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 {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"=='''18 JULY30 MAY'''=={{Frontpage<!-- Evan Winter -->|isbn=B0CYV674G2|-title=Swanton Morley (John Tanner)| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"David Blake|[[image:0356512940rating=3.jpg5|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0356512940/ref=nosim?taggenre=thebookbag-21]] Crime| stylesummary="verticalIt seemed like an open-align: top; textand-align: left;"|===[[The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter]]=== [[image:5starshut case.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] Every so often, as A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a readerknife, a book comes along into the police station shouting that is utter and complete perfectionhe hasn't killed the man. This book is one of those. Utter and complete perfection. Winter has created an absolute masterpiece of a novel, set in A body at the fantasy land bottom of Uhmlaba the reader is instantly thrown into war, a battle for survival for the Omehi peoplefreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. Fleeing their homelandDCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, they have to fight to remain on which coincided with the only scrap birth of land they can reachhis daughter Samantha. The culture of the Omehi people is rich and deep You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but not perfect, not sanctimonious. They have villains, they have faults, they are the invaders after all, but Winter creates a realistic words 'perverse' and honest portrayal of a people desperate 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to survive, the point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to save themselves and their culture for future generations. [[The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter|Full Review]]keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.|}{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"}=='''25 JULY4 JUNE'''== <!-- Patrice Lawrence-->{{Frontpage|-author=Stuart Douglas| styletitle="width: 10%; verticalLowe and Le Breton Mysteries -align: top; text-align: center;"|Death at the Dress Rehearsal[[image:1444940651.jpg|linkrating=http://www3.amazon.co.uk/dp/1444940651/ref5|genre=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Crime| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[RoseDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', Interrupted by Patrice Lawrence]]=== [[image:4starleading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]  Rose and her brother Rudder have recently escaped from cult-like fundamentalist Christian sect The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the Pilgrimswhole thing bothers Lowe, along with their motherand he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. While Mum works endless hours at agency cleaning jobs trying to keep They travel across the rent paid on country during their tiny flatdays off filming, Rose uncovering more possible murders and Rudder are trying , seemingly, a link to navigate death during the worldly worldSecond World War. It's not easy when everything But is new and there really a link between the rigid rules you've always lived by are suddenly missing. deaths? [[Rose, Interrupted by Patrice Lawrence|Full Review]]And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209|} {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"}=='''1 AUGUST 6 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage<!-- Fegan -->|author=Saima Mir|-title=Vengeance| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|3.5[[image:1925810097.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1925810097/refgenre=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Thrillers| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[Don't Drink I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the Pink north of England run by B C R Fegan]]=== [[image:4stara Muslim woman.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Madeline is very fond of Grandfather Gilderberry. HeThe fact that it was the second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I's always busy in his workshop, creating crazy potions, and he always has ve jumped midway into a smile few series before (on his face. Madeline's dad thinks he's a bit bonkers page and screen) and Madelineit needn's mum thinks the same but gives him t be a pass because hehindrance if it's oldgood enough. But Madeline? She thinks Grandfather Gilberberry is just greatAnd that wasn't a problem here. Particularly on her birthday when he unfailingly arrives with a selection of potions Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and allows her to choose one as a giftI never felt lost. And he always says the same thing... [[Don't Drink the Pink by B C R Fegan|Full Review]]isbn=0861541561|}}{{Frontpage|classauthor=Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-"wikitable" cellpaddingStanton|title="15"Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4|genre='''8 AUGUST'''== <!-- Shackle -->|-Confident Readers| stylesummary="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473225213Meet Kit.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473225213/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag 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, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[We Are The Dead by Mike Shackle]]=== [[image:4old, 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, and a new trio of questors is needed.5star Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating} What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]{{FrontpageMike Shackle has written a really interesting and unusual story |author=Jenny Valentine|title=Us in ''We Are The Dead''; the tag line for the novel is 'No More Heroes' Before and that is what makes this story so different. There After|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Elk and Mab are villains galore but no specific heroes; rather the story is scattered with characters doing their own small part to survivebest friends, to fight back, and to find vengeanceor more than that even, their friendship is a once in a world that has been utterly torn apartlifetime connection. The plot does not hang They meet as children one day on any one character, no one is important, anyone can die and many do, a trip out but, like ants working together, unfortunately they don't get each small character achieves their own part of a much larger plot that is rich and complex and keeps other's contact details at the reader glued to the storytime. [[We Are The Dead by Mike Shackle But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|Full Review]]isbn=1471196585}}=='''13 JUNE'''==<!-- Coleman -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1635866847| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci[[image:1785032461.jpg|linkrating=http://www4.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785032461/ref5|genre=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Lifestyle| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Girl at It's strange, the Window by Rowan Coleman]]=== [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 [imagehttps:5star//www.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]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, [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] Trudy Heaton is going home, to a house where her roots burrow back through which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the centuries book and I was told to make a mother she hasn't spoken to for sixteen yearsmess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. Home, her refuge, Ponden Hall, where she can heal herself and try You get to come to terms with fold down the traumatic loss corners of her husbandpages. She needs to build bridges with her mother and convince her grieving son that his father is deadYou suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. 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]]|I ''loved'' this book already.}}{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"=='''29 AUGUST4 JULY'''== <!-- Whitlock -->{{Frontpage|-author=Max Boucherat| styletitle=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5[[image:1782692177.jpg|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1782692177/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Confident Readers| stylesummary=We meet Lori on the first evening she''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[The Collective by Lindsey Whitlock]]=== [[image:3s 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.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] ''Illinois Territory What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, Collective Homesteads of America.'' Itthe world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's certainly an unusual placeworld. Some people live in sunken housesBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, buried into hillsides and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to disguise how large their property is at times enter shows signs of austerity, among other reasonstampering. Others are called ForestersWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, for they live and work her safe place in trees the game has been doctored – forever playing and resting in trees as childrenwell, but farming in amongst them and living between them too. These two sides hate each other – so perhaps this where is less of an unusual place than at first sight. Our drama kicks off when the small area the Foresters live in is placed under compulsory purchase – the residents are given a pitiful amount to clear out, before a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Lecoat|title=Beyond Summerland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they get manfully cleared outare celebrating the end of the occupation. It's probably During the Hills that are behind thiswar, whatJean's more. Our hero, Elwyn, has just left the trees father was arrested for the Hills, listening to live with an uncle a banned radio and learn their ways – he's just of age to decide things for himselfsoldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and he has decided to see how the other half livesher mother waiting for years for news of him. This hasAs the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, of courseand the war is finally over, opened himself up to no end their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of prejudicial judgementhim. But what's this – will the truth come as soon as he reaches the Hills he sees a third way of livingrelief, in a lovely colonial-style mansion, where everything sparkles and shines with crystalline light. What does or will it mean that he feels destiny-bound to this even posher, newer and more hopeful liferaise 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? [[The Collective by Lindsey Whitlock|Full Review]] |} {|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingisbn="15" =='''1 SEPTEMBER'''== <!-- Ellory -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1542007232.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1542007232/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[The Rabbit Girls by Anna Ellory]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Berlin, 1989. Miriam is in the middle of a city freshly united, with the Wall newly broken down and people able to cross at liberty for the first time in decades. She is in the middle of such euphoria, but cannot feel it, for she has not left her father's apartment in weeks, nursing him as he lies dying. One standard bed-bath, however, is very different, when he gasps the name ''Frieda'' that she does not recognise – and she sees for the first time ever a tattoo for his camp inmate identity under his watch. One bombshell outside, then, and two inside. And inside her father, Henryk, what is going on, as he has a first person narrative alternating with her story? What will we find happened, as he remembers back to the real Frieda, a young woman that shook him to the core when he was her literature professor? That's right, more bombshells… [[The Rabbit Girls by Anna Ellory|Full Review]] |} {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"=='''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]] <!-- Hewitt -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1509896465.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1509896465/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Nightjar by Deborah Hewitt]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] ''The Nightjar'' is an unusual and exciting story. Alice Wyndham lives a normal life in London until she finds a box on her doorstep one morning and her life begins to unravel, fast. From that very moment, her life is flooded with magic, loss, expectation and particularly, betrayal. As everything around her shifts, all that she knows, all that she thinks she knows, must change. Who can she trust? Who must she trust? Who will she trust? More importantly, can she even trust herself? [[The Nightjar by Deborah Hewitt|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]] <!-- Sedgwick -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1788542347.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1788542347/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Snowflake, AZ by Marcus Sedgwick]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] This is a deep, interesting read unlike any book I've read in quite some time. The novel's story follows a young man named Ash in the process of joining a community of sick people in the curiously named town of Snowflake, Arizona. These people are sick, but it's not a sickness you've heard of. Instead, they're environmentally ill – affected by household chemicals and fabrics, pesticides, static electricity, and radiation – and their only ''cure'' is to stay in the town away from the real world. Though it's about a real place, the people in it are fictional. It really is a place apart, quite literally cut off from the outside world – people are even required to decontaminate themselves thoroughly before becoming fully integrated. [[Snowflake, AZ by Marcus Sedgwick|Full Review]] |} {|class-wikitable" cellpadding="15"=='''19 SEPTEMBER'''==<!-- Jamie -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1908745819.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1908745819/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Surfacing by Kathleen Jamie]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]], [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:Autobiography|Autobiography]] Sometimes when people suggest that you read a certain book, they tell you ''this one has your name on it''. Mostly we take them at their word, or not, but rarely do we ask them why they thought so, unless it turns out that we didn't like the book. That's a rare experience. People who are sensitive to hearing a book calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case I was told why. The blurb speaks of the author considering ''an older, less tethered sense of herself.'' Older. Less tethered. That's not a bad description of where I am. Add to that my love of the natural world, of those aspects of the poetic and lyrical that are about style not form, and substance most of all, about connection. Of course this book had my name on it. It was written for me. It would have found its way to me eventually. I am pleased to have it fall onto my path so quickly. [[Surfacing by Kathleen Jamie|Full Review]]|} {|class-wikitable" cellpadding="15"=='''3 OCTOBER'''== <!-- Moriarty -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1913101037.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1913101037/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone by Jaclyn Moriarty]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Bronte doesn't miss her parents, and she's not particularly sad when she learns of their terrible fate at the hands of pirates. And why should she be? After all, they just dumped her on Aunt Isabelle (without even asking if it would be a convenient arrangement for either party) when she was a baby. They swanned off to have adventures, and never once came back to check if their only child was healthy and happy. [[The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone by Jaclyn Moriarty|Full Review]]|} {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" =='''31 OCTOBER'''==<!-- Peter F Hamilton -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1447281357.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1447281357/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Salvation Lost by Peter F Hamilton]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction]] In the twenty-third century, humanity is enjoying a comparative utopia. Yet life on Earth is about to change, forever. Feriton Kane's investigative team has discovered the worst threat ever to face mankind – and we've almost no time to fight back. The supposedly benign Olyix plan to harvest humanity, in order to carry us to their god at the end of the universe. And as their agents conclude schemes down on earth, vast warships converge above to gather this cargo. Some factions push for humanity to flee, to live in hiding amongst the stars – although only a chosen few would make it out in time. But others refuse to break before the storm. As disaster looms, animosities must be set aside to focus on just one goal: wiping this enemy from the face of creation. Even if it means preparing for a future this generation will never see. [[Salvation Lost by Peter F Hamilton|Full Review]]1846976537}}

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