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{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" ='''JUNE 1330 MAY'''=={{Frontpage<!-- Pye -->|isbn=B0CYV674G2|-title=Swanton Morley (John Tanner)| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"David Blake|rating=3.5[[image:1471170233.jpg|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471170233/refCrime|summary=nosim?tag=thebookbagIt seemed like an open-and-21]]  | style="verticalshut case. A man, covered in mud and blood -align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Adventures and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of Harry Stevenson by Ali Pye]]=== [[image:5stara 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 the birth of his daughter Samantha.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Meet Harry Stevenson. He's a typical guinea pig, except You would think he's perhaps a bit more ginger than normal. And more lazy than usual. And his appetite is possibly bigger than d be grateful for an easy answer but the norm. Apart from that hewords 'perverse' and 'John Tanner's a regular guinea pigwere made for each other. But He's sleep-deprived to the stories in which point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he features are nothing like. In the first one here, the lad who owns and looks after him is being forced to move housecan't get any sleep at home. It should be a simple journey for Harry, safe in his cage from all }}=='''4 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|author=Stuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the predators that watching nature documentaries have put into Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=During location filming for his imagination1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', but he gets distracted and – shock horror – left behind. It takes some bravura slapstick and leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a charming contrivance for him to be found againreservoir. In The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the secondwhole thing bothers Lowe, for we get two full-length stories in this volumeand he enlists the help of a fellow actor, there's a party being held John Le Breton to get help him investigate matters further. They travel across the lad used to his new schoolmatescountry during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and Harry used , seemingly, a link to life in a garden hutchdeath during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And one will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more wonderful conceit that drives high drama. [[The Adventures of Harry Stevenson by Ali Pyepeople lose their lives?|Full Review]]isbn=1803368209}}=='''6 JUNE 20'''=={{Frontpage<!-- Ford -->|author=Saima Mir|-title=Vengeance| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|3.5[[image:0356510441.jpg|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0356510441/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Thrillers| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t With Her Mind I was instantly intrigued by Jackson Ford]]=== [[image:4starthe premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a Muslim woman.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] As the title suggests, this book is all about The fact that it was the second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and it needn't be a girl, Teagan Frost, who has psychokinesishindrance if it's good enough. Forced to secretly work for the government along with a few unique (And that wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and shady) individuals, Teagan has to use her power for unimaginable tasksI never felt lost. All of this whilst under the pretence of working for a moving|isbn=0861541561}}{{Frontpage|author=Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-companyStanton|title=Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Kit. After her latest job goes wrong and her and Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team escape by the skin of their teethwarrior, Teagan finds herself as a murder suspect when mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the victim is found in such a way that only she could have committed exit, perhaps bothering with the crime. The rest of treasure or the story unfolds in a fast-paced race against time to clear Teagan's name big bad and find out exactly what has happenedthe points they grant you along the way. Is it possible that someone with a gift like Teagan 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, and a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has managed taken to fly under the radar? [[The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t With Her Mind by Jackson Ford|Full Review]] <!goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free- Laurain -->zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|-isbn=1839945184}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Jenny Valentine|[[image:1910477672.jpgtitle=Us in the Before and After|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1910477672/ref5|genre=nosim?tagTeens|summary=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Vintage 1954 by Antoine LaurainElk and Mab are best friends, Jane Aitken (translator) and Emily Boyce (translator)]]=== [[image:4or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Vintage 1954 starts by thrusting several completely different characters upon us They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the time. But then chance brings them back together, before deciding to run with them and formulate a plotthey are inseparable. So we have an American biker Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, just landing in Paris but unfortunately not with the wife who shared his dream of visiting the city together. We have a goth girl who everyone recognises from an American crime show, but actually is a humble restorer of antiques. We have a cocktail barman, infatuated with the goth girl|isbn=1471196585}}=='''13 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1635866847|title=The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4. We also have a man ruling 5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=It's strange, the roost over a whole suite of individual apartments fabricated from things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the Haussmann-era mansion his family once ownedbook for you. Finally something conspires to get them together Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', and drinking from I visited the same bottle of a rare 1954 red wineauthor's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm. Only, one com/ website] and there's a picture of them has a bizarre incidence in his family history that also features slice of chocolate cake on the same plonk – where a grandfather imbibed, homepage. I don't eat cakes and walked out the door one rainy morning, never to be seen againdesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. But of course nobody will be doing any disappearing now (There's a recipe in the book, though – will they? [[Vintage 1954 by Antoine Laurain, Jane Aitken (translatorwhich I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and Emily Boyce (translator)|Full Review]] '''JUNE 27I 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.}}=='''4 JULY'''==<!-- Koomson -->|-{{Frontpage| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Max Boucherat|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills[[image:1472260376.jpg|linkrating=http://www4.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472260376/ref5|genre=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Confident Readers| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Tell Me Your Secret by Dorothy Koomson]]=== [[image:5starWe 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Despite Dorothy Koomson regularly being suggested as an author I might like What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, ie people who like this author also like Dorothy Koomsonthe world-building, I have never read her before. Having done so I can totally see why shecritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's the bestselling author of fifteen booksworld. [[Tell Me Your Secret by Dorothy Koomson|Full Review]] <!-- Various-->|-| style= But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1529006031t find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky.jpg|link=http://www For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering.amazon.co.uk/dp/1529006031/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 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?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''Jenny Lecoat|title=Beyond Summerland|rating=4|genre==[[Return to Wonderland by Various Authors]]===General Fiction[[image:4.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]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, [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] In following a young girl called Alice down leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the rabbit hole a few years agoNazis, when and the first book she was in [[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition) by Lewis Carroll and Anthony Browne|hit 150 years war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of age]], I found that I didn't really find too much favour with ithim. The wacky-for-But will the-sake-of-it did not geltruth come as a relief, and I don't remember loving or will it more as a child. raise further questions around what else happened during the war? But I would suggest I am Who was the perfect audience for this book. I had every chance to enjoy these short stories that come at informer who told the core from a tangent, that show Nazis about the benefits of the oblique glance. radio? I've always preferred coming to an author's output through their least obvious, allegedly throw-away pieces, and it's And what other secrets have been kept throughout the same with franchises – I'd more likely go for Bree Tanner's short novella than occupation?|isbn=1846976537}}<!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->You can work your way through the whole Twilight saga (although that remains just a hunchnewest review, for obvious reasons). For another thingcategory by category, there was every reason 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? starting [[Return to Wonderland by Various AuthorsNewest Animals and Wildlife Reviews|Full Reviewhere]]. <!-- Foster -->|-| style="width[[Category: 10%; verticalNon-align: top; text-align: center;"|Fiction]][[imageCategory:1471172236.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471172236/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]Fiction]]  | style="vertical-align[[Category: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Check Mates by Stewart Foster]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] In many ways Felix is a typical boy in Year 7, enjoying playing games on his PS4 and hanging out with his friend Jake at the weekend. However Felix is struggling at school. He is not a problem child but he does have a problem. His ADHD makes it hard for him to concentrate, he keeps getting into trouble 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 other. [[Check Mates by Stewart Foster|Full Review]] <!-- Jane O'Connor -->|-| style="width: 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 ReviewChildren's Books]]