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=='''21 JANUARY9 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=0099551063Tom Percival|title=The Wisdom of Psychopaths: Lessons in life from Saints, Spies and Serial Killers|author=Dr Kevin DuttonWrong Shoes|rating=45|genre=Popular ScienceConfident Readers|summary=Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has ' the wrong shoes'Donald Trump outscores Hitler on psychopathic traits, he has the wrong shoes because his dad can' claims Oxford University researcher.t work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can' Until t work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Throw into that mix the events of 6 January 2021 fact that might have surprisedhis mum and dad are separated, even shocked many readers: now theyand Will're probably convinced that they knew it all alongs life seems bleak in every direction. The statement And yet, he still has lost a little tiny amount of its shock value but it does help us to understand more about the nature of psychopathyhope. It's too easy He is good at art, and clings to associate psychopathy with the Yorkshire Ripper, Jeffrey Dahmer, Saddam Hussein or Robert Maudsleymoments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the real-life Hannibal Lecterend of a long, but the truth is that having psychopathic traits can sometimes be a good thingdark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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=='''23 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=1529337925Onyi Nwabineli|title=The Mirror Dance (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=It was the August Bank Holiday weekend and, as so often happened, it was cold enough Allow Me to have the fire lit and Bunty the Dalmation wasn't inclined to leave it to keep Dandy Gilver warm on the sofa. The thought of work was almost cheering when Dandy took the call from Sandy Bissett in Dundee. She was the publisher of a magazine and had been told that the man running the Punch and Judy show in the local park had used copies of two of her cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and her sister Freckle - to drum up some local interest in his show. Sandy Bissett's request was simple: she wanted Gilver and Osborne to warn the man about infringement of copyright - and Dandy and Alex would be cheaper than employing a solicitor to do the same job.}}{{Frontpage|author=David F Ross|title= There's Only One Danny GarveyIntroduce 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 themseemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. So what happenedBut is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=15294026971803368209
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=='''26 JANUARY6 JUNE'''==
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|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 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
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=='''1 FEBRUARY13 JUNE'''==
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|isbn=B08LKT7HSR|title=Murder in the Belltower (A Miss Underhay Mystery)|author=Helena Dixon|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|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 Underhay's long search for her mother, who disappeared in June 1916 was over. Now she's determined that the man responsible for her murder will be brought to justice.}} =='''2 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Anna Carey|title=This is Not the Jess Show|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Jess is a normal 90'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 friend'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 the surface of Jess' life?|isbn=1683691970}}=='''4 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=00083793001635866847|title=The Shadow ManLavender Companion|author=Helen Fields|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Fergus Ariss is in his late thirties and he knows that he's dying. His body is giving up on him, his internal organs beginning to putrify but before he dies he wants a wife, a child Jessica Dunham and a brother. He's been on the lookout for the perfect people and he'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 of seven and a girl of five, away for the weekend. Unfortunately, it doesn't go according to plan 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 thirty-six years ago and the daughter of the woman who died wanted some answers. She had money and money translated into clout and so the problem was dropped onto Milo's toes. Dorothy Swoboda was twenty-four years old when she died in a car which went off a cliff on Mulholland Drive and burst into flames. It turned out that she wasn't actually married to 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 - and she took his name. Ellie 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 a necklace made 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 difference. Isobel lived with her parents 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 happy. Then the day came when they couldn't afford the rent for the house and they had to move to the far side of the city. This part 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 a cold that got worse, and although they were kind and very good to her she of course missed her mum enormously. So when, unexpectedly, she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) that takes her back to the 70'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 what'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 past. 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 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Hannah Gold|title=The Last BearTerry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=AprilIt's fatherstrange, a scientist, has been given a job on a remote island called Bear Island, and he accepts the job deciding to take his daughter April with himthings that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. They live alone anywayBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', since AprilI visited the author's mother died some time before, [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and he feels it will be educational for her to experience there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the island homepage. I don't eat cakes and all its natural beautydesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. April already has an affinity with nature(There's a recipe in the book, and shewhich I's excited to travel m avoiding with her father, thinking of all some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the fun things they will be able book and I was told to experience together on make a mess of it. Notes in the islandmargins are sanctioned. But when they You get there, her father finds that his work monitoring and recording to fold down the temperatures just takes up too much corners of his time, and so April is left to explore by herselfpages. Her father had reassured her You suspect that there were no longer any bears living on Bear Island, but one day April thinks she catches smears of butter would not be a glimpse of one, and so she sets out to find the Bear, and then when she sees he is injured, to befriend and help himproblem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=000841128X
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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=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Stella and her family. TheyWe meet Lori on the first evening she're just innocently trying s got the house to have a Sunday evening in together, watching a film herself – using three different screens no neighbour to watch three different thingspop in, mind – when ''poof'' everything goes blank. And it's not just their homebabysitter poorly, but the entire south-western village of Mouseholemother at work, and not just thatan avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, either, but the whole country, if not worldon her lonesome. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping they're first to get What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a screen backblanket fort, she has one main intention, and not what they were constantly doing that is to log on them before. Toasters can toastto Voxminer, but TVs cannot do the V part of their jobworld-building, and no computer can show its computations. You might think this critter-collecting game that is going to be a social comedy about people stuck hit in such Lori's world. But first Lori has a Luddite experience against their willtiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, but noand then she finds something even more spooky. For the family finally remember Stella's grandma, server she and see if they can get across country to her. Hence this has bestie and nobody else should be able to go down as a road-trip bookenter shows signs of tampering. But not just thatWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, a slapstick road-trip comedy. And more than thatand her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, too – for it's where is a slapstick, high-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart that kids of all ages will love.girl to turn?|isbn=14711968870008666482
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