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{|class-wikitable" cellpadding="15"=='''11 JULY9 MAY'''== <!-- Angela Marsons -->{{Frontpage|-author=Tom Percival| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|The Wrong Shoes[[image:B07QPKB7N7.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07QPKB7N7/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Angela Marsons]]==genre=Confident Readers [[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]] ThereWill's life is difficult, in a prologue and we know that we're dealing with someone who is very disturbedmultitude of ways. The descriptions are horrifying, but worst of all He is bullied because he has 'the coldness of the killer. [[Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Angela Marsons|Full Review]] <!-- Gregory -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1526609169.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1526609169/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[I Hold Your Heart by Karen Gregory]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]  Gemma has just started her A levels at school. Shewrong shoes's a keen student and she has a good, close set of friends. Gemma loves country music and in her spare time she enjoys writing and singing country songs. She's pretty good at it too. Home life is busy - Gemma's brother Michael he has a chance at a football career and the whole family, propelled by Gemma's rather over-invested wrong shoes because his dad, is supporting him with everything theycan've got. Gemma hasnt work and doesn't had a serious boyfriend yet, so when the handsome Aaron appears and an instant attraction fizzles between them, Gemma is keen to see where romance could lead... [[I Hold Your Heart by Karen Gregory|Full Review]] <!-- Chiang -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1529014484.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1529014484/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Exhalation by Ted Chiang]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Over the past twenty-eight years Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short stories. These magnificent stories have won twenty-seven major science fiction awards so if you are a science fiction fan it is likely that you have already come across some of enough money for even the work by Ted Chiang. I cannot speak highly enough most basic of this collection of short storiesthings like food, they are so wide ranging in their themes and so beautifully written, Chiang has written an absolute masterpiece of a collection. If you come across Chianghis dad can's t work beforebecause he lost his job at the college, take this opportunity to do so now. Trust me; your imagination will be grateful. [[Exhalation by Ted Chiang|Full Review]] |}{|classwas working a cash-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"==''' 15 JULY'''== <!in-- James -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1781128952.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1781128952/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Starlight Watchmaker by Lauren James]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] This is hand job on a dyslexia-friendly, science fiction novella for young adultsbuilding site and had an accident. It tells Throw into that mix the tale of Hugo, an unwanted and rather lonely android, who makes a living for himself mending time-travel watches. When one of his clients demands fact that his broken watch be mended, Hugo realises there is a mystery to be solved, mum and is only too ready to help. An exciting journey of discovery unfoldsdad are separated, which takes Hugo out of his drab attic workroom and into a scary adventure with some amazing new friends, exploring regions of the planet never before known to exist. [[The Starlight Watchmaker by Lauren James|Full Review]] |}{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"==Will'''18 JULY'''== <!-- Evan Winter -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0356512940s life seems bleak in every direction.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0356512940/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] Every so often And yet, as he still has a reader, a book comes along that is utter and complete perfection. This book is one tiny amount of thosehope. Utter and complete perfection. Winter has created an absolute masterpiece of a novel, set in the fantasy land of Uhmlaba the reader He is instantly thrown into wargood at art, a battle for survival for the Omehi people. Fleeing their homeland, they have and clings to fight to remain on the only scrap moments of land they can reach. The culture of the Omehi people joy when he is rich and deep but not perfectdrawing, not sanctimonious. They have villains, they have faults, they are that feel like a light at the invaders after all, but Winter creates a realistic and honest portrayal end of a people desperate to survivelong, to save themselves and their culture for future generationsdark tunnel. [[The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter|Full Review]]isbn=1398527122|}{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"}=='''1 AUGUST 23 MAY'''== <!-- Fegan -->{{Frontpage|-author=Onyi Nwabineli| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Allow Me to Introduce Myself[[image:1925810097.jpg|linkrating=http://www4.amazon.co.uk/dp/1925810097/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[Don't Drink the Pink by B C R Fegan]]==genre=General Fiction [[image:4star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Madeline is very fond of Grandfather Gilderberry. He's always busy in his workshop, creating crazy potions, and he always has a smile Anuri spent her childhood on his face. Madeline's dad thinks he's a bit bonkers and Madeline's mum thinks display to the same but gives him a pass because heworld, thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's old. But Madeline? She thinks Grandfather Gilberberry is just great. Particularly increasingly popular presence on her birthday when he unfailingly arrives with a selection social media, where she posted every step of potions and allows her to choose one as a gift. And he always says the same thing... [[DonAnuri't Drink the Pink by B C R Fegan|Full Review]]|}{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"=='''8 AUGUST'''== <!-- Shackle -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473225213.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473225213/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[We Are The Dead by Mike Shackle]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] Mike Shackle has written a really interesting s childhood for sponsorships and unusual story in ''We Are The Dead''; the tag line for the novel is 'No More Heroes' influencer deals and that is what makes this story so different. There are villains galore but no specific heroes; rather the story is scattered with characters doing their own small part to survive, to fight back, and to find vengeancebasically, in a world that has been utterly torn apartmonetary gain. The plot does not hang on any one character, no one Now Anuri is important, anyone can die in her twenties and many do, but, like ants working together, each small character achieves their own part of a much larger plot that she is rich and complex slowly trying to regain her confidence and keeps the reader glued to the story. [[We Are The Dead by Mike Shackle|Full Review]] <!get her life back, suing her step-- Coleman -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1785032461.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1785032461/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Girl at mother to take down the Window by Rowan Coleman]]=== [[image:5starcontent about her.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] Trudy Heaton Anuri is going homebattling alcoholism, failing to a house where start her roots burrow back through the centuries PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and to a mother she hasn't spoken to receiving money from them for sixteen yearsdoing so. HomeMost importantly, she is desperately worried about her refugelittle sister, Ponden Hall, where she can heal herself and try to come to terms with who is the traumatic loss new focus of her husbandOphelia's online empire. She needs to build bridges with Can she save her mother sister, and convince her grieving son that his father is dead. Where better than the house full of light perhaps herself and shadow, that nurtured her throughout relationship with her childhood? [[The Girl father at the Window by Rowan Colemansame time?|Full Review]]isbn=0861546873|}{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"}=='''29 AUGUST6 JUNE'''== <!-- Whitlock -->{{Frontpage|author=Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton| styletitle=''width: 10%; vertical-alignDungeon Runners: top; text-align: center;''|Hero Trial[[image:1782692177.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1782692177/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 4| stylegenre=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[The Collective by Lindsey Whitlock]]===Confident Readers[[image:3.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] ''Illinois Territory, Collective Homesteads of AmericaMeet Kit.'' It's certainly an unusual place. Some Like most of the people live in sunken houseshis world, buried into hillsides to disguise how large their property it seems, he is at times an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of austeritywarrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, among other reasons. Others are called Foresterscentury-old, magical mazes, for they live and work in trees – forever playing and resting in trees as childrenrace to the exit, but farming in amongst them and living between them too. These two sides hate each other – so perhaps this is less of an unusual place than at first sight. Our drama kicks off when bothering with the small area treasure or the Foresters live in is placed under compulsory purchase – big bad and the residents are given a pitiful amount to clear out, before points they get manfully cleared outgrant you along the way. ItUnfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's probably seen of the latest race on the Hills inn TV equivalent is that are behind thisone team has been retired, what's more. Our heroeaten, Elwyn, has just left the trees for the Hills, to live with an uncle and learn their ways – he's just a new trio of age to decide things questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for himselfKit, and he has decided taken to see how the other half lives. This has, goading from the token bully of course, opened himself up to no end of prejudicial judgement. But whathis world and stumbled into declaring he's this – as soon ll enter as he reaches the Hills he sees a third way of living, in a lovely colonial-style mansion, where everything sparkles and shines with crystalline lightteam. What chance does it mean this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that , and how could he feels destiny-bound possibly hope to this even posher, newer and more hopeful lifesucceed? [[The Collective by Lindsey Whitlock|Full Review]] |} {|class-"wikitable" cellpaddingisbn="15"1839945184}}=='''1 SEPTEMBER13 JUNE'''=={{Frontpage<!-- Ellory -->|isbn=1635866847|-title=The Lavender Companion| styleauthor=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci[[image:1542007232.jpg|linkrating=http://www4.amazon.co.uk/dp/1542007232/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|Lifestyle===[[The Rabbit Girls by Anna Ellory]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Berlin, 1989. Miriam is in the middle of a city freshly united, with the Wall newly broken down and people able to cross at liberty for the first time in decades. She is in the middle of such euphoria, but cannot feel it, for she has not left her fatherIt's apartment in weeks, nursing him as he lies dying. One standard bed-bath, however, is very differentstrange, when he gasps the name things that make you ''Friedaimmediately'' feel that she does not recognise – and she sees for this is the first time ever a tattoo book for his camp inmate identity under his watchyou. One bombshell outside, then, and two inside. And inside her father, Henryk, what is going on, as he has a first person narrative alternating with her story? What will we find happened, as he remembers back to the real Frieda, a young woman that shook him to the core when he was her literature professor? ThatBefore I started reading ''s right, more bombshells… [[The Rabbit Girls by Anna Ellory|Full Review]] |} {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"==Lavender Companion'', I visited the author'5 SEPTEMBER'''== <!-- McGee -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|s [[image:0241365953.jpg|link=httphttps://www.amazon.copinelavenderfarm.uk/dp/0241365953com/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[American Royals by Katharine McGeewebsite]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Two and there's a half centuries ago, America won the Revolutionary War and General George Washington was offered the crown. Today, the House picture of a slice of Washington still sit chocolate cake on the thrown with Princess Beatrice next in linehomepage. Beatrice I don's whole life has been building up to her ruling the United States t eat cakes and the time for her reign is imminent. [[American Royals by Katharine McGee|Full Review]] <!desserts -- Moyer -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:178747920X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178747920X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Brightfall by Jaime Lee Moyer]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] Robin Hood is gone – denouncing both his former life and his love Marian, and retreating to a monastery – although no-one knows quite what led him to abandon all but I wanted that he had builtcake viscerally. Marion (There's life since has been relatively quiet - but when her friends start dying, Marion is tasked by Father Tuck to break the curse surrounding them and to save their lives. Setting off with a soldier, a Fey Lord and a sullen Robin Hood, she becomes tangled recipe in a maze of betrayalsthe book, complicated relationships, and a vicious struggle for the throne…[[Brightfall by Jaime Lee Moyer|Full Review]] |} {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" ==which I'''31 OCTOBER'''==<m avoiding with some difficulty!!-- Peter F Hamilton -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1447281357.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1447281357/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Salvation Lost by Peter F Hamilton]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction]] In ) Then I started reading the twenty-third century, humanity is enjoying a comparative utopia. Yet life on Earth is about to change, forever. Feriton Kane's investigative team has discovered the worst threat ever to face mankind – book and we've almost no time I was told to fight back. The supposedly benign Olyix plan to harvest humanity, in order to carry us to their god at the end make a mess of the universeit. And as their agents conclude schemes down on earth, vast warships converge above to gather this cargo. Some factions push for humanity to flee, to live Notes in hiding amongst the stars – although only a chosen few would make it out in timemargins are sanctioned. But others refuse You get to break before fold down the stormcorners of pages. As disaster looms, animosities must You suspect that smears of butter would not be set aside to focus on just one goal: wiping this enemy from the face of creationa problem. Even if it means preparing for a future I ''loved'' this generation will never seebook already. [[Salvation Lost by Peter F Hamilton|Full Review]]}}

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