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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 Adventures of Harry Stevenson Deadwood Hall by Ali PyeLinda Jones]]===

Meet Harry Stevenson. HeIn late December Dylan Beaumont and his sister Emily were on their way to spend the week before Christmas at their grandfather's a typical guinea pig, except he's perhaps a bit more ginger than normalhouse. And more lazy than usual. And his appetite is possibly bigger than It was snowing heavily and you could sense that their parents were becoming annoyed at the bickering in the back of the normcar. Apart from Emily was rather brusque with her nine-year-old brother's behaviour, but then that he's your prerogative when you're a regular guinea piggrown-up eleven year old. But The snow was getting heavier and the stories in which he features are nothing like. In journey longer when Emily opened the first one here, the lad who owns and looks after him is being forced to move housecar window just a couple of inches. It should be There was a simple journey for Harry, safe in his cage from all the predators that watching nature documentaries have put into his imagination, but he gets distracted and – shock horror – left behind. It takes some bravura slapstick dreadful smell and Dylan saw a charming contrivance for him to be found again. In the secondhorrible, for we get two fullsnake-length stories in this volume, there's a party being held to get like figure clawing at the lad used to his new schoolmates, and Harry used to life in a garden hutch. And one more wonderful conceit that drives high dramacar window. [[The Adventures of Harry Stevenson Deadwood Hall by Ali PyeLinda Jones|Full Review]]

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===[[Miracle Creek A Breath on Dying Embers (DCI Daley) by Angie KimDenzil Meyrick]]===

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The Yoo family originated Few government trade missions arrive by luxury liner, but the cruise ship ''Great Britain'' is berthed in SeoulKinloch harbour and on board are high-powered international delegates. Yoo Young and her daughter Meh-hee came on ahead of It's hard to avoid the father of suspicion that it's not ''entirely'' about work as the familybillionaires, Yoo Pakentrepreneurs and their civil service minders tour the country, as a couple in Baltimore offered to provide accommodation for Young golfing and Meh-hee in exchange for assistance in sightseeing with their grocery storeentourage of security personnel. What Young had 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 appreciated was that she was to work from 6 long before one of the crew members and a.m. until midnight, seven days a weeklocal bird watcher go missing. For years she hardly saw her daughter except when the Kangs brought Meh-hee to see her at the store. Meh-hee became Mary and struggled at school: her fellow pupils were no exceptions to the rule that children can be cruel and Mary was an easy target. [[Miracle Creek A Breath on Dying Embers (DCI Daley) by Angie KimDenzil Meyrick|Full Review]]

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===[[Velocity Weapon The Starlight Watchmaker by Megan E O'KeefeLauren James]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science FictionDyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] The last thing Sanda remembers This is her gunship exploding. She expected to be recovered by salvagea dyslexia-medics and to awaken in friendly hands, patched-up science fiction novella for young adults. It tells the tale of Hugo, an unwanted and ready to rejoin the fight. Instead she wakes up 230 years laterrather lonely android, on who makes a deserted enemy starship called The Light living for himself mending time-travel watches. When one of Berossus - orhis clients demands that his broken watch be mended, as he prefers Hugo realises there is a mystery to call himselfbe solved, 'Bero'. Bero tells Sanda the war and is lostonly too ready to help. That the entire star system is dead. But is that the full story? After allAn exciting journey of discovery unfolds, in the vastness which takes Hugo out of spacehis drab attic workroom and into a scary adventure with some amazing new friends, anything is possible . . exploring regions of the planet never before known to exist. [[Velocity Weapon The Starlight Watchmaker by Megan E O'KeefeLauren James|Full Review]]

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[[image:4.5star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Chessmaster's Secret by Mary Parker: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:Confident ReadersCold Granite (Logan McRae) by Stuart MacBride|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 Angela Marsons -->

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===[[The Art of Noticing: Rediscover What Really Matters to You Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Rob WalkerAngela Marsons]]===

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The curse put on reviewers is There's a prologue and we know that we get to read through a book which 're dealing with someone who is really better dipped into, or read gradually and thoughts allowed to be provokedvery disturbed. And so it was with ''The Art descriptions are horrifying, but worst of Noticing''. It's a simple premise: all is the pace coldness of modern life and rapidity of technological advances means that we are constantly overwhelmed and distracted. Rob Walker wants us to be able to steal our attention back. He gives us his thoughts on various areas of our lives and then provides 131 exercises to help us recover our attentionthe killer. [[The Art of Noticing: Rediscover What Really Matters to You Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Rob WalkerAngela Marsons|Full Review]]

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===[[The Playground Murders Exhalation by Lesley ThomsonTed Chiang]]===

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Rachel Cater was having an affair with her boss, Chris Philips, an auctioneerOver the past twenty-eight years Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short stories. It was, she told her mother, love at first sight. Her mother was more sceptical and wondered why, These magnificent stories have won twenty-seven major science fiction awards so if you are a science fiction fan it had been love at first sightis likely that you have already come across some of the work by Ted Chiang. I cannot speak highly enough of this collection of short stories, it had taken him they are so wide ranging in their themes and so long to do anything about it. Stillbeautifully written, more than anything, she wanted her daughter to be happyChiang has written an absolute masterpiece of a collection. That was what Rachel wanted too and it was why she went to the PhilipsIf you come across Chiang' family homes work before, determined take this opportunity to have it all out in the opendo so now. Instead she was stabbed fifteen times. Her lover was convicted of her murderTrust me; your imagination will be grateful. [[The Playground Murders Exhalation by Lesley ThomsonTed Chiang|Full Review]]

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===[[The Billion Pound Lie Rose, Interrupted by Bill DarePatrice Lawrence]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]

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[[image:4star. 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? jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Billion Pound Lie by Bill Dare: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]]<!-- Vaughn Kate Atkinson -->

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===[[Across the Void Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie) by S K VaughnKate Atkinson]]===

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Sea epics? So 20th centuryI 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. Try The difficulty of a space epicpurchase 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. [[Across the Void Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie) by S K VaughnKate Atkinson|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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It is the start of the summer holidays and Kit has plans[[image:4. These plans involve climbing trees, getting muddy and being outside5star. 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]]

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]]<!-- Stuart MacBride Davis -->

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===[[All ThatWhat's Dead (Logan McRae 12) That in Dog Years? by Stuart MacBrideBen Davis and Julia Christians]]===

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It seemed like a good idea. Logan 'Lazarus' McRae George and Gizmo have been together ever since George was back at work after a year off sickborn. He'd Gizmo has always been stabbed in the line of duty a fun, adventurous dog and recovery had been slow: he still had some pain. His first case was to be a simple one - loyal friend, but just recently, George has noticed that he's starting to ease him back into work - but it turned out to be anything but. Professor Wilson, slow down a high-profile anti-independence campaigner has gone missing, apparently abducted from his home, but nothing was left behind except some bloodstainslittle. In much A visit to the same way vets leaves George worried that Brexit is dividing people south of the borderGizmo might not be around for very much longer, there's going and so he begins to be write Gizmo a war between bucket list, of all the pro- and anti-independence factions adventures that they can still have together in Scotland - and the police Gizmo's last days. But are not above being involved. they his last days? And who will help George to stay calm when Gizmo is gone? [[All ThatWhat's Dead (Logan McRae 12) That in Dog Years? by Stuart MacBrideBen Davis and Julia Christians|Full Review]]

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===[[The Last Stage Long Flight Home by Louise VossA L Hlad]]===

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If you were looking back to when it began you'd have to say that it was before 1995. Meredith Vincent (that wasn't her name then) had gone to Greenham Common September 1940 - as WWII rages on, bombs rain down on her seventeenth birthdayBritain, dressed as destroying the homes and lives of a teddy bear, to protest about nuclear weaponspeople on the edge. It was whilst she was there that she met SamanthaIn Epping Forest, fell head over heels in love Susan Shepherd and her grandfather Bertie live together raising homing pigeons with the birds proving a comfort for Susan following the loss of her and went parents. These pigeons are more than just birds to live Susan though – in a squat each one, and especially in LondonDuchess, leaving behind her A levels, her recently-widowed mother - she sees a distinct personality and her twin brother, Peteforms a close bond. Meanwhile, young pilot Ollie Evans leaves Maine to head to look after herBritain and join the Royal Air Force. Samantha was there occasionally but Meredith was drawn into forming a band Working with the boys from National Pigeon Service, he soon meets Susan and is tasked with air-dropping hundreds of homing pigeons into German-occupied France, where many will not survive. As the squat and against all mission is planned, the odds Cohen went on to become a sensation bond between Ollie and Susan grows stronger, but when Ollie's plane is downed behind enemy lines, it wasn't long before Meredith was living in may be Duchess who provides an unexpected lifeline and ensures that hope of a mansion rather than the squat. reunion for Susan and Ollie remains… [[The Last Stage Long Flight Home by Louise VossA L Hlad|Full Review]]

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For Ian Mathie fans there ''An instruction manual for the forest'' is good and bad news. Ian has come up with the missing 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 ithow Wohlleben's hardly news two years later – is that publisher described the idea for this book is published posthumously. As always, itand that's beautifully written, with many exciting moments. What I most enjoyed was basically what it is – although right at the feeling that many of end the questions in Ian Mathie's later books are answered in ''Wild Child'' with a satisfying clunk. Seemingly all author says that's now left in the drawer it is unpublishablenot intended to be a reference book, but an appetiser. [[Walks In The Wild Child: Growing Up a Nomad by Ian MathiePeter Wohlleben and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translator)|Full Review]]

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===[[The Body in the Castle Well A Nearly Normal Family by M T Edvardsson and Rachel Wilson-Boyles (A Bruno, Chief of Police Noveltranslator) by Martin Walker]]===

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Claudia Muller was an AmericanWe're going to hear this story through the viewpoints of three different people: Adam Sandell, his wife, studying art history Ulrika and being mentored by an eminent French art historian his daughter Stella. Adam's a pastor in the Church of Sweden and Resistance war hero in Limeuil in PerigordUlrika is a lawyer. She was beautifulStella is, wore designer clothes and was well-liked by everyone, just difficult. She didn't parade her wealth, or her fatherYou sense that she's White House connections. In fact, her closest friend was a man recently released from prison. So always been difficult and there have even been occasions when Ulrika has let slip that she left a lecture saying wishes that she felt illStella was more like her best friend, Amina Bešic - and her body was later found at no one has ever said that if they don't think that the bottom of other person is better. We first meet the castle well it seemed that the likeliest explanation was that this had been family on Stella's 18th birthday and we get a dreadful accident with the only people sense of Adam's controlling nature. Permission has to blame being the builders who had left be given for a glass of wine for Stella at the well unsealedcelebration meal. [[The Body in the Castle Well A Nearly Normal Family by M T Edvardsson and Rachel Wilson-Boyles (A Bruno, Chief of Police Noveltranslator) by Martin Walker|Full Review]]

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===[[The Ungrateful Refugee House of Light by Dina NayeriJulia Green]]===

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Here in the West, we see news reports about immigrants Bonnie is growing up on a regular basis – some media welcoming themslightly strange island, living with her grandfather, some scaremongering about them. But all of those stories are written by journalists – almost always westernscavenging for food, and almost always, no matter how deep rubbish that has washed up on the investigative journalism they carry out, outsiders beach that she and her grandfather can use to make things. There is some sort of ban against anyone else landing on the world island, and the situations that refugees find themselves inlots of suspicion around those who live there, including a great fear of anyone who gets sick. It's rare that we find out the journeys from But when Bonnie is on the refugees themselves – beach one day and this is discovers not only an intact boat, but a rare opportunity to do thatyoung boy cowering beneath, rather than turn him in this intelligentto the authorities she takes him home and hides him, powerful smuggling him boiled eggs and moving work by Dina Nayeri -someone who was born blankets in the middle of a revolution in Iran, fleeing shed whilst she tries to figure out what to America as a ten-year-olddo.[[The Ungrateful Refugee House of Light by Dina NayeriJulia Green|Full Review]]

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===[[Boy in the Well (DI Westphall 2) Check Mates by Douglas LindsayStewart Foster]]===

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The body of In many ways Felix is a nine-year-old typical boy was found in Year 7, enjoying playing games on his PS4 and hanging out with his friend Jake at the bottom of weekend. However Felix is struggling at school. He is not a well which had been sealed for two hundred years - problem child but the boy had only been dead he does have a problem. His ADHD makes it hard for less than two days and there was no sign of how the body had got into the well. The owners of the property are adamant that the well was sealed when they went him to open itconcentrate, but DI Ben Westphall would be entitled to have he keeps getting into trouble and his doubtsgrades are slipping. Belle McIntosh holds some strange views, particularly about the way When his Mum suggests that the government he spends more time with his grandfather Felix is controlling everyone through drugs which are added horrified. Ever since Grandma died his Granddad has been grumpy and more eccentric than before. All he wants to do is sit in the water supply which led dark and play chess. Felix knows that this will be extremely boring. But sometimes we learn valuable lessons where we least expect to her wanting to reinstate the welland perhaps Granddad and Felix can help each other. 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 [[Boy in the Well (DI Westphall 2) Check Mates by Douglas LindsayStewart Foster|Full Review]]

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===[[The Body in the Mist Needlemouse by Nick LouthJane O'Connor]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]

Muriel Hinkley was walking her dog when she found the body on a quiet country lane[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], just south of Exmoor. She didn’t recognise him - no one would for a long time as it was obvious that he’d been the victim of a hit-and-run. He had no face - most of it was smeared on the road and when D I Jan Talantire came to look at the body she realised that there was absolutely nothing on him which would allow for identification. All the labels had been cut out of his clothes and there was no wallet and no phone. Hi was Mister Nobody. [[The Body in the Mist by Nick Louth: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]]<!-- Denise Mina Various-->

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| style="''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"''|===[[Conviction Return to Wonderland by Denise MinaVarious Authors]]===

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ItIn following a young girl called Alice down the rabbit hole a few years ago, when the first book she was in [[Alice's strange how the worst Adventures in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition) by Lewis Carroll and Anthony Browne|hit 150 years of days can start in such an ordinaryage]], mundane wayI found that I didn't really find too much favour with it. And so The wacky-for-the-sake-of-it did not gel, and I don't remember loving it was for Anna McDonald more as she sorted out gym kit and packed lunches a child. But I would suggest I am the perfect audience for her two daughtersthis book. It didn't begin I had every chance to go wrong until she opened enjoy these short stories that come at the door to her best friendcore from a tangent, Estelle and realised that her husband was at show the top benefits of the stairs, dressed as though for a holiday rather than the work clothes she'd been expecting - and he was carrying a suitcaseoblique glance. He and Estelle were leaving together I've always preferred coming to an author's output through their least obvious, allegedly throw- away pieces, and they were taking Annait's two daughters the same with themfranchises – 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). There was For another problem which neither Hamish nor Estelle knew about. Anna wasn't actually Anna McDonald. She thing, there was Sophie Bukaranevery reason to expect some kind of greatness here – with Carroll much loved by millions, the woman who had been involved surely pieces written with that love in the rape case against four footballers. mind could only provide for success after success? [[Conviction Return to Wonderland by Denise MinaVarious Authors|Full Review]]

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===[[Stepsister Rumblestar (The Unmapped Chronicles) by Jennifer DonnellyAbi Elphinstone]]===

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''People will not forgetRumblestar 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. Or forgive. An ugly He stumbles across a magic portal by accident just like Lucy of Narnia fame, meets a feisty girl troubled by her past and is too great an offense..plunged into a perilous quest.In a kingdom where the dark mythological forces of Midnights threaten the weather Marvels (equated here to the world is made for men. An ugly girl miracle of nature) conjured by magical creatures, only unlikely heroes can never be forgivenbattle against evil.''[[Rumblestar (The Unmapped Chronicles]) by Abi Elphinstone|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 Filby -->

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We know that something wrong is happening[[image: a body is being dumped in deep water4star. The rower pulls away and rows back to the boat house and then she walks back to Lake Hall. As you begin reading you suspect that you know who has been killed and who dumped the body, but be patientjpg|link=Category: all will be revealed before too long. {{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Nanny by Gilly Macmillan: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]]  <!-- Weaver Caz Frear -->

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===[[No One Home Stone Cold Heart by Tim WeaverCaz Frear]]===

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Long DC Cat Kinsella is back at the Met after a secondment to the London Mayor's Office: the hours were good but the job was boring. She's grateful to be back with the police have given up on cold missing persons casesold team - her partner DS Luigi Parnell, David Raker picks them up boss DCI Kate Steele and tracks them downDC Rénee Akwa. He She's called still not prepared to a particularly disturbing case where a small village say anything about the identity of nine people all vanished overnight two years ago. Raker and his associate must delve her boyfriend: the knowledge that she's in to a relationship with Aiden Doyle, the lives brother of these people to work out how a murder victim and why nine people moreover a murder with which her father might have gone missinghad some involvement could finish her career. They Kinsella and Parnell are being threatened called to stop but something about the mystery keeps drawing Raker further indiscovery of the body of a young woman: Naomi Lockhart was Australian, just twenty-two years old and her body was discovered by her flat mate, Kieran Drake, putting him in personal perilan ex-offender. [[No One Home Stone Cold Heart by Tim WeaverCaz Frear|Full Review]]