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=='''15 JANUARY9 MAY'''==

|author=Alex WheatleTom Percival|title=The Humiliations of Welton BlakeWrong Shoes|rating=2.5

|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

 =='''21 JANUARY23 MAY'''==

|author=David F RossOnyi Nwabineli|title= There's Only One Danny GarveyAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|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

|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

=='''28 JANUARY6 JUNE'''==

|author=Rob KeeleyKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Treasure in the TowerDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|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 team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century- his stories combine fast pace old, magical mazes, and lots of action, an easy race to read stylethe exit, an unerring eye perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for childrenKit, the only thing he's friendships and rivalriesseen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and always a good dollop new trio of naughty humourquestors is needed. They're all present here Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, in ''The Treasure in he has taken to the goading from the Tower'token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. The What chance purchase of a book during a school trip sparks the whole adventure. Who can follow the clues best and find the treasure? Jessdoes this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, her brother Mason and their friend Kessie through sheer persistence? Or spoiled brat Perdita with her money and tech gadgets and willingness how could he possibly hope to cheatsucceed?|isbn=18004613211839945184

=='''1 FEBRUARY13 JUNE'''==

|isbn=B08LKT7HSR1635866847|title=Murder in the Belltower (A Miss Underhay Mystery)The Lavender Companion|author=Helena DixonJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=34.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Lifestyle|summary=In December 1933 the remains of Elowed Underhay were discovered in the cellar of the Glass Bottle Public House. Ezekiel Hamett was sought in connection with the murder of Elowed and his half-brother, Denzil Hammett, whose body was also discovered. Kitty UnderhayIt's long search for her motherstrange, who disappeared in June 1916 was over. Now she's determined the things that the man responsible for her murder will be brought to justice.}} ==make you ''immediately'2 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Anna Carey|title=This feel that this is Not the Jess Show|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Jess is a normal 90book for you. Before I started reading ''s teenage girl, just trying to navigate the usual stresses of school, and boys, and parent troubles. But strange things seem to be happening in her small town, with a mystery flu keeping lots of people indoors, and a strange metal device, with an apple on it, that slips out of her friendThe Lavender Companion's bag, but 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 to be responding to her in strange ways sometimes. Is there something going on beneath I visited the surface of Jess' life?|isbn=1683691970}}=='''4 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0008379300|title=The Shadow Man|author=Helen Fields|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Fergus Ariss is in his late thirties and he knows that he's dying[https://www. His body is giving up on him, his internal organs beginning to putrify but before he dies he wants a wife, a child and a brotherpinelavenderfarm. He's been on the lookout for the perfect people com/ website] and hethere's made certain preparations. The flat where the family will live is prepared and even windows with curtains, and pictures in frames have been painted onto the walls. Angela Fernycroft was to be his wife. Her husband, Cal, had taken the children - 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 book and he took out adoption papers for Ellie - 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

=='''18 FEBRUARY4 JULY'''==

|author=Hannah GoldMax Boucherat|title=The Last BearLife of Lori Mills

|summary=AprilWe meet Lori on the first evening she's father, a scientist, has been given a job on a remote island called Bear Island, and he accepts got the job deciding house to take his daughter April with him. They live alone anywayherself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, since April's mother died some time beforeat work, and he feels it will be educational for just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her to experience the island and all its natural beautylonesome. April already What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has an affinity with natureone main intention, and she's excited that is to log on to travel with her fatherVoxminer, thinking of all the fun things they will be able to experience together on the island. But when they get thereworld-building, her father finds critter-collecting game that his work monitoring and recording the temperatures just takes up too much of his time, and so April is left to explore by herselfa hit in Lori's world. Her father had reassured her But first Lori has a tiny inkling that there were no longer any bears living this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on Bear Island, but one day April thinks she catches a glimpse of one, and so she sets out to find the Bearher own, and then when she sees he is injured, to befriend and help himfinds something even more spooky.|isbn=000841128X}} =='''4 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Saima Mir|title=The Khan|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by For the motto be twice as good as men server she and four times as good as white men. This has served her well in her rise through the criminal justice system bestie 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 nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of her gametampering. Returning to the city of When malevolent eyes spark up on her birthphone screen, to old scars and fresh wounds, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for safe place in 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 of Sins|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|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 the nature of the person he's addressing in his second person monologue of a narrationgame has been doctored – well, we see him picked up by his mother's chauffeur, and carted off to do all the necessary introductions before said mother where is buried the following day. The mother was a businesswoman, 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, girl to the lad's childhood, and see just what he has to tell her as a private farewell address.turn?|isbn=19398109650008666482