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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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===[[Bold Lies (DI Kelly Porter 5) Deadwood Hall by Rachel LynchLinda Jones]]===

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It was the smell which announced the presence of the body in the wheelhouse of a boat In late December Dylan Beaumont and identification wasn't going his sister Emily were on their way to be easy as spend the man was stark nakedweek before Christmas at their grandfather's house. There It was snowing heavily and you could sense that their parents were all becoming annoyed at the signs of a brutal, cold-blooded execution but gradually bickering in the man was traced back to Allendale House, the estate of the former Lord Allendale, and then to London, where two more bodies, naked, in a staged setting in a garage, were discoveredcar. Senior Investigating Officer DI Kelly Porter had to go to London and Emily was shocked to discover that the SIO for 'rather brusque with her nine-year-old brother's behaviour, but then that's your prerogative when you' case was DCI Matt Carter, her manipulative and untrustworthy exre a grown-loverup eleven year old. It The snow was going to be anything but easy to work alongside Matt getting heavier and the journey longer when Emily opened the Tw..car window just a couple of inches. AhThere was a dreadful smell and Dylan saw a horrible, well let's not go theresnake-like figure clawing at the car window. [[Bold Lies (DI Kelly Porter 5) Deadwood Hall by Rachel LynchLinda Jones|Full Review]]

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===[[Special Delivery A Breath on Dying Embers (DCI Daley) by Jonathan MeresDenzil Meyrick]]===

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How do you explain to children about dementia? Injuries or illnesses are obviousFew government trade missions arrive by luxury liner, but when the problem is the brain which isncruise ship ''Great Britain't functioning quite as it used to it isn't as easy to grasp. Frank was a normal nine year old is berthed in Kinloch harbour and like many nine year olds what he wanted was a new bikeon board are high-powered international delegates. He'd had his for about seventy-eight years and he didnIt't want s hard to raise avoid the seat any more. Mum pointed out suspicion that it wasn't his birthday or Christmas any time soon s not ''entirely'' about work as the billionaires, entrepreneurs and bikes cost a lot of moneytheir civil service minders tour the country, which didn't grow on trees. His sister Lottie had a solution: Frank could help her golfing and sightseeing with her paper roundtheir entourage of security personnel. Frank agreed despite thinking that It's an event which DCI Daley hopes will pass quickly, particularly as his formal uniform is far too tight for comfort, but it would take him a thousand years to save up 's not long before one of the money for crew members and a bike AND he had to get up at six o'clock in the morninglocal bird watcher go missing. [[Special Delivery A Breath on Dying Embers (DCI Daley) by Jonathan MeresDenzil Meyrick|Full Review]]

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===[[The Spectacular Revenge of Suzi Sims Starlight Watchmaker by Vivian FrenchLauren James]]===

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Suzi Simms loved running and it was her ambition to win This is a dyslexia-friendly, science fiction novella for young adults. It tells the 100 metres race on sports day at the end tale of term Hugo, an unwanted and rather lonely android, who makes a living for himself mending time- and travel watches. When one of his clients demands that was next week. We're going to read about what happened in her diaryhis broken watch be mended, although Hugo realises there's is a warning that we really shouldn't mystery to be reading itsolved, particularly as it's about Barbie Meekand is only too ready to help. To say that the two girls don't get on at all well is a bit An exciting journey of an understatement. Suzi wouldn't actually do anything about itdiscovery unfolds, but Barbie is which takes Hugo out of his drab attic workroom and into a troublemaker and she wants scary adventure with some amazing new friends, exploring regions of the planet never before known to win the 100 metres race too - by fair means or foulexist. [[The Spectacular Revenge of Suzi Sims Starlight Watchmaker by Vivian FrenchLauren James|Full Review]]

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===[[The Adventures of Harry Stevenson Cold Granite (Logan McRae) by Ali PyeStuart MacBride]]===

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Meet Harry StevensonDS Logan McRae is just back from a year's sick leave after he was attacked by a killer. He's a typical guinea pig, except just about OK and he's perhaps supposed to be easing himself back into the swing of the job in a bit more ginger than normal. And more lazy than usual. And his appetite gentle way - until three-year-old David Reid's body is possibly bigger than the normdiscovered in a ditch. Apart from He'd been missing for some time and it came as no surprise that he was dead but he's a regular guinea pigthe first of several child murders. But To add to the stories in which he features are nothing likecomplications the police even have a body but no child reported missing. In the first one hereA serial killer, a child killer and abuser, is on the lad who owns loose in Aberdeen and looks after him is being forced the press are missing no opportunity to move housebay for blood. It should As if that wasn't bad enough there seems to be a simple journey for Harry, safe in his cage leak 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 and within Force Headquarters: a charming contrivance for him to be found again. In the secondlocal journalist, for we get two full-length stories in this volumeColin Miller, therequickly finds out everything that's a party being held to get the lad used to his new schoolmates, and Harry used to life in a garden hutch. And one more wonderful conceit that drives high dramahappening. [[The Adventures of Harry Stevenson Cold Granite (Logan McRae) by Ali PyeStuart MacBride|Full Review]]

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===[[Miracle Creek Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Angie KimAngela Marsons]]===

[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersCrime|ThrillersCrime]]

The Yoo family originated in Seoul. Yoo Young and her daughter Meh-hee came on ahead of the father of the family, Yoo Pak, as There's a couple in Baltimore offered to provide accommodation for Young prologue and Meh-hee in exchange for assistance in their grocery storewe know that we're dealing with someone who is very disturbed. What Young had not appreciated was that she was to work from 6 a.m. until midnightThe descriptions are horrifying, seven days a week. For years she hardly saw her daughter except when but worst of all is 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 coldness of the rule that children can be cruel and Mary was an easy targetkiller. [[Miracle Creek Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Angie KimAngela Marsons|Full Review]]

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===[[Velocity Weapon Exhalation by Megan E O'KeefeTed Chiang]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] The last thing Sanda remembers is her gunship explodingOver the past twenty-eight years Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short stories. She expected to be recovered by salvageThese magnificent stories have won twenty-medics and to awaken in friendly hands, patched-up and ready to rejoin the fight. Instead she wakes up 230 years later, on seven major science fiction awards so if you are a deserted enemy starship called The Light science fiction fan it is likely that you have already come across some of Berossus - or, as he prefers to call himself, 'Bero'. Bero tells Sanda the war is lostwork by Ted Chiang. That the entire star system is dead. But is that the full story? After allI cannot speak highly enough of this collection of short stories, they are so wide ranging in the vastness their themes and so beautifully written, Chiang has written an absolute masterpiece of spacea collection. If you come across Chiang's work before, anything is possible take this opportunity to do so now. Trust me; your imagination will be grateful. . [[Velocity Weapon Exhalation by Megan E O'KeefeTed Chiang|Full Review]]

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===[[The Chessmaster's Secret Rose, Interrupted by Mary ParkerPatrice Lawrence]]===

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Belle Rose and Joe travel to London in 1944her brother Rudder have recently escaped from cult-like fundamentalist Christian sect, towards the end of World War IIPilgrims, along with their mother. Orphaned evacuees, they haven't had a good time of it - especially JoeWhile Mum works endless hours at agency cleaning jobs trying to keep the rent paid on their tiny flat, who is a sensitive child Rose and was badly bullied. Meeting them is Uncle Griff, a kindly man, but one without much money. He is more than happy Rudder are trying to have navigate the children stay during the school holidaysworldly world. Uncle Griff owns the ''Shop of Mechanical Marvels'It' s not easy when everything is new and the children love all the old things it contains. Uncle Griff hopes to restore it to profitability and bring some wonder back into Londonrigid rules you's bombed out streetsve always lived by are suddenly missing. [[The Chessmaster's Secret Rose, Interrupted by Mary ParkerPatrice Lawrence|Full Review]] <!-- Rob Walker Kate Atkinson -->

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===[[The Art of Noticing: Rediscover What Really Matters to You Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie) by Rob WalkerKate Atkinson]]===

[[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:LifestyleCrime|LifestyleCrime]]

The curse put on reviewers is I guess that we get to read through a book which is really better dipped intomost of us have made the odd impulse purchase but Tracy Waterhouse, security chief at the Merrion Centre in Leeds, or read gradually and thoughts allowed to be provoked. And so it was with blew most people''The Art s ideas of an impulse purchase out of Noticing''the water one morning. It's Seeing a known prostitute dragging a simple premise: toddler through the pace of modern life shopping mall whilst cursing at her, Waterhouse followed the woman and rapidity of technological advances means that we are constantly overwhelmed and distractedbought the girl for £3000. Rob Walker wants us The difficulty of a purchase like this is knowing what to be able to steal our attention back. He gives us his thoughts on various areas do next and Tracy's humdrum life is replaced with one of our lives stress, fear and then provides 131 exercises to help us recover our attentionan overwhelming love for four-year-old Courtney. [[The Art of Noticing: Rediscover What Really Matters to You Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie) by Rob WalkerKate Atkinson|Full Review]]

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[[image:17866972460571349439.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/17866972460571349439/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 Playground Murders Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Lesley ThomsonAngela Marsons]]===

[[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]

Rachel Cater was having an affair There's a prologue and we know that we're dealing with her boss, Chris Philips, an auctioneersomeone who is very disturbed. It wasThe descriptions are horrifying, she told her mother, love at first sight. Her mother was more sceptical and wondered why, if it had been love at first sight, it had taken him so long to do anything about it. Still, more than anything, she wanted her daughter to be happy. That was what Rachel wanted too and it was why she went to the Philips' family home, determined to have it but worst of all out in is the open. Instead she was stabbed fifteen times. Her lover was convicted coldness of her murderthe killer. [[The Playground Murders Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Lesley ThomsonAngela Marsons|Full Review]]

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===[[The Billion Pound Lie I Hold Your Heart by Bill DareKaren Gregory]]===

[[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:ThrillersTeens|ThrillersTeens]]

Can you imagine what it would be like to win a billion pounds? The UKGemma has just started her A levels at school. She's biggest ever lottery winners were a couple from Ayrshirekeen student and she has a good, who won a £161 million EuroMillions jackpot a few years agoclose set of friends. Gemma loves country music and in her spare time she enjoys writing and singing country songs. ThatShe's so much money that pretty good at it landed them on too. Home life is busy - Gemma's brother Michael has a chance at a football career and the Sunday Times Rich List of the UKwhole family, propelled by Gemma's thousand most wealthy people. So a billion poundsrather over-invested dad, is supporting him with everything they've got. ThatGemma hasn's t had a lotserious boyfriend yet, right? Can you imagine it? What would you do? Would you try so when the handsome Aaron appears and an instant attraction fizzles between them, Gemma is keen to remain anonymous? And, if you did, how would this affect your relationships with your nearest and dearest? What it would be like? How see where romance could you keep your friends and family from knowing that you were now one of the richest people in the country? lead... [[The Billion Pound Lie I Hold Your Heart by Bill DareKaren Gregory|Full Review]] <!-- Vaughn Davis -->

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===[[Across the Void What's That in Dog Years? by S K VaughnBen Davis and Julia Christians]]===

[[image:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science FictionConfident Readers|Science FictionConfident Readers]]

Sea epics? So 20th centuryGeorge and Gizmo have been together ever since George was born. Try Gizmo has always been a fun, adventurous dog and a loyal friend, but just recently, George has noticed that he's starting to slow down a space epiclittle. A visit to the vets leaves George worried that Gizmo might not be around for very much longer, and so he begins to write Gizmo a bucket list, of all the adventures that they can still have together in Gizmo's last days. But are they his last days? And who will help George to stay calm when Gizmo is gone? [[Across the Void What's That in Dog Years? by S K VaughnBen Davis and Julia Christians|Full Review]]

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===[[The Van Apfel Girls are Gone Long Flight Home by Felicity McLeanA L Hlad]]===

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When Tikka Molloy was eleven and oneSeptember 1940 -sixth years oldas WWII rages on, bombs rain down on Britain, destroying the homes and lives of a people on the Van Apfel sisters disappearededge. In Epping Forest, Susan Shepherd and her grandfather Bertie live together raising homing pigeons with the birds proving a comfort for Susan following the long hot summer loss of 1992her parents. These pigeons are more than just birds to Susan though – in each one, and especially in an isolated suburb of Australia surrounded by BushlandDuchess, she sees a distinct personality and forms a close bond. Meanwhile, young pilot Ollie Evans leaves Maine to head to Britain and join the girls vanished during Royal Air Force. Working with the school's Showstopper concert at the riverside amphitheatreNational 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. Did they run away? Were they taken? While As the search for mission is planned, the sisters united the small communitybond between Ollie and Susan grows stronger, they were never found. Returning home years laterbut when Ollie's plane is downed behind enemy lines, Tikka must make sense of it may be Duchess who provides an unexpected lifeline and ensures that strange moment in time – hope of the summer that shaped her, a reunion for Susan and the girls she never forgot. Ollie remains… [[The Van Apfel Girls are Gone Long Flight Home by Felicity McLeanA L Hlad|Full Review]]

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It ''An instruction manual for the forest'' is how Wohlleben's publisher described the start of the summer holidays and Kit has plans. These plans involve climbing trees, getting muddy and being outside. Her friendsidea for this book, Josh and Alita, on the other hand want to go to the library. Kit hates reading and canthat't see the point of books s basically what it is – although right 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; end the librarian author says that it is not intended to be a wizard! Even more incrediblyreference book, Kit is a wizard too and she and her friends have but an important taskappetiser. They must save the library…and save the world! [[Walks In The Dragon in the Library Wild by Louie Stowell Peter Wohlleben and Davide Ortu Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (IllustratorTranslator)|Full Review]]

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===[[All That's Dead A Nearly Normal Family by M T Edvardsson and Rachel Wilson-Boyles (Logan McRae 12translator) by Stuart MacBride]]===

[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]

It seemed like a good ideaWe're going to hear this story through the viewpoints of three different people: Adam Sandell, his wife, Ulrika and his daughter Stella. Logan Adam'Lazarus' McRae was back at work after s a year off sick. He'd been stabbed pastor in the line Church of duty Sweden and recovery had been slow: he still had some painUlrika is a lawyer. His first case was to be a simple one - Stella is, well, just to ease him back into work - but it turned out to be anything butdifficult. Professor WilsonYou sense that she's always been difficult and there have even been occasions when Ulrika has let slip that she wishes that Stella was more like her best friend, a highAmina Bešic -profile anti-independence campaigner and no one has gone missing, apparently abducted from his home, but nothing was left behind except some bloodstainsever said that if they don't think that the other person is better. In much We first meet the same way that Brexit is dividing people south family on Stella's 18th birthday and we get a sense of the border, thereAdam's going controlling nature. Permission has to be given for a war between glass of wine for Stella at the pro- and anti-independence factions in Scotland - and the police are not above being involvedcelebration meal. [[All That's Dead A Nearly Normal Family by M T Edvardsson and Rachel Wilson-Boyles (Logan McRae 12translator) by Stuart MacBride|Full Review]]

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===[[The Last Stage House of Light by Louise VossJulia Green]]===

[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeConfident Readers|CrimeConfident Readers]]

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 Bonnie is growing up on a slightly strange island, living with her seventeenth birthdaygrandfather, dressed as a teddy bearscavenging for food, and rubbish that has washed up on the beach that she and her grandfather can use to protest about nuclear weaponsmake things. It was whilst she was there that she met SamanthaThere is some sort of ban against anyone else landing on the island, fell head over heels in love with her and went to lots of suspicion around those who live in there, including a squat in London, leaving behind her A levels, her recently-widowed mother - great fear of anyone who gets sick. But when Bonnie is on the beach one day and her twin brotherdiscovers not only an intact boat, Petebut a young boy cowering beneath, rather than turn him in to look after her. Samantha was there occasionally but Meredith was drawn into forming a band with the boys from the squat authorities she takes him home and against all the odds Cohen went on to become a sensation hides him, smuggling him boiled eggs and it wasn't long before Meredith was living blankets in a mansion rather than the squatshed whilst she tries to figure out what to do. [[The Last Stage House of Light by Louise VossJulia Green|Full Review]]

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===[[Wild Child: Growing Up a Nomad Check Mates by Ian MathieStewart Foster]]===

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For Ian Mathie fans there In many ways Felix is good a typical boy in Year 7, enjoying playing games on his PS4 and bad news. Ian has come up hanging out with the missing link in his narrative, friend Jake at the story of a very unusual childhood (yes, the very years that made him the amazing man he became)weekend. The bad – well it's hardly news two years later – However Felix is that the book struggling at school. He is published posthumouslynot a problem child but he does have a problem. As always, His ADHD makes it's beautifully writtenhard for him to concentrate, with many exciting momentshe keeps getting into trouble and his grades are slipping. What I most enjoyed was the feeling When his Mum suggests that many of the questions in Ian Mathie's later books are answered in ''Wild Child'' he spends more time with a satisfying clunkhis grandfather Felix is horrified. Ever since Grandma died his Granddad has been grumpy and more eccentric than before. Seemingly all that's now left All he wants to do is sit in the drawer is unpublishabledark and play chess. Felix knows that this will be extremely boring. But sometimes we learn valuable lessons where we least expect to and perhaps Granddad and Felix can help each other. [[Wild Child: Growing Up a Nomad Check Mates by Ian MathieStewart Foster|Full Review]]

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===[[The Body in the Castle Well (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel) Needlemouse by Martin WalkerJane O'Connor]]===

[[image:4star5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeGeneral Fiction|CrimeGeneral Fiction]], [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]]

Claudia Muller was an AmericanWe first meet Sylvia Penton on her birthday and her boss, the Prof, studying art history and being mentored by an eminent French art historian and Resistance war hero in Limeuil in Perigordis taking her out to lunch. She was beautifulThis is her favourite day of the year, wore designer clothes 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 was wellhis wife are going to divorce - Martha is apparently having an affair -liked by everyoneand Sylvia is convinced that the Prof will then declare his love and they can be together. She didnhasn't parade her wealth, or her fatherfully constructed 'together's White House connections. In fact, in her closest friend was a man recently released from prison. So when own mind - she left a lecture saying that she felt illenvisages it as romantic, and but her body was later found at imagination hasn't yet progressed to the bottom sexual part of the castle well it seemed that the likeliest explanation was that this had relationship. There's time though - she's only been a dreadful accident with the only people to blame being the builders who had left the well unsealedprof's PA for fifteen years. [[The Body in the Castle Well (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel) Needlemouse by Martin WalkerJane O'Connor|Full Review]] <!-- Nayeri Various-->

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| style="''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"''|===[[The Ungrateful Refugee Return to Wonderland by Dina NayeriVarious Authors]]===

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Here in In following a young girl called Alice down the West, we see news reports about immigrants on rabbit hole a regular basis – some media welcoming themfew years ago, some scaremongering about them. But all of those stories are written when the first book she was in [[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition) by journalists – almost always western, Lewis Carroll and almost alwaysAnthony Browne|hit 150 years of age]], no matter how deep I found that I didn't really find too much favour with it. The wacky-for-the investigative journalism they carry out-sake-of-it did not gel, outsiders to the world and I don't remember loving it more as a child. But I would suggest I am the situations that refugees find themselves inperfect audience for this book. It's rare I had every chance to enjoy these short stories that we find out come at the journeys core from a tangent, that show the refugees themselves – and this is a rare opportunity benefits of the oblique glance. I've always preferred coming to do thatan author's output through their least obvious, in this intelligentallegedly throw-away pieces, powerful and moving work by Dina Nayeri -someone who was born in it's the same with franchises – I'd more likely go for Bree Tanner's short novella than the middle of whole Twilight saga (although that remains just a revolution in Iranhunch, for obvious reasons). For another thing, fleeing there was every reason to America as a ten-year-old.expect some kind of greatness here – with Carroll much loved by millions, surely pieces written with that love in mind could only provide for success after success? [[The Ungrateful Refugee Return to Wonderland by Dina NayeriVarious Authors|Full Review]]

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| style="''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"''|===[[Boy in the Well Rumblestar (DI Westphall 2The Unmapped Chronicles) by Douglas LindsayAbi Elphinstone]]===

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The body Rumblestar follows the haphazard adventures of a ninethe anxious 11-year-old boy was found at Casper Tock who timetables his every movement, makes countless to do lists and is hounded by wealthy bullies with the bottom absurdly humorous and appropriate names of a well which had been sealed for two hundred years - but the boy had only been dead for less than two days Candida Cashmere Jumps and there was no sign of how the body had got into the wellLeopold Splattercash. The owners He stumbles across a magic portal by accident just like Lucy of the property are adamant that the well was sealed when they went to open itNarnia fame, but DI Ben Westphall would be entitled to have his doubtsmeets a feisty girl troubled by her past and is plunged into a perilous quest. Belle McIntosh holds some strange views, particularly about In a kingdom where the way that dark mythological forces of Midnights threaten the government is controlling everyone through drugs which are added weather Marvels (equated here to the water supply which led to her wanting to reinstate the wellmiracle of nature) conjured by magical creatures, only unlikely heroes can battle against evil. 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 Rumblestar (DI Westphall 2The Unmapped Chronicles]) by Douglas LindsayAbi Elphinstone|Full Review]]

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Muriel Hinkley was walking her dog when she found the body Jason likes chess. He's pretty good at it too - a level eight on a quiet country lanehis computer programme, just south of Exmoorwith level ten being Grand Master level. She didn’t recognise him - no one would for a long time as it was obvious He's also good at systems, having contributed to the relational database that he’d been the victim of a hit-and-runhas streamlined his school's administration. He had no face - most of it was smeared Jason's school, Easingdale Comprehensive, is very big on the road technology and when D I Jan Talantire came its head, Mr Johnston, is keen to look at the body she realised that there was absolutely nothing on him which would allow for identificationinvolve his pupils wherever they show promise. All the labels had been cut So Jason's friends have also helped out of his clothes . Liz is great with hardware and there was no wallet helped with the school's card reader system. Becky has a flair for software and no phonehas recommended lots of curriculum-enhancing apps. And Bill is a talented programmer.. Hi was Mister Nobody. [[The Body in the Mist Evil Occupants of Easingdale Castle by Nick LouthRay Filby|Full Review]]

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ItDC Cat Kinsella is back at the Met after a secondment to the London Mayor's strange how Office: the hours were good but the worst of days can start in such an ordinary, mundane way. And so it job was for Anna McDonald as she sorted out gym kit and packed lunches for her two daughtersboring. It didnShe't begin s grateful to go wrong until she opened be back with the door to old team - her best friendpartner DS Luigi Parnell, Estelle boss DCI Kate Steele and realised that her husband was at DC Rénee Akwa. She's still not prepared to say anything about the top identity of her boyfriend: the stairsknowledge that she's in a relationship with Aiden Doyle, dressed as though for the brother of a holiday rather than the work clothes she'd been expecting - murder victim and he was carrying moreover a suitcasemurder with which her father might have had some involvement could finish her career. He Kinsella and Estelle were leaving together Parnell are called to the discovery of the body of a young woman: Naomi Lockhart was Australian, just twenty- two years old and they were taking Anna's two daughters with them. There her body was another problem which neither Hamish nor Estelle knew about. Anna wasn't actually Anna McDonald. She was Sophie Bukarandiscovered by her flat mate, Kieran Drake, the woman who had been involved in the rape case against four footballersan ex-offender. [[Conviction Stone Cold Heart by Denise MinaCaz Frear|Full Review]]