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 =='''7 JANUARY 2020'''=={{Frontpage|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}} =='''9 JANUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Alastair Chisholm|title=Orion Lost|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Thirteen-year-old Beth and her parents board the transport ship Orion ready for a new life on Eos Five. Their new home is still being terra-formed and life there isn't going to be easy, but it ''is'' going to be a fresh start. As Beth's mum puts it, ''There's a future waiting for us. A chance to make our own decisions, create our own lives.''|isbn=1788005929}}{{Frontpage|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 'MAY'here''.}}{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"<!-- Sarah Alderson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473681847.jpg|link=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]]|}

|author= Catherine SteadmanTom Percival|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.|isbn=1984890646}} =='''15 JANUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Tanya Landman|title=Jane Eyre: a RetellingWrong Shoes

|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 the golden eyes of a killer staring into hers, she still didnhis dad can't turn round and climb back up work because he lost his job at the chimney straightaway. 'Cos there college, was worse waiting for her back working a cash-in-hand job on the roof.''What an opener! And there's plenty more to come!|isbn=1510107045}}=='''16 JANUARY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1529400279|title=Six Wicked Reasons|author=Jo Spain|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It was early summer 2018 a building site and Adam Latimer returned home to Spanish Cove after had an absence of ten yearsaccident. The family had thought him dead - in Throw into that mix the factthat his mum and dad are separated, thatand Will's what the private detective his mother had insisted upon had told themlife seems bleak in every direction. He was cagey about exactly where And yet, he'd been but he seemed content, if not happy, to be still has a tiny amount of hope. What brought him? WellHe is good at art, nine years ago his mother died and he'd seen clings to the ''in memoriam'' in the paper: this was the first moments of joy when he'd heard about what had happened. His three sisters and two brothers had mixed feelings about his return, but his father is delighted. In factdrawing, he's determined to have that feel like a party. Only, with Frazer Latimer, what happens has to be about him. He has an announcement to make - it's nine years since Kathleen died and he's been lonely. He's met Ana, light at the end of a Polish immigrantlong, and they're getting marrieddark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

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|isbnauthor=0241985110Onyi Nwabineli|title=All the Rage (D I Fawley)|author=Cara HunterAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=A very beautifulAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, but extremely distressed teenage girl was picked up by a minicab driver thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on the outskirts social media, where she posted every step of OxfordAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. She didn't want to go to the police station or the hospital: Now Anuri is in her twenties and she just wanted is slowly trying to be taken home. The driver wasn't so certain though - regain her confidence and after dropping the girl at home he went to the policeget her life back, which is why DI Adam Fawley found himself talking to Faith Appleford and suing her step-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 down the matter any furthercontent about her. Fawley Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and his team weren't prepared to leave it at that secretly abusing people online and they began investigatingreceiving money from them for doing so. What they found strange was that Faith Appleford didnMost importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Ophelia't seem to have much of a historys online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=0861546873

|author=Rory ClementsStuart Douglas|title=Hitler's SecretLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal

|genre=ThrillersCrime|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, During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and in fact is a secret that Hitler himself doesnLeggit't even know about. His neice, Geli Raubal, leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the attractive young dead body of a 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, on the girl is completely ignorant edge of her past, and the truth is a very rare thingreservoir. Martin Bormann, the 'gatekeeper' The police seem happy 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 assign it's down to Tom Wilde, as an American history professor at Oxbridge, to go in and extract her, in this most shadowy race against time.|isbn=1838770275}}{{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, Benaccidental death, 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 something about three the whole thing bothers Lowe, and five and Flora's children - Thomas and Emily - would now be fifteen and seventeen.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529123763|title=Miss Austen|author=Gill Hornby|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=It's long been known that Cassandra Austen burned most of he enlists the letters which she and other members help of the extensive Austen family had exchanged with or about her sister Jane. What is not known is ''why'' she did this and at this stage - more than two hundred years after Jane's death - a definitive answer is unlikely to forthcoming. Gill Hornby has provided us with some possible answers in a book that proved to be far more emotionally complex than I was expecting.}}{{Frontpage|author=Chris Hauty|title=Deep State|rating=3|genre=Thrillers|summary= Hayley Chill is a fighter. She is every kind of fighterfellow actor, and well-trained in most of them. She's army infantry and she boxes for fun – and she wins. Always. She wins because she is focussed. She works hard, mentally and physically, and she knows how John Le Breton to deal with the pain. She is not so much cold as controlledhelp him investigate matters further. This fight is against someone she is not expected to beat. And she is being watched.|isbn=1471185605}} =='''1 FEBRUARY'''== {{Frontpage|isbn=1250168546|author=Sarah Kozloff|title=A Queen In Hiding|rating=3|genre=Fantasy|summary= World-building is They travel across the backbone by which fantasy novels live country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and die. And what a pleasure, thenseemingly, to get a novel with world-building you actually want link to delve into. Sarah Kozloff's debut novel presents a startlingly rich and layered world, with a complex history of connecting nations that seems certain to have more to tap, and death during the characters are interesting – if a little underdevelopedSecond World War. But it's a world I could – and did – eagerly buy into, and the struggle of each Queen to discover and hone her magical talent felt very real and very apt.}} =='''2 FEBRUARY'''== {{Frontpage|author= B T Keaton|title= Transference|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= Barrabus Madzimure is about to die, stranded on there really a mining planet millions of light-years from home, executed for high crimes against link between the Church, the ruling body of Earth. Except he's not Barrabus Madzimure, he's Thaniel Kilraven in Barrabus Madzimure's body. Such is the magic of Transference, the ability deaths? And will they manage to transplant a person's soul or consciousness into a different body - and a power that the Church has exclusive control over. As if Thaniel doesn't have enough things to worry about, a Church employee named Corvus has arrived from Earth to interrogate him. All Thaniel wants uncover who is to see his family again, and he'll stop at nothing to accomplish this, but the Church isn't going to give in without a hell of a fight...responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=B082WPHTHH}} =='''6 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=183895015X|title=A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner|author=Chris Atkins|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Documentary filmmakers don't usually get the run of establishments within the Mountbatten-Windsor Hotel Group, but after getting involved in an illegal tax scheme to fund his latest film, Chris Atkins was invited for a five-year stay. The first nine months were spent in HMP Wandsworth, which is probably the oldest, largest and most dysfunctional prison in Europe.1803368209

|author= Holly Rivers|title= Demelza Kieran Larwood 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 unJoe Todd-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}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008275246Stanton|title=Perfect Kill (D I Callanach)|author=Helen FieldsDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|summary= When Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a mysterious boy washes in team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the tidetreasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, the citizens believe only thing he's seen of the Enemy - latest race on the god who drowned the world - come again to cause untold chaos. Only Ellieinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a fearless young inventor living in a workshop crammed with curiositiesnew trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, believes he's innocent. But has taken to the goading from the Enemy can take possession token bully of any human body his world and the ruthless Inquisition are determined to destroy it foreverstumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. To save the boy What chance does this friendless, Ellie must prove who he really is muscle-free- even if zone have in actually managing that means revealing her own dangerous secret...., and how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=02413844351839945184

|isbn=02419851531635866847|title=The House on the LakeLavender Companion|author=Nuala EllwoodJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=34.5|genre=ThrillersLifestyle|summary=We know It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that something has gone wrong - badly wrong - when the woman who was alone in the house this is taken away by the policebook for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', but itI visited the author's going to be a while before we learn exactly what has happened[https://www.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529009677|title=A Window Breaks|author=C M Ewan|rating=3pinelavenderfarm.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Tom Sullivan com/ website] and his wife Rachel are having problems. Itthere's not just the usual growing apart after more than a decade picture of a slice of marriagechocolate cake on the homepage. Their son, Michael, was killed in a car crash some months before: he was driving his fatherI don's Audi t eat cakes and at sixteen wasn't legally entitled to drivedesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. Not only did he kill himself when (There's a recipe in the car rammed into a treebook, but he also killed his girlfriend, fifteen-year-old Fiona Connor. Tom canwhich I't think about Michael without m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a sense mess of shame and guiltit. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. Rachel is broken, but she wants You get to forgive Michaelfold down the corners of pages. To give some space, Tom's moved out You suspect that smears of the family home, but stresses to his thirteen-year-old daughter, Holly, that it is only butter would not be a trial separationproblem. I ''loved'' this book already.

|author=Sara HollandMax Boucherat|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 The Last Life of Dark Fairy TalesLori Mills

|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