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=='''23 MAY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Onyi Nwabineli|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|classsummary=Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-"wikitable" cellpaddingmother to take down the content about her. Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and 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 new focus of Ophelia's online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn="15"0861546873}}=='''7 NOVEMBER30 MAY'''==

|authorisbn=Mary H.K. ChoiB0CYV674G2|title=Permanent RecordSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=PabloIt seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a college drop-outknife, is working comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of a New York bodega. He's massively in debt, freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's avoiding been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his motherhoneymoon, and he finds which coincided with the birth of his joy in creating unusual snacks with random ingredients! Whilst working one evening, daughter Samantha. You would think he's surprised to discover that the girl he is chatting with as he serves is a super-famous pop star and, as unlikely as it may seem, they start a relationship. With one character who is trying very hard not to d be seen or noticed by anyone, and grateful for an easy answer but the other who is seen and followed and hounded by everyone all over the world, itwords 's an interesting clash as they come together. This isnperverse't just a love story though, and actually it's really just PabJohn Tanner' were made for each other. He's story, about sleep-deprived to the journey point of falling asleep at work but he takes in his life via his meet's determined to keep going -up with Leanna Smartprobably because he can't get any sleep at home.|isbn=0349003459

{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"<!-- 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 '''== <!-- 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]] IJUNE'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]]|} 

|author=Innosanto NagaraStuart Douglas|title=M is for MovementLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5|genre=Emerging ReadersCrime|summary=Set in IndonesiaDuring location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', in leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the not too distant past, this is dead body of a woman on the edge of a story about social changereservoir. Dealing with some difficult issuesThe police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, such as political corruption and nepotismhe enlists the help of a fellow actor, the book is neither boring nor preachyJohn Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. It educates gentlyThey travel across the country during their days off filming, with vibrantuncovering more possible murders and, challenging illustrationsseemingly, and it portrays how social movements need people who will try, even when it seems that they will faila link to death during the Second World War. The message But is there really a positive one; that in an increasingly uncertain world, we do still have link between the power deaths? And will they manage to instigate change.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=16098093511803368209

 =='''28 NOVEMBER6 JUNE'''==

|isbnauthor=1780894511Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Die Alone|author=Simon KernickDungeon Runners: Hero Trial

|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Ray Mason is Meet Kit. Like most of the people in prison awaiting trial for murder and his world, it seems, he's in is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the vulnerable prisoner unit: as sport where a cop he's something team of a targetwarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, but perhaps bothering with the unit is not as secure as treasure or the inmates would have hoped big bad and Mason is injured in a riotthe points they grant you along the way. On his way to hospital Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's broken free by armed men seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and an offer a new trio of questors is made to himneeded. He's Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to assassinate the man who is likely to become goading from the country's next prime minister token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll then be given enter as a new identity so that he can start afresh abroadteam. His captors say What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that they're MI6, but Mason has his doubts. His choices are limited though and how could he has personal reasons possibly hope to believe that it would be better if Alastair Sheridan was dead.succeed?|isbn=1839945184

 == '''11 DECEMBER13 JUNE''' ==

|isbn=B07XLM3SM61635866847|title=Murder at the Dolphin HotelThe Lavender Companion|author=Helena DixonJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)Lifestyle|summary=Elowed Underhay was just twenty seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in June 1916It's strange, leaving her daughterthe things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', Kitty, in I visited the care author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of her grandmotherchocolate cake on the homepage. A great deal of money had been spent to find out what happened to her I don't eat cakes and the conclusion was desserts - but I wanted that she was dead, mainly because there was no evidence to suggest otherwisecake viscerally. Kitty has come to terms (There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with this some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and in 1933 she I was running the Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with her grandmother, when her grandmother had told to leave to look after her sister who was illmake a mess of it. She was reluctant to leave Kitty Notes in charge - and Kitty could not understand whythe margins are sanctioned. She's always coped with You get to fold down the mix corners of holidaymakers, boating people and the naval college on the edge pages. You suspect that smears of town before - and she's done every job in the hotelbutter would not be a problem. And she particularly cannot understand why her grandmotherI 's friends have been roped in to keep an eye on things 'loved'and'' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired to take charge of security at the hotelthis book already.

|}{|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 beautiful, but extremely distressed teenage girl was picked up by a minicab driver We meet Lori on the outskirts of Oxford. She didnfirst evening she't want s got the house to go herself – no neighbour to the police station or the hospital: she pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just wanted to be taken homean avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. The driver wasn't so certain though - What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and after dropping the girl at home he went that is to log on to Voxminer, the policeworld-building, which critter-collecting game that is why DI Adam Fawley found himself talking to Faith Appleford and her mothera hit in Lori's world. Both were adamant But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this was nothing stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more than an April Fool's joke which had gone wrongspooky. No crime had been committed For the server she and her bestie and Faith didn't want nobody else should be able to take the matter any furtherenter shows signs of tampering. Fawley When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and his team weren't prepared her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl 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.turn?|isbn=0008666482

|author=Rory ClementsJenny Lecoat|title=Hitler's SecretBeyond Summerland|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersGeneral Fiction|summary=So, Hitler had a secret? Two, if you include Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the reproductive detail mentioned in a certain sing-song aspersionoccupation. But this is During the war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a secret that is counter to thatbanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and in fact is a secret that Hitler himself doesn't even know abouther mother waiting for years for news of him. His neice, Geli Raubal, As the British finally free the attractive young woman he seemed to be very close to in Channel islands from the early 1930s, had had his daughter behind his back. Protected under a false identity ever sinceNazis, and the girl war is completely ignorant finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of her past, and him. But will the truth is come as a very rare thing. relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Martin Bormann, Who was the 'gatekeeper' to Hitler and his right hand man, knows – and is desperately intent on wiping informer who told the slate clean and removing all connected with her existence from Nazis about the Reich. radio? 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.And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?|isbn=18387702751846976537