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 {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"=='''8 AUGUST30 MAY'''==<!-- Paula Daly -->{{Frontpage|-isbn=B0CYV674G2| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Swanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake[[image:1787632105.jpg|linkrating=http://www3.amazon.co.uk/dp/1787632105/ref5|genre=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Crime| stylesummary="verticalIt seemed like an open-align: top; textand-align: left;"|===[[Clear My Name by Paula Daly]]=== <!shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood -- already on homepage --> [[image:4and carrying a knife, comes 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:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Tess Gilroy works for Innocence UK, a charity investigating DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the cases birth of prisoners who can convince them that theyhis daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse've been wrongly convicted and they're just moving on to their next caseJohn Tanner' were made for each other. SheHe's somewhat surprised when Clive, sleep-deprived to the head point of the charity, announces that she'll have someone shadowing her. Avrilfalling asleep at work but he's in her mid twenties and rather gauche as well as prone determined to putting her foot in it. One of the reasons theykeep going - probably because he can're now going to look t get any sleep at the case of Carrie Kamara is that she's female and Innocence have never yet taken up the case of a woman: such impressions matterhome. [[Clear My Name by Paula Daly|Full Review]]}}<!-- Shackle -->=='''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:1473225213.jpg|linkrating=http://www3.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473225213/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Crime|summary===[[We Are During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The Dead by Mike Shackle]]=== [[image:4police 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.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] Mike Shackle has written They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. But is there really interesting and unusual story in a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209}}=='''We Are The Dead6 JUNE''; the tag line for the novel is 'No More Heroes' and that is what makes this story so different=={{Frontpage|author=Saima Mir|title=Vengeance|rating=3. There are villains galore but no specific heroes; rather 5|genre=Thrillers|summary= I was instantly intrigued by the story is scattered with characters doing their own small part to survive, to fight back, and to find vengeance, premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a world that has been utterly torn apartMuslim woman. 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 fact that is rich and complex and keeps it was the reader glued to the storysecond 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. [[We Are The Dead by Mike ShackleAnd that wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and I never felt lost.|Full Review]]isbn=0861541561}}<!-- Coleman -->{{Frontpage|author=Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton| styletitle="widthDungeon Runners: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Hero Trial[[image:1785032461.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785032461/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 4| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Confident Readers|summary===[[The Girl at Meet Kit. Like most of the Window by Rowan Coleman]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]people in his world, it seems, [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] Trudy Heaton is going homehe is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to a house where her roots burrow back through the centuries and to a mother she hasn't spoken to for sixteen yearsexit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. HomeUnfortunately 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, her refuge, Ponden Hall, where she can heal herself and try to come to terms with the traumatic loss a new trio of her husbandquestors is needed. She needs Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to build bridges with her mother the goading from the token bully of his world and convince her grieving son that his father is deadstumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. Where better than the house full of light and shadowWhat chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that nurtured her throughout her childhood, and how could he possibly hope to succeed? [[The Girl at the Window by Rowan Coleman|Full Review]]isbn=1839945184|}}{{Frontpage|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingauthor="15"Jenny Valentine|title=Us in the Before and After|rating='''29 AUGUST'''== <!-- Whitlock -->5|-genre=Teens| stylesummary=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1782692177Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection.jpg|link=http://www They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the time.amazon.co 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.uk/dp/1782692177/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]|isbn=1471196585}}| style==''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;'13 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1635866847|title===[[The Collective by Lindsey Whitlock]]Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle [[image:3.5star.jpg|link|summary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] It''Illinois Territorys strange, Collective Homesteads of America.the things that make you ''immediately' It's certainly an unusual placefeel that this is the book for you. Some people live in sunken housesBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', buried into hillsides to disguise how large their property is at times I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of austerity, among other reasonschocolate cake on the homepage. Others are called Foresters, for they live I don't eat cakes and work in trees – forever playing and resting in trees as children, desserts - but farming in amongst them and living between them tooI wanted that cake viscerally. These two sides hate each other – so perhaps this is less of an unusual place than at first sight(There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it. Our drama kicks off when the small area the Foresters live Notes in is placed under compulsory purchase – the residents margins are given a pitiful amount sanctioned. You get to clear out, before they get manfully cleared outfold down the corners of pages. It's probably the Hills You suspect that are behind this, what's moresmears of butter would not be a problem. Our hero, Elwyn, has just left the trees for the Hills, to live with an uncle and learn their ways – heI ''loved''s just of age to decide things for himself, and he has decided to see how the other half livesthis book already. This has, of course, opened himself up to no end of prejudicial judgement. But what}}=='''4 JULY'''s this – as soon as he reaches the Hills he sees a third way =={{Frontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=The Last Life of living, in a lovely colonial-style mansion, where everything sparkles and shines with crystalline lightLori Mills|rating=4. 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]] |}5|genre=Confident Readers{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" =summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she'''1 SEPTEMBER'''== <!s got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. 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- Ellory building, critter-->|-| style=collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn'width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1542007232t find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky.jpg|link=http://www For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering.amazon.co.uk/dp/1542007232/ref=nosim When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?tag|isbn=thebookbag-21]]0008666482}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''Jenny Lecoat|title=Beyond Summerland|rating===[[The Rabbit Girls by Anna Ellory]]===4[[image:3star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionGeneral Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Berlin, 1989. Miriam is in summary=Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the middle end of a city freshly united, with the Wall newly broken down and people able to cross at liberty for the first time in decadesoccupation. She is in During the middle of such euphoriawar, but cannot feel it, for she has not left her fatherJean's apartment in weeksfather was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, nursing leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him as he lies dying. One standard bed-bath, howeverAs the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the war is very differentfinally over, when he gasps the name ''Frieda'' their hopes rise that she does not recognise – and she sees for the first time ever a tattoo for his camp inmate identity under his watchthey will finally learn what became of him. One bombshell outsideBut will the truth come as a relief, then, and two inside. 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 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'''== <!-- Thakur -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:140638853X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/140638853X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Somebody Give This Heart a Pen by Sophia Thakur]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Anthologies|Anthologies]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Sophia Thakur's debut anthology is a collection of poems that are all unique, whether in relation to their style, length or theme. The collection is split into four sections, titled 'grow','wait','break'and 'grow again', guiding you through a process which is one of the foundations that the anthology is built on. Each section begins with a foregrounded title page containing various small pieces of writing, ranging from a quote by a Nigerian playwright, to African proverbs. This provides a nice introduction to the section before you are immersed into the beautifully written and eloquent poems that Thakur has clearly put her heart and soul into. [[Somebody Give This Heart a Pen by Sophia Thakur|Full Review]] <!-- Jamie Smart -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:bookreviewercentre.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1910989460/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Flember: The Secret Book by Jamie Smart]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers]] A mysterious island. A strange and mystical power called Flember. A boy-inventor called Dev, who uncovers a long forgotten secret. And a giant, red robot bear?! The sleepy village of Eden is about to descend into hilarious chaos - can disastrous Dev save his brand new best friend? Find out in this fully illustrated mad-cap adventure. [[Flember: The Secret Book by Jamie Smart|Full Review]] <!-- 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]] <!-- Holliday -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1912374854.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1912374854/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Violet by S J I Holliday]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] I've never been but understand that travelling is all about meeting new people and forming instantaneous bonds with people in often chance situations. Well that's exactly what happens when the two main/only characters meet in a travel agency in Beijing - Carrie is unsuccessfully trying to get a refund on an extra ticket for the Trans-Siberian train and Violet is trying to unsuccessfully buy a ticket for the same sold-out journey. As the two team up, travelling through Mongolia, Serbia and into Russia, it could've other secrets have been kept throughout the start of a beautiful friendship but this a thriller after all so it quickly becomes a tale of obsession, manipulation and toxic friendships. [[Violet by S J I Hollidayoccupation?|Full Review]]isbn=1846976537}}

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