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 =='''29 OCTOBER30 MAY'''==
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|isbn=0349423083B0CYV674G2|title=Death and the Brewery Queen Swanton Morley (Kate Shackleton MysteriesJohn Tanner)|author=Frances BrodyDavid Blake|rating=43.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Kate Shackleton runs her investigation agency from Batswing CottageIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, ably assisted by Jim Sykes, who lives covered in Woodhouse mud and her housekeeperblood - and carrying a knife, Mrs Sugdencomes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. SheA body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been approached by William Lofthouse of the Barleycorn Brewery in Mashamstabbed to death. Something DCI John Tanner is going wrong just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his business and daughter Samantha. You would think he'd like Kate to look into it discreetly: he's hoping that his nephew and right-hand man, James Lofthouse, will be back from a trip to Germany before long. James went to see what grateful for an easy answer but the continental brewers were doing words 'perverse' and what changes Barleycorn might need to make. William is worried that James is perhaps enjoying himself a little bit 'John Tanner'toowere made for each other. He'' much or is going s sleep-deprived to bring back a German bride the point of falling asleep at work but he'd like the business s determined to be shipkeep going -shape before his nephew returnsprobably because he can't get any sleep at home.
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=1838773169Stuart Douglas|title=Her Majesty Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Queen Investigates: The Windsor Knot|author=S J BennettDress Rehearsal|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=ItDuring location filming for his 1970's early 2016 sitcom 'Floggit and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II is at Windsor for Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the Easter Courtedge of a reservoir. She's having a dine The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and sleep at he enlists the request help of Prince Charlesa fellow actor, who's attempting John Le Breton to raise money from some rich Russians for one of his pet projectshelp him investigate matters further. There'd been a distinctly Russian flavour to They travel across the evening country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and one of the performers brought in , seemingly, a link to play death during the piano has been found dead in what can only be called embarrassing circumstancesSecond World War. The immediate reaction But is that one of there really a link between the guests deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible. The Queen mentally rules out her racing manager, an ex-ambassador to Moscow, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Sir David Attenborough. One couldn't bear to go down any of ''those'' roads.before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Caroline ScottSaima Mir|title=When I Come Home AgainVengeance|rating=43.5|genre=Historical FictionThrillers|summary=1918 and I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a young man is arrested Muslim woman. The fact that it was the second in Durham Cathedral. He refuses to give a name, no matter how hard they push he will not say who he is. Eventually, they determine this isnseries I hadn't read didn't willful obstinance, he doesnstop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and it needn't answer because he doesnbe a hindrance if it's good enough. And that wasn't knowa problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and I never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561}}{{Frontpage|author=Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Kit. He remembers being on Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the road for sport where a long time team of warrior, mage and being frightenedhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and some the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the faces from latest race on the road, but other than inn TV equivalent is that – everything that came before one team has gonebeen retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. They need a name Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the forms and so they call him Adam goading from the token bully of his world and, because stumbled into declaring he was found in the Galilee Chapel, it becomes Adam Galilee'll enter as a team. A fanciful name for a tired young man What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in a dishevelled uniform who doesn't know who he isactually managing that, where he is or and how could he got there.possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=14711921721839945184
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=='''1 NOVEMBER'''==
 
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|author= Susi Holliday Jenny Valentine|title= The Last Resort Us in the Before and After|rating= 3.5 |genre= ThrillersTeens|summary=A group of strangers gather on a private island. They have been invited to an all-expenses paid retreat to test a brand-new product from the mysterious Timeo Technology company. The group includes a games designerElk and Mab are best friends, social media influenceror more than that even, gossip columnist and hedge fund manager. Everyone seems to have an area of expertise that makes their attendance necessary. All except Amelia whose presence friendship is a mysteryonce in a lifetime connection. We follow the group They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they explore the island, and don't get each other's histories contact details at the time. But then chance brings them back together, and it becomes clear that they all have a dark secret they would rather keep hiddenare inseparable. As the clock ticks down Something has happened though, these well-kept secrets are revealedsomething terrible and tragic, and it soon becomes clear that this luxury retreat is really a gilded cage. In a race against timenow they must work through their grief, Amelia must struggle to uncover the reason for her attendance and protect the rest of the guests from the increasingly sinister accidents that befall themtheir friendship, together. |isbn=15420200181471196585
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=='''5 NOVEMBER13 JUNE'''==
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|isbn=18003211041635866847|title=The Body on the IslandLavender Companion|author=Nick LouthJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary=A prison transport left HMP WakefieldIt's strange, heading the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for HMP Spring Hillyou. Steve Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and Aaron were accompanying Neil Wright who was 67 years old and had served six years for there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the manslaughter of his wifehomepage. Only that wasnI don't who he waseat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. Sixty-three-years-old Neville Rollaston had served thirty years for (There's a recipe in the murder of five boys between book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the ages book and I was told to make a mess of ten and seventeenit. He was being ghosted out of Wakefield and into a new identity set up Notes in a deal whereby he divulged the whereabouts of margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the body corners of one of his victimspages. The Bogeyman was going to You suspect that smears of butter would not be set free on 2 July 2019a problem. He appeared to be a reformed character but he had a list of people upon whom he wished to exact revengeI ''loved'' this book already.
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=='''4 JULY'''==
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|isbnauthor=B087JXQ3JQMax Boucherat|title=The Long Dark Road|author=P R BlackLast Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Two years ago Dr GeorgiaWe meet Lori on the first evening she's Healey's nineteengot the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year-old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridge, on her lonesome. There was What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a furious storm going blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on and she'd already refused to Voxminer, the offer of help from one man in a big vehicle. We'll see world- but no one else will know building, critter- collecting game that another car stops and Stephanie is bundled into the car and driven offa hit in Lori's world. There But first Lori has been no sign of a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her - or her body - in the two years sinceown, and then she finds something even more spooky. Georgia is back is Ferngate, determined to find out what happened For the server she and her bestie and she's not going to nobody else should be stopped.}}  =='''12 NOVEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|author= Claire McGowan|title=The Push|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction|summary= Six mums-able to-be meet at a prenatal classenter shows signs of tampering. It's NCT ''style'' When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, but not and her safe place in the proper NCT. This bit game has been doctored – well, where is important, but you have to wait a little girl to see why. This being London, such a class attracts a wide variety of people, from all sorts of backgrounds, but for most of the ladies the thing they have in common is it's their first baby. Probably after the first one, you don't have time for classes, or think you've got child-rearing down pat.turn?|isbn=15420199900008666482
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|author=Roxanne BouchardJenny Lecoat|title=The Coral BrideBeyond Summerland
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Angel Roberts is an oddity - a female fisherwoman, making her living in a man's world. When her lobster trawler is found drifting off the coast of Quebec, Detective Morales is called in to come and head the investigation. Although the signs seem to point to an obvious conclusion, Morales feels something more sinister is going on, and finds himself frustrated at every turn by hidden agendas, fishing histories and secret family feuds. At the same time as trying to run his investigation, he also has his grown up son, Sebastien arriving at his door, weighed down with personal problems that he is unable to talk to his father about, which tie up with Morales own marital difficulties.
|isbn=1913193322
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=='''4 FEBRUARY 2021'''==
 
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|author=Helen Fisher
|title=Space Hopper
|rating=3.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Faye lost Jean lives on Jersey with her mum when she was very youngmother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. She During the war, Jean's father was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from arrested for listening to a cold that got worsebanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and although they were kind and very good to her she mother waiting for years for news of course missed her mum enormouslyhim. So when, unexpectedly, she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) that takes her back to As the British finally free the Channel islands from the 70's and her mumNazis, she revels in the chance to create some memories and get to know the woman who meant so much to her. The time travelling, however, war is neither easy nor safefinally over, and Faye fears their hopes rise that her husband won't believe they will finally learn what's happening and so lies to became of him instead. The lies grow more tangled, and Faye begins to wonder if it's safe for her to return one last time to But will the past. Should she try to see her mum one last time before her mum's deathtruth come as a relief, or will it change her own future forever to attempt itraise 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=14711886631846976537
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=='''28 FEBRUARY'''==
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|author=Rob Keeley
|title=The Treasure in the Tower
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary= Rob Keeley is back! Hooray! We here at Bookbag Towers are always happy to read a new adventure from Rob - his stories combine fast pace and lots of action, an easy to read style, an unerring eye for children's friendships and rivalries, and always a good dollop of naughty humour. They're all present here, in ''The Treasure in the Tower''. The chance purchase of a book during a school trip sparks the whole adventure. Who can follow the clues best and find the treasure? Jess, her brother Mason and their friend Kessie through sheer persistence? Or spoiled brat Perdita with her money and tech gadgets and willingness to cheat?
|isbn=1800461321
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