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 == '''11 DECEMBER9 MAY''' ==
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|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 DECEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0753553236Tom Percival|title=Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything|author=B J FoggWrong Shoes
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|genre=LifestyleConfident Readers|summary=Go onWill's life is difficult, admit it - you're not quite perfectin a multitude of ways. You still He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have those oddenough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, quirky even loveable (to you) habits which seem to annoy other peoplewas working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. Other peopleThrow into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, of courseand Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, are sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which they could so easily correct, if only they would make just he still has a little bit tiny amount of efforthope. Or put another wayHe is good at art, 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 clings to get to grips with the concepts. I constantly fail and then I get cross with myself for failing. Lack moments of willpower joy when he is another burden to add to drawing, that feel like a light at the listend of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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 =='''7 JANUARY 202023 MAY'''==
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|author=Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kit SeatonOnyi Nwabineli|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 Allow Me to disturb a lot more...|isbn=1401282555}} =='''9 JANUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Alastair Chisholm|title=Orion LostIntroduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Thirteen-year-old Beth and Anuri spent her parents board childhood on display to the transport ship Orion ready world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for a new life on Eos Fivesponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Their new home Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is still being terra-formed slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life there isn't going back, suing her step-mother to be easytake down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, but it ''is'' going failing to be a fresh starther PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. As Beth's mum puts it Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, ''Therewho is the new focus of Ophelia's a future waiting for usonline empire. A chance to make our own decisions Can she save her sister, create our own lives.''and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=17880059290861546873
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=='''4 JUNE'''==
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|isbnauthor=1786075695Stuart Douglas|title=When Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dead Come Calling (Burrowhead Mysteries 1)|author=Helen SedgwickDress Rehearsal|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It began with During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the discovery dead body of a body under woman on the swings in the children's playgroundedge of a reservoir. It was Dr Alexis Crosse The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he was found by PC Simon Hunter, who loved him deeplyenlists the help of a fellow actor, but who had reason John Le Breton to mistrust help himinvestigate matters further. Crosse was a psychotherapist who grew up in GreeceThey travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, but such professions are misunderstood in Burrowhead (along with foreigners)seemingly, a community which regards anyone not born and brought up there as an outsiderlink to death during the Second World War. DI Georgie Strachan But is an outsider - you've only got there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to look at her skin to realise that, and her husband, Fergus, well, he's a little strange too, not entirely ''here''.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"<!-- Sarah Alderson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473681847.jpg|link'''6 JUNE'''=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]]|}
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|author= Catherine Steadman|title= Mr Nobody|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary= Don't you just hate it when people are multiKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-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.|isbn=1984890646}} |} =='''15 JANUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Tanya LandmanStanton|title=Jane EyreDungeon Runners: 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}}{{Frontpage|author=Penny Chrimes|title=Tiger HeartHero Trial|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=''Fly never meant to end up Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the cage with sport where a manteam of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-eating tiger. She just saw her chance old, magical mazes, and race to skedaddlethe exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and she took itthe points they grant you along the way. And even when Unfortunately for Kit, the cloud only thing he's seen of soot cleared and she saw the golden eyes of a killer staring into herslatest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, she still didn't turn round and climb back up the chimney straightawaya new trio of questors is needed. 'Cos there was worse waiting Possibly very unfortunately indeed for her back on Kit, he has taken to the goading from the rooftoken bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team.'' What an opener! And there's plenty more chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to come!succeed?|isbn=15101070451839945184
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=='''16 JANUARY13 JUNE'''==
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|isbn=15294002791635866847|title=Six Wicked ReasonsThe Lavender Companion|author=Jo SpainJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeLifestyle|summary=It was early summer 2018 and Adam Latimer returned home to Spanish Cove after an absence of ten years. The family had thought him dead - in fact's strange, the things thatmake you 's what 'immediately'' feel that this is the private detective his mother had insisted upon had told thembook for you. He was cagey about exactly where heBefore I started reading 'd been but he seemed content, if not happy, to be hope. What brought him? Well, nine years ago his mother died and he'd seen the The Lavender Companion''in memoriam, I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there' in the paper: this was s a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the first he'd heard about what had happenedhomepage. His three sisters I don't eat cakes and two brothers had mixed feelings about his return, desserts - but his father is delightedI wanted that cake viscerally. In fact(There's a recipe in the book, hewhich I's determined m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to have make a partymess of it. Only, with Frazer Latimer, what happens has Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be about hima problem. He has an announcement to make - it I 's nine years since Kathleen died and he's been lonely. Heloved's met Ana, a Polish immigrant, and they're getting marriedthis book already.
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=='''23 JANUARY4 JULY'''== 
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|isbnauthor=0241985110Max Boucherat|title=All the Rage (D I Fawley)|author=Cara HunterThe Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=A very beautiful, but extremely distressed teenage girl was picked up by a minicab driver on the outskirts of Oxford. She didn't want to go to the police station or the hospital: she just wanted to be taken home. The driver wasn't so certain though - and after dropping the girl at home he went to the police, which is why DI Adam Fawley found himself talking to Faith Appleford and her mother. Both were adamant that this was nothing more than an April Fool's joke which had gone wrong. No crime had been committed and Faith didn't want to take the matter any further. Fawley and his team weren't prepared 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.
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{{Frontpage
|author=Rory Clements
|title=Hitler's Secret
|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=So, Hitler had a secret? Two, if you include the reproductive detail mentioned in a certain sing-song aspersion. But this is a secret that is counter to that, and in fact is a secret that Hitler himself doesn't even know about. His neice, Geli Raubal, the attractive young woman he seemed to be very close to in the early 1930s, had had his daughter behind his back. Protected under a false identity ever since, the girl is completely ignorant of her past, and the truth is a very rare thing. Martin Bormann, the 'gatekeeper' to Hitler and his right hand man, knows – and is desperately intent on wiping the slate clean and removing all connected with her existence from the Reich. So it's down to Tom Wilde, an American history professor at Oxbridge, to go in and extract her, in this most shadowy race against time.
|isbn=1838770275
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1444776185
|title=Haven't they Grown
|author=Sophie Hannah
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It was when Beth Leeson was ferrying her son, Ben, to a football match that she found herself on Wyddial Lane in Hemingford Abbots. Actually, It's a little disingenuous to say 'found herself' as Beth had made a deliberate detour on the grounds that she didn't find herself in this neck of the woods very often and she was curious to see where a family who'd come into money had lived before they'd all lost contact twelve years ago. And it might have gone no further than that had Beth not seen a car draw up and her friend Flora get out along with two children she called Thomas and Emily. Beth remembered the names well - but these children were about three and five and Flora's children - Thomas and Emily - would now be fifteen and seventeen.
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=='''6 FEBRUARY'''==
 
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|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
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=='''11 FEBRUARY'''==
 
{{Frontpage
|author= A K Larkwood
|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
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=='''20 FEBRUARY'''==
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|author=Struan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)
|title=Orphans of the Tide
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary= When a mysterious boy washes in with We meet Lori on the tide, the citizens believe hefirst evening she's got the Enemy house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule- the god who drowned the world - come again to cause untold chaosbreaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. Only Ellie, a fearless young inventor living What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a workshop crammed with curiositiesblanket fort, she has one main intention, believes he's innocent. But the Enemy can take possession of any human body and the ruthless Inquisition are determined that is to log on to destroy it forever. To save Voxminer, the boyworld-building, Ellie must prove who he really is critter- even if collecting game that means revealing her own dangerous secret....|isbn=0241384435}} =='''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 hit in prison, Maddie wants nothing more than to go to Havenfall to see her uncle, Marcus. ItLori's the only place she feels truly at homeworld. Maddie But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn's father, understandably, is not keen t find herself entirely 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 brotherown, and then she finds something even more spooky...|isbn=1547603798 }}{{Frontpage|author=Marie O'Regan For the server she and Paul Kane (editors)|title=Cursed: An Anthology of Dark Fairy Tales|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Curses. They're there throughout tales of faery her bestie and other fantastical folk – people being cursed to do this, or not to nobody else should be able to do thatenter shows signs of tampering. Children can be cursed, as can princesses When malevolent eyes spark up on the verge of marryingher phone screen, and older people too. It seems her safe place in a way there's no escaping it. Which is why the theme of this book of short stories is such a standout game has been doctored we may well think we know all there , where is to know about this accursed character, that demonised place, and that other bewitched person. We'd be very wrong.|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 her personal life, returning her to the isolated town of Gavrik and into a desperate search for her missing best friend. With the Midsommar sun blocked out by the dark pines of the forest, Tuva fights to save her friend. But who’ll be there girl to save Tuvaturn?|isbn=17860771160008666482
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