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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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===[[Special Delivery Deadwood Hall by Jonathan MeresLinda Jones]]===

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How do you explain In late December Dylan Beaumont and his sister Emily were on their way to children about dementia? Injuries or illnesses are obvious, but when spend the problem is the brain which isn't functioning quite as it used to it isnweek before Christmas at their grandfather't as easy to grasps house. Frank It was a normal nine year old snowing heavily and like many 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 olds what he wanted was a new bike. He'd had his for about seventy-eight years and he didnold brother't want to raise the seat any more. Mum pointed out s behaviour, but then that it wasn't his birthday or Christmas any time soon and bikes cost s your prerogative when you're a lot of money, which didn't grow on treesgrown-up eleven year old. His sister Lottie had The snow was getting heavier and the journey longer when Emily opened the car window just a solution: Frank could help her with her paper roundcouple of inches. Frank agreed despite thinking that it would take him There was a thousand years to save up the money for dreadful smell and Dylan saw a bike AND he had to get up horrible, snake-like figure clawing at six o'clock in the morningcar window. [[Special Delivery Deadwood Hall by Jonathan MeresLinda Jones|Full Review]]

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===[[The Spectacular Revenge of Suzi Sims A Breath on Dying Embers (DCI Daley) by Vivian FrenchDenzil Meyrick]]===

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Suzi Simms loved running Few government trade missions arrive by luxury liner, but the cruise ship ''Great Britain'' is berthed in Kinloch harbour and it was her ambition to win the 100 metres race on sports day at the end of term board are high- and that was next weekpowered international delegates. WeIt're going s hard to read avoid the suspicion that it's not ''entirely'' about what happened in her diarywork as the billionaires, entrepreneurs and their civil service minders tour the country, although theregolfing and sightseeing with their entourage of security personnel. It's a warning that we really shouldn't be reading itan event which DCI Daley hopes will pass quickly, particularly as his formal uniform is far too tight for comfort, but it's about Barbie Meek. To say that not long before one of the two girls don't get on at all well is crew members and a bit of an understatementlocal bird watcher go missing. Suzi wouldn't actually do anything about it, but Barbie is a troublemaker and she wants to win the 100 metres race too - by fair means or foul. [[The Spectacular Revenge of Suzi Sims A Breath on Dying Embers (DCI Daley) by Vivian FrenchDenzil Meyrick|Full Review]]

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===[[The Adventures of Harry Stevenson Starlight Watchmaker by Ali PyeLauren James]]===

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Meet Harry Stevenson. He's This is a typical guinea pigdyslexia-friendly, except he's perhaps a bit more ginger than normalscience fiction novella for young adults. And more lazy than usual. And his appetite is possibly bigger than It tells the norm. Apart from that he's a regular guinea pig. But the stories in which he features are nothing like. In the first one heretale of Hugo, an unwanted and rather lonely android, the lad who owns and looks after him is being forced to move house. It should be makes a simple journey living for Harry, safe in himself mending time-travel watches. When one of his cage from all the predators clients demands that watching nature documentaries have put into his imaginationbroken watch be mended, but he gets distracted and – shock horror – left behind. It takes some bravura slapstick and Hugo realises there is a charming contrivance for him mystery to be found againsolved, and is only too ready to help. In the secondAn exciting journey of discovery unfolds, for we get two full-length stories in this volume, there's which takes Hugo out of his drab attic workroom and into a party being held to get the lad used to his scary adventure with some amazing new schoolmatesfriends, and Harry used exploring regions of the planet never before known to life in a garden hutch. And one more wonderful conceit that drives high dramaexist. [[The Adventures of Harry Stevenson Starlight Watchmaker by Ali PyeLauren James|Full Review]]

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===[[Miracle Creek Cold Granite (Logan McRae) by Angie KimStuart MacBride]]===

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The Yoo family originated in SeoulDS Logan McRae is just back from a year's sick leave after he was attacked by a killer. Yoo Young He's just about OK and her daughter Meh-hee came on ahead of he's supposed to be easing himself back into the father swing of the family, Yoo Pak, as job in a couple in Baltimore offered to provide accommodation for Young and Mehgentle way - until three-year-hee old David Reid's body is discovered in exchange for assistance in their grocery storea ditch. What Young had not appreciated was He'd been missing for some time and it came as no surprise that she he was dead but he's the first of several child murders. To add to work from 6 the complications the police even have abody but no child reported missing.m. until midnight A serial killer, seven days a week. For years she hardly saw her daughter except when child killer and abuser, is on the loose in Aberdeen and the Kangs brought Meh-hee press are missing no opportunity to see her at the storebay for blood. Meh-hee became Mary and struggled at schoolAs if that wasn't bad enough there seems to be a leak from within Force Headquarters: her fellow pupils were no exceptions to the rule a local journalist, Colin Miller, quickly finds out everything that children can be cruel and Mary was an easy target's happening. [[Miracle Creek Cold Granite (Logan McRae) by Angie KimStuart MacBride|Full Review]]

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===[[Velocity Weapon Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Megan E O'KeefeAngela Marsons]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science FictionCrime|Crime]] The last thing Sanda remembers There's a prologue and we know that we're dealing with someone who is her gunship explodingvery disturbed. She expected to be recovered by salvage-medics and to awaken in friendly hands The descriptions are horrifying, patched-up and ready to rejoin the fight. Instead she wakes up 230 years later, on a deserted enemy starship called The Light but worst of Berossus - or, as he prefers to call himself, 'Bero'. Bero tells Sanda the war all is lost. That the entire star system is dead. But is that coldness of the full story? After all, in the vastness of space, anything is possible killer. . . [[Velocity Weapon Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Megan E O'KeefeAngela Marsons|Full Review]]

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[[image:4starOver the past twenty-eight years Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short stories. These magnificent stories have won twenty-seven major science fiction awards so if you are a science fiction fan it is 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, they are so wide ranging in their themes and so beautifully written, Chiang has written an absolute masterpiece of a collection. If you come across Chiang's work before, take this opportunity to do so now. Trust me; your imagination will be grateful.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersExhalation by Ted Chiang|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 Lawrence -->

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

The curse put on reviewers is that we get to read through a book which is really better dipped into, or read gradually and thoughts allowed to be provoked[[image:4star. And so it was with ''The Art of Noticing''. It's a simple premisejpg|link=Category: the pace 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 attention. {{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Art of Noticing: Rediscover What Really Matters to You by Rob WalkerCategory: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]]<!-- Lesley Thomson Kate Atkinson -->

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===[[The Playground Murders Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie) by Lesley ThomsonKate 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]]

Rachel Cater was having an affair with her boss, Chris Philips, an auctioneer<!-- 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]] It was | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Fire Girl, she told her mother, love at first sightForest Boy by Chloe Daykin]]=== [[image:5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers]] Her mother was more sceptical and wondered why, if it had been love at first sight, it had taken him so long Maya has to do anything about itescape. Still, more than anything, She's on the run in a country she wanted her daughter doesn't know and has no idea who to be happytrust. That was what Rachel wanted Raul is escaping too and it was why she went - travelling back to the Philips' family his homewhere a terrible tragedy happened, determined ready to have it all out stir up trouble. When their paths collide in the openmiddle of the jungle, the sparks begin to fly. Instead she was stabbed fifteen As modern world corruption meets the magic and legends of ancient times. Her lover was convicted of , can Maya draw on her murder. hidden light to find the way through to the truth? [[The Playground Murders Fire Girl, Forest Boy by Lesley ThomsonChloe Daykin|Full Review]]

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[[image:4star.jpg|link===Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Billion Pound Lie by Bill Dare:Category:Crime|Crime]]===

[[image:4starThere's a prologue and we know that we're dealing with someone who is very disturbed. The descriptions are horrifying, but worst of all is the coldness of the killer.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersChild's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Angela Marsons|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 Gregory -->

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

Sea epics? So 20th century[[image:4. Try a space epic5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Across the Void by S K Vaughn: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]]<!-- McLean Davis -->

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===[[The Van Apfel Girls are Gone What's That in Dog Years? by Felicity McLeanBen Davis and Julia Christians]]===

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When Tikka Molloy George and Gizmo have been together ever since George was eleven born. Gizmo has always been a fun, adventurous dog and one-sixth years old, the Van Apfel sisters disappeared. In the long hot summer of 1992a loyal friend, in an isolated suburb of Australia surrounded by Bushlandbut just recently, the girls vanished during the schoolGeorge has noticed that he's Showstopper concert at the riverside amphitheatrestarting to slow down a little. Did they run away? Were they taken? While A visit to the search vets leaves George worried that Gizmo might not be around for the sisters united the small communityvery much longer, they were never found. Returning home years laterand so he begins to write Gizmo a bucket list, Tikka must make sense of all the adventures that strange moment they can still have together in time – of the summer that shaped her, and the girls she never forgotGizmo's last days. But are they his last days? And who will help George to stay calm when Gizmo is gone? [[The Van Apfel Girls are Gone What's That in Dog Years? by Felicity McLeanBen Davis and Julia Christians|Full Review]]

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===[[The Dragon in the Library Long Flight Home by Louie Stowell and Davide Ortu (Illustrator)A L Hlad]]===

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It is September 1940 - as WWII rages on, bombs rain down on Britain, destroying the start homes and lives of a people on the summer holidays edge. In Epping Forest, Susan Shepherd and Kit has plansher grandfather Bertie live together raising homing pigeons with the birds proving a comfort for Susan following the loss of her parents. These plans involve climbing treespigeons are more than just birds to Susan though – in each one, getting muddy and being outside. Her friendsespecially in Duchess, Josh she sees a distinct personality and Alitaforms a close bond. Meanwhile, on the other hand want young pilot Ollie Evans leaves Maine to go head to Britain and join the libraryRoyal Air Force. Kit hates reading Working with the National Pigeon Service, he soon meets Susan and can't see the point of books at all but is very reluctantly persuaded to go tasked with the others to the local libraryair-dropping hundreds of homing pigeons into German-occupied France, where many will not survive. Once there As the children meet mission is planned, the librarian bond between Ollie and Kit makes an incredible discovery; the librarian Susan grows stronger, but when Ollie's plane is a wizard! Even more incrediblydowned behind enemy lines, Kit is it may be Duchess who provides an unexpected lifeline and ensures that hope of a wizard too and she reunion for Susan and her friends have an important task. They must save the library…and save the world! Ollie remains… [[The Dragon in the Library Long Flight Home by Louie Stowell and Davide Ortu (Illustrator)A L Hlad|Full Review]]

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It seemed like a good idea. Logan 'Lazarus' McRae was back at work after a year off sick. HeAn instruction manual for the forest'' is how Wohlleben'd been stabbed in s publisher described the line of duty idea for this book, and recovery had been slow: he still had some pain. His first case was to be a simple one - just to ease him back into work - but that's basically what 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 is – although right at the end the same way author says that Brexit it is dividing people south of the border, there's going not intended to be a war between the pro- and anti-independence factions in Scotland - and the police are not above being involvedreference book, but an appetiser. [[All That's Dead Walks In The Wild by Peter Wohlleben and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Logan McRae 12Translator) by Stuart MacBride|Full Review]]

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===[[The Last Stage A Nearly Normal Family by Louise VossM T Edvardsson and Rachel Wilson-Boyles (translator)]]===

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If you were looking back to when it began youWe'd have re going to say that it was before 1995hear this story through the viewpoints of three different people: Adam Sandell, his wife, Ulrika and his daughter Stella. Meredith Vincent (that wasnAdam't her name then) had gone to Greenham Common on her seventeenth birthdays a pastor in the Church of Sweden and Ulrika is a lawyer. Stella is, dressed as a teddy bearwell, to protest about nuclear weaponsjust difficult. It was whilst You sense that she was 's always been difficult and there have even been occasions when Ulrika has let slip that she met Samantha, fell head over heels in love with wishes that Stella was more like her and went to live in a squat in London, leaving behind her A levelsbest friend, her recently-widowed mother Amina Bešic - and her twin brother, Pete, to look after herno one has ever said that if they don't think that the other person is better. Samantha was there occasionally but Meredith was drawn into forming a band with We first meet the boys from the squat family on Stella's 18th birthday and against all the odds Cohen went on to become we get a sensation and it wasnsense of Adam't long before Meredith was living in s controlling nature. Permission has to be given for a mansion rather than glass of wine for Stella at the squatcelebration meal. [[The Last Stage A Nearly Normal Family by Louise VossM T Edvardsson and Rachel Wilson-Boyles (translator)|Full Review]]

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===[[Wild Child: Growing Up a Nomad The House of Light by Ian MathieJulia Green]]===

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For Ian Mathie fans there Bonnie is good and bad news. Ian has come growing up on a slightly strange island, living with the missing link in his narrativeher grandfather, the story of a very unusual childhood (yesscavenging for food, and rubbish that has washed up on the very years beach that made him the amazing man he became)she and her grandfather can use to make things. The bad – well it's hardly news two years later – There is that some sort of ban against anyone else landing on the book is published posthumously. As alwaysisland, it's beautifully writtenand lots of suspicion around those who live there, with many exciting momentsincluding a great fear of anyone who gets sick. What I most enjoyed was But when Bonnie is on the feeling that many of beach one day and discovers not only an intact boat, but a young boy cowering beneath, rather than turn him in to the questions in Ian Mathie's later books are answered in ''Wild Child'' with a satisfying clunk. Seemingly all that's now left authorities she takes him home and hides him, smuggling him boiled eggs and blankets in the drawer is unpublishableshed whilst she tries to figure out what to do. [[Wild Child: Growing Up a Nomad The House of Light by Ian MathieJulia Green|Full Review]]

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===[[The Body in the Castle Well (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel) Check Mates by Martin WalkerStewart Foster]]===

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Claudia Muller was an American, studying art history and being mentored by an eminent French art historian and Resistance war hero In many ways Felix is a typical boy in Limeuil in Perigord. She was beautifulYear 7, wore designer clothes enjoying playing games on his PS4 and was well-liked by everyonehanging out with his friend Jake at the weekend. She didn't parade her wealth, or her father's White House connectionsHowever Felix is struggling at school. In fact, her closest friend was He is not a problem child but he does have a man recently released from prisonproblem. So when she left a lecture saying that she felt illHis ADHD makes it hard for him to concentrate, he keeps getting into trouble and her body was later found at the bottom of the castle well it seemed his grades are slipping. When his Mum suggests that he spends more time with his grandfather Felix is horrified. Ever since Grandma died his Granddad has been grumpy and more eccentric than before. All he wants to do is sit in the likeliest explanation was dark and play chess. Felix knows that this had been a dreadful accident with the only people will be extremely boring. But sometimes we learn valuable lessons where we least expect to blame being the builders who had left the well unsealedand perhaps Granddad and Felix can help each other. [[The Body in the Castle Well (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel) Check Mates by Martin WalkerStewart Foster|Full Review]]

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===[[The Ungrateful Refugee Needlemouse by Dina NayeriJane O'Connor]]===

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Here in We first meet Sylvia Penton on her birthday and her boss, the WestProf, we see news reports about immigrants on a regular basis – some media welcoming them, some scaremongering about themis taking her out to lunch. But all This is her favourite day of those stories are written by journalists – almost always westernthe year, and almost always, no matter how deep not because it's her birthday but because of the investigative journalism they carry out, outsiders special time she gets to spend with the world and the situations that refugees find themselves inman she loves. It He's rare told her that we find out the journeys from the refugees themselves – he and his wife are going to divorce - Martha is apparently having an affair - and this Sylvia is a rare opportunity to do convinced that, the Prof will then declare his love and they can be together. She hasn't fully constructed 'together' in this intelligenther own mind - she envisages it as romantic, powerful and moving work by Dina Nayeri -someone who was born in but her imagination hasn't yet progressed to the middle sexual part of a revolution in Iran, fleeing to America as a tenthe relationship. There's time though -year-oldshe's only been the prof's PA for fifteen years.[[The Ungrateful Refugee Needlemouse by Dina NayeriJane O'Connor|Full Review]] <!-- Douglas Lindsay Various-->

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The body of In following a nine-year-old boy was found at young girl called Alice down the bottom of rabbit hole a well which had been sealed for two hundred few years - but ago, when the boy had only been dead for less than two days first book she was in [[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition) by Lewis Carroll and there was no sign Anthony Browne|hit 150 years of how the body had got into the wellage]], I found that I didn't really find too much favour with it. The owners wacky-for-the-sake-of the property are adamant that the well was sealed when they went to open -itdid not gel, but DI Ben Westphall and I don't remember loving it more as a child. But I would be entitled suggest I am the perfect audience for this book. I had every chance to have his doubts. Belle McIntosh holds some strange viewsenjoy these short stories that come at the core from a tangent, particularly about the way that show the government is controlling everyone through drugs which are added to benefits of the water supply which led oblique glance. I've always preferred coming to her wanting to reinstate the well. Her wifean author's output through their least obvious, Catriona Napierallegedly throw-away pieces, is and it's the same with franchises – I'd more moderatelikely go for Bree Tanner's short novella than the whole Twilight saga (although that remains just a hunch, but doesn't seem for obvious reasons). For another thing, there was every reason to have a lot expect some kind of knowledge about what's going on on the fa greatness here – with Carroll much loved by millions, surely pieces written with that love in mind could only provide for success after success? [[Boy in the Well (DI Westphall 2) Return to Wonderland by Douglas LindsayVarious Authors|Full Review]]

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Muriel Hinkley was walking her dog when she found Rumblestar follows the haphazard adventures of the body on a quiet country laneanxious 11-year-old Casper Tock who timetables his every movement, just south makes countless to do lists and is hounded by wealthy bullies with the absurdly humorous and appropriate names of ExmoorCandida Cashmere Jumps and Leopold Splattercash. She didn’t recognise him - no one would for He stumbles across a long time as it was obvious that he’d been the victim magic portal by accident just like Lucy of Narnia fame, meets a hit-feisty girl troubled by her past and-runis plunged into a perilous quest. He had no face - most In a kingdom where the dark mythological forces of it was smeared on Midnights threaten the road and when D I Jan Talantire came weather Marvels (equated here 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 miracle of his clothes and there was no wallet and no phone. Hi was Mister Nobodynature) conjured by magical creatures, only unlikely heroes can battle against evil. [[Rumblestar (The Body in the Mist Unmapped Chronicles]) by Nick LouthAbi Elphinstone|Full Review]]

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ItJason likes chess. He's strange how the worst of days can start in such an ordinarypretty good at it too - a level eight on his computer programme, mundane waywith level ten being Grand Master level. And so it was for Anna McDonald as she sorted out gym kit and packed lunches for her two daughters. It didnHe't begin s also good at systems, having contributed to go wrong until she opened the door to her best friend, Estelle and realised relational database that her husband was at the top of the stairs, dressed as though for a holiday rather than the work clothes shehas streamlined his school'd been expecting - and he was carrying a suitcases administration. He and Estelle were leaving together - Jason's school, Easingdale Comprehensive, is very big on technology and its head, Mr Johnston, is keen to involve his pupils wherever they were taking Annashow promise. So Jason's two daughters friends have also helped out. Liz is great with themhardware and helped with the school's card reader system. There was another problem which neither Hamish nor Estelle knew aboutBecky has a flair for software and has recommended lots of curriculum-enhancing apps. And Bill is a talented programmer. Anna wasn't actually Anna McDonald. She was Sophie Bukaran, the woman who had been involved in the rape case against four footballers. [[Conviction The Evil Occupants of Easingdale Castle by Denise MinaRay Filby|Full Review]]

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[[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:FantasyCrime|FantasyCrime]] ''People will not forget. Or forgive. An ugly girl is too great an offense...the world is made for men. An ugly girl can never be forgiven.''

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'Stepsisters grateful to be back with the old team - her partner DS Luigi Parnell, boss DCI Kate Steele and DC Rénee Akwa. She'' tells s still not prepared to say anything about the gripping story identity of Cinderellaher boyfriend: the knowledge that she's 'ugly' stepsisterin a relationship with Aiden Doyle, Isabellethe brother of a murder victim and moreover a murder with which her father might have had some involvement could finish her career. We've been told this fairy-tale over Kinsella and over again throughout our lives and know the characters well. But have you ever wondered what happened Parnell are called to the sisters after Cinderella married discovery of the Prince? Or why the sisters disliked body of a young woman: Naomi Lockhart was Australian, just twenty-two years old and her body was discovered by her so much? flat mate, Kieran Drake, an ex-offender. [[Stepsister Stone Cold Heart by Jennifer DonnellyCaz Frear|Full Review]]