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 {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"=='''12 NOVEMBER'''==<!-- Claire North -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:williamabbey.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0316316849/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire North]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]  When William Abbey fails to prevent the lynching of a young boy in 1880's South Africa, he finds himself cursed by the grieving mother. A naïve English Doctor, he slowly learns the weight of the curse upon him, as the shadow of the dead boy begins to follow him across the world. Never stopping, always growing – it crosses oceans and mountains in pursuit of William. As he finds himself unable to resist speaking the truths that he hears in others, he also learns that the dark shadow is deadly – and seeks to kill the one he loves the most… [[The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire North|Full Review]]|} {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" =='''14 NOVEMBER 9 MAY'''== <!-- Gardner -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1786695227.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786695227/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Invisible in a Bright Light by Sally Gardner]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] The beginning of this excellent story will leave the reader more than a little confused: who is the man in the green suit, what is the Reckoning, and why are rows of people in a cave? But stick with it – Ms Gardner is very cleverly letting us experience the same disorientation as our heroine. We watch in dismay as the strange man, who seems to have no eyes, does his best to persuade her to answer his questions. But for some reason Celeste, despite her bewilderment, remains wary and gives nothing away. [[Invisible in a Bright Light by Sally Gardner|Full Review]] <!-- Holliday -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1912374854.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1912374854/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Violet by S J I Holliday]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] I've never been but understand that travelling is all about meeting new people and forming instantaneous bonds with people in often chance situations. Well that's exactly what happens when the two main/only characters meet in a travel agency in Beijing - Carrie is unsuccessfully trying to get a refund on an extra ticket for the Trans-Siberian train and Violet is trying to unsuccessfully buy a ticket for the same sold-out journey. As the two team up, travelling through Mongolia, Serbia and into Russia, it could've been the start of a beautiful friendship but this a thriller after all so it quickly becomes a tale of obsession, manipulation and toxic friendships. [[Violet by S J I Holliday|Full Review]] <!-- Will Carver -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1912374838.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1912374838/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Nothing Important Happened Today by Will Carver]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Nothing Important Happened Today is a dark, twisted, difficult read. Stories about cults often are, but this is different; it's written with a sense of style that is quite unlike anything I've read before. I can't remember ever having read a novel with such an odd, distinctive narrative voice. While a slim and relatively small book, the slow-moving nature of the plot makes it feel far larger than its 276 pages. [[Nothing Important Happened Today by Will Carver|Full Review]] |} {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" =='''21 NOVEMBER'''=={|class-wikitable" cellpadding="15"<!-- Ariel Dorfman and Chris Riddell -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1609809378.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1609809378/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Rabbits' Rebellion by Ariel Dorfman and Chris Riddell]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] We're in the realm of the rabbits, only the foxes and wolves have taken over. King Wolf, His Wolfiness, has declared the rabbits don't exist, but the pesky birds have spread rumours from awing that the bunnies are in fact still around. Demanding a propaganda spree, King Wolf orders a humble monkey to be his official portrait photographer, but whatever the poor innocent monkey prints out in his darkroom there is a distinct leporine hint. Can King Wolf succeed in proving himself victorious, can the rabbits show their continued existence to all who need to know of it – and what can the poor monkey caught in between do? [[The Rabbits' Rebellion by Ariel Dorfman and Chris Riddell|Full Review]]|} 

|author=Innosanto NagaraTom Percival|title=M is for MovementThe Wrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary=Set in IndonesiaWill's life is difficult, in the not too distant past, this is a story about social changemultitude of ways. Dealing with some difficult issuesHe is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', such as political corruption he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and nepotismdoesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the book is neither boring nor preachycollege, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. It educates gentlyThrow into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, with vibrantand Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, challenging illustrationshe still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and it portrays how social movements need people who will tryclings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, even when it seems that they will fail. The message is feel like a light at the end of a positive one; that in an increasingly uncertain worldlong, we do still have the power to instigate changedark tunnel.|isbn=16098093511398527122

 =='''28 NOVEMBER23 MAY'''==

|isbnauthor=1780894511Onyi Nwabineli|title=Die Alone|author=Simon KernickAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=Ray Mason is in prison awaiting trial for murder and heAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's in the vulnerable prisoner unit: as a cop heincreasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's something of a targetchildhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, but the unit monetary gain. Now Anuri is not as secure as the inmates would have hoped in her twenties and Mason she is injured in a riotslowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. On his way Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to hospital he's broken free by armed men start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and an offer is made to himreceiving money from them for doing so. He's to assassinate the man Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is likely to become the countrynew focus of Ophelia's next prime minister and he'll then be given a new identity so that he can start afresh abroadonline empire. His captors say that they're MI6Can she save her sister, but Mason has his doubts. His choices are limited though and he has personal reasons to believe that it would be better if Alastair Sheridan was dead.perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873

 == '''11 DECEMBER4 JUNE''' ==

|isbnauthor=B07XLM3SM6Stuart Douglas|title=Murder Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dolphin Hotel|author=Helena DixonDress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Elowed Underhay was just twenty seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in June 1916During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leaving her daughter, Kitty, in leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the care edge of her grandmothera reservoir. A great deal of money had been spent The police seem happy to find out what happened to her and assign it as an accidental death, but something about the conclusion was that she was deadwhole thing bothers Lowe, mainly because there was no evidence to suggest otherwise. Kitty has come to terms with this and in 1933 she was running he enlists the Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with her grandmotherhelp of a fellow actor, when her grandmother had to leave to look after her sister who was ill. She was reluctant John Le Breton to leave Kitty in charge - and Kitty could not understand whyhelp him investigate matters further. She's always coped with They travel across the mix of holidaymakerscountry during their days off filming, boating people uncovering more possible murders and , seemingly, a link to death during the naval college on the edge of town before - and she's done every job in Second World War. But is there really a link between the hotel. deaths? And she particularly cannot understand why her grandmother's friends have been roped in will they manage to keep an eye on things ''and'' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired to take charge of security at the hotel.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

 |}{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" =='''9 JANUARY 2020'''== <!-- Sarah Alderson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473681847.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473681847/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[In Her Eyes by Sarah Alderson]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Ava lives a charmed life, but those things sometimes rub other people up the wrong way. One evening she returns from a night out with a friend, and before she can finish her bedtime routine, her home, and her life, are under attack: masked men have broken in and are demanding money from her husband, while her young daughter cowers beside him. In the scuffle than ensues, Ava is hurt, badly. When she wakes up in hospital she can barely remember what happened, but she knows it was life-changing. With her daughter still fighting for her life in a room down the corridor, Ava has a lot to contend with as she tries to recover, wills her daughter to recover, and attempts to piece together what happened and why. [[In Her Eyes by Sarah Alderson|Full Review]] |} =='''15 JANUARY6 JUNE'''==

|author=Tanya LandmanKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Jane EyreDungeon Runners: a RetellingHero Trial|rating=54|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=A young womanMeet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about herit seems, and years in he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a dreary schoolteam of warrior, moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to have something like the life she wants – mage and with only one jobhealer enter specially prepared, to tutor a young halfcentury-French girlold, whose father is almost always absent. When he does turn up he seems to be darkmagical mazes, brooding and troubled – but that's nothing compared race to the darkerexit, more broody perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and even more troubled secret in the housepoints they grant you along the way. YesUnfortunately for Kit, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the rest – but if you dononly thing he'ts 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. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for whatever reasonKit, 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 is a wonderful book friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to turn to.succeed?|isbn=17811291261839945184

|authorisbn=Penny Chrimes1635866847|title=Tiger HeartThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately''Fly never meant to end up in feel that this is the cage with a man-eating tigerbook for you. She just saw her chance to skedaddle Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', and she took itI visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm. And even when the cloud of soot cleared com/ website] and she saw the golden eyes there's a picture of a killer staring into hers, she still didnslice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't turn round eat cakes and climb back up desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the chimney straightaway. book, which I'Cos there m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was worse waiting for her back on told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the roofcorners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'What an opener! And there's plenty more to come!|isbn=1510107045this book already.

=='''23 JANUARY4 JULY'''== 

|isbnauthor=0241985110Max Boucherat|title=All the Rage (D I Fawley)|author=Cara HunterThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=A very beautiful, but extremely distressed teenage girl was picked up by a minicab driver We meet Lori on the outskirts of Oxford. She didnfirst evening she't want s got the house to go herself – no neighbour to the police station or the hospital: she pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just wanted to be taken homean avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. The driver wasn't so certain though - What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and after dropping the girl at home he went that is to log on to Voxminer, the policeworld-building, which critter-collecting game that is why DI Adam Fawley found himself talking to Faith Appleford and her mothera hit in Lori's world. Both were adamant But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this was nothing stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more than an April Fool's joke which had gone wrongspooky. No crime had been committed For the server she and her bestie and Faith didn't want nobody else should be able to take the matter any furtherenter shows signs of tampering. Fawley When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and his team weren't prepared her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to leave it at that and they began investigating. What they found strange was that Faith Appleford didn't seem to have much of a history.turn?|isbn=0008666482