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 {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"__NOTOC__==''' 15 JULY30 MAY'''=={{Frontpage<!-- James -->|isbn=B0CYV674G2|-title=Swanton Morley (John Tanner)| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"David Blake|[[image:1781128952rating=3.jpg5|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781128952/refgenre=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] Crime| stylesummary="verticalIt seemed like an open-align: top; textand-align: left;"|===[[The Starlight Watchmaker by Lauren James]]=== [[image:4starshut case.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]]A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] This is a dyslexia-friendly, science fiction novella for young adultscomes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. It tells A body at the tale bottom of Hugo, an unwanted and rather lonely android, who makes a living for himself mending timefreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church -travel watcheshe's been stabbed to death. When one DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his clients demands that his broken watch daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be mended, Hugo realises there is a mystery to be solved, grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and is only too ready 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to help. An exciting journey the point of discovery unfolds, which takes Hugo out of his drab attic workroom and into a scary adventure with some amazing new friends, exploring regions of the planet never before known falling asleep at work but he's determined to exist. [[The Starlight Watchmaker by Lauren James|Full Review]]keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home. |}{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"}=='''18 JULY4 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage<!-- Evan Winter -->|author=Stuart Douglas|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries -Death at the Dress Rehearsal| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"3.5|genre=Crime[[image:0356512940.jpg|linksummary=http://wwwDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir.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 The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further.jpg| They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasyto death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|Fantasy]]isbn=1803368209}}=='''6 JUNE'''==Every so often, as a reader, a book comes along that is utter and complete perfection. This book is one of those{{Frontpage|author=Saima Mir|title=Vengeance|rating=3. Utter and complete perfection. Winter has created an absolute masterpiece of a 5|genre=Thrillers|summary= I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel, set – an organised crime syndicate in the fantasy land north of Uhmlaba England run by a Muslim woman. The fact that it was the reader is instantly thrown into war, second in a battle for survival for the Omehi people. Fleeing their homeland, they have to fight to remain series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on the only scrap of land they can reach. The culture of the Omehi people is rich page and deep but not perfect, not sanctimoniousscreen) and it needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. And that wasn't a problem here. They have villainsVengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, they have faults, they are the invaders after all, but Winter creates a realistic and honest portrayal of a people desperate to survive, to save themselves and their culture for future generationsI never felt lost. [[The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter|Full Review]]isbn=0861541561|}}{{Frontpage|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingauthor="15"=='''25 JULY'''== <!-- Patrice Lawrence-Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd->Stanton|-title=Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"4|genre=Confident Readers[[image:1444940651.jpg|linksummary=http://wwwMeet Kit.amazon.co.uk/dp/1444940651/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag 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-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Roseold, magical mazes, and race to the exit, Interrupted by Patrice Lawrence]]=== [[image:4starperhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]  Rose and her brother Rudder have recently escaped from cult-like fundamentalist Christian sect, Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the Pilgrims, along with their mother. While Mum works endless hours at agency cleaning jobs trying to keep latest race on the rent paid on their tiny flatinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, Rose and Rudder are trying to navigate the worldly worlda new trio of questors is needed. It's not easy when everything is new Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and the rigid rules youstumbled into declaring he've always lived by are suddenly missingll enter as a team. [[RoseWhat chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, Interrupted by Patrice Lawrenceand how could he possibly hope to succeed?|Full Review]]isbn=1839945184 |}}{{Frontpage{|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingauthor="15"Jenny Valentine|title=Us in the Before and After|rating='''1 AUGUST '''== <!-- Fegan -->5|-genre=Teens| stylesummary="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1925810097Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection.jpg|link=http://www They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the time.amazon.co.uk/dp/1925810097/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;" But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585}}===[[Don't Drink the Pink by B C R Fegan]]''13 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1635866847|title=The Lavender Companion[[image:4star.jpg|linkauthor=Category:{{{Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing=4.5|For Sharing]]genre=Lifestyle Madeline is very fond of Grandfather Gilderberry. He|summary=It's always busy in his workshop, creating crazy potions, and he always has a smile on his face. Madelinestrange, the things that make you ''s dad thinks heimmediately's a bit bonkers and Madeline's mum thinks feel that this is the same but gives him a pass because hebook for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's old[https://www. But Madeline? She thinks Grandfather Gilberberry is just greatpinelavenderfarm. Particularly on her birthday when he unfailingly arrives with com/ website] and there's a selection picture of potions and allows her to choose one as a gift. And he always says slice of chocolate cake on the same thinghomepage... [[Don I don't Drink the Pink by B C R Fegan|Full Review]]|}{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"==eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the book, which I''8 AUGUST'''== <m avoiding with some difficulty!!-- Shackle -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473225213) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it.jpg|link=http://www Notes in the margins are sanctioned.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473225213/ref You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.}}=='''4 JULY'''=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]{{Frontpage|author=Max Boucherat| styletitle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating===[[We Are The Dead by Mike Shackle]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg5|linkgenre=Confident Readers|summary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] Mike Shackle has written a really interesting and unusual story in ''We Are The Dead''; meet Lori on the tag line for the novel is first evening she'No More Heroes' and that is what makes this story so different. There are villains galore but no specific heroes; rather s got the story is scattered with characters doing their own small part house to survive, herself – no neighbour to fight backpop in, and to find vengeancebabysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a world that blanket fort, she has been utterly torn apart. The plot does not hang one main intention, and that is to log on any one characterto Voxminer, the world-building, no one critter-collecting game that 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 hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that is rich this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and complex and keeps then she finds something even more spooky. For the reader glued server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to the storyenter shows signs of tampering. [[We Are The Dead by Mike Shackle|Full Review]] 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?|isbn=0008666482}}<!-- Coleman -->{{Frontpage|-author=Jenny Lecoat| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"Beyond Summerland|rating=4[[image:1785032461.jpg|linkgenre=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785032461/refGeneral Fiction|summary=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Girl at Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. During the Window by Rowan Coleman]]=== [[image:5starwar, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the war is finally over, [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] Trudy Heaton is going home, to a house where her roots burrow back through their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. But will the centuries and to truth come as a mother she hasn't spoken to for sixteen years. Homerelief, her refuge, Ponden Hall, where she can heal herself and try to come to terms with or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the traumatic loss of her husband. war? She needs to build bridges with her mother and convince her grieving son that his father is dead. Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? Where better than the house full of light and shadow, that nurtured her And what other secrets have been kept throughout her childhoodthe occupation? [[The Girl at the Window by Rowan Coleman|Full Review]]|}{|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingisbn="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]]1846976537}}

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