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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 Art of Noticing: Rediscover What Really Matters to You Deadwood Hall by Rob WalkerLinda Jones]]===

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The curse put In late December Dylan Beaumont and his sister Emily were on reviewers is that we get their way to read through a book which is really better dipped into, or read gradually spend the week before Christmas at their grandfather's house. It was snowing heavily and thoughts allowed to be provokedyou could sense that their parents were becoming annoyed at the bickering in the back of the car. And so it Emily was rather brusque with her nine-year-old brother's behaviour, but then that'The Art of Noticing's your prerogative when you're a grown-up eleven year old. It's The snow was getting heavier and the journey longer when Emily opened the car window just a simple premise: the pace couple of modern life and rapidity of technological advances means that we are constantly overwhelmed and distractedinches. Rob Walker wants us to be able to steal our attention back. He gives us his thoughts on various areas of our lives There was a dreadful smell and then provides 131 exercises to help us recover our attentionDylan saw a horrible, snake-like figure clawing at the car window. [[The Art of Noticing: Rediscover What Really Matters to You Deadwood Hall by Rob WalkerLinda Jones|Full Review]]

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===[[The Playground Murders A Breath on Dying Embers (DCI Daley) by Lesley ThomsonDenzil Meyrick]]===

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Rachel Cater was having an affair with her bossFew government trade missions arrive by luxury liner, Chris Philips, an auctioneerbut the cruise ship ''Great Britain'' is berthed in Kinloch harbour and on board are high-powered international delegates. It was's hard to avoid the suspicion that it's not ''entirely'' about work as the billionaires, she told her motherentrepreneurs and their civil service minders tour the country, love at first sight. Her mother was more sceptical golfing and wondered why, if it had been love at first sight, it had taken him so long to do anything about itsightseeing with their entourage of security personnel. StillIt's an event which DCI Daley hopes will pass quickly, more than anythingparticularly as his formal uniform is far too tight for comfort, she wanted her daughter to be happy. That was what Rachel wanted too and but it was why she went to the Philips' family home, determined to have it all out in s not long before one of the opencrew members and a local bird watcher go missing. Instead she was stabbed fifteen times. Her lover was convicted of her murder. [[The Playground Murders A Breath on Dying Embers (DCI Daley) by Lesley ThomsonDenzil Meyrick|Full Review]]

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[[image:4starThis is a dyslexia-friendly, science fiction novella for young adults. It tells the tale of Hugo, an unwanted and rather lonely android, who makes a living for himself mending time-travel watches. When one of his clients demands that 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 discovery unfolds, which takes Hugo out of his drab attic workroom and into a scary adventure with some amazing new friends, exploring regions of the planet never before known to exist.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersThe Starlight Watchmaker by Lauren James|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 Stuart MacBride -->

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===[[Across the Void Cold Granite (Logan McRae) by S K VaughnStuart MacBride]]===

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Sea epics? So 20th centuryDS 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 swing of the 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 it came as no surprise that he was dead but he's the first of several child murders. To add to the complications the police even have a body but no child reported missing. A serial killer, a child killer and abuser, is on the loose in Aberdeen and the press are missing no opportunity to bay for blood. Try As if that wasn't bad enough there seems to be a space epicleak from within Force Headquarters: a local journalist, Colin Miller, quickly finds out everything that's happening. [[Across the Void Cold Granite (Logan McRae) by S K VaughnStuart MacBride|Full Review]]

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===[[The Van Apfel Girls are Gone Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Felicity McLeanAngela Marsons]]===

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When Tikka Molloy was eleven There's a prologue and one-sixth years old, the Van Apfel sisters disappearedwe know that we're dealing with someone who is very disturbed. In the long hot summer of 1992 The descriptions are horrifying, in an isolated suburb but worst of Australia surrounded by Bushland, the girls vanished during the school's Showstopper concert at all is the riverside amphitheatre. Did they run away? Were they taken? While the search for the sisters united the small community, they were never found. Returning home years later, Tikka must make sense of that strange moment in time – coldness of the summer that shaped her, and the girls she never forgotkiller. [[The Van Apfel Girls are Gone Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Felicity McLeanAngela Marsons|Full Review]]

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===[[The Dragon in the Library Exhalation by Louie Stowell and Davide Ortu (Illustrator)Ted Chiang]]===

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It is the start of Over the summer holidays and Kit past twenty-eight years Ted Chiang has planspublished fifteen science fiction short stories. These plans involve climbing trees, getting muddy and being outsidemagnificent stories have won twenty-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 Ted Chiang. Her friendsI cannot speak highly enough of this collection of short stories, Josh they are so wide ranging in their themes and Alitaso beautifully written, on the other hand want to go to the libraryChiang has written an absolute masterpiece of a collection. Kit hates reading and canIf you come across Chiang't see the point of books at all but is very reluctantly persuaded s work before, take this opportunity to go with the others to the local librarydo so now. Once there the children meet the librarian and Kit makes an incredible discoveryTrust me; the librarian is a wizard! Even more incredibly, Kit is a wizard too and she and her friends have an important taskyour imagination will be grateful. They must save the library…and save the world! [[The Dragon in the Library Exhalation by Louie Stowell and Davide Ortu (Illustrator)Ted Chiang|Full Review]]

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[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Crime|CrimeRose, Interrupted by Patrice Lawrence]]===

It seemed like a good idea[[image:4star. Logan 'Lazarus' McRae was back at work after a year off sick. He'd been stabbed in the line of duty and recovery had been slowjpg|link=Category: he still had some pain. 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 home, but nothing was left behind except some bloodstains. In much the same way that Brexit is dividing people south 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 involved. {{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[All That's Dead (Logan McRae 12) by Stuart MacBride: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]]<!-- Louise Voss Kate Atkinson -->

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===[[The Last Stage Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie) by Louise VossKate Atkinson]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]

[[image:4I 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 £3000.5star 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]]

If you were looking back <!-- 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]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Fire Girl, Forest Boy by Chloe Daykin]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers]] Maya has to when it began youescape. She's on the run in a country she doesn'd have t know and has no idea who to say that it was before 1995trust. Meredith Vincent (that wasn't her name then) had gone Raul is escaping too - travelling back to Greenham Common on her seventeenth birthday, dressed as his home where a teddy bearterrible tragedy happened, ready to protest about nuclear weaponsstir up trouble. It was whilst she was there that she met Samantha, fell head over heels When their paths collide 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 brother, Petethe middle of the jungle, the sparks begin to look after herfly. Samantha was there occasionally but Meredith was drawn into forming a band with As modern world corruption meets the boys from the squat magic and against all legends of ancient times, can Maya draw on her hidden light to find the odds Cohen went on way through to become a sensation and it wasn't long before Meredith was living in a mansion rather than the squat. truth? [[The Last Stage Fire Girl, Forest Boy by Louise VossChloe Daykin|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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[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Crime|CrimeI Hold Your Heart by Karen Gregory]]===

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[[image:4. 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 unsealed5star. 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]]

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]]<!-- Nayeri Davis -->

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===[[The Ungrateful Refugee What's That in Dog Years? by Dina NayeriBen Davis and Julia Christians]]===

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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 themGeorge and Gizmo have been together ever since George was born. But all of those stories are written by journalists – almost Gizmo has always westernbeen a fun, adventurous dog and almost alwaysa loyal friend, no matter how deep the investigative journalism they carry outbut just recently, outsiders to the world and the situations George has noticed that refugees find themselves in. Ithe's rare that we find out the journeys from the refugees themselves – and this is starting to slow down a rare opportunity little. A visit to do the vets leaves George worried thatGizmo might not be around for very much longer, in this intelligentand so he begins to write Gizmo a bucket list, powerful and moving work by Dina Nayeri -someone who was born in of all the middle of a revolution adventures that they can still have together in Iran, fleeing Gizmo's last days. But are they his last days? And who will help George to America as a ten-year-old.stay calm when Gizmo is gone? [[The Ungrateful Refugee What's That in Dog Years? by Dina NayeriBen Davis and Julia Christians|Full Review]]

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===[[Boy in the Well (DI Westphall 2) The Long Flight Home by Douglas LindsayA L Hlad]]===

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The body of a nineSeptember 1940 -year-old boy was found at as WWII rages on, bombs rain down on Britain, destroying the bottom homes and lives of a well which had been sealed for two hundred years - but people on the boy had only been dead for less than two days edge. In Epping Forest, Susan Shepherd and there was no sign of how her grandfather Bertie live together raising homing pigeons with the body had got into birds proving a comfort for Susan following the wellloss of her parents. The owners of the property These pigeons are adamant that the well was sealed when they went more than just birds to open itSusan though – in each one, and especially in Duchess, but DI Ben Westphall would be entitled to have his doubtsshe sees a distinct personality and forms a close bond. Belle McIntosh holds some strange viewsMeanwhile, particularly about the way that the government is controlling everyone through drugs which are added young pilot Ollie Evans leaves Maine to the water supply which led head to her wanting to reinstate Britain and join the wellRoyal Air Force. Her wifeWorking with the National Pigeon Service, Catriona Napierhe soon meets Susan and is tasked with air-dropping hundreds of homing pigeons into German-occupied France, where many will not survive. As the mission is more moderateplanned, the bond between Ollie and Susan grows stronger, but doesnwhen Ollie't seem to have s plane is downed behind enemy lines, it may be Duchess who provides an unexpected lifeline and ensures that hope of a lot of knowledge about what's going on on the fa reunion for Susan and Ollie remains… [[Boy in the Well (DI Westphall 2) The Long Flight Home by Douglas LindsayA L Hlad|Full Review]]

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Muriel Hinkley was walking her dog when she found ''An instruction manual for the forest'' is how Wohlleben's publisher described the body on a quiet country laneidea for this book, just south of Exmoor. She didn’t recognise him - no one would for a long time as it was obvious and that he’d been the victim of a hit-and-run. He had no face - most of 's basically what it was smeared on is – although right at the road and when D I Jan Talantire came to look at end the body she realised author says 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 phoneit is not intended to be a reference book, but an appetiser. Hi was Mister Nobody. [[Walks In The Body in the Mist Wild by Nick LouthPeter Wohlleben and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translator)|Full Review]]

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===[[Conviction A Nearly Normal Family by Denise MinaM T Edvardsson and Rachel Wilson-Boyles (translator)]]===

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ItWe're going to hear this story through the viewpoints of three different people: Adam Sandell, his wife, Ulrika and his daughter Stella. Adam's strange how a pastor in the worst Church of days can start in such an ordinarySweden and Ulrika is a lawyer. Stella is, well, mundane wayjust difficult. And so it was for Anna McDonald as You sense that she sorted out gym kit 's always been difficult and packed lunches for her two daughters. It didn't begin to go wrong until there have even been occasions when Ulrika has let slip that she opened the door to wishes that Stella was more like her best friend, Estelle Amina Bešic - and realised no one has ever said that if they don't think that her husband was at the top of other person is better. We first meet the stairs, dressed as though for a holiday rather than the work clothes shefamily on Stella'd been expecting - s 18th birthday and he was carrying we get a suitcase. He and Estelle were leaving together - and they were taking Annasense of Adam's two daughters with themcontrolling nature. There was another problem which neither Hamish nor Estelle knew about. Anna wasn't actually Anna McDonald. She was Sophie Bukaran, Permission has to be given for a glass of wine for Stella at the woman who had been involved in the rape case against four footballerscelebration meal. [[Conviction A Nearly Normal Family by Denise MinaM T Edvardsson and Rachel Wilson-Boyles (translator)|Full Review]]

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''Stepsister'' tells Bonnie is growing up on a slightly strange island, living with her grandfather, scavenging for food, and rubbish that has washed up on the gripping story beach that she and her grandfather can use to make things. There is some sort of ban against anyone else landing on the island, and lots of Cinderella's 'ugly' stepsistersuspicion around those who live there, Isabelleincluding a great fear of anyone who gets sick. We've been told this fairy-tale over But when Bonnie is on the beach one day and over again throughout our lives discovers not only an intact boat, but a young boy cowering beneath, rather than turn him in to the authorities she takes him home and know hides him, smuggling him boiled eggs and blankets in the characters well. But have you ever wondered shed whilst she tries to figure out what happened to the sisters after Cinderella married the Prince? Or why the sisters disliked her so much? do. [[Stepsister The House of Light by Jennifer DonnellyJulia Green|Full Review]]

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===[[The Nanny Check Mates by Gilly MacmillanStewart Foster]]===

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We know that something wrong In many ways Felix is happening: a body 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 being dumped in deep waternot a problem child but he does have a problem. The rower pulls away and rows back His ADHD makes it hard for him to the boat house concentrate, he keeps getting into trouble and then she walks back to Lake Hallhis grades are slipping. As you begin reading you suspect When his Mum suggests that you know who he spends more time with his grandfather Felix is horrified. Ever since Grandma died his Granddad has been killed grumpy and who dumped more eccentric than before. All he wants to do is sit in the body, but be patient: all dark and play chess. Felix knows that this will be revealed before too longextremely boring. But sometimes we learn valuable lessons where we least expect to and perhaps Granddad and Felix can help each other. [[The Nanny Check Mates by Gilly MacmillanStewart Foster|Full Review]]

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===[[No One Home Needlemouse by Tim WeaverJane O'Connor]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]

Long after the police have given up on cold missing persons cases, David Raker picks them up and tracks them down[[image:5star. He's called to 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 but something about the mystery keeps drawing Raker further injpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], putting him in personal peril. [[No One Home by Tim Weaver:Category:Women's Fiction|Full ReviewWomen's Fiction]]

We first meet Sylvia Penton on her birthday and 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]]<!-- Marrs Various-->

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===[[The Passengers Return to Wonderland by John MarrsVarious Authors]]===

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In following a young girl called Alice down the near futurerabbit hole a few years ago, self-drive cars are when the norm - a convenient first book she was in [[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition) by Lewis Carroll and easy way Anthony Browne|hit 150 years of transportage]], I found that I didn't really find too much favour with it. However, when someone hacks into The wacky-for-the systems -sake-of eight self-drive carsit did not gel, their passengers are set on and I don't remember loving it more as a child. 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 core from a fatal collision coursetangent, that show the benefits of the oblique glance. As everyday commutes turn into terror I've always preferred coming to an author's output through their least obvious, allegedly throw-filled journeysaway pieces, and it's the same with franchises – I'd more likely go for Bree Tanner's short novella than the public have to judge who should survivewhole Twilight saga (although that remains just a hunch, for obvious reasons). But with For another thing, there was every aspect reason to expect some kind of these passangers being examined greatness here – with Carroll much loved by the public - will they turn out to be what they seemmillions, surely pieces written with that love in mind could only provide for success after success? [[The Passengers Return to Wonderland by John MarrsVarious Authors|Full Review]]

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| style="''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"''|===[[If You Could Go Anywhere Rumblestar (The Unmapped Chronicles) by Paige ToonAbi Elphinstone]]===

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Angie is someone Rumblestar follows the haphazard adventures of the anxious 11-year-old Casper Tock who always wanted to traveltimetables his every movement, but it's taken her 27 years makes countless to leave do lists and is hounded by wealthy bullies with the small mining town in south Australia which has been the only home she's ever knownabsurdly humorous and appropriate names of Candida Cashmere Jumps and Leopold Splattercash. She doesn't do things He stumbles across a magic portal by half thoughaccident just like Lucy of Narnia fame, meets a feisty girl troubled by her past and once she does feel able to go (following is plunged into a perilous quest. In a family death) she leaves not only kingdom where the town, dark mythological forces of Midnights threaten the state and weather Marvels (equated here to the countrymiracle of nature) conjured by magical creatures, but also the continent, and finds herself following in her mother's footsteps and heading to Italyonly unlikely heroes can battle against evil. [[If You Could Go Anywhere Rumblestar (The Unmapped Chronicles]) by Paige ToonAbi Elphinstone|Full Review]]

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In Latvia the conspirators meet in a rather unpleasant location, 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 woman, but the personal pressures on her are the same as the men in Moscow are obliged to suffer. In Stockholm three members of SÄPO, the Swedish Secret Service, know that the time has come for them to make a move. They'd talk more, but their wives would get difficult and there's a rather pleasing tart which mustn't be missed[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Mayhem in the Archipelago by Nick Griffiths:Category:Teens|Full ReviewTeens]]

Jason likes chess. He's pretty good at it too - a level eight on his computer programme, with level ten being Grand Master level. He's also good at systems, having contributed to the relational database that has streamlined his school's administration. Jason's school, Easingdale Comprehensive, is very big on technology and its head, Mr Johnston, is keen to involve his pupils wherever they show promise. So Jason's friends have also helped out. Liz is great with hardware and helped with the school's card reader system. Becky has a flair for software and has recommended lots of curriculum-enhancing apps. And Bill is a talented programmer... [[The Evil Occupants of Easingdale Castle by Ray Filby|Full Review]]  <!-- Neal Caz Frear -->

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===[[Watchwords by Philip Neal]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Short StoriesCrime|Short StoriesCrime]] 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 DC Cat Kinsella is back at the Met after a watch. It was a watch he was fond of and had been told secondment to the London Mayor's Office: the hours were good but the job was like a 1930s Cartierboring. Instead of mourning its loss She's grateful to be back with the old team - her partner DS Luigi Parnell, he began to collect vintage watches that resembled itboss DCI Kate Steele and DC Rénee Akwa. And that She's how he became a watch collector. An eBay purchase led him still not prepared to say anything about the identity of her boyfriend: the Antique Watch Company watch repairers knowledge that she's in Clerkenwell. The eBay purchase was a fakerelationship with Aiden Doyle, but the friendship that grew between the buyer brother of a murder victim and moreover a murder with which her father might have had some involvement could finish her career. Kinsella and Parnell are called to the repairer discovery of watches was not and the seed body of an idea for a book young woman: Naomi Lockhart was bornAustralian, just twenty-two years old and her body was discovered by her flat mate, Kieran Drake, an ex-offender. [[ Watchwords Stone Cold Heart by Philip Neal Caz Frear|Full Review]]