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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 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

=='''16 JANUARY23 MAY'''==

|isbnauthor=1529400279Onyi Nwabineli|title=Six Wicked Reasons|author=Jo SpainAllow Me to Introduce Myself

|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

 =='''23 JANUARY4 JUNE'''== 

|isbnauthor=0241985110Stuart Douglas|title=All Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Rage (D I Fawley)|author=Cara HunterDress Rehearsal|rating=43.5

|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

|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

|isbn=14447761851635866847|title=Haven't they GrownThe Lavender Companion|author=Sophie HannahJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=ThrillersLifestyle|summary=It was when Beth Leeson was ferrying her son's strange, Ben, to a football match the things that she found herself on Wyddial Lane in Hemingford Abbots. Actually, Itmake you ''s a little disingenuous to say immediately'found herself' as Beth had made a deliberate detour on the grounds feel that she didn't find herself in this neck of is the woods very often and she was curious to see where a family whobook for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'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 , I visited the names well - but these children were about three and five and Floraauthor's children - Thomas [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and Emily - would now be fifteen and seventeen.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529123763|title=Miss Austen|author=Gill Hornby|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Itthere's long been known that Cassandra Austen burned most a picture of the letters which she and other members a slice of chocolate cake on the extensive Austen family had exchanged with or about her sister Janehomepage. What is not known is I don''why'' she did this t eat cakes and at this stage desserts - more than two hundred years after Janebut I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's death - a definitive answer is unlikely to forthcoming. Gill Hornby has provided us recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some possible answers in a difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book that proved to be far more emotionally complex than and I was expecting.}}{{Frontpage|author=Chris Hauty|title=Deep State|rating=3|genre=Thrillers|summary= Hayley Chill is told to make a fightermess of it. She is every kind of fighter, and well-trained Notes in most of themthe margins are sanctioned. 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 You get to deal with fold down the pain. She is not so much cold as controlledcorners of pages. This fight is against someone she is You suspect that smears of butter would not expected to beatbe a problem. And she is being watched.|isbn=1471185605}}{{Frontpage|author=H G Parry |title=The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Brothers Rob and Charley have struggled to see eye to eye for years - Rob a sensible lawyer who exists in the "normal" world - and Charley a man who is blessed with an ability he canI ''loved't fully control - one which allows him to bring literary characters into the real world. After years of protecting Charley, Rob wants to discharge his duties and leave Charley to his own devices - but circumstances soon take choices out of both their hands. As literary characters begin to appear everywhere, it soon becomes clear that someone out there shares Charley's powers and intends to use them for nefarious gainsthis book already. Rob and Charley must team up to stop the madness - in a battle to win before they, the characters and the world reach The End…|isbn=0356513777

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|isbn=1250168546|author=Sarah Kozloff|title=A Queen In Hiding|rating=3|genre=Fantasy|summary= World-building is the backbone by which fantasy novels live and die. And what a pleasure, then, to get a novel with world-building you actually want 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 the characters are interesting – if a little underdeveloped. 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 a mining planet millions of light-years from home, executed for high crimes against 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 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 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...|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.}}{{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}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008275246|title=Perfect Kill (D I Callanach)|author=Helen Fields|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=When Maggie Campbell realised that her son, Bart, was missing he was already 200 miles away and just waking from a chemically-induced sleep. Maggie knew straight away that something was wrong. Bart might be twenty but he was considerate of his mother and wouldn't have stayed out all night without letting her know. Besides, he didn't have his phone with him and he wouldn't have gone far without that. It's not long before Bart realises that he's alone, trapped in a shipping container and on his way to France, where his fate has already been decided.}} =='''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 Last Life of her god Csorwe learns that her god remembers her, and blames her very much indeed.|isbn=1250238900}} =='''20 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=0008297169|title=The Guest List|author=Lucy FoleyLori Mills

|summary= When a mysterious boy washes in with the tide, We meet Lori on 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 breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world - come again to cause untold chaos. Only Elliebuilding, critter-collecting game that is a fearless young inventor living hit in a workshop crammed with curiosities, believes heLori's innocentworld. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the Enemy can take possession of any human body server she and her bestie and the ruthless Inquisition are determined nobody else should be able to destroy it foreverenter shows signs of tampering. To save When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the boygame has been doctored – well, Ellie must prove who he really where is - even if that means revealing her own dangerous secret....a girl to turn?|isbn=02413844350008666482