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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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===[[Vintage 1954 Deadwood Hall by Antoine Laurain, Jane Aitken (translator) and Emily Boyce (translator)Linda Jones]]===

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Vintage 1954 starts by thrusting several completely different characters upon us, In late December Dylan Beaumont and his sister Emily were on their way to spend the week before deciding to run with them Christmas at their grandfather's house. It was snowing heavily and formulate a plot. So we have an American biker, just landing you could sense that their parents were becoming annoyed at the bickering in Paris but unfortunately not with the wife who shared his dream back of visiting the city togethercar. We have a goth girl who everyone recognises from an American crime show Emily was rather brusque with her nine-year-old brother's behaviour, but actually is then that's your prerogative when you're a humble restorer of antiquesgrown-up eleven year old. We have a cocktail barman, infatuated with The snow was getting heavier and the goth girl. We also have a man ruling journey longer when Emily opened the roost over car window just a whole suite couple of individual apartments fabricated from the Haussmann-era mansion his family once ownedinches. Finally something conspires to get them together, There was a dreadful smell and drinking from the same bottle of Dylan saw a rare 1954 red wine. Onlyhorrible, one of them has a bizarre incidence in his family history that also features the same plonk – where a grandfather imbibed, and walked out snake-like figure clawing at the door one rainy morning, never to be seen againcar window. But of course nobody will be doing any disappearing now, though – will they? [[Vintage 1954 Deadwood Hall by Antoine Laurain, Jane Aitken (translator) and Emily Boyce (translator)Linda Jones|Full Review]]

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===[[The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t With Her Mind A Breath on Dying Embers (DCI Daley) by Jackson FordDenzil Meyrick]]===

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As Few government trade missions arrive by luxury liner, but the title suggests, this book cruise ship ''Great Britain'' is all about a girl, Teagan Frost, who has psychokinesisberthed in Kinloch harbour and on board are high-powered international delegates. Forced It's hard to secretly avoid the suspicion that it's not ''entirely'' about work for as the government along with a few unique (billionaires, entrepreneurs and shady) individualstheir civil service minders tour the country, Teagan has to use her power for unimaginable tasks. All of this whilst under the pretence golfing and sightseeing with their entourage of working for a moving-companysecurity personnel. After her latest job goes wrong and her and the team escape by the skin of their teeth It's an event which DCI Daley hopes will pass quickly, Teagan finds herself particularly as a murder suspect when the victim his formal uniform is found in such a way that only she could have committed the crime. The rest far too tight for comfort, but it's not long before one of the story unfolds in crew members and a fast-paced race against time to clear Teagan's name and find out exactly what has happenedlocal bird watcher go missing. Is it possible that someone with a gift like Teagan's has managed to fly under the radar? [[The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t With Her Mind A Breath on Dying Embers (DCI Daley) by Jackson FordDenzil Meyrick|Full Review]]

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===[[The Suffering of Strangers Starlight Watchmaker by Caro RamsayLauren James]]===

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Roberta (please call her 'Bobby') Chisholm This is sleep deprived. Six-weeka dyslexia-old Sholto doesn't ''ever'' seem to sleepfriendly, so Bobby's like a robotscience fiction novella for young adults. There's a little light on It tells the horizontale of Hugo, though: her husband James is up for a new joban unwanted and rather lonely android, which could mean quite who makes a bit more moneyliving for himself mending time-travel watches. When he rings to tell her one of his clients demands that he's got it he's obviously over the moon and tells Bobby to go to the local shop and get his broken watch be mended, Hugo realises there is a bottle of champagne so that they can celebrate. For once Sholto has dropped off mystery to sleep be solved, and when Bobby gets is only too ready to the shop she's reluctant to disturb him: surely there won't be a problem if she dashes into the shop to get the bubbly? She can keep an eye on the car through the shop windowhelp. An exciting journey of discovery unfolds, but when she comes which takes Hugo outof his drab attic workroom and into a scary adventure with some amazing new friends, exploring regions of the car has gone..planet never before known to exist. [[The Suffering of Strangers Starlight Watchmaker by Caro RamsayLauren James|Full Review]]

<!-- Christopher Edge -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1788004949.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1788004949/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[The Longest Night of Charlie Noon by Christopher Edge]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] ''If you go into the woods, Old Crony will get you.'' Secrets, spies or maybe even a monster... What lies in the heart of the wood? Charlie, Dizzy and Johnny are determined to discover the truth, but when night falls without warning they find themselves trapped in a nightmare. Lost in the woods, strange dangers and impossible puzzles lurk in the shadows. As time plays tricks, can Charlie solve this mystery and find a way out of the woods? But what if this night never ends...? [[The Longest Night of Charlie Noon by Christopher Edge|Full Review]] <!-- Rachel Lynch Stuart MacBride -->

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===[[Bold Lies Cold Granite (DI Kelly Porter 5Logan McRae) by Rachel LynchStuart MacBride]]===

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It DS 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 smell which announced the presence swing of the job in a gentle way - until three-year-old David Reid's body is discovered in the wheelhouse of a boat ditch. He'd been missing for some time and identification wasnit came as no surprise that he was dead but he't going to be easy as s the man was stark nakedfirst of several child murders. There were all To add to the signs of complications the police even have a brutal, cold-blooded execution body but gradually the man was traced back to Allendale House, the estate of the former Lord Allendaleno child reported missing. A serial killer, a child killer and then to Londonabuser, where two more bodies, naked, in a staged setting is on the loose in a garage, were discovered. Senior Investigating Officer DI Kelly Porter had to go to London Aberdeen and was shocked the press are missing no opportunity to discover that the SIO bay for ''blood. As if thatwasn'' case was DCI Matt Carter, her manipulative and untrustworthy ex-lover. It was going t bad enough there seems to be anything but easy to work alongside Matt the Tw... Aha leak from within Force Headquarters: a local journalist, Colin Miller, well letquickly finds out everything that's not go therehappening. [[Bold Lies Cold Granite (DI Kelly Porter 5Logan McRae) by Rachel LynchStuart MacBride|Full Review]]

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===[[Special Delivery Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Jonathan MeresAngela Marsons]]===

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How do you explain to children about dementia? Injuries or illnesses are obvious, but when the problem is the brain which isnThere't functioning quite as it used to it isn't as easy to grasp. Frank was s a normal nine year old prologue and like many nine year olds what he wanted was a new bike. He'd had his for about seventy-eight years and he didn't want to raise the seat any more. Mum pointed out we know that it wasn't his birthday or Christmas any time soon and bikes cost a lot of money, which didnwe't grow on trees. His sister Lottie had a solution: Frank could help her re dealing with her paper roundsomeone who is very disturbed. Frank agreed despite thinking that it would take him a thousand years to save up The descriptions are horrifying, but worst of all is the money for a bike AND he had to get up at six o'clock in coldness of the morningkiller. [[Special Delivery Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Jonathan MeresAngela Marsons|Full Review]]

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===[[The Spectacular Revenge of Suzi Sims Exhalation by Vivian FrenchTed Chiang]]===

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Suzi Simms loved running and it was her ambition to win Over the 100 metres race on sports day at the end of term past twenty- and that was next weekeight years Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short stories. We're going to read about what happened in her diary, although there's These magnificent stories have won twenty-seven major science fiction awards so if you are a warning that we really shouldn't be reading science fiction fan it, particularly as it's about Barbie Meek. To say is likely that you have already come across some of the two girls don't get on at all well is a bit 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 understatementabsolute masterpiece of a collection. Suzi wouldnIf you come across Chiang't actually do anything about its work before, but Barbie is a troublemaker and she wants take this opportunity to win the 100 metres race too - by fair means or fouldo so now. Trust me; your imagination will be grateful. [[The Spectacular Revenge of Suzi Sims Exhalation by Vivian FrenchTed Chiang|Full Review]]

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

Meet Harry Stevenson. He's a typical guinea pig, except he's perhaps a bit more ginger than normal. And more lazy than usual. And his appetite is possibly bigger than 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 here, the lad who owns and looks after him is being forced to move house. It should be 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 and a charming contrivance for him to be found again. In the second, for we get two full-length stories in this volume, there'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 drama[[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[The Adventures of Harry Stevenson by Ali Pye: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]]<!-- Angie Kim Kate Atkinson -->

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===[[Miracle Creek Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie) by Angie KimKate Atkinson]]===

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The Yoo family originated I guess that most of us have made the odd impulse purchase but Tracy Waterhouse, security chief at the Merrion Centre in Seoul. Yoo Young and her daughter Meh-hee came on ahead Leeds, blew most people's ideas of the father an impulse purchase out of the family, Yoo Pak, as a couple in Baltimore offered to provide accommodation for Young and Meh-hee in exchange for assistance in their grocery storewater one morning. What Young had not appreciated was that she was to work from 6 Seeing a.m. until midnight, seven days known prostitute dragging a week. For years she hardly saw toddler through the shopping mall whilst cursing at her daughter except when , Waterhouse followed the Kangs brought Meh-hee to see her at woman and bought the storegirl for £3000. Meh-hee became Mary The difficulty of a purchase like this is knowing what to do next and struggled at school: her fellow pupils were no exceptions to the rule that children can be cruel Tracy's humdrum life is replaced with one of stress, fear and Mary was an easy targetoverwhelming love for four-year-old Courtney. [[Miracle Creek Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie) by Angie KimKate Atkinson|Full Review]]

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===[[Velocity Weapon Fire Girl, Forest Boy by Megan E O'KeefeChloe Daykin]]===

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The last thing Sanda remembers is her gunship explodingMaya has to escape. She expected 's on the run in a country she doesn't know and has no idea who to be recovered by salvagetrust. Raul is escaping too -medics and travelling back to awaken in friendly handshis home where a terrible tragedy happened, patched-up and ready to rejoin stir up trouble. When their paths collide in the fight. Instead she wakes up 230 years later, on a deserted enemy starship called The Light middle of Berossus - orthe jungle, as he prefers the sparks begin to call himself, 'Bero'fly. Bero tells Sanda As modern world corruption meets the war is lost. That magic and legends of ancient times, can Maya draw on her hidden light to find the entire star system is dead. But is that way through to the full storytruth? After all, in the vastness of space, anything is possible . . . [[Velocity Weapon Fire Girl, Forest Boy by Megan E O'KeefeChloe Daykin|Full Review]]

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===[[The Chessmaster's Secret by Mary Parker]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersCrime|Confident ReadersCrime]]

Belle There's a prologue and Joe travel to London in 1944, towards the end of World War II. Orphaned evacuees, they havenwe know that we't had a good time of it - especially Joe, re dealing with someone who is a sensitive child and was badly bulliedvery disturbed. Meeting them is Uncle Griff, a kindly man The descriptions are horrifying, but one without much money. He worst of all is more than happy to have the children stay during the school holidays. Uncle Griff owns the ''Shop coldness 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 streetskiller. [[The ChessmasterChild's Secret Play (D I Kim Stone) by Mary ParkerAngela Marsons|Full Review]]

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

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:4. And so it was with ''The Art of Noticing''5star. 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]]

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]]<!-- Lesley Thomson Davis -->

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===[[The Playground Murders What's That in Dog Years? by Lesley ThomsonBen Davis and Julia Christians]]===

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Rachel Cater George and Gizmo have been together ever since George was having an affair with her boss, Chris Philips, an auctioneerborn. It wasGizmo has always been a fun, she told her mother, love at first sight. Her mother was more sceptical adventurous dog and wondered whya loyal friend, if it had been love at first sightbut just recently, it had taken him so long George has noticed that he's starting to do anything about itslow down a little. Still, more than anything, she wanted her daughter A visit to the vets leaves George worried that Gizmo might not be happy. That was what Rachel wanted too around for very much longer, and it was why she went so he begins to write Gizmo a bucket list, of all the Philips' family home, determined to adventures that they can still have it all out together in the openGizmo's last days. Instead she was stabbed fifteen times. But are they his last days? Her lover was convicted of her murder. And who will help George to stay calm when Gizmo is gone? [[The Playground Murders What's That in Dog Years? by Lesley ThomsonBen Davis and Julia Christians|Full Review]]

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

[[image:4starSeptember 1940 - as WWII rages on, bombs rain down on Britain, destroying the homes and lives of a people on the edge. In Epping Forest, Susan Shepherd and her grandfather Bertie live together raising homing pigeons with the birds proving a comfort for Susan following the loss of her parents. These pigeons are more than just birds to Susan though – in each one, and especially in Duchess, she sees a distinct personality and forms a close bond. Meanwhile, young pilot Ollie Evans leaves Maine to head to Britain and join the Royal Air Force. Working with the 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.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] As the mission is planned, the bond between Ollie and Susan grows stronger, but when Ollie's plane is downed behind enemy lines, it may be Duchess who provides an unexpected lifeline and ensures that hope of a reunion for Susan and Ollie remains… [[:Category:ThrillersThe Long Flight Home by A L Hlad|ThrillersFull Review]]

Can you imagine what it would be like to win a billion pounds<!-- Peter Wohlleben -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1846045576.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1846045576/ref=nosim? tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[Walks In The UKWild by Peter Wohlleben and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translator)]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Animals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife]], [[:Category:Politics and Society|Politics and Society]] ''An instruction manual for the forest'' is how Wohlleben's biggest ever lottery winners were a couple from Ayrshirepublisher described the idea for this book, who won a £161 million EuroMillions jackpot a few years ago. Thatand that's so much money that basically what it landed them on is – although right at the Sunday Times Rich List of end the UK's thousand most wealthy people. So a billion pounds. That's a lot, right? Can you imagine author says that it? What would you do? Would you try is not intended to remain anonymous? Andbe a reference book, 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? but an appetiser. [[Walks In The Billion Pound Lie Wild by Bill DarePeter Wohlleben and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translator)|Full Review]]

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===[[Across the Void A Nearly Normal Family by S K VaughnM T Edvardsson and Rachel Wilson-Boyles (translator)]]===

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Sea epics? So 20th centuryWe're going to hear this story through the viewpoints of three different people: Adam Sandell, his wife, Ulrika and his daughter Stella. Try Adam's a pastor in the Church of Sweden and Ulrika is a space epiclawyer. Stella is, well, just difficult. You 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, Amina Bešic - and no one has ever said that if they don't think that the other person is better. We first meet the family on Stella's 18th birthday and we get a sense of Adam's controlling nature. Permission has to be given for a glass of wine for Stella at the celebration meal. [[Across the Void A Nearly Normal Family by S K VaughnM T Edvardsson and Rachel Wilson-Boyles (translator)|Full Review]]

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===[[The Van Apfel Girls are Gone House of Light by Felicity McLeanJulia Green]]===

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When Tikka Molloy was eleven Bonnie is growing up on a slightly strange island, living with her grandfather, scavenging for food, and one-sixth years old, rubbish that has washed up on the Van Apfel sisters disappearedbeach that she and her grandfather can use to make things. In There is some sort of ban against anyone else landing on the long hot summer island, and lots of 1992suspicion around those who live there, in an isolated suburb including a great fear of Australia surrounded by Bushland, the girls vanished during the school's Showstopper concert at the riverside amphitheatreanyone who gets sick. Did they run away? Were they taken? While But when Bonnie is on the search for the sisters united the small communitybeach one day and discovers not only an intact boat, they were never found. Returning home years laterbut a young boy cowering beneath, Tikka must make sense of that strange moment rather than turn him in time – of to the summer that shaped herauthorities she takes him home and hides him, smuggling him boiled eggs and blankets in the girls shed whilst she never forgottries to figure out what to do. [[The Van Apfel Girls are Gone House of Light by Felicity McLeanJulia Green|Full Review]]

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===[[The Dragon in the Library Check Mates by Louie Stowell and Davide Ortu (Illustrator)Stewart Foster]]===

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It In many ways Felix is the start of the summer holidays and Kit has plans. These plans involve climbing treesa typical boy in Year 7, getting muddy enjoying playing games on his PS4 and being outside. Her friends, Josh and Alita, on hanging out with his friend Jake at the other hand want to go to the libraryweekend. Kit hates reading and can't see the point of books However Felix is struggling at all school. He is not a problem child but is very reluctantly persuaded he does have a problem. His ADHD makes it hard for him to go concentrate, he keeps getting into trouble and his grades are slipping. When his Mum suggests that he spends more time with the others to the local libraryhis grandfather Felix is horrified. Once there the children meet the librarian Ever since Grandma died his Granddad has been grumpy and Kit makes an incredible discovery; the librarian is a wizard! Even more incredibly, Kit eccentric than before. All he wants to do is a wizard too sit in the dark and play chess. Felix knows that this will be extremely boring. But sometimes we learn valuable lessons where we least expect to and she perhaps Granddad and her friends have an important taskFelix can help each other. They must save the library…and save the world! [[The Dragon in the Library Check Mates by Louie Stowell and Davide Ortu (Illustrator)Stewart Foster|Full Review]]

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===[[All ThatNeedlemouse by Jane O's Dead (Logan McRae 12) by Stuart MacBrideConnor]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women'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]]<!-- Various-->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:1529006031.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1529006031/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[Return to Wonderland by Various Authors]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeConfident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Short Stories|CrimeShort Stories]]

It seemed like In following a young girl called Alice down the rabbit hole a good idea. Logan 'Lazarus' McRae few years ago, when the first book she was back at work after a year off sick. Hein [[Alice'd been stabbed s Adventures in the line Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition) by Lewis Carroll and Anthony Browne|hit 150 years of duty and recovery had been slow: he still had some painage]], I found that I didn't really find too much favour with it. His first case was to be a simple one The wacky-for-the-sake- just to ease him back into work of- but it turned out to be anything butdid not gel, and I don't remember loving it more as a child. Professor Wilson, a high-profile anti-independence campaigner has gone missing, apparently abducted from his home, but nothing was left behind except some bloodstainsBut I would suggest I am the perfect audience for this book. In much I had every chance to enjoy these short stories that come at the same way core from a tangent, that Brexit is dividing people south show the benefits of the border, thereoblique glance. I've always preferred coming to an author's going to be a war between the pro- and anti-independence factions in Scotland output through their least obvious, allegedly throw- away pieces, and it's the police are not above being involved. [[All Thatsame with franchises – I'd more likely go for Bree Tanner's Dead short novella than the whole Twilight saga (Logan McRae 12although that remains just a hunch, for obvious reasons) . For another thing, there was every reason to 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? [[Return to Wonderland by Stuart MacBrideVarious Authors|Full Review]]

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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 on her seventeenth birthday, dressed as a teddy bearRumblestar follows the haphazard adventures of the anxious 11-year-old Casper Tock who timetables his every movement, makes countless to protest about nuclear weapons. It was whilst she was there that she met Samantha, fell head over heels in love do lists and is hounded by wealthy bullies with her the absurdly humorous and appropriate names of Candida Cashmere Jumps and went to live in Leopold Splattercash. He stumbles across a squat in London, leaving behind her A levelsmagic portal by accident just like Lucy of Narnia fame, meets a feisty girl troubled by her recently-widowed mother - past and her twin brother, Pete, to look after heris plunged into a perilous quest. Samantha was there occasionally but Meredith was drawn into forming In a band with kingdom where the boys from dark mythological forces of Midnights threaten the squat and against all the odds Cohen went on weather Marvels (equated here to become a sensation and it wasn't long before Meredith was living in a mansion rather than the squatmiracle of nature) conjured by magical creatures, only unlikely heroes can battle against evil. [[Rumblestar (The Last Stage Unmapped Chronicles]) by Louise VossAbi Elphinstone|Full Review]]

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===[[The Evil Occupants of Easingdale Castle by Ray Filby]]=== [[image:5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:AutobiographyTeens|AutobiographyTeens]]

For Ian Mathie fans there is Jason likes chess. He's pretty good and bad news. Ian has come up with the missing link in at it too - a level eight on his narrativecomputer programme, the story of a very unusual childhood (yeswith level ten being Grand Master level. He's also good at systems, having contributed to the very years relational database that made him the amazing man he became)has streamlined his school's administration. The bad – well it Jason's hardly news two years later – school, Easingdale Comprehensive, is that the book very big on technology and its head, Mr Johnston, is published posthumouslykeen to involve his pupils wherever they show promise. As always, itSo Jason's beautifully written, friends have also helped out. Liz is great with hardware and helped with many exciting moments. What I most enjoyed was the feeling that many of the questions in Ian Mathieschool's later books are answered in ''Wild Child'' with card reader system. Becky has a satisfying clunkflair for software and has recommended lots of curriculum-enhancing apps. Seemingly all that's now left in the drawer And Bill is unpublishablea talented programmer... [[Wild Child: Growing Up a Nomad The Evil Occupants of Easingdale Castle by Ian MathieRay Filby|Full Review]]

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===[[The Body in the Castle Well (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel) Stone Cold Heart by Martin WalkerCaz Frear]]===

Claudia Muller 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 an American, studying art history and being mentored by an eminent French art historian and Resistance war hero in Limeuil in Perigordboring. She was beautiful's grateful to be back with the old team - her partner DS Luigi Parnell, wore designer clothes boss DCI Kate Steele and was well-liked by everyoneDC Rénee Akwa. She didn't parade s still not prepared to say anything about the identity of her wealthboyfriend: the knowledge that she's in a relationship with Aiden Doyle, or the brother of a murder victim and moreover a murder with which her father's White House connections. In fact, might have had some involvement could finish her closest friend was a man recently released from prisoncareer. So when she left Kinsella and Parnell are called to the discovery of the body of a lecture saying that she felt illyoung woman: Naomi Lockhart was Australian, just twenty-two years old and her body was later found at the bottom of the castle well it seemed that the likeliest explanation was that this had been a dreadful accident with the only people to blame being the builders who had left the well unsealeddiscovered by her flat mate, Kieran Drake, an ex-offender. [[The Body in the Castle Well (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel) Stone Cold Heart by Martin WalkerCaz Frear|Full Review]]