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{|class-wikitable" cellpadding="15"=='''11 JULY9 MAY'''== <!-- Chiang -->{{Frontpage|-author=Tom Percival| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|The Wrong Shoes[[image:1529014484.jpg|linkrating=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1529014484/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Confident Readers===[[Exhalation by Ted Chiang]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]Will's life is difficult, [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Over in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the past twenty-eight years Ted Chiang wrong shoes', he 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 the wrong shoes because his dad can't work by Ted Chiang. I cannot speak highly and doesn't have enough money for even the 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 Hugofact that his mum and dad are separated, an unwanted and rather lonely androidWill's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, who makes he still has a living for himself mending time-travel watchestiny amount of hope. When one of his clients demands that his broken watch be mended, Hugo realises there He is a mystery to be solvedgood at art, and is only too ready clings to help. An exciting journey the moments of discovery unfoldsjoy when he is drawing, which takes Hugo out that feel like a light at the end of his drab attic workroom and into a scary adventure with some amazing new friendslong, exploring regions of the planet never before known to existdark tunnel. [[The Starlight Watchmaker by Lauren James|Full Review]]isbn=1398527122 |}{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"}=='''18 JULY23 MAY'''== <!-- Evan Winter -->{{Frontpage|-author=Onyi Nwabineli| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Allow Me to Introduce Myself[[image:0356512940.jpg|linkrating=http://www4.amazon.co.uk/dp/0356512940/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|General Fiction===[[The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] Every so oftenAnuri spent her childhood on display to the world, as a readerthanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, a book comes along that is utter where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and complete perfection, basically, monetary gain. This book Now Anuri is one of those. Utter in her twenties and complete perfection. Winter has created an absolute masterpiece of a novel, set in the fantasy land of Uhmlaba the reader she is instantly thrown into warslowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, a battle for survival for the Omehi people. Fleeing their homeland, they have suing her step-mother to fight to remain on take down the only scrap of land they can reachcontent about her. The culture of the Omehi people Anuri is rich and deep but not perfectbattling alcoholism, not sanctimonious. They have villains, they have faults, they are the invaders after allfailing to start her PhD, but Winter creates a realistic undergoing therapy and honest portrayal of a secretly abusing people desperate to survive, to save themselves online and their culture receiving money from them for future generationsdoing so. [[The Rage Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the new focus of Dragons by Evan Winter|Full Review]]|}{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"==Ophelia'''1 AUGUST '''== <!-- Fegan -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1925810097.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1925810097/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[Don't Drink the Pink by B C R Fegan]]=== [[image:4stars online empire.jpg|link=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 potionsCan she save her sister, and he always has a smile on his face. Madeline's dad thinks he's a bit bonkers perhaps herself and Madeline's mum thinks the same but gives him a pass because he's old. But Madeline? She thinks Grandfather Gilberberry is just great. Particularly on her birthday when he unfailingly arrives relationship with a selection of potions and allows her to choose one as a gift. And he always says father at the same thing... [[Don't Drink the Pink by B C R Fegantime?|Full Review]]isbn=0861546873|}{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"}=='''8 AUGUST4 JUNE'''== <!-- Shackle -->{{Frontpage|-author=Stuart Douglas| styletitle="width: 10%; verticalLowe and Le Breton Mysteries -align: top; text-align: center;"|Death at the Dress Rehearsal[[image:1473225213.jpg|linkrating=http://www3.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473225213/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[We Are The Dead by Mike Shackle]]genre===Crime[[image:4.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] Mike Shackle has written a really interesting and unusual story in ''We Are The Dead''; the tag line During location filming for the novel is his 1970'No More Heroess sitcom ' Floggit and that is what makes this story so different. There are villains galore but no specific heroes; rather Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the story is scattered with characters doing their own small part to survive, to fight back, and to find vengeance, in dead body of a world that has been utterly torn apart. The plot does not hang woman on any one character, no one is important, anyone can die and many do, but, like ants working together, each small character achieves their own part the edge of a much larger plot that is rich and complex and keeps the reader glued to the storyreservoir. [[We Are The Dead by Mike Shackle|Full Review]] <!-- 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 police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the Window by Rowan Coleman]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]whole thing bothers Lowe, [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]] Trudy Heaton is going home, to a house where her roots burrow back through and he enlists the centuries and to help of a mother she hasn't spoken fellow actor, John Le Breton to for sixteen yearshelp him investigate matters further. HomeThey travel across the country during their days off filming, her refugeuncovering more possible murders and, Ponden Hallseemingly, where she can heal herself and try to come a link to terms with death during the traumatic loss of her husbandSecond World War. She needs But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to build bridges with her mother and convince her grieving son that his father uncover who is dead. Where better than the house full of light and shadow, that nurtured her throughout her childhoodresponsible before more people lose their lives? [[The Girl at the Window by Rowan Coleman|Full Review]]isbn=1803368209|}{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"}=='''29 AUGUST6 JUNE'''== <!-- Whitlock -->{{Frontpage|author=Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton| styletitle=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-alignDungeon Runners: 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;''|Confident Readers===[[The Collective by Lindsey Whitlock]]=== [[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, among other reasons. Others are called Forestersmage and healer enter specially prepared, century-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 Hills latest race on the 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 – ll enter as soon 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| style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[The Rabbit Girls by Anna Ellory]]==genre=Lifestyle [[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, howeverstrange, is very different, 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.amazonpinelavenderfarm.co.ukcom/dp/0241365953/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 picture of a half centuries ago, America won the Revolutionary War and General George Washington was offered the crown. Today, the House 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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|author=Max Boucherat
|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?
|isbn=0008666482
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