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=='''12 NOVEMBER26 JANUARY'''==

|isbn=1529124417|title=Before She Disappeared|author=Lisa Gardner|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Frankie Elkin found Lani Whitehorse's body in her car at the bottom of the lake. She knew that the twenty-two-year-old waitress wouldn't have left her three-year-old daughter and run away. Lani was the 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-aged and white, gets a job and accommodation at Stoney's bar and sets out to investigate the community which is just about exclusively black.}}=='''28 JANUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Roxanne BouchardRob Keeley|title=The Coral BrideTreasure in the Tower

|summary=Angel Roberts is an oddity It wasn't exactly the case Lt Milo Sturgis had been dreaming about: a death from thirty-six years ago and the daughter of the woman who died wanted some answers. She had money and money translated into clout and so the problem was dropped onto Milo's toes. Dorothy Swoboda was twenty- four years old when she died in a female fisherwomancar which went off a cliff on Mulholland Drive and burst into flames. It turned out that she wasn't actually married to the man with whom she'd left her daughter but Dr Stanley R Barker, optometrist, making her living in was a good man's worldand he took out adoption papers for Ellie - and she took his name. When Ellie was three when her mother left her with Dr Barker and she has nothing of her lobster trawler but one photograph of her mother and father and a necklace made of serpentine.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1471191303|title=The Invisible|author=Tom Percival|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=This is found drifting off the coast story of QuebecIsobel, Detective Morales is called a little girl who made a big difference. Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, because her parents couldn't afford to come put the heating on: ''Ice curled across the inside of the window and head crept up the investigationcorner of the bedpost.'' The family didn't go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy. Although Then the signs seem day came when they couldn't afford the rent for the house and they had to point move to an obvious conclusion, Morales feels something more sinister is going onthe far side of the city. This part of the city was cold, sad and lonely and finds himself frustrated at every turn Isobel felt invisible.}}{{Frontpage|author=Helen Fisher|title=Space Hopper|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Faye lost her mum when she was very young. She was raised by hidden agendassome elderly neighbours after her mum died from a cold that got worse, fishing histories and secret family feudsalthough they were kind and very good to her she of course missed her mum enormously. At So when, unexpectedly, she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) that takes her back to the 70's and her mum, she revels in the same chance to create some memories and get to know the woman who meant so much to her. The time as trying to run his investigationtravelling, he also has his grown up sonhowever, Sebastien arriving at his dooris neither easy nor safe, weighed down with personal problems and Faye fears that he is unable her husband won't believe what's happening and so lies to him instead. The lies grow more tangled, and Faye begins to wonder if it's safe for her to talk return one last time to his father aboutthe past. Should she try to see her mum one last time before her mum's death, which tie up with Morales or will it change her own marital difficulties.future forever to attempt it?|isbn=19131933221471188663

 =='''13 NOVEMBER18 FEBRUARY'''==

|isbn=18388873341471187179|title=Deadly Cry (D I Kim Stone)A Beautiful Spy|author=Angela MarsonsRachel Hore

|summary=DI Kim Stone Jia Khan has alway lived by the motto be twice as good as men and DS Jim Bryant were on their way back from Diversity Awareness trainingfour times as good as white men. The need for coffee overtook Stone - This has served her well in her rise through the criminal justice system and by the course had been a complete waste of time she is called home for her as sister's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exile, she knew that she was equally rude to everyone. It was in the shopping centre that Stone caught sight of a little girl clutching a teddy bear in is at the absence top of her mothergame. Stone and Bryant didn't realise the extent Returning to which this case was going to occupy their minds as the body city of Katrina Nock is discovered some hours later. Her neck had been broken her birth, to old scars and fresh wounds, Jia must confront her past and it had all reconcile her visions for the hallmarks of a quick, functional kill, but who would do that to a young mother out shopping future with her child?sense of honour and duty.|isbn=1786079097

|isbnauthor=1838770046Andrea Bajani and Elizabeth Harris (translator)|title=Body Language|author=A K TurnerIf You Kept a Record of Sins

|genre=CrimeLiterary Fiction|summary=Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Raven is the senior mortuary technician and not only does she talk to the deadThis was an incredibly readable novella, she also hears what they have to say to herbut one that left me a little conflicted. It's not something she's inclined to share with people We start as sheour hero arrives at Bucharest airport, and before we even know his gender or the nature of the person he's pretty certain about what their reaction will be. Sheaddressing in his second person monologue of a narration, we see him picked up by his mother's certainly not going chauffeur, and carted off to share it with do all the necessary introductions before said mother is buried the new pathologistfollowing day. The mother was a businesswoman, Dr Archie Chuffwho clearly left northern Italy and settled in Romania with her (night-time and business) partner, wearer and feelings of a genuine Barbour jacket and old Harrovianabandonment are still strong. HeAnd so we flit from current (well, this came out in the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, to the lad's very conscious of his position 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 childhood, and see just what he has only a limited amount of time to spend on each body. That will prove to be tell her as a mistakeprivate farewell address.|isbn=1939810965

|author= Deborah O'ConnorMary H.K. Choi|title= The CaptiveYolk|rating= 45|genre= ThrillersTeens|summary=Hannah 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 the cageit all, intimatelyand has a successful job. It lurks She constantly criticises Jayne for her life choices, and the two have barely kept in contact despite living in the corner of her eyesame city for the past two years. SoonThis is until June finds out she's sick, it will be occupiedand Jayne is the only person she can turn to. Then what? What if he speaks The two sisters have to come together and decide how far they'll go to her? What save each other's lives – even if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts him?it means swapping identities.|isbn=18387726500349003696

=='''15 JANUARY18 MARCH'''==

|author=Alex WheatleDanny Wallace and Gemma Correll|title=The Humiliations of Welton BlakeDay the Screens Went Blank|rating=2.5

|summary=We meet Welton Blake at the worst of times – only they should be the best of timesMeet Stella and her family. He should be getting They're just innocently trying to have a text from the most bae-worthy girl Sunday evening in school in regards together, watching a film – using three different screens to a cinema datewatch three different things, but his phone has packed up, hemind – when ''poof's chundered last night's meal and his breakfast over another girl in class, whoeverything goes blank. And it's duffed him up in responsenot just their home, and but the wannaentire south-bae seems to actually be with someone else anyway. On a bigger scale he's living with his mother western village of Mousehole, and not much income now just that , either, but the dad has left the picture – yeswhole country, things if not world. Suddenly people are so bad constantly on their phones – hoping they're resorting first to having cabbage for dinnerget a screen back, and not what they were constantly doing on them before. I knowToasters can toast, right? but TVs cannot do the V part of their job, and no computer can show its computations. But surely You might think this is just going to be a social comedy about people stuck in such a blipLuddite 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 day at school to forgetroad-trip book. But not just that, and everything (like his vomit) will all come out in the wash? a slapstick road-trip comedy. This canAnd more than that, too – for it't be the start s a slapstick, high-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart that kids of a most nightmarish time for young Welton?all ages will love.|isbn=17811294951471196887

=='''4 FEBRUARY23 MARCH'''==

|author=Anna CareyDean Koontz|title=This is Not the Jess ShowThe Other Emily

|genre=TeensThrillers|summary=Jess Our hero David Thorne is a normal 90an author, who shares his life between the two US coasts. It's teenage girlthe western coast we're concerned with, just trying a place he has to return to navigate the usual stresses of school, and boys, and parent troubles. But strange things seem a place he has to be happening in her small townable 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 mystery flu keeping lots of people indoorslifer now, who went a bit Hannibal Lecter, and has a strange metal device, with an apple dozen and more unfound Jane Does on it, that slips out of her friendhis record. David is trying to pry the connection between the murderer and his girl from the man's bagmind, but that her friends just won't talk to her aboutno avail. Jess feels like she might be hearing voices He's also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting image, and her sister (who is the very ill) seems to be responding to her in strange ways sometimes. Is there something going on beneath embodiment, the surface virtual resurrection, of Jess' lifehis love. What is a man to do?|isbn=16836919701542019958

=='''4 FEBRUARY1 APRIL'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=B08R7LXQ9S|title=Remy: A book about believing in yourself|author=Mayuri Naidoo and Caroline Siegal|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=Remy is feeling miserable. He's let himself down ''again''. The school bully Jayden, together with his sidekicks Ryan and Brandon, have been laughing at Remy, calling 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 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.}}

|author=Helen FisherRuth Hogan|title=Space HopperMadame Burova|rating=34.5

|summary=Faye lost her mum when she was very youngThis book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected. She was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), a girl in a humdrum job wanting to become a cold that got worsesinger, and although they were kind chiefly, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and very good Clairvoyant'', to use her she of course missed her mum enormouslyfamily's sea-front booth. So whenThe singer, unexpectedlythe scryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a revamped holiday camp, she discovers a but just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in the family stall. We also see her attic) on her last day, fifty years later, in possession of a pair of letters that takes will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is she, and who delivered the secrets about her back to Imelda, and why did it have to remain a 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 70's modern retelling of folk and fairy tales. 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 her mumre-evaluating the role of women. Sistersong is a perfect example of a modern retelling done well, the plot is handled with care, she revels in keeping its archaic historical feel but allowing the chance characters to come to life, to create some memories feel real and get to know human, most importantly they feel relatable in a modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the woman who meant so much pre-Saxon age they live in. This is a masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to herend. |isbn=1529039037}}{{Frontpage|author=Goldy Moldavsky|title=The time travelling, however, Last Girl|rating=5|genre=teens|summary= Rachel Chavez is neither easy nor safe, the new girl at Manchester Prep. A school filled to the brim with the richest children in the city – and Faye fears that her husband wonRachel doesn't believe whatbelong. She's happening not rich, she has no ties to some royal family in Serbia, and so lies most of all, she spends the majority of her spare time watching horror movies as a source of comfort. She struggles to find anyone to him insteadconnect with, until one day she stumbles upon the Mary Shelley Club. The lies grow more tangledA secret society with one aim: pull off the best prank in true horror movie style, and unless someone screams, you have failed. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed in the competition. But as the pranks escalate, and Rachel finally feels like she has found her place in this school, things start to go wrong; a masked figure keeps showing up to the pranks, and Faye begins people begin to wonder if get hurt. When the competition then takes a deadly turn, Rachel must figure out who this masked figure is before it's safe 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 troubles and help each other out, while also providing an escape to return one last time just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her closest friends—doesn't respond to the pastchat for a while, Priya becomes concerned. Should she try She decides to see steal her mum one last time before her mumparents' car and drive to Brigid's death, or will it change house to check up on her own future forever . 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 attempt it?online for the past few months.|isbn=14711886631683692349

 =='''28 FEBRUARY29 APRIL'''==

|author=Rob KeeleyJennifer Saint |title=The Treasure in the TowerAriadne |rating=4.5 |genre=Confident ReadersWomen's Fiction |summary= Rob Keeley is back! Hooray! We here at Bookbag Towers are always happy to read a new adventure from Rob This re- his stories combine fast pace and lots telling of the myth of action, an easy to read style, an unerring eye for children's friendships Ariadne and rivalries, the Minotaur is interesting and always a good dollop of naughty humourunusual. They're all present here, in ''The Treasure Jennifer Saint presents the story in the Tower''. The chance purchase of a book during way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to a school trip sparks the whole adventuremodern audience. Who can follow Saint's narrative is told predominantly through the clues best and find the treasure? Jessviewpoint of Ariadne, spanning from her childhood to her brother Mason and their friend Kessie through sheer persistence? Or spoiled brat Perdita death, allowing the reader to really connect with Ariadne as a character in her money and tech gadgets and willingness to cheat?own right rather than just a prop in the heroics of Theseus. |isbn=18004613211472273869