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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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===[[Across the Void Deadwood Hall by S K VaughnLinda Jones]]===

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Sea epics? So 20th centuryIn late December Dylan Beaumont and his sister Emily were on their way to spend the week before Christmas at their grandfather's house. It was snowing heavily and you could sense that their parents were becoming annoyed at the bickering in the back of the car. Emily was rather brusque with her nine-year-old brother's behaviour, but then that's your prerogative when you're a grown-up eleven year old. Try The snow was getting heavier and the journey longer when Emily opened the car window just a space epiccouple of inches. There was a dreadful smell and Dylan saw a horrible, snake-like figure clawing at the car window. [[Across the Void Deadwood Hall by S K VaughnLinda Jones|Full Review]]

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===[[The Van Apfel Girls are Gone A Breath on Dying Embers (DCI Daley) by Felicity McLeanDenzil Meyrick]]===

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When Tikka Molloy was eleven Few government trade missions arrive by luxury liner, but the cruise ship ''Great Britain'' is berthed in Kinloch harbour and oneon board are high-sixth years old, the Van Apfel sisters disappearedpowered international delegates. In It's hard to avoid the long hot summer of 1992, in an isolated suburb of Australia surrounded by Bushland, the girls vanished during the schoolsuspicion that it's Showstopper concert at not ''entirely'' about work as the riverside amphitheatre. Did they run away? Were they taken? While billionaires, entrepreneurs and their civil service minders tour the search for the sisters united the small communitycountry, they were never foundgolfing and sightseeing with their entourage of security personnel. Returning home years later It's an event which DCI Daley hopes will pass quickly, particularly as his formal uniform is far too tight for comfort, Tikka must make sense of that strange moment in time – but it's not long before one of the summer that shaped her, crew members and the girls she never forgota local bird watcher go missing. [[The Van Apfel Girls are Gone A Breath on Dying Embers (DCI Daley) by Felicity McLeanDenzil Meyrick|Full Review]]

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===[[The Dragon in the Library Starlight Watchmaker by Louie Stowell and Davide Ortu (Illustrator)Lauren James]]===

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This is a dyslexia-friendly, science fiction novella for young adults. It is tells the start tale of the summer holidays Hugo, an unwanted and Kit has plans. These plans involve climbing treesrather lonely android, getting muddy and being outsidewho makes a living for himself mending time-travel watches. Her friendsWhen one of his clients demands that his broken watch be mended, Josh and AlitaHugo realises there is a mystery to be solved, on the other hand want to go to the library. Kit hates reading and can't see the point of books at all but is very reluctantly persuaded only too ready to go with the others to the local libraryhelp. Once there the children meet the librarian and Kit makes an incredible An exciting journey of discovery; the librarian is a wizard! Even more incrediblyunfolds, Kit is which takes Hugo out of his drab attic workroom and into a wizard too and she and her scary adventure with some amazing new friends have an important task, exploring regions of the planet never before known to exist. They must save the library…and save the world! [[The Dragon in the Library Starlight Watchmaker by Louie Stowell and Davide Ortu (Illustrator)Lauren James|Full Review]]

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===[[All That's Dead Cold Granite (Logan McRae 12) by Stuart MacBride]]===

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It seemed like DS Logan McRae is just back from a year's sick leave after he was attacked by a good ideakiller. Logan He'Lazaruss just about OK and he' McRae was s supposed to be easing himself back at work after into the swing of the job in a gentle way - until three-year off sick-old David Reid's body is discovered in a ditch. He'd been stabbed in missing for some time and it came as no surprise that he was dead but he's the line first of duty and recovery had been slow: he still had some painseveral child murders. His first case was To add to be the complications the police even have a simple one - just to ease him back into work - but it turned out to be anything body butno child reported missing. Professor WilsonA serial killer, a high-profile anti-independence campaigner has gone child killer and abuser, is on the loose in Aberdeen and the press are missing, apparently abducted from his home, but nothing was left behind except some bloodstainsno opportunity to bay for blood. In much the same way As if that Brexit is dividing people south of the border, wasn't bad enough there's going seems to be a war between the pro- and anti-independence factions in Scotland - and the police are not above being involvedleak from within Force Headquarters: a local journalist, Colin Miller, quickly finds out everything that's happening. [[All That's Dead Cold Granite (Logan McRae 12) by Stuart MacBride|Full Review]]

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===[[The Last Stage Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Louise VossAngela Marsons]]===

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If you were looking back to when it began youThere'd have to say s a prologue and we know that it was before 1995. Meredith Vincent (that wasnwe't her name then) had gone to Greenham Common on her seventeenth birthday, dressed as a teddy bear, to protest about nuclear weaponsre dealing with someone who is very disturbed. It was whilst she was there that she met Samantha, fell head over heels in love with her and went to live in a squat in London, leaving behind her A levels, her recently-widowed mother - and her twin brotherThe descriptions are horrifying, Pete, to look after her. Samantha was there occasionally but Meredith was drawn into forming a band with the boys from the squat and against worst of all is the odds Cohen went on to become a sensation and it wasn't long before Meredith was living in a mansion rather than coldness of the squatkiller. [[The Last Stage Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Louise VossAngela Marsons|Full Review]]

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===[[Wild Child: Growing Up a Nomad Exhalation by Ian MathieTed Chiang]]===

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For Ian Mathie fans there is good and bad news. Ian has come up with the missing link in his narrative, Over the story of a very unusual childhood (yes, the very past twenty-eight years that made him the amazing man he became)Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short stories. The bad – well These magnificent stories have won twenty-seven major science fiction awards so if you are a science fiction fan it's hardly news two years later – is likely that you have already come across some of the book is published posthumouslywork by Ted Chiang. As alwaysI cannot speak highly enough of this collection of short stories, it's they are so wide ranging in their themes and so beautifully written, with many exciting moments. What I most enjoyed was the feeling that many Chiang has written an absolute masterpiece of the questions in Ian Mathie's later books are answered in ''Wild Child'' with a satisfying clunkcollection. Seemingly all thatIf you come across Chiang's work before, take this opportunity to do so now left in the drawer is unpublishable. Trust me; your imagination will be grateful. [[Wild Child: Growing Up a Nomad Exhalation by Ian MathieTed Chiang|Full Review]]

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[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Crime|CrimeRose, Interrupted by Patrice Lawrence]]===

Claudia Muller was an American, studying art history and being mentored by an eminent French art historian and Resistance war hero in Limeuil in Perigord. She was beautiful, wore designer clothes and was well-liked by everyone. She didn't parade her wealth, or her father's White House connections. In fact, her closest friend was a man recently released from prison. So when she left a lecture saying that she felt ill, and her body was later found at the bottom of the castle well it seemed that the likeliest explanation was that this had been a dreadful accident with the only people to blame being the builders who had left the well unsealed[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Body in the Castle Well (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel) by Martin Walker: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]]<!-- Nayeri Kate Atkinson -->

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===[[The Ungrateful Refugee Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie) by Dina NayeriKate Atkinson]]===

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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 I guess that most of those stories are written by journalists – almost always western, and almost always, no matter how deep us have made the investigative journalism they carry outodd impulse purchase but Tracy Waterhouse, outsiders to the world and security chief at the situations that refugees find themselves Merrion Centre in. ItLeeds, blew most people's rare that we find ideas of an impulse purchase out of the water one morning. Seeing a known prostitute dragging a toddler through the journeys from shopping mall whilst cursing at her, Waterhouse followed the refugees themselves – woman and bought the girl for £3000. The difficulty of a purchase like this is a rare opportunity knowing what to do that, in this intelligent, powerful next and moving work by Dina Nayeri -someone who was born in the middle Tracy's humdrum life is replaced with one of a revolution in Iranstress, fleeing to America as a tenfear and an overwhelming love for four-year-oldCourtney.[[The Ungrateful Refugee Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie) by Dina NayeriKate Atkinson|Full Review]]

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===[[Fire Girl, Forest Boy in the Well (DI Westphall 2) by Douglas LindsayChloe Daykin]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|CrimeConfident Readers]] The body of a nine-year-old boy was found at Maya has to escape. She's on the bottom of run in a well which had been sealed for two hundred years - but the boy had only been dead for less than two days country she doesn't know and there was has no sign of how the body had got into the wellidea who to trust. The owners of the property are adamant that the well was sealed when they went Raul is escaping too - travelling back to open ithis home where a terrible tragedy happened, but DI Ben Westphall would be entitled ready to have his doubtsstir up trouble. Belle McIntosh holds some strange viewsWhen their paths collide in the middle of the jungle, particularly about the way that the government is controlling everyone through drugs which are added sparks begin to fly. As modern world corruption meets the water supply which led to magic and legends of ancient times, can Maya draw on her wanting hidden light to reinstate find the well. Her wife, Catriona Napier, is more moderate, but doesn't seem way through to have a lot of knowledge about what's going on on the fa truth? [[Fire Girl, Forest Boy in the Well (DI Westphall 2) by Douglas LindsayChloe Daykin|Full Review]]

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===[[The Body in the Mist Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Nick LouthAngela Marsons]]===

Muriel Hinkley was walking her dog when she found the body on There's a quiet country lane, just south of Exmoor. She didn’t recognise him - no one would for a long time as it was obvious prologue and we know that he’d been the victim of a hit-and-runwe're dealing with someone who is very disturbed. He had no face - most The descriptions are horrifying, but worst of it was smeared on all is 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 coldness of the labels had been cut out of his clothes and there was no wallet and no phonekiller. Hi was Mister Nobody. [[The Body in the Mist Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Nick LouthAngela Marsons|Full Review]]

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[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Thrillers|ThrillersI Hold Your Heart by Karen Gregory]]===

It's strange how the worst of days can start in such an ordinary, mundane way[[image:4. And so it was for Anna McDonald as she sorted out gym kit 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 that her husband was at the top of the stairs, dressed as though for a holiday rather than the work clothes she'd been expecting - and he was carrying a suitcase. He and Estelle were leaving together - and they were taking Anna's two daughters with them. There was another problem which neither Hamish nor Estelle knew about. Anna wasn't actually Anna McDonald. She was Sophie Bukaran, the woman who had been involved in the rape case against four footballers5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Conviction by Denise Mina:Category:Teens|Full ReviewTeens]]

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's pretty good at it too. Home life is busy - Gemma's brother Michael has a chance at a football career and the whole family, propelled by Gemma's rather over-invested dad, is supporting him with everything they've got. Gemma hasn't had a serious boyfriend yet, so when the handsome Aaron appears and an instant attraction fizzles between them, Gemma is keen to see where romance could lead... [[I Hold Your Heart by Karen Gregory|Full Review]]<!-- Donnelly Davis -->

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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 he''Stepsister'' tells s starting to slow down a little. A visit to the gripping story vets leaves George worried that Gizmo might not be around for very much longer, and so he begins to write Gizmo a bucket list, of Cinderellaall the adventures that they can still have together in Gizmo's 'ugly' stepsister, Isabelle. We've been told this fairy-tale over and over again throughout our lives and know the characters welllast days. But have you ever wondered what happened are they his last days? And who will help George to the sisters after Cinderella married the Princestay calm when Gizmo is gone? Or why the sisters disliked her so much? [[Stepsister What's That in Dog Years? by Jennifer DonnellyBen Davis and Julia Christians|Full Review]]

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===[[The Nanny Long Flight Home by Gilly MacmillanA L Hlad]]===

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We know that something wrong is happening: September 1940 - as WWII rages on, bombs rain down on Britain, destroying the homes and lives of a body is being dumped in deep waterpeople on the edge. The rower pulls away In Epping Forest, Susan Shepherd and rows back her grandfather Bertie live together raising homing pigeons with the birds proving a comfort for Susan following the loss of her parents. These pigeons are more than just birds to the boat house Susan though – in each one, and then especially in Duchess, she walks back sees a distinct personality and forms a close bond. Meanwhile, young pilot Ollie Evans leaves Maine to Lake Hallhead to Britain and join the Royal Air Force. Working with the National Pigeon Service, he soon meets Susan and is tasked with air-dropping hundreds of homing pigeons into German-occupied France, where many will not survive. As you begin reading you suspect that you know who has been killed the mission is planned, the bond between Ollie and who dumped the bodySusan grows stronger, but when Ollie's plane is downed behind enemy lines, it may be patient: all will be revealed before too long. Duchess who provides an unexpected lifeline and ensures that hope of a reunion for Susan and Ollie remains… [[The Nanny Long Flight Home by Gilly MacmillanA L Hlad|Full Review]]

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| style="''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"''|===[[No One Home Walks In The Wild by Tim WeaverPeter Wohlleben and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translator)]]===

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Long after ''An instruction manual for the police have given up on cold missing persons casesforest'' is how Wohlleben's publisher described the idea for this book, David Raker picks them up and tracks them down. Hethat's called basically what it is – although right at the end the author says that it is not intended to be a particularly disturbing case where a small village of nine people all vanished overnight two years ago. Raker and his associate must delve in to the lives of these people to work out how and why nine people have gone missing. They are being threatened to stop reference book, but something about the mystery keeps drawing Raker further in, putting him in personal perilan appetiser. [[No One Home Walks In The Wild by Tim WeaverPeter Wohlleben and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translator)|Full Review]]

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| style=''"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''"|===[[The Passengers A Nearly Normal Family by John MarrsM T Edvardsson and Rachel Wilson-Boyles (translator)]]===

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In We're going to hear this story through the near futureviewpoints of three different people: Adam Sandell, his wife, self-drive cars are Ulrika and his daughter Stella. Adam's a pastor in the norm - Church of Sweden and Ulrika is a convenient and easy way of transportlawyer. HoweverStella is, well, just difficult. You sense that she's always been difficult and there have even been occasions when someone hacks into Ulrika has let slip that she wishes that Stella was more like her best friend, Amina Bešic - and no one has ever said that if they don't think that the systems of eight self-drive cars, their passengers are set other person is better. We first meet the family on Stella's 18th birthday and we get a fatal collision coursesense of Adam's controlling nature. As everyday commutes turn into terror-filled journeys, the public have Permission has to judge who should survive. But with every aspect be given for a glass of these passangers being examined by wine for Stella at the public - will they turn out to be what they seem? celebration meal. [[The Passengers A Nearly Normal Family by John MarrsM T Edvardsson and Rachel Wilson-Boyles (translator)|Full Review]]

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===[[If You Could Go Anywhere The House of Light by Paige ToonJulia Green]]===

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Angie Bonnie is someone who always wanted to travelgrowing up on a slightly strange island, but it's taken living with her 27 years to leave the small mining town in south Australia which grandfather, scavenging for food, and rubbish that has been washed up on the only home beach that she's ever knownand her grandfather can use to make things. She doesn't do things by half though There is some sort of ban against anyone else landing on the island, and once she does feel able to go (following lots of suspicion around those who live there, including a family death) she leaves great fear of anyone who gets sick. But when Bonnie is on the beach one day and discovers not only the townan intact boat, but a young boy cowering beneath, rather than turn him in to the state authorities she takes him home and the country, but also the continenthides him, smuggling him boiled eggs and finds herself following blankets in her mother's footsteps and heading the shed whilst she tries to figure out what to Italydo. [[If You Could Go Anywhere The House of Light by Paige ToonJulia Green|Full Review]]

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===[[Mayhem in the Archipelago Check Mates by Nick GriffithsStewart Foster]]===

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In Latvia the conspirators meet many ways Felix is a typical boy in a rather unpleasant locationYear 7, but it's their plans which matter to themenjoying playing games on his PS4 and hanging out with his friend Jake at the weekend. In Moscow two men delight in all the uncertainty in the BalticHowever Felix is struggling at school. In Washington the Undersecretary He is not a problem child but he does have a womanproblem. His ADHD makes it hard for him to concentrate, but the personal pressures on her he keeps getting into trouble and his grades are the same as the men in Moscow are obliged to sufferslipping. In Stockholm three members of SÄPO, the Swedish Secret Service, know When his Mum suggests that the he spends more time with his grandfather Felix is horrified. Ever since Grandma died his Granddad has come for them been grumpy and more eccentric than before. All he wants to make a movedo is sit in the dark and play chess. Felix knows that this will be extremely boring. They'd talk more, but their wives would get difficult But sometimes we learn valuable lessons where we least expect to and perhaps Granddad and there's a rather pleasing tart which mustn't be missedFelix can help each other. [[Mayhem in the Archipelago Check Mates by Nick GriffithsStewart Foster|Full Review]]

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| style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[Watchwords Return to Wonderland by Philip NealVarious Authors]]===

[[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] 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 In following a watch. It was young girl called Alice down the rabbit hole a watch he few years ago, when the first book she was fond of in [[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition) by Lewis Carroll and had been told was like a 1930s Cartier. Instead Anthony Browne|hit 150 years of mourning its lossage]], he began to collect vintage watches I found that resembled I didn't really find too much favour with it. And that The wacky-for-the-sake-of-it did not gel, and I don's how he became t remember loving it more as a watch collectorchild. An eBay purchase led him But I would suggest I am the perfect audience for this book. I had every chance to enjoy these short stories that come at the Antique Watch Company watch repairers in Clerkenwell. The eBay purchase was core from a faketangent, but the friendship that grew between show the buyer and benefits of the repairer of watches was not oblique glance. I've always preferred coming to an author's output through their least obvious, allegedly throw-away pieces, and it's the seed of an idea same with franchises – I'd more likely go for Bree Tanner's short novella than the whole Twilight saga (although that remains just a book hunch, for obvious reasons). For another thing, there was born. every reason to expect some kind of greatness here – with Carroll much loved by millions, surely pieces written with that love in mind could only provide for success after success? [[ Watchwords Return to Wonderland by Philip Neal Various Authors|Full Review]]

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| style="''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"''|===[[Fall Down Dead Rumblestar (Cooper and FryThe Unmapped Chronicles) by Stephen BoothAbi Elphinstone]]===

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DS Dev Sharma is delighted - if delight is Rumblestar follows the right word to apply to a murder case - but he's got a result when the husband haphazard adventures of a murder victim is found with the knife, standing over the bodyanxious 11-year-old Casper Tock who timetables his every movement, makes countless to do lists and admitting to the murder. DI Ben Cooper is concerned hounded by wealthy bullies with a suspicious death on Kinder Scout. A party of walkers - the New Trespassers Walking Group - got lost in the fog absurdly humorous and problems arose when one appropriate names of the party was injuredCandida Cashmere Jumps and Leopold Splattercash. The group split up to find helpHe stumbles across a magic portal by accident just like Lucy of Narnia fame, or at least meets a mobile signal, but when they're rescued they're one short feisty girl troubled by her past and is plunged into a perilous quest. In a kingdom where the body dark mythological forces of Faith Matthew was found at Midnights threaten the weather Marvels (equated here to the bottom miracle of Kinder Downfall. It looked like a dreadful accidentnature) conjured by magical creatures, but Cooper wasn't happy about the way the body had fallen. Things are not always as they seem - in either caseonly unlikely heroes can battle against evil. [[Fall Down Dead Rumblestar (Cooper and FryThe Unmapped Chronicles]) by Stephen BoothAbi Elphinstone|Full Review]]

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===[[The Evil Occupants of Easingdale Castle by Ray Filby]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:True CrimeTeens|True CrimeTeens]]

Sometimes you begin reading Jason likes chess. He's pretty good at it too - a book and before youlevel eight on his computer programme, with level ten being Grand Master level. He've got s also good at systems, having contributed to the bottom of the first page you know relational database that ithas streamlined his school's going to be brilliantadministration. You sense the authorJason's effortless grasp of her subject matter school, Easingdale Comprehensive, is very big on technology and you already know that her use of words is almost surgical in its precision. The hands holding you are safehead, which considering that this is a book about two subjects where facts are in short supplyMr Johnston, is somewhat surprisingkeen to involve his pupils wherever they show promise. Our first subject So Jason's friends have also helped out. Liz is great with hardware and helped with the Reverend Willie Maxwellschool's card reader system. Becky has a flair for software and has recommended lots of curriculum-enhancing apps. And Bill is a talented programmer.. Over seven years, six people close to the Reverend had died, with Maxwell benefiting substantially from insurance policies which he'd taken out on their lives. [[Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial The Evil Occupants of Harper Lee Easingdale Castle by Casey CepRay Filby|Full Review]]

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===[[Six Tudor Queens: Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets Stone Cold Heart by Alison WeirCaz Frear]]===

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Poor, frumpy Anne of Cleaves always gets DC Cat Kinsella is back at the Met after a raw deal by history, of all secondment to the London Mayor's Office: the wives of Henry VIII she is hours were good but the one who is known for being rejectedjob was boring. Anne Boleyn She's grateful to be back with the old team - her partner DS Luigi Parnell, boss DCI Kate Steele and Katheryn Howard were DC Rénee Akwa. She's still not prepared to say anything about the sexy ones, Jane identity of her boyfriend: the dutiful one who delivered knowledge that she's in a sonrelationship with Aiden Doyle, Katherine the brother of Aragon clung on to a murder victim and moreover a murder with which her father might have had some involvement could finish her crown career. Kinsella and Katharine Parr clung on Parnell are called to her life but poor frumpy Anne the discovery of the body of Cleaves just rolled over and moved along. Not any more! Alison Weir presents us with a different view of this young woman who saw the opportunity to live : Naomi Lockhart was Australian, just twenty-two years old and her body was discovered by her flat mate, Kieran Drake, an independent life and took itex-offender. [[Six Tudor Queens: Anna of Kleve, Queen of Secrets Stone Cold Heart by Alison WeirCaz Frear|Full Review]]