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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/ref5|genre=nosim?tag=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:4.5starcomes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A 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 crisis. Mom and Dad argue all DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the timebirth of his daughter Samantha. 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 -->}}|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"='''4 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|author=Stuart Douglas[[image:1925810097.jpg|linktitle=http://wwwLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.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't Drink s sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', 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. 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:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Madeline is very fond of Grandfather Gilderberry. He's always busy in his workshopThey 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 there really a selection of potions and allows her 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'''==<!-- Paula Daly -->{{Frontpage|-author=Saima Mir| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Vengeance|[[image:1787632105.jpg|linkrating=http://www3.amazon.co.uk/dp/1787632105/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Thrillers|summary===[[Clear My Name I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by Paula Daly]]=== <!-- already on homepage --> [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Tess Gilroy works for Innocence UK, a charity investigating the cases of prisoners who can convince them that they've been wrongly convicted Muslim woman. 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 theyit needn're just moving on to their next case. Shet be a hindrance if it's somewhat surprised when Clive, the head of the charity, announces good enough. And that shewasn'll have someone shadowing hert a problem here. Avril's in her mid twenties Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and rather gauche as well as prone to putting her foot in itI never felt lost. One of the reasons they're now going to look at the case of Carrie Kamara is that she's female |isbn=0861541561}}{{Frontpage|author=Kieran Larwood and Innocence have never yet taken up the case of a womanJoe Todd-Stanton|title=Dungeon Runners: such impressions matter. [[Clear My Name by Paula DalyHero Trial|Full Review]] <!-- Shackle -->rating=4|-genre=Confident Readers| stylesummary="width: 10%; verticalMeet 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, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473225213old, 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.jpg|link=http://www 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.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473225213/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag 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. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-21]]zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Jenny Valentine|title=Us in the Before and After|rating=5|genre==[[We Are The Dead by Mike Shackle]]===Teens[[image:4.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] Mike Shackle has written Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a really interesting and unusual story once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other'We Are The Dead''; s contact details at the tag line for the novel is 'No More Heroes' and that is what makes this story so differenttime. There But then chance brings them back together, and they are villains galore but no specific heroes; rather the story is scattered with characters doing their own small part to surviveinseparable. Something has happened though, to fight backsomething terrible and tragic, and to find vengeancenow they must work through their grief, 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, butand their friendship, 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]].|isbn=1471196585}}<!-- Coleman -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"='''13 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1635866847|title=The Lavender Companion[[image:1785032461.jpg|linkauthor=http://www.amazonJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.co.uk/dp/1785032461/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Lifestyle|summary===[[It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Girl at Lavender Companion'', I visited the Window by Rowan Coleman]]=== [author's [imagehttps:5star//www.pinelavenderfarm.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviewscom/ website]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] Trudy Heaton is going home, to and there's a picture of a house where her roots burrow back through slice of chocolate cake on the centuries and to a mother she hasnhomepage. I don't spoken to for sixteen yearseat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. Home(There's a recipe in the book, her refuge, Ponden Hall, where she can heal herself which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and try I was told to come make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get 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[[image:1782692177.jpg|linkrating=http://www4.amazon.co.uk/dp/1782692177/ref5|genre=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Confident Readers| stylesummary=We meet Lori on the first evening she''verticals got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-align: top; textbreaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-align: left;''|===[[The Collective by Lindsey Whitlock]]=== [[image:3building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]  But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn''Illinois Territoryt find herself entirely on her own, Collective Homesteads of Americaand then she finds something even more spooky.'' It's certainly an unusual placeFor the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. 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 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 is less of an unusual place than at first sight. Our drama kicks off when the small area the Foresters live in where is placed under compulsory purchase – the residents are given a pitiful amount girl to clear out, before they get manfully cleared out. It's probably the Hills that are behind this, what's moreturn?|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 end of the occupation. Our heroDuring the war, Elwyn, has just left the trees Jean's 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 – as soon will the truth come 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]]isbn=1846976537 |} {|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]] |}{|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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