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 =='''8 OCTOBER'''=={{Frontpage|author= Alexandra Christo|title= Into the Crooked Place|rating= 4|genre= Teens|summary= In a world thriving with black magic, four young crooks embark on a quest to take down their criminal leader after they discover the plot behind his dangerous new magic.|isbn=1250318378}} =='''9 OCTOBER23 MAY'''==

|isbn=1406389331|title=In the Key of Code|author=Aimee Lucido|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Emmy is moving with her parents halfway across America, to follow her father's dreams of a big break in his music career. She leaves behind her friends and her school in Wisconsin, and moves to California, knowing only what she has heard in songs. Her struggle to settle into her new life, make friends and feel happy and confident again, is agonisingly told in a way we can all relate to. There are many new opportunities and setbacks, taking the reader on a rollercoaster of emotions, but it isn't until Emmy joins a coding class using computer language that she begins to feel she might have a chance to feel like she truly belongs.}} =='''17 OCTOBER'''=={{Frontpage|author= Karina Sainz Borgo and Elizabeth Bryer (translator)Onyi Nwabineli|title= It Would Be Night in Caracas|rating= 4|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= ''It Would Be Night in Caracas'' illuminates the everyday horrors of modern day Venezuela. It begins with the death of Adelaida Falcon's mother and chronicles Adelaida's coming Allow Me to terms with her new solitude in this world and her attempts to escape it. Danger stalks the shadows and, in a society where the establishment is crumbling, who can you turn to? |isbn=0062936867}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0349423067|title=The Body on the Train (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)|author=Frances BrodyIntroduce Myself

|genre=Crime (Historical)General Fiction|summary=From Christmas Anuri spent her childhood on display to Easter a train ran from Leeds City Station the world, thanks to King’s Crossher step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, arriving before dawn so that the forced rhubarb it carried could be taken to Covent Garden. In early March 1929 one where she posted every step of the porters who was unloading the boxes discovered the body of a manAnuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, stripped naked and with no means of identificationmonetary gain. Scotland Yard hit a dead end Now Anuri is in her twenties and called on she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the services of Kate Shackleton in the hope that content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her knowledge PhD, undergoing therapy and connections in Yorkshire would give secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the lead they needednew focus of Ophelia's online empire. Kate immediately found Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered and her as a child and could not come to terms with the fact that she was now a woman experienced in dealing relationship with murder. He was reluctant to give her all father at the information which the police held.same time?|isbn=0861546873

=='''19 OCTOBER30 MAY'''==

|isbn=1925820025B0CYV674G2|title=Once, I was LovedSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Belinda LandsberryDavid Blake|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=TockIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, the toy rabbit, is covered in mud and blood - and carrying a box knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of toys going a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the charity shopbirth of his daughter Samantha. He realises that You would think he's not wanted any more, d be grateful for an easy answer but muses that it wasnthe words 't always this way. perverse'and 'OnceJohn Tanner'were made for each other. He', s sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he says, 's determined to keep going - probably because he can'I was loved''. And he tells us of all the children who have loved him over the yearst get any sleep at home.

 =='''24 OCTOBER4 JUNE'''==

|isbnauthor=1542015421Stuart Douglas|title=The Royal Baths Murder|author=J R EllisLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal

|summary=When Damian Penrose was murdered there was no shortage During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of suspects: he was a deeply unpleasant man. In fact woman on the only surprising thing was that there wasn't more edge of a queue waiting reservoir. The police seem happy to do assign it as an accidental death, but something about the dirty deed. What was a bit of a headline maker was that Penrose was a crime writer whole thing bothers Lowe, and that he was strangled in enlists the midst help of Harrogate's crime writing festivala fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. He went for a swim at They travel across the Royal Baths country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and never returned, his body being found by seemingly, a link to death during the receptionistSecond World War. DCI Jim Oldroyd was the man tasked with investigating But is there really a link between the crime. deaths? It would not be the only death, and it was only because of the quick actions of his sergeant, Andy Carter, that Oldroyd's was not one of them.And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

 {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" =='''29 OCTOBER'''== <!-- Meg Cabot and Cara McGee -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1401286208.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1401286208/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Black Canary: Ignite by Meg Cabot and Cara McGee]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] Meet Dinah Lance. Frustrated that her policeman father will not allow her to try and follow in his footsteps, and seemingly lumbered with being a cheerleader at school, she is desperate to find her voice. But it's actually more a case of her voice finding her, as when she gets frustrated or plain dissed at school her vocal outcry can shatter glass better than any opera singer. You could almost call it a weapon, or a power. But in order for her to call herself a superhero, there has to be a whole path of steps for her to take – one of which will be into her past… [[Black Canary: Ignite by Meg Cabot and Cara McGee|Full Review]] |}{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" =='''31 OCTOBER6 JUNE'''== 

|isbnauthor=B07X6GLQ3QKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=See Them Run|author=Marion ToddDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=D I Clare Mackay is still relatively new to St Andrew's: she was previously at Maryhill Rd station in GlasgowMeet Kit. She's left quite a lot behind including a relationship that wasn't going anywhere after Tom failed to support her when Like most of the chips were down. She also left a nasty situationpeople in his world, of her own making but not her faultit seems, and St Andrew's he is a fresh start. Not long into an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the job she's faced with sport where a hit team of warrior, mage and run death healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and there's little doubt that it wasn't accidental - race to the card exit, perhaps bothering with the number five suggests murdertreasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Andy Robb was married to SandraUnfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. You could say that they had an open marriage but there seemed Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to be a lot the goading from the token bully of the 'open' his world and very little of the stumbled into declaring he'marriage' left ll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free- on both sideszone have in actually managing that, but would she want him deadand how could he possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184

 {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"<!-- Ben Brooks -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1786540991.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786540991/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Impossible Boy by Ben Brooks]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] ''Oleg and Emma entered their den to find a cardboard spaceship standing where they usually sat. Slowly, the front door opened. Smoke billowed out. And out stepped a boy, dressed in a long coat with an even longer scarf, wound around his neck.''  ''"My name's Sebastian Cole," the boy said, "But you already know that."'' And indeed they do. Ever since the summer, when their friend Sarah's mother had moved her away, Oleg and Emma have been unable to find a new friend to take her place. [[The Impossible Boy by Ben Brooks|Full Review]]<!-- Peter F Hamilton -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1447281357.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1447281357/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Salvation Lost by Peter F Hamilton]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]] In the twenty-third century, humanity is enjoying a comparative utopia. Yet life on Earth is about to change, forever. Feriton Kane's investigative team has discovered the worst threat ever to face mankind – and we've almost no time to fight back. The supposedly benign Olyix plan to harvest humanity, in order to carry us to their god at the end of the universe. And as their agents conclude schemes down on earth, vast warships converge above to gather this cargo. Some factions push for humanity to flee, to live in hiding amongst the stars – although only a chosen few would make it out in time. But others refuse to break before the storm. As disaster looms, animosities must be set aside to focus on just one goal: wiping this enemy from the face of creation. Even if it means preparing for a future this generation will never see. [[Salvation Lost by Peter F Hamilton|Full Review]] <!-- Caroline Scott -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1471186393.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1471186393/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Photographer of the Lost by Caroline Scott]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]], [[:Category:Literary Fiction|Literary Fiction]] May 1921. Edie receives a photograph through the post. There is no letter or note with it. There is nothing written on the back of the photograph. It is a picture of her husband, Francis. Francis has been missing for four years. Technically, he has been "missing, believed killed" but that is not something that a young widow can believe. She hangs on the word 'missing', disbelieving the word killed. [[Photographer of the Lost by Caroline Scott|Full Review]] |}{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" =='''3 NOVEMBER'''== <!-- Eoin Colfer -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0008324859.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0008324859/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Fowl Twins by Eoin Colfer]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Relax, everyone – our old friend Artemis may be off planet, but the baddies aren't getting away with skulduggery any time soon because they now have not one but two members of the Fowl family to contend with. Those cute little twins are now eleven (and, frankly, cute no longer) and in this, their first independent adventure, they meet a troll and without even trying manage to make two deadly enemies: a nobleman obsessed with immortality whatever the cost (to other people), and an unusual interrogator-nun. The boys are chased, kidnapped, arrested and even killed (though not for long), all with the help of one trainee fairy. [[Fowl Twins by Eoin Colfer|Full Review]] |}{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"=='''7 NOVEMBER'''==<!-- Keret -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1609809319.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1609809319/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Long-Haired Cat-Boy Cub by Etgar Keret, Aviel Basil and Sondra Silverston (translator)]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] One day a boy is in the zoo with his father, when the man gets called away on urgent business. The boy isn't hustled into a cab and taken home first, though, no – he's given hot dog money, and taxi money, and told to just stick around on his own and enjoy himself. Well, it's no surprise that the orphan-for-an-afternoon sensation the lad feels doesn't make him happy, and so he thinks of a species name for himself, and curls himself up into an empty cage, as if he were a new exhibit. And it's then the drama begins… [[Long-Haired Cat-Boy Cub by Etgar Keret, Aviel Basil and Sondra Silverston (translator)|Full Review]] |} {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"=='''12 NOVEMBER'''==<!-- Claire North -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:williamabbey.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0316316849/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire North]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]  When William Abbey fails to prevent the lynching of a young boy in 1880's South Africa, he finds himself cursed by the grieving mother. A naïve English Doctor, he slowly learns the weight of the curse upon him, as the shadow of the dead boy begins to follow him across the world. Never stopping, always growing – it crosses oceans and mountains in pursuit of William. As he finds himself unable to resist speaking the truths that he hears in others, he also learns that the dark shadow is deadly – and seeks to kill the one he loves the most… [[The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire North|Full Review]]|} {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" =='''14 NOVEMBER 13 JUNE'''== <!-- Gardner -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1786695227.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786695227/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Invisible in a Bright Light by Sally Gardner]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] The beginning of this excellent story will leave the reader more than a little confused: who is the man in the green suit, what is the Reckoning, and why are rows of people in a cave? But stick with it – Ms Gardner is very cleverly letting us experience the same disorientation as our heroine. We watch in dismay as the strange man, who seems to have no eyes, does his best to persuade her to answer his questions. But for some reason Celeste, despite her bewilderment, remains wary and gives nothing away. [[Invisible in a Bright Light by Sally Gardner|Full Review]] <!-- Holliday -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1912374854.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1912374854/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Violet by S J I Holliday]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] I've never been but understand that travelling is all about meeting new people and forming instantaneous bonds with people in often chance situations. Well that's exactly what happens when the two main/only characters meet in a travel agency in Beijing - Carrie is unsuccessfully trying to get a refund on an extra ticket for the Trans-Siberian train and Violet is trying to unsuccessfully buy a ticket for the same sold-out journey. As the two team up, travelling through Mongolia, Serbia and into Russia, it could've been the start of a beautiful friendship but this a thriller after all so it quickly becomes a tale of obsession, manipulation and toxic friendships. [[Violet by S J I Holliday|Full Review]] <!-- Will Carver -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1912374838.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1912374838/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Nothing Important Happened Today by Will Carver]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Nothing Important Happened Today is a dark, twisted, difficult read. Stories about cults often are, but this is different; it's written with a sense of style that is quite unlike anything I've read before. I can't remember ever having read a novel with such an odd, distinctive narrative voice. While a slim and relatively small book, the slow-moving nature of the plot makes it feel far larger than its 276 pages. [[Nothing Important Happened Today by Will Carver|Full Review]] |} {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" =='''21 NOVEMBER'''=={|class-wikitable" cellpadding="15"<!-- Ariel Dorfman and Chris Riddell -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1609809378.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1609809378/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Rabbits' Rebellion by Ariel Dorfman and Chris Riddell]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] We're in the realm of the rabbits, only the foxes and wolves have taken over. King Wolf, His Wolfiness, has declared the rabbits don't exist, but the pesky birds have spread rumours from awing that the bunnies are in fact still around. Demanding a propaganda spree, King Wolf orders a humble monkey to be his official portrait photographer, but whatever the poor innocent monkey prints out in his darkroom there is a distinct leporine hint. Can King Wolf succeed in proving himself victorious, can the rabbits show their continued existence to all who need to know of it – and what can the poor monkey caught in between do? [[The Rabbits' Rebellion by Ariel Dorfman and Chris Riddell|Full Review]]|} 

|authorisbn=Innosanto Nagara1635866847|title=M is for MovementThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging ReadersLifestyle|summary=Set in IndonesiaIt's strange, in the not too distant past, things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is a story about social changethe book for you. Dealing with some difficult issuesBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', such as political corruption I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and nepotism, there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the book is neither boring nor preachyhomepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. It educates gently(There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with vibrant, challenging illustrations, some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it portrays how social movements need people who will try, even when it seems that they will fail. The message is a positive one; that Notes in an increasingly uncertain world, we do still have the power margins are sanctioned. You get to instigate changefold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved'' this book already.|isbn=1609809351

|}{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" =='''9 JANUARY 2020'''== <!-- 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]] |} =='''23 JANUARY4 JULY'''== 

|isbnauthor=0241985110Max Boucherat|title=All the Rage (D I Fawley)|author=Cara HunterThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=A very beautifulWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, but extremely distressed teenage girl was picked up by on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a minicab driver blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the outskirts of Oxfordworld-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. She didnBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't want to go to find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the police station or the hospital: server she just wanted and her bestie and nobody else should be able to be taken homeenter shows signs of tampering. The driver wasn't so certain though - When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and after dropping her safe place in the girl at home he went to the policegame has been doctored – well, which where is why DI Adam Fawley found himself talking a girl to Faith Appleford and turn?|isbn=0008666482}}{{Frontpage|author=Jenny Lecoat|title=Beyond Summerland|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Jean lives on Jersey with her motherwhere they are celebrating the end of the occupation. Both were adamant that this was nothing more than an April FoolDuring the war, Jean's joke which had gone wrongfather was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. No crime had been committed As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and Faith didn't want to take the matter any furtherwar is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. Fawley and his team weren't prepared to leave But will the truth come as a relief, or will it at that and they began investigating. raise further questions around what else happened during the war? What they found strange Who was that Faith Appleford didn't seem to the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have much of a history.been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=1846976537