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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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|isbnauthor=190874572XTom Percival|title=Letters from Tove|author=Tove Jansson (Author), Boel Westin (Editor), Helen Svensson (Editor), Sarah Death (Translator)The Wrong Shoes
|rating=5
|genre=AutobiographyConfident Readers|summary=Back at Will's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. He is bullied because he has 'the beginning of wrong shoes', he has the century I went on holiday to Nepal. I met a wonderful Finnish woman wrong shoes because his dad can't work and we became sort doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of friends. I things like food, and his dad can't remember if it work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on that holiday or a later one that Paula told me I really building site and had to read Tove Janssonan accident. I do know Throw into that it was four years later mix the fact that I finally acquired an English translation his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a tiny amount of The Summer Bookhope. He is good at art, and that I eagerly awaited clings to the ''Sort Of'' translations moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a light at the rest end of Jansson's work and devoured them as soon as I could get my hands on thema long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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|isbnauthor=1784742783Sylvie Cathrall|title=The Benefit of Hindsight (Simon Serrailler)|author=Susan HillA Letter to the Luminous Deep
|rating=5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of them.
|isbn= 0356522776
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|isbn=0008517061
|title=Death in a Lonely Place
|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=A superficial look would suggest to you that Simon Serrailer Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has been lucky and - all things considered - settled into his rustic life is as good as it could beat Little Sky. He's back at work after There’s perhaps a long break to recuperate from little uncertainty about the violent incident which cost him future of his life with his arm vet girlfriend, Livia and almost her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing lifeto 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 moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner. When he}}{{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 site was going to hold seventy-five 's not at work heluxury's spending his time in apartments - when they discovered the cathedral roof drawing the medieval angels which are being restoredbones of a child beneath a doorway. Therewas no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's talk difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a result of an exhibition of his drawingsthe one night they spent together some three months ago. Lafferton seems to Her condition will be quite settled as far as crime obvious before long, not least because Ruth is concerned until one night when two local men open their front door prone to sudden bouts of sickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to a couple seeking shelterapproach the police. ItNeither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the usual story police where the body of a broken-down carmissing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, he promises, is someone big and a phone which won't make a callit will be worth the police doing what he wants. The man are generous And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and welcoming and have no suspicions that the couple are simply there to plan a robberyget an early parole date. ItNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's a serious error of judgement in even prepared to do the course of this investigation which will throw Simon Serraillerother thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's future into doubthappening.
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|isbn=140638853X0008405026|title=Somebody Give This Heart a PenA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Sophia ThakurJane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=AnthologiesCrime|summary=Sophia ThakurIt's debut anthology 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, her mother, Helena, and her father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a collection of poems complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that are all unique, whether the explanation lies in relation to their styleRosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, length or themeUna Burt) are less convinced. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|title=The collection Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is split into four sectionsa working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, titled Robert and Stanza. Robert'grows a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed,demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert'waits position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.}}{{Frontpage|author=Jo Callaghan|title=Leave No Trace|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=When a man is found crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick,the AI detective Lock. It'breaks their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, 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 case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1399613073|title=Moral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it'grow agains going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, guiding it's their teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you through were to bring up an image of a process which 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 one of the foundations that 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 anthology London School of Economics. Stevenson is built onbright - 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. Each section begins 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 foregrounded trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title page containing various small pieces =The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of writinga request for help from her beloved aunt, ranging from a quote by a Nigerian playwrightCarole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to African proverbssay the least. Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. This provides a nice introduction Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the section before you are immersed into man or pursue the profession she loved. After the beautifully written split, she worked in a cafe, met and eloquent poems that Thakur has clearly put married James (on the rebound from the love of her heart life, who was murdered) and soul intoFreya and James have now divorced.
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|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.''
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 feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, 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.
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|author=Sunny Singh|title=Hotel Arcadia|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers |summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there 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 hotel, 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 happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their 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.|isbn=086154742X}}{{Frontpage|isbn=19109894601529153298|title=Flember: The Secret BookList of Suspicious Things|author=Jamie SmartJennie Godfrey
|rating=5
|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A mysterious islandwoman? I mean, honestly.. A strange and mystical power called Flember. A boy-inventor called Dev) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, who uncovers Down South is a long forgotten secretfrightening, foreign place, best avoided. And a giant For Miv, red robot bear?! The sleepy village of Eden is about to descend into hilarious chaos - can disastrous Dev save his brand new the move would mean leaving her best friend? Find out in this fully illustrated mad, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking -cap adventureto anyone.
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|isbn=02413552221398524085|title=FrostheartHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Jamie LittlerNicci French
|rating=5
|genre=Crime
|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and Greg, find the body of Greg's father, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. It was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. 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.
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|isbn=1035906708
|title=Diva
|author=Daisy Goodwin
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.
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|author=Christopher Edge
|title=Black Hole Cinema Club
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Way out Lucas and his friends are all booked in the furthest part of the known worldfor a movie marathon at their local cinema, a tiny stronghold exists all on its own, cut off from place that has the rest nickname of human-kin by monsters that lurk beneath the Snow Sea'The Black Hole'. There All big movie fans, a little boy called Ash waits for the return they're looking forward to lots of his parentsexciting films, singing a forbidden lullaby to remind him of them... and doing his best to avoid his many, many snacks! However, as the movie starts, they very quickly realise that something about this new film format is verydifferent, VERY grumpy yeti guardian, Tobuand they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. But life is about as they lurch from one film genre to get a whole lot more crazy-adventurous for Ash. When a brave rescue attempt reveals he has amazing magical powers, he's whisked aboard the Frostheartnext, a sleigh packed full of daring explorers who could use his help. But can they help him find his familyfigure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the cinema, and to their real lives?|isbn=1839942738
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|author=Rachel Greenlaw
|title=Compass and Blade
|rating=3.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.''
Rosevear, a remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they capture the island's leader and Mira's father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as he is secretive and with only coordinates to guide her, she sets off in search of a family secret that lies buried deep in the sea. With only nine days to unearth what might save her father, as her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she holds most dear.
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|isbnauthor=1913101037James Sherwood Metts|title=The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte Mettlestone|author=Jaclyn MoriartyPlanet Storyland|rating=4.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Bronte doesnThings have been a bit sticky for the Earthlings. AI and automation have been proceeding apace, often replacing jobs they't miss her parents, re paid to do and she's not particularly sad when she learns of their terrible fate at the hands of piratesother tasks that took time to accomplish. And why should she be? After Just as they were beginning to get used to allthis technological change and starting to think of other, they just dumped her on Aunt Isabelle (without even asking if it would be a convenient arrangement for either party) when she was a baby. They swanned off new ways to have adventuresspend time, and never once along came back to check if their only child an awful pandemic. Life was healthy pretty much shut down and happy, along with it, all the many daily social interactions on which they depend so heavily.|isbn=1736128426
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|isbnauthor=1401280048Matthew Tree|title=Batman: Nightwalker: The Graphic Novel|author=Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris WildgooseWe'll Never Know|rating=4.5|genre=TeensLiterary Fiction|summary=The young man called Bruce Wayne is Timothy Wyndham wants nothing more than to be different from his father, a very noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without people – bystanders, paparazzi, drunk and suchlike – reminding him he's a billionaire chronic underachiever whose dreams of being exceptional at the age any of eighteen. Feeling rather stuck with the legacy he's inherited from his murdered parents, he wants to do charitable deeds. But one night, when he speeds off in his posh new car in pursuit of a criminal, he goes too far as far as the authorities are concerned, artistic passions all failed miserably and gets given the most unlikely stretch who had endless crises of community service instead – cleaning in the home for violent criminals that is Arkham Asylumself confidence. There he learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent – the Nightwalkers, a gang who steal any ten-figure bank account contents they canSo Tim applied himself to his studies, cultivated his abilities rather than his daydreams and murder the ownerset himself high but achievable ambitions. Can he get close to one of them and get the truth of their schemes, or will the manipulative Madeleine be a step too far for the young do-gooder?|isbn= B0CVFXPGP8
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|author=A G Slatter
|title=The Briar 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.''
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|authorisbn=Michael J Malone1529900360|title=In The Absence of MiraclesGhost Orchid|author=Jonathan Kellerman
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=John DochertyIt hadn't been Lt Milo Sturgis's mother has fault that Alex Delaware had been taken into 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 nursing home following psychologist only worked for a massive strokewhile. Finally, it was Robin, Delaware's partner, who nudged Milo into asking for help again. It is thought unlikely She knew that the involvement was something that the man she will ever be able to live independently againloved needed. Faced with having to sell the family home in order to pay for her nursing careThe next case did look simple, Docherty starts the clear outthough. In Two lovers were murdered in the attic he finds a childhood picture swimming pool of himself, holding a toddler – a toddler he knows nothing aboutremote property in Bel Air. He also finds a blood-stained was the heir to an Italian shoeempire and she is married to an extremely rich man and it's not the Italian.|isbn=191237479X But which of them was the primary target?
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|isbn=06928535451529395224|title=Letting the Cat Out of the Bag: The Things We DoSecret Life of a Vet|author=Kay PfaltzSion Rowlands|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersAnimals and Wildlife|summary=ItSiôn Rowlands fell into veterinary science accidentally. His father was a GP and Rowlands didn's 2015 and Dr Eleanor Hartley is a prison psychologist at t want to follow in his footsteps, particularly when he considered the state penitentiary and she knows strain that her next patient is not going to be easybeing on-call put on his father's life. 'Jane Doe' has been convicted of When he was seventeen he took the murder opportunity of two men - one doing work experience with a family friend who was a police officervet and was convinced this was the job for him. She pleaded guilty and since then has been silent: even her identity is in doubtBefore long, he was at Liverpool University. She was carrying identification It hadn't - as Jane Dunlap when she with so many students - been his dream since he was arresteda child. If anything, but ithe's been proved d wanted to be false. There seem to be no family or friends who are missing her. Eleanor's task is to get Jane talking, to find out why a seemingly normal young woman would murder two menprofessional footballer.
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|authorisbn=Patti Smith0861541774|title=Year A Nye of the MonkeyPheasants|author=Steve Burrows
|rating=4
|genre=BiographyCrime|summary=On the coast of Santa CruzDCI Domenic Jejeune's close friend and former colleague, Danny Maik, has taken a short holiday in Singapore to meet up with an old ally, Patti Smith enters the lunar year of the monkey Guy Trueman. Maik was involved in a street brawl - one packed he would later maintain that he was facing a man armed with mischief, sorrow, a knife - and unexpected momentshe killed a Ghurka. In Initially, he faced a stranger's words, ''Anything is possible: after all, it's the year charge of manslaughter but evidence came to light that suggested that he might have planned to murder the monkey''man. As Smith wanders Now he could be facing the coast of Santa Cruz in solitude, she reflects on death penalty. Domenic Jejeune can do nothing to help as any interference from another police force could provoke a year that brings huge shifts in her life - loss diplomatic incident and aging are faced head on, as it the shifting political waters in Americawouldn't help Danny at all. |isbn=1526614758
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|author=Margaret AtwoodAlexander McCall Smith|title=The TestamentsPerfect Passion Company
|rating=4.5
|genre=Dystopian General Fiction|summary= Finally! Almost forty years onThe Perfect Passion Company is a dating agency in Edinburgh, we have a sequel to [[The Handmaid's Tale run by Margaret Atwood|The Handmaid's Tale]]. I don't want Ness and operating as an alternative to tell you too much about all the plot because it's online apps in providing a novel that more personal, tailored service. Ness has asked her younger cousin Katie if she could come and look after the business, as Ness is entirely plot drivenplanning to take a trip to Canada to get away for a while. Suffice it Katie is coming out of a break up with a bad boyfriend, and so jumps at the chance to come home to say that ''The Testaments'' takes place fifteen years laterEdinburgh. And so begins this new story from Alexander McCall Smith, fifteen years after Offred gets into a vanbringing us to an Edinburgh we already love, not knowing what will happen next. It's told by three narrators: Aunt Lydiathanks to 44 Scotland Street and the Isabel Dalhousie novels, but with some new characters who is secretly writing her memoirs quickly begin to charm. Katie has no experience in Ardua Hall; Agnesrunning a business, a girl brought up or in Gilead with the expectation she will marry a commander; Daisymatch-making, a rebellious teenage girl but Ness has full confidence in Canada who knows of Gilead only from school lessons her abilities, and its Pearl Girl missionaries who occasionally call into the store owned by there's always her parents...very helpful (and rather handsome) neighbour, William, to lend a hand…|isbn=17847423251846976596
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|authorisbn=Anne Boden0811771741|title=The Money RevolutionInstaKnits for Baby|author=Melissa Leapman
|rating=4
|genre= Business and FinanceCrafts|summary= Money is changingMelissa Leapman's ''InstaKnits for Baby'' gives us a collection of knits from toys to blankets. It might not Some will be quick knits - others are of the 'long, cosy afternoons in front of the ways you thinkfire' variety. We’re not suddenly getting a 3p or £3 coin (and have you ever even found a country that offers anything different The projects are divided by the time they'll take to the 1complete - less than five hours, 2five to ten hours, 5 model?) We’re getting a lot more digital with payments, which seems ten to suit most people apart from charity collectors twenty hours and more than twenty hours. All the homeless on the streetprojects are attractive, modern and useable. I perhaps show my age when I wonder about 'social-media-worthy projects' but although this book has the subtitle that includes the word ‘’digital’’, it’s not really about this either's me being picky. Instead it’s about the ‘’management’’ of your finances, and how to take control.|isbn=1789660610
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|isbnauthor=147117316XDean Koontz|title=Guilty Not Guilty|author=Felix FrancisThe Bad Weather Friend
|rating=4.5
|genre=ThrillersParanormal|summary=The Honourable William Herbert Millgate GordonBenny 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-Russell (Bill Russell sized object to those who knew him well) his home, and it's possible that whoever or whatever was acting as a volunteer steward at Warwick Racecourse when he was told of inside is the violent death of thing that has trashed his much-loved wife. house! It would get worse though: The thing is, Benny is the successful insurance actuary would be accused of killing her and hounded by the mediavery last person to deserve all this bad luck. Then He is a nice person. he would lose his job and his homeA really nice person. His best friends would turn against himSo fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, as they came who has been sent to believe help him guilty of the murdersince Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Yet there was no really compelling evidence that Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he was guilty, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|isbn=1662500491
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|isbnauthor=1908745819Adam Stower|title=Surfacing|author=Kathleen JamieMurray and Bun|rating=4.5|genre=HistoryConfident Readers |summary=Sometimes when people suggest that you read Murray is supposed to be a certain bookhumble, tidy and friendly cat, they tell you ''this one has your name on it''. Mostly we take them at their wordwho is able to sleep and eat and eat and sleep and, or notwell, but rarely do we ask them why they thought so, unless it turns out that we didn't like whatever takes his fancy next of the booktwo. That But he's a rare experience. People who are sensitive to hearing bad magician's cat, so his favourite bun has been turned into a book calling your namehyperactive sticky rabbit called Bun, and the catflap they both use can chuck them out, rarely get it wrong. In this case I was told why. The blurb speaks of not into the author considering ''an olderregular back garden, less tethered sense but into a world of herselffrightening adventure and whiffs.'' Older. Less tethered. That's not This time round it drops them into a bad description of Viking land, where I am. Add a troll hunter is expected – well, one much bigger than Murray was, to that my love of the natural worldbe honest, of those aspects of the poetic but he's turned up and lyrical that are about style not form, and substance most of all, about connection. Of course this book had my name on it. It was written for me. It would he'll have found its way to me eventually. I am pleased to have it fall onto my path so quickly.do…|isbn=0008561249
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|isbn=B0C47LV1PC
|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.