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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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[[image:4starIn 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. The snow was getting heavier and the journey longer when Emily opened the car window just a couple of inches. There was a dreadful smell and Dylan saw a horrible, snake-like figure clawing at the car window.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersDeadwood Hall by Linda Jones|ThrillersFull Review]]

Can you imagine what it would be like to win a billion pounds? The UK's biggest ever lottery winners were a couple from Ayrshire, who won a £161 million EuroMillions jackpot a few years ago. That's so much money that it landed them on the Sunday Times Rich List of the UK's thousand most wealthy people. So a billion pounds. That's a lot, right? Can you imagine it? What would you do? Would you try to remain anonymous? And, if you did, how would this affect your relationships with your nearest and dearest? What it would be like? How could you keep your friends and family from knowing that you were now one of the richest people in the country? [[The Billion Pound Lie by Bill Dare|Full Review]] <!-- Vaughn Denzil Meyrick -->

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===[[Across the Void A Breath on Dying Embers (DCI Daley) by S K VaughnDenzil Meyrick]]===

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Sea epics? So 20th centuryFew government trade missions arrive by luxury liner, but the cruise ship ''Great Britain'' is berthed in Kinloch harbour and on board are high-powered international delegates. It's hard to avoid the suspicion that it's not ''entirely'' about work as the billionaires, entrepreneurs and their civil service minders tour the country, golfing and sightseeing with their entourage of security personnel. Try It's an event which DCI Daley hopes will pass quickly, particularly as his formal uniform is far too tight for comfort, but it's not long before one of the crew members and a space epiclocal bird watcher go missing. [[Across the Void A Breath on Dying Embers (DCI Daley) by S K VaughnDenzil Meyrick|Full Review]]

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===[[The Van Apfel Girls are Gone Starlight Watchmaker by Felicity McLeanLauren James]]===

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When Tikka Molloy was eleven and oneThis is a dyslexia-sixth years oldfriendly, the Van Apfel sisters disappearedscience fiction novella for young adults. In It tells the long hot summer tale of 1992Hugo, in an isolated suburb of Australia surrounded by Bushlandunwanted and rather lonely android, the girls vanished during the school's Showstopper concert at the riverside amphitheatre. Did they run away? Were they taken? While the search who makes a living for the sisters united the small community, they were never foundhimself mending time-travel watches. Returning home years later, Tikka must make sense When one of his clients demands that strange moment in time – his broken watch be mended, Hugo realises there is a mystery to be solved, and is only too ready to help. An exciting journey of the summer that shaped herdiscovery unfolds, which takes Hugo out of his drab attic workroom and into a scary adventure with some amazing new friends, exploring regions of the girls she planet never forgotbefore known to exist. [[The Van Apfel Girls are Gone Starlight Watchmaker by Felicity McLeanLauren James|Full Review]]

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===[[The Dragon in the Library by Louie Stowell and Davide Ortu Cold Granite (IllustratorLogan McRae)by Stuart MacBride]]===

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It DS Logan McRae is just back from a year's sick leave after he was attacked by a killer. He's just about OK and he's supposed to be easing himself back into the start swing of the summer holidays job in a gentle way - until three-year-old David Reid's body is discovered in a ditch. He'd been missing for some time and Kit has plansit came as no surprise that he was dead but he's the first of several child murders. These plans involve climbing trees, getting muddy and being outside To add to the complications the police even have a body but no child reported missing. Her friends A serial killer, Josh a child killer and Alitaabuser, is on the other hand want loose in Aberdeen and the press are missing no opportunity to go to the librarybay for blood. Kit hates reading and can As if that wasn't see the point of books at all but is very reluctantly persuaded bad enough there seems to go with the others to the be a leak from within Force Headquarters: a local library. Once there the children meet the librarian and Kit makes an incredible discovery; the librarian is a wizard! Even more incrediblyjournalist, Colin Miller, Kit is a wizard too and she and her friends have an important taskquickly finds out everything that's happening. They must save the library…and save the world! [[The Dragon in the Library by Louie Stowell and Davide Ortu Cold Granite (IllustratorLogan McRae)by Stuart MacBride|Full Review]]

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===[[All ThatChild's Dead Play (Logan McRae 12D I Kim Stone) by Stuart MacBrideAngela Marsons]]===

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It seemed like a good idea. Logan There'Lazarus' McRae was back at work after s a year off sick. Heprologue and we know that we'd been stabbed in the line of duty and recovery had been slow: he still had some painre dealing with someone who is very disturbed. His first case was to be a simple one - just to ease him back into work - but it turned out to be anything but. Professor Wilson, a high-profile anti-independence campaigner has gone missing, apparently abducted from his homeThe descriptions are horrifying, but nothing was left behind except some bloodstains. In much worst of all is the same way that Brexit is dividing people south coldness of the border, there's going to be a war between the pro- and anti-independence factions in Scotland - and the police are not above being involvedkiller. [[All ThatChild's Dead Play (Logan McRae 12D I Kim Stone) by Stuart MacBrideAngela Marsons|Full Review]]

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===[[The Last Stage Exhalation by Louise VossTed Chiang]]===

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If Over the past twenty-eight years Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short stories. These magnificent stories have won twenty-seven major science fiction awards so if you were looking back to when are a science fiction fan it began is likely that you'd have to say that it was before 1995already come across some of the work by Ted Chiang. Meredith Vincent (that wasn't her name then) had gone to Greenham Common on her seventeenth birthdayI cannot speak highly enough of this collection of short stories, dressed as a teddy bear, to protest about nuclear weapons. It was whilst she was there that she met Samantha, fell head over heels they are so wide ranging in love with her their themes and went to live in so beautifully written, Chiang has written an absolute masterpiece of a squat in London, leaving behind her A levels, her recently-widowed mother - and her twin brother, Petecollection. If you come across Chiang's work before, take this opportunity to look after herdo so now. Samantha was there occasionally but Meredith was drawn into forming a band with the boys from the squat and against all the odds Cohen went on to become a sensation and it wasn't long before Meredith was living in a mansion rather than the squatTrust me; your imagination will be grateful. [[The Last Stage Exhalation by Louise VossTed Chiang|Full Review]]

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For Ian Mathie fans there is good and bad news[[image:4star. Ian has come up with the missing jpg|link in his narrative, the story of a very unusual childhood (yes, the very years that made him the amazing man he became). The bad – well it's hardly news two years later – 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 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 unpublishable. =Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Wild Child: Growing Up a Nomad by Ian MathieCategory: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]]<!-- Martin Walker Kate Atkinson -->

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===[[The Body in the Castle Well Started Early, Took My Dog (A Bruno, Chief of Police NovelJackson Brodie) by Martin WalkerKate Atkinson]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]

[[image:4starI guess that most of us have made the odd impulse purchase but Tracy Waterhouse, security chief at the Merrion Centre in Leeds, blew most people's ideas of an impulse purchase out of the water one morning. Seeing a known prostitute dragging a toddler through the shopping mall whilst cursing at her, Waterhouse followed the woman and bought the girl for £3000. The difficulty of a purchase like this is knowing what to do next and Tracy's humdrum life is replaced with one of stress, fear and an overwhelming love for four-year-old Courtney.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeStarted Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie) by Kate Atkinson|CrimeFull Review]]

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<!-- Chloe Daykin -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0571349439.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co. uk/dp/0571349439/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] She was beautiful | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Fire Girl, wore designer clothes and was well-liked Forest Boy by everyoneChloe Daykin]]=== [[image:5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers]] Maya has to escape. She didn't parade her wealth, or her father's White House connections. In fact, her closest friend was on the run in a man recently released from prisoncountry she doesn't know and has no idea who to trust. So when she left Raul is escaping too - travelling back to his home where a lecture saying that she felt illterrible tragedy happened, and her body was later found at ready to stir up trouble. When their paths collide in the bottom middle of the castle well it seemed that jungle, the likeliest explanation was that this had been a dreadful accident with sparks begin to fly. As modern world corruption meets the only people magic and legends of ancient times, can Maya draw on her hidden light to blame being find the builders who had left way through to the well unsealed. truth? [[The Body in the Castle Well (A BrunoFire Girl, Chief of Police Novel) Forest Boy by Martin WalkerChloe Daykin|Full Review]]

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===[[The Ungrateful Refugee Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Dina NayeriAngela Marsons]]===

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Here in the West, we see news reports about immigrants on There's a regular basis – some media welcoming them, some scaremongering about them. But all of those stories are written by journalists – almost always western, prologue and almost always, no matter how deep the investigative journalism they carry out, outsiders to the world and the situations we know that refugees find themselves in. Itwe's rare that we find out the journeys from the refugees themselves – and this re dealing with someone who is a rare opportunity to do thatvery disturbed. The descriptions are horrifying, in this intelligent, powerful and moving work by Dina Nayeri -someone who was born in but worst of all is the middle coldness of a revolution in Iran, fleeing to America as a ten-year-oldthe killer.[[The Ungrateful Refugee Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Dina NayeriAngela Marsons|Full Review]]

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[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Crime|CrimeI Hold Your Heart by Karen Gregory]]===

The body of a nine-year-old boy was found at the bottom of a well which had been sealed for two hundred years - but the boy had only been dead for less than two days and there was no sign of how the body had got into the well[[image:4. The owners 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 doubts5star. Belle McIntosh holds some strange views, particularly about the way that the government is controlling everyone through drugs which are added to the water supply which led to her wanting to reinstate the well. Her wife, Catriona Napier, is more moderate, but doesn't seem to have a lot of knowledge about what's going on on the fa jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Boy in the Well (DI Westphall 2) by Douglas Lindsay: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]]<!-- Nick Louth Davis -->

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===[[The Body What's That in the Mist Dog Years? by Nick LouthBen Davis and Julia Christians]]===

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Muriel Hinkley George and Gizmo have been together ever since George was walking her born. Gizmo has always been a fun, adventurous dog when she found the body on and a quiet country laneloyal friend, but just south of Exmoor. She didn’t recognise him - no one would for a long time as it was obvious recently, George has noticed that he’d been the victim of he's starting to slow down a hit-and-runlittle. He had no face - most of it was smeared on A visit to the road vets leaves George worried that Gizmo might not be around for very much longer, and when D I Jan Talantire came so he begins to look at write Gizmo a bucket list, of all the body she realised adventures that there was absolutely nothing on him which would allow for identificationthey can still have together in Gizmo's last days. All the labels had been cut out of But are they his clothes and there was no wallet and no phone. Hi was Mister Nobody. last days? And who will help George to stay calm when Gizmo is gone? [[The Body What's That in the Mist Dog Years? by Nick LouthBen Davis and Julia Christians|Full Review]]

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===[[Conviction The Long Flight Home by Denise MinaA L Hlad]]===

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It's strange how September 1940 - as WWII rages on, bombs rain down on Britain, destroying the worst homes and lives of days can start in such an ordinarya people on the edge. In Epping Forest, mundane way. And so it was for Anna McDonald as she sorted out gym kit Susan Shepherd and packed lunches her grandfather Bertie live together raising homing pigeons with the birds proving a comfort for Susan following the loss of her two daughtersparents. It didn't begin These pigeons are more than just birds to go wrong until Susan though – in each one, and especially in Duchess, she opened the door sees a distinct personality and forms a close bond. Meanwhile, young pilot Ollie Evans leaves Maine to head to her best friend, Estelle Britain and realised that her husband was at join the top of Royal Air Force. Working with the stairsNational Pigeon Service, dressed as though for a holiday rather than the work clothes she'd been expecting - and he was carrying a suitcase. He soon meets Susan and Estelle were leaving together is tasked with air-dropping hundreds of homing pigeons into German- occupied France, where many will not survive. As the mission is planned, the bond between Ollie and they were taking AnnaSusan grows stronger, but when Ollie'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 Bukaranplane is downed behind enemy lines, the woman it may be Duchess who had been involved in the rape case against four footballers. provides an unexpected lifeline and ensures that hope of a reunion for Susan and Ollie remains… [[Conviction The Long Flight Home by Denise MinaA L Hlad|Full Review]]

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===[[Stepsister Walks In The Wild by Jennifer DonnellyPeter Wohlleben and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translator)]]===

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''People will not forget. Or forgive. An ugly girl instruction manual for the forest'' is how Wohlleben's publisher described the idea for this book, and that's basically what it is too great an offense...– although right at the end the world author says that it is made for men. An ugly girl can never not intended to be forgivena reference book, but an appetiser.''[[Walks In The Wild by Peter Wohlleben and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translator)|Full Review]]

''Stepsister'' tells the gripping story of Cinderella's 'ugly' stepsister, Isabelle. 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 by Jennifer Donnelly|Full Review]] <!-- Gilly Macmillan M T Edvardsson and Rachel Wilson-Boyles -->

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===[[The Nanny A Nearly Normal Family by Gilly MacmillanM T Edvardsson and Rachel Wilson-Boyles (translator)]]===

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We know that something wrong is happening're going to hear this story through the viewpoints of three different people: Adam Sandell, his wife, Ulrika and his daughter Stella. Adam's a body is being dumped pastor in deep water. The rower pulls away and rows back to the boat house Church of Sweden and then she walks back to Lake HallUlrika is a lawyer. Stella is, well, just difficult. As you begin reading you suspect You sense that you know who she's always been difficult and there have even been occasions when Ulrika has been killed let slip that she wishes that Stella was more like her best friend, Amina Bešic - and who dumped no one has ever said that if they don't think that the body, but other person is better. We first meet the family on Stella's 18th birthday and we get a sense of Adam's controlling nature. Permission has to be patient: all will be revealed before too longgiven for a glass of wine for Stella at the celebration meal. [[The Nanny A Nearly Normal Family by Gilly MacmillanM T Edvardsson and Rachel Wilson-Boyles (translator)|Full Review]]

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===[[No One Home The House of Light by Tim WeaverJulia Green]]===

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Long after the police have given Bonnie is growing up on cold missing persons casesa slightly strange island, David Raker picks them living with her grandfather, scavenging for food, and rubbish that has washed up on the beach that she and tracks them downher grandfather can use to make things. He's called to There is some sort of ban against anyone else landing on the island, and lots of suspicion around those who live there, including a particularly disturbing case where a small village great fear of nine people all vanished overnight two years agoanyone who gets sick. Raker But when Bonnie is on the beach one day and his associate must delve discovers not only an intact boat, but a young boy cowering beneath, rather than turn him in to the lives of these people to work out how authorities she takes him home and why nine people have gone missing. They are being threatened to stop but something about the mystery keeps drawing Raker further inhides him, putting smuggling him boiled eggs and blankets in personal perilthe shed whilst she tries to figure out what to do. [[No One Home The House of Light by Tim WeaverJulia Green|Full Review]]

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In the near futuremany ways Felix is a typical boy in Year 7, self-drive cars are enjoying playing games on his PS4 and hanging out with his friend Jake at the norm - weekend. However Felix is struggling at school. He is not a convenient and easy way of transportproblem child but he does have a problem. HoweverHis ADHD makes it hard for him to concentrate, when someone hacks he keeps getting into the systems of eight self-drive cars, their passengers trouble and his grades are set on a fatal collision courseslipping. 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. As everyday commutes turn into terror-filled journeys, All he wants to do is sit in the public have to judge who should survivedark and play chess. Felix knows that this will be extremely boring. But with every aspect of these passangers being examined by the public - will they turn out sometimes we learn valuable lessons where we least expect to be what they seem? and perhaps Granddad and Felix can help each other. [[The Passengers Check Mates by John MarrsStewart Foster|Full Review]]

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===[[If You Could Go Anywhere Needlemouse by Paige ToonJane O'Connor]]===

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Angie We first meet Sylvia Penton on her birthday and her boss, the Prof, is someone who always wanted taking her out to travellunch. This is her favourite day of the year, but not because it's taken her 27 years birthday but because of the special time she gets to leave spend with the small mining town in south Australia which has been the only home man sheloves. He's ever knowntold 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 doesnhasn't do things by half thoughfully constructed 'together' in her own mind - she envisages it as romantic, and once she does feel able but her imagination hasn't yet progressed to go (following a family death) the sexual part of the relationship. There's time though - she leaves not 's only been the town, the state and the country, but also the continent, and finds herself following in her motherprof's footsteps and heading to ItalyPA for fifteen years. [[If You Could Go Anywhere Needlemouse by Paige ToonJane O'Connor|Full Review]] <!-- Nick Griffiths Various-->

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| style="''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"''|===[[Mayhem in the Archipelago Return to Wonderland by Nick GriffithsVarious Authors]]===

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In Latvia following a young girl called Alice down the conspirators meet in rabbit hole a rather unpleasant locationfew years ago, but itwhen the first book she was in [[Alice's their plans which matter to themAdventures in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition) by Lewis Carroll and Anthony Browne|hit 150 years of age]], I found that I didn't really find too much favour with it. In Moscow two men delight in all The wacky-for-the uncertainty in -sake-of-it did not gel, and I don't remember loving it more as a child. But I would suggest I am the Balticperfect audience for this book. In Washington I had every chance to enjoy these short stories that come at the Undersecretary is core from a womantangent, but that show the personal pressures on her are benefits of the same as the men in Moscow are obliged to sufferoblique glance. In Stockholm three members of SÄPOI've always preferred coming to an author's output through their least obvious, the Swedish Secret Serviceallegedly throw-away pieces, know that and it's the time has come for them to make a move. Theysame with franchises – I'd talk more, but their wives would get difficult and therelikely go for Bree Tanner's short novella than the whole Twilight saga (although that remains just a rather pleasing tart which mustn't be missedhunch, for obvious reasons). 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 mind could only provide for success after success? [[Mayhem in the Archipelago Return to Wonderland by Nick GriffithsVarious Authors|Full Review]]

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| style="''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"''|===[[Rumblestar (The Unmapped Chronicles) by Abi Elphinstone]]===

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[[image:4starRumblestar follows the haphazard adventures of the anxious 11-year-old Casper Tock who timetables his every movement, makes countless to do lists and is hounded by wealthy bullies with the absurdly humorous and appropriate names of Candida Cashmere Jumps and Leopold Splattercash.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] This satisfying collection He stumbles across a magic portal by accident just like Lucy of short stories has Narnia fame, meets a feisty girl troubled by her past and is plunged into a provenance at least as beguiling as perilous quest. In a kingdom where the provenance dark mythological forces of Midnights threaten the antique watches that inspired itweather Marvels (equated here to the miracle of nature) conjured by magical creatures, only unlikely heroes can battle against evil.[[Rumblestar (The Unmapped Chronicles]) by Abi Elphinstone|Full Review]]

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 Filby -->

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===[[The Evil Occupants of Easingdale Castle by Ray Filby]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeTeens|CrimeTeens]]

DS Dev Sharma is delighted Jason likes chess. He's pretty good at it too - if delight is the right word to apply to a murder case - but helevel eight on his computer programme, with level ten being Grand Master level. He's got a result when the husband of a murder victim is found with the knifealso good at systems, standing over the body, and admitting having contributed to the murderrelational database that has streamlined his school's administration. DI Ben Cooper Jason's school, Easingdale Comprehensive, is concerned with a suspicious death very big on Kinder Scout. A party of walkers - the New Trespassers Walking Group - got lost in the fog technology and problems arose when one of the party was injured. The group split up to find helpits head, or at least a mobile signalMr Johnston, but when is keen to involve his pupils wherever theyshow promise. So Jason're rescued theys friends have also helped out. Liz is great with hardware and helped with the school're one short s card reader system. Becky has a flair for software and the body has recommended lots of Faith Matthew was found at the bottom of Kinder Downfallcurriculum-enhancing apps. It looked like And Bill is a dreadful accident, but Cooper wasn't happy about the way the body had fallentalented programmer.. Things are not always as they seem - in either case. [[Fall Down Dead (Cooper and Fry) The Evil Occupants of Easingdale Castle by Stephen BoothRay Filby|Full Review]]

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===[[Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee Stone Cold Heart by Casey CepCaz Frear]]===

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Sometimes you begin reading DC Cat Kinsella is back at the Met after a book and before yousecondment to the London Mayor've got to s Office: the bottom of hours were good but the first page you know that itjob was boring. She's going grateful to be brilliantback with the old team - her partner DS Luigi Parnell, boss DCI Kate Steele and DC Rénee Akwa. You sense She's still not prepared to say anything about the identity of her boyfriend: the authorknowledge that she's effortless grasp in a relationship with Aiden Doyle, the brother of a murder victim and moreover a murder with which her subject matter and you already know that father might have had some involvement could finish her use of words is almost surgical in its precisioncareer. The hands holding you Kinsella and Parnell are safecalled to the discovery of the body of a young woman: Naomi Lockhart was Australian, which considering that this is a book about just twenty-two subjects where facts are in short supply, is somewhat surprising. Our first subject is the Reverend Willie Maxwell. Over seven yearsold and her body was discovered by her flat mate, six people close to the Reverend had diedKieran Drake, with Maxwell benefiting substantially from insurance policies which he'd taken out on their livesan ex-offender. [[Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee Stone Cold Heart by Casey CepCaz Frear|Full Review]]