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=='''8 DECEMBER26 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=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=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=Anna Carey|title=This is Not the Jess Show|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Jess is a normal 90's teenage girl, just trying to navigate the usual stresses of school, and boys, and parent troubles. But strange things seem to be happening in her small town, with a mystery flu keeping lots of people indoors, and a strange metal device, with an apple on it, that slips out of her friend's bag, but that her friends just won't talk to her about. Jess feels like she might be hearing voices, and 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=1683691970}}=='''4 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1529378648|title=Slough House (Jackson Lamb 7)|author=Lauren MartinMick Herron|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Someone is killing secret service agents, past and present, from the Slough House team. Jackson Lamb can't understand it. Well, what he actually can't understand is why, having seen them, anyone would bother. But the deaths are mounting up and something needs to be done. After all ''when things went awry on Spook Street, they generally went the full Chris Grayling.'' Over at Regent's Park, Diana Taverner is quietly jubilant about an operation which saw the perpetrator of a Novichok poisoning in the UK (three people seriously injured and one dead) dispatched. It isn't just the message that was sent: she's also delighted that she managed to fund the operation off the books. Some private money was brought in. She won't always be so jubilant about this.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008379300|title=The Book Shadow Man|author=Helen Fields|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Fergus Ariss is in his late thirties and he knows that he's dying. His body is giving up on him, his internal organs beginning to putrify but before he dies he wants a wife, a child and a brother. He's been on the lookout for the perfect people and he's made certain preparations. The flat where the family will live is prepared and even windows with curtains, and pictures in frames have been painted onto the walls. Angela Fernycroft was to be his wife. Her husband, Cal, had taken the children - a boy of Moodsseven and a girl of five, away for the weekend. Unfortunately, it doesn't go according to plan and Angela dies.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178089905X|title=Serpentine|author=Jonathan Kellerman

|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary= I was in a great mood when I first learnt of this book, and because sarcasm doesnIt wasn't always translate well into writing, imagine exactly the word ''great'' being delivered with an eye roll case Lt Milo Sturgis had been dreaming about: a death from thirty-six years ago and a sigh, through clenched teeth. I had spent the best part daughter of a rainy, windy weekend afternoon out on the water at our local sailing club in woman who died wanted some answers. She had money and money translated into clout and so the rescue rib, on standby in case anyone who problem was racing needed support. Itdropped onto Milo's toes. Dorothy Swoboda was twenty-four years old when she died in a volunteer duty we all do during the year, car which went off a cliff on Mulholland Drive and normally Iburst into flames. It turned out that she wasn'm happy t actually married tothe man with whom she'd left her daughter but Dr Stanley R Barker, optometrist, but that day the weather was miserable a good man and I he took out adoption papers for Ellie - and she took his name. Ellie was miserable, three when her mother left her with Dr Barker and she has nothing of her but one photograph of her mother and father and it all came to a head that evening when I noticed on the website that we had been thanked for our time as "Dave and wife"necklace made of serpentine. Wow. I had never needed this book more.|isbn=1538733625

|isbn=00082144681471191303|title=A Time to LieThe Invisible|author=Simon BerthonTom Percival

|genre=ThrillersFor Sharing|summary=A workman has This is the story of Isobel, a nasty surprise when he pulls little girl who made a package out of an excavation on a building sitebig difference. ItIsobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold house, because her parents couldn's wrapped in part t afford to put the heating on: ''Ice curled across the inside of an old shower curtain the window and is a hand, severed above crept up the corner of the wristbedpost. It's been there for about twenty-five to thirty-five years.'

Robin Sandford - generally known as Robbie - is Prime MinisterThe family didn't go to the cinema or on holidays but they had each other and they were happy. HeThen the day came when they couldn's married to heiress Carol van Koon t afford the rent for the house and they have two daughtershad to move to the far side of the city. This part of the city was cold, Becca sad and lonely and BellaIsobel 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. Sandford's determined to be a better type of politician: he wants ''She was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from a government cold that is not just practically goodgot worse, but morally and although they were kind and very goodto her she of course missed her mum enormously.'' One of So when, unexpectedly, she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) that takes her back to the ways he70's planning on going about this is and her mum, she revels in the chance to create some memories and get to ban arms sales know the woman who meant so much to dubious regimesher. Henry Morland-CrossThe time travelling, however, is neither easy nor safe, the Deputy Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer, wishes Faye fears that heher husband won'd been warned about this: t believe what's happening and so lies to him instead. The lies grow more tangled, and Faye begins to wonder if it's easy safe for her to return one last time to the past. Should she try to see that he wouldnher mum one last time before her mum't have been in agreement.s death, or will it change her own future forever to attempt it?|isbn=1471188663

=='''7 JANUARY 202118 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1471187179|title=A Beautiful Spy|author=Rachel Hore|rating=4|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Minnie is an 'ordinary' girl living an unexciting life in a leafy provincial suburb. The book is set in the 1930s and Minnie is expected to live up to her mother's expectations and find a nice young man to marry, produce children and spend the rest of her days looking after her husband and their home. Unfortunately, this isn't what she wants to do at all and neither does she want to continue working as a secretary. As a result of a chance meeting, she finds herself drawn into espionage, working for the secret service and effectively living a double life - attempting to infiltrate the Communist Party of Great Britain. Minnie finds herself torn between what she perceives as her duty and the friends she has made - and likes - whilst working for the Communist Party.}}

|author= Deborah O'ConnorHannah Gold|title= The CaptiveLast Bear|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=Hannah knows the cageApril's father, a scientist, has been given a job on a remote island called Bear Island, intimately. It lurks in and he accepts the corner of her eyejob deciding to take his daughter April with him. Soon They live alone anyway, since April's mother died some time before, and he feels it will be occupiededucational for her to experience the island and all its natural beauty. Then what? What if he speaks 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? What if he escapes? What if he hurts 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? What if that there were no longer any bears living on Bear Island, but one day April thinks she hurts 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=1838772650000841128X

=='''15 JANUARY4 MARCH'''==

|author=Alex WheatleSaima Mir|title=The Humiliations 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 Welton BlakeSins|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=25|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

|summary=We meet Welton Blake at 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 worst entire south-western village of times Mousehole, and not just that, either, but the whole country, if not world. Suddenly people are constantly on their phones – only hoping they're first to get a screen back, and not what they should be were constantly doing on them before. Toasters can toast, but TVs cannot do the best V part of timestheir job, and no computer can show its computations. He should You might think this is going to be getting a text from the most bae-worthy girl social comedy about people stuck in school in regards to such a cinema dateLuddite experience against their will, but his phone no. For the family finally remember Stella's grandma, and see if they can get across country to her. Hence this has packed upto go down as a road-trip book. But not just that, a slapstick road-trip comedy. And more than that, hetoo – for it's chundered last nighta slapstick, high-drama, high-octane road-trip comedy with oodles of cuddly heart that kids of all ages will love.|isbn=1471196887}} =='''23 MARCH'''s meal and his breakfast over another girl in class=={{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Other Emily|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Our hero David Thorne is an author, whoshares his life between the two US coasts. It's duffed him up in responsethe western coast we're concerned with, a place he has to return to, and the wanna-bae seems a place he has to actually be able to leave. David lost contact with someone else anywayhis partner there ten years ago, when she vanished from a remote road late at night. On a bigger scale heHe's living paying for contact with his mother and not much income now that the dad has left man he thinks the picture – yesonly suspect, things are so bad they're resorting to having cabbage for dinner. I knowa lifer now, right? But surely this is just who went a blipbit Hannibal Lecter, and has a day at school dozen and more unfound Jane Does on his record. David is trying to forget, pry the connection between the murderer and everything (like his vomit) will all come out in girl from the wash? man's mind, but to no avail. This canHe't be s also having a recharge ready for his next hit novel when into the restaurant walks the sheer spitting image, the very embodiment, the start virtual resurrection, of his love. What is a most nightmarish time for young Weltonman to do?|isbn=17811294951542019958

=='''21 JANUARY1 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=David F RossRuth Hogan|title= There's Only One Danny GarveyMadame Burova

|summary= Years agoThis book lets us discover several people in different stages of life in the early 1970s, all vaguely connected. So we have a bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), Danny Garvey was a footballing prodigy playing for his local clubgirl in a humdrum job wanting to become a singer, and chiefly, Imelda, the third generation of Madame Burova, ''Tarot-Reader, Palmist and Clairvoyant'', to use her family's sea-front booth. Everyone predicted The singer, the scryer and the sufferer's mother will all become staff at a bright future – revamped holiday camp, but his career just before then we see Imelda fly solo for the first time in professional football never quite worked outthe family stall. Thirteen We also see her on her last day, fifty years onlater, convinced to return home by his "uncle" Higgy to visit his dying motherin possession of a pair of letters that will change everything for a woman called Billie. Just who is she, Danny takes over and who delivered the shambolic and once-great team he used secrets about her to play for Imelda, and tries why did it have to reform them.remain a secret all this time?|isbn= 1913193500152937331X

|author=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)Lucy Holland|title=Kokoschka's DollSistersong|rating=2.5

|summary=Well, this looked very much like Sistersong is part of a book genre I could love from particularly enjoy, the get-gomodern retelling of folk and fairy tales. These stories, for most of us, which is why are a cornerstone of childhood and I picked my review copy up 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 flipped pages over several times before actually reading any re-evaluating the role of itwomen. I found things 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 potentially delight me each time – feel real and human, most importantly they feel relatable in a weird section modern world whilst still feeling appropriate for the pre-Saxon age they live in the middle on darker stock paper, . This is a chapter whose number masterpiece of storytelling and I was captivated from beginning to end.|isbn=1529039037}}{{Frontpage|author=Goldy Moldavsky|title=The 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 20city – and Rachel doesn't belong. She's not rich, she has no ties to some royal family in Serbia,000sand most of all, letters used she spends the majority of her spare time watching horror movies as narrative forma source of comfort. She struggles to find anyone to connect with, and so onuntil one day she stumbles upon the Mary Shelley Club. It intrigued A secret society with one aim: pull off the subterranean voice a man hears best prank in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentionedtrue horror movie style, and unless someone screams, tooyou have failed. Rachel becomes immediately engrossed in the competition. But you've seen as the star rating that comes with pranks escalate, and Rachel finally feels like she has found her place in this reviewschool, things start to go wrong; a masked figure keeps showing up to the pranks, and can tell that if love was on these pagespeople begin to get hurt. When the competition then takes a deadly turn, Rachel must figure out who this masked figure is before it was not actually caused by them's too late. So what happened?|isbn=15294026970755501527

=='''2 FEBRUARY27 APRIL'''==

|author=Anna CareyKristen O'Neal|title=This is Not the Jess ShowLycanthropy and Other Chronic Illnesses|rating=45

|summary=Jess is a normal 90's teenage girlHaving recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, just trying Priya has to come to navigate terms with the usual stresses of school, and boys, and parent troubles. But strange things seem to fact that she may be happening in constant pain for the rest of her small townlife. She joins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', with an online support group where she talks to a mystery flu keeping lots bunch of people indoors, other teens living with chronic illnesses. They talk about their troubles and a strange metal devicehelp each other out, with while also providing an apple on it, that slips out escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her friendclosest friends—doesn's bagt respond to the chat for a while, but that Priya becomes concerned. She decides to steal her friends just wonparents' car and drive to Brigid't talk s house to check up on her about. Jess feels like But what she might be hearing voices, doesn't expect to find there is a werewolf in the basement – and her sister (who is very ill) seems for that werewolf to be responding the girl she has been talking to her in strange ways sometimesonline for the past few months. Is there something going on beneath the surface of Jess' life?|isbn=16836919701683692349

=='''4 FEBRUARY29 APRIL'''==

|author=Helen FisherJennifer Saint |title=Space HopperAriadne |rating=34.5|genre=General Women's Fiction|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, This re-telling of the myth of Ariadne and although they were kind the Minotaur is interesting and very good to her she of course missed her mum enormouslyunusual. So when, unexpectedly, she discovers Jennifer Saint presents the story in a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) way that takes her back is sympathetic to the 70's and her mum, she revels in the chance its origins but also appealing to create some memories and get to know the woman who meant so much to hera modern audience. The time travelling, however, is neither easy nor safe, and Faye fears that her husband won't believe whatSaint's happening and so lies to him instead. The lies grow more tanglednarrative is told predominantly through the viewpoint of Ariadne, and Faye begins to wonder if it's safe for spanning from her childhood to return one last time to the past. Should she try to see her mum one last time before her mum's death, or will it change her own future forever to attempt it?|isbn=1471188663}}=='''28 FEBRUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Rob Keeley|title=The Treasure in allowing the Tower|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Rob Keeley is back! Hooray! We here at Bookbag Towers are always happy reader to read really connect with Ariadne as 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 character in her own right rather than just a good dollop of naughty humour. They're all present here, in ''The Treasure prop in the Tower''. The chance purchase heroics of a book during a school trip sparks the whole adventureTheseus. 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=18004613211472273869