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=='''7 JANUARY 20219 MAY'''==
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|isbn=B08CR3WNFT|title=The Therapist|author=B A Paris|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=When Leo Curtis found the house in The Circle, a gated community, Alice Dawson was in Venice. Leo wanted to move quickly on the property as it was on the market at such a reasonable price that Alice wouldn't have to sell her cottage in Harlestone for them to be able to afford it. Alice agreed - she was tired of their long-distance relationship. Now they would be able to spend most of the week together instead of just the weekends. Leo had some work done on the house: he made two bedrooms into one and although Alice knew that the house was stunning she just didn't feel comfortable there.}}{{Frontpage|author= Deborah O'Connor|title= The Captive|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary=Hannah knows the cage, intimately. It lurks in the corner of her eye. Soon, it will be occupied. Then what? What if he speaks to her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=1838772650}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786495902Tom Percival|title=The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel HardmanWrong Shoes
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not to share. She says that a friend who does know, burst into tears and health-care professionals' jaws have sagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with this at the time by 'keeping going': the next day she went to work to cover the budget, next there was the EU referendum, the political party leadership contests and then it was party conference season. One night she had to be sedated and returned home to begin long-term sick leave. That was what brought me to this book: 2020 was the year when the bins went out more often than I did.
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|author=Emma Carroll and Kaja Kajfez
|title=The Ghost Garden
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Fran, the gardener's daughter at a posh country house, is worried. She's just cracked her garden fork through quite a grim discovery - a large bone, buried under the potatoes. But she's even more worried when she learns that that event coincided with Leo, the older child of the house, breaking his leg while playing cricket on the lawn. She is due to get even more worried when she finds something else that also seems to foretell a surprise. Tasked with shoving Leo around the grounds in his bathchair, she might have reason to be out of her mind with fear, when she learns what he is seeking - a long-forgotten burial chamber. But surely that won't act as a premonition to anything - not here in the sultry, summery days of 1914?
|isbn=1781129002
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=='''15 JANUARY'''==
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|author=Alex Wheatle
|title=The Humiliations of Welton Blake
|rating=2.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=We meet Welton Blake at the worst of times – only they should be the best Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of timesways. He should be getting a text from is bullied because he has 'the most bae-worthy girl in school in regards to a cinema datewrong shoes', but he has the wrong shoes because his phone has packed up, hedad can's chundered last nightt work and doesn's meal t have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his breakfast over another girl in classdad can't work because he lost his job at the college, who's duffed him up was working a cash-in response, -hand job on a building site and the wanna-bae seems to actually be with someone else anywayhad an accident. On a bigger scale he's living with Throw into that mix the fact that his mother mum and not much income now that the dad has left the picture – yesare separated, things are so bad theyand Will're resorting to having cabbage for dinners life seems bleak in every direction. I knowAnd yet, right? he still has a tiny amount of hope. But surely this He is just a blipgood at art, a day at school and clings to forgetthe moments of joy when he is drawing, and everything (that feel like his vomit) will all come out in the wash? This can't be a light at the start end of a most nightmarish time for young Welton?long, dark tunnel.|isbn=17811294951398527122
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 =='''21 JANUARY23 MAY'''==
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|author=David F RossOnyi Nwabineli|title= There's Only One Danny GarveyAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary= Years agoAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, Danny Garvey was a footballing prodigy playing where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for his local clubsponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Everyone predicted a bright future – but his career Now Anuri is in professional football never quite worked outher twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the content about her. Thirteen years on Anuri is battling alcoholism, convinced failing to return home by his "uncle" Higgy to visit his dying motherstart her PhD, Danny takes over the shambolic undergoing therapy and once-great team he used to play for secretly abusing people online and tries to reform receiving money from themfor doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn= 19131935000861546873
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|author=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)Stuart Douglas|title=Kokoschka's DollLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=23.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=WellDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', this looked very much like leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a book I could love from woman on the get-go, which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any edge of ita reservoir. I found things The police seem happy to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the middle on darker stock paperassign it as an accidental death, a chapter whose number was in but something about the 20,000s, letters used as narrative formwhole thing bothers Lowe, and so on. It intrigued with he enlists the subterranean voice help of a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentionedfellow actor, tooJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. But you've seen They travel across the star rating that comes with this reviewcountry during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and can tell that if love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|isbn=1529402697}}=='''26 JANUARY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1529124417|title=Before She Disappeared|author=Lisa Gardner|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Frankie Elkin found Lani Whitehorse's body in her car at the bottom of seemingly, a link to death during the lakeSecond World War. She knew that the twenty-two-year-old waitress wouldn't have left her three-year-old daughter and run away. Lani was the fourteenth missing person to be located by Frankie and now she's moving on again, this time to Boston where But is there's really a strong Haitian community which was home to Angelique Lovelie Badeau until her disappearance eleven months ago. link between the deaths? Frankie, middle-aged and white, gets a job and accommodation at Stoney's bar and sets out And will they manage to investigate the community which uncover who is just about exclusively black.responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''28 JANUARY6 JUNE'''==
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|author=Rob KeeleyKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Treasure in the TowerDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary= Rob Keeley Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is back! Hooray! We here at Bookbag Towers are always happy to read an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a new adventure from Rob - his stories combine fast pace team of warrior, mage and lots of actionhealer enter specially prepared, an easy to read stylecentury-old, an unerring eye for children's friendships and rivalriesmagical mazes, and always a good dollop of naughty humour. They're all present hererace to the exit, in ''The Treasure in perhaps bothering with the Tower''. The chance purchase of a book during a school trip sparks treasure or the whole adventure. Who can follow big bad and the clues best and find points they grant you along the treasure? Jessway. Unfortunately for Kit, her brother Mason and their friend Kessie through sheer persistence? Or spoiled brat Perdita with her money and tech gadgets and willingness to cheat?|isbn=1800461321}} =='''2 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Anna Carey|title=This is Not the Jess Show|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Jess is a normal 90only thing he's teenage girl, just trying to navigate seen of the latest race on the usual stresses of schoolinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, and boyseaten, and parent troublesa new trio of questors is needed. But strange things seem Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to be happening in her small town, with a mystery flu keeping lots the goading from the token bully of people indoors, his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a strange metal deviceteam. What chance does this friendless, with an apple on it, that slips out of her friend's bag, but muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that her friends just won't talk to her about. Jess feels like she might be hearing voices, and her sister (who is very ill) seems how could he possibly hope to be responding to her in strange ways sometimes. Is there something going on beneath the surface of Jess' lifesucceed?|isbn=16836919701839945184
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=='''4 FEBRUARY13 JUNE'''==
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|isbn=00083793001635866847|title=The Shadow ManLavender Companion|author=Helen FieldsJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersLifestyle|summary=Fergus Ariss is in his late thirties and he knows that heIt's dying. His body is giving up on himstrange, his internal organs beginning to putrify but before he dies he wants a wife, a child and a brother. Hethe things that make you ''immediately''s been on feel that this is the lookout book for the perfect people and he's made certain preparationsyou. Before I started reading ''The flat where the family will live is prepared and even windows with curtainsLavender Companion'', and pictures in frames have been painted onto I visited the wallsauthor's [https://www. Angela Fernycroft was to be his wifepinelavenderfarm. Her husband, Cal, had taken the children - com/ website] and there's a boy picture of seven and a girl slice of five, away for chocolate cake on the weekendhomepage. Unfortunately, it doesnI don't go according to plan eat cakes and Angela dies.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178089905X|title=Serpentine|author=Jonathan Kellerman|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It wasn't exactly the case Lt Milo Sturgis had been dreaming about: a death from thirtydesserts -six years ago and the daughter of the woman who died but I wanted some answersthat cake viscerally. She had money and money translated into clout and so the problem was dropped onto Milo(There's toes. Dorothy Swoboda was twenty-four years old when she died a recipe in a car the book, which went off a cliff on Mulholland Drive and burst into flames. It turned out that she wasnI't actually married to m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the man with whom she'd left her daughter but Dr Stanley R Barker, optometrist, was a good man and he took out adoption papers for Ellie - book and she took his name. Ellie I was three when her mother left her with Dr Barker and she has nothing of her but one photograph of her mother and father and told to make a necklace made mess of serpentine.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1471191303|title=The Invisible|author=Tom Percival|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=This is the story of Isobel, a little girl who made a big differenceit. Isobel lived with her parents Notes in a house - a very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to put the heating on: ''Ice curled across the inside of the window and crept up the corner of the bedpost.'' The family didn't go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happymargins are sanctioned. Then the day came when they couldn't afford the rent for the house and they had to move You get to fold down the far side corners of the citypages. This part You suspect that smears of the city was cold, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.}}{{Frontpage|author=Helen Fisher|title=Space Hopper|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Faye lost her mum when she was very young. She was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from butter would not be a cold that got worse, and although they were kind and very good to her she of course missed her mum enormouslyproblem. So when, unexpectedly, she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) that takes her back to the 70I 's and her mum, she revels in the chance to create some memories and get to know the woman who meant so much to her. The time travelling, however, is neither easy nor safe, and Faye fears that her husband won't believe whatloved's happening and so lies to him instead. The lies grow more tangled, and Faye begins to wonder if it's safe for her to return one last time to the pastthis book already. Should she try to see her mum one last time before her mum's death, or will it change her own future forever to attempt it?|isbn=1471188663
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=='''4 MARCHJULY'''==
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|author=Saima MirMax Boucherat|title=The Khan|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by the motto be twice as good as men and four times as good as white men. This has served her well in her rise through the criminal justice system and by the time she is called home for her sister's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exile, she is at the top of her game. Returning to the city of her birth, to old scars and fresh wounds, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for the future with her sense of honour and duty.|isbn=1786079097}}{{Frontpage|author=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)|title=If You Kept a Record Last Life of SinsLori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=This was an incredibly readable novella, but one that left me a little conflicted. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airport, and before we even know his gender or meet Lori on the nature of the person hefirst evening she's addressing got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in his second person monologue of a narration, we see him picked up by his mother's chauffeurbabysitter poorly, and carted off to do all the necessary introductions before said mother is buried the following day. The mother was a businesswomanat work, who clearly left northern Italy and settled in Romania with her (night-time and business) partner, and feelings of abandonment are still strong. And so we flit from current (well, this came out in the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, to the lad's childhood, and see just what he has to tell her as a private farewell address.|isbn=1939810965}}{{Frontpage|author=Mary H.K. Choi|title=Yolk|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Jayne Baek is a fashion student that's barely getting by. She drinks. She smokes. She makes bad decisions about the men she sleeps with. She's an allavidly rule-round messy character; and that's her charm. Junebreaking eleven year old, on the other hand, is a complete contrast to Jayneher lonesome. She's What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a typical older sister: she's smartblanket fort, thinks she knows it all, and has a successful job. She constantly criticises Jayne for her life choicesone main intention, and the two have barely kept in contact despite living in the same city for the past two years. This that is until June finds out she's sick, and Jayne is the only person she can turn to. The two sisters have to come together and decide how far they'll go log on to save each other's lives – even if it means swapping identities.|isbn= 0349003696}} =='''23 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Other Emily|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Our hero David Thorne is an authorVoxminer, who shares his life between the two US coasts. Itworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's the western coast we're concerned with, a place he has to return to, and a place he has to be able to leaveworld. David lost contact with his partner there ten years ago, when she vanished from But first Lori has a remote road late at tiny inkling that this stormy night. Hedoesn's paying for contact with the man he thinks the only suspect, a lifer now, who went a bit Hannibal Lectert find herself entirely on her own, and has a dozen and then she finds something even more unfound Jane Does on his recordspooky. David is trying to pry For the connection between the murderer server she and her bestie and his girl from the man's mind, but nobody else should be able to no availenter shows signs of tampering. He's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting imageWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the very embodimentgame has been doctored – well, the virtual resurrection, of his love. What where is a man girl to doturn?|isbn=15420199580008666482
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=='''15 APRIL'''==
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|author=Lucy Holland
|title=Sistersong
|rating=5
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary=Sistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, the modern retelling of folk and fairy tales. These stories, for most of us, are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re-evaluating the role of women. Sistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done well, the plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to come to life, to feel real and human, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to end.
|isbn=1529039037
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{{Frontpage
|author=Goldy Moldavsky
|title=The Last Girl
|rating=5
|genre=teens
|summary= Rachel Chavez is the new girl at Manchester Prep. A school filled to the brim with the richest children in the city – and Rachel doesn't belong. She's not rich, she has no ties to some royal family in Serbia, and most of all, she spends the majority of her spare time watching horror movies as a source of comfort. She struggles to find anyone to connect with, until one day she stumbles upon the Mary Shelley Club. A secret society with one aim: pull off the best prank in true horror movie style, and unless someone screams, you have failed. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed in the competition. But as the pranks escalate, and Rachel finally feels like she has found her place in this school, things start to go wrong; a masked figure keeps showing up to the pranks, and people begin to get hurt. When the competition then takes a deadly turn, Rachel must figure out who this masked figure is before it's too late.
|isbn=0755501527
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=='''29 APRIL'''==
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|author= Jennifer Saint
|title= Ariadne
|rating= 4.5
|genre= Women's Fiction
|summary= This re-telling of the myth of Ariadne and the Minotaur is interesting and unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to a modern audience. Saint's narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to her death, allowing the reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a prop in the heroics of Theseus.
|isbn=1472273869
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