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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:5star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Chessmaster's Secret by Mary Parker:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]===

[[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:Confident ReadersDeadwood Hall by Linda Jones|Confident ReadersFull Review]]

Belle and Joe travel to London in 1944, towards the end of World War II. Orphaned evacuees, they haven't had a good time of it - especially Joe, who is a sensitive child and was badly bullied. Meeting them is Uncle Griff, a kindly man, but one without much money. He is more than happy to have the children stay during the school holidays. Uncle Griff owns the ''Shop of Mechanical Marvels'' and the children love all the old things it contains. Uncle Griff hopes to restore it to profitability and bring some wonder back into London's bombed out streets. [[The Chessmaster's Secret by Mary Parker|Full Review]] <!-- Rob Walker Denzil Meyrick -->

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===[[The Art of Noticing: Rediscover What Really Matters to You A Breath on Dying Embers (DCI Daley) by Rob WalkerDenzil Meyrick]]===

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The curse put on reviewers is that we get to read through a book which Few government trade missions arrive by luxury liner, but the cruise ship ''Great Britain'' is really better dipped into, or read gradually berthed in Kinloch harbour and thoughts allowed to be provokedon board are high-powered international delegates. And so It's hard to avoid the suspicion that it was with 's not 'The Art of Noticing'entirely'. It's a simple premise: about work as the billionaires, entrepreneurs and their civil service minders tour the pace of modern life country, golfing and rapidity sightseeing with their entourage of technological advances means that we are constantly overwhelmed and distractedsecurity personnel. Rob Walker wants us to be able to steal our attention back. He gives us It's an event which DCI Daley hopes will pass quickly, particularly as his thoughts on various areas formal uniform is far too tight for comfort, but it's not long before one of our lives the crew members and then provides 131 exercises to help us recover our attentiona local bird watcher go missing. [[The Art of Noticing: Rediscover What Really Matters to You A Breath on Dying Embers (DCI Daley) by Rob WalkerDenzil Meyrick|Full Review]]

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===[[The Playground Murders Starlight Watchmaker by Lesley ThomsonLauren James]]===

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Rachel Cater was having an affair with her boss, Chris PhilipsThis is a dyslexia-friendly, an auctioneerscience fiction novella for young adults. It wastells the tale of Hugo, she told her mother, love at first sight. Her mother was more sceptical an unwanted and wondered why, if it had been love at first sightrather lonely android, it had taken him so long to do anything about itwho makes a living for himself mending time-travel watches. Still, more than anythingWhen one of his clients demands that his broken watch be mended, she wanted her daughter Hugo realises there is a mystery to be happy. That was what Rachel wanted solved, and is only too and it was why she went ready to the Philips' family homehelp. An exciting journey of discovery unfolds, determined to have it all which takes Hugo out in of his drab attic workroom and into a scary adventure with some amazing new friends, exploring regions of the open. Instead she was stabbed fifteen times. Her lover was convicted of her murderplanet never before known to exist. [[The Playground Murders Starlight Watchmaker by Lesley ThomsonLauren James|Full Review]]

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[[image:4.5star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Billion Pound Lie by Bill Dare:Category:Crime|Crime]]===

[[imageDS 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. As if that wasn't bad enough there seems to be a leak from within Force Headquarters:4stara local journalist, Colin Miller, quickly finds out everything that's happening.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersCold Granite (Logan McRae) by Stuart MacBride|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 Angela Marsons -->

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===[[Across the Void Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) by S K VaughnAngela Marsons]]===

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Sea epics? So 20th centuryThere's a prologue and we know that we're dealing with someone who is very disturbed. Try a space epic The descriptions are horrifying, but worst of all is the coldness of the killer. [[Across the Void Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) by S K VaughnAngela Marsons|Full Review]]

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===[[The Van Apfel Girls are Gone Exhalation by Felicity McLeanTed Chiang]]===

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When Tikka Molloy was eleven and oneOver the past twenty-sixth eight years old, Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short stories. These magnificent 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 Van Apfel sisters disappearedwork by Ted Chiang. In the long hot summer I cannot speak highly enough of this collection of 1992short stories, they are so wide ranging in their themes and so beautifully written, Chiang has written an isolated suburb absolute masterpiece of Australia surrounded by Bushland, the girls vanished during the schoola collection. If you come across Chiang's Showstopper concert at the riverside amphitheatre. Did they run away? Were they taken? While the search for the sisters united the small communitywork before, they were never foundtake this opportunity to do so now. Returning home years later, Tikka must make sense of that strange moment in time – of the summer that shaped her, and the girls she never forgotTrust me; your imagination will be grateful. [[The Van Apfel Girls are Gone Exhalation by Felicity McLeanTed Chiang|Full Review]]

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[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]Rose, [[:Category:Emerging Readers|Emerging ReadersInterrupted by Patrice Lawrence]]===

It is the start of the summer holidays and Kit has plans[[image:4star. These plans involve climbing trees, getting muddy and being outside. Her friends, Josh and Alita, 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 to go with the others to the local library. Once there the children meet the librarian and Kit makes an incredible discovery; the librarian is a wizard! Even more incredibly, Kit is a wizard too and she and her friends have an important task. They must save the library…and save the world! jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Dragon in the Library by Louie Stowell and Davide Ortu (Illustrator):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]]<!-- Stuart MacBride Kate Atkinson -->

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===[[All That's Dead Started Early, Took My Dog (Logan McRae 12Jackson Brodie) by Stuart MacBrideKate Atkinson]]===

It seemed like a good idea. Logan 'Lazarus' McRae was back I guess that most of us have made the odd impulse purchase but Tracy Waterhouse, security chief at work after a year off sick. Hethe Merrion Centre in Leeds, blew most people'd been stabbed in s ideas of an impulse purchase out of the line of duty and recovery had been slow: he still had some painwater one morning. His first case was to be Seeing a simple one - just to ease him back into work - but it turned out to be anything but. Professor Wilson, known prostitute dragging a high-profile anti-independence campaigner has gone missingtoddler through the shopping mall whilst cursing at her, apparently abducted from his home, but nothing was left behind except some bloodstainsWaterhouse followed the woman and bought the girl for £3000. In much the same way that Brexit The difficulty of a purchase like this is knowing what to do next and Tracy's humdrum life is dividing people south replaced with one of the borderstress, there's going to be a war between the pro- fear and antian overwhelming love for four-independence factions in Scotland year- and the police are not above being involvedold Courtney. [[All That's Dead Started Early, Took My Dog (Logan McRae 12Jackson Brodie) by Stuart MacBrideKate Atkinson|Full Review]]

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[[image:B07MWXBTV80571349439.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07MWXBTV80571349439/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 escape. She's on the run in a country she doesn't know and has no idea who to trust. Raul is escaping too - travelling back to his home where a terrible tragedy happened, ready to stir up trouble. When their paths collide in the middle of the jungle, the sparks begin to fly. As modern world corruption meets the magic and legends of ancient times, can Maya draw on her hidden light to find the way through to the truth? [[Fire Girl, Forest Boy by Chloe Daykin|Full Review]] <!-- Angela Marsons -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:B07QPKB7N7.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07QPKB7N7/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]

===[[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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[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Autobiography|AutobiographyI Hold Your Heart by Karen Gregory]]===

For Ian Mathie fans there is good and bad news[[image:4.5star. 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]]

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]]<!-- Martin Walker Davis -->

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===[[The Body What's That in the Castle Well (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel) Dog Years? by Martin WalkerBen Davis and Julia Christians]]===

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Claudia Muller George and Gizmo have been together ever since George was an American, studying art history and being mentored by an eminent French art historian and Resistance war hero in Limeuil in Perigordborn. She was beautifulGizmo has always been a fun, wore designer clothes adventurous dog and was well-liked by everyone. She didn't parade her wealtha loyal friend, but just recently, or her fatherGeorge has noticed that he's White House connections. In fact, her closest friend was starting to slow down a man recently released from prisonlittle. So when she left a lecture saying A visit to the vets leaves George worried that she felt illGizmo might not be around for very much longer, and her body was later found at the bottom so he begins to write Gizmo a bucket list, of all the castle well it seemed adventures that the likeliest explanation was that this had been a dreadful accident with the only people they can still have together in Gizmo's last days. But are they his last days? And who will help George to blame being the builders who had left the well unsealed. stay calm when Gizmo is gone? [[The Body What's That in the Castle Well (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel) Dog Years? by Martin WalkerBen Davis and Julia Christians|Full Review]]

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===[[The Ungrateful Refugee Long Flight Home by Dina NayeriA L Hlad]]===

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Here in the WestSeptember 1940 - as WWII rages on, we see news reports about immigrants bombs rain down on Britain, destroying the homes and lives of a regular basis – some media welcoming thempeople on the edge. In Epping Forest, some scaremongering about themSusan Shepherd and her grandfather Bertie live together raising homing pigeons with the birds proving a comfort for Susan following the loss of her parents. But all of those stories These pigeons are written by journalists more than just birds to Susan though – almost always westernin each one, and almost alwaysespecially in Duchess, no matter how deep the investigative journalism they carry outshe sees a distinct personality and forms a close bond. Meanwhile, outsiders young pilot Ollie Evans leaves Maine to head to the world Britain and join the situations that refugees find themselves inRoyal Air Force. It's rare that we find out Working with the journeys from the refugees themselves – National Pigeon Service, he soon meets Susan and this is a rare opportunity to do thattasked with air-dropping hundreds of homing pigeons into German-occupied France, in this intelligentwhere many will not survive. As the mission is planned, powerful the bond between Ollie and moving work by Dina Nayeri -someone Susan grows stronger, but when Ollie's plane is downed behind enemy lines, it may be Duchess who was born in the middle provides an unexpected lifeline and ensures that hope of a revolution in Iran, fleeing to America as a ten-year-old.reunion for Susan and Ollie remains… [[The Ungrateful Refugee Long Flight Home by Dina NayeriA L Hlad|Full Review]]

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| style="''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"''|===[[Boy in the Well Walks In The Wild by Peter Wohlleben and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (DI Westphall 2Translator) by Douglas Lindsay]]===

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The body of a nine-year-old boy was found at ''An instruction manual for the bottom of a well which had been sealed for two hundred years - but forest'' is how Wohlleben's publisher described the boy had only been dead idea for less than two days this book, and there was no sign of how that's basically what it is – although right at the body had got into end the well. The owners of the property are adamant author says that the well was sealed when they went to open it, but DI Ben Westphall would be entitled to have his doubts. Belle McIntosh holds some strange views, particularly about the way that the government is controlling everyone through drugs which are added not intended to the water supply which led to her wanting to reinstate the well. Her wife, Catriona Napier, is more moderatebe a reference book, but doesn't seem to have a lot of knowledge about what's going on on the fa an appetiser. [[Boy in the Well Walks In The Wild by Peter Wohlleben and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (DI Westphall 2Translator) by Douglas Lindsay|Full Review]]

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===[[The Body in the Mist A Nearly Normal Family by Nick LouthM T Edvardsson and Rachel Wilson-Boyles (translator)]]===

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Muriel Hinkley was walking her dog when she found We're going to hear this story through the body on a quiet country laneviewpoints of three different people: Adam Sandell, his wife, just south of ExmoorUlrika and his daughter Stella. She didn’t recognise him - no one would for Adam's a long time as it was obvious that he’d been pastor in the victim Church of Sweden and Ulrika is a hit-and-runlawyer. Stella is, well, just difficult. He had no face - most of it was smeared on the road You sense that she's always been difficult and there have even been occasions when D I Jan Talantire came to look at the body Ulrika has let slip that she realised wishes that there Stella was absolutely nothing on him which would allow for identificationmore like her best friend, Amina Bešic - and no one has ever said that if they don't think that the other person is better. All We first meet the labels had been cut out family on Stella's 18th birthday and we get a sense of his clothes and there was no wallet and no phoneAdam's controlling nature. Hi was Mister NobodyPermission has to be given for a glass of wine for Stella at the celebration meal. [[The Body in the Mist A Nearly Normal Family by Nick LouthM T Edvardsson and Rachel Wilson-Boyles (translator)|Full Review]]

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===[[Conviction The House of Light by Denise MinaJulia Green]]===

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It's Bonnie is growing up on a slightly strange how the worst of days can start in such an ordinaryisland, living with her grandfather, mundane way. And so it was scavenging for Anna McDonald as food, and rubbish that has washed up on the beach that she sorted out gym kit and packed lunches for her two daughtersgrandfather can use to make things. It didn't begin to go wrong until she opened There is some sort of ban against anyone else landing on the door to her best friendisland, Estelle and realised that her husband was at the top lots of suspicion around those who live there, including a great fear of anyone who gets sick. But when Bonnie is on the stairsbeach one day and discovers not only an intact boat, dressed as though for but a holiday young boy cowering beneath, rather than turn him in to the work clothes authorities she'd been expecting - takes him home and he was carrying a suitcase. He and Estelle were leaving together - hides him, smuggling him boiled eggs 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 blankets in the rape case against four footballersshed whilst she tries to figure out what to do. [[Conviction The House of Light by Denise MinaJulia Green|Full Review]]

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''People will not forget[[image:5star. Or forgive. An ugly girl is too great an offense...the world is made for men. An ugly girl can never be forgiven.''jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]

''Stepsister'' tells In many ways Felix is a typical boy in Year 7, enjoying playing games on his PS4 and hanging out with his friend Jake at the gripping story of Cinderella's 'ugly' stepsisterweekend. However Felix is struggling at school. He is not a problem child but he does have a problem. His ADHD makes it hard for him to concentrate, Isabellehe keeps getting into trouble and his grades are slipping. When his Mum suggests that he spends more time with his grandfather Felix is horrified. We've Ever since Grandma died his Granddad has been told this fairy-tale over grumpy and over again throughout our lives more eccentric than before. All he wants to do is sit in the dark and know the characters wellplay chess. Felix knows that this will be extremely boring. But have you ever wondered what happened sometimes we learn valuable lessons where we least expect to the sisters after Cinderella married the Prince? Or why the sisters disliked her so much? and perhaps Granddad and Felix can help each other. [[Stepsister Check Mates by Jennifer DonnellyStewart Foster|Full Review]]

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===[[The Nanny Needlemouse by Gilly MacmillanJane O'Connor]]===

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We know that something wrong first meet Sylvia Penton on her birthday and her boss, the Prof, is happening: a body taking her out to lunch. This is being dumped in deep waterher 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. The rower pulls away He's told her that he and rows back his wife are going to divorce - Martha is apparently having an affair - and Sylvia is convinced that the boat house Prof will then declare his love and then they can be together. She hasn't fully constructed 'together' in her own mind - she walks back envisages it as romantic, but her imagination hasn't yet progressed to Lake Hallthe sexual part of the relationship. As you begin reading you suspect that you know who has There's time though - she's only been killed and who dumped the body, but be patient: all will be revealed before too longprof's PA for fifteen years. [[The Nanny Needlemouse by Gilly MacmillanJane O'Connor|Full Review]] <!-- Weaver Various-->

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Long after In following a young girl called Alice down the police have given up on cold missing persons casesrabbit hole a few years ago, David Raker picks them up when the first book she was in [[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition) by Lewis Carroll and tracks them downAnthony Browne|hit 150 years of age]], I found that I didn't really find too much favour with it. He The wacky-for-the-sake-of-it did not gel, and I don's called to t remember loving it more as a particularly disturbing case where a small village of nine people all vanished overnight two years agochild. But I would suggest I am the perfect audience for this book. Raker and his associate must delve in I had every chance to enjoy these short stories that come at the core from a tangent, that show the lives benefits of these people the oblique glance. I've always preferred coming to work out how an author's output through their least obvious, allegedly throw-away pieces, and why nine people have gone missingit's the same with franchises – I'd more likely go for Bree Tanner's short novella than the whole Twilight saga (although that remains just a hunch, for obvious reasons). They are being threatened For another thing, there was every reason to stop but something about the mystery keeps drawing Raker further inexpect some kind of greatness here – with Carroll much loved by millions, putting him surely pieces written with that love in personal peril. mind could only provide for success after success? [[No One Home Return to Wonderland by Tim WeaverVarious Authors|Full Review]]

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===[[Rumblestar (The Passengers Unmapped Chronicles) by John MarrsAbi Elphinstone]]===

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In Rumblestar follows the haphazard adventures of the near futureanxious 11-year-old Casper Tock who timetables his every movement, self-drive cars are makes countless to do lists and is hounded by wealthy bullies with the norm - a convenient absurdly humorous and easy way appropriate names of transportCandida Cashmere Jumps and Leopold Splattercash. HoweverHe stumbles across a magic portal by accident just like Lucy of Narnia fame, when someone hacks meets a feisty girl troubled by her past and is plunged into a perilous quest. In a kingdom where the systems dark mythological forces of eight self-drive cars, their passengers are set on a fatal collision course. As everyday commutes turn into terror-filled journeys, Midnights threaten the public have weather Marvels (equated here to judge who should survive. But with every aspect the miracle of these passangers being examined nature) conjured by the public - will they turn out to be what they seem? magical creatures, only unlikely heroes can battle against evil. [[Rumblestar (The Passengers Unmapped Chronicles]) by John MarrsAbi Elphinstone|Full Review]]

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

Angie is someone who always wanted to travelJason likes chess. He's pretty good at it too - a level eight on his computer programme, but itwith level ten being Grand Master level. He's taken her 27 years also good at systems, having contributed to leave the small mining town in south Australia which relational database that has been the only home shestreamlined his school's ever knownadministration. She doesn Jason't do things by half thoughs school, Easingdale Comprehensive, is very big on technology and once she does feel able to go (following a family death) she leaves not only the townits head, the state and the countryMr Johnston, but 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 continent, and finds herself following in her motherschool's footsteps card reader system. Becky has a flair for software and heading to Italyhas recommended lots of curriculum-enhancing apps. And Bill is a talented programmer... [[If You Could Go Anywhere The Evil Occupants of Easingdale Castle by Paige ToonRay Filby|Full Review]]

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===[[Mayhem in the Archipelago Stone Cold Heart by Nick GriffithsCaz Frear]]===

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In Latvia DC Cat Kinsella is back at the conspirators meet in Met after a rather unpleasant location, secondment to the London Mayor's Office: the hours were good but itthe job was boring. She's their plans which matter grateful to thembe back with the old team - her partner DS Luigi Parnell, boss DCI Kate Steele and DC Rénee Akwa. In Moscow two men delight in all She's still not prepared to say anything about the identity of her boyfriend: the uncertainty knowledge that she's in the Baltic. In Washington the Undersecretary is a womanrelationship with Aiden Doyle, but the personal pressures on 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 same as discovery of the men in Moscow are obliged to suffer. In Stockholm three members body of SÄPOa young woman: Naomi Lockhart was Australian, the Swedish Secret Servicejust twenty-two years old and her body was discovered by her flat mate, know that the time has come for them to make a move. They'd talk moreKieran Drake, but their wives would get difficult and there's a rather pleasing tart which mustn't be missedan ex-offender. [[Mayhem in the Archipelago Stone Cold Heart by Nick GriffithsCaz Frear|Full Review]]