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|isbn=1925820025|title=Once, I was Loved|author=Belinda Landsberry|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Tock, the toy rabbit, is in a box of toys going to the charity shop. He realises that he's not wanted any more, but muses that it wasn't always this way. ''Once'', he says, ''I was loved''. And he tells us of all the children who have loved him over the years.}}{{Frontpage|author=Margaret AtwoodKarina Sainz Borgo and Elizabeth Bryer (translator)|title= It Would Be Night in Caracas|rating= 4|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= ''It Would Be Night in Caracas'' illuminates the everyday horrors of modern day Venezuela. It begins with the death of Adelaida Falcon's mother and chronicles Adelaida's coming to terms with her new solitude in this world and her attempts to escape it. Danger stalks the shadows and, in a society where the establishment is crumbling, who can you turn to? |isbn=0062936867}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0349423067|title=The TestamentsBody on the Train (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances Brody

|genre=Dystopian FictionCrime (Historical)|summary= Finally! Almost forty years onFrom Christmas to Easter a train ran from Leeds City Station to King’s Cross, we have a sequel arriving before dawn so that the forced rhubarb it carried could be taken to [[The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood|The Handmaid's Tale]]Covent Garden. I don't want to tell you too much about In early March 1929 one of the porters who was unloading the boxes discovered the plot because it's body of a man, stripped naked and with no means of identification. Scotland Yard hit a novel dead end and called on the services of Kate Shackleton in the hope that is entirely plot drivenher knowledge and connections in Yorkshire would give them the lead they needed. Suffice it Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her as a child and could not come to say terms with the fact that ''The Testaments'' takes place fifteen years later, fifteen years after Offred gets into she was now a van, not knowing what will happen nextwoman experienced in dealing with murder. He was reluctant to give her all the information which the police held. It's told by three narrators}}{{Frontpage|author= Stephen Baxter|title= World Engines: Aunt LydiaDestroyer|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Hundreds of years in the future, who is secretly writing her memoirs in Ardua Hall; Agneson a stagnating and almost empty Earth, a girl brought up in Gilead with space shuttle pilot from the early days of the 21st century is awoken from the expectation she will marry cryogenic sleep he entered after a commander; Daisydevastating accident. As he comes to terms with this new world, he begins to realise that their history does not match what he remembers - and that only he may be able to stop the coming catastrophe destined to destroy the planet. Until he meets a rebellious teenage girl in Canada young woman who knows seems to have a drive of Gilead only from school lessons her own, and its Pearl Girl missionaries who occasionally call into the store owned by her parentsa plan...|isbn=17847423251473223172

|authorisbn=Anne Boden1406389331|title=The Money RevolutionIn the Key of Code|author=Aimee Lucido

|genre= Business and FinanceConfident Readers|summary= Money Emmy is changingmoving with her parents halfway across America, to follow her father's dreams of a big break in his music career. It might not be She leaves behind her friends and her school in Wisconsin, and moves to California, knowing only what she has heard in the ways you thinksongs. We’re not suddenly getting Her struggle to settle into her new life, make friends and feel happy and confident again, is agonisingly told in a 3p or £3 coin (way we can all relate to. There are many new opportunities and setbacks, taking the reader on a rollercoaster of emotions, but it isn't until Emmy joins a coding class using computer language that she begins to feel she might have you ever even found a country that offers anything different chance to feel like she truly belongs.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529402255|title=A Body in the 1, 2, Bookshop (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)|author=Helen Cox|rating=3.5 model?) We’re getting |genre=Crime|summary= Evie Bowes is very conscious of the scars on her face. They were acquired when she was rescued from a lot more digital with paymentscar in the River Ouse by Inspector Halloran. She’d been suspected of the murder of her boyfriend, Owen, which seems to suit most people apart from charity collectors and in the homeless on the streetprocess of clearing her name she and her best friend, Kitt Hartley developed a taste for detection. Kitt developed a taste for Inspector Halloran Too, but although this book has they’re taking it slowly. Well, sort of slowly.}}{{Frontpage|author= Alexandra Christo|title= Into the subtitle that includes Crooked Place|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= In a world thriving with black magic, four young crooks embark on a quest to take down their criminal leader after they discover the word ‘’digital’’plot behind his dangerous new magic.|isbn=1250318378}}{{Frontpage|author=Kathlaine C Gill and D Clark Gill|title=Madness Between Light and Dark|rating=3.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=It's 1912, and at New Hope Sanatorium, Christine Agnes Tupper is fast growing up. Abandoned there by parents who were ashamed of her hunchback, it’s not really about this eithershe's nevertheless grown up to an intelligent girl with a good heart. Instead it’s about Her encounters with the ‘’management’’ inhabitants of your financesthe asylum swiftly take her on a fascinating, thrilling and how sometimes terrifying journey of self discovery, allowing Agnes to take control.prove that, even with a twisted spine, her heart is in the right place!|isbn=1641110708}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1789660610190874572X|title=Letters from Tove|author=Tove Jansson (Author), Boel Westin (Editor), Helen Svensson (Editor), Sarah Death (Translator)|rating=5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Back at the beginning of the century I went on holiday to Nepal. I met a wonderful Finnish woman and we became sort of friends. I can't remember if it was on that holiday or a later one that Paula told me I really had to read Tove Jansson. I do know that it was four years later that I finally acquired an English translation of The Summer Book, and that I eagerly awaited the ''Sort Of'' translations of the rest of Jansson's work and devoured them as soon as I could get my hands on them.

|isbn=147117316X1784742783|title=Guilty Not GuiltyThe Benefit of Hindsight (Simon Serrailler)|author=Felix FrancisSusan Hill|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=The Honourable William Herbert Millgate GordonA superficial look would suggest to you that Simon Serrailer has been lucky and - all things considered -Russell (Bill Russell to those who knew him well) was acting his life is as good as it could be. He's back at work after a volunteer steward at Warwick Racecourse when he was told of long break to recuperate from the violent death of incident which cost him his arm and almost his much-loved wifelife. It would get worse though: When he's not at work he's spending his time in the successful insurance actuary would be accused of killing her and hounded by cathedral roof drawing the mediamedieval angels which are being restored. Then he would lose There's talk of an exhibition of his job and his homedrawings. His best friends would turn against him, Lafferton seems to be quite settled as far as they came crime is concerned until one night when two local men open their front door to believe him guilty a couple seeking shelter. It's the usual story of the murdera broken-down car, and a phone which won't make a call. Yet there was The man are generous and welcoming and have no really compelling evidence suspicions that he was guiltythe couple are simply there to plan a robbery. It's a serious error of judgement in the course of this investigation which will throw Simon Serrailler's future into doubt.

|isbn=1908745819140638853X|title=SurfacingSomebody Give This Heart a Pen|author=Kathleen JamieSophia Thakur

|genre=HistoryAnthologies|summary=Sometimes when people suggest Sophia Thakur's debut anthology is a collection of poems that you read a certain bookare all unique, they tell you ''this one has your name on it''. Mostly we take them at whether in relation to their wordstyle, length or nottheme. The collection is split into four sections, but rarely do we ask them why they thought so, unless it turns out that we didntitled 't like the book. Thatgrow's a rare experience. People who are sensitive to hearing a book calling your name, rarely get it wrong. In this case I was told why. The blurb speaks of the author considering 'wait'an older, less tethered sense of herself.'break'and ' Older. Less tethered. Thatgrow again's not , guiding you through a bad description process which is one of where I am. Add to the foundations that my love of the natural world, of those aspects anthology is built on. Each section begins with a foregrounded title page containing various small pieces of the poetic and lyrical that are about style not formwriting, and substance most of allranging from a quote by a Nigerian playwright, about connection. Of course this book had my name on it. It was written for me. It would have found its way to me eventuallyAfrican proverbs. I am pleased This provides a nice introduction to have it fall onto my path so quicklythe section before you are immersed into the beautifully written and eloquent poems that Thakur has clearly put her heart and soul into.

{{Frontpage|classisbn=1910989460|title=Flember: The Secret Book|author=Jamie Smart|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=A mysterious island. A strange and mystical power called Flember. A boy-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" inventor called Dev, who uncovers a long forgotten secret. And a giant, red robot bear?! The sleepy village of Eden is about to descend into hilarious chaos - can disastrous Dev save his brand new best friend? Find out in this fully illustrated mad-cap adventure.}}

<!-- Adele Parks -->{{Frontpage|isbn=0241355222|title=Frostheart|-author=Jamie Littler| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"5|genre=Confident Readers[[image:0008284660.jpg|linksummary=http://wwwWay out in the furthest part of the known world, a tiny stronghold exists all on its own, cut off from the rest of human-kin by monsters that lurk beneath the Snow Sea.amazonThere, a little boy called Ash waits for the return of his parents, singing a forbidden lullaby to remind him of them.co.uk/dp/0008284660/ref=nosim. and doing his best to avoid his very, VERY grumpy yeti guardian, Tobu. But life is about to get a whole lot more crazy-adventurous for Ash. When a brave rescue attempt reveals he has amazing magical powers, he's whisked aboard the Frostheart, a sleigh packed full of daring explorers who could use his help. But can they help him find his family?tag=thebookbag-21]]}}

{{Frontpage| styleisbn="vertical-align1401280048|title=Batman: top; text-alignNightwalker: left;"The Graphic Novel|author=Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=[[Lies Lies Lies by Adele Parks]]===The young man called Bruce Wayne is a very noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without people – bystanders, paparazzi, and suchlike – reminding him he's a billionaire at the age of eighteen. Feeling rather stuck with the legacy he's inherited from his murdered parents, he wants to do charitable deeds. But one night, when he speeds off in his posh new car in pursuit of a criminal, he goes too far as far as the authorities are concerned, and gets given the most unlikely stretch of community service instead – cleaning in the home for violent criminals that is Arkham Asylum. There he learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent – the Nightwalkers, a gang who steal any ten-figure bank account contents they can, and murder the owner. Can he get close to one of them and get the truth of their schemes, or will the manipulative Madeleine be a step too far for the young do-gooder?}}

[[image:{{Frontpage|isbn=B07W4MNBSG|title=Be Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy Mumfrey|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=It was coming up to Halloween in 1987 and a group of sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. When you're only seventeen that seems positively ancient, but Liz was convinced that ''your entire life depends on who you marry''.5star The only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and the idea of living in a farmhouse and having a couple of children called Will and Olly appealed to Charlotte, or perhaps William and Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to marry the rather superior Patrick Shepley-Botham.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating The place to start their search was obviously the Young Farmers' Halloween disco that weekend. There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in the class.}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]

Simon Barnes had his first taste {{Frontpage|author=Michael J Malone|title=In The Absence of beer Miracles|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=John Docherty's mother has been taken into a nursing home following a massive stroke. It is thought unlikely that she will ever be able to live independently again. Faced with having to sell the family home in 1976 when he was just six years oldorder to pay for her nursing care, Docherty starts the clear out. Over In the years it would become attic he finds a childhood picture of himself, holding a habit and then toddler – a needtoddler he knows nothing about. By 2016 He also finds a blood-stained shoe.|isbn=191237479X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0692853545|title=The Things We Do|author=Kay Pfaltz|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=It's 2015 and with Dr Eleanor Hartley is a wife prison psychologist at the state penitentiary and child she knows that her next patient is not going to be easy. 'Jane Doe' has been convicted of his own he was a functioning alcoholic the murder of two men - one a fact known by everybody except Simonpolice officer. He's concentrating on wanting another child to complete his familyShe pleaded guilty and since then has been silent: even her identity is in doubt. His wifeShe was carrying identification as Jane Dunlap when she was arrested, Daisy, isnbut it't worrieds been proved to be false. They took a long time There seem to conceive Millie, be no family or friends whoare missing her. Eleanor's perfect in every waytask is to get Jane talking, so to find out why tempt fate? Simon's not inclined to let matters rest though and it's at a fertility clinic that he receives the news that will change all their lives: he's sterileseemingly normal young woman would murder two men. [[Lies Lies Lies by Adele Parks|Full Review]]}}

<!-- Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts -->{{Frontpage|author=Patti Smith|-title=Year of the Monkey| stylerating="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"4|genre=Biography[[image:099334030X.jpg|linksummary=httpOn the coast of Santa Cruz, Patti Smith enters the lunar year of the monkey - one packed with mischief, sorrow, and unexpected moments. In a stranger's words, ''Anything is possible://wwwafter all, it's the year of the monkey''.amazonAs Smith wanders the coast of Santa Cruz in solitude, she reflects on a year that brings huge shifts in her life - loss and aging are faced head on, as it the shifting political waters in America.co.uk/dp/099334030X/ref|isbn=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]1526614758}}

| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Can You Draw the Dragosaur? by Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crafts|Crafts]], [[:Category:Emerging Readers|Emerging Readers]] You're going to get a hint of what this book's about very quickly. When you see the title page, you'll find out what the book's called and that it's been written by Peter Lynas. Then we move on to who has done the illustration - and there's a gap. ''You'' are going to put your name there. It's ''your'' responsibility to provide the pictures for this book about one of the largest creatures ever to roam the earth. There's some help available, but your name is on the title page - and you have work to do! [[Can You Draw the Dragosaur? by Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts|Full Review]] <!-- Abercrombie -->Frontpage|-author=Anne Boden| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|The Money Revolution[[image:0575095865.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0575095865/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 4| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Business and Finance===[[A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] The chimneys of industry rise over Adua and the world seethes with new opportunities. But old scores run deep as ever. On the blood-soaked borders of Angland, Leo dan Brock struggles to win fame on the battlefield, and defeat the marauding armies of Stour Nightfall. He hopes for help from the crown. But King Jezal's son, the feckless Prince Orso, Money is a man who specialises in disappointments. Savine dan Glokta - socialite, investor, and daughter of the most feared man in the Union - plans to claw her way to the top of the slag-heap of society by any means necessary. But the slums boil over with a rage that all the money in the world cannot control. The age of the machine dawns, but the age of magic refuses to die. With the help of the mad hillwoman Isern-i-Phail, Rikke struggles to control the blessing, or the curse, of the Long Eye. Glimpsing the future is one thing, but with the guiding hand of the First of the Magi still pulling the strings, changing it will be quite another . . .[[A Little Hatred by Joe Abercrombie|Full Review]] <!-- Peter Lynas and Clare Lindley -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0993340334.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0993340334/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Bunny by Peter Lynas and Clare Lindley]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] You It might have seen Bunny on not be in the beach where he livedways you think. Like many beaches it was full of sand and Bunny didn't like sand, We’re not least because it got between his toes and ''scratched''. What he really liked was juicy green grass. All the other rabbits lived on the top of the cliff, where Bunny could see suddenly getting a lot of tasty-looking grass. But the cliff was very high. [[Bunny by Peter Lynas and Clare Lindley|Full Review]] <!-- Thomas Knauer -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1635860334.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1635860334/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Why We Quilt by Thomas Knauer]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crafts|Crafts]] I've often wondered about the story that patchwork quilting began as a way for women 3p or £3 coin (and myth would have it that it was always women) to make an extra blanket out of material which would otherwise go to waste. This undoubtedly ''did'' happen but when you think about it, you need an awful lot of material to make ever even found a quilt and the time could have been better spent if all country that was required was bedding. Like Thomas Knauer I've come offers anything different to the conclusion that it began as an art and has largely continued down that same road with fluctuations in popularity over the years. [[Why We Quilt by Thomas Knauer|Full Review]] <!-- Nicci French -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1471179230.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471179230/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Lying Room by Nicci French]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] When we meet Neve Connolly it's pretty obvious that she has something to hide. She crept into the house after midnight, carefully putting her clothes into the washing machine and she can't wait to get husband Fletcher and children Mabel, Connor and Rory off on their various ways the next morning when she gets a text telling her to come to the flat. He has a few hours to spare and can't wait to see her. Only, when she gets to the flat she finds Saul Stevenson1, her boss and lover2, dead on the floor. The hammer that's been used on his brain is at his side. [[The Lying Room by Nicci French|Full Review]] <!-- Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0993340342.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0993340342/ref=nosim5 model?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Madeleine Goes to the Moon by Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Madeleine is ) We’re getting a very lucky girl: in her room she has all a girl could ask for in the way of toyslot more digital with payments, books, games and dollies. She's a very lucky girl in another way too: she has imagination and everything in her room can be used which seems to take her on adventures. She spends all day there: Dad thinks that she likes to be alone, but Madeleine's not alone on all the trips she takes. We'll find out that yesterday she was told to tidy her room, but instead of doing that she went to the moon. [[Madeleine Goes to the Moon by Peter Lynas and Charlie Roberts|Full Review]] <!-- Ann Patchett -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1526614960.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1526614960/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Dutch House by Ann Patchett]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] When we first meet Danny and his elder sister, Maeve Conroy, they're both living at The Dutch House with their parents and under the gaze of the portraits of the former owners whose oil paintings still hang on the walls. It's a strange family dynamic: Cyril Conroy is distant suit most people apart from charity collectors and the closest Danny seems to come to him is when he goes out with him homeless on a Saturday collecting rents from properties the family owns. Elna Conroy is lovingstreet, but absent increasingly often until the point comes when the children are told that she will not be returning. In other circumstances although this might have affected Maeve and Danny deeply, but their primary relationship is with each other. It's a bond which only death will break. [[The Dutch House by Ann Patchett|Full Review]] <!-- Peter Lynas and Andy S Gray -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0993340350.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0993340350/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Very Rude Toytoise by Peter Lynas and Andy S Gray]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] It was one of those blissful days in the forest. Mrs Rabbit was collecting carrots because she wanted to make a cake. Mrs Blue Bird was gathering twigs to build a nest. Mrs Spider was busily spinning a web to catch juicy flies. Mrs Squirrel was piling up acorns. And Mr Bear sat comfortably in a chair, fishing for lunch. What could be better? And then... [[The Very Rude Toytoise by Peter Lynas and Andy S Gray|Full Review]] <!-- Peter Lynas and Rosie Alabaster -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0993340318.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0993340318/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Recipe for Making a Snowman by Peter Lynas and Rosie Alabaster]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Who knew it? You can even get a recipe book which tells you how to make a snowman - and there's no cooking involved! Mum, Dad and the two children are absolutely meticulous though: they're going to get everything right, even down to doing some mining to get the coal for the eyes, searching through the bits 'n bobs jar for buttons for the snowman's coat and picking out the perfect piece of headgear. There's quite a choice available, but has the family decide on the bobble hat, presumably to keep the snowman warm. The moth-eaten pair of mittens simply won't do and a pair with purple and pink stripes are chosen. [[Recipe for Making a Snowman by Peter Lynas and Rosie Alabaster|Full Review]] <!-- Melanie Martin -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1789016304.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1789016304/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[War and Love: A family's testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam by Melanie Martin]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:History|History]], [[:Category:Biography|Biography]] Melanie Martin read about what happened to Dutch Jews in occupied Amsterdam during World War II and was entranced by what she discovered, particularly in ''The Diary of Ann Frank'' but then realised subtitle that her own family's stories were equally fascinating. A hundred and seven thousand Jews were deported from the city during includes the war yearsword ‘’digital’’, but only five thousand survived and Martin could it’s not understand how really about this could be allowed to happen in a country with liberal values who were resistant to German occupation. Most people believed that the occupation could never happen: even those who thought that the Germans might reach the city were convinced that they would soon be pushed back, that the Amsterdammers would never allow what happened to escalate in the way that it did, but initial protests melted away as the organisers became more circumspect. It's an atrocity on a vast scale, but made up of tens of thousands of individual tragedies. [[War and Love: A family's testament of anguish, endurance and devotion in occupied Amsterdam by Melanie Martin|Full Review]] <!-- Sedgwick -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1788542347.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1788542347/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Snowflake, AZ by Marcus Sedgwick]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] This is a deep, interesting read unlike any book I've read in quite some time. The novel's story follows a young man named Ash in the process of joining a community of sick people in the curiously named town of Snowflake, Arizona. These people are sick, but it's not a sickness you've heard ofeither. Instead, they're environmentally ill – affected by household chemicals and fabrics, pesticides, static electricity, and radiation – and their only ''cure'' is to stay in the town away from the real world. Though it's it’s about a real place, the people in it are fictional. It really is a place apart, quite literally cut off from the outside world – people are even required to decontaminate themselves thoroughly before becoming fully integrated. [[Snowflake, AZ by Marcus Sedgwick|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 ‘’management’’ of betrayals, complicated relationships, and a vicious struggle for the throne…[[Brightfall by Jaime Lee Moyer|Full Review]] <!-- Hewitt -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1509896465.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1509896465/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Nightjar by Deborah Hewitt]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] ''The Nightjar'' is an unusual and exciting story. Alice Wyndham lives a normal life in London until she finds a box on her doorstep one morning and her life begins to unravel, fast. From that very moment, her life is flooded with magic, loss, expectation and particularly, betrayal. As everything around her shifts, all that she knows, all that she thinks she knows, must change. Who can she trust? Who must she trust? Who will she trust? More importantly, can she even trust herself? [[The Nightjar by Deborah Hewitt|Full Review]] <!-- 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]] <!-- Nicola Monaghan -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0857308025.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07VRSX3SN/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Dead Flowers (Dr Sian Love) by Nicola Monaghan]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] It was more than a little bit of a surprise to Dr Sian Love (and the rest of the relatives) when her uncle Bobby left her his home - a former pub called The Loggerheads in the Narrow Marsh area of Nottingham. Then it was a shock when she found two bodies in the cellar before she'd even got settled in - and managed to break a bone in her foot in the course of making the discovery. They'd been there for some timeyour finances, but who - exactly - were the man and the woman, wrapped in each other's arms? Having spent ten years on the Murder Squad, ending up as a DCI she knows what's going to happen next, but she's not prepared for quite how personal it's all going to get. [[Dead Flowers (Dr Sian Love) by Nicola Monaghan|Full Review]] <!-- Renee Watson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1526613689.jpg|link=http://www.amazontake control.co.uk/dp/1526613689/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | styleisbn="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|1789660610===[[Some Places More Than Others by Renee Watson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]  Amara's twelfth birthday is coming up and she wants nothing more for it than a trip to New York to meet her father's side of the family. But her father hasn't spoken to Amara's grandfather for many years - Amara doesn't know why - and both her parents are resistant to the idea. But Amara is nothing if not persistent and a school family history project provides her with the perfect wedge. Eventually, her parents give in and off she goes... with a secret mission from her mother: to bring her father and Grandpa Earl back together again. [[Some Places More Than Others by Renee Watson|Full Review]]