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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:0356512940.jpg|linkrating=http://www3.amazon.co.uk/dp/0356512940/ref5|genre=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Crime| stylesummary="verticalIt seemed like an open-align: top; textand-align: left;"|===[[The Rage shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of Dragons by Evan Winter]]=== [[image:5stara freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] Every so often, as a reader, a book comes along that is utter and complete perfectionDCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. This book is one of those. Utter You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and complete perfection'John Tanner' were made for each other. Winter has created an absolute masterpiece of a novel, set in He's sleep-deprived to the fantasy land point of Uhmlaba the reader is instantly thrown into war, a battle for survival for the Omehi people. Fleeing their homeland, they have falling asleep at work but he's determined to fight to remain on the only scrap of land they keep going - probably because he can reach't get any sleep at home. The culture of the Omehi people is rich and deep but not perfect, not sanctimonious. They have villains, they have faults, they are }}=='''4 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|author=Stuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at 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 generationsDress Rehearsal|rating=3. [[The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter|Full Review]]5|}genre=Crime{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"=summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit'25 JULY'''== <!-- Patrice Lawrence-->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1444940651, leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. 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| They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link=http://wwwto death during the Second World War.amazon.co.uk/dp/1444940651/ref=nosim But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?tag|isbn=thebookbag-21]]1803368209}} | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Rose, Interrupted by Patrice Lawrence]]=='''6 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage[[image:4star.jpg|linkauthor=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensSaima Mir|Teens]]title=Vengeance|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersRose and her brother Rudder have recently escaped from cult-like fundamentalist Christian sect, |summary= I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the Pilgrims, along with their mothernorth of England run by a Muslim woman. While Mum works endless hours at agency cleaning jobs trying to keep the rent paid on their tiny flat, Rose and Rudder are trying to navigate The fact that it was the worldly world. Itsecond in a series I hadn't read didn's not easy when everything is new and the rigid rules yout stop me – I've always lived by are suddenly missingjumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and it needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. And that wasn't a problem here. [[Rose, Interrupted by Patrice LawrenceVengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and I never felt lost.|Full Review]]isbn=0861541561 |}}{{Frontpage{|classauthor=Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-"wikitable" cellpaddingStanton|title="15"Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4|genre='''1 AUGUST '''== <!-- Fegan -->Confident Readers|-| stylesummary="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1925810097Meet Kit.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1925810097/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;"| ===[[Donold, 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't Drink s seen of the Pink by B C R Fegan]]=== [[image:4starlatest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is needed.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Madeline is very fond Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of Grandfather Gilderberry. Hehis world and stumbled into declaring he's always busy ll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in his workshop, creating crazy potionsactually managing that, and how could he always has a smile on his face. Madeline's dad thinks he's a bit bonkers possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Valentine|title=Us in the Before and Madeline's mum thinks the same but gives him After|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a pass because he's oldonce in a lifetime connection. But Madeline? She thinks Grandfather Gilberberry is just great. Particularly They meet as children one day on her birthday when he unfailingly arrives with a selection of potions and allows her to choose one as a gift. And he always says trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the same thing.time. But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. [[Don't Drink the Pink by B C R Fegan|Full Review]]Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585}}{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"=='''8 AUGUST13 JUNE'''== <!-- Shackle -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=1635866847| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci[[image:1473225213.jpg|linkrating=http://www4.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473225213/ref5|genre=nosim?tagLifestyle|summary=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[We Are It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Dead by Mike Shackle]]=== Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [[imagehttps:4//www.5starpinelavenderfarm.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasycom/ website]] Mike Shackle has written a really interesting and unusual story in there''We Are The Dead''; s a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the tag line for the novel is 'No More Heroeshomepage. I don' t eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that is what makes this story so differentcake viscerally. (There are villains galore but no specific heroes; rather 's a recipe in the story is scattered book, which I'm avoiding with characters doing their own small part to survive, to fight back, some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to find vengeance, in make a world mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that has been utterly torn apartsmears of butter would not be a problem. 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 I ''loved'' this book already. [[We Are The Dead by Mike Shackle|Full Review]]}}<!-- Coleman -->=='''4 JULY'''==|-{{Frontpage| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Max Boucherat|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills[[image:1785032461.jpg|linkrating=http://www4.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785032461/ref5|genre=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Confident Readers| stylesummary="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Girl at We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the Window by Rowan Coleman]]=== [[image:5starhouse 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:General Fiction|General Fiction]] What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] Trudy Heaton is going homeshe has one main intention, to a house where her roots burrow back through the centuries and that is to a mother she hasn't spoken log on to for sixteen yearsVoxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. Home, But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her refugeown, Ponden Hall, where and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she can heal herself and try to come her bestie and nobody else should be able to terms with the traumatic loss enter shows signs of her husbandtampering. She needs to build bridges with When malevolent eyes spark up on her mother phone screen, and convince her grieving son that his father is dead. Where better than safe place in the house full of light and shadowgame has been doctored – well, that nurtured her throughout her childhoodwhere is a girl to turn? [[The Girl at the Window by Rowan Coleman|Full Review]]|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingauthor="15"Jenny Lecoat|title=Beyond Summerland|rating='''29 AUGUST'''== <!-- Whitlock -->4|-genre=General Fiction| stylesummary=Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. During the war, Jean''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1782692177s 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=http://www 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.amazon.co.uk/dp/1782692177/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 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?  | style|isbn=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|1846976537===[[The Collective by Lindsey Whitlock]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] ''Illinois Territory, Collective Homesteads of America.'' It's certainly an unusual place. Some people live in sunken houses, buried into hillsides to disguise how large their property is at times of austerity, among other reasons. Others are called Foresters, for they live and work in trees – forever playing and resting in trees as children, but farming in amongst them and living between them too. These two sides hate each other – so perhaps this 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 they get manfully cleared out. It's probably the Hills that are behind this, what's more. Our hero, Elwyn, has just left the trees for the Hills, to live with an uncle and learn their ways – he's just of age to decide things for himself, and he has decided to see how the other half lives. This has, of course, opened himself up to no end of prejudicial judgement. But what's this – as soon as he reaches the Hills he sees a third way of living, in a lovely colonial-style mansion, where everything sparkles and shines with crystalline light. What does it mean that he feels destiny-bound to this even posher, newer and more hopeful life? [[The Collective by Lindsey Whitlock|Full Review]] |} {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="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'''== <!—Jamie Littler -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0241355222.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/ISBN/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Frostheart by Jamie Littler]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers]] Way out in the furthest part of the known world, a tiny stronghold exists all on its own, cut off from the rest of human-kin by monsters that lurk beneath the Snow Sea. There, a little boy called Ash waits for the return of his parents, singing a forbidden lullaby to remind him of them... and doing his best to avoid his very, VERY grumpy yeti guardian, Tobu. But life is about to get a whole lot more crazy-adventurous for Ash. When a brave rescue attempt reveals he has amazing magical powers, he's whisked aboard the Frostheart, a sleigh packed full of daring explorers who could use his help. But can they help him find his family . . . ? Frostheart by Jamie Littler|Full Review]] <!-- 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]]}

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