Changes

From TheBookbag
Jump to navigationJump to search

Book Reviews From The Bookbag (view source)

Revision as of 14:43, 17 February 2019

681 bytes added ,  14:43, 17 February 2019
no edit summary
{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->
<!-- Susan Wilkins Angela Marsons -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:15098045441786817721.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/15098045441786817721/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[It Should Have Been Me Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Susan WilkinsAngela Marsons]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]], [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]
ItSomeone is recreating every traumatic event in Kim Stone's seventeen years since DC Jo Boden's sisterpast, Sarah, was murdered and her life since has been lived in starting with the shadow death of what happenedher twin when she was six years old. Jo was only eleven Some of the events, or at least the time details of them, are not public knowledge, but whoever is behind this has a wealth of information and her parents' marriage broke up in the aftermath: her brother Carl opted is using it to go and live with his father evil intent. That might seem bad enough, but Jo stayed with her mother who was mentally frail and not coping with everyday lifethe brutal truth of the matter is that people - innocent people - are dying so that these dramas can be recreated. She wasnStone probably - well, certainly - shouldn't pleased when Jo decided to join be on the policecase, but the job satisfies Jo. who has better knowledge of what happened to her than she does? She's passed If her sergeant's exams but in boss can just turn a blind eye to the Met these days effect it's a case of dead men's shoes and no one seems inclined to make way having on her for the younger generation. Stilllong enough, being a detective is better than being a PC and when the opportunity to go undercover comes up, Jo grabs she can sort itout.. . Or can she? [[It Should Have Been Me Dead Memories (D I Kim Stone) by Susan WilkinsAngela Marsons|Full Review]]
<!-- Yancey Williams Hurwitz -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:0986031690071818548X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0986031690071818548X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[The Resurrection Out of Jesus the Dark by Yancey WilliamsGregg Hurwitz]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Literary FictionThrillers|Literary FictionThrillers]]
In March 1990 two police officers entered Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum1997. They left with thirteen famous paintings by RembrandtEvan Smoak is 19 years old ''trained up, Degas and Vermeermission ready. The frames remain empty to this day: whilst there might have been rumours about the whereabouts of the paintings, even promises that the case was about to be solved, the paintings are still missingAnd yet untested. Yancey Williams has a theory, which he delaborates on in his novel ''The Resurrection of Jesus'He's in a foreign city on an officially unofficial mission, and whilst his suspects might seem unlikely, who's to say that which he's wrong? Forget executes with all the assertions impeccable training that it was down to the Mafia and meet Jésus Ángel Escobar and Hiram Johnny Walker Quicksilverhis youth belies. Evan Smoak is Orphan X. [[The Resurrection Out of Jesus the Dark by Yancey WilliamsGregg Hurwitz|Full Review]]
<!-- David Mark Jewell -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:1473643198178475627X.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473643198178475627X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[Cold Bones (DS McAvoy 8) Watching You by David MarkLisa Jewell]]===
[[image:34.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeThrillers|CrimeThrillers]]
It all began almost innocently: DS Aector McAvoy was told by A teenage boy spies on a teenage girl from his bedroom window. Down the road, a concerned stranger that woman is convinced she knows a man in the village and that he is following her son had regularly seen an old . Meanwhile, a young woman who lived in has moved back home after some time abroad, and develops a nearby cottage but she hadnfascination with her new neighbour. The man's wife, meanwhile, engages the services of the young woman't been for a few dayss husband in some work around the house. Perhaps McAvoy could check Oh, and that she was alrightteenage boy? No - she wouldnHe't go s her son. And the woman with him, but shethe conspiracy theories? She'd tell him where s the house wasmother of the girl he's spying on. And so McAvoy wentPlus, only the man she thinks is out to find get her is the windows open on a freezing cold day - woman's husband (and inside an old lady was in is also the new headteacher at her bath encased in icedaughter's school). It ''might'Whichever way you look at it, there' have been s a tragic accident, but McAvoy suspected murder - and he thought that someone had watched the woman dielot of watching going on in this book. [[Cold Bones (DS McAvoy 8) Watching You by David MarkLisa Jewell|Full Review]]
<!-- Emma Kavanagh Cooch -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:14091749800578444305.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/14091749800578444305/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[To Catch a Killer by Emma Kavanagh]]===
===[[Fish Seeking Bicycle by Kate Cooch]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:ThrillersFantasy|ThrillersFantasy]]
If youThis novel is set about a hundred years into the future. The world has been decimated by nuclear conflict and what're a detective on a murder squad one s left of the first things you learn old United States is detachmentrun from Center City. You develop a distance from the victim: Women run this world and it allows you do do your job with is very proud of having defeated the minimum amount of emotionold patriarchy. ThatMen must behave appropriately and deferentially at all times and, if they don's relatively easy when you encounter your victim when t, are medicalised to keep their baser instincts under control. And if that doesn't work, they're already dead but DS Alice Parr met the woman they would need sent to call Jane Doe when she was alivework camps, albeit only just. She was being tended by an off-duty paramedic who was struggling away from open society, or even worse: expelled to cope with the fact that wilderness beyond the womanCentral Authority's throat had been cut and she'd been stabbed several times. The attack had been called in by a dog walker and Alice had been walking to work when the call came over her Airwave radioborders. [[To Catch a Killer Fish Seeking Bicycle by Emma KavanaghKate Cooch|Full Review]]
<!-- Barnard James Atkinson -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:1509852883B07ML4Q55J.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1509852883B07ML4Q55J/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[Home Workout for Beginners: 6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by James Atkinson]]===
[[image:4star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Fierce Fragile Hearts by Sara Barnard:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]]===
[[imageJames Atkinson has all the qualifications which you need in a workout instructor and he looks the part. He's been actively involved in the health and fitness arena for more than twenty years and he spent nine years as a member of 9 Parachute Regiment, Royal Engineers. He has another qualification which means a lot to me:4he's been on the other side. There was a time when he was overweight and not particularly strong.5star As a child he was slow to develop.jpg|link=Category This means that he ''understands'' what it's like and he knows how his clients feel:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] it's much more helpful than the twenty-something who was born super-fit and with an attitude problem. [[Home Workout for Beginners:Category:Teens6 Week Fitness Program with Fat Burning Workouts for Long Term Weight Loss by James Atkinson|TeensFull Review]]
It's two years since Suzanne hit rock bottom. She's had extensive therapy and a stint with a lovely foster family. And now she's eighteen and must leave the Looked After system. Suzanne is apprehensive but excited. She's found herself a job, a bedsit has been rented, and she's about to return to Brighton, the only place she's ever felt truly at home, and to Caddy and Rosie, her two best friends. [[Fierce Fragile Hearts by Sara Barnard|Full Review]]<!-- Clear Adrian Cull -->
|-
| style=''"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''"|[[image:18479418341999308719.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/18479418341999308719/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style=''"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''"|===[[Atomic Habits Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by James ClearAdrian Cull]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Popular ScienceLifestyle|Popular ScienceLifestyle]], [[:Category:LifestylePopular Science|LifestylePopular Science]]
For many years now I've said this before but there are some books (half) joked that I intended to live forever and that you seek so far, it was working out, some books that you stumble across OK. Time has passed though and although I'm a great deal fitter and some books that drop into your healthier than most people of my age there were a few nagging health problems which were tipping my life because you really MUST read themout of balance. It was time to look for a new approach and as so often happens, like, right now! the reviewing gods brought me the book I needed. ''Atomic HabitsLive Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments'' is in seemed like the last categoryanswer to my problems - only you get so much more than just 101 tips. [[Atomic Habits Live Forever Manual: Science, ethics and companies behind the new anti-aging treatments by James ClearAdrian Cull|Full Review]]
<!-- Tony Kent Anders -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:17839639211785653199.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/17839639211785653199/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[Marked for Death The City In The Middle Of The Night by Tony KentCharlie Jane Anders]]===
[[image:4star3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:ThrillersScience Fiction|ThrillersScience Fiction]]
January is a dying planet. It wasn't exactly pleasant to begin with. One half is scorching sunlight, pure, blazing heat, and totally uninhabitable. The other half is pure darkness and ice, where a creature can freeze to death of in seconds, and totally uninhabitable. In the middle is a brief twilight that is barely survivable. Life is a retired Lord Chief Justice would have made knife-edge, stray too close to one side you die, to close to the news: his crucifixion dominated it other, you die and Detective Chief Inspector Joelle Levy of yet the Met's Major Incident Team was heat from the person whose job is was to find his killer. She never thought that it would be easy: sun and the Lord Chief Justice had been making enemies in water from the course of his work ice are necessary for over half a centurylife. It seems unreasonable to suggest that Life for the crucifixion inhabitants of retired solicitor Adam Blunt might have given her a ray of hopeJanuary is long, and hard, and arduous, but surely two such grisly killings cannot be randomwill anything ever change? All that's needed is to find out what connects the two cases. [[Marked for Death The City In The Middle Of The Night by Tony KentCharlie Jane Anders|Full Review]]
<!-- Hogan Laws -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:14736690651789016851.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/14736690651789016851/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel Exit Day: Brexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by Ruth HoganDavid Laws]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]
[[image:5starAt the time of my writing this, there is one thing uniting Britain, and this is hatred of 'Brexit'. Not just Brexit, but use of the word 'Brexit'. Yes, people hate the people that instigated it then disappeared, and/or the people who just can't seem to get their fingers out and complete it, but they also hate the use of the word. This biggest turn-off has made people who have never so much as tutted in their life slam down their tea-cups in high dudgeon and leave the room until it's safe to return, when all mention of it has subsided. I mention this in relation to this book because it is partly about Brexit, but because it too seems to get to the actual Brexiting in a very protracted manner. Just as we have to wade through dirges from Europe to get anywhere, it seems, so the reader of this book has to get through a lot from Europe before the title's theme really arises.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]] Here, [[:Category:Humour|Humour]]at least though, the author's delaying tactics are much more forgiveable. [[Exit Day:Category:ParanormalBrexit; An Assassin Stalks the Prime Minister by David Laws|ParanormalFull Review]]
Tilda returns to Brighton, to tidy away the remains of her mother's life after her death. Whilst there, she returns to the Paradise hotel, a haven for eccentrics and misfits. A place where people can be themselves, and let go of thoughts that torment them elsewhere. Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a child, from this place of wonder. With the help of Queenie Malone, caring, and gregarious, Tilda begins to pick apart the tricky and uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and distant mother. [[Queenie Malone's Paradise Hotel by Ruth Hogan|Full Review]]<!-- McGowan Chamberlain -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:178112843X1786076446.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178112843X1786076446/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[The Hidden by Mary Chamberlain]]===
===[[Lark by Anthony McGowan]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Dyslexia FriendlyLiterary Fiction|Dyslexia FriendlyLiterary Fiction]], [[:Category:TeensHistorical Fiction|TeensHistorical Fiction]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]  I'll warn you first. This is the fourth and last story about Nicky and Kenny. Try not to cry before you've even read the first page.
Things have got tense at home - again - for Nicky When Barbara Hummel arrives, determined to identify the mysterious woman whose photograph she has found among her mother's possessions, Dora and Joe find their worlds upended – and his learning-disabled brother Kennyare swiftly forced to confront their pasts. Their mum is coming to visit - Revisiting their time on the mum who abandoned them Channel Islands during World War II, Dora remembers a long time ago. They haven't seen when she concealed her for years Jewish identity, and the impending visit is stirring up Joe, a Catholic Priest, remembers a lot time when he hid something very different. In this story of uncomfortable feelings. And Nicky's girlfriend has ended things. To take their minds off it alllove, Nicky loss and Kenny plan a day outbetrayal, trekking across the moors. But it doesn't go remains to plan and an accident puts both boys - and their dog, Tina, in terrible danger. be seen whether a speck of light can diffuse the darkest shadows of war… [[Lark The Hidden by Anthony McGowanMary Chamberlain|Full Review]]
<!-- Lucy Foley Stephen John Hartley -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:00082971181999811402.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/00082971181999811402/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[The Hunting Party Painting Snails by Lucy FoleyStephen John Hartley]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeAutobiography|CrimeAutobiography]], [[:Category:Lifestyle|Lifestyle]]
To begin with we donIt's very difficult to classify ''Painting Snails''t know a great deal. We know : originally I thought that thereas it's loosely based around a body and before too long we know that Dougyear on an allotment it would be a lifestyle book, the gamekeeper, doesnbut you't think it was an accident. You re not going to get the feeling that Doug knows about these things. Three days earlier there had been nine travellers advice on what to plant when and where for the train: however you cut that one, the seating is going to be awkwardbest results. Someone is going to The answer would be left on their ownsomething along the lines of 'try it and see'. The highland lodge Then I considered popular science as Stephen Hartley failed his A levels, did an engineering apprenticeship, became a busker, finally got into medical school and is stunning though, but these people who don't usually get outside the M25 find it difficult to realise exactly what ''isolated'' really meansnow an A&E consultant (part time). In this case it means I found out that itthere's an hourawful lot more to what goes on in a Major Trauma Centre than you's drive to the ll ever glean from ''roadCasualty'' and , but thatisn's when t really what the weatherbook's goodabout. But this new yearThere's a lot about rock & roll, which seems to be the weather definitely real passion of Hartley's life, but it didn'isnt actually fit into the entertainment genre either. Did we have a category for 'tdoing the impossible the hard way'? Yep - that' goods the one. This is serious snowIt's autobiography. [[The Hunting Party Painting Snails by Lucy FoleyStephen John Hartley|Full Review]]
<!-- Richard Rutherford Lelic -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:1789016320B07GXSB6N2.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/17890163201444947605/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[Tadcaster and the Bullies by Richard Rutherford]]===
===[[The Haven: Book 1 by Simon Lelic]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Emerging Confident Readers|Emerging Confident Readers]]
In some ways it was When Ollie and Nancy, the police officer tasked with guarding our young hero, are abducted in the middle of the night, things take a gentler time: video games were arounddangerous turn. Rescued by Dodge, but children usually went outside Ollie is taken to enjoy themselves. They flew kites and went sledging if there was snow around. Tim and Mary's great-grandfather started the Haven, a business in 1899 so our story is probably set secret underground community based in a network of underground tunnels that the nineteen seventiesLondon above ground knows nothing about. Something which hasn't changed, unfortunatelyHere, children work together to battle great evils. And there is bullying and two lads are making life miserable not just for Tim and Mary but for other children who gather in the playgroundan immediate enemy to fight. Tim's probably about ten - just at Ollie would have been the stage where hundredth victim of Maddy Sikes had he's beginning not been rescued. And Maddy intends to feel responsible for his younger sister, who's two years younger than him, but he's not yet at destroy the stage where he knows how to deal with bulliescity. [[Tadcaster and the Bullies The Haven: Book 1 by Richard RutherfordSimon Lelic|Full Review]]
<!-- Elaine Robertson North Kennedy -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:ICTYW0993202349.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/17904643580993202349/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[I Can't Tell You Why by Elaine Robertson North]]===
===[[The Things That are Lost by Alan Kennedy]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's General Fiction|Women's General Fiction]]
When we first meet Dani sheThe final novel in Alan Kennedy's about WW2 trilogy sees Captain Alex Vere taken off active duty and banished to get an offer that would appear to be all too easy to refuseScotland, providing trade craft spy training. SheIt's Alex Cambridge's agent stifling and suffocating and the indications are that he's about feels as much like a prison to make Alex as anything the big timeGermans would provide. HeAnd where is Justine? Alex hasn's good looking, charismatic and appealing - well, t seen her since hewent to ''s an actor so that's part ' disastrous meeting with John Cabot, instigator of the spec - disinformation campaign, and returned to find her missing. A failed mission is one thing but his suggestion that he and Dani should start a relationship no Justine is hedged by a statement that hequite another. Alex can's got no intention t get Justine out of leaving his wife and three childrenhead. So, what's in it for DaniHas she left the service? No, there's no need to answer that. Dani understands the situation all Does she know too well and tells him so. much? Is she even still alive? [[I Can't Tell You Why The Things That are Lost by Elaine Robertson NorthAlan Kennedy|Full Review]]
<!-- McCombie Douglas Lindsay -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:08576391021473696917.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/08576391021473696917/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) by Douglas Lindsay]]===
===[[Little Bird Flies by Karen McCombie]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersCrime|Confident ReadersCrime]]
Bridie, or Little Bird as she prefers to be known, is A man walked into a crofter's daughter living on the remote Scottish island of Tornishpolice station in Estonia. Life is hard but often happy even though Little Bird struggles with the disability He told a tale of having been held prisoner, used as a wasted arm donor for organ harvesting and leg sperm donation. X-rays and often misses her mothermedical examination bear out this part of his story, who but this man, or the man he says he is - John Baden - died some time twelve years ago. Despite this His body was identified by his partner, Little Bird has a warm Emily King and by his parents - and loving fatherthen the body was buried. So, sisters who is this man? DI Ben Westphall is sent to watch over herEstonia because of his background in MI6, but that brings some baggage with it too. Westphall cannot, will not, get on a good friend in Will and a laird for whom she is a particular favouriteplane. Little Bird knows every inch His last experience of her windswept, savagely beautiful islandflight was more than enough for one lifetime. [[Little Bird Flies Song of the Dead (DI Westphall) by Karen McCombieDouglas Lindsay|Full Review]]
<!-- Jason Boggs Michelle Harrison -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:154564134X1471124290.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/154564134X1471124290/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[The Dragon's Harvest A Pinch of Magic by Jason F BoggsMichelle Harrison]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]
[[image:4star''No Widdershins girl has ever been able to leave Crowstone.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]]If we do, we'll die by the next sunset. ''
Young Nelson Jones was a young and gifted military cadet in the fascist new world order called the 'New Era'. As his experiences led him on a path of conflict and self-discovery, he became a changed man. Picking up 20 months after the events A Pinch of Magic''The Devil's Dragon''follows three sisters – Betty, Nelson is Fliss and Charlie – who have lived on an expedition to uncover the mystery isle of Crowstone, infamous for its surrounding marshes and the sungatesneighbouring inescapable prison, when a terrible secret leads to horrifying discoveries for all involvedtheir entire lives. MeanwhileThe middle sister, Betty, has longed for adventure for as long as she can remember and she is determined that nothing and no-one will prevent her from seeing everything that the humans world has to offer. But in setting out to do just that, she and the Aesini fight her sisters discover a deadly curse which has haunted their family for generations. From their very existenceancestors, as Nelson's nemesiswell as a lifetime trapped on Crowstone, Major Ira Billisthey have each inherited a magical object – an old carpet bag, finds a terrifying new ally in a quest to restore set of wooden nesting dolls and an antique handheld mirror – all of which are more than meets the New Era to glory. As Nelson eye and his friends race against could possibly be the clock in order key to defeat this new threat, they find themselves facing a power beyond imagination… their problem. [[The Dragon's Harvest A Pinch of Magic by Jason F BoggsMichelle Harrison|Full Review]]
<!-- Dylan Lisa Gardner -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:17889507201780897715.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/17889507201780897715/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[Never Tell by Lisa Gardner]]===
===[[Whiteout (Red Eye) by Gabriel Dylan]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensCrime|TeensCrime]], [[:Category:HorrorThrillers|HorrorThrillers]]  Are you up for a sleepless night or two? If so, read on!
Charlie is on a school trip, skiing in the Austrian mountains. HeEvie Carter's not having much fun. A miserable husband was shot dead in his own home life has given Charlie a bad attitude reputation and he's not a popular kidshe was found with the gun in her hands. Charlie tends to go off by himself - not always a safe thing to do if you're staying in Was this a ski resort - and this is what brings him into contact with one domestic dispute which had got out of the ski guideshand? Was it pregnancy hormones running rampant? Detective D D Warren recognised Evie immediately. It might have been sixteen years ago, Hanna. Hanna herself doesnbut there't have s no mistaking the happiest backstory teenager who had accidentally shot and this forms killed her father: 'a connection between themtragic accident' everyone said, as there was no doubt about the love the two had for each other. D D had no worries at the time, but just how many gun accidents can one woman have - or is Evie about to get away with murder again? [[ Whiteout (Red Eye) Never Tell by Gabriel Dylan Lisa Gardner|Full Review]]
<!-- Felicity Cloake Read -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:02413678751911490907.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/02413678751911490907/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[Completely Perfect: 120 Essential Recipes for Every Cook The Midnight Hour by Felicity CloakeBenjamin Read and Laura Trinder]]===
[[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CookeryConfident Readers|CookeryConfident Readers]]
It's After a novel concept for a cookery book: these are not Felicity Cloake's recipes but the best ones she found to do a particular job big blow- the up fight with her mum, Emily is left alone with her dad. Her mum has gone away on some strange job of delivering the best meal, the (even though Emily didn't think her mum even ''Completely Perfecthad'' meal of the titlea job) and so she is not quite sure what is going on. Think of it as the equivalent of a comparison site for Things turn even stranger still when you want her dad goes off to renew the car insurance find her mum, and then taking the best elements doesn't come back. She heads out of each recipe to make perfection. There's nothing cutting edge here: it's investigate and discovers a strange, secret world called the sort Midnight Hour, which seems to be London during Victorian times, and is full of food which we've been eating for decades magical beings (and probably monsters!) What were her parents doing here? And will she be for decades able to come. There's a reason for that: roast chicken followed by apple crumble ''works'' find them and providing that you don't have a vegetarian or a vegan at tablerescue them, it's a meal which is unlikely so her life can go back to do other than go down well. normal? [[Completely Perfect: 120 Essential Recipes for Every Cook The Midnight Hour by Felicity CloakeBenjamin Read and Laura Trinder|Full Review]]
<!-- Cookson Kate London -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:09554890591786497956.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/09554890591786497956/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[Gallowstree Lane by Kate London]]===
===[[The Man Who Came to London by A S Cookson]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General FictionCrime|General FictionCrime]] ''In 1948, the first set of Caribbean nationals arrived in Great Britain on a ship called "Empire Windrush". They struggled to find housing. They worked as labourers. They faced open discrimination, forcing them to quickly form their own community. Decades later, Freddy makes the same journey.'' ''Does he find a place to live? Does he face stereotypes? Has Britain moved forward?''
Freddie arrives in Spencer was just fifteen years old when he stepped out into a London in the early 2000sStreet and asked a complete stranger for help, answering the call for teachersbegging him not to let him die. He thinks about The stranger was an off-duty paramedic but even his own Jamaican educationskills were insufficient to save Spence. Just one of those things you might, based think. Tragic, but teenage boys seem to be getting stabbed on the British system, and streets of London all the way time. His friend Ryan was with Spence when he was taught English nursery rhymes and about stabbed. It was Ryan who called the River Thames. He thinks about ambulance on the love of cricket and footballparamedic's instruction, shared by both countries. And sobbing as he thinks of held the generations of the diaspora who came before himphone. Freddy does well in his job in East London but he does have to face down some stereotypical attitudes from his pupils - all Jamaicans smoke weed, don But Ryan wasn't they? Everybody knows prepared to accept that! it was just one of those things. He wanted revenge. [[The Man Who Came to Gallowstree Lane by Kate London by A S Cookson|Full Review]]
<!-- Dean Ece Temelkuran -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:17860747960008294011.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/17860747960008294011/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] 
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[Red Snow How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Will DeanEce Temelkuran]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersPolitics and Society|Politics and Society]], [[:Category:Autobiography|ThrillersAutobiography]], [[:Category:CrimeHistory|CrimeHistory]]
Life A little while ago a friend asked me if I thought that we were living through what in years to come would be discussed by A level history students when faced with the question ''Discuss the small town of Gavrik is trying to return factors which led to normal, following the grim events of [[Dark Pines by Will Dean|Dark Pines]]. As Tuva prepares to move on from both the death of her mother and her small hometown, she is drawn into another dark investigation. One suicide, and one murder. Are they connected? With black liquorice coins covering the murdered man's eyes, the hashtag #ferryman starts trending, ' I agreed that she was right and the local people stocking up on ammunition. With only wasn't certain whether it was a fortnight good or bad thing that we didn't know what all 'this' was leading to investigate before moving to the South, Tuva is further troubled by a blizzard . I think now that descends on the town, cutting Gavrik off from the larger worldI do know. Desperate to stop the killer We are in danger of losing democracy and whilst it's a flawed system I can't think of a better one, Tuva must go delve deep into particularly as the heart of the community – but who'benevolent dictator' is as rare as hen's to say the Ferryman will let her go? teeth. [[Red Snow How to Lose a Country: The 7 Steps from Democracy to Dictatorship by Will DeanEce Temelkuran|Full Review]]
<!-- Szabo Schienmel -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:08570584520349003289.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/08570584521492667242/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[Katalin Street A Danger to Herself and Others by Magda SzaboAlyssa Sheinmel]]===
[[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]], [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
This is a story about ''They needed someone to blame, and I was the pastonly available scapegoat. A specific past, certainly, in Their daughter was my best friend. Playing the form of pre-war Budapest, but also a story about how that past can impact on scapegoat was the present and least I could do under the futurecircumstances. In this book'' Seventeen year old Hannah Gold was born mature – or so her parents tell her. She has dined in fancy restaurants, explored the first most sophisticated corners of three Magda Szabó wrote on the same theme between 1969 and 1987 and now newly translated globe and reissued, we witness lived a heart-rending nostalgia for happier days, guilt about those who did not survive, and a dogged but doomed determination to cling to long-gone times, feelings and experiences which mark the here and now, staining and warping it into another, subtler miserylife of luxury. [[Katalin Street A Danger to Herself and Others by Magda SzaboAlyssa Sheinmel|Full Review]]
<!-- Arden Mary Adkins -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:17850397171473673313.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/17850397171473673313/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[The Winter of the Witch When You Read This by Katherine ArdenMary Adkins]]===
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:FantasyGeneral Fiction|FantasyGeneral Fiction]]
''The Winter of Smith Simonyi and Iris Massey worked together for four years, during which time Iris left her husband at the Witch'' is the conclusion of the story following Vasyaaltar on their wedding day. Smith, meanwhile, Vasilisa Petronovarelied on Iris, as she negotiates her way towards her destiny through the world of medieval males and the Catholic Churchbut his attention was on making enough money to cover his mother's perception of witchcraft. The story picks up directly from the action nursing home fees in the second novelWisconsin, [[The Girl in running the Tower by Katherine Arden|The Girl branding agency in New York and losing money gambling when the Tower]], and as a reader pressures got too much is lost if you haven't read this for him. He was devastated when Iris developed a terminal cancer and died at the very least. My advice would be to read all age of thirty three. The first two novels are beautiful and lyrical with extraordinary characters and He was surprised too when he discovered that Iris had been writing a wonderful balance blog in the last six months of magic her life and action. This her final novel, however, request of Smith is an absolute triumphthat he gets the blog published as a book. [[The Winter of the Witch When You Read This by Katherine ArdenMary Adkins|Full Review]]
<!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->
|}
Retrieved from "http://www.thebookbag.co.uk/reviews/Special:MobileDiff/151204...151430"

Navigation menu