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=='''21 JANUARY30 MAY'''==

|authorisbn=B0CYV674G2|title=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery Swanton Morley (translatorJohn Tanner)|titleauthor=Kokoschka's DollDavid Blake|rating=23.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Well, this looked very much It seemed like a book I could love from the getan open-go, which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it-shut case. I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the middle on darker stock paperA man, a chapter whose number was covered in the 20,000s, letters used as narrative form, mud and blood - and so on. It intrigued with the subterranean voice carrying a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentionedknife, too. But you've seen comes into the star rating police station shouting 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}}==he hasn'''26 JANUARY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1529124417|title=Before She Disappeared|author=Lisa Gardner|rating=4t killed the man.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Frankie Elkin found Lani Whitehorse's A body in her car at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the lakebirth of his daughter Samantha. She knew that You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the twenty-two-year-old waitress wouldnwords 'perverse't have left her three-year-old daughter and run away'John Tanner' were made for each other. Lani was the fourteenth missing person to be located by Frankie and now sheHe's moving on again, this time sleep-deprived to Boston where therethe point of falling asleep at work but he's a strong Haitian community which was home determined to Angelique Lovelie Badeau until her disappearance eleven months ago. Frankie, middlekeep going -aged and white, gets a job and accommodation probably because he can't get any sleep at Stoney's bar and sets out to investigate the community which is just about exclusively blackhome.

=='''28 JANUARY4 JUNE'''==

|author=Rob KeeleyStuart Douglas|title=The Treasure in the Tower|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Rob Keeley is back! Hooray! We here Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death 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}}=='''1 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=B08LKT7HSR|title=Murder in the Belltower (A Miss Underhay Mystery)|author=Helena DixonDress Rehearsal

|summary=It wasnDuring location filming for his 1970't exactly s sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the case Lt Milo Sturgis had been dreaming about: dead body of a death from thirty-six years ago and woman on the daughter edge of the woman who died wanted some answersa reservoir. She had money The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and money translated into clout and so he enlists the problem was dropped onto Milo's toeshelp of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. Dorothy Swoboda was twenty-four years old when she died in a car which went They travel across the country during their days off a cliff on Mulholland Drive filming, uncovering more possible murders and burst into flames. It turned out that she wasn't actually married to the man with whom she'd left her daughter but Dr Stanley R Barker, optometristseemingly, was a good man and he took out adoption papers for Ellie - and she took his namelink to death during the Second World War. Ellie 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 But is there really a necklace made of serpentine.link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

|isbn=1471191303|title=The Invisible|author=Tom Percival|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=This is the story of Isobel, a little girl who made a big difference. Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on: ''Ice curled across the inside of the window and crept up the corner of the bedpost.'' The family didn'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 invisible.}}{{Frontpage|author=Helen FisherSaima Mir|title=Space HopperVengeance

|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=Faye lost her mum when she I was very young. She was raised instantly intrigued 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 the premise of course missed her mum enormously. So when, unexpectedly, she discovers a time travel conduit (via this novel – an old space hopper box in her attic) that takes her back to the 70's and her mum, she revels organised crime syndicate in the chance to create some memories and get to know the north of England run by a Muslim woman who meant so much to her. The time travelling, however, is neither easy nor safe, and Faye fears fact that her husband wonit was the second in a series I hadn't read didn't believe whatstop me – I's happening ve jumped midway into a few series before (on page and so lies to him instead. The lies grow more tangled, screen) and Faye begins to wonder it needn't be a hindrance if it's safe for her to return one last time to the pastgood enough. And that wasn't a problem here. Should she try Vengeance swiftly brings you up to see her mum one last time before her mum's deathspeed, or will it change her own future forever to attempt it?and I never felt lost.|isbn=14711886630861541561

|isbnauthor=1471187179Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=A Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel HoreDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary=April's fatherMeet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, a scientistit seems, has been given he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a job on a remote island called Bear Islandteam of warrior, mage and he accepts the job deciding to take his daughter April with him. They live alone anywayhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, since April's mother died some time beforemagical mazes, and he feels it will be educational for her race to experience the island exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and all its natural beautythe points they grant you along the way. April already has an affinity with natureUnfortunately for Kit, and shethe only thing he's excited to travel with her father, thinking seen of all the fun things they will be able to experience together latest race on the islandinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. But when they get therePossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, her father finds that his work monitoring and recording he has taken to the goading from the temperatures just takes up too much token bully of his time, world and so April is left to explore by herselfstumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. Her father had reassured her What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that there were no longer any bears living on Bear Island, but one day April thinks she catches a glimpse of one, and so she sets out to find the Bear, and then when she sees how could he is injured, possibly hope to befriend and help him.succeed?|isbn=000841128X1839945184

|author=Saima MirJenny Valentine|title=The KhanUs in the Before and After

|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by the motto be twice as good as men Elk and four times Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet 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 sisterchildren one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exile, she is contact details at the top of her gametime. But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Returning to the city of her birth Something has happened though, to old scars something terrible and fresh woundstragic, Jia and now they must confront her past work through their grief, and reconcile her visions for the future with her sense of honour and dutytheir friendship, together.|isbn=17860790971471196585

|authorisbn=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)1635866847|title=If You Kept a Record of SinsThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=Literary FictionLifestyle|summary=This was an incredibly readable novellaIt's strange, but one the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that left me a little conflictedthis is the book for you. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airport Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and before we even know his gender or the nature of the person hethere's addressing in his second person monologue a picture of a narration, we see him picked up by his motherslice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don's chauffeur, t eat cakes and carted off to do all the necessary introductions before said mother is buried the following daydesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. The mother was (There's a businesswomanrecipe in the book, who clearly left northern Italy and settled in Romania which I'm avoiding with her (night-time and businesssome difficulty!!) partner, Then I started reading the book and feelings I was told to make a mess of abandonment are still strongit. And so we flit from current (well, this came out Notes in the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the ladcorners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved's childhood, and see just what he has to tell her as a private farewell address' this book already.|isbn=1939810965

|author=Mary H.K. ChoiMax Boucherat|title=YolkThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Jayne Baek is a fashion student that's barely getting by4. She drinks. She smokes. She makes bad decisions about the men she sleeps with. She's an all-round messy character; and that's her charm. June, on the other hand, is a complete contrast to Jayne. She's a typical older sister: she's smart, thinks she knows it all, and has a successful job. She constantly criticises Jayne for her life choices, and the two have barely kept in contact despite living in the same city for the past two years. This is until June finds out she's sick, and Jayne is the only person she can 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= 0349003696}} =='''18 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Danny Wallace and Gemma Correll|title=The Day the Screens Went Blank|rating=5

|summary=Meet Stella and her family. TheyWe meet Lori on the first evening she're just innocently trying s got the house to have a Sunday evening in together, watching a film herself – using three different screens no neighbour to watch three different thingspop in, mind – when ''poof'' everything goes blank. And it's not just their homebabysitter poorly, but the entire south-western village of Mouseholemother at work, and not just thatan avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, either, but the whole country, if not world. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping they're first to get a screen back, and not what they were constantly doing on them beforeher lonesome. Toasters can toast, but TVs cannot do the V part of their job, and no computer can show its computations. What could possibly go wrong? You might think this is going to be a social comedy about people stuck Snuggled in such a Luddite experience against their willblanket fort, but no. For the family finally remember Stella's grandmashe has one main intention, and see if they can get across country that is to her. Hence this has log on to go down as a road-trip book. But not just thatVoxminer, a slapstick roadthe world-trip comedy. And more than thatbuilding, too – for it's a slapstick, highcritter-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart collecting game that kids of all ages will love.|isbn=1471196887}} =='''23 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Other Emily|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Our hero David Thorne is an author, who shares his life between the two US coasts. Ita hit in Lori's the western coast we're concerned with, a place he has to return to, and a place he has to be able to leaveworld. David lost contact with his partner there ten years ago, when she vanished from But first Lori has a remote road late at tiny inkling that this stormy night. Hedoesn's paying for contact with the man he thinks the only suspect, a lifer now, who went a bit Hannibal Lectert find herself entirely on her own, and has a dozen and then she finds something even more unfound Jane Does on his recordspooky. David is trying to pry For the connection between the murderer server she and her bestie and his girl from the man's mind, but nobody else should be able to no availenter shows signs of tampering. He's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting imageWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the very embodiment, the virtual resurrectiongame has been doctored – well, of his love. What where is a man girl to doturn?|isbn=15420199580008666482

|isbnauthor=B08R7LXQ9SJenny Lecoat|title=Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline SiegalBeyond Summerland

|summary=This book lets us discover several people in different stages Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connectedoccupation. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then)During the war, a girl in a humdrum job wanting Jean's father was arrested for listening to become a singer, banned radio and chieflysoldiers took him away one night, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist leaving Jean and Clairvoyant'', to use her family's sea-front boothmother waiting for years for news of him. The singer, As the British finally free the scryer and Channel islands from the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday campNazis, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for and the first time in the family stall. We also see her on her last day, fifty years laterwar is finally over, in possession of a pair of letters their hopes rise that they will change everything for a woman called Billiefinally learn what became of him. Just who is she, and who delivered But will the secrets about her to Imeldatruth come as a relief, and why did or will it have to remain a secret all this timeraise further questions around what else happened during the war?|isbn=152937331X}} =='''15 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author=Lucy Holland|title=Sistersong|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Sistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, Who was the modern retelling of folk and fairy tales. These stories, for most of us, are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating informer who told the role of women. Sistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done well, Nazis about the plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the characters to come to life, to feel real and human, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to end.occupation?|isbn=15290390371846976537