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 == '''11 DECEMBER''' =={{Frontpage|isbn=B07XLM3SM6|title=Murder at the Dolphin Hotel|author=Helena Dixon|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Elowed Underhay was just twenty seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in June 1916, leaving her daughter, Kitty, in the care of her grandmother. A great deal of money had been spent to find out what happened to her and the conclusion was that she was dead, mainly because there was no evidence to suggest otherwise. Kitty has come to terms with this and in 1933 she was running the Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with her grandmother, when her grandmother had to leave to look after her sister who was ill. She was reluctant to leave Kitty in charge - and Kitty could not understand why. She's always coped with the mix of holidaymakers, boating people and the naval college on the edge of town before - and she's done every job in the hotel. And she particularly cannot understand why her grandmother's friends have been roped in to keep an eye on things ''and'' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired to take charge of security at the hotel.}} =='''31 DECEMBER9 MAY'''==
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|isbnauthor=0753553236Tom Percival|title=Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything|author=B J FoggWrong Shoes
|rating=5
|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=Go on, admit it - you're not quite perfect. You still have those odd, quirky even loveable (to you) habits which seem to annoy other people. Other people, of course, are sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which they could so easily correct, if only they would make just a little bit of effort. Or put another way, I get cross with myself because I forget to do things or do some actions more than I should and no matter how I try to make what seem to be quite monumental changes I never quite seem to get to grips with the concepts. I constantly fail and then I get cross with myself for failing. Lack of willpower is another burden to add to the list.
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=='''7 JANUARY 2020'''==
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|author=Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kit Seaton
|title=Wonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic Novel
|rating=3
|genre=Teens
|summary=Diana, being unique on her island, is the victim of a lot of taunts, and claims of nepotism. It's only her unique status, and her mother being Queen, that has her with any standing at all, her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought to be a strong young woman. Perhaps too strong for the island, however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for the World of Men, and this Diana is the heroine of yet another Wonder Woman origin story. A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a running race, but the survivor she drags from the waters is only going to disturb a lot more...
|isbn=1401282555
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=='''9 JANUARY'''==
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|isbn=1786075695
|title=When the Dead Come Calling (Burrowhead Mysteries 1)
|author=Helen Sedgwick
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It began with the discovery of a body under the swings in the children's playground. It was Dr Alexis Crosse and he was found by PC Simon Hunter, who loved him deeply, but who had reason to mistrust him. Crosse was a psychotherapist who grew up in Greece, but such professions are misunderstood in Burrowhead (along with foreigners), a community which regards anyone not born and brought up there as an outsider. DI Georgie Strachan is an outsider - you've only got to look at her skin to realise that, and her husband, Fergus, well, he's a little strange too, not entirely ''here''.
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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]]
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{{Frontpage
|author= Catherine Steadman
|title= Mr Nobody
|rating= 4
|genre= Thrillers
|summary= Don't you just hate it when people are multi-talented? Author Catherine Steadman is both a successful actress and writer, with this her second novel. I think in a way her acting background shows in her writing as to my mind the 'fight scene' at the end was somewhat unrealistic – you know the kind where the hero has been hurt so many times that it's virtually impossible they'd still be alive let alone able to fight off an attacker. The story also unfolded at a steady pace throughout until the ending which felt overstuffed in a frenetic bid to wrap everything up in the last few chapters. It was almost as if the author wanted to keep the suspense until the last possible moment (which I liked) but then was somewhat left with too much to do in the closing stages.
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=='''15 JANUARY'''==
{{Frontpage
|author=Tanya Landman
|title=Jane Eyre: a Retelling
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=A young woman, fresh from living with horrid relatives who could care less about her, and years in a dreary school, moves into Thornfield Hall with only one intent – to have something like the life she wants – and with only one job, to tutor a young half-French girl, whose father is almost always absent. When he does turn up he seems to be dark, brooding and troubled – but that's nothing compared to the darker, more broody and even more troubled secret in the house. Yes, if you know Jane Eyre then you know the rest – but if you don't, for whatever reason, this is a wonderful book to turn to.
|isbn=1781129126
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{{Frontpage
|author=Penny Chrimes
|title=Tiger Heart
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Will''Fly never meant to end up s life is difficult, in the cage with a man-eating tigermultitude of ways. She just saw her chance to skedaddle He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and she took it. And doesn't have enough money for even when the cloud most basic of soot cleared things like food, and she saw his dad can't work because he lost his job at the golden eyes of college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a killer staring building site and had an accident. Throw into hersthat mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, she and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still didn't turn round has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and climb back up clings to the chimney straightaway. 'Cos there was worse waiting for her back on moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the roofend of a long, dark tunnel.''What an opener! And there's plenty more to come!|isbn=15101070451398527122
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=='''16 JANUARY23 MAY'''==
{{Frontpage
|isbnauthor=1529400279Onyi Nwabineli|title=Six Wicked Reasons|author=Jo SpainAllow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It was early summer 2018 and Adam Latimer returned home Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to Spanish Cove after an absence of ten years. The family had thought him dead her step- in fact, thatmother Ophelia's what the private detective his mother had insisted upon had told them. He was cagey about exactly increasingly popular presence on social media, where heshe posted every step of Anuri'd been but he seemed contents childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, if not happybasically, to be hopemonetary gain. What brought him? WellNow Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, nine years ago his suing her step-mother died and he'd seen to take down the ''in memoriam'' in the paper: this was the first he'd heard content about what had happenedher. His three sisters and two brothers had mixed feelings about his return, but his father Anuri is delighted. In factbattling alcoholism, he's determined failing to have a partystart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Only Most importantly, with Frazer Latimershe is desperately worried about her little sister, what happens has to be about him. He has an announcement to make - itwho is the new focus of Ophelia's nine years since Kathleen died and he's been lonelyonline empire. He's met Ana, a Polish immigrantCan she save her sister, and they're getting married.perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873
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 =='''23 JANUARY4 JUNE'''== 
{{Frontpage
|isbnauthor=0241985110Stuart Douglas|title=All Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Rage (D I Fawley)|author=Cara HunterDress Rehearsal|rating=43.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=A very beautifulDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', but extremely distressed teenage girl was picked up by leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a minicab driver woman on the outskirts edge of Oxforda reservoir. She didn't want to go The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the police station or the hospital: she just wanted to be taken home. The driver wasn't so certain though - whole thing bothers Lowe, and after dropping the girl at home he went to enlists the policehelp of a fellow actor, which is why DI Adam Fawley found himself talking John Le Breton to Faith Appleford and her motherhelp him investigate matters further. Both were adamant that this was nothing They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more than an April Fool's joke which had gone wrong. No crime had been committed possible murders and Faith didn't want , seemingly, a link to take death during the matter any furtherSecond World War. Fawley and his team weren't prepared to leave it at that and they began investigating. But is there really a link between the deaths? What And will they found strange was that Faith Appleford didn't seem manage to have much of a history.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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=='''6 JUNE'''==
{{Frontpage
|author=Rory ClementsKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Hitler's SecretDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=So, Hitler had a secret? Meet Kit. Two, if you include Like most of the reproductive detail mentioned people in a certain sing-song aspersion. But this his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a secret that is counter to thatteam of warrior, mage and in fact is a secret that Hitler himself doesn't even know about. His neicehealer enter specially prepared, century-old, Geli Raubalmagical mazes, the attractive young woman he seemed and race to be very close to in the early 1930sexit, had had his daughter behind his backperhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Protected under a false identity ever sinceUnfortunately for Kit, the girl only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is completely ignorant of her pastthat one team has been retired, eaten, and the truth a new trio of questors is a very rare thingneeded. Martin BormannPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, the 'gatekeeper' he has taken to Hitler and his right hand man, knows – and is desperately intent on wiping the slate clean and removing all connected with her existence goading from the Reichtoken bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. So it's down to Tom WildeWhat chance does this friendless, an American history professor at Oxbridgemuscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to go in and extract her, in this most shadowy race against time.succeed?|isbn=18387702751839945184
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
{{Frontpage
|isbn=14447761851635866847|title=Haven't they GrownThe Lavender Companion|author=Sophie HannahJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersLifestyle|summary=It was when Beth Leeson was ferrying her son's strange, Ben, to a football match the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that she found herself on Wyddial Lane in Hemingford Abbotsthis is the book for you. ActuallyBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', ItI visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a little disingenuous to say 'found herself' as Beth had made picture of a deliberate detour slice of chocolate cake on the grounds homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that she didncake viscerally. (There't find herself s a recipe in this neck of the woods very often book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and she I was curious told to see where make a family who'd come into money had lived before they'd all lost contact twelve years agomess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. And it might have gone no further than You suspect that had Beth smears of butter would not seen be a car draw up and her friend Flora get out along with two children she called Thomas and Emilyproblem. Beth remembered the names well - but these children were about three and five and FloraI ''loved''s children - Thomas and Emily - would now be fifteen and seventeenthis book already.
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=='''6 FEBRUARY4 JULY'''== 
{{Frontpage
|author= Holly Rivers|title= Demelza and the Spectre Detectors|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Demelza loves science - she loves it so much that she's been known to stay up late to work on her peculiar inventions! But Demelza discovers she has inherited a distinctly un-scientific set of skills: Spectre Detecting. Like her grandmother, she can summon the ghosts of the dead. But when Grandma is kidnapped by a mysterious villain, she knows Spectre Detecting has something to do with it. Only Demelza and her pasty best friend, Percy, can solve the deadly mystery ...|isbn=1912626039}} =='''11 FEBRUARY'''== {{Frontpage|author= A K LarkwoodMax Boucherat|title= The Unspoken Name|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= What does it mean to betray someone? What if that someone is a god? Csorwe has been raised knowing that she would be sacrificed to her god on her fourteenth birthday, yet when the opportunity arises, she chooses to abandon everything she knows and flee with her life. Who can blame her? Her god's reach is limited and Csorwe intends to stay far beyond it, yet fate is a funny thing and when circumstances bring her back within the reach of her god Csorwe learns that her god remembers her, and blames her very much indeed.|isbn=1250238900}} =='''3 MARCH'''== {{Frontpage|author=Sara Holland|title=Havenfall|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= Maddie Morrow is supposed to spending the summer with her Grandma Ellen. But after a visit to her mother in prison, Maddie wants nothing more than to go to Havenfall to see her uncle, Marcus. It's the only place she feels truly at home. Maddie's father, understandably, is not keen on Maddie spending time with her mother's family - because the crime Maddie's mum is languishing on death row for committing is the murder of Maddie's brother...|isbn=1547603798 }}{{Frontpage|author=Marie O'Regan and Paul Kane (editors)|title=Cursed: An Anthology Last Life of Dark Fairy TalesLori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=FantasyConfident Readers|summary=Curses. TheyWe meet Lori on the first evening she're there throughout tales of faery and other fantastical folk s got the house to herself people being cursed no neighbour to do thispop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, or not and that is to be able log on to do that. Children can be cursedVoxminer, as can princesses on the verge of marryingworld-building, and older people too. It seems critter-collecting game that is a hit in a way thereLori's no escaping itworld. Which is why the theme of this book of short stories is such But first Lori has a standout – we may well think we know all there is to know about tiny inkling that this accursed character, that demonised placestormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and that other bewitched personthen she finds something even more spooky. We'd For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be very wrongable to enter shows signs of tampering.|isbn=1789091500}}  {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" =='''12 MARCH'''== {{Frontpage|author=Will Dean |title=Black River |rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Tuva Moodyson returns - and this third book in the Tuva Moodyson mystery series delves deep into When malevolent eyes spark up on her personal lifephone screen, returning her to the isolated town of Gavrik and into a desperate search for her missing best friend. With safe place in the Midsommar sun blocked out by the dark pines of the forestgame has been doctored – well, Tuva fights to save her friend. But who’ll be there where is a girl to save Tuvaturn?|isbn=17860771160008666482
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