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{|class-wikitable" cellpadding="15"=='''11 JULY30 MAY'''=={{Frontpage<!-- Angela Marsons -->|isbn=B0CYV674G2|-title=Swanton Morley (John Tanner)| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|David Blake[[image:B07QPKB7N7.jpg|linkrating=http://www3.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07QPKB7N7/ref5|genre=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Crime| stylesummary="verticalIt seemed like an open-align: top; textand-align: left;"|===[[Childshut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Angela Marsons]]=== [[image:4start killed the man. A 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]] There's a prologue and we know that we're dealing DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with someone who is very disturbedthe birth of his daughter Samantha. The descriptions are horrifying, You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but worst of all is the coldness of the killer. [[Childwords 'perverse' and 'John Tanner's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Angela Marsons|Full Review]] <!were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - Gregory -->probably because he can't get any sleep at home.|-}}| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1526609169.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1526609169/ref'''4 JUNE'''=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]{{Frontpage|author=Stuart Douglas| styletitle="verticalLowe and Le Breton Mysteries -align: top; text-align: left;"Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=3.5 |genre===[[I Hold Your Heart by Karen Gregory]]===Crime[[image:4.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]  Gemma has just started her A levels at school. SheDuring location filming for his 1970's a keen student sitcom 'Floggit and she has Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a good, close set woman on the edge of friendsa reservoir. Gemma loves country music and in her spare time she enjoys writing and singing country songs. She's pretty good at it too. Home life is busy - Gemma's brother Michael has a chance at a football career and The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole familything bothers Lowe, propelled by Gemma's rather over-invested dadand he enlists the help of a fellow actor, is supporting John Le Breton to help him with everything they've gotinvestigate matters further. Gemma hasn't had a serious boyfriend yet They travel across the country during their days off filming, so when the handsome Aaron appears uncovering more possible murders and an instant attraction fizzles between them, Gemma is keen seemingly, a link to see where romance could leaddeath during the Second World War... [[I Hold Your Heart by Karen Gregory|Full Review]] <!-- Chiang --> But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|-isbn=1803368209}}| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1529014484.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1529014484/ref=nosim?tag'''6 JUNE'''==thebookbag-21]] {{Frontpage| styleauthor="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Saima Mir|title=Vengeance|rating=3.5|genre==[[Exhalation by Ted Chiang]]===Thrillers [[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Over the past twenty-eight years Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short storiesI was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a Muslim woman. These magnificent stories have won twenty-seven major science fiction awards so if you are a science fiction fan The fact that it is likely that you have already come across some of the work by Ted Chiang. was the second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I cannot speak highly enough of this collection of short stories, they are so wide ranging in their themes 've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and so beautifully written, Chiang has written an absolute masterpiece of screen) and it needn't be a collection. If you come across Chianghindrance if it's work beforegood enough. And that wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, take this opportunity to do so nowand I never felt lost. Trust me; your imagination will be grateful. [[Exhalation by Ted Chiang|Full Review]]isbn=0861541561 |}}{{Frontpage|classauthor=Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-"wikitable" cellpaddingStanton|title="15"Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating==''' 15 JULY'''== <!-- James -->4|-genre=Confident Readers| stylesummary="width: 10%; verticalMeet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1781128952old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way.jpg|link=http://www Unfortunately 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, and a new trio of questors is needed.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781128952/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-21]]free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184}}{{Frontpage| styleauthor="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Jenny Valentine|=title=Us in the Before and After|rating=[[The Starlight Watchmaker by Lauren James]]5|genre===Teens[[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]]Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] This their friendship is a dyslexia-friendly, science fiction novella for young adults. It tells the tale of Hugo, an unwanted and rather lonely android, who makes once in a living for himself mending time-travel watcheslifetime connection. When They meet as children one of his clients demands that his broken watch be mended, Hugo realises there is a mystery to be solvedday on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the time. But then chance brings them back together, and is only too ready to helpthey are inseparable. An exciting journey of discovery unfolds Something has happened though, which takes Hugo out of his drab attic workroom something terrible and into a scary adventure with some amazing new friendstragic, exploring regions of the planet never before known to exist. [[The Starlight Watchmaker by Lauren Jamesand now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|Full Review]]isbn=1471196585 |}{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"}=='''18 JULY13 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage<!-- Evan Winter -->|isbn=1635866847|title=The Lavender Companion|-author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"4.5|genre=Lifestyle[[image:0356512940.jpg|linksummary=http://wwwIt's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you.amazon.co.uk/dp/0356512940/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Rage //www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of Dragons by Evan Winter]]=== [[image:5starchocolate cake on the homepage.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] Every so often, as I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a readerrecipe in the book, a which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book comes along that is utter and complete perfection. This book is one I was told to make a mess of thoseit. Utter and complete perfection Notes in the margins are sanctioned. Winter has created an absolute masterpiece You get to fold down the corners of a novel, set in the fantasy land pages. You suspect that smears of Uhmlaba the reader is instantly thrown into war, butter would not be a battle for survival for the Omehi peopleproblem. Fleeing their homeland, they have to fight to remain on the only scrap of land they can reach I ''loved'' this book already. }}=='''4 JULY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=The culture Last Life of the Omehi people is rich and deep but not perfect, not sanctimoniousLori Mills|rating=4. They have villains, they have faults, they are 5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the invaders after all, but Winter creates a realistic and honest portrayal of a people desperate first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to survivepop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, to save themselves and their culture for future generations. [[The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter|Full Review]]|}{|classjust an avidly rule-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"=='''25 JULY'''== <!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-building, critter- Patrice Lawrence-->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1444940651collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world.jpg|link=http://www But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky.amazon.co.uk/dp/1444940651/ref=nosim For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. 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=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=[[Rose, Interrupted by Patrice Lawrence]]=== [[image:4starJean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]  Rose During the war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her brother Rudder have recently escaped mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from cult-like fundamentalist Christian sectthe Nazis, and the Pilgrimswar is finally over, along with their motherhopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. While Mum works endless hours at agency cleaning jobs trying to keep But will the rent paid on their tiny flattruth come as a relief, Rose and Rudder are trying to navigate or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the worldly world. It's not easy when everything is new and Nazis about the rigid rules you've always lived by are suddenly missing. radio? [[Rose, Interrupted by Patrice LawrenceAnd what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|Full Review]]isbn=1846976537 |} {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"=='''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:4star.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 on her birthday when he unfailingly arrives with a selection of potions 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]]|}{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"=='''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 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 has been utterly torn apart. 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 that is rich and complex and keeps the reader glued to the story. [[We Are The Dead by Mike Shackle|Full Review]] <!-- Coleman -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1785032461.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785032461/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Girl at the Window by Rowan Coleman]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] Trudy Heaton is going home, to a house where 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 the traumatic loss of her husband. She needs to build bridges with her mother and convince her grieving son that his father is dead. Where better than the house full of light and shadow, that nurtured her throughout her childhood? [[The Girl at the Window by Rowan Coleman|Full Review]]|}{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"=='''29 AUGUST'''== <!-- 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.'' It's certainly an unusual place. Some people live in sunken houses, buried into hillsides to disguise how large their property is at times of austerity, among other reasons. Others are called Foresters, for they live and work in trees – forever playing and resting in trees as children, but farming in amongst them and living between them too. These two sides hate each other – so perhaps this is less of an unusual place than at first sight. Our drama kicks off when the small area the Foresters live in is placed under compulsory purchase – the residents are given a pitiful amount to clear out, before they get manfully cleared out. It's probably the Hills that are behind this, what's more. Our hero, Elwyn, has just left the trees for 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 the other half lives. This has, of course, opened himself up to no end of prejudicial judgement. But what's this – as soon as he reaches 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 life? [[The Collective by Lindsey Whitlock|Full Review]] |} {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" =='''1 SEPTEMBER'''== <!-- Ellory -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1542007232.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1542007232/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[The Rabbit Girls by Anna Ellory]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Berlin, 1989. Miriam is in the middle of a city freshly united, with the Wall newly broken down and people able to cross at liberty for the first time in decades. She is in the middle of such euphoria, but cannot feel it, for she has not left her father's apartment in weeks, nursing him as he lies dying. One standard bed-bath, however, is very different, when he gasps the name ''Frieda'' that she does not recognise – and she sees for the first time ever a tattoo for his camp inmate identity under his watch. One bombshell outside, then, and two inside. 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]] <!-- 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]] |} {|class-wikitable" cellpadding="15"=='''3 OCTOBER'''== <!-- 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]]}

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