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 {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"=='''1 AUGUST 30 MAY'''=={{Frontpage<!-- Carlie Sorosiak -->|isbn=B0CYV674G2|-title=Swanton Morley (John Tanner)| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|David Blake[[image:178800387X.jpg|linkrating=http://www3.amazon.co.uk/dp/178800387X/ref=nosim?tag5|genre=thebookbag-21]] Crime| stylesummary="verticalIt seemed like an open-align: top; textand-align: left;"|===[[Ishut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, Cosmo by Carlie Sorosiak]]=== [[image:4comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man.5starA body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Cosmo's family is in crisisDCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. Mom and Dad argue all the time. Emmaline doesnYou would think he't quite understand it because shed be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's too little sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but she feels it. And Max, who is bigger, does understand it and is terrified by it. Long ago, when Max was just a baby, Cosmo made a promise he's determined to protect Max forever and so he sets about his mission of repairing the family with everything keep going - probably because hecan's got..t get any sleep at home. [[I, Cosmo by Carlie Sorosiak|Full Review]]<!-- Fegan -->}}=='''4 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|-author=Stuart Douglas| styletitle="width: 10%; verticalLowe and Le Breton Mysteries -align: top; text-align: center;"|Death at the Dress Rehearsal[[image:1925810097.jpg|linkrating=http://www3.amazon.co.uk/dp/1925810097/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Crime| summary===[[DonDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit't Drink , leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the Pink by B C R Fegan]]=== [[image:4staredge of a reservoir.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Madeline is very fond 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 Grandfather Gilderberrya fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. He's always busy in his workshop They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, creating crazy potionsseemingly, and he always has a smile on his face. Madeline's dad thinks he's a bit bonkers and Madeline's mum thinks link to death during the same but gives him a pass because he's oldSecond World War. But Madeline? She thinks Grandfather Gilberberry is just great. Particularly on her birthday when he unfailingly arrives with a selection of potions and allows her there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to choose one as a gift. And he always says the same thing... [[Don't Drink the Pink by B C R Feganuncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|Full Review]]isbn=1803368209|}{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"}=='''8 AUGUST6 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage<!-- Shackle -->|author=Saima Mir|-title=Vengeance| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"3.5|genre=Thrillers[[image:1473225213.jpg|linksummary=http://www.amazon.coI was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a Muslim woman.uk/dp/1473225213/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[We Are The Dead by Mike Shackle]]=== [[image:4The 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 hindrance if it's good enough.5starAnd that wasn't a problem here.jpg|linkVengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and I never felt lost.|isbn=Category:{{{rating}0861541561}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]{{FrontpageMike Shackle has written a really interesting |author=Kieran Larwood and unusual story Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Kit. Like most of the people in ''We Are The Dead''; his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the tag line for the novel is 'No More Heroes' sport where a team of warrior, mage 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 survivehealer enter specially prepared, century-old, to fight backmagical mazes, and race to find vengeancethe exit, in a world that has been utterly torn apart. The plot does not hang 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 any the inn TV equivalent is that one characterteam has been retired, no one is importanteaten, anyone can die and many do, but, like ants working together, each small character achieves their own part a new trio of a much larger plot that questors is rich and complex and keeps needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the reader glued to goading from the story. [[We Are The Dead by Mike Shackle|Full Review]] <!token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free- Coleman -->|-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?| styleisbn="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"1839945184}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Valentine[[image:1785032461.jpg|linktitle=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785032461/refUs in the Before and After|rating=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Teens|summary===[[The Girl at the Window by Rowan Coleman]]=== [[image:5starElk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] 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, [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] Trudy Heaton is going homeand they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, to a house where her roots burrow back and now they must work through the centuries their grief, and to a mother she hasntheir friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585}}=='''13 JUNE'''t spoken to for sixteen years. Home, her refuge, Ponden Hall, where she can heal herself =={{Frontpage|isbn=1635866847|title=The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and try to come to terms with the traumatic loss of her husbandTerry Barlin Vesci|rating=4. She needs to build bridges with her mother and convince her grieving son 5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that his father this is dead. the book for you. Where better than Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the house full of light and shadow, that nurtured her throughout her childhood? author's [[The Girl at the Window by Rowan Coleman|Full Reviewhttps://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website]]|}{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"==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'29 AUGUSTs a recipe in the book, which I'''== <m avoiding with some difficulty!!-- Whitlock -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1782692177) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned.jpg|link=http://www You get to fold down the corners of pages.amazon You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.co.uk/dp/1782692177/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]}} | style=='''4 JULY'vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|=={{Frontpage|author=[[The Collective by Lindsey Whitlock]]=Max Boucherat|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5 [[image:3.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensConfident Readers|Teens]] summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she''Illinois Territory, Collective Homesteads of America.'' It's certainly an unusual place. Some people live s got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in sunken houses, buried into hillsides to disguise how large their property is babysitter poorly, mother at times of austeritywork, among other reasonsjust an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. Others are called ForestersWhat could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, for they live and work in trees – forever playing and resting in trees as childrenshe has one main intention, but farming in amongst them and living between them too. These two sides hate each other – so perhaps this that is less of an unusual place than at first sight. Our drama kicks off when to log on to Voxminer, the small area the Foresters live in world-building, critter-collecting game that is placed under compulsory purchase – the residents are given a pitiful amount to clear out, before they get manfully cleared outa hit in Lori's world. It's probably the Hills But first Lori has a tiny inkling that are behind this, whatstormy night doesn's moret find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. Our hero, Elwyn, has just left For the trees for the Hills, to live with an uncle server she and her bestie and learn their ways – he's just nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of age to decide things for himselftampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and he has decided to see how her safe place in the other half lives. This game hasbeen doctored – well, of course, opened himself up where is a girl to no end of prejudicial judgement. But what's this – as soon as he reaches 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 are celebrating the Hills he sees a third way end of livingthe occupation. During the war, in Jean's father was arrested for listening to a lovely colonial-style mansionbanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, where everything sparkles leaving Jean and shines with crystalline lighther mother waiting for years for news of him. What does it mean that he feels destiny-bound to this even posherAs the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, newer and more hopeful life? [[The Collective by Lindsey Whitlock|Full Review]] |} {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" =='''1 SEPTEMBER'''=the war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. 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?|isbn=1846976537 <!-- 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]] |}{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"=='''7 NOVEMBER'''==<!-- Keret -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1609809319.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1609809319/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Long-Haired Cat-Boy Cub by Etgar Keret, Aviel Basil and Sondra Silverston (translator)]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] One day a boy is in the zoo with his father, when the man gets called away on urgent business. The boy isn't hustled into a cab and taken home first, though, no – he's given hot dog money, and taxi money, and told to just stick around on his own and enjoy himself. Well, it's no surprise that the orphan-for-an-afternoon sensation the lad feels doesn't make him happy, and so he thinks of a species name for himself, and curls himself up into an empty cage, as if he were a new exhibit. And it's then the drama begins… [[Long-Haired Cat-Boy Cub by Etgar Keret, Aviel Basil and Sondra Silverston (translator)|Full Review]] |} {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"=='''14 NOVEMBER '''== <!-- Gardner -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1786695227.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786695227/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Invisible in a Bright Light by Sally Gardner]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] The beginning of this excellent story will leave the reader more than a little confused: who is the man in the green suit, what is the Reckoning, and why are rows of people in a cave? But stick with it – Ms Gardner is very cleverly letting us experience the same disorientation as our heroine. We watch in dismay as the strange man, who seems to have no eyes, does his best to persuade her to answer his questions. But for some reason Celeste, despite her bewilderment, remains wary and gives nothing away. [[Invisible in a Bright Light by Sally Gardner|Full Review]]}}

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