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{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" ='''JUNE 274 JULY''' <!-- Koomson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1472260376.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472260376/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Tell Me Your Secret by Dorothy Koomson]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersFrontpage|Thrillers]] Despite Dorothy Koomson regularly being suggested as an author I might like, ie people who like this author also like Dorothy Koomson, I have never read her before. Having done so I can totally see why she's the bestselling author of fifteen books. [[Tell Me Your Secret by Dorothy Koomson|Full Review]] <!-- Various-->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|Max Boucherat[[image:1529006031.jpg|linktitle=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1529006031/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] The Last Life of Lori Mills| style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[Return to Wonderland by Various Authors]]=rating== [[image:4.5star.jpg5|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] In following a young girl called Alice down the rabbit hole a few years ago, when summary=We meet Lori on the first book evening she was in [[Alice's Adventures got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition) by Lewis Carroll and Anthony Browne|hit 150 years of age]], I found that I didn't really find too much favour with it. The wacky-for-the-sake-of-it did not gelbabysitter poorly, and I don't remember loving it more as a child. But I would suggest I am the perfect audience for this book. I had every chance to enjoy these short stories that come mother at the core from a tangentwork, that show the benefits of the oblique glance. I've always preferred coming to just an author's output through their least obvious, allegedly throwavidly rule-away piecesbreaking eleven year old, and it's the same with franchises – I'd more likely go for Bree Tanner's short novella than the whole Twilight saga (although that remains just a hunch, for obvious reasons)on her lonesome. For another thing, there was every reason to expect some kind of greatness here – with Carroll much loved by millions, surely pieces written with that love in mind What could only provide for success after successpossibly go wrong? [[Return to Wonderland by Various Authors|Full Review]] <!-- Foster -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1471172236.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471172236/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Check Mates by Stewart Foster]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] In many ways Felix is Snuggled in a typical boy in Year 7blanket fort, enjoying playing games on his PS4 and hanging out with his friend Jake at the weekend. However Felix is struggling at school. He is not a problem child but he does have a problem. His ADHD makes it hard for him to concentrateshe has one main intention, he keeps getting into trouble and his grades are slipping. When his Mum suggests that he spends more time with his grandfather Felix is horrified. Ever since Grandma died his Granddad has been grumpy and more eccentric than before. All he wants to do is sit in the dark and play chess. Felix knows that this will be extremely boring. But sometimes we learn valuable lessons where we least expect to and perhaps Granddad and Felix can help each other. [[Check Mates by Stewart Foster|Full Review]] <!-- Jane O'Connor -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:B07GLCDXZL.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07GLCDXZL/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Needlemouse by Jane O'Connor]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] We first meet Sylvia Penton log on her birthday and her boss, the Prof, is taking her out to lunch. This is her favourite day of the yearVoxminer, not because it's her birthday but because of the special time she gets to spend with the man she loves. He's told her that he and his wife are going to divorce world- Martha is apparently having an affair - and Sylvia is convinced that the Prof will then declare his love and they can be together. She hasn't fully constructed 'together' in her own mind - she envisages it as romanticbuilding, but her imagination hasn't yet progressed to the sexual part of the relationship. There's time though - she's only been the prof's PA for fifteen years. [[Needlemouse by Jane O'Connor|Full Review]] '''4 JULY''' <!-- Davis -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0192749218.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0192749218/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="verticalcritter-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[What's That in Dog Years? by Ben Davis and Julia Christians]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] George and Gizmo have been together ever since George was born. Gizmo has always been a fun, adventurous dog and a loyal friend, but just recently, George has noticed collecting game that he's starting to slow down is a little. A visit to the vets leaves George worried that Gizmo might not be around for very much longer, and so he begins to write Gizmo a bucket list, of all the adventures that they can still have together hit in GizmoLori's last daysworld. But are they his last days? And who will help George to stay calm when Gizmo is gone? [[What's That in Dog Years? by Ben Davis and Julia Christians|Full Review]] '''11 JULY''' <!-- Chiang -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1529014484.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1529014484/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Exhalation by Ted Chiang]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Over the past twenty-eight years Ted Chiang first Lori has published fifteen science fiction short stories, these magnificent stories have won twenty-seven major science fiction awards so if you are a science fiction fan it is likely tiny inkling that you have already come across some of the work by Ted Chiang. If you haventhis stormy night doesn't than take this opportunity to do so now. Trust me; your imagination will be grateful. [[Exhalation by Ted Chiang|Full Review]] '''JULY 18''' <!-- Evan Winter -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0356512940.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0356512940/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] Every so oftenfind herself entirely on her own, as a reader, a book comes along that is utter and complete perfectionthen she finds something even more spooky. This book is one of those. Utter and complete perfection. Winter has created an absolute masterpiece of a novel, set in For the fantasy land of Uhmlaba the reader is instantly thrown into war, a battle for survival for the Omehi people. Fleeing their homeland, they have to fight to remain on the only scrap of land they can reach. The culture of the Omehi people is rich server she and deep but not perfect, not sanctimonious. They have villains, they have faults, they are the invaders after all, but Winter creates a realistic her bestie and honest portrayal of a people desperate to survive, nobody else should be able to save themselves and their culture for future generations. [[The Rage enter shows signs of Dragons by Evan Winter|Full Review]] '''1 August ''' <!-- Fegan -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1925810097.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1925810097/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[Don't Drink the Pink by B C R Fegan]]=== [[image:4startampering.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Madeline is very fond of Grandfather Gilderberry. He's always busy in his workshop, creating crazy potions, and he always has a smile on his face. Madeline's dad thinks he's a bit bonkers and Madeline's mum thinks the same but gives him a pass because he's old. But Madeline? She thinks Grandfather Gilberberry is just great. Particularly When malevolent eyes spark up on her birthday when he unfailingly arrives with a selection of potions phone screen, and allows her to choose one as a gift. And he always says the same thing... [[Don't Drink the Pink by B C R Fegan|Full Review]] '''8 AUGUST''' <!-- Shackle -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473225213.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473225213/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[We Are The Dead by Mike Shackle]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] Mike Shackle has written a really interesting and unusual story safe place in ''We Are The Dead''; the tag line for the novel is 'No More Heroes' and that is what makes this story so different. There are villains galore but no specific heroes; rather the story is scattered with characters doing their own small part to survive, to fight back, and to find vengeance, in a world that game has been utterly torn apart. The plot does not hang on any one characterdoctored – well, no one where 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 that is rich and complex and keeps the reader glued girl to the story. [[We Are The Dead by Mike Shackleturn?|Full Review]]isbn=0008666482}}<!-- Coleman -->{{Frontpage|-| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Jenny Lecoat[[image:1785032461.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785032461/reftitle=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Beyond Summerland| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Girl at the Window by Rowan Coleman]]==rating=4 [[image:5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] Trudy Heaton is going home, to a house where summary=Jean lives on Jersey with her roots burrow back through the centuries and to a mother she hasn't spoken to for sixteen years. Home, her refuge, Ponden Hall, where she can heal herself and try to come to terms with they are celebrating the traumatic loss end of her husband. She needs to build bridges with her mother and convince her grieving son that his father is deadthe occupation. Where better than During the house full of light and shadowwar, that nurtured her throughout her childhood? [[The Girl at the Window by Rowan Coleman|Full Review]] '''AUGUST 29''' <!-- Whitlock -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1782692177.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1782692177/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[The Collective by Lindsey Whitlock]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] ''Illinois Territory, Collective Homesteads of America.'' ItJean's certainly an unusual place. Some people live in sunken houses, buried into hillsides father was arrested for listening to disguise how large their property is at times of austerity, among other reasons. Others are called Foresters, for they live a banned radio and work in trees – forever playing and resting in trees as childrensoldiers took him away one night, but farming in amongst them leaving Jean and living between them too. These two sides hate each other – so perhaps this is less her mother waiting for years for news of an unusual place than at first sighthim. Our drama kicks off when As the British finally free the Channel islands from the small area Nazis, and the Foresters live in war is placed under compulsory purchase – the residents are given a pitiful amount to clear outfinally over, before their hopes rise that they get manfully cleared outwill finally learn what became of him. It's probably But will the Hills that are behind thistruth come as a relief, or will it raise further questions around what's more. else happened during the war? Our hero, Elwyn, has just left Who was the trees for informer who told the Hills, to live with an uncle and learn their ways – he's just of age to decide things for himself, and he has decided to see how Nazis about the other half lives. radio? This has, of course, opened himself up to no end of prejudicial judgement. But And what's this – as soon as he reaches other secrets have been kept throughout the Hills he sees a third way of living, in a lovely colonial-style mansion, where everything sparkles and shines with crystalline light. What does it mean that he feels destiny-bound to this even posher, newer and more hopeful lifeoccupation? [[The Collective by Lindsey Whitlock|Full Review]] '''5 SEPTEMBER'''isbn=1846976537}}<!-- McGee DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|-| 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 You can work your way through the newest review, category by Katharine McGee]]=== category, starting [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Newest Animals and Wildlife Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fictionhere]] 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]] <!-- Moyer -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:178747920X.jpg|link=httpCategory://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178747920X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbagNon-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Brightfall by Jaime Lee MoyerFiction]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star ReviewsFiction]] [[: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. MarionChildren'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]] [[Category:Reviewer CentreBooks]]