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=='''7 JANUARY 202130 MAY'''==

|isbn=1786495902B0CYV674G2|title=The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your MindSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Isabel HardmanDavid Blake|rating=3.5|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary=Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not to shareIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. She says that A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a friend who does knowknife, burst comes into tears and health-care professionalsthe police station shouting that he hasn' jaws have sagged in disbelieft killed the man. Hardman dealt with this A body at the time by 'keeping goingbottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he': the next day she went s been stabbed to work to cover the budgetdeath. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, next there was which coincided with the EU referendum, birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the political party leadership contests words 'perverse' and then it was party conference season'John Tanner' were made for each other. One night she had He's sleep-deprived to be sedated and returned home the point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to begin longkeep going -term sick leave. That was what brought me to this book: 2020 was the year when the bins went out more often than I didprobably because he can't get any sleep at home.

|author=Emma Carroll and Kaja KajfezStuart Douglas|title=The Ghost GardenLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Fran, the gardenerDuring location filming for his 1970's daughter at a posh country house, is worried. Shesitcom 's just cracked her garden fork through quite a grim discovery - a large bone, buried under the potatoes. But sheFloggit and Leggit's even more worried when she learns that that event coincided with Leo, leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the older child dead body of the house, breaking his leg while playing cricket a woman on the lawnedge of a reservoir. She is due The police seem happy to get even more worried when she finds assign it as an accidental death, but something else that also seems about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to foretell a surprisehelp him investigate matters further. Tasked with shoving Leo around They travel across the grounds in his bathchaircountry during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, she might have reason to be out of her mind with fearseemingly, when she learns what he is seeking - a long-forgotten burial chamberlink to death during the Second World War. But surely that won't act as is there really a premonition link between the deaths? And will they manage to anything - not here in the sultry, summery days of 1914uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=17811290021803368209

 =='''15 JANUARY6 JUNE'''==

|author=Alex WheatleSaima Mir|title=The Humiliations of Welton BlakeVengeance|rating=2.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We meet Welton Blake at the worst of times – only they should be the best of times. He should be getting a text from the most bae-worthy girl in school in regards to a cinema date, but his phone has packed up, he's chundered last night's meal and his breakfast over another girl in class, who's duffed him up in response, and the wanna-bae seems to actually be with someone else anyway. On a bigger scale he's living with his mother and not much income now that the dad has left the picture – yes, things are so bad they're resorting to having cabbage for dinner. I know, right? But surely this is just a blip, a day at school to forget, and everything (like his vomit) will all come out in the wash? This can't be the start of a most nightmarish time for young Welton?|isbn=1781129495}} =='''21 JANUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=David F Ross|title= There's Only One Danny Garvey|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary= Years ago, Danny Garvey was a footballing prodigy playing for his local club. Everyone predicted a bright future – but his career in professional football never quite worked out. Thirteen years on, convinced to return home by his "uncle" Higgy to visit his dying mother, Danny takes over the shambolic and once-great team he used to play for and tries to reform them.|isbn= 1913193500}}{{Frontpage|author=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=Kokoschka's Doll|rating=2.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Well, this looked very much like a book I could love from the get-go, which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the middle on darker stock paper, a chapter whose number was in the 20,000s, letters used as narrative form, and so on. It intrigued with the subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, too. But you've seen the star rating that comes with this review, and can tell that if love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|isbn=1529402697}}=='''26 JANUARY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1529124417|title=Before She Disappeared|author=Lisa Gardner|rating=43.5

|summary=Frankie Elkin found Lani Whitehorse's body I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in her car at the bottom north of the lakeEngland run by a Muslim woman. She knew The fact that it was the twenty-two-year-old waitress wouldnsecond in a series I hadn't read didn't have left her three-year-old daughter stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and run away. Lani was the fourteenth missing person to it needn't be located by Frankie and now shea hindrance if it's moving on again, this time to Boston where theregood enough. And that wasn's t a strong Haitian community which was home problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to Angelique Lovelie Badeau until her disappearance eleven months ago. Frankie, middle-aged and whitespeed, gets a job and accommodation at Stoney's bar and sets out to investigate the community which is just about exclusively blackI never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561

|author=Rob KeeleyKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Treasure in the TowerDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary= Rob Keeley Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is back! Hooray! We here at Bookbag Towers are always happy to read an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a new adventure from Rob team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century- his stories combine fast pace old, magical mazes, and lots of action, an easy race to read stylethe exit, an unerring eye perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for childrenKit, the only thing he's friendships and rivalriesseen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and always a good dollop new trio of naughty humourquestors is needed. They're all present here Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, in ''The Treasure in he has taken to the goading from the Tower'token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. The What chance purchase of a book during a school trip sparks the whole adventure. Who can follow the clues best and find the treasure? Jessdoes this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, her brother Mason and their friend Kessie through sheer persistence? Or spoiled brat Perdita with her money and tech gadgets and willingness how could he possibly hope to cheatsucceed?|isbn=18004613211839945184

|isbnauthor=B08LKT7HSRJenny Valentine|title=Murder Us in the Belltower (A Miss Underhay Mystery)|author=Helena DixonBefore and After|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=In December 1933 the remains of Elowed Underhay were discovered in the cellar of the Glass Bottle Public House. Ezekiel Hamett was sought in connection with the murder of Elowed and his half-brother, Denzil Hammett, whose body was also discovered. Kitty Underhay's long search for her mother, who disappeared in June 1916 was over. Now she's determined that the man responsible for her murder will be brought to justice.}} =='''2 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Anna Carey|title=This is Not the Jess Show|rating=4

|summary=Jess is a normal 90's teenage girl, just trying to navigate the usual stresses of school, Elk and boysMab are best friends, and parent troubles. But strange things seem to be happening in her small townor more than that even, with their friendship is a mystery flu keeping lots of people indoors, and once in a strange metal device, with an apple lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on it, that slips a trip out of her friend's bag, but that her friends just wonunfortunately they don't talk to her aboutget each other's contact details at the time. Jess feels like she might be hearing voices But then chance brings them back together, and her sister (who is very ill) seems to be responding to her in strange ways sometimesthey are inseparable. Is there Something has happened though, something going on beneath the surface of Jess' life?terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=16836919701471196585

=='''4 FEBRUARY13 JUNE'''==

|isbn=00083793001635866847|title=The Shadow ManLavender Companion|author=Helen FieldsJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLifestyle|summary=Fergus Ariss is in his late thirties and he knows that heIt's dying. His body is giving up on himstrange, his internal organs beginning to putrify but before he dies he wants a wife, a child and a brother. Hethe things that make you ''immediately''s been on feel that this is the lookout book for the perfect people and he's made certain preparationsyou. Before I started reading ''The flat where the family will live is prepared and even windows with curtainsLavender Companion'', and pictures in frames have been painted onto I visited the wallsauthor's [https://www. Angela Fernycroft was to be his wifepinelavenderfarm. Her husband, Cal, had taken the children - com/ website] and there's a boy picture of seven and a girl slice of five, away for chocolate cake on the weekendhomepage. Unfortunately, it doesnI don't go according to plan eat cakes and Angela dies.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178089905X|title=Serpentine|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It wasn't exactly the case Lt Milo Sturgis had been dreaming about: a death from thirtydesserts -six years ago and the daughter of the woman who died but I wanted some answersthat cake viscerally. She had money and money translated into clout and so the problem was dropped onto Milo(There's toes. Dorothy Swoboda was twenty-four years old when she died a recipe in a car the book, which went off a cliff on Mulholland Drive and burst into flames. It turned out that she wasnI't actually married to m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the man with whom she'd left her daughter but Dr Stanley R Barker, optometrist, was a good man and he took out adoption papers for Ellie - book and she took his name. Ellie I was three when her mother left her with Dr Barker and she has nothing of her but one photograph of her mother and father and told to make a necklace made mess of serpentineit.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1471191303|title=The Invisible|author=Tom Percival|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=This is Notes in the story of Isobel, a little girl who made a big differencemargins are sanctioned. Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford You get to put fold down the heating on: ''Ice curled across the inside corners of the window and crept up the corner pages. You suspect that smears of the bedpostbutter would not be a problem. I '' The family didnloved't go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy. Then the day came when they couldn't afford the rent for the house and they had to move to the far side of the city. This part of the city was cold, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisiblethis book already.

|author=Helen Fisher|title=Space Hopper|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Faye lost her mum when she was very young. She was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from a cold that got worse, and although they were kind and very good to her she of course missed her mum enormously. So when, unexpectedly, she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) that takes her back to the 70's and her mum, 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, is neither easy nor safe, and Faye fears that her husband won't believe what's happening and so lies to him instead. The lies grow more tangled, and Faye begins to wonder if it's safe for her to return one last time to the past. Should she try to see her mum one last time before her mum's death, or will it change her own future forever to attempt it?|isbn=1471188663}} =='''18 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Hannah GoldMax Boucherat|title=The Last BearLife of Lori Mills

|summary=AprilWe meet Lori on the first evening she's father, a scientist, has been given a job on a remote island called Bear Island, and he accepts got the job deciding house to herself – no neighbour to take his daughter April with him. They live alone anywaypop in, babysitter poorly, since April's mother died some time beforeat work, and he feels it will be educational for her to experience the island and all its natural beauty. April already has just an affinity with natureavidly rule-breaking eleven year old, and she's excited to travel with on her father, thinking of all the fun things they will be able to experience together on the islandlonesome. But when they get thereWhat could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, her father finds that his work monitoring and recording the temperatures just takes up too much of his timeshe has one main intention, and so April that is left to explore by herself. Her father had reassured her that there were no longer any bears living log on Bear Island, but one day April thinks she catches a glimpse of one, and so she sets out to find the BearVoxminer, and then when she sees he is injured, to befriend and help him.|isbn=000841128X}} =='''4 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Saima Mir|title=The Khan|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by the motto be twice as good as men and four times as good as white men. This has served her well in her rise through the criminal justice system and by the time she is called home for her sister's wedding after fifteen years in selfworld-imposed exilebuilding, she is at the top of her critter-collecting game. Returning to the city of her birth, to old scars and fresh wounds, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for the future with her sense of honour and duty.|isbn=1786079097}}{{Frontpage|author=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)|title=If You Kept a Record of Sins|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=This was an incredibly readable novella, but one that left me is a little conflicted. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airport, and before we even know his gender or the nature of the person he's addressing hit in his second person monologue of a narration, we see him picked up by his motherLori's chauffeur, and carted off to do all the necessary introductions before said mother is buried the following dayworld. The mother was But first Lori has a businesswoman, who clearly left northern Italy and settled in Romania with her (tiny inkling that this stormy night-time and business) partner, and feelings of abandonment are still strong. And so we flit from current (well, this came out in the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, to the laddoesn's childhoodt find herself entirely on her own, and see just what he has to tell her as a private farewell addressthen she finds something even more spooky.|isbn=1939810965}}{{Frontpage|author=Mary H.K. Choi|title=Yolk|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Jayne Baek is a fashion student that's barely getting by. She drinks. She smokes. She makes bad decisions about For the men server she sleeps with. She's an all-round messy character; and that's her charmbestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. June, When malevolent eyes spark up on the other hand, is a complete contrast to Jayne. She's a typical older sister: she's smart, thinks she knows it allher phone screen, and has a successful job. She constantly criticises Jayne for her life choices, and the two have barely kept in contact despite living safe place in the same city for the past two years. This is until June finds out she's sickgame has been doctored – well, and Jayne where is the only person she can a girl to turn to. The two sisters have to come together and decide how far they'll go to save each other's lives – even if it means swapping identities.?|isbn= 03490036960008666482

|author=Dean KoontzJenny Lecoat|title=The Other EmilyBeyond Summerland

|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Our hero David Thorne is an author, who shares his life between Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the two US coastsoccupation. It's During the western coast we're concerned with, a place he has to return to, and a place he has to be able to leave. David lost contact with his partner there ten years agowar, when she vanished from a remote road late at night. HeJean's paying father was arrested for contact with the man he thinks the only suspect, listening to a lifer now, who went a bit Hannibal Lecterbanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and has a dozen and more unfound Jane Does on his recordher mother waiting for years for news of him. David is trying to pry As the British finally free the connection between Channel islands from the murderer Nazis, and his girl from the man's mindwar is finally over, but to no availtheir hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. He's also having But will the truth come as a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the restaurant walks war? Who was the sheer spitting image, informer who told the very embodiment, Nazis about the virtual resurrection, of his love. radio? What is a man to doAnd what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=15420199581846976537