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=='''5 NOVEMBER'''==
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=='''13 JUNE'''==
 
{{Frontpage
 
{{Frontpage
|isbn=B087JXQ3JQ
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|isbn=1635866847
|title=The Long Dark Road
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|title=The Lavender Companion
|author=P R Black
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|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
|rating=4
 
|genre=Thrillers
 
|summary=Two years ago Dr Georgia's Healey's nineteen-year-old university-student daughter went missing as she walked along the lonely A928 at Ferngate Bridge.  There was a furious storm going on and she'd already refused the offer of help from one man in a big vehicle.  We'll see - but no one else will know - that another car stops and Stephanie is bundled into the car and driven off.  There has been no sign of her - or her body - in the two years since.  Georgia is back is Ferngate, determined to find out what happened and she's not going to be stopped.
 
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=='''12 NOVEMBER'''==
 
{{Frontpage
 
|isbn=1472255917
 
|title=The Roots of Evil (Bob Skinner)
 
|author=Quintin Jardine
 
 
|rating=4.5
 
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
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|genre=Lifestyle
|summary=On New Year's Eve, Sir Robert Morgan Skinner was celebrating at the golf club with his wife, Professor Sarah Grace, daughter Alex Skinner and the man with whom she shares a house, Dominic JacksonJackson would be better-known to the criminal fraternity of Edinburgh as Lennie Plenderleith but he's reformed and the new name reflects a new manThe Skinners don't stay much after midnight at the clubhouse and are dropped home not long into the new yearSkinner's tempted to let the phone ring but knows that he cannot: it's Mario McGuire asking for his presence at a crime scene in the centre of EdinburghSkinner's not technically with the police now - he's chairman of InterMedia UK - but the police value his knowledge and experience.
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|summary=It's strange, the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the book for youBefore I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepageI don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally(There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it.  Notes in the margins are sanctioned.  You get to fold down the corners of pagesYou suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem.  I ''loved'' this book already.
 
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=='''4 JULY'''==
 
{{Frontpage
 
{{Frontpage
|author= Claire McGowan
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|author=Max Boucherat
|title=The Push
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|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills
|rating= 5
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|rating=4.5
|genre= General Fiction
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|genre=Confident Readers
|summary= Six mums-to-be meet at a prenatal class. It's NCT ''style'', but not the proper NCT. This bit is important, but you have to wait a little to see why. This being London, such a class attracts a wide variety of people, from all sorts of backgrounds, but for most of the ladies the thing they have in common is it's their first baby. Probably after the first one, you don't have time for classes, or think you've got child-rearing down pat.
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|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong?  Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky.  For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?
|isbn=1542019990
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|isbn=0008666482
 
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{{Frontpage
 
{{Frontpage
|author=Roxanne Bouchard
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|author=Jenny Lecoat
|title=The Coral Bride
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|title=Beyond Summerland
 
|rating=4
 
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
 
|summary=Angel Roberts is an oddity - a female fisherwoman, making her living in a man's world.  When her lobster trawler is found drifting off the coast of Quebec, Detective Morales is called in to come and head the investigation.  Although the signs seem to point to an obvious conclusion, Morales feels something more sinister is going on, and finds himself frustrated at every turn by hidden agendas, fishing histories and secret family feuds.  At the same time as trying to run his investigation, he also has his grown up son, Sebastien arriving at his door, weighed down with personal problems that he is unable to talk to his father about, which tie up with Morales own marital difficulties.
 
|isbn=1913193322
 
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=='''13 NOVEMBER'''==
 
{{Frontpage
 
|isbn=1838887334
 
|title=Deadly Cry (D I Kim Stone)
 
|author=Angela Marsons
 
|rating=4
 
|genre=Crime
 
|summary=DI Kim Stone and DS Jim Bryant were on their way back from Diversity Awareness training.  The need for coffee overtook Stone - the course had been a complete waste of time for her as she knew that she was equally rude to everyone.  It was in the shopping centre that Stone caught sight of a little girl clutching a teddy bear in the absence of her mother.  Stone and Bryant didn't realise the extent to which this case was going to occupy their minds as the body of Katrina Nock is discovered some hours later.  Her neck had been broken and it had all the hallmarks of a quick, functional kill, but who would do that to a young mother out shopping with her child?
 
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=='''26 NOVEMBER'''==
 
{{Frontpage
 
|isbn=1838770046
 
|title=Body Language
 
|author=A K Turner
 
|rating=4.5
 
|genre=Crime
 
|summary=Twenty-five-year-old Cassie Raven is the senior mortuary technician and not only does she talk to the dead, she also hears what they have to say to her.  It's not something she's inclined to share with people as she's pretty certain about what their reaction will be.  She's certainly not going to share it with the new pathologist, Dr Archie Chuff, wearer of a genuine Barbour jacket and old Harrovian.  He's very conscious of his position and isn't even inclined to ask for the view of the anatomical pathology technicians despite the fact that they have a lot more experience than him and he has only a limited amount of time to spend on each body.  That will prove to be a mistake.
 
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=='''7 JANUARY 2021'''==
 
{{Frontpage
 
|author= Deborah O'Connor
 
|title= The Captive
 
|rating= 4
 
|genre= Thrillers
 
|summary=Hannah knows the cage, intimately. It lurks in the corner of her eye. Soon, it will be occupied. Then what? What if he speaks to her? What if he escapes? What if he hurts her? What if she hurts him?
 
|isbn=1838772650
 
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=='''4 FEBRUARY'''==
 
{{Frontpage
 
|author=Helen Fisher
 
|title=Space Hopper
 
|rating=3.5
 
 
|genre=General Fiction
 
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Faye lost her mum when she was very youngShe was raised by some elderly neighbours after her mum died from a cold that got worse, and although they were kind and very good to her she of course missed her mum enormouslySo when, unexpectedly, she discovers a time travel conduit (via an old space hopper box in her attic) that takes her back to the 70's and her mum, she revels in the chance to create some memories and get to know the woman who meant so much to her.  The time travelling, however, is neither easy nor safe, and Faye fears that her husband won't believe what's happening and so lies to him insteadThe lies grow more tangled, and Faye begins to wonder if it's safe for her to return one last time to the past.  Should she try to see her mum one last time before her mum's death, or will it change her own future forever to attempt it?
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|summary=Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupationDuring the war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of himAs the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him.  But will the truth come as a relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war?  Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio?  And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation?
|isbn=1471188663
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|isbn=1846976537
 
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=='''28 FEBRUARY'''==
 
{{Frontpage
 
|author=Rob Keeley
 
|title=The Treasure in the Tower
 
|rating=4
 
|genre=Confident Readers
 
|summary= Rob Keeley is back! Hooray! We here at Bookbag Towers are always happy to read a new adventure from Rob - his stories combine fast pace and lots of action, an easy to read style, an unerring eye for children's friendships and rivalries, and always a good dollop of naughty humour. They're all present here, in ''The Treasure in the Tower''. The chance purchase of a book during a school trip sparks the whole adventure. Who can follow the clues best and find the treasure? Jess, her brother Mason and their friend Kessie through sheer persistence? Or spoiled brat Perdita with her money and tech gadgets and willingness to cheat?
 
|isbn=1800461321
 
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Latest revision as of 14:06, 5 June 2024

13 JUNE

1635866847.jpg

Review of

The Lavender Companion by Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci

4.5star.jpg Lifestyle

It's strange, the things that make you immediately feel that this is the book for you. Before I started reading The Lavender Companion, I visited the author's website and there's a picture of a slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a recipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the margins are sanctioned. You get to fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a problem. I loved this book already. Full Review

4 JULY

0008666482.jpg

Review of

The Last Life of Lori Mills by Max Boucherat

4.5star.jpg Confident Readers

We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn? Full Review

1846976537.jpg

Review of

Beyond Summerland by Jenny Lecoat

4star.jpg General Fiction

Jean lives on Jersey with her mother where they are celebrating the end of the occupation. During the war, Jean's father was arrested for listening to a banned radio and soldiers took him away one night, leaving Jean and her mother waiting for years for news of him. As the British finally free the Channel islands from the Nazis, and the war is finally over, their hopes rise that they will finally learn what became of him. But will the truth come as a relief, or will it raise further questions around what else happened during the war? Who was the informer who told the Nazis about the radio? And what other secrets have been kept throughout the occupation? Full Review

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