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=='''15 JANUARY25 APRIL'''==

|author=Alex WheatleSylvie Cathrall|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 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|isbn=1529337925|title=The Mirror Dance (Dandy Gilver)|author=Catriona McPherson|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=It was the August Bank Holiday weekend and, as so often happened, it was cold enough to have the fire lit and Bunty the Dalmation wasn't inclined to leave it to keep Dandy Gilver warm on the sofa. The thought of work was almost cheering when Dandy took the call from Sandy Bissett in Dundee. She was the publisher of a magazine and had been told that the man running the Punch and Judy show in the local park had used copies of two of her cartoon characters - Rosie Cheek and her sister Freckle - to drum up some local interest in his show. Sandy Bissett's request was simple: she wanted Gilver and Osborne to warn the man about infringement of copyright - and Dandy and Alex would be cheaper than employing a solicitor to do the same job.}}{{Frontpage|author=David F Ross|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 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 (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-go, which is why I picked my review copy up 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 paper, a chapter whose number was in the 20,000s, letters used as narrative form, and so on. It intrigued with the subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, too. But you've seen the star rating that comes with this review, and can tell that if love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by them. 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 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 Letter 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=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.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=178089905X|title=Serpentine|author=Jonathan KellermanLuminous Deep

|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=It wasn't exactly the case Lt Milo Sturgis had been dreaming about: There are few greater joys than 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 book which went off a cliff on Mulholland Drive and burst into flames. It turned out that she wasn't actually married lives up 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 namecompelling premise. Ellie was three when her mother left her with Dr Barker and she has nothing of her but And this is one photograph of her mother and father and a necklace made of serpentinethem.|isbn= 0356522776

|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=This Will's life is the story of Isobeldifficult, in a little girl who made a big differencemultitude of ways. Isobel lived with her parents in a house - a very cold houseHe is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because her parents couldnhis dad can't afford to put the heating on: work and doesn''Ice curled across t have enough money for even the inside most basic of the window things like food, and crept up the corner of the bedpost.'' The family didnhis dad can't go to work because he lost his job at the cinema or college, was working a cash-in-hand job on holidays but they a building site and had each other and they were happyan accident. Then Throw into that mix the day came when they couldnfact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will't afford the rent for the house s life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of hope. He is good at art, and they had to move clings to the far side moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the city. This part end of the city was colda long, sad and lonely and Isobel felt invisibledark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122

|author=Helen FisherOnyi Nwabineli|title=Space HopperAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=34.5

|summary=Faye lost Anuri spent her mum when she was very young. She was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from a cold that got worsechildhood on display to the world, and although they were kind and very good thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step 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 70Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and her mum, she revels in the chance to create some memories and get to know the woman who meant so much to herbasically, monetary gain. The time travelling, however, Now Anuri is neither easy nor safe, and Faye fears that in her husband won't believe what's happening twenties and so lies she is slowly trying to him instead. The lies grow more tangled, regain her confidence and Faye begins to wonder if it's safe for get her to return one last time to the past. Should she try to see her mum one last time before her mum's deathlife back, or will it change suing her own future forever step-mother to attempt it?|isbn=1471188663}} =='''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 take down 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 content about her to experience the island and all its natural beauty. April already has an affinity with natureAnuri is battling alcoholism, and she's excited failing to travel with start her father, thinking of all the fun things they will be able to experience together on the island. But when they get therePhD, her father finds that his work monitoring undergoing therapy and recording the temperatures just takes up too much of his time, secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so April is left to explore by herself. Her father had reassured her that there were no longer any bears living on Bear IslandMost importantly, 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 desperately worried about her little sister's wedding after fifteen years in self-imposed exile, she who is at the top new focus of her gameOphelia's online empire. Returning to the city of Can she save her birthsister, to old scars and fresh wounds, Jia must confront her past perhaps herself and reconcile her visions for the future relationship with her sense of honour and duty.father at the same time?|isbn=17860790970861546873

|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 make you ''immediately'' feel that left me a little conflictedthis is the book for you. We start as our hero arrives at Bucharest airport Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and before we even know his gender or the nature of the person hethere's addressing in his second person monologue a picture of a narration, we see him picked up by his motherslice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don's chauffeur, t eat cakes and carted off to do all the necessary introductions before said mother is buried the following daydesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. The mother was (There's a businesswomanrecipe in the book, who clearly left northern Italy and settled in Romania which I'm avoiding with her (night-time and businesssome difficulty!!) partner, Then I started reading the book and feelings I was told to make a mess of abandonment are still strongit. And so we flit from current (well, this came out Notes in the original Italian in 2007, so moderately current) Bucharest, margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the ladcorners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I ''loved's childhood, and see just what he has to tell her as a private farewell address' this book already.|isbn=1939810965