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=='''15 JANUARY23 MAY'''==

|author=Alex WheatleOnyi Nwabineli|title=The Humiliations of Welton Blake|rating=2.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=We meet Welton Blake at the worst of times – only they should be the best of times. He should be getting a text from the most bae-worthy girl in school in regards to a cinema date, but his phone has packed up, he's chundered last night's meal and his breakfast over another girl in class, who's duffed him up in response, and the wanna-bae seems to actually be with someone else anyway. On a bigger scale he's living with his mother and not much income now that the dad has left the picture – yes, things are so bad they're resorting Allow Me to having cabbage for dinner. I know, right? But surely this is just a blip, a day at school to forget, and everything (like his vomit) will all come out in the wash? This can't be the start of a most nightmarish time for young Welton?|isbn=1781129495}} =='''21 JANUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=David F Ross|title= There's Only One Danny GarveyIntroduce Myself

|summary= Years ago, Danny Garvey was a footballing prodigy playing for his local club. Everyone predicted a bright future – but his career in professional football never quite worked out. Thirteen years Anuri spent her childhood ondisplay to the world, convinced thanks to return home by his "uncle" Higgy to visit his dying her step-motherOphelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, Danny takes over the shambolic and once-great team he used to play where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and tries to reform them.|isbn= 1913193500}}{{Frontpage|author=Afonso Cruz influencer deals and Rahul Bery (translator)|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-gobasically, which monetary gain. Now Anuri is why I picked my review copy up in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence 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 paperget her life back, a chapter whose number was in suing her step-mother to take down the 20,000s, letters used as narrative form, and so oncontent about her. It intrigued with the subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentionedAnuri is battling alcoholism, too. But you've seen the star rating that comes with this reviewfailing to start her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and can tell that if love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by receiving money from themfor doing so. So what happened?|isbn=1529402697}}=='''26 JANUARY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1529124417|title=Before She Disappeared|author=Lisa Gardner|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Frankie Elkin found Lani Whitehorse's body in Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her car at little sister, who is the bottom new focus of the lake. She knew that the twenty-two-year-old waitress wouldnOphelia't have left her three-year-old daughter and run aways online empire. Lani was the fourteenth missing person to be located by Frankie and now Can she's moving on again, this time to Boston where there's a strong Haitian community which was home to Angelique Lovelie Badeau until save her disappearance eleven months ago. Frankiesister, middle-aged and white, gets a job perhaps herself and accommodation her relationship with her father at Stoney's bar and sets out to investigate the community which is just about exclusively black.same time?|isbn=0861546873

=='''28 JANUARY30 MAY'''==

|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 during a school trip sparks the whole adventure. Who can follow the clues best and find the treasure? Jess, her brother Mason and their friend Kessie through sheer persistence? Or spoiled brat Perdita with her money and tech gadgets and willingness to cheat?|isbn=1800461321}}=='''1 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=B08LKT7HSRB0CYV674G2|title=Murder in the Belltower Swanton Morley (A Miss Underhay MysteryJohn Tanner)|author=Helena DixonDavid Blake

|summary=It wasn't exactly the case Lt Milo Sturgis had been dreaming about: a death from thirtyseemed like an open-six years ago and the daughter of the woman who died wanted some answers-shut case. She had money A man, covered in mud and money translated into clout blood - and so the problem was dropped onto Milo's toes. Dorothy Swoboda was twenty-four years old when she died in carrying a car which went off a cliff on Mulholland Drive and burst knife, comes into flames. It turned out the police station shouting that she wasnhe hasn't actually married to killed the man with whom she'd left her daughter but Dr Stanley R Barker, optometrist, was a good man and he took out adoption papers for Ellie - and she took his name. Ellie was three when her mother left her with Dr Barker and she has nothing of her but one photograph A body at the bottom of her mother and father and a necklace made of serpentinefreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1471191303|title=The Invisible|author=Tom Percival|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=This DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the story birth of Isobel, a little girl who made a big differencehis daughter Samantha. Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, because her parents couldnYou would think he't afford to put d be grateful for an easy answer but the heating on: words 'perverse'Ice curled across the inside of the window and crept up the corner of the bedpost.'John Tanner' The family didn't go to the cinema or on holidays but they had were made for each other and they were happy. Then the day came when they couldnHe't afford the rent for the house and they had to move s sleep-deprived to the far side point of the city. This part of the city was cold, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisiblefalling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.

|author=Helen FisherStuart Douglas|title=Space HopperLowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal

|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Faye lost her mum when she was very young. She was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from a cold that got worse, and although they were kind and very good to her she of course missed her mum enormously. So when, unexpectedly, she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) that takes her back to the 70During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and her mumLeggit', she revels in leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the chance to create some memories and get to know dead body of a woman on the woman who meant so much to heredge of a reservoir. The time travellingpolice seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, howeverbut something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, is neither easy nor safeand he enlists the help of a fellow actor, and Faye fears that her husband won't believe what's happening and so lies John Le Breton to help him insteadinvestigate matters further. The lies grow They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more tangledpossible murders and, and Faye begins to wonder if it's safe for her to return one last time seemingly, a link to death during the pastSecond World War. Should she try But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to see her mum one last time uncover who is responsible before her mum's death, or will it change her own future forever to attempt itmore people lose their lives?|isbn=14711886631803368209

 =='''18 FEBRUARY6 JUNE'''==

|author=Hannah GoldKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=The Last BearDungeon Runners: Hero Trial|rating=4.5

|summary=April's fatherMeet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, a scientistit seems, has been given he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a job on a remote island called Bear Islandteam of warrior, mage and he accepts the job deciding to take his daughter April with him. They live alone anywayhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, since April's mother died some time beforemagical mazes, and he feels it will be educational for her race to experience the island exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and all its natural beautythe points they grant you along the way. April already has an affinity with natureUnfortunately for Kit, and shethe only thing he's excited to travel with her father, thinking seen of all the fun things they will be able to experience together latest race on the island. But when they get thereinn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, her father finds that his work monitoring and recording the temperatures just takes up too much a new trio of his time, and so April questors is left to explore by herselfneeded. Her father had reassured her that there were no longer any bears living on Bear IslandPossibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, but one day April thinks she catches a glimpse of one, and so she sets out he has taken to find the Bear, goading from the token bully of his world and then when she sees stumbled into declaring he is injured, to befriend and help him.|isbn=000841128X}} =='''4 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Saima Mir|title=The Khan|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Jia Khan has alway lived by the motto be twice ll enter as good as men and four times as good as white mena team. This has served her well What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in her rise through the criminal justice system actually managing that, 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, how could he possibly hope 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.succeed?|isbn=17860790971839945184

|authorisbn=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)1635866847|title=If You Kept a Record of SinsThe Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

|genre=Literary FictionLifestyle|summary=This was an incredibly readable novellaIt's strange, but one the things that left me a little conflicted. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airport, and before we even know his gender or the nature of the person hemake you ''immediately's addressing in his second person monologue of a narration, we see him picked up by his mother's chauffeur, and carted off to do all the necessary introductions before said mother feel that this is buried the following daybook for you. Before I started reading ''The mother was a businesswoman, who clearly left northern Italy and settled in Romania with her (night-time and business) partner, and feelings of abandonment are still strong. And so we flit from current (wellLavender Companion'', this came out in I visited the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, to the ladauthor's childhood, and see just what he has to tell her as a private farewell address.|isbn=1939810965}}{{Frontpage|author=Mary H[https://www.Kpinelavenderfarm. Choi|title=Yolk|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Jayne Baek is a fashion student thatcom/ website] and there's barely getting by. She drinks. She smokes. She makes bad decisions about a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the men she sleeps withhomepage. She I don's an allt eat cakes and desserts -round messy character; and but I wanted thatcake viscerally. (There's her charm. Junea recipe in the book, on which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the other hand, is a complete contrast book and I was told to Jayne. She's make a typical older sister: she's smart, thinks she knows mess of it all, and has a successful job. She constantly criticises Jayne for her life choices, and the two have barely kept in contact despite living Notes in the same city for margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the past two yearscorners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. This is until June finds out she I ''s sick, and Jayne is the only person she can turn to. The two sisters have to come together and decide how far theyloved'll go to save each other's lives – even if it means swapping identitiesthis book already.|isbn= 0349003696

=='''23 MARCH4 JULY'''==

|author=Dean KoontzMax Boucherat|title=The Other EmilyLast Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Our hero David Thorne is an author, who shares his life between We meet Lori on the two US coasts. Itfirst evening she's got the western coast we're concerned withhouse to herself – no neighbour to pop 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 place he blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to return log on toVoxminer, the world-building, and critter-collecting game that is a place he has to be able to leavehit in Lori's world. David lost contact with his partner there ten years ago, when she vanished from But first Lori has a remote road late at tiny inkling that this stormy night. Hedoesn's paying for contact with the man he thinks the only suspect, a lifer now, who went a bit Hannibal Lectert find herself entirely on her own, and has a dozen and then she finds something even more unfound Jane Does on his recordspooky. David is trying to pry For the connection between the murderer server she and her bestie and his girl from the man's mind, but nobody else should be able to no availenter shows signs of tampering. He's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting imageWhen malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the very embodimentgame has been doctored – well, the virtual resurrection, of his love. What where is a man girl to doturn?|isbn=15420199580008666482

|isbnauthor=B08R7LXQ9SJenny Lecoat|title=Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline SiegalBeyond Summerland

|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=Remy is feeling miserableJean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. He During the war, Jean's let himself down ''again''father 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. The school bully Jayden As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandonthe war is finally over, have been laughing at Remy, calling their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him names because he is short and has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are careful to wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when But will the other kids are around. So, when Remy reactstruth come as a relief, or will it looks as though he raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the instigator. informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And then he gets into trouble at school and what other secrets have been kept throughout the teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened.occupation?|isbn=1846976537