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• The Suffering of Strangers by Caro Ramsay
  ...roblem if she dashes into the shop to get the bubbly? She can keep an eye on the car through the shop window, but when she comes out, the car has gone.. ...iddle of a busy office with them all around me. DCI Colin Anderson is now on cold cases - currently, it's the rape of Gillian Witherspoon in August 1992
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• Sequin and Stitch by Laura Dockrill and Sara Ogilvie (illustrator)
  ...e did. Mum is a seamstress and she makes the sort of clothes that you see on red carpets or at important weddings. She's not the designer - they're the ...ook to find out. There's also a gentle look at the effects of agoraphobia on a family.
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• July 2013 Newsletter
  ...Bookbag and any news from the site. We promise never to pass your details on to anyone else. In fact... we won't even tell each other. == July's News from Bookbag Towers ==
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• November 2011 Newsletter
  ...Bookbag and any news from the site. We promise never to pass your details on to anyone else. In fact... we won't even tell each other. == November's News from Bookbag Towers ==
  6 KB (987 words) - 15:14, 22 August 2020
• The Alchemist and the Angel by Joanne Owen
  ...enough to be [[The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Joanne Owen|interviewed by Bookbag]]. ...prentice. Jan loves the work, learns quickly, and soon the two of them are on the verge of perfecting a serum said to bring the dead back to life. But th
  4 KB (684 words) - 08:57, 17 September 2020
• Haven't they Grown by Sophie Hannah
  ...e disingenuous to say 'found herself' as Beth had made a deliberate detour on the grounds that she didn't find herself in this neck of the woods very oft ...ff and persuade Zannah that she ''should'' revise for her exams and to get on with offering massage therapy to her patients, but that wouldn't make for a
  3 KB (575 words) - 13:31, 6 October 2020
• Graffiti Moon by Cath Crowley
  ...ecommendation. Cath Crowley popped into Bookbag Towers to [[The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Cath Crowley|chat to us]]. ...came out in Crowley's native Australia in 2010 and has been getting great reviews ever since. Add in a cover quote from Jenny Downham, author of the outstand
  3 KB (505 words) - 09:41, 16 March 2018
• Burnt Norton by Caroline Sandon
  ...ess and a couple of characters who were bland but not actively unlikeable, most people only got what they deserved. (Just a shame they couldn’t have got ...pressing read which I’d only recommend if you were absolutely desperate to read about the upper classes in the 18th century.
  5 KB (872 words) - 15:47, 20 March 2018
• A Brand New Me by Shari Low
  ...f Fame]] and this, her latest offering is for anyone who makes resolutions on January 1st only to break them all by January 2nd! ...en Leni is bored to tears with her life, so when the clock chimes midnight on New Year's Eve, she announces that this is the year that she is going to ''
  4 KB (731 words) - 11:32, 1 March 2018
• Beautiful Malice by Rebecca James
  ...ally fascinated with one another, it would seem, and together with Alice's on-off boyfriend, Robbie – besotted, lovely, handsome Robbie who has not yet Though it is persistently pointed out to her by everyone else who has been on the receiving end of Alice's bad behaviour, Katherine's view is not confirm
  5 KB (754 words) - 10:11, 20 February 2018
• Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything by B J Fogg
  ...l changes which you can make to help you achieve your goals and which lead on to bigger things. Accessible and very readable. Highly recommended. Go on, admit it - you're not quite perfect. You still have those odd, quirky, ev
  4 KB (619 words) - 19:57, 11 August 2020
• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Lauren Oliver
  |title=The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Lauren Oliver .... As you can imagine they had a lot to chat about when Lauren popped into Bookbag Towers.
  4 KB (726 words) - 11:31, 16 March 2013
• Miss Austen by Gill Hornby
  |summary=A quite amazing read: a lightly fictionalised 'lives' of Jane and Cassandra Austen, where the te It's long been known that Cassandra Austen burned most of the letters which she and other members of the extensive Austen family h
  4 KB (619 words) - 13:06, 21 February 2022
• Pavel and I by Dan Vyleta
  This book left me so confused that I had to write about three different reviews of it and I'm still unsure of what to make of it. ...pend five hours on the plane with, but not the one to hold a special place on your bookshelf.
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• March 2012 Newsletter
  ...Bookbag and any news from the site. We promise never to pass your details on to anyone else. In fact... we won't even tell each other. == March's News from Bookbag Towers ==
  6 KB (1,083 words) - 16:29, 10 August 2020
• The House on the Lake by Nuala Ellwood
  |title=The House on the Lake |sort=The House on the Lake
  3 KB (522 words) - 16:43, 11 August 2020
• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Sam Hawksmoor
  |title=The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Sam Hawksmoor * '''Bookbag: When you close your eyes and imagine your readers, who do you see?'''
  7 KB (1,222 words) - 15:23, 25 February 2012
• Entangled by Cat Clarke
  ...at Clarke was kind enough to come into Bookbag Towers and [[The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Cat Clarke|chat to us]]. The story starts on day three of Grace's imprisonment by a kidnapper. She's been given pen and
  4 KB (638 words) - 15:22, 4 April 2018
• March 2013 Newsletter
  ...Bookbag and any news from the site. We promise never to pass your details on to anyone else. In fact... we won't even tell each other. == March's News from Bookbag Towers ==
  7 KB (1,295 words) - 16:28, 10 August 2020
• Notting Hell by Rachel Johnson
  ...erything - more fiercely than an Olympic Rowing Team for the title of Have Most in the Garden Square. ...se Your Husband, Children and Dog In Twelve Months'' I understand, made it on to the best seller list for an indecent period of time.
  4 KB (695 words) - 14:17, 14 May 2018

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