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{|class-wikitable" cellpadding="15"=='''11 JULY23 MAY'''== <!-- Gregory -->{{Frontpage|-author=Onyi Nwabineli| styletitle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|Allow Me to Introduce Myself[[image:1526609169.jpg|linkrating=http://www4.amazon.co.uk/dp/1526609169/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 5| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[I Hold Your Heart by Karen Gregory]]==genre=General Fiction [[image:4.5star.jpg|linksummary=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]  Gemma has just started Anuri spent her A levels at school. She's a keen student and she has a goodchildhood on display to the world, close set of friends. Gemma loves country music and in thanks to her spare time she enjoys writing and singing country songs. She's pretty good at it too. Home life is busy step- Gemmamother Ophelia's brother Michael has a chance at a football career and the whole familyincreasingly popular presence on social media, propelled by Gemmawhere she posted every step of Anuri's rather over-invested dad, is supporting him with everything they've got. Gemma hasn't had a serious boyfriend yet, so when the handsome Aaron appears childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals 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]]basically, [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Over the past twenty-eight years Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short storiesmonetary gain. These magnificent stories have won twenty-seven major science fiction awards so if you are a science fiction fan it Now Anuri is likely that you have already come across some of the work by Ted Chiang. I cannot speak highly enough of this collection of short stories, they are so wide ranging in their themes her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and so beautifully written, Chiang has written an absolute masterpiece of a collection. If you come across Chiang's work beforeto get her life back, suing her step-mother to take this opportunity to do so nowdown the content about her. Trust me; your imagination will be grateful. [[Exhalation by Ted Chiang|Full Review]] |}{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"==''' 15 JULY'''== <!-- 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 Anuri is a dyslexia-friendlybattling alcoholism, science fiction novella for young adults. It tells the tale of Hugofailing to start her PhD, an unwanted undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and rather lonely android, who makes a living receiving money from them for himself mending time-travel watchesdoing so. When one of his clients demands that his broken watch be mended Most importantly, Hugo realises there she is a mystery to be solveddesperately worried about her little sister, and who is only too ready to helpthe new focus of Ophelia's online empire. An exciting journey of discovery unfolds Can she save her sister, which takes Hugo out of his drab attic workroom and into a scary adventure perhaps herself and her relationship with some amazing new friends, exploring regions of her father at the planet never before known to exist. [[The Starlight Watchmaker by Lauren Jamessame time?|Full Review]]isbn=0861546873 |}{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"}=='''18 JULY30 MAY'''=={{Frontpage<!-- Evan Winter -->|isbn=B0CYV674G2|-title=Swanton Morley (John Tanner)| styleauthor="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|David Blake[[image:0356512940.jpg|linkrating=http://www3.amazon.co.uk/dp/0356512940/ref=nosim?tag5|genre=thebookbag-21]] Crime| stylesummary="verticalIt seemed like an open-align: top; textand-align: left;"|===[[The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter]]=== [[image:5starshut case.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]] Every so oftenA man, as covered in mud and blood - and carrying a readerknife, a book comes along into the police station shouting that is utter and complete perfectionhe hasn't killed the man. This book is one of those. Utter and complete perfection. Winter has created an absolute masterpiece of a novel, set in A body at the fantasy land bottom of Uhmlaba the reader is instantly thrown into war, a battle for survival for the Omehi people. Fleeing their homeland, they have freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to fight to remain on the only scrap of land they can reachdeath. The culture of the Omehi people DCI John Tanner is rich and deep but not perfectjust back from his honeymoon, not sanctimonious. They have villains, they have faults, they are which coincided with the invaders after all, but Winter creates a realistic and honest portrayal birth of a people desperate to survive, to save themselves and their culture for future generationshis daughter Samantha. [[The Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter|Full Review]]|}{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"==You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse'1 AUGUST and 'John Tanner''== <!-- 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:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:For Sharing|For Sharing]] Madeline is very fond of Grandfather Gilderberrywere made for each other. He's always busy in his workshop, creating crazy potions, and he always has a smile on his face. Madeline's dad thinks he's a bit bonkers and Madeline's mum thinks sleep-deprived to the same point of falling asleep at work 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 with a selection of potions and allows her determined to choose one as a gift. And keep going - probably because he always says the same thing... [[Doncan't Drink the Pink by B C R Fegan|Full Review]]get any sleep at home.|}{|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| stylegenre="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|Crime===[[We Are The Dead by Mike Shackle]]=== [[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 a link to come 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-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  | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[The Collective by Lindsey Whitlock]]==genre=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, it seems, buried into hillsides to disguise how large their property 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 this, what's more. Our heroone team has been retired, Elwyn, has just left the trees for the Hillseaten, 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 weeksstrange, nursing him as he lies dying. One standard bed-bath, however, 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 McGee]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fictionwebsite]] 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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