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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 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. [https://ewritingservice.com/ Ewritingservice.com] is the custom writing service thousands of students trust all over the world.
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|author=Kenneth StevenDK|title=Winter TalesMy Encyclopedia of Very Important Animals|rating=4.5|genre=Short StoriesChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= Upon opening this book you are presented with an eclectic collection The animal kingdom is a diverse one, full of twelve short stories centred around a common theme creatures that do all sorts of Winterthings. You are taken around the world as you read stories set in a variety The number of places from Helsinki animals out there is so vast that even vets need to New York, Germany to Russia. Kenneth Steven cleverly utilises do a key component of short stories - that you can read each story quick google when something strange appears in one sitting their practice. For budding vet- to his advantage -be animals are a constant source of fascination and they will absorb as he gives each story an individual focal subject, such much knowledge as bullying, ensuring that you are reading a distinct story every time you open the bookcan give them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910674508</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= William Sutton|title= Lawless and the House of Electricity|rating= 5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Campbell Lawless It is back, this time tasked with solving a series of terrorist attacks across not practical to visit the nation. Is it the work of the French, as police and public are being led to believe, or someone closer to home? Who can be trusted and what does Roxburyzoo every day, but getting an innovative inventor previously disgraced, have to do with the bombs used to cause chaos across the country? Employing the services of Molly, the effervescent ragamuffin from his previous adventures, he sets in motion a campaign of subterfuge which uncovers long held secrets, skulduggery educational and the desperate yearnings beneath Roxbury's constant inventionentertaining animal encylopedia is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17856501300241276357</amazonuk>
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|author=K J LawrenceDK|title= The Cossack|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Daniel Brooking is not what you'd think of as hero material: heDK Children's a photographer of some merit and in his fifties he has a settled life. It was the disappearance of his assistant, Ivan Shevchenko, which disrupted everything. It wasn't unknown for him to disappear occasionally, but missing an exhibition was a first for him. He'd been distracted for a few days - and then there were the strange papers which arrived, to be kept safe. The authorities, in the form of a shadowy senior member of the security services, confirmed the view that Ivan was probably dead, because of some supposed connections with organised crime and drug dealing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1999782704</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=James Goss and Russell T Davies|title=Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who)Encyclopedia
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|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse Non-Fiction|summary=Consider the Doctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each year, were he to keep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need More than sixty years ago my grandparents bought me an encylopedia: it was a few novelty gifts major purchase for some of themas they didn't really ''do'' books, say, but it was a treasure trove for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of a Time Lord me and that of some of his friends and enemiesI still have it today. As luck would have It didn't just teach me facts - it, he has the space in his TARDIS taught me how to stock up in advance, so my advice find out information for myself and how to him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself readyuse an index. And if youIt opened my eyes to subjects I're working d never considered and widened my knowledge on a shorter timescalethose I already loved. In format, with in size and content it was very similar to ''DK Children's Encyclopedia'' and I can imagine a shorter lifespan, younger me hunched over it and thinking perhaps begging just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the sameto be allowed to finish this bit before I went to bed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17859427190241283868</amazonuk>
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|author=Zillah BethellKelly Barnhill|title=The Extraordinary Colours of Auden DareGirl Who Drank the Moon|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Auden has Every year the people of the Protectorate leave a condition called achromatopsiababy as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest, which means in the hope that he can't see coloursthis sacrifice will keep their town safe. He likes to pretend Little do they know that it doesn't matter but it does. And the older Auden getswitch, Xan, is a kind soul who rescues the more it seems children and finds them new homes with families on the other side of the forest. She feeds the babies on starlight to matter. Mind youkeep them nourished throughout their journey, so does everything else...... because Auden lives in but one year she accidently feeds a near-future Britain in baby moonlight which fills the child with a world where climate change has taken rootpowerful magic. It never rains any more. BritainXan names the baby Luna and realises she must raise this magical child as her own, an island with plenty of coastline, is doing better than many countries thanks to its desalination plantslocking away her magical abilities until her thirteenth birthday. But water is still rationed and the Water Authority Board is now a quasi-government as the most important and powerful body in day approaches where Luna's magic will emerge, she will have to learn to protect the land. Water wars have broken out worldwide safe and Auden's father is away fightingloving world she has always known.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18481260851848126476</amazonuk>
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|author=J Saxena and J ZimmermanRobin Jarvis|title=Basic WitchesTime of Blood|rating=4|genre=Spirituality and ReligionTeens|summary= Before I started this book I was expecting to be thrown Travel back over a hundred years into the world of magic and would know how Whitby's past to levitate by the end of the first chaptersee two witches battle an ancient evil. Unsurprisingly, I was wrong. However, what I was met by was a book that explores the origins of witchcraft, teaches you how Follow young Lil as she tries to dress avoid spoilers and act like a witch and contains spells ranging from accepting compliments to conjuring up a relaxing Netflix bingefind her best friend.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>15947497791405280255</amazonuk>
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|author=Maja Lunde J M Barrie and Diane Oatley (translator)Robert Ingpen|title=The History of BeesPeter Pan and Wendy
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|genre=General FictionFor Sharing|summary=Bees are It's a handy symbol childhood staple - the story of Wendy, John and Michael Darling and their beloved nurse, Nana the planetNewfoundland dog who took them to school each day. It's environmental degradationGeorge Darling, as you'll know if you've read anything by [[:Category:Dave Goulson|Dave Goulson]] – whose endorsement is featured proudly on their father, who makes the cover of this U.K. release of Norwegian children's writer Maja Lunde's first novel for adults. The creatures also provide subtle links between mistake when he locks Nana in the book's three story lines.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471162745</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Greta Zargo yard and the Death Robots from Outer Space|author=A F Harrold|rating=4children are whisked away to Neverland by Peter Pan and Tinkerbell.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary= There''No one knew that only three things stood in the way s a wonderful mix of characters, from Peter Pan, the complete and utter destruction of boy who never wants to grow up, Tinkerbell, the Earth: one elderly parrotrather unpleasant fairy, Captain Hook, one eleven-year-old spelling mistake Tiger Lily, the lost boys and one intrepid young newspaper-reporterof course -cum-schoolgirl in search of a Big Scoop.'Wendy, but then it wouldn' Oh my word! What t have been a prospect! Let me break it down for you. The parrot has only ever learned to speak one sentence. The spelling mistake is between great and Greta. Both these things point classic since the alien danger to Earth, a silvery robot, original stage production in 1904 and the direction novel of Greta Zargo, who is the wannabe reporter1911 if it were otherwise. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>14088694701786750856</amazonuk>
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|author= Yaba BadoeEmily Winslow|title= A Jigsaw of Fire and StarsLook For Her
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|genre= Literary FictionCrime|summary=Sante was In 1976, Annalise Wood disappeared on her journey home from school and instantly became a baby when she was washed ashore in a sea-chest laden with treasurelocal celebrity. It seems she is For decades the sole survivor town of Lilling tried to solve the tragic sinking mystery of a ship carrying migrants and refugees. Her people. Fourteen years on sheAnnalise's a member of Mama Rosedisappearance until, almost twenty years later, her body was discovered. Annalise's unique body was badly decomposed and dazzling circus. But, from their watery gravethere was lack of DNA available, the unquiet dead are calling Sante to avenge them. A bamboo flute. A golden bangle. A ripening mango which must only trace on the body was found in her skirt and does not fallmatch anyone on record... if Sante is to tell their story The chances of finding her killer were extremely low and her ownthe murder soon becomes a 'cold case' – but still the most famous Lilling has ever seen. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17866954800749022663</amazonuk>
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|author= Martha Batalha and Eric M B Becker (translator)Grady Hendrix|title= The Invisible Life Paperbacks from Hell: A History of Euridice GusmaoHorror Fiction from the '70s and '80s
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|genre= Literary FictionHorror|summary= On the surfaceDemonic possession, murderous babies, young housewife Euridice Gusmao has it all. A niceman-enougheating moths… for these books, parent-pleasing husband with a steady banking jobno plot was too ludicrous, two young children upon whom to doteno cover art too appalling, an immaculate home complete with maidno evil too despicable. ThatNow horror author Grady Hendrix risks his soul and his sanity (not to mention the reader's all anyone could ever want, isn't it? Not Euridice. She has an inexplicable ache inside her for something more!) to relate the true, like many untold story of usa fascinating and often forgotten era in publishing. Yet each Read the synapse-shattering story summaries!<br>See the horrific hand-painted cover imagery!<br>And learn the true-life tales of her pet projectsthe writers, from a desire to publish a recipe book to starting a cottage sewing industry in her living roomartists, are met with scorn from her stern husband Antenor. He wants a wife and publishers who doesn't draw attention to herself, whose only domains are her house and her familygleefully violated every literary law but one – never be boring.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178607298X1594749817</amazonuk>
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|author=Jakob Wegelius and Peter Graves (translator)Luke Dittrich|title=The Murderer's ApePatient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness and Family Secrets|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersPopular Science|summary=Sally Jones is in clover as a mechanic Luke Dittrich seeks to shed light on a cargo ship – when, that is, there is cargo to actually ship. Having needed emergency repairs, the two-strong crew of her and man behind the Chief are idling in Lisboninitials, and are given a mysterious and mysteriously overpaid job – a job that shouldn't go wrong, but does. Unfortunately for the Chief, taking even the first step at writing the wrong sees him arrested for murder. Sally Jones is forced into hidingin doing so, which she manages to do with uncovered quite a lovely, kind woman with a hidden talent for singing, and her landlord, who makes and repairs accordions and other musical instrumentsbit more than he expected. Life with them seems to be a new form of clover, then, but hints of that past nastiness keep coming back to haunt Sally Jones, especially when there's a suggestion that the alleged murder victim might still be alive… Oh, and did I say that Sally Jones is actually a gorilla?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17826916180099571862</amazonuk>
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|author= David BergenSita Brahmachari and Jane Ray|title= StrangerWorry Angels|rating= 4|genre= Literary Fiction Dyslexia Friendly|summary=Amy-May was devastated when her parents split up: she and her mother left the delightful seaside cottage where the waves had sung her to sleep and moved into a 'garden flat'Stranger'. That didn' tells the story of Íso, t mean that it had a young Guatemalan womangarden, and her affair with an American doctorjust that it was on the ground floor. When an accident forces him to return to They didn't have a lot of possessions as the States, she is left pregnant and lonelybailiffs had taken most of them. Her anguish becomes even more profound when her daughter is abducted, father was living in another old cottage now and taken hopefully he'd be able to live with the doctor and set up his wifekiln, but he wouldn't be able to home-school Amy-May. What followed - tales of The alternative was Sandcastles Secondary School but the journey Íso embarked upon in the hope of finding her baby - rather nervous Amy was an amazing story of considered to be too ''anxious'' to start at the lengths school full time. As a mother will go gentle introduction to in order schooling she went to save her childGrace's art school instead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715652419178112695X</amazonuk>
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|author= Marianne TaylorCassandra Parkin|title= Owls: A Guide to Every SpeciesThe Winter's Child
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|genre= ReferenceParanormal|summary=I feel like I am being watched. ''A huge pair modern Gothic tale of piercing orange eyes are staring right at metwisted love, locking me into their gazesecrets and hauntings'' it says on the cover. In contrast I'll go along with that. Suzannah Harper doesn't believe in life after death or gypsies being able to tell the hardness of the deep-amber eyesfuture, soft grey feathers fan out into but that hasn't stopped her spending a fortune on psychics and fortune tellers in the surrounding area, intricate, detailed and beautifuldesperate hunt for her son. Joel has been missing for five years. An enigma; harsh and gentle He skipped out of school one day after an argument at the same time, the owl is beckoning the reader to turn the pages home and take a closer look inside..has not been seen since.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178240404X1785079034</amazonuk>
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|author=Orlando WeeksClare Foges and Al Murphy|title=The GrittermanBathroom Boogie|rating=54|genre=Graphic NovelsFor Sharing|summary=There's Every day I leave the house with the feeling that I left it in a man who has an ice cream vanpretty tidy state, but on my return some things always seem out of place. In summer, what there This is especially true of summer, he uses it to sell ice creams, That's not his vocation though, but it does keep him going whilst he waits for winter, when the van becomes a Gritting Van and our narrator becomes a Grittermanmy bathroom. The fibreglass 99s Why is there toothpaste on the roof light up and rotatemirror, playing or a tune, whether flannel on the van's gritting or selling ice creams. floor? Tonight - Christmas Eve - will It would appear that I may not actually be the vanto blame and that when I's last trip. The council has sent m at work all the letter about his services no longer being requiredbathroom items come out for a boogie. Global warming. Dying profession, they say. There's even a tarmac now that can de-ice itself, but the Gritterman isn't sure that he wants to live Will I ever catch them in a world where the B2116 doesn't need gritting.act?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184614955X0571337317</amazonuk>
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|author= Adam SilveraMark Alder|title= They Both Die at Son of the EndNight
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|genre=TeensFantasy|summary= In [[Son of the Morning by Mark Alder|Son of the Morning]], author Mark Alder plunges the reader into a chaotic, dangerous world, taking them back to the turbulent reign of Edward III and the dangers of the Hundred Years War. Adding elements of fantasy and theology to the mix, Alder created an intriguing read which is continued in ''No matter how we choose to live, we both die at Son of the endNight''. With Lucifer, Satan, God, Devils and Angels interacting with a cast of real and well researched characters, Alder continues his exploration of the Hundred Years war whilst rather incredibly keeping his readers as educated as they are entertained.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575115203</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kenneth Grahame and Robert Ingpen|title=The Wind in The Willows|rating=4 |genre=Confident Readers|summary=Kenneth Grahame's ''The year is 2017, Wind in the place is America, but this is not a place we recognise. A company called Death-Cast know Willows'' was one of the exact date defining books of everyonemy childhood and more than sixty years after I first read the book I's death and make ve just recently passed it their mission to inform Deckers that they will be dead within onto another young reader. Since the next twenty-four hours. Many book was first published in 1908 there have tried to cheat deathbeen some notable illustrators: Paul Bransom provided illustrations for the 1913 edition, Ernest H Shepard (perhaps better known for his illustrations of ''Winnie the Pooh'') in 1933, all have failedArthur Rackham (possibly the leading illustrator from the golden age of book illustration) in 1940 and Robert Ingpen who illustrated the centenary edition of ''The Wind in the Willows''. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>14711662011786751062</amazonuk>
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|author= K J WhittakerSimon Jenkins|title= False LightsBritain's 100 Best Railway Stations|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical FictionReference|summary=Cornwall, 1817. What if your worst mistake changed In the course of history? Napoleon has crushed mid twentieth century the Duke of Wellington at railway was something which harked back to the Battle of WaterlooVictorian age with trains being supplanted by cars and planes, but steam was being replaced by oil, even then and his exin the twenty-wife Josephine presides over French-occupied Englandfirst century oil is giving way to electricity. Cornwall erupts into open rebellion, and young heiress Hester escapes with Crow, Wellington It's former intelligence officercleaner, a half-French aristocrat haunted by his part in more environmentally friendly and the catastrophic defeat. Togetherstations which we'd all rushed through as quickly as possible, they become embroiled in a web of treachery and espionage as plans are laid keen to free Wellington from secret captivity in the Scilly Isles and lead an uprising against the French occupation. In a country rife with traitorsescape their grime, Hester were restored and Crow know it is impossible became places to play such a game as this for long.be admired, possibly even lingered in. Simon Jenkins has chosen his hundred best railway stations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786695340024197898X</amazonuk>
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|author=Cynthia Ryland and Mary BlairSarah Baker|title=Walt Disney's Cinderella: Illustrated by Mary Blair (Walt Disney Classics)Eloise Undercover
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|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary=I'm sure almost all my readers are au fait Eloise has a wonderful life with the story of Cinderellaher two best friends, Albert and of how she went from Maddie, until the gutter German soldiers start to the stars in one romantic swooparrive and everything changes. It's only Nazi-occupied France is not a good thing the relevant people didn't have foot fetishes or phobias, place Eloise wants to be. Maddie and her family are taken away and Albert starts to act very strangely. Then her father disappears. Eloise is lost until she discovers her father has been working for then the tale would have been utterly different. Disney made it slightly different, of course, when they made the animated classic based on the legend, resistance and this bookthere might, complete with art from the time the film was being madeif she is brave enough, is evidence of just how the look be a way to rescue him before he's deported to Germany. She now has hope and a plan. But will the emotion of the piece were intended to be.resistance let a twelve year old schoolgirl join them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14052869971910611131</amazonuk>
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|author=Jon Scieszka and Mary BlairNalini Singh|title=Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland: Illustrated by Mary Blair (Walt Disney Classics)Silver Silence A Psy-Changling Trinity Novel|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging ReadersParanormal|summary=I'll take is as read you have some knowledge of the story of Alice in Wonderland – certainly when she got to be 150 years old Jump straight into a couple of years back there were no end of editions of her storyrich and diverse universe at this designated jumping on point. And as you know, 150 years is a heck of Visit a lot world of unbirthdays. But her story got to be slightly differenthumans, changelings and if anything only more loved, courtesy of Psy. The world the Disney cartoon, books have set in has faced a dramatic change and the fact that this book features artwork that was generated during the production a new world-order of that film peace has been declared. The peace is the unique selling pointpainful and not universally loved.Into this world a bear falls in love with an emotionless Psy – how'd ya reckon it'll turn out?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14052870041473217571</amazonuk>
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|titleauthor=MoonriseColin Thubron|authortitle=Sarah CrossanMirror to Damascus|rating=4.5|genre=TeensTravel|summary=Joe Damascus today is seventeen a monument to her past, to all the people and he hasn't seen his brother for ten yearscivilisations that helped shape her. And the reason for that is brutal - Ed is on Death Row in TexasIn this enthusiastic piece of travel writing, convicted of Collin Thubron tells the murder tale of a police officercity that has seen empires rise and fall, conquerors come and go and has lasted for over two thousand years. Ed says heIt's innocent. Aunt Karen doesn't believe him. And Mum is long gone, no-one knows where. When the execution date comes through, Joe passes up on his job and a spot on a summer athletics scholarship rich in impressive history and treks from New York across the country so that Ed this book is not alone. He is determined to spend these last weeks with his brother no matter what anybody else thinksrich in impressive detail.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140886780X0099532298</amazonuk>
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|titleauthor=I am TraitorFearne Cotton and Sheena Dempsey|authortitle=Sif Sigmarsdottir Yoga Babies|rating=4.5|genre=TeensFor Sharing|summary=Alien ships have arrived in the skies above London. The Prime Minister appeared on Radio host, TV to announce this ominous visitation and order a curfew. After thatpresenter, he went AWOL and took all reliable information with himfashion designer, leaving author – is there anything Fearne Cotton can't do? Based on the army content of this book, we can undoubtedly add Yogi to patrol the streets. Not that the army has ongoing list of talents, because it's hard to imagine any answer to the long pipes that snake down from the ships and gobble up teenagers. To where, nobody knowsother way in which this came into being.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14449344731783445645</amazonuk>
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|titleauthor=Charlotte SaysClaire Freedman and Jane Massey|authortitle=Alex BellFlorence Frizzball|rating=4.5|genre=TeensFor Sharing|summary=Florence Frizzball has the frizziest, curliest, most out of control mop of hair you''Charlotte saysve ever seen! And she longs for smooth, sleek, brushable locks like all her friends... don't open As a kid, I remember being chased round the door.'' Jemima's garden by my mother died in an awful fire not long ago , brandishing a hair brush and that is why Jemima decides trying to get me to leave London sit still and take up a job as a teacher have my frizz sorted out. To say I identified with Florence would be an understatement. As the tale goes on , though, we see another side to the Isle of Skyestory. But leaving the place doesn't mean escaping the memories and Jemima is tormented by second-guessing Florence gets what actually happened on that terrible night. It doesn't help she wants, but when her dream comes true she quickly learns that Miss Grayson, the mistress at maybe she was wanting all the schoolwrong things, and that actually her frizzball is a strange, forbidding sort, while the school itself is a thoroughly creepy old buildingpart of her identity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18471584041471144542</amazonuk>
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|author= J Jefferson FarjeonStuart Maconie|title= Seven DeadLong Road From Jarrow|rating= 45|genre= Historical FictionTravel |summary=Ted Lyte was petty criminal, but not usually I cancelled my ''Country Walking'' magazine subscription about a year ago and the housebreaking typeonly thing I miss is Stuart Maconie's column. He lacked the courage. However, needs must, and whilst feeling His down on his luck he decided -to try his chances at -earth approach and sharp wit belie an isolated house with equally sharp intellect and a shuttered windowsoul more sensitive than he might be willing to admit. Let's be honest, though, I picked this one up because of someone else's review, in which I spotted names like Ferryhill and Newton Aycliffe. Places I grew up in..he might find a bit Like Maconie I have no connection (that I know of alright behind those shutters! Wot abart it?'' Ted does indeed find something interesting behind ) to the shutters, Jarrow Crusade but when he talks about it definitely isnbeing 't what he'd hoped. In a locked room he finds seven dead bodies; six men and a woman. Fleeing the house in horrorwhole matrix of events reducible to one word like Aberfan, he is pursued and caught by a passing yachtsmanHillsborough, Thomas Hazeldean, who also happens to be a journalist. Fascinated by Tedor Orgreave''s story (and a possible scoop), Hazeldean decides to investigate this curious case and its assortment then somehow it does become part of odd cluesmy history too. Tangentially, including a portrait shot through the heart, an old cricket ball and a mysterious note written by one of the victimsat least.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07123568861785030531</amazonuk>
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|author= Chris ColferKieran Larwood|title= The Land Gift of Stories: Worlds CollideDark Hollow
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|summary=FinallyThis is the second marvellous book featuring the rabbits of Enderby, after much anticipationand the delightful young rabbit hero, Podkin One Ear. I love the grand finale to the best-selling ''Land format of a story within a story. The adventures of StoriesPodkin in '' is here. The previous book [[The Land Gift of Stories: An AuthorDark Hollow''s Odyssey , are told by Chris Colfer|an old rabbit who has been a Bard all his life - a teller of stories and legends from the rabbit world. The Land of Stories: An Author's Odyssey]] left us dangling on Bard has an almighty cliffhangerapprentice, Rue, desperately eager to learn his trade. He hangs on every word spoken by the Bard as well as leaving many plot threads unresolvedthey travel together to a festival. We have been with Rue is hungry to learn the Bailey twins art of story-telling, but also wants to know all about Podkin One Ear, and what better way to do this than to hear from the very beginning; seen them grow Master himself. The tale he tells Rue (and us) is a gripping and scary one, featuring Podkin and mature from awkward pre-teens his friends in their ongoing battle to confident young adultsoverturn the ruthless Gorm, and their cruel leader, Scramashank.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571328415</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Phil Allcock and Richard Watson|title= Clumpety Bump|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary= Clumpety Bump likes apples. Orson Welles famously saidNothing wrong with that, after all: they're tasty and full of goodness. But you don'If you want a happy endingt get delicious, juicy treats like that depends, of courseunless you deserve them, and naughty Clumpety is a bit too keen on where you stop your story.saying ''I can't be bothered' Is the fact that the book begins with this quote an ominous warning that the Bailey twins may not get their 'happily ever when his friend Wally asks for help. So, afterseveral disasters, Wally decides he' after all?d be better off leaving Clumpety at home and using his tractor instead. Unfortunately, things don't turn out too well, and our two heroes learn that if you want to be properly happy, other people need to be happy too. Selfishness just makes everyone sad. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>03163558951848862458</amazonuk>
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|author= Brian MastersRoger Moore|title= Killing for CompanyA Bientot...|rating= 54|genre= True CrimeAutobiography|summary= Killing The news of the death of Sir Roger Moore in May 2017 came as a great shock: he was one of those people you knew would go on for Company is ever. There was just one small glimmer of light in the sadness - the news that a detailed criminal study matter of Dennis Nilsendays before his death he'd delivered the finished manuscript of his book, unique in that it was produced with Nilsen's full cooperation and includes material from Nilsen's prison diaries. Covering NilsenÀ bientôt…''s early life, to his career and subsequent murders, this is publishers. Just a few months later a detailed analysis of the man behind the murder copy landed on my desk and an attempt, on MastersI didn' part, t even bother to understand what shaped Nilsen and what look as though I could have caused such apparently senseless violenceresist reading it straight away.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17847594221782438610</amazonuk>
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|author= E V HarteJonathan Stroud|title= Lockwood and Co: The Prime of Ms Dolly GreeneEmpty Grave
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|genre= CrimeConfident Readers|summary= I love reading full stop so I was excited to have In a world that takes the best and worst of Victorian times (atmospheric fogs, candles, mudlarks who scavenge along the banks of the chance to read Thames for treasures) and the first crime novel from establishedmodern day (leggings, well-regarded author Daisy Waughskinny jeans, writing under a pseudonymcabs and concrete underpasses) absolutely anything can happen – and it does. ButFor fifty years ghosts of all kinds have infested Britain, and as a self-confessed chicklit fanonly children and young people can see them, theirs is the task of protecting the adults and ridding the country of the menaces, one by painful one. Lucy, George, Holly and Lockwood are the members of the smallest and most ramshackle independent agency, who's never read but their constant success (and survival despite forever lengthening odds) is a crime novel beforethorn in the flesh of the elite Fittes Agency, I wasn't sure if I was going to like itwhich has acquired almost total control over the whole ghost-bashing business....turns out I absolutely loved it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14721242430552575798</amazonuk>
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|author=Vicky HaywardKenneth Steven|title=Juan Altamiras' New Art of Cookery: A Spanish Friar's Kitchen NotebookWinter Tales
|rating=4
|genre=CookeryShort Stories|summary=In 1745 Upon opening this book you are presented with an eclectic collection of twelve short stories centred around a Spanish friary cook, Juan Altamiras, published the first edition common theme of his ''New Art of Cookery, Drawn From Winter. You are taken around the School world as you read stories set in a variety of Economic Experience''. It contained more than two hundred recipes for meat, poultry, game, salted and fresh fish, vegetables and desserts. The style was informal, chatty and humorous on occasions and it was aimed, not at those who could afford places from Helsinki to cook on a grand scale, but at those with more modest budgetsNew York, who sometimes needed Germany to cook for large numbersRussia. Whilst the ingredients were - for the most part - modestly priced there is Kenneth Steven cleverly utilises a stress on the careful combination key component of flavours and aromas. Spices are used conservatively and the bluntness of some Moorish cooking is eschewed short stories - that you can read each story in favour of something much more subtle and we see influences from Altamiras' own regionone sitting - to his advantage as he gives each story an individual focal subject, Aragonsuch as bullying, ensuring that you are reading a distinct story every time you open the Iberian court and the New Worldbook.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14422794191910674508</amazonuk>
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|author= Clar Ni ChonghaileWilliam Sutton|title= Rain Falls On EveryoneLawless and the House of Electricity
|rating= 5
|genre= Literary FictionCrime (Historical)|summary= It's Campbell Lawless is back, this time tasked with solving a cliché that series of terrorist attacks across the nation. Is it the work of the Irish French, as police and public are being led to believe, or someone closer to home? Who can be trusted and what does Roxbury, an innovative inventor previously disgraced, have a picturesque turn to do with the bombs used to cause chaos across the country? Employing the services of phraseMolly, but clichés only exist because they're true. Roddy Doyle put it differently the effervescent ragamuffin from his previous adventures, he sets in motion a recent interview with ''Writing'' magazinecampaign of subterfuge which uncovers long held secrets, when he said that ''With Irish, thereskulduggery and the desperate yearnings beneath Roxbury's another language bubbling under the English''constant invention. However |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785650130</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=K J Lawrence|title= The Cossack|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Daniel Brooking is not what you express it, that art 'd think of expression is woven into every other line of Cláras hero material: he's prose. Pick a page at random photographer of some merit and you'll find something like ''the sickness that had come to roost in her home like his fifties he has a cursed owl'' or ''like he settled life. It was Godthe disappearance of his assistant, Ivan Shevchenko, Jesus and Justin Timberlake rolled into one'' or which disrupted everything. It wasn't unknown for him to disappear occasionally, but missing an exhibition was a first for him. He'd been distracted for a low sobbingfew days - and then there were the strange papers which arrived, slow and inevitable as rain on to be kept safe. The authorities, in the form of a Sunday'': expressions shadowy senior member of the security services, confirmed the view that catch your smile unawaresIvan was probably dead, or tear at your heart in their mundane sadness. Or sometimes bothbecause of some supposed connections with organised crime and drug dealing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17850790181999782704</amazonuk>
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|titleauthor=Salt CreekJames Goss and Russell T Davies|authortitle=Lucy TreloarDoctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Historical FictionChildren's Rhymes and Verse |summary=The first chapter Consider the Doctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each year, were he to keep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of ''Salt Creek'' opens in Chichesterthem, say, Englandfor example, in 1874. Hester Finch is whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of a respected Time Lord and reasonably wealthy member that of some of her communityhis friends and enemies. But she can't stop As luck would have it, he has the space in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, so my advice to him – sorry, her thoughts wandering back – would be to her adolescence, spent on Salt Creek Station in the remote South Australian Coorong regionpop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. Hester feels And if you''has never felt so alive as thenre working on a shorter timescale, with a shorter lifespan, and thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, when we had so little''well my advice is pretty much the same.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19107094171785942719</amazonuk>
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