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=='''7 26 JANUARY 2021'''==
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|isbn=000820831X1529124417|title=The Coffinmaker's GardenBefore She Disappeared|author=Stuart MacBrideLisa Gardner|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=At the coastal village of Clachmara, the headland is slowly eroding into the sea. Storm Trevor speeds up the process. A ship - the Ocean-Gold Harvester is stuck on the rocks and young Alfie Compton cannot resist sneaking out of the house to see what's happening. Margaret runs after her son and as she grabs him to pull him back to safety she glances across at the newly-exposed cliff front and sees human bones. Gordon Smith's home is falling into the North Sea and the evidence of what he's been doing for decades is going with it - except for what Ash Henderson of LIRU can grab as he later escapes the tumbling ruin.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=B08CR3WNFT|title=The Therapist|author=B A Paris|rating=5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=When Leo Curtis Frankie Elkin found Lani Whitehorse's body in her car at the bottom of the house in The Circle, a gated community, Alice Dawson was in Venicelake. Leo wanted to move quickly on She knew that the property as it was on the market at such a reasonable price that Alice twenty-two-year-old waitress wouldn't have to sell left her cottage in Harlestone for them to be able to afford it. Alice agreed three- she was tired of their longyear-distance relationshipold daughter and run away. Now they would Lani was the fourteenth missing person to be able 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 spend most of the week together instead of just the weekendsAngelique Lovelie Badeau until her disappearance eleven months ago. Leo had some work done on the house: he made two bedrooms into one Frankie, middle-aged and white, gets a job and accommodation at Stoney's bar and although Alice knew that sets out to investigate the house was stunning she community which is just didn't feel comfortable thereabout exclusively black.
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=='''28 JANUARY'''==
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|author= Deborah O'ConnorRob Keeley|title= The Captive|rating= 4|genre= Thrillers|summary=Hannah knows the cage, intimately. It lurks Treasure in the corner of her eye. 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}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786495902|title=The Natural Health Service: How Nature Can Mend Your Mind|author=Isabel HardmanTower|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Isabel Hardman suffered a trauma which she chooses not to share. She says that a friend who does know, burst into tears and health-care professionals' jaws have sagged in disbelief. Hardman dealt with this at the time by 'keeping going': the next day she went to work to cover the budget, next there was the EU referendum, the political party leadership contests and then it was party conference season. One night she had to be sedated and returned home to begin long-term sick leave. That was what brought me to this book: 2020 was the year when the bins went out more often than I did.}}=='''15 JANUARY'''=={{Frontpage|author=Alex Wheatle|title=The Humiliations of Welton Blake|rating=2.54
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Rob Keeley is back! Hooray! We meet Welton Blake here at the worst of times – only they should be the best of times. He should be getting Bookbag Towers are always happy to read a text new adventure from the most baeRob -worthy girl in school in regards his stories combine fast pace and lots of action, an easy to a cinema dateread style, but his phone has packed up, hean unerring eye for children's chundered last nightfriendships and rivalries, and always a good dollop of naughty humour. They's meal and his breakfast over another girl re all present here, in class, who's duffed him up 'The Treasure in response, and the wanna-bae seems to actually be with someone else anyway. On a bigger scale heTower'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 to having cabbage for dinner. I know, right? But surely this is just The chance purchase of a blip, book during a day at school to forgettrip sparks the whole adventure. Who can follow the clues best and find the treasure? Jess, her brother Mason and everything (like his vomit) will all come out in the washtheir friend Kessie through sheer persistence? This can't be the start of a most nightmarish time for young WeltonOr spoiled brat Perdita with her money and tech gadgets and willingness to cheat?|isbn=17811294951800461321
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=='''21 JANUARY1 FEBRUARY'''==
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|authorisbn=David F RossB08LKT7HSR|title= There's Only One Danny Garvey|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary= Years ago, Danny Garvey was a footballing prodigy playing for his local club. Everyone predicted a bright future – but his career Murder in professional football never quite worked out. Thirteen years on, convinced to return home by his "uncle" Higgy to visit his dying mother, 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 Belltower (translatorA Miss Underhay Mystery)|titleauthor=Kokoschka's DollHelena Dixon|rating=23.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime (Historical)|summary=Well, this looked very much like a book I could love from In December 1933 the get-go, which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any remains of it. I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section Elowed Underhay were discovered in the middle on darker stock paper, a chapter whose number was in cellar of the 20,000s, letters used as narrative form, and so onGlass Bottle Public House. It intrigued Ezekiel Hamett was sought in connection with the subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew murder of it mentionedElowed and his half-brother, Denzil Hammett, toowhose body was also discovered. But youKitty Underhay've seen the star rating that comes with this reviews long search for her mother, and can tell that if love who disappeared in June 1916 was on these pages, it was not actually caused by themover. So what happened?|isbn=1529402697Now she's determined that the man responsible for her murder will be brought to justice.}}
=='''2 FEBRUARY'''==
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|isbn=1683691970
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=='''4 FEBRUARY'''==
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|isbn=1529378648
|title=Slough House (Jackson Lamb 7)
|author=Mick 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.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0008379300
|title=The 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 seven and a girl of five, away for the weekend. Unfortunately, it doesn't go according to plan and Angela dies.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=178089905X
|title=Serpentine
|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=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 car 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, 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 of her mother and father and a necklace made of serpentine.
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|isbn=1471191303
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=='''28 18 FEBRUARY'''==
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|authorisbn=Rob Keeley1471187179|title=The Treasure in the TowerA 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.
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{{Frontpage
|author=Hannah Gold
|title=The Last Bear
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary= Rob Keeley is back! Hooray! We here at Bookbag Towers are always happy to read April's father, a scientist, has been given a job on a new adventure from Rob - his stories combine fast pace remote island called Bear Island, and lots of action, an easy he accepts the job deciding to read styletake his daughter April with him. They live alone anyway, an unerring eye for childrensince April's friendships mother died some time before, and rivalrieshe feels it will be educational for her to experience the island and all its natural beauty. April already has an affinity with nature, and always a good dollop she's excited to travel with her father, thinking 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 fun things they will be able to experience together on the whole adventureisland. Who can follow the clues best But when they get there, her father finds that his work monitoring and find recording the treasure? Jesstemperatures just takes up too much of his time, her brother Mason and their friend Kessie through sheer persistence? Or spoiled brat Perdita with so April is left to explore by herself. Her father had reassured her money that there were no longer any bears living on Bear Island, but one day April thinks she catches a glimpse of one, and tech gadgets so she sets out to find the Bear, and willingness then when she sees he is injured, to cheat?befriend and help him.|isbn=1800461321000841128X}}
=='''4 MARCH'''==
|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
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|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
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=='''18 MARCH'''==
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|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
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=='''23 MARCH'''==
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|author=Dean Koontz
|title=The 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
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=='''1 APRIL'''==
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|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.
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{{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 bullied half-cast boy (as he would have been called then), a girl 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. The singer, the scryer and the sufferer's 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 who delivered the secrets about her to Imelda, and why did it have to remain a secret all this time?
|isbn=152937331X
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|isbn=1529039037
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{{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 city – and Rachel doesn't belong. She'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 source of comfort. She struggles to find anyone to connect with, until one day she stumbles upon the Mary Shelley Club. A 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 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
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=='''27 APRIL'''==
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|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 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. 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
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=='''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 the Minotaur is interesting and unusual. Jennifer Saint presents the story in a way that is sympathetic to its origins but also appealing to 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=1472273869
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