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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 , the charity shop and the bookshop. Sometimes it holds the latest releases, but at other times there'll be old favourites, books for the children, books for the home. They're sometimes our own books or books from the local library. They're often books sent to us by publishers and we promise to tell you exactly what we think about them. You might not want to read through a full review, so we'll give you a quick review which summarises what we felt about the book and tells you whether or not we think you should buy or borrow it. There are also lots of [[:Category:Interviews|author interviews]], and all sorts of [[:Category:Lists|top tens]] - all of which you can find on our [[features]] page. If you're stuck for something to read, check out the [[Book Recommendations|recommendations]] page.

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===[[The Van Apfel Girls are Gone Deadwood Hall by Felicity McLeanLinda Jones]]===

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When Tikka Molloy was eleven In late December Dylan Beaumont and one-sixth years old, his sister Emily were on their way to spend the Van Apfel sisters disappearedweek before Christmas at their grandfather's house. In It was snowing heavily and you could sense that their parents were becoming annoyed at the long hot summer of 1992, bickering in an isolated suburb the back of Australia surrounded by Bushlandthe car. Emily was rather brusque with her nine-year-old brother's behaviour, the girls vanished during the schoolbut then that's Showstopper concert at the riverside amphitheatreyour prerogative when you're a grown-up eleven year old. Did they run away? Were they taken? While The snow was getting heavier and the search for journey longer when Emily opened the sisters united the small community, they were never foundcar window just a couple of inches. Returning home years later There was a dreadful smell and Dylan saw a horrible, Tikka must make sense of that strange moment in time – of snake-like figure clawing at the summer that shaped her, and the girls she never forgotcar window. [[The Van Apfel Girls are Gone Deadwood Hall by Felicity McLeanLinda Jones|Full Review]]

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===[[The Dragon in the Library by Louie Stowell and Davide Ortu A Breath on Dying Embers (IllustratorDCI Daley)by Denzil Meyrick]]===

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It Few government trade missions arrive by luxury liner, but the cruise ship ''Great Britain'' is the start of the summer holidays and Kit has plans. These plans involve climbing trees, getting muddy and being outside. Her friends, Josh berthed in Kinloch harbour and Alita, on the other hand want to go to the libraryboard are high-powered international delegates. Kit hates reading and can It't see the point of books at all but is very reluctantly persuaded s hard to go with avoid the others to suspicion that it's not ''entirely'' about work as the local library. Once there billionaires, entrepreneurs and their civil service minders tour the children meet the librarian country, golfing and Kit makes sightseeing with their entourage of security personnel. It's an incredible discovery; the librarian is a wizard! Even more incrediblyevent which DCI Daley hopes will pass quickly, Kit particularly as his formal uniform is a wizard far too tight for comfort, but it's not long before one of the crew members and she and her friends have an important taska local bird watcher go missing. They must save the library…and save the world! [[The Dragon in the Library by Louie Stowell and Davide Ortu A Breath on Dying Embers (IllustratorDCI Daley)by Denzil Meyrick|Full Review]]

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===[[All That's Dead (Logan McRae 12) The Starlight Watchmaker by Stuart MacBrideLauren James]]===

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It seemed like This is a good ideadyslexia-friendly, science fiction novella for young adults. Logan 'Lazarus' McRae was back at work after a year off sick. He'd been stabbed in It tells the line tale of duty Hugo, an unwanted and recovery had been slow: he still had some painrather lonely android, who makes a living for himself mending time-travel watches. His first case was to When one of his clients demands that his broken watch be mended, Hugo realises there is a simple one - just mystery to ease him back into work - but it turned out be solved, and is only too ready to be anything buthelp. Professor WilsonAn exciting journey of discovery unfolds, which takes Hugo out of his drab attic workroom and into a high-profile anti-independence campaigner has gone missingscary adventure with some amazing new friends, apparently abducted from his home, but nothing was left behind except some bloodstains. In much the same way that Brexit is dividing people south exploring regions of the border, there's going planet never before known to be a war between the pro- and anti-independence factions in Scotland - and the police are not above being involvedexist. [[All That's Dead (Logan McRae 12) The Starlight Watchmaker by Stuart MacBrideLauren James|Full Review]]

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===[[The Last Stage Cold Granite (Logan McRae) by Louise VossStuart MacBride]]===

If you were looking DS Logan McRae is just back to when it began youfrom a year'd have to say that it s sick leave after he was before 1995attacked by a killer. Meredith Vincent (that wasnHe't her name then) had gone to Greenham Common on her seventeenth birthday, dressed as a teddy bear, to protest s just about nuclear weapons. It was whilst she was there that she met Samantha, fell head over heels in love with her OK and went he's supposed to live be easing himself back into the swing of the job in a squat in London, leaving behind her A levels, her recentlygentle way - until three-widowed mother year- old David Reid's body is discovered in a ditch. He'd been missing for some time and her twin brother, Pete, it came as no surprise that he was dead but he's the first of several child murders. To add to look after herthe complications the police even have a body but no child reported missing. Samantha was there occasionally but Meredith was drawn into forming A serial killer, a band with child killer and abuser, is on the boys from the squat loose in Aberdeen and against all the odds Cohen went on press are missing no opportunity to become a sensation and it bay for blood. As if that wasn't long before Meredith was living in bad enough there seems to be a leak from within Force Headquarters: a mansion rather than the squatlocal journalist, Colin Miller, quickly finds out everything that's happening. [[The Last Stage Cold Granite (Logan McRae) by Louise VossStuart MacBride|Full Review]]

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===[[Wild Child: Growing Up a Nomad 's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Ian MathieAngela Marsons]]===

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For Ian Mathie fans there is good There's a prologue and bad news. Ian has come up we know that we're dealing with the missing link in his narrative, the story of a someone who is very unusual childhood (yes, the very years that made him the amazing man he became)disturbed. The bad – well it's hardly news two years later – descriptions are horrifying, but worst of all is that the book is published posthumously. As always, it's beautifully written, with many exciting moments. What I most enjoyed was the feeling that many coldness of the questions in Ian Mathie's later books are answered in ''Wild Child'' with a satisfying clunk. Seemingly all that's now left in the drawer is unpublishablekiller. [[Wild Child: Growing Up a Nomad 's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Ian MathieAngela Marsons|Full Review]]

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===[[The Body in the Castle Well (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel) Exhalation by Martin WalkerTed Chiang]]===

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Claudia Muller was an American, studying art history and being mentored by an eminent French art historian and Resistance war hero in Limeuil in PerigordOver the past twenty-eight years Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short stories. She was beautiful, wore designer clothes and was wellThese magnificent stories have won twenty-liked seven major science fiction awards so if you are a science fiction fan it is likely that you have already come across some of the work by everyoneTed Chiang. She didn't parade her wealthI cannot speak highly enough of this collection of short stories, or her father's White House connections. In factthey are so wide ranging in their themes and so beautifully written, her closest friend was Chiang has written an absolute masterpiece of a man recently released from prisoncollection. So when she left a lecture saying that she felt illIf you come across Chiang's work before, and her body was later found at the bottom of the castle well it seemed that the likeliest explanation was that take this had been a dreadful accident with the only people opportunity to blame being the builders who had left the well unsealeddo so now. Trust me; your imagination will be grateful. [[The Body in the Castle Well (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel) Exhalation by Martin WalkerTed Chiang|Full Review]]

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Here in the West, we see news reports about immigrants on a regular basis – some media welcoming them, some scaremongering about them. But all of those stories are written by journalists – almost always western, and almost always, no matter how deep the investigative journalism they carry out, outsiders to the world and the situations that refugees find themselves in. It's rare that we find out the journeys from the refugees themselves – and this is a rare opportunity to do that, in this intelligent, powerful and moving work by Dina Nayeri -someone who was born in the middle of a revolution in Iran, fleeing to America as a ten-year-old[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Ungrateful Refugee by Dina Nayeri:Category:Teens|Full ReviewTeens]]

Rose and her brother Rudder have recently escaped from cult-like fundamentalist Christian sect, the Pilgrims, along with their mother. While Mum works endless hours at agency cleaning jobs trying to keep the rent paid on their tiny flat, Rose and Rudder are trying to navigate the worldly world. It's not easy when everything is new and the rigid rules you've always lived by are suddenly missing. [[Rose, Interrupted by Patrice Lawrence|Full Review]]<!-- Douglas Lindsay Kate Atkinson -->

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===[[Boy in the Well Started Early, Took My Dog (DI Westphall 2Jackson Brodie) by Douglas LindsayKate Atkinson]]===

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The body I guess that most of a nine-year-old boy was found at us have made the bottom of a well which had been sealed for two hundred years - odd impulse purchase but Tracy Waterhouse, security chief at the boy had only been dead for less than two days and there was no sign Merrion Centre in Leeds, blew most people's ideas of how the body had got into the well. The owners an impulse purchase out of the property are adamant that the well was sealed when they went to open it, but DI Ben Westphall would be entitled to have his doubtswater one morning. Belle McIntosh holds some strange views, particularly about the way that the government is controlling everyone Seeing a known prostitute dragging a toddler through drugs which are added to the water supply which led to shopping mall whilst cursing at her wanting to reinstate , Waterhouse followed the woman and bought the wellgirl for £3000. Her wife, Catriona Napier, The difficulty of a purchase like this is more moderate, but doesn't seem knowing what to have a lot of knowledge about whatdo next and Tracy's going on on the fa humdrum life is replaced with one of stress, fear and an overwhelming love for four-year-old Courtney. [[Boy in the Well Started Early, Took My Dog (DI Westphall 2Jackson Brodie) by Douglas LindsayKate Atkinson|Full Review]]

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===[[The Body in the Mist Fire Girl, Forest Boy by Nick LouthChloe Daykin]]=== [[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeConfident Readers]] Maya has to escape. She's on the run in a country she doesn't know and has no idea who to trust. Raul is escaping too - travelling back to his home where a terrible tragedy happened, ready to stir up trouble. When their paths collide in the middle of the jungle, the sparks begin to fly. As modern world corruption meets the magic and legends of ancient times, can Maya draw on her hidden light to find the way through to the truth? [[Fire Girl, Forest Boy by Chloe Daykin|CrimeFull Review]]

Muriel Hinkley was walking her dog when she found the body on a quiet country lane, just south of Exmoor. She didn’t recognise him - no one would for a long time as it was obvious that he’d been the victim of a hit-and-run. He had no face - most of it was smeared on the road and when D I Jan Talantire came to look at the body she realised that there was absolutely nothing on him which would allow for identification. All the labels had been cut out of his clothes and there was no wallet and no phone. Hi was Mister Nobody. [[The Body in the Mist by Nick Louth|Full Review]] <!-- Denise Mina Angela Marsons -->

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===[[Conviction Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Denise MinaAngela Marsons]]===

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ItThere's strange how the worst of days can start in such an ordinary, mundane way. And so it was for Anna McDonald as she sorted out gym kit a prologue and packed lunches for her two daughters. It didn't begin to go wrong until she opened the door to her best friend, Estelle and realised we know that her husband was at the top of the stairs, dressed as though for a holiday rather than the work clothes shewe'd been expecting - and he was carrying a suitcase. He and Estelle were leaving together - and they were taking Anna's two daughters re dealing with them. There was another problem which neither Hamish nor Estelle knew aboutsomeone who is very disturbed. Anna wasn't actually Anna McDonald. She was Sophie BukaranThe descriptions are horrifying, but worst of all is the woman who had been involved in coldness of the rape case against four footballerskiller. [[Conviction Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Denise MinaAngela Marsons|Full Review]]

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Gemma has just started her A levels at school. She's a keen student and she has a good, close set of friends. Gemma loves country music and in her spare time she enjoys writing and singing country songs. She'Stepsisters pretty good at it too. Home life is busy - Gemma'' tells s brother Michael has a chance at a football career and the gripping story of Cinderellawhole family, propelled by Gemma's rather over-invested dad, is supporting him with everything they'uglyve got. Gemma hasn' stepsistert had a serious boyfriend yet, so when the handsome Aaron appears and an instant attraction fizzles between them, IsabelleGemma is keen to see where romance could lead.. We've been told this fairy-tale over and over again throughout our lives and know the characters well. But have you ever wondered what happened to the sisters after Cinderella married the Prince? Or why the sisters disliked her so much? [[Stepsister I Hold Your Heart by Jennifer DonnellyKaren Gregory|Full Review]] <!-- Gilly Macmillan Davis -->

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===[[The Nanny What's That in Dog Years? by Gilly MacmillanBen Davis and Julia Christians]]===

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We know George and Gizmo have been together ever since George was born. Gizmo has always been a fun, adventurous dog and a loyal friend, but just recently, George has noticed that something wrong is happening: he's starting to slow down a body is being dumped in deep waterlittle. The rower pulls away and rows back A visit to the boat house vets leaves George worried that Gizmo might not be around for very much longer, and then she walks back so he begins to Lake Hallwrite Gizmo a bucket list, of all the adventures that they can still have together in Gizmo's last days. As you begin reading you suspect that you know who has been killed and But are they his last days? And who dumped the body, but be patient: all will be revealed before too long. help George to stay calm when Gizmo is gone? [[The Nanny What's That in Dog Years? by Gilly MacmillanBen Davis and Julia Christians|Full Review]]

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===[[No One The Long Flight Home by Tim WeaverA L Hlad]]===

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Long after September 1940 - as WWII rages on, bombs rain down on Britain, destroying the police have given up homes and lives of a people on cold missing persons casesthe edge. In Epping Forest, David Raker picks them up Susan Shepherd and tracks them downher grandfather Bertie live together raising homing pigeons with the birds proving a comfort for Susan following the loss of her parents. He's called These pigeons are more than just birds to Susan though – in each one, and especially in Duchess, she sees a particularly disturbing case where distinct personality and forms a small village of nine people all vanished overnight two years agoclose bond. Raker and his associate must delve in Meanwhile, young pilot Ollie Evans leaves Maine to the lives of these people head to work out how Britain and why nine people have gone missingjoin the Royal Air Force. They are being threatened to stop but something about Working with the mystery keeps drawing Raker further inNational Pigeon Service, he soon meets Susan and is tasked with air-dropping hundreds of homing pigeons into German-occupied France, putting him in personal perilwhere many will not survive. As the mission is planned, the bond between Ollie and Susan grows stronger, but when Ollie's plane is downed behind enemy lines, it may be Duchess who provides an unexpected lifeline and ensures that hope of a reunion for Susan and Ollie remains… [[No One The Long Flight Home by Tim WeaverA L Hlad|Full Review]]

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===[[Walks In The Passengers Wild by John MarrsPeter Wohlleben and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translator)]]===

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In ''An instruction manual for the forest'' is how Wohlleben's publisher described the near futureidea for this book, self-drive cars are and that's basically what it is – although right at the norm - a convenient and easy way of transport. However, when someone hacks into end the systems of eight self-drive cars, their passengers are set on author says that it is not intended to be a fatal collision course. As everyday commutes turn into terror-filled journeysreference book, the public have to judge who should survivebut an appetiser. But with every aspect of these passangers being examined by the public - will they turn out to be what they seem? [[Walks In The Passengers Wild by John MarrsPeter Wohlleben and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translator)|Full Review]]

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===[[If You Could Go Anywhere A Nearly Normal Family by Paige ToonM T Edvardsson and Rachel Wilson-Boyles (translator)]]===

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Angie is someone who always wanted We're going to travelhear this story through the viewpoints of three different people: Adam Sandell, his wife, but itUlrika and his daughter Stella. Adam's taken her 27 years to leave the small mining town a pastor in south Australia which has been the only home Church of Sweden and Ulrika is a lawyer. Stella is, well, just difficult. You sense that she's ever known. She doesn't do things by half though, always been difficult and once there have even been occasions when Ulrika has let slip that she does feel able to go (following a family death) she leaves not only the townwishes that Stella was more like her best friend, the state Amina Bešic - and no one has ever said that if they don't think that the country, but also other person is better. We first meet the continent, family on Stella's 18th birthday and finds herself following in her motherwe get a sense of Adam's footsteps and heading controlling nature. Permission has to Italybe given for a glass of wine for Stella at the celebration meal. [[If You Could Go Anywhere A Nearly Normal Family by Paige ToonM T Edvardsson and Rachel Wilson-Boyles (translator)|Full Review]]

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===[[Mayhem in the Archipelago The House of Light by Nick GriffithsJulia Green]]===

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In Latvia the conspirators meet in Bonnie is growing up on a rather unpleasant locationslightly strange island, living with her grandfather, but it's their plans which matter to them. In Moscow two men delight in all the uncertainty in the Baltic. In Washington the Undersecretary is a womanscavenging for food, but and rubbish that has washed up on the personal pressures on beach that she and her are the same as the men in Moscow are obliged grandfather can use to suffermake things. In Stockholm three members There is some sort of SÄPOban against anyone else landing on the island, the Swedish Secret Serviceand lots of suspicion around those who live there, know that the time has come for them to make including a movegreat fear of anyone who gets sick. They'd talk moreBut when Bonnie is on the beach one day and discovers not only an intact boat, but their wives would get difficult and there's a young boy cowering beneath, rather pleasing tart which mustn't be missedthan turn him in to the authorities she takes him home and hides him, smuggling him boiled eggs and blankets in the shed whilst she tries to figure out what to do. [[Mayhem in the Archipelago The House of Light by Nick GriffithsJulia Green|Full Review]]

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[[image:4starIn many ways Felix is a typical boy in Year 7, enjoying playing games on his PS4 and hanging out with his friend Jake at the weekend. However Felix is struggling at school. He is not a problem child but he does have a problem. His ADHD makes it hard for him to concentrate, he keeps getting into trouble and his grades are slipping. When his Mum suggests that he spends more time with his grandfather Felix is horrified. Ever since Grandma died his Granddad has been grumpy and more eccentric than before. All he wants to do is sit in the dark and play chess. Felix knows that this will be extremely boring. But sometimes we learn valuable lessons where we least expect to and perhaps Granddad and Felix can help each other.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Short StoriesCheck Mates by Stewart Foster|Short StoriesFull Review]] This satisfying collection of short stories has a provenance at least as beguiling as the provenance of the antique watches that inspired it.

Philip Neal lost a watch. It was a watch he was fond of and had been told was like a 1930s Cartier. Instead of mourning its loss, he began to collect vintage watches that resembled it. And that's how he became a watch collector. An eBay purchase led him to the Antique Watch Company watch repairers in Clerkenwell. The eBay purchase was a fake, but the friendship that grew between the buyer and the repairer of watches was not and the seed of an idea for a book was born. [[ Watchwords by Philip Neal |Full Review]] <!-- Stephen Booth Jane O'Connor -->

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===[[Fall Down Dead (Cooper Needlemouse by Jane O'Connor]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] We first meet Sylvia Penton on her birthday and Fry) her boss, the Prof, is taking her out to lunch. This is her favourite day of the year, not because it's her birthday but because of the special time she gets to spend with the man she loves. He's told her that he and his wife are going to divorce - Martha is apparently having an affair - and Sylvia is convinced that the Prof will then declare his love and they can be together. She hasn't fully constructed 'together' in her own mind - she envisages it as romantic, but her imagination hasn't yet progressed to the sexual part of the relationship. There's time though - she's only been the prof's PA for fifteen years. [[Needlemouse by Jane O'Connor|Full Review]]<!-- Various-->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1529006031.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1529006031/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[Return to Wonderland by Stephen BoothVarious Authors]]===

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DS Dev Sharma is delighted - if delight is In following a young girl called Alice down the right word to apply to rabbit hole a murder case - but hefew years ago, when the first book she was in [[Alice's got a result when the husband Adventures in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition) by Lewis Carroll and Anthony Browne|hit 150 years of a murder victim is age]], I found that I didn't really find too much favour with it. The wacky-for-the knife, standing over the body-sake-of-it did not gel, and admitting to the murderI don't remember loving it more as a child. DI Ben Cooper is concerned with a suspicious death on Kinder ScoutBut I would suggest I am the perfect audience for this book. A party of walkers - I had every chance to enjoy these short stories that come at the New Trespassers Walking Group - got lost in core from a tangent, that show the fog and problems arose when one benefits of the party was injuredoblique glance. The group split up I've always preferred coming to find helpan author's output through their least obvious, or at least a mobile signalallegedly throw-away pieces, but when theyand it's the same with franchises – I're rescued theyd more likely go for Bree Tanner're one s short and novella than the body of Faith Matthew was found at the bottom of Kinder Downfall. It looked like whole Twilight saga (although that remains just a dreadful accidenthunch, but Cooper wasn't happy about the way the body had fallenfor obvious reasons). Things are not always as they seem - For another thing, there was every reason to expect some kind of greatness here – with Carroll much loved by millions, surely pieces written with that love in either case. mind could only provide for success after success? [[Fall Down Dead (Cooper and Fry) Return to Wonderland by Stephen BoothVarious Authors|Full Review]]

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| style="''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"''|===[[Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee Rumblestar (The Unmapped Chronicles) by Casey CepAbi Elphinstone]]===

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Sometimes you begin reading a book and before you've got to Rumblestar follows the bottom haphazard adventures of the first page you know that it's going anxious 11-year-old Casper Tock who timetables his every movement, makes countless to be brilliantdo lists and is hounded by wealthy bullies with the absurdly humorous and appropriate names of Candida Cashmere Jumps and Leopold Splattercash. You sense the author's effortless grasp He stumbles across a magic portal by accident just like Lucy of Narnia fame, meets a feisty girl troubled by her subject matter past and you already know that her use of words is almost surgical in its precisionplunged into a perilous quest. The hands holding you are safe, which considering that this is In a book about two subjects kingdom where facts are in short supply, is somewhat surprising. Our first subject is the Reverend Willie Maxwell. Over seven years, six people close dark mythological forces of Midnights threaten the weather Marvels (equated here to the Reverend had diedmiracle of nature) conjured by magical creatures, with Maxwell benefiting substantially from insurance policies which he'd taken out on their livesonly unlikely heroes can battle against evil. [[Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee Rumblestar (The Unmapped Chronicles]) by Casey CepAbi Elphinstone|Full Review]]

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===[[The Evil Occupants of Easingdale Castle by Ray Filby]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical FictionTeens|Historical FictionTeens]]

Poor, frumpy Anne of Cleaves always gets Jason likes chess. He's pretty good at it too - a raw deal by historylevel eight on his computer programme, of all the wives of Henry VIII she is the one who is known for with level ten being rejectedGrand Master level. Anne Boleyn and Katheryn Howard were He's also good at systems, having contributed to the sexy onesrelational database that has streamlined his school's administration. Jason's school, Jane the dutiful one who delivered a sonEasingdale Comprehensive, Katherine of Aragon clung is very big on to her crown technology and Katharine Parr clung on its head, Mr Johnston, is keen to her life but poor frumpy Anne of Cleaves just rolled over involve his pupils wherever they show promise. So Jason's friends have also helped out. Liz is great with hardware and moved alonghelped with the school's card reader system. Not any more! Alison Weir presents us with Becky has a different view flair for software and has recommended lots of this young woman who saw the opportunity to live an independent life and took itcurriculum-enhancing apps. And Bill is a talented programmer... [[Six Tudor Queens: Anna of Kleve, Queen The Evil Occupants of Secrets Easingdale Castle by Alison WeirRay Filby|Full Review]]

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===[[Tick Tock Stone Cold Heart by Mel SherrattCaz Frear]]===

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WeDC Cat Kinsella is back at the Met after a secondment to the London Mayor're in Stoke on Trents Office: the hours were good but the job was boring. A group of young women who study at Dunwood Academy are running She's grateful to be back with the crossold team -country courseher partner DS Luigi Parnell, boss DCI Kate Steele and DC Rénee Akwa. One She's still not prepared to say anything about the identity of them - Lauren Ansell - stops behind to tie her shoelace and is murderedboyfriend: the knowledge that she's in a relationship with Aiden Doyle, to the shock brother of a murder victim and devastation of moreover a murder with which her father might have had some involvement could finish her friendscareer. Twins Courtney and Caitlin Piggott, Sophie Bishop Kinsella and Teagan Cole cling together for support - or do do as much as they can given that their parents Parnell are understandably reluctant called to let them out of their sight. One of the parents is journalist Simon Cole, boyfriend discovery of DS Grace Allendale, who is charged with investigating the murder under the guidance body of DI Nick Carter. It's a struggle to keep their professional lives separateyoung woman: Naomi Lockhart was Australian, just twenty-two years old and her body was discovered by her flat mate, Kieran Drake, an ex-offender. [[Tick Tock Stone Cold Heart by Mel SherrattCaz Frear|Full Review]]