However Felix is struggling at school. He is not a problem child but he does war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have a problem. His ADHD makes it hard for him to concentratebeen kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=1846976537}}<!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->You can work your way through the newest review, category by category, he keeps getting into trouble starting [[Newest Animals and his grades are slipping. When his Mum suggests that he spends more time with his grandfather Felix is horrified. Ever since Grandma died his Granddad has been grumpy and more eccentric than before. All he wants to do is sit in the dark and play chess. Felix knows that this will be extremely boring. But sometimes we learn valuable lessons where we least expect to and perhaps Granddad and Felix can help each otherWildlife Reviews|here]]. [[Category:Non-Fiction]][[Category:Fiction]][[Check Mates by Stewart Foster|Full Review]] <!-- Jane O'Connor -->|-| style="widthCategory: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:B07GLCDXZL.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07GLCDXZL/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Needlemouse by Jane O'Connor]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] We first meet Sylvia Penton on her birthday and her boss, the Prof, is taking her out to lunch. This is her favourite day of the year, not because it's her birthday but because of the special time she gets to spend with the man she loves. He's told her that he and his wife are going to divorce - Martha is apparently having an affair - and Sylvia is convinced that the Prof will then declare his love and they can be together. She hasn't fully constructed 'together' in her own mind - she envisages it as romantic, but her imagination hasn't yet progressed to the sexual part of the relationship. There's time though - she's only been the prof's PA for fifteen years. [[Needlemouse by Jane O'Connor|Full Review]] 4 JULY <!-- Davis -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0192749218.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0192749218/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[What's That in Dog Years? by Ben Davis and Julia Christians]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] George and Gizmo have been together ever since George was born. Gizmo has always been a fun, adventurous dog and a loyal friend, but just recently, George has noticed that he's starting to slow down a little. A visit to the vets leaves George worried that Gizmo might not be around for very much longer, and so he begins to write Gizmo a bucket list, of all the adventures that they can still have together in Gizmo's last days. But are they his last days? And who will help George to stay calm when Gizmo is gone? [[What's That in Dog Years? by Ben Davis and Julia Christians|Full Review]] 11 JULY <!-- Chiang -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1529014484.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1529014484/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Exhalation by Ted Chiang]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Over the past twenty-eight years Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short stories, these magnificent stories have won twenty-seven major science fiction awards so if you are a science fiction fan it is likely that you have already come across some of the work by Ted Chiang. If you haven't than take this opportunity to do so now. Trust me; your imagination will be grateful. [[Exhalation by Ted Chiang|Full Review]] JULY 18 <!-- Evan Winter -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0356512940.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0356512940/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] Every so often, as a reader, a book comes along that is utter and complete perfection. This book is one of those. Utter and complete perfection. Winter has created an absolute masterpiece of a novel, set in the fantasy land of Uhmlaba the reader is instantly thrown into war, a battle for survival for the Omehi people. Fleeing their homeland, they have to fight to remain on the only scrap of land they can reach. The culture of the Omehi people is rich and deep but not perfect, not sanctimonious. They have villains, they have faults, they are the invaders after all, but Winter creates a realistic and honest portrayal of a people desperate to survive, to save themselves and their culture for future generations. [[The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter|Full Review]] 8 AUGUST <!-- Shackle -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473225213.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473225213/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[We Are The Dead by Mike Shackle]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] Mike Shackle has written a really interesting and unusual story in ''We Are The Dead''; the tag line for the novel is 'No More Heroes' and that is what makes this story so different. There are villains galore but no specific heroes; rather the story is scattered with characters doing their own small part to survive, to fight back, and to find vengeance, in a world that has been utterly torn apart. The plot does not hang on any one character, no one is important, anyone can die and many do, but, like ants working together, each small character achieves their own part of a much larger plot that is rich and complex and keeps the reader glued to the story. [[We Are The Dead by Mike Shackle|Full Review]] <!-- Coleman -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1785032461.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785032461/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Girl at the Window by Rowan Coleman]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] Trudy Heaton is going home, to a house where her roots burrow back through the centuries and to a mother she hasn't spoken to for sixteen years. Home, her refuge, Ponden Hall, where she can heal herself and try to come to terms with the traumatic loss of her husband. She needs to build bridges with her mother and convince her grieving son that his father is dead. Where better than the house full of light and shadow, that nurtured her throughout her childhood? [[The Girl at the Window by Rowan Coleman|Full Review]] 5 SEPTEMBER <!-- McGee -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0241365953.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0241365953/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[American Royals by Katharine McGee]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Two and a half centuries ago, America won the Revolutionary War and General George Washington was offered the crown. Today, the House of Washington still sit on the thrown with Princess Beatrice next in line. Beatrice's whole life has been building up to her ruling the United States and the time for her reign is imminent. [[American Royals by Katharine McGee|Full Review]] <!-- Moyer -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:178747920X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178747920X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Brightfall by Jaime Lee Moyer]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Robin Hood is gone – denouncing both his former life and his love Marian, and retreating to a monastery – although no-one knows quite what led him to abandon all that he had built. Marion's life since has been relatively quiet - but when her friends start dying, Marion is tasked by Father Tuck to break the curse surrounding them and to save their lives. Setting off with a soldier, a Fey Lord and a sullen Robin Hood, she becomes tangled in a maze of betrayals, complicated relationships, and a vicious struggle for the throne…[[Brightfall by Jaime Lee Moyer|Full Review]] DATE NOT KNOWN <!-- Parker -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:bookreviewercentre.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/bookreviewercentre/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[The Chessmaster's Secret by Mary Parker]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]  Belle and Joe travel to London in 1944, towards the end of World War II. Orphaned evacuees, they haven't had a good time of it - especially Joe, who is a sensitive child and was badly bullied. Meeting them is Uncle Griff, a kindly man, but one without much money. He is more than happy to have the children stay during the school holidays. Uncle Griff owns the ''Shop of Mechanical Marvels'' and the children love all the old things it contains. Uncle Griff hopes to restore it to profitability and bring some wonder back into LondonChildren's bombed out streets. [[The Chessmaster's Secret by Mary Parker|Full ReviewBooks]]