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=='''12 NOVEMBER21 JANUARY'''==

|isbnauthor=1472255917David F Ross|title=The Roots of Evil (Bob Skinner)|author=Quintin JardineThere's Only One Danny Garvey

|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=On New Year's EveYears ago, Sir Robert Morgan Skinner Danny Garvey was celebrating at the golf a footballing prodigy playing for his local club with . Everyone predicted a bright future – but his wifecareer in professional football never quite worked out. Thirteen years on, Professor Sarah Graceconvinced to return home by his "uncle" Higgy to visit his dying mother, daughter Alex Skinner Danny takes over the shambolic and once-great team he used to play for and tries to reform them.|isbn= 1913193500}}{{Frontpage|author=Afonso Cruz 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 man with whom she shares a houseget-go, Dominic Jacksonwhich is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. Jackson would be better-known 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 criminal fraternity of Edinburgh 20,000s, letters used as Lennie Plenderleith but he's reformed narrative form, and so on. It intrigued with the new name reflects subterranean voice a new manhears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, too. The Skinners donBut you't stay much after midnight at ve seen the clubhouse star rating that comes with this review, and are dropped home can tell that if love was on these pages, it was not long into the new yearactually caused by them. SkinnerSo what happened?|isbn=1529402697}}==''s tempted to let the phone ring but knows that he cannot: it'26 JANUARY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1529124417|title=Before She Disappeared|author=Lisa Gardner|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Frankie Elkin found Lani Whitehorse's Mario McGuire asking for his presence body in her car at a crime scene in the centre bottom of Edinburghthe lake. SkinnerShe knew that the twenty-two-year-old waitress wouldn's not technically with t have left her three-year-old daughter and run away. Lani was the police fourteenth missing person to be located by Frankie and now she's moving on again, this time to Boston where there's a strong Haitian community which was home to Angelique Lovelie Badeau until her disappearance eleven months ago. Frankie, middle- heaged and white, gets a job and accommodation at Stoney's chairman of InterMedia UK - but bar and sets out to investigate the police value his knowledge and experiencecommunity which is just about exclusively black.

|author= Claire McGowanRob Keeley|title=The PushTreasure in the Tower|rating= 54|genre= General FictionConfident Readers|summary= Six mumsRob 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-be meet at read style, an unerring eye for children's friendships and rivalries, and always a prenatal classgood dollop of naughty humour. ItThey's NCT re all present here, in ''styleThe Treasure in the Tower'', but not the proper NCT. This bit is important, but you have to wait a little to see why. This being London, such The chance purchase of a class attracts book during a wide variety of people, from all sorts of backgrounds, but for most of school trip sparks the ladies whole adventure. Who can follow the thing they have in common is it's their first baby. Probably after clues best and find the first onetreasure? Jess, you don't have time for classes, or think you've got child-rearing down pat.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=15420199901800461321

|isbn=B08LKT7HSR|title=Murder in the Belltower (A Miss Underhay Mystery)|author=Helena Dixon|rating=3.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=In December 1933 the remains of Elowed Underhay were discovered in the cellar of the Glass Bottle Public House. Ezekiel Hamett was sought in connection with the murder of Elowed and his half-brother, Denzil Hammett, whose body was also discovered. Kitty Underhay's long search for her mother, who disappeared in June 1916 was over. Now she's determined that the man responsible for her murder will be brought to justice.}} =='''2 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Roxanne BouchardAnna Carey|title=The Coral BrideThis is Not the Jess Show

|genre=CrimeTeens|summary=Angel Roberts Jess is an oddity - a female fisherwoman, making her living in a mannormal 90's world. When her lobster trawler is found drifting off teenage girl, just trying to navigate the coast usual stresses of Quebecschool, and boys, Detective Morales is called in to come and head the investigationparent troubles. Although the signs But strange things seem to point to an obvious conclusionbe happening in her small town, Morales feels something more sinister is going onwith a mystery flu keeping lots of people indoors, and finds himself frustrated at every turn by hidden agendasa strange metal device, fishing histories and secret family feuds. At the same time as trying to run his investigationwith an apple on it, he also has his grown up son, Sebastien arriving at his doorthat slips out of her friend's bag, weighed down with personal problems but that he is unable to her friends just won't talk to his father her about. Jess feels like she might be hearing voices, which tie up with Morales own marital difficultiesand her sister (who is very ill) seems to be responding to her in strange ways sometimes.Is there something going on beneath the surface of Jess' life?|isbn=19131933221683691970

=='''13 NOVEMBER4 FEBRUARY'''==

|isbn=18388873340008379300|title=Deadly Cry (D I Kim Stone)The Shadow Man|author=Angela MarsonsHelen Fields

|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=DI Kim Stone Fergus Ariss is in his late thirties and DS Jim Bryant were he knows that he's dying. His body is giving up on their way back from Diversity Awareness traininghim, his internal organs beginning to putrify but before he dies he wants a wife, a child and a brother. The need He's been on the lookout for coffee overtook Stone - the course had been a complete waste of time for her as she knew that she was equally rude to everyoneperfect people and he's made certain preparations. It was in The flat where the shopping centre that Stone caught sight of a little girl clutching a teddy bear family will live is prepared and even windows with curtains, and pictures in frames have been painted onto the absence of her motherwalls. Stone and Bryant didn't realise the extent to which this case Angela Fernycroft was going to occupy their minds as the body of Katrina Nock is discovered some hours laterbe his wife. Her neck husband, Cal, had been broken and it had all taken the hallmarks children - a boy of seven and a quickgirl of five, functional killaway for the weekend. Unfortunately, but who would do that it doesn't go according to a young mother out shopping with her child?plan and Angela dies.

|isbn=1838770046178089905X|title=Body LanguageSerpentine|author=A K TurnerJonathan Kellerman|rating=4.5

|summary=TwentyIt wasn't exactly the case Lt Milo Sturgis had been dreaming about: a death from thirty-five-year-old Cassie Raven is six years ago and the daughter of the senior mortuary technician woman who died wanted some answers. She had money and money translated into clout and not only does she talk to so the dead, problem was dropped onto Milo's toes. Dorothy Swoboda was twenty-four years old when she also hears what they have to say to herdied in a car which went off a cliff on Mulholland Drive and burst into flames. It's not something turned out that shewasn's inclined t actually married to share the man with people as whom she's pretty certain about what their reaction will be. She's certainly not going to share it with the new pathologistd left her daughter but Dr Stanley R Barker, Dr Archie Chuffoptometrist, wearer of was a genuine Barbour jacket good man and he took out adoption papers for Ellie - and old Harrovianshe took his name. He's very conscious Ellie was three when her mother left her with Dr Barker and she has nothing of her but one photograph of his position her mother and isn't even inclined to ask for the view of the anatomical pathology technicians despite the fact that they have a lot more experience than him father and he has only a limited amount necklace made of time to spend on each body. That will prove to be a mistakeserpentine.

=='''7 JANUARY 2021'''=={{Frontpage|author= Deborah O'Connor|title= The Captive|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary=Hannah knows Ice curled across the inside of the cage, intimately. It lurks in window and crept up the corner of her eyethe bedpost. 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}}''

==The family didn'''15 JANUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Alex Wheatle|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 t go to the best of times. He should be getting a text from the most bae-worthy girl in school in regards to a cinema date, or on holidays but his phone has packed up, he's chundered last night's meal they had each other 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 anywaythey were happy. On a bigger scale heThen the day came when they couldn's living with his mother and not much income now that t afford the dad has left rent for the picture – yes, things are so bad house and they're resorting had to having cabbage for dinner. I know, right? But surely this is just a blip, a day at school move to forget, and everything (like his vomit) will all come out in the wash? far side of the city. This can't be part of the start of a most nightmarish time for young Welton?|isbn=1781129495city was cold, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisible.

 =='''28 18 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Hannah Gold|title=The Last Bear|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=April's father, a scientist, has been given a job on a remote island called Bear Island, and he accepts the job deciding to take his daughter April with him. They live alone anyway, since April's mother died some time before, and he feels it will be educational for her to experience the island and all its natural beauty. April already has an affinity with nature, and she's excited to travel with her father, thinking of all the fun things they will be able to experience together on the island. But when they get there, her father finds that his work monitoring and recording the temperatures just takes up too much of his time, and so April is left to explore by herself. Her father had reassured her that there were no longer any bears living on Bear Island, but one day April thinks she catches a glimpse of one, and so she sets out to find the Bear, and then when she sees 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 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=1786079097}}{{Frontpage|author=Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)|title=If You Kept a Record of Sins|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=This was an incredibly readable novella, but one 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 he'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 is buried the following day. 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 (well, this came out in the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, to the lad's childhood, and see just what he has to tell her as a private farewell address.|isbn=1939810965}}{{Frontpage|author=Mary H.K. Choi|title=Yolk|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Jayne Baek is a fashion student that's barely getting by. She drinks. She smokes. She makes bad decisions about the men she sleeps with. She's an all-round messy character; and that's her charm. June, on the other hand, is a complete contrast to Jayne. She's a typical older sister: she's smart, thinks she knows 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 in the same city for the past two years. This is until June finds out she's sick, and Jayne is the only person she can turn to. The two sisters have to come together and decide how far they'll go to save each other's lives – even if it means swapping identities.|isbn= 0349003696}} =='''18 MARCH'''=={{Frontpage|author=Danny Wallace and Gemma Correll|title=The Day the Screens Went Blank|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Meet Stella and her family. They're just innocently trying to have a Sunday evening in together, watching a film – using three different screens to watch three different things, mind – when ''poof'' everything goes blank. And it's not just their home, but the entire south-western village of Mousehole, and not just that, either, but the whole country, if not world. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – hoping they're first to get a screen back, and not what they were constantly doing on them before. Toasters can toast, but TVs cannot do the V part of their job, and no computer can show its computations. You might think this is going to be a social comedy about people stuck in such a Luddite experience against their will, but no. For the family finally remember Stella's grandma, and see if they can get across country to her. Hence this has to go down as a road-trip book. But not just that, a slapstick road-trip comedy. And more than that, too – for it's a slapstick, high-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart that kids of all ages will love.|isbn=1471196887}} =='''23 MARCH'''==

|author=Rob KeeleyDean Koontz|title=The Treasure Other Emily|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Our hero David Thorne is an author, who shares his life between the two US coasts. It's the western coast we're concerned with, a place he has to return to, and a place he has to be able to leave. David lost contact with his partner there ten years ago, when she vanished from a remote road late at night. He's paying for contact with the man he thinks the only suspect, a lifer now, who went a bit Hannibal Lecter, and has a dozen and more unfound Jane Does on his record. David is trying to pry the connection between the murderer and his girl from the man's mind, but to no avail. He's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting image, the very embodiment, the virtual resurrection, of his love. What is a man to do?|isbn=1542019958}} =='''1 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=Remy: A book about believing in the Toweryourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal

|genre=Confident ReadersFor Sharing|summary= Rob Keeley Remy is back! Hooray! We here feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Bookbag Towers Remy, calling him names because he is short and has small eyes. They are mean but they are not stupid. They are always happy careful to read wind up Remy when nobody can see and then push him just that little bit further when the other kids are around. So, when Remy reacts, it looks as though he was the instigator. And then he gets into trouble at school and the teachers don't believe him when he tries to explain what happened.}}{{Frontpage|author=Ruth Hogan|title=Madame Burova|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=This book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected. So we have a new adventure from Rob bullied half- his stories combine fast pace cast boy (as he would have been called then), a girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and lots chiefly, Imelda, the third generation of actionMadame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', an easy to read styleuse her family's sea-front booth. The singer, an unerring eye for childrenthe scryer and the sufferer's friendships mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in the family stall. We also see her on her last day, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is she, and rivalrieswho delivered the secrets about her to Imelda, and always why did it have to remain a good dollop secret all this time?|isbn=152937331X}} =='''15 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author=Lucy Holland|title=Sistersong|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Sistersong is part of a genre I particularly enjoy, the modern retelling of naughty humourfolk and fairy tales. They'These stories, for most of us, are a cornerstone of childhood and I relish seeing them retold with fresh eyes and a fresh perspective. If handled well these retellings give new life and new meaning to stories that are now becoming increasingly narrow and outdated, fleshing out characters, examining relationships and re all present here-evaluating the role of women. Sistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done well, the plot is handled with care, keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the characters to come to life, to feel real and human, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in ''. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to end.|isbn=1529039037}}{{Frontpage|author=Goldy Moldavsky|title=The Treasure Last Girl|rating=5|genre=teens|summary= Rachel Chavez is the new girl at Manchester Prep. A school filled to the brim with the richest children in the Towercity – and Rachel doesn't belong. She'. The chance purchase s not rich, she has no ties to some royal family in Serbia, and most of all, she spends the majority of her spare time watching horror movies as a book during a school trip sparks source of comfort. She struggles to find anyone to connect with, until one day she stumbles upon the whole adventureMary Shelley Club. Who can follow A secret society with one aim: pull off the clues best prank in true horror movie style, and find unless someone screams, you have failed. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed in the competition. But as the treasure? Jesspranks escalate, and Rachel finally feels like she has found her brother Mason place in this school, things start to go wrong; a masked figure keeps showing up to the pranks, and people begin to get hurt. When the competition then takes a deadly turn, Rachel must figure out who this masked figure is before it's too late.|isbn=0755501527}} =='''27 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author=Kristen O'Neal|title=Lycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary= Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the rest of her life. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she talks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their friend Kessie through sheer persistence? Or spoiled brat Perdita with troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's house to check up on her money . But what she doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – and for that werewolf to be the girl she has been talking to online for the past few months.|isbn=1683692349}} =='''29 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|author= Jennifer Saint |title= Ariadne |rating= 4.5 |genre= Women's Fiction |summary= This re-telling of the myth of Ariadne and tech gadgets the Minotaur is interesting and willingness unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to cheat?a modern audience. Saint's narrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to her death, allowing the reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in her own right rather than just a prop in the heroics of Theseus. |isbn=18004613211472273869