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<metadesc>Book review siteExpert, with books full book reviews from the many most walks of literary life - ; fiction, biography, crime, cookery and anything else that takes our fancy. There are also lots of author interviews and top tens.</metadesc>Hello from The Bookbag, a book review site, featuring books from all the many walks of literary life non- [[: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. Itchildren's the bag we take to the library and the bookshop. Sometimes it holds the latest releases, but at other times there'll be old favourites, books for the children, & self-published 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|plus 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.</metadesc>
'''Read [[Forthcoming Publications|reviews of books about to be published]].{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kami Garcia and Margaret StohlSylvie Cathrall|title=Beautiful CreaturesA Letter to the Luminous Deep
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|genre=TeensScience Fiction|summary=Teenage boy meets mysterious new stranger in There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a small towncompelling premise. They fall And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008517061|title=Death in lovea Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, he finds out she's harbouring Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a dark secret, little uncertainty about the pair future of them try to find out if their relationship can work while she tries to keep him safe from his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her world. This kind daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of book appears compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to be released every few weeks since [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]] became so successful – but rarely 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 past few years has it been done as well as it has moment they’re enjoying life in Beautiful Creaturesthe present and putting the future on the back burner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141326085</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jasper Fforde1786482126|title=Shades of GreyThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths
|rating=4.5
|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=Sometimes with authors you just donBuilders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 't know what youluxury've been missingapartments - when they discovered the bones of a child beneath a doorway. Other times you doThere was no skull. Jasper Fforde has long been on my catch-up listWas this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. Snippets It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of Thursday Next and reviews and interviews were enough to convince me I had to get to know this workthe one night they spent together some three months ago. My chance finally came with the first in a completely new series: Shades Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of Greysickness.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340963034</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam Mills0008551324|title=BlackoutThe Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensCrime|summary=It'I am a murderers unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he'I'm standing in s prepared to tell the police where the body of a bookshop, a gun hot in my palmmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. The bullet that sat in my barrel thirty seconds ago has pierced flesh This person, blown into brain tissuehe promises, metal now fighting consciousness. The woman slumps ont is someone big and it will be worth the floorpolice doing what he wants. Blood begins And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to trickle from her head. It drips onto a pile serve the remainder of signed copies stacked on the floorhis sentence and to get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she' Oh my word! What an explosive beginning s even prepared to a book! But do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what made a boy do something like this? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571239412</amazonuk>'s happening.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ebony McKenna0008405026|title=Ondine: The Summer of ShamblesA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=35|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Ondine de Groot wants out of psychic summercampIt's sixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, so together with her pet ferret Shamblesmother, Helena, she flees from the tea leaf readings and astral projection classes, back to her family's restaurantfather are dead in their bed. Only Initially, as soon as she leaves summercamp, she starts hearing voices. Specifically it looks like a broad Scottish voice – one straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that seems to be coming from makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her ferretboss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. Shambles, What looked as though it transpires, was going to be an open-and-shut case is in fact a man, turned into a ferret by now a witchcomplex double murder. Ondine starts to wonder what Shambles would look like Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as a manDerwent's boss, but her imaginings Una Burt) are soon interrupted by the arrival of handsome Lord Vincent, son of the Duke, who sets Ondine's heart flutteringless convinced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405249617</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jean Rowden0571379877|title=More Deaths Than OneThe Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Constable Thomas 'Thorny' Deepbriar has Edward Jevons is a broken leg after working-class young man, obsessed with his involvement in upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a case and so is taken by his wifetheatre director. He's also self-obsessed, Marydemanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to recuperate run errands for him. Edward has been in the seaside town where love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he worked as feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a policeman during the war. He expects to be bored - the relationship had begun between them but he's not like most interesting thing on the horizon men: Edward is a case of missing gnomes. Then he bumps into an old colleague - someone who left to stumble upon the force two of them kissing in a haze of suspiciondark passageway. Shortly afterwards, a body is found on the beach. Even stranger is that the dead man is someone that Thorny and his colleague thought had died during the war. It seems that things are not as they seem. Can Thorny work out what is going on, even with a broken leg?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0709089309</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Paul StrathernJo Callaghan|title=The Artist, The Philosopher and The WarriorLeave No Trace|rating=3.54|genre=HistoryCrime|summary=The interaction between three very differentWhen a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, not DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to say contrastingthe case alongside her sidekick, personalities of the Renaissance period sets the scene for what promises to be an intriguing titleAI detective Lock. It's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. In 1502 the paths of Cesare BorgiaBut when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, notorious son Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and a very high profile case that draws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to solve the equally infamous Pope Alexander VI, Niccolò Machiavellicase in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the intellectual case and diplomat, and Leonardo da Vincipotentially, at the time best known as out of a military engineer though remembered today primarily as a great artist, were destined to cross.career?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845951212</amazonuk>139851120X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rachel Heath1399613073|title=The Finest Type Of English WomanhoodMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=It was just after Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the end first day of the Second World War medical school and seventeen year old Laura Trelling was at their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a loose end in her Sussex villagecentury. She didn't really fit in with the other young people and her eccentric parents were becoming more and more isolatedOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to the extent that Laura was embarrassed by their carelessness of her welfarebe a cardiothoracic surgeon. A chance encounter with Paul Lovell was to change everything Laura is a perfectionist and before long she was on her way to a South Africa not yet burdened with apartheidtrauma doctor.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099532743</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bobbie Darbyshire|title=Truth Games|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=The central theme in this book Anjali is sex - the free spirit of the group and lots of itshe becomes a GP. WeWhen we first meet them they're introduced to at a group of mainly twentysomethings drug and thirtysomethings. Men alcohol-fuelled party and women. Most of them are attractive and hold down glamorous jobs and careers. All it's going to end in rude health, with wonderful social lives and trendy homestragedy. They all appear, on We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the surface, to be a bunch of shiny, happy peopleconsequences. What on earth could Twenty-five years later there will be missing?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905614721</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nia Pritchard|title=More Than Just A Hairdresser|rating=2.5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=It's a brand new year, and Liverpudlian hairdresser Shirley is looking forward to an eerily similar event that will impact the months ahead following one hell of a new year's eve partythree friends. What's more This time, sheit's going to chronicle her adventures in her brand spanking new diary which she will write in diligently, even when she's feeling a bit 'morning after the night before'their teenage children who are involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1870206851</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Anthony Quinn0241636604|title=The Rescue ManTrading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson
|rating=4.5
|genre=General FictionAutobiography|summary=This love affair tale with the If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of Liverpool someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is mostly told through the eyes 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 architect Tom BainesEconomics. With the Second World War looming, Baines Stevenson is desperately working on bright - extremely bright - and he has a book to capture the memory facility with numbers which most of buildings us can only envy. He also realised that are most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at riskwhat was, essentially, and appears a man more in love card game which got him an internship with the past and solidCitibank. Eventually, cold structures than mankindthis turned into permanent employment as a trader.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099531933</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Murray1035021803|title=Skippy DiesThe Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller
|rating=3.5
|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Life in Seabrook College is a messIt's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. Some She's back now because of the staff are young enough to remember their own school days therea request for help from her beloved aunt, but many are certainly too old for thatCarole. A lot of the boys are victims of ragging Freya's former mentor and bullying for being too chunkyCarole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, or too smart - but some are so chunky is dead and smart there's a certain kudos the circumstances seem suspicious, to themsay the least. The female of Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the species is a thing only spied from their own school next doorvillage: Arthur, she feels, and only met by selling them ritalin let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a weight-control pillcafe, or meeting them at met and married James (on the rebound from the very rare combined school discolove of her life, who was murdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241141826</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover
|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt
|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
|rating=5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane Yolen and Mark TeagueSunny Singh|title=How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?Hotel Arcadia
|rating=3.5
|genre=For SharingThrillers |summary=[[How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by Jane Yolen|How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?]] was a witty terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and visually creative tale of Very Bad Bedtime Behaviour Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for modern children enamoured the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of dinosaursher room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. 'How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?' continues Although they only ever talk over the formulaphone, this time with table mannerstheir friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007216092</amazonuk>086154742X
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Cynthia Kadohata1529153298|title=A Million Shades The List of GreySuspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=3.5|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=At just twelve, Tin It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is the youngest elephant handler in his villagePrime Minister. Ever since he can remember (A woman? I mean, Tin has dreamed of working with elephants and he loves his own elephanthonestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, Ladythey've been murdered, but to distraction, even spending most of his nights sleeping by have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her sidefather wants to move the family 'Down South'. Tin When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is much less keen on schoola frightening, foreign place, but his parents insist that he goesbest avoided. Tin really can't see For Miv, the pointmove would mean leaving her best friend, as his sole ambition is Sharon, and she'll do anything to become a fully-fledged elephant trainerprevent that. His parents may talk She's not worried about opportunities in the world outside his village but if they don't involve elephants, hedangers or that her Mum's not interestedstopped talking - to anyone. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>184738823X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chloe Hooper1398524085|title=The Tall Man: Life and Death on Palm IslandHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45|genre=Politics and SocietyCrime|summary=Cameron Doomadgee – Mulrunji – Charlotte Salter was just thirty six years old when he was arrested on Palm Islandexpected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Quite why he was arrested was never clearHer children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. He wasn't drunkShortly afterwards, although he had been drinking beer – Etty and was walking along Greg, find the road singing body of Greg''Who Let s father, Duncan Ackerley, in the Dogs Out?'' river. Senior Sergeant Chris Hurley felt that there It was reason an easy assumption for the police to arrest Mulrunji for creating as public nuisance make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he was taken to couldn't stand the police stationguilt. What The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened next was to be the subject of intense media speculation and legal proceedings over the coming years, but within forty five minutes Mulrunji was dead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099520761</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Timothy W Ryback1035906708|title=Hitler's Private Library: The Books That Shaped His LifeDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin
|rating=4.5
|genre=HistoryGeneral Fiction|summary=As the fictional schoolboy hero Nigel Molesworth might have saidWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, 'any fule kno' that Adolf Hitler but she was notorious for burning books. Nevertheless he was also an avid collector and passionate readerborn to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, as around 1200 surviving volumes once in his possession now in the Rare Book Division of the Library of Congress, December 1923 and a smaller quantity in Brown University, Rhode Island, demonstrateonly moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Among them were world literature classics, such as Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Robinson Crusoe', 'Uncle Tom's Cabin', and 'Gulliver's TravelsCallas'to make it more manageable in the States. He also owned an edition of the collected works of Shakespeare, When she was back in handAthens -tooled Moroccan leather with a goldsupposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice -embossed eagle flanked she was raised under the Nazi occupation by his initials on the spine. The Bard, he once saida mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, was greatly superior to Goethe and SchillerJackie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099532174</amazonuk>
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|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Chancey's dam was Starry Night Lucas and her owner loved that horse so much that she wanted his friends are all booked in for a foal who was exactly like hermovie marathon at their local cinema, but when Chancey was born she was bitterly disappointed for instead a place that has the nickname of the black Appaloosa with white marking Chancey was born albino'The Black Hole'. It was only his striped hooves which proved his breedingAll big movie fans, they're looking forward to lots of exciting films, and many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. The owner was not big enough But as they lurch from one film genre to overcome her feelings and when she fell the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on hard times it was Chancey who was left out in ? Will they ever get back to the field cinema, and to suffer despite the fact that he was no longer a young horse.their real lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>140632258X</amazonuk>1839942738
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|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=''I was born to scheme'', declares our hero Jack. With flashbacks we see the young lad and a pixie friend, larking about for revenge or small profit. But when his mother's bakery gets more and more into the red, can hear the size song of the profit has to increasesea. And when you add in revenge against the local crime lord - a giant The call of a man - so does the size of deep, the target of the japeanswering beat in my heart.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747587426</amazonuk>}}''
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|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Isabel Things have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and her sister Ruth are slaves. But automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they should be free - Miss Mary Finch left a will 're paid to do and other tasks that said sotook time to accomplish. But Miss Mary Finch is dead and her greedy nephew and heir denies Just as they were beginning to get used to all knowledge of the will. So Isabel this technological change and Ruth are sold starting to the Locktons and taken think of other, new ways to New Yorkspend time, along came an awful pandemic. The Revolutionary War is underway Life was pretty much shut down and New York is a dangerous place. The Locktons are loyalists, but along with it, all the patriots are in control of the citymany daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0747598061</amazonuk>1736128426
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Lorraine JenkinMatthew Tree|title=Chocolate Mousse and Two SpoonsWe'll Never Know
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's Literary Fiction|summary=From the first sentence: 'With one hell Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a drunk and chronic underachiever whose dreams of a crash, Lettie Howell’s dinner service hit the wall…', I knew that I was going to enjoy this tale. An opening thus full being exceptional at any of expletive his artistic passions all failed miserably and resounding Welsh Voice immediately makes it clear who’s the boss and I can relax, knowing I’m in competent handswho had endless crises of self confidence. WelcomeSo Tim applied himself to his studies, Lorraine Jenkin, to my handful of favourite chick-lit authorscultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and set himself high but achievable ambitions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1870206959</amazonuk>B0CVFXPGP8
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Tom WolfeA G Slatter|title=The Bonfire Briar Book of the VanitiesDead
|rating=5
|genre=Literary FictionFantasy|summary=In his own mind, bond trader Sherman McCoy is a 'Master of the Universe'. He has a pleasant wife, a beautiful mistress, and a sweet six year old daughter. Henry Lamb is a black student from the projects. Under normal circumstances, it's clear that McCoy's world and LambThere's world would never overlap. But when McCoy and his mistress Maria Ruskin end up lost in the Bronx, and an accident leads to Lamb being hit by McCoy's Mercedes, a chain part of events start which will lead me that wants to his downfall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099548798</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michelle Harrison|title=The Thirteen Curses|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Red is back, but she's trapped in the fairy realm. Having swapped places with Tanya, she is bound there, but is still desperate keep this just to get both her and her brother back into the human worldmyself for however long I can. She must seek an audience with the fairy court, but the realm is full This secret magic of deception and cruelty – it will be a challenge just to get there. And guess what happens when she gets there? She is set another challengemy own, twisted with the cruelty of the Unseelie (Boo! Hiss!) court. Whilst the journey goes onall mine, she reflects on her past: the car crash that killed her parents and her time at the children's homelast. Meanwhile, Tanya has returned I just want to Elvesden Manor enjoy it for half term and leta while.''s just say that her ability to see fairies comes back into use when the new housekeeper and her pesky parrot land her and Fabian and the whole Manor crew into trouble with the little people.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847384501</amazonuk>}}
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Nancy Farmer1529900360|title=The Islands of the Blessed (Sea of Trolls Trilogy) Ghost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=In this third adventure, JackIt 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 his help on difficult cases. His assertions that there were only open-and-shut cases which didn't need the help of a psychologist only worked for a fourteen year old Saxon apprentice bardwhile. Finally, and Thorgilit was Robin, a bad-tempered shield maidenDelaware's partner, follow who nudged Milo into asking for help again. She knew that the Bard Dragon Tongue on a quest to quell involvement was something that the draugr - man she loved needed. The next case did look simple, though. Two lovers were murdered in the malevolent spirit swimming pool of a drowned mermaid mistakenly summoned remote property in Bel Air. He was the heir to an Italian shoe empire and she is married to Jackan extremely rich man and it's village and who seeks revenge for her earlier ill treatment at human handsnot the Italian.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184738630X</amazonuk> But which of them was the primary target?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sophie McKenzie1529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Hostage (Medusa Project)Secret Life of a Vet|author=Sion Rowlands
|rating=3.5
|genre=TeensAnimals and Wildlife|summary=Teenagers Nico, Kitty, Ed Siôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Dylan were implanted with the Medusa gene when they were babies. Now theyRowlands didn're adolescentst want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the intended psychic abilities are coming to the forestrain that being on-call put on his father's life. Nico has When he was seventeen he took the power opportunity of telekinesis doing work experience with a family friend who was a vet and was convinced this was the job for him. Before long, he was at Liverpool University. It hadn't - he can move objects as with so many students - been his minddream since he was a child. Ed can read other people If anything, he's thoughts. Dylan has an invisible protective shield and no weapon can harm herd wanted to be a professional footballer. Kitty has visions that predict the future. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847385265</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Garth Nix0861541774|title=Into Battle (The Seventh Tower)A Nye of Pheasants|author=Steve Burrows|rating=3.54|genre=TeensCrime|summary=We've made it to book five in Garth NixDCI Domenic Jejeune's Seventh Tower seriesclose friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, so has taken a quick recap: The Dark World is blocked from the Sun by short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an enchanted Veil created by Tal's forebears to protect it from the creatures who inhabit Aenir old ally, Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with a spirit land full of magic knife - and magical beastshe killed a Ghurka.Aenir is lit and warmed by the Sun Initially, he faced a charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the Dark World uses sunstones - crystals grown and charged with light and heat in Aenirman. Some inhabitants of Now he could be facing the Dark World - the Chosen - also bind some of Aenir's creatures death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to themselves help as spiritshadows or spiritguardsany interference from another police force could provoke a diplomatic incident and wouldn't help Danny at all. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007261233</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Don FelderAlexander McCall Smith|title=Heaven And Hell: My Life in the Eagles, 1974 - 2001The Perfect Passion Company
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=''A Disobedient Girl'' follows two women struggling to retain control of their lives in the face of servitude. Latha The Perfect Passion Company is a servant girl dating agency in Edinburgh, run by Ness and operating as an alternative to all the affluent Vithanage familyonline apps in providing a more personal, whose daughter, Tharatailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is Latha's ageplanning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. As children Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the girls are the best of friendschance to come home to Edinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, but they are destined bringing us to be separated by classan Edinburgh we already love, which is made painfully obvious when boys come into thanks to 44 Scotland Street and the picture. MeanwhileIsabel Dalhousie novels, Biso serves a cruel and drunken husband but with some new characters who beats her and terrorises her children, one of whom is another man's love childquickly begin to charm. Biso's husband murdered her lover Katie has no experience in running a hateful rage when he uncovered her affair and she realises that she must escape his house if she and her children are to live. Latha too seeks escapebusiness, or in match-making, but she finds it Ness has full confidence in the arms of Tharaher abilities, and there's boyfriend always her very helpful (and this sets off rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a chain of events that will echo far into her future.hand…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0670917958</amazonuk>1846976596
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Debby Holt0811771741|title=Recipe For ScandalInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman
|rating=4
|genre=Women's FictionCrafts|summary=ThereMelissa Leapman's evidently a market ''InstaKnits for scandalous tales, or else many Baby'' gives us a womencollection of knits from toys to blankets. Some will be quick knits - others are of the 's weekly would have gone out of business by nowlong, but this book, though full cosy afternoons in front of scandal, is slightly differentthe fire' variety. This isn The projects are divided by the time they't council estate scandal or even trashy celebrity scandalll take to complete - less than five hours, it's juicyfive to ten hours, firmly middle class scandal of ten to twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the type [[:Category:Zoe Heller|Zoë Heller]] might write aboutprojects are attractive, modern and ituseable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but that's wickedly captivatingme being picky.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847396542</amazonuk>
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|rating=4.5
|genre=HumourParanormal|summary=Throughout my life IBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it've lived with dogs s possible that whoever or deeply regretted whatever was inside is the fact thing that I lacked has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a canine companionnice person. A really nice person. Watching So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a dog – or better stillnew friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, the interaction between dogs – who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is infinitely better than anything on television going to take care of Benny, and itwill certainly take care of Benny's sheer joy to see how man and dog interacts and howenemies, if he, so oftenBenny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they hold a mirror up to each otherare.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1564785521</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jules StanbridgeAdam Stower|title=A Date in Your DiaryMurray and Bun
|rating=4.5
|genre=Women's FictionConfident Readers |summary=Harry knows that Murray is supposed to be a woman needs humble, tidy and friendly cat, one who is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, well, whatever takes his fancy next of the two. But he's a man like a fish needs a bicycle, but she also knows therebad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a difference between what we need hyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and what we want – and she wants a bloke. More specificallythe catflap they both use can chuck them out, she wants a date for not into the latest in regular back garden, but into a string world of friend-frightening adventure and-family weddingswhiffs. This time round it drops them into a Viking land, a wedding where, thanks to a 'tricky' seating plantroll hunter is expected – well, she will be sitting on the same table as her most recent ex...and his new girlfriend. With no prospects in sightone much bigger than Murray was, Harry comes to the conclusion that internet dating might be the way to go. At besthonest, shebut he's turned up and he'll find a guy who ticks all her boxes and will joyfully accompany her have to the wedding before they live happily ever after, and at worst, well, she might get a story out of it, never a bad thing for a magazine journo.do…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755347137</amazonuk>0008561249
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{{Frontpage
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|title=Fragility
|author=Mosby Woods
|rating=4
|genre=Literary Fiction
|summary= Can you make a ''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 the answer for both could well be.... no.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Helen Black1529431735|title=DishonourThe Winter Visitor|author=James Henry
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Modern lives. Lily Valentine It's February 1991 and Essex is heavily pregnant and trying to get her own law firm up and running (having been sacked from her previous job for a tendency to be a trifle too ''independent'bitingly cold, which made Bruce Hopkins' – or maybe just disorganised). Ryan is a boy from return all the sink estatesmore surprising. Thin, angry, rebellious, but with an ability to charm and He'd been exiled on the Costa del Sol as a serious talent wanted drug smuggler for art that gets lost in his gansta-speak and tendency to skive off school. Lailla and Aasha are good Muslim girlsa decade. HardThe return has come about because he's had a letter from his ex-workingwife, sober, appropriately dressed, dutiful saying that she's ill and hasn't long to their familieslive. TheyIt're also English teenagers, with a fair dose of what that normally implies. Jack s hard to feel any sympathy when Hopkins is a copper, overlooked for the interesting cases (like murder), good at child protection, in love with Lilyabducted, addicted stripped to the job, always trying his underwear and sent to do a watery grave in the right thing, and not always succeedingboot of a stolen Ford Sierra. His current clean-living and caring attitude is driving Lily Is it a warning from a Spanish gang or a problem closer to distraction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847560725</amazonuk>home?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Panos KarnezisAlex Bell and Tim McDonagh|title=The ConventGlorious Race of Magical Beasts
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Our Lady of Mercy Eli is a small convent on busy lad – by day an apprentice in the wondrous library we start by visiting with him, and in the Spanish sierra made up of evening a handful of devoted nuns who live their helper at the dessert cafe his gran owns and runs. Eli lives simplywith his lovely gran, carrying out their daily duties like clockwork. However things change when too – for there is a suitcase containing a newborn baby is left mysteriously outside generation missing in the convent doorsfamily. The Mother Superior A few short years ago, Sister Maria InesEli's parents were both lost to the titular race, believes the baby to be a miracle and plans globe-trotting adventure where all entrants have to keep him navigate the world in the convent, but the other sisters do not agreecompany of a magical beast. During This has made the events that follow the true characters of the nuns inside the convent are revealed and the peace that the sisters enjoy is stripped away race anathema to show the tension that has been bubbling away under the surface.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224079344</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Joe Meno|title=The Great Perhaps|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Jonathan Casper faints pair – but when he sees clouds. His wife Madeline worries about everything, not least the way a bad incident at the pigeons that she is studying are murdering each other. Their seventeen year old daughter Amelia wants eatery leads to overthrow the evil empire of capitalism and is making her own bomba confession from gran, while fourteen year old Thisbe Eli knows his only hope is looking for God and praying to him. Jonathan's fatherdare to enter what he most hates, seventy six year old Henry, is planning his disappearance. Jonathan and Madeline may be on with the sole aim the verge prize of splitting up, magic at the end – the only thing to the dismay of both daughterspossibly save his gran.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0330512471</amazonuk>0571382231
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