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<metadesc>Book review siteExpert, with books full book reviews from most walks of literary life; fiction, biographynon-fiction, crime, cookery and children's books & self-published books plus author interviews and & top tens.</metadesc><h1 id="mf-title">The Bookbag</h1>Hello from The Bookbag, a site featuring books from all the many walks of literary life - [[:Category:Fiction|fiction]], [[:Category:Biography|biography]], [[:Category:Crime|crime]], [[:Category:Cookery|cookery]] and anything else that takes our fancy. At Bookbag Towers the bookbag sits at the side of the desk. It's the bag we take to the library, the charity shop and the bookshop. Sometimes it holds the latest releases, but at other times there'll be old favourites, books for the children, books for the home. They're sometimes our own books or books from the local library. They're often books sent to us by publishers and we promise to tell you exactly what we think about them. You might not want to read through a full review, so we'll give you a quick review which summarises what we felt about the book and tells you whether or not we think you should buy or borrow it. There are also lots of [[:Category:Interviews|author interviews]], and all sorts of [[:Category:Lists|top tens]] - all of which you can find on our [[features]] page. If you're stuck for something to read, check out the [[Book Recommendations|recommendations]] page.
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|author=Gregg HurwitzSylvie Cathrall|title=Into The FireA Letter to the Luminous Deep
|rating=5
|genre=ThrillersScience Fiction|summary= Grant Merriweather is There are few greater joys than a forensic accountant. Or rather, was. He was brought into an ER room after an alleged car crash, his friend pleading with the medics to keep him alive. He was needed alive just long enough book which lives up to give up a namecompelling premise. His cousin, MaxAnd this is one of them.|isbn=07181855010356522776
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|isbn=15291243950008517061|title=When You See MeDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Lisa GardnerStig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=For Janet Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the future of his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and Chuckher daughter Diana, it was as moving in together would mean a hiking break lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the Appalachians moment they’re enjoying life in Georgia the present and pure chance that Chuck went off putting the future on the back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the beaten track site was going to find hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a stickdoorway. What he found There was no skull. Was this a human bone and SSA Kimberley Quincy was called inritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, along that she is pregnant with Sergeant his child as a result of the one night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D D WarrenS Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Both women were experienced Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in this type of rather gruesome work but they also called on prison and he's prepared to tell the police where the services body of Keith Edgara missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, a computer analysthe promises, is someone big and Flora Dane who brought something unique it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the tableremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. Flora had been kidnapped and held for 472 days by the notorious killerNot much to ask, Jacob Ness. is it? If Ness had anything The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with the current discoveries then him is kept well away from what Flora had to say could be invaluable's happening.
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|isbn=15290096770008405026|title=A Window BreaksStranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=C M EwanJane Casey|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Tom Sullivan and his wife Rachel are having problems. It's not just sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the usual growing apart after more than investigation ground to a decade of marriagehalt. Their sonNow, Michaelher mother, was killed Helena, and her father are dead in a car crash some months before: he was driving his father's Audi and at sixteen wasn't legally entitled to drivetheir bed. Not only did he kill himself when the car rammed into Initially, it looks like a tree, straightforward murder/suicide but he also killed his girlfriend, fifteen-year-old Fiona Connor. Tom canthere't think s something about Michael without a sense the positioning of shame the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and guilther boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Rachel What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is broken, but she wants to forgive Michaelnow a complex double murder. To give some space, TomKerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's moved out of the family homeboss, but stresses to his thirteen-year-old daughter, Holly, that it is only a trial separationUna Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=02419851530571379877|title=The House on the LakeKellerby Code|author=Nuala EllwoodJonny Sweet
|rating=3.5
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=We know that something Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has gone wrong been in love with Stanza since their university days - badly wrong - when the woman who was alone and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in the house is taken Robert's position would stay away by the police, from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but ithe's going not like most men: Edward is left to be stumble upon the two of them kissing in a while before we learn exactly what has happeneddark passageway.
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|author=Struan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)Jo Callaghan|title=Orphans of the TideLeave No Trace|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary= In the last city When a man is found crucified on Earth, anyone can be the vessel top of The Enemy - a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the god who drowned case alongside her sidekick, the world - who has come to wreak havoc on the last of humanityAI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. When But when there is a second body found crucified a mysterious boy few days later, Kat is pulled from the corpse suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of a whale, the citizens immediately believe him unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the Vessel - all except for young Ellie Lancastercase in time, a girl inventor. As or will Kat find herself taken off the ruthless Inquisition prepares to execute the boycase and, Ellie must prove that he is innocent - even if it means revealing her deepestpotentially, darkest secrets....out of a career?|isbn=0241384435139851120X
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|isbn=00082971691399613073|title=The Guest ListMoral Injuries|author=Lucy FoleyChristie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=The boat trip out to Inis AmploirOlivia, off Laura and Anjali met on the Irish coastfirst day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, might have been enough which is a bonus when you aim to put some guests off, but it was be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the wedding free spirit of the yeargroup and she becomes a GP. Will Slater (television personality, if not yet When we first meet them they're at a celebrity) was drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to marry Jules Keegan, online magazine publisher, end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the ruined chapel on tragedy or the islandconsequences. The bride's sister, Olivia, would Twenty-five years later there will be her only bridesmaid and an eerily similar event that will impact the wedding planner and chef are Aoife and her husband, Freddythree friends. They gave a huge discount to get the couple to the islandThis time, but surely it would be worth it for the publicity?'s their teenage children who are involved.
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|isbn=B07ZGL6B1B0241636604|title=In Plain Sight (D I Clare Mackay)The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Marion ToddGary Stevenson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|isbn=1035021803
|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder
|author=C L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It was 's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a coincidence that Detective Sergeant Chris West request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and DI Clare Mackay were at the beach when circumstances seem suspicious, to say the baby was stolenleast. They were there for the fun run and their attention Arthur was taken by the NEFEW protesters who tried reason why Freya had not been back to disrupt the racevillage: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. They're against the planned McIntosh Water bottled water plant Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be constructed on Priory Marsh and near the firm is sponsoring man or pursue the fun runprofession she loved. It was Lisa Mitchell's scream which stopped everything. Her daughterAfter the split, six-month-old Abishe worked in a cafe, had been taken met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her pram whilst no one life, who was looking. It's a major incident when ''any'' child is abducted but Abi needs regular medication because of a heart problem: without it, she might murdered) and Freya and James have only forty-eight hours to livenow divorced.
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|isbn=1471180921AllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=FirewatchingAll Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt|author=Russ ThomasBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
|rating=5
|genre=CrimeScience Fiction|summary=Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the Cold Cas Review Unit at South Yorkshire Police and there are those who think feeling that heit's lucky to be thereall getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, given I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.}}{{Frontpage|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that he decked has suddenly been violently taken over by a superior officerterrorist group. He's Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there because Tyler came off worse is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the exchange - therehotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's a scar on his face happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to prove it - help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the superior officer was forced to take early retirementterrorists.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1529153298|title=The List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly... ) ThereShe's not what's worrying Miv's a suggestion too that Tylerfamily, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's godmother (upset because she's on overheard that her father wants to move the force too) has looked after him and that his current boss family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is keen to have a tame gay frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to put on the town hall steps come Prideprevent that. Either way, heShe's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's there, but without anything really interesting stopped talking - to get his teeth intoanyone.
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|authorisbn= A K Larkwood1398524085|title= The Unspoken NameHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating= 45|genre= FantasyCrime|summary= What does it mean to betray someone? What if that someone is a god? Csorwe has been raised knowing that she would be sacrificed to Charlotte Salter was expected at her god on her fourteenth husband's fiftieth birthdayparty but never turned up. Her children, yet when the opportunity arisessons Niall, she chooses to abandon everything she knows Paul and Ollie and flee with her lifedaughter, Etty. Who can blame are all worried but - strangely - her? Her godhusband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's reach is limited and Csorwe intends father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to stay far beyond it, yet fate is a funny thing make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when circumstances bring her back within he couldn't stand the reach of her god Csorwe learns that her god remembers her, guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and blames her very much indeedwonder about what really happened.|isbn=1250238900
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|authorisbn= M G Leonard and Sam Sedgman1035906708|title= The Highland Falcon ThiefDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary= Harrison BeckWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, or Hal as he prefers but she was born to be called, isn't exactly pleased when his Greek parents send him off with his uncle Natin Manhattan, a travel writerNew York, on a long train journeyin December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Although, this isn Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas't any old train; this is to make it more manageable in the Highland Falcon, the royal train, and this is its last ever journey before it gets sent to a museumStates. A number of high When she was back in Athens -society figures, including film stars, millionaires and aristocrats, will be on this train, supposedly so it is quite the event on the social calendar. However, when an expensive brooch is stolen, Hal realises that maybe this trip won't be as boring as he previously thought. As the passengers begin to turn on each other, Hal vows to she could get to appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the bottom Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of the mystery…before the train gets to the end of the lineher preference for her elder sister, Jackie.|isbn=1529013062
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|isbnauthor=0008275246Christopher Edge|title=Perfect Kill (D I Callanach)|author=Helen FieldsBlack Hole Cinema Club
|rating=4
|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=When Maggie Campbell realised that her son, BartLucas and his friends are all booked in for a movie marathon at their local cinema, was missing he was already 200 miles away and just waking from a chemically-induced sleep. Maggie knew straight away place that something was wronghas the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. Bart might be twenty but he was considerate All big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of his mother exciting films, and wouldn't have stayed out all night without letting her know. many, many snacks! BesidesHowever, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, he didn't have his phone with him and he wouldnthey are swept up into an adventure they couldn't have gone far without thateven imagine. It's not long before Bart realises that he's aloneBut as they lurch from one film genre to the next, trapped in a shipping container and can they figure out what on earth is going on his way ? Will they ever get back to Francethe cinema, where his fate has already been decided.and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738
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|author= Alyssa SheinmelRachel Greenlaw|title= What Kind of GirlCompass and Blade|rating= 43.5|genre= Women's FictionTeens|summary= '' Doing something when you're scared is braver than doing something when you're notI can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''
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|author= Holly RiversJames Sherwood Metts|title= Demelza and the Spectre DetectorsPlanet Storyland|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Demelza Clock is Things have been a scientistbit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often staying up late replacing jobs they're paid to work on her various gadgets, much do and other tasks that took time to her Grandma Maeve's irritationaccomplish. However, she has also inherited a certain set Just as they were beginning to get used to all this technological change and starting to think of skills that are not especially scientific: Spectre Detectingother, the ability new ways to summon the ghosts of the recently deceasedspend time, along came an awful pandemic. Under the guidance of her Grandma MaeveLife was pretty much shut down and, Demelza begins to master her newfound skills. Howeveralong with it, there is a mysterious individual all the many daily social interactions on the prowl, kidnapping young Spectre Detectorswhich they depend so heavily. It|isbn=1736128426}}{{Frontpage|author=Matthew Tree|title=We's up ll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary= Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to Demelza be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at any of his artistic passions all failed miserably and her best friend Percy to get to the bottom who had endless crises of this.self confidence.So Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|isbn=1912626039B0CVFXPGP8
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|isbnauthor=1787477533A G Slatter|title=The Lantern Men (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly GriffithsBriar Book of the Dead
|rating=5
|genre=Fantasy
|summary='' There's a part of me that wants to keep this just to myself for however long I can. This secret magic of my own, all mine, at last. I just want to enjoy it for a while.''
Within a remote mountain pass, far away from the world, lies Silverton; a town under the protection of the Briar's, a family of witches who protect the town and the wider world from the Darklands. Though she has always wished for magic, Ellie Briar is the first non-witch to be born into her family for generations and as such since she was young, her training as a steward revolved around letters and administration rather than spells and potions. When her grandmother suddenly dies, Ellie's cousin Audra becomes the Briar Witch, the town's leader, and Ellie takes her place beside her. As challenges come her way left, right and centre, Ellie uncovers the rare ability to communicate with the dead, putting her at the heart of a maelstrom of chaos. Reeling from one family secret to another, Ellie must decide who to trust and determine what to do as the Briar witches' legacy, everything they have sacrificed to survive, is under threat.
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|isbn=1529900360
|title=The Ghost Orchid
|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Everything has changed It hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's fault that Alex Delaware had been badly injured but he felt responsible and even after Alex recovered, Sturgis was reluctant to ask for Dr Ruth Gallowayhis help on difficult cases. She's no longer providing assistance to the police His assertions that there were only open-and isn-shut cases which didn't even working at need the University help of North Norfolka psychologist only worked for a while. SheFinally, it was Robin, Delaware's lecturing at Cambridge and has moved from her beloved Saltmarsh cottage to live with Dr Frank Barker in Cambridgepartner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. Her daughter, Katie, has settled into school better than She knew that the involvement was something that the man she could ever have hoped and life is looking goodloved needed. SettledThe next case did look simple, though. She can't help thinking about Harry Nelson, Katie's father, because Katie sees him regularly and there's Two lovers were murdered in the swimming pool of a close relationship with his familyremote property in Bel Air. You might ''almost'' think that RuthHe was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's life is settling downnot the Italian. But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=183895015X1529395224|title=A Bit Letting the Cat Out of a Stretchthe Bag: The Diaries Secret Life of a PrisonerVet|author=Chris AtkinsSion Rowlands|rating=3.5|genre=Politics Animals and SocietyWildlife|summary=Documentary filmmakers donSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn't usually get want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the run strain that being on-call put on his father's life. When he was seventeen he took the opportunity of establishments within doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the Mountbattenjob for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - as with so many students -Windsor Hotel Group, but after getting involved in an illegal tax scheme to fund been his latest film, Chris Atkins dream since he was invited for a five-year staychild. The first nine months were spent in HMP WandsworthIf anything, which is probably the oldest, largest and most dysfunctional prison in Europehe'd wanted to be a professional footballer.
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|isbn=12501685460861541774|authortitle=Sarah KozloffA Nye of Pheasants|titleauthor=A Queen In HidingSteve Burrows|rating=34|genre=FantasyCrime|summary= World-building is the backbone by which fantasy novels live DCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and die. And what a pleasureformer colleague, thenDanny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to get meet up with an old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a novel man armed with worlda knife -building you actually want to delve intoand he killed a Ghurka. Sarah Kozloff's debut novel presents a startlingly rich and layered world Initially, with he faced a complex history charge of connecting nations manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that seems certain to he might have more planned to tap, and murder the characters are interesting – if a little underdevelopedman. But it's a world I Now he could – and did – eagerly buy into, and be facing the struggle of each Queen death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to discover help as any interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and hone her magical talent felt very real and very aptwouldn't help Danny at all.
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|isbnauthor=1543987877Alexander McCall Smith|title=Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Dr Thomas JordanThe Perfect Passion Company
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|genre=LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary=''Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' The Perfect Passion Company is a book about love relationships rather than dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the online apps in providing a book about lovemore personal, tailored service. The two greatest emotions are love Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and grief and love is look after the opposite of grief: ''if you love''business, Dr Thomas Jordan tells us, ''you will inevitably grieve''as Ness is planning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Your love relationships begin Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the moment you're born and end only when you diechance to come home to Edinburgh. Whilst And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, bringing us to an Edinburgh we all come into the world hoping already love, thanks to give 44 Scotland Street and receive love there are many people for whom love is not quite so simple. Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating the same mistakes - and this eventually becomes resignationIsabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who quickly begin to charm. For people who are making the same mistakes repeatedlyKatie has no experience in running a business, selfor in match-preservationmaking, but Ness has full confidence in the form of resignation is her abilities, and there's always her very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a necessity.hand…|isbn=1846976596
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|authorisbn=Chris Hauty0811771741|title=Deep StateInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman|rating=34|genre=ThrillersCrafts|summary= Hayley Chill is Melissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a fightercollection of knits from toys to blankets. She is every kind Some will be quick knits - others are of fighterthe 'long, and well-trained cosy afternoons in most front of themthe fire' variety. She The projects are divided by the time they's army infantry and she boxes for fun – and she wins. Always. She wins because she is focussed. She works hardll take to complete - less than five hours, mentally and physicallyfive to ten hours, ten to twenty hours and she knows how to deal with the pain. She is not so much cold as controlledmore than twenty hours. This fight is against someone she is not expected to beatAll the projects are attractive, modern and useable. And she is I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's me being watchedpicky.|isbn=1471185605
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|author=H G Parry Dean Koontz|title=The Unlikely Escape of Uriah HeepBad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionParanormal|summary=Brothers Rob Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and Charley have struggled his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to see eye his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to eye deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for years - Rob Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a sensible lawyer bad weather friend called Spike, who exists in the "normal" world - and Charley has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a man who good person. Spike is blessed with an ability he can't fully control - one which allows him going to bring literary characters into the real world. After years take care of protecting CharleyBenny, Rob wants to discharge his duties and leave Charley to his own devices - but circumstances soon will certainly take choices out care of both their hands. As literary characters begin to appear everywhere, it soon becomes clear that someone out there shares CharleyBenny's powers and intends to use them for nefarious gains. Rob enemies, if he, Benny, and Charley must team up to stop the madness - in Harper (a battle to win before waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they, the characters and the world reach The End…are.|isbn=03565137771662500491
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|isbnauthor=1444776185Adam Stower|title=Haven't they Grown|author=Sophie HannahMurray and Bun
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|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers |summary=It was when Beth Leeson was ferrying her sonMurray is supposed to be a humble, Bentidy and friendly cat, one who is able to a football match that she found herself on Wyddial Lane in Hemingford Abbotssleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. Actually, ItBut he's a little disingenuous to say bad magician'found herself' as Beth had made s cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a deliberate detour on hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the grounds that she didn't find herself in this neck catflap they both use can chuck them out, not into the regular back garden, but into a world of the woods very often frightening adventure and she was curious to see where a family who'd come into money had lived before they'd all lost contact twelve years agowhiffs. And This time round it might have gone no further than that had Beth not seen drops them into a Viking land, where a car draw up and her friend Flora get out along with two children she called Thomas and Emily. Beth remembered the names troll hunter is expected – well - , one much bigger than Murray was, to be honest, but these children were about three and five and Florahe's children - Thomas turned up and Emily - would now be fifteen and seventeen.he'll have to do…|isbn=0008561249
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|isbn=1529123763B0C47LV1PC|title=Miss AustenFragility|author=Gill HornbyMosby Woods|rating=54|genre=Historical Literary Fiction|summary=ItCan you make a 's long been known 'Yo birthing person'' joke? And if you could, is the question should you make it? Or is the question if you did, would it land? The catch is that Cassandra Austen burned most of the letters which she and other members of the extensive Austen family had exchanged with or about her sister Janeanswer for both could well be.... no. What is not known is ''whyFragility'' she did this and at this stage - more than two hundred years after Jane's death - a definitive answer is unlikely set as the city of Portland, Oregon, cautiously begins to forthcoming. Gill Hornby has provided us with some possible answers in a book that proved to be far more emotionally complex than I was expecting.emerge from the restrictions imposed during the covid pandemic
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|authorisbn=Rory Clements1529431735|title=Hitler's SecretThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry|rating=3.54|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=SoIt's February 1991 and Essex is bitingly cold, Hitler had a secret? Two, if you include which made Bruce Hopkins' return all the reproductive detail mentioned in a certain sing-song aspersionmore surprising. But this is He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a secret that is counter to that, and in fact is wanted drug smuggler for a secret that Hitler himself doesn't even know aboutdecade. His neice, Geli Raubal, the attractive young woman The return has come about because he seemed to be very close to in the early 1930s, had 's had a letter from his daughter behind his back. Protected under a false identity ever since, the girl is completely ignorant of her pastex-wife, saying that she's ill and the truth is a very rare thing. Martin Bormann, the 'gatekeeperhasn' t long to Hitler and his right hand man, knows – and is desperately intent on wiping the slate clean and removing all connected with her existence from the Reichlive. So itIt's down hard to Tom Wilde, an American history professor at Oxbridgefeel any sympathy when Hopkins is abducted, stripped to go in his underwear and extract her, sent to a watery grave in this most shadowy race against timethe boot of a stolen Ford Sierra.|isbn=1838770275 Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to home?
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|isbnauthor=0241985110Alex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=All the Rage (D I Fawley)|author=Cara HunterThe Glorious Race of Magical Beasts|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=A very beautifulEli is a busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the evening a helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives with his lovely gran, but extremely distressed teenage girl was picked up by too – for there is a minicab driver on generation missing in the outskirts of Oxfordfamily. She didnA few short years ago, Eli't want s parents were both lost to go the titular race, a globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to navigate the police station or world in the hospital: she just wanted to be taken homecompany of a magical beast. The driver wasn't so certain though - and after dropping This has made the race anathema to the girl pair – but when a bad incident at home he went the eatery leads to the policea confession from gran, which Eli knows his only hope is why DI Adam Fawley found himself talking to Faith Appleford and her mother. Both were adamant that this was nothing more than an April Fool's joke which had gone wrong. No crime had been committed and Faith didn't want dare to take enter what he most hates, with the matter any further. Fawley and his team weren't prepared to leave it sole aim the prize of magic at that and they began investigating. What they found strange was that Faith Appleford didn't seem the end – the only thing to have much of a historypossibly save his gran.|isbn=0571382231
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