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=='''8 DECEMBER23 MAY'''==

|author=Lauren MartinOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Book of MoodsAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary= I was in a great mood when I first learnt of this bookAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, and because sarcasm doesnthanks to her step-mother Ophelia't always translate well into writings increasingly popular presence on social media, imagine the word where she posted every step of Anuri''great'' being delivered with an eye roll s childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and a sigh, through clenched teethbasically, monetary gain. I had spent Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the best part of a rainycontent 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, windy weekend afternoon out on the water at our local sailing club in the rescue ribshe is desperately worried about her little sister, on standby in case anyone who was racing needed support. Itis the new focus of Ophelia's a volunteer duty we all do during the yearonline empire. Can she save her sister, and normally I'm happy to, but that day the weather was miserable perhaps herself and I was miserable, and it all came to a head that evening when I noticed on her relationship with her father at the website that we had been thanked for our same time as "Dave and wife". Wow. I had never needed this book more.?|isbn=15387336250861546873

=='''10 DECEMBER30 MAY'''==

|isbn=0008214468B0CYV674G2|title=A Time to LieSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=Simon BerthonDavid Blake|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=A workman has a nasty surprise when he pulls a package out of It seemed like an excavation on a building siteopen-and-shut case. It's wrapped A man, covered in part of an old shower curtain mud and blood - and is carrying a handknife, severed above comes into the wristpolice station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. ItA body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been there for about twenty-five stabbed to thirty-five yearsdeath. Robin Sandford - generally known as Robbie - DCI John Tanner is Prime Minister. He's married to heiress Carol van Koon and they have two daughtersjust back from his honeymoon, Becca and Bellawhich coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. SandfordYou would think he's determined to d be a better type of politician: he wants grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse'a government that is not just practically good, but morally good.and 'John Tanner' One of the ways hewere made for each other. He's planning on going about this is sleep-deprived to ban arms sales to dubious regimes. Henry Morland-Cross, the Deputy Prime Minister and Chancellor point of the Exchequer, wishes that falling asleep at work but he'd been warned about this: it's easy determined to see that keep going - probably because he wouldncan't have been in agreementget any sleep at home.

 =='''7 JANUARY 20214 JUNE'''==

|isbnauthor=000820831XStuart Douglas|title=The Coffinmaker's Garden|author=Stuart MacBrideLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal|rating=43.5

|summary=At During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the coastal village dead body of Clachmara, a woman on the headland is slowly eroding into the seaedge of a reservoir. Storm Trevor speeds up The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the process. A ship - whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the Ocean-Gold Harvester is stuck on the rocks and young Alfie Compton cannot resist sneaking out help of the house a fellow actor, John Le Breton to see what's happeninghelp him investigate matters further. Margaret runs after her son They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and as she grabs him , seemingly, a link to pull him back to safety she glances across at death during the newly-exposed cliff front and sees human bonesSecond World War. Gordon Smith's home But is falling into there really a link between the North Sea and the evidence of what he's been doing for decades deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is going with it - except for what Ash Henderson of LIRU can grab as he later escapes the tumbling ruin.responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209

|isbnauthor=B08CR3WNFTKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Therapist|author=B A ParisDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=54|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=When Leo Curtis found Meet Kit. Like most of the house people in The Circlehis world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a gated communityteam of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, Alice Dawson was in Veniceperhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Leo wanted to move quickly on Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the property as it was latest race on the market at such inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a reasonable price that Alice wouldn't have to sell her cottage in Harlestone for them to be able to afford it. Alice agreed - she was tired new trio of their long-distance relationshipquestors is needed. Now they would be able Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to spend most of the week together instead goading from the token bully of just the weekendshis world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. Leo had some work done on the house: What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he made two bedrooms into one and although Alice knew that the house was stunning she just didn't feel comfortable there.possibly hope to succeed?|isbn=1839945184

|authorisbn= Deborah O'Connor1635866847|title= The CaptiveLavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersLifestyle|summary=Hannah knows It's strange, the cage, intimately. It lurks in things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the corner of her eyebook for you. Soon, it will be occupied. Then what? What if he speaks to her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts him?|isbn=1838772650}}== Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'15 JANUARY', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there'=={{Frontpage|author=Alex Wheatle|title=The Humiliations s a picture of Welton Blake|rating=2.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We meet Welton Blake at the worst a slice of times – only they should be chocolate cake on the best of timeshomepage. He should be getting a text from the most baeI don't eat cakes and desserts -worthy girl in school in regards to a cinema date, but his phone has packed up, heI wanted that cake viscerally. (There's chundered last night's meal and his breakfast over another girl a recipe in classthe book, whowhich I's duffed him up in response, m avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and the wanna-bae seems I was told to actually be with someone else anywaymake a mess of it. On a bigger scale he's living with his mother and not much income now that Notes in the dad has left the picture – yes, things margins are so bad they're resorting to having cabbage for dinnersanctioned. I know, right? But surely this is just a blip, a day at school You get to forget, and everything (like his vomit) will all come out in fold down the wash? corners of pages. This can't You suspect that smears of butter would not be the start of a most nightmarish time for young Welton?|isbn=1781129495problem. I ''loved'' this book already.

=='''21 JANUARY4 JULY'''==

|author=David F RossMax Boucherat|title= There's Only One Danny GarveyThe Last Life of Lori Mills

|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary= Years agoWe meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, Danny Garvey was just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a footballing prodigy playing for his local club. Everyone predicted blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a bright future – but his career hit in professional football never quite worked outLori's world. Thirteen years But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely onher own, convinced to return home by his "uncle" Higgy to visit his dying mother, Danny takes over and then she finds something even more spooky. For the shambolic server she and once-great team he used her bestie and nobody else should be able to play for enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and tries her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to reform them.turn?|isbn= 19131935000008666482

|author=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)Jenny Lecoat|title=Kokoschka's Doll|rating=2.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Well, this looked very much like a book I could love from the get-go, which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the middle on darker stock paper, a chapter whose number was in the 20,000s, letters used as narrative form, and so on. It intrigued with the subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, too. But you've seen the star rating that comes with this review, and can tell that if love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|isbn=1529402697}} =='''2 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Anna Carey|title=This is Not the Jess ShowBeyond Summerland

|summary=Faye lost Jean lives on Jersey with her mum when she was very youngmother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. She During the war, Jean's father was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from arrested for listening to a cold that got worsebanned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and although they were kind and very good to her she mother waiting for years for news of course missed her mum enormouslyhim. So when, unexpectedly, she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) that takes her back to As the British finally free the Channel islands from the 70's and her mumNazis, she revels in the chance to create some memories and get to know the woman who meant so much to her. The time travelling, however, war is neither easy nor safefinally over, and Faye fears their hopes rise that her husband won't believe they will finally learn what's happening and so lies to became of him instead. The lies grow more tangled, and Faye begins to wonder if it's safe for her to return one last time to But will the past. Should she try to see her mum one last time before her mum's deathtruth come as a relief, or will it change her own future forever to attempt it?|isbn=1471188663}} =='''28 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Rob Keeley|title=The Treasure in the Tower|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Rob Keeley is back! Hooray! We here at Bookbag Towers are always happy to read a new adventure from Rob - his stories combine fast pace and lots of action, an easy to read style, an unerring eye for children's friendships and rivalries, and always a good dollop of naughty humour. They're all present here, in ''The Treasure in the Tower''. The chance purchase of a book raise further questions around what else happened during a school trip sparks the whole adventure. war? Who can follow was the informer who told the clues best and find Nazis about the treasureradio? Jess, her brother Mason and their friend Kessie through sheer persistence And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation? Or spoiled brat Perdita with her money and tech gadgets and willingness to cheat?|isbn=1800461321}}  =='''4 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Saima Mir|title=The Khan|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by the motto be twice as good as men and four times as good as white men. This has served her well in her rise through the criminal justice system and by the time she is called home for her sister's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exile, she is at the top of her game. Returning to the city of her birth, to old scars and fresh wounds, Jia must confront her past and reconcile her visions for the future with her sense of honour and duty.|isbn=17860790971846976537