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Hello from The Bookbag, a site featuring books from all the many walks of literary life - [[:Category:Fiction|fiction]], [[:Category:Biography|biography]], [[:Category:Crime|crime]], [[:Category:Cookery|cookery]] and anything else that takes our fancy. At Bookbag Towers the bookbag sits at the side of the desk. It's the bag we take to the library , the charity shop and the bookshop. Sometimes it holds the latest releases, but at other times there'll be old favourites, books for the children, books for the home. They're sometimes our own books or books from the local library. They're often books sent to us by publishers and we promise to tell you exactly what we think about them. You might not want to read through a full review, so we'll give you a quick review which summarises what we felt about the book and tells you whether or not we think you should buy or borrow it. There are also lots of [[:Category:Interviews|author interviews]], and all sorts of [[:Category:Lists|top tens]] - all of which you can find on our [[features]] page. If you're stuck for something to read, check out the [[Book Recommendations|recommendations]] page.

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[[image:4starIn late December Dylan Beaumont and his sister Emily were on their way to spend the week before Christmas at their grandfather's house. It was snowing heavily and you could sense that their parents were becoming annoyed at the bickering in the back of the car. Emily was rather brusque with her nine-year-old brother's behaviour, but then that's your prerogative when you're a grown-up eleven year old. The snow was getting heavier and the journey longer when Emily opened the car window just a couple of inches. There was a dreadful smell and Dylan saw a horrible, snake-like figure clawing at the car window.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensDeadwood Hall by Linda Jones|TeensFull Review]]

Jason likes chess. He's pretty good at it too - a level eight on his computer programme, with level ten being Grand Master level. He's also good at systems, having contributed to the relational database that has streamlined his school's administration. Jason's school, Easingdale Comprehensive, is very big on technology and its head, Mr Johnston, is keen to involve his pupils wherever they show promise. So Jason's friends have also helped out. Liz is great with hardware and helped with the school's card reader system. Becky has a flair for software and has recommended lots of curriculum-enhancing apps. And Bill is a talented programmer... [[The Evil Occupants of Easingdale Castle by Ray Filby|Full Review]]  <!-- Caz Frear Denzil Meyrick -->

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===[[Stone Cold Heart A Breath on Dying Embers (DCI Daley) by Caz FrearDenzil Meyrick]]===

DC Cat Kinsella is back at Few government trade missions arrive by luxury liner, but the Met after a secondment to the London Mayorcruise ship ''Great Britain''s Office: the hours were good but the job was boringis berthed in Kinloch harbour and on board are high-powered international delegates. SheIt's grateful hard to be back with avoid the old team - her partner DS Luigi Parnell, boss DCI Kate Steele and DC Rénee Akwa. Shesuspicion that it's still not prepared to say anything ''entirely'' about work as the identity of her boyfriend: billionaires, entrepreneurs and their civil service minders tour the knowledge that she's in a relationship with Aiden Doylecountry, the brother of a murder victim golfing and moreover a murder sightseeing with which her father might have had some involvement could finish her careertheir entourage of security personnel. Kinsella and Parnell are called to the discovery It's an event which DCI Daley hopes will pass quickly, particularly as his formal uniform is far too tight for comfort, but it's not long before one of the body of crew members and a young woman: Naomi Lockhart was Australian, just twenty-two years old and her body was discovered by her flat mate, Kieran Drake, an ex-offenderlocal bird watcher go missing. [[Stone Cold Heart A Breath on Dying Embers (DCI Daley) by Caz FrearDenzil Meyrick|Full Review]]

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===[[Tell Me Your Secret The Starlight Watchmaker by Dorothy KoomsonLauren James]]===

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Despite Dorothy Koomson regularly being suggested as This is a dyslexia-friendly, science fiction novella for young adults. It tells the tale of Hugo, an author I might likeunwanted and rather lonely android, ie people who like this author also like Dorothy Koomsonmakes a living for himself mending time-travel watches. When one of his clients demands that his broken watch be mended, Hugo realises there is a mystery to be solved, and is only too ready to help. An exciting journey of discovery unfolds, I have which takes Hugo out of his drab attic workroom and into a scary adventure with some amazing new friends, exploring regions of the planet never read her before. Having done so I can totally see why she's the bestselling author of fifteen booksknown to exist. [[Tell Me Your Secret The Starlight Watchmaker by Dorothy KoomsonLauren James|Full Review]]

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===[[The Boy Who Fell Cold Granite (Inspector Tom ReynoldsLogan McRae) by Jo SpainStuart MacBride]]===

There were six friends: four men and two womenDS Logan McRae is just back from a year's sick leave after he was attacked by a killer. TheyHe're all s just about eighteen OK and theyhe've known each other since they started school. Both girls s supposed to be easing himself back into the swing of the job in a gentle way - until three- Hazel Brophy and Charlotte Burke year- have been old David Reid's body is discovered in relationships with one of the boys, but Charlotte was determined that it would not be sexuala ditch. HazelHe'd been missing for some time and it came as no surprise that he was dead but he's views were so dramatically opposite that you wondered how they could be friendsthe first of several child murders. They were all partying in a derelict house when Luke Connelly was pushed To add to his death from the complications the police even have a third floor window and Daniel Konaté Jones was charged with rape and murder. Daniel was loosely associated with the group body but never felt himself one of themno child reported missing. He didn't come from A serial killer, a wealthy backgroundchild killer and abuser, is of mixed race on the loose in Aberdeen and openly gaythe press are missing no opportunity to bay for blood. Targets donAs if that wasn't come much easier than bad enough there seems to be a leak from within Force Headquarters: a local journalist, Colin Miller, quickly finds out everything that, except for one thing's happening. [[The Boy Who Fell Cold Granite (Inspector Tom ReynoldsLogan McRae) by Jo SpainStuart MacBride|Full Review]] <!-- Webb Angela Marsons -->

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===[[Disbelieved: Skin and Bone CSIs by Beth Webb]]=== [[image:4.5star4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensCrime|TeensCrime]]

Anelise - Annie - has been living with her cousin Joe and her aunt, an eminent forensic scientist, since her mum died and her naturalist father went abroad on a research trip. So she does wonder sometimes whether the minor premonitions she has - whoThere's on the other end of the ringing phone, or at the door when there's a knock - are in her imagination. But to foresee a serious accident prologue and then for it to actually happen? And the dreadful headaches. Somethingwe know that we's going onre dealing with someone who is very disturbed. Luckily for Annie The descriptions are horrifying, Joe but worst of all is convinced and also willing to help. So they start to investigate the accident..coldness of the killer. [[Disbelieved: Skin and Bone CSIs Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Beth WebbAngela Marsons|Full Review]]

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===[[Joe Country (Jackson Lamb 6) Exhalation by Mick HerronTed Chiang]]===

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I'd like to say that all Over the old crew 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 in Slough House but the rate of natural (or unnatural) wastage a science fiction fan it is such as to likely that you have Health and Safety worried. Roderick Ho's there though, narcissistic as ever, and so's Louisa Guy. She's getting over the death already come across some of Min Harper to the extent that she's not ''too'' concerned when she gets a phone call from Clare Harper, Min's wifework by Ted Chiang. River Cartwright has got death on his mind tooI cannot speak highly enough of this collection of short stories, but they are so wide ranging in his case it's the impending demise of his beloved grandfather their themes and former spookso beautifully written, the OB. Diana Taverner Chiang has taken over from Claude Whelan as First Desk at Regent Park and she's going to make changes: one written an absolute masterpiece of the first is a shockcollection. An argument with Emma Flyte sees the head dog departing the service. Meanwhile at Slough HouseIf you come across Chiang's work before, Catherine Standish is buying booze again, Jackson Lamb is offensive as ever and Shirley Dander and J K Coe take this opportunity to do their best to remain unnoticed, the latter by saying nothingso now. Trust me; your imagination will be grateful. [[Joe Country (Jackson Lamb 6) Exhalation by Mick HerronTed Chiang|Full Review]]

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[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:General Fiction|General FictionRose, Interrupted by Patrice Lawrence]]===

Vintage 1954 starts by thrusting several completely different characters upon us, before deciding to run with them and formulate a plot[[image:4star. So we have an American biker, just landing in Paris but unfortunately not with the wife who shared his dream of visiting the city together. We have a goth girl who everyone recognises from an American crime show, but actually is a humble restorer of antiques. We have a cocktail barman, infatuated with the goth girl. We also have a man ruling the roost over a whole suite of individual apartments fabricated from the Haussmann-era mansion his family once owned. Finally something conspires to get them together, and drinking from the same bottle of a rare 1954 red wine. Only, one of them has a bizarre incidence in his family history that also features the same plonk – where a grandfather imbibed, and walked out the door one rainy morning, never to be seen again. But of course nobody will be doing any disappearing now, though – will they? jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Vintage 1954 by Antoine Laurain, Jane Aitken (translator) and Emily Boyce (translator):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]]<!-- Ford Kate Atkinson -->

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===[[The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t With Her Mind Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie) by Jackson FordKate Atkinson]]===

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As I guess that most of us have made the odd impulse purchase but Tracy Waterhouse, security chief at the title suggestsMerrion Centre in Leeds, this book is all about blew most people's ideas of an impulse purchase out of the water one morning. Seeing a known prostitute dragging a girltoddler through the shopping mall whilst cursing at her, Teagan Frost, who has psychokinesis. Forced to secretly work for Waterhouse followed the government along with a few unique (woman and shady) individuals, Teagan has to use her power bought the girl for unimaginable tasks£3000. All The difficulty of a purchase like this whilst under the pretence is knowing what to do next and Tracy's humdrum life is replaced with one of working stress, fear and an overwhelming love for a movingfour-year-companyold Courtney. After her latest job goes wrong and her and the team escape [[Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie) by the skin of their teethKate Atkinson|Full Review]] <!-- 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]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Fire Girl, Teagan finds herself as a murder suspect when Forest Boy by Chloe Daykin]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers]] Maya has to escape. She's on the victim is found run in such a way that only country she could have committed 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 crime. The rest middle of the story unfolds in a fast-paced race against time jungle, the sparks begin to clear Teagan's name fly. As modern world corruption meets the magic and legends of ancient times, can Maya draw on her hidden light to find out exactly what has happened. Is it possible that someone with a gift like Teagan's has managed the way through to fly under the radartruth? [[The Fire Girl Who Could Move Sh*t With Her Mind , Forest Boy by Jackson FordChloe Daykin|Full Review]]

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===[[The Suffering of Strangers Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Caro RamsayAngela Marsons]]===

Roberta (please call her 'Bobby') Chisholm is sleep deprived. Six-week-old Sholto doesn't ''ever'' seem to sleep, so Bobby's like a robot. There's a little light on the horizon, though: her husband James is up for a new job, which could mean quite a bit more money. When he rings to tell her prologue and we know that hewe's got it he's obviously over the moon and tells Bobby to go to the local shop and get a bottle of champagne so that they can celebratere dealing with someone who is very disturbed. For once Sholto has dropped off to sleep and when Bobby gets 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 windowThe descriptions are horrifying, but when she comes out, worst of all is the coldness of the car has gone..killer. [[The Suffering of Strangers Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Caro RamsayAngela Marsons|Full Review]]

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| style=''"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''"|[[image:17880049491526609169.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/17880049491526609169/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style=''"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''"| ===[[The Longest Night of Charlie Noon I Hold Your Heart by Christopher EdgeKaren Gregory]]=== [[image:4.5star.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 EdgeTeens|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]]<!-- Rachel Lynch Davis -->

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===[[Bold Lies (DI Kelly Porter 5) What's That in Dog Years? by Rachel LynchBen Davis and Julia Christians]]===

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It was the smell which announced the presence of the body in the wheelhouse of a boat George and identification wasn't going to be easy as the man Gizmo have been together ever since George was stark nakedborn. There were all the signs of Gizmo has always been a fun, adventurous dog and a brutalloyal friend, cold-blooded execution but gradually the man was traced back to Allendale Housejust recently, the estate of the former Lord Allendale, and then George has noticed that he's starting to London, where two more bodies, naked, in slow down a staged setting in a garage, were discoveredlittle. Senior Investigating Officer DI Kelly Porter had A visit to go to London and was shocked to discover the vets leaves George worried that the SIO Gizmo might not be around for ''that'' case was DCI Matt Cartervery much longer, her manipulative and untrustworthy ex-lover. It was going so he begins to be anything but easy to work alongside Matt write Gizmo a bucket list, of all the Tw... Ah, well letadventures that they can still have together in Gizmo's not go therelast days. But are they his last days? And who will help George to stay calm when Gizmo is gone? [[Bold Lies (DI Kelly Porter 5) What's That in Dog Years? by Rachel LynchBen Davis and Julia Christians|Full Review]]

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===[[Special Delivery The Long Flight Home by Jonathan MeresA L Hlad]]===

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How do you explain to children about dementia? Injuries or illnesses are obviousSeptember 1940 - as WWII rages on, bombs rain down on Britain, destroying the homes and lives of a people on the edge. In Epping Forest, but when Susan Shepherd and her grandfather Bertie live together raising homing pigeons with the problem is birds proving a comfort for Susan following the brain which isn't functioning quite as it used loss of her parents. These pigeons are more than just birds to it isn't as easy to grasp. Frank was Susan though – in each one, and especially in Duchess, she sees a normal nine year old distinct personality and like many nine year olds what he wanted was forms a new bikeclose bond. He'd had his for about seventy-eight years Meanwhile, young pilot Ollie Evans leaves Maine to head to Britain and he didn't want to raise join the seat any moreRoyal Air Force. Mum pointed out that it wasn't his birthday or Christmas any time Working with the National Pigeon Service, he soon meets Susan and bikes cost a lot is tasked with air-dropping hundreds of moneyhoming pigeons into German-occupied France, where many will not survive. As the mission is planned, the bond between Ollie and Susan grows stronger, which didnbut when Ollie't grow on trees. His sister Lottie had a solution: Frank could help her with her paper round. Frank agreed despite thinking s plane is downed behind enemy lines, it may be Duchess who provides an unexpected lifeline and ensures that it would take him hope of a thousand years to save up the money reunion for a bike AND he had to get up at six o'clock in the morning. Susan and Ollie remains… [[Special Delivery The Long Flight Home by Jonathan MeresA L Hlad|Full Review]]

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Suzi Simms loved running and it was her ambition to win ''An instruction manual for the 100 metres race on sports day at forest'' is how Wohlleben's publisher described the end of term - idea for this book, and that was next week. We're going to read about s basically what happened in her diary, it is – although there's a warning right at the end the author says that we really shouldn't be reading it, particularly as it's about Barbie Meek. To say that the two girls don't get on at all well is not intended to be a bit of an understatement. Suzi wouldn't actually do anything about itreference book, but Barbie is a troublemaker and she wants to win the 100 metres race too - by fair means or foulan appetiser. [[Walks In The Spectacular Revenge of Suzi Sims Wild by Vivian FrenchPeter Wohlleben and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translator)|Full Review]]

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===[[The Adventures of Harry Stevenson A Nearly Normal Family by Ali PyeM T Edvardsson and Rachel Wilson-Boyles (translator)]]===

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Meet Harry Stevenson. HeWe's a typical guinea pigre going to hear this story through the viewpoints of three different people: Adam Sandell, his wife, except he's perhaps a bit more ginger than normal. And more lazy than usual. And Ulrika and his appetite is possibly bigger than the normdaughter Stella. Apart from that heAdam's a regular guinea pig. But the stories pastor in which he features are nothing like. In the first one here, the lad who owns Church of Sweden and looks after him Ulrika is being forced to move housea lawyer. It should be a simple journey for HarryStella is, well, safe in his cage from all the predators just difficult. You sense that watching nature documentaries she's always been difficult and there have put into his imaginationeven been occasions when Ulrika has let slip that she wishes that Stella was more like her best friend, but he gets distracted Amina Bešic - and – shock horror – left behindno one has ever said that if they don't think that the other person is better. It takes some bravura slapstick We first meet the family on Stella's 18th birthday and we get a charming contrivance for him sense of Adam's controlling nature. Permission has to be found again. In the second, given for we get two full-length stories in this volume, there's a party being held to get glass of wine for Stella at the lad used to his new schoolmates, and Harry used to life in a garden hutch. And one more wonderful conceit that drives high dramacelebration meal. [[The Adventures of Harry Stevenson A Nearly Normal Family by Ali PyeM T Edvardsson and Rachel Wilson-Boyles (translator)|Full Review]]

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===[[Miracle Creek The House of Light by Angie KimJulia Green]]===

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The Yoo family originated in Seoul. Yoo Young and her daughter Meh-hee came Bonnie is growing up on ahead of the father of the familya slightly strange island, Yoo Pakliving with her grandfather, as a couple in Baltimore offered to provide accommodation scavenging for Young food, and Meh-hee in exchange for assistance in their grocery store. What Young had not appreciated was rubbish that has washed up on the beach that she was and her grandfather can use to work from 6 amake things.m. until midnight There is some sort of ban against anyone else landing on the island, and lots of suspicion around those who live there, seven days including a weekgreat fear of anyone who gets sick. For years she hardly saw her daughter except But when Bonnie is on the Kangs brought Meh-hee beach one day and discovers not only an intact boat, but a young boy cowering beneath, rather than turn him in to see her at the store. Meh-hee became Mary authorities she takes him home and hides him, smuggling him boiled eggs and struggled at school: her fellow pupils were no exceptions blankets in the shed whilst she tries to figure out what to the rule that children can be cruel and Mary was an easy targetdo. [[Miracle Creek The House of Light by Angie KimJulia Green|Full Review]]

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===[[Velocity Weapon Check Mates by Megan E O'KeefeStewart Foster]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science FictionConfident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] The last thing Sanda remembers In many ways Felix is her gunship exploding. She expected to be recovered by salvage-medics and to awaken a typical boy in friendly handsYear 7, patched-up enjoying playing games on his PS4 and ready to rejoin hanging out with his friend Jake at the fightweekend. Instead she wakes up 230 years later, on However Felix is struggling at school. He is not a deserted enemy starship called The Light of Berossus - or, as problem child but he prefers does have a problem. His ADHD makes it hard for him to call himselfconcentrate, 'Bero'he keeps getting into trouble and his grades are slipping. Bero tells Sanda the war When his Mum suggests that he spends more time with his grandfather Felix is losthorrified. That the entire star system is deadEver since Grandma died his Granddad has been grumpy and more eccentric than before. But All he wants to do is that the full story? After all, sit in the vastness of space, anything is possible dark 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. [[Velocity Weapon Check Mates by Megan E O'KeefeStewart Foster|Full Review]]

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Belle and Joe travel to London in 1944In following a young girl called Alice down the rabbit hole a few years ago, towards when the end first book she was in [[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition) by Lewis Carroll and Anthony Browne|hit 150 years of World War II. Orphaned evacueesage]], they havenI found that I didn't had a good time really find too much favour with it. The wacky-for-the-sake-of -it - especially Joedid not gel, who is and I don't remember loving it more as a sensitive child and was badly bullied. Meeting them is Uncle Griff, But I would suggest I am the perfect audience for this book. I had every chance to enjoy these short stories that come at the core from a kindly mantangent, but one without much money. He is more than happy to have that show the children stay during benefits of the school holidaysoblique glance. Uncle Griff owns the I've always preferred coming to an author's output through their least obvious, allegedly throw-away pieces, and it'Shop of Mechanical Marvelss the same with franchises – I'd more likely go for Bree Tanner' and s short novella than the children love all the old things it containswhole Twilight saga (although that remains just a hunch, for obvious reasons). Uncle Griff hopes For another thing, there was every reason to restore it to profitability and bring expect some wonder back into London's bombed out streets. 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 Chessmaster's Secret Return to Wonderland by Mary ParkerVarious Authors|Full Review]]

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The curse put on reviewers is that we get Rumblestar follows the haphazard adventures of the anxious 11-year-old Casper Tock who timetables his every movement, makes countless to read through a book which do lists and is really better dipped into, or read gradually and thoughts allowed to be provoked. And so it was hounded by wealthy bullies with ''The Art of Noticing''. It's a simple premise: the pace of modern life absurdly humorous and rapidity appropriate names of technological advances means that we are constantly overwhelmed Candida Cashmere Jumps and distractedLeopold Splattercash. Rob Walker wants us to be able to steal our attention back. He gives us his thoughts on various areas stumbles across a magic portal by accident just like Lucy of our lives Narnia fame, meets a feisty girl troubled by her past and then provides 131 exercises is plunged into a perilous quest. In a kingdom where the dark mythological forces of Midnights threaten the weather Marvels (equated here to help us recover our attentionthe miracle of nature) conjured by magical creatures, only unlikely heroes can battle against evil. [[Rumblestar (The Art of Noticing: Rediscover What Really Matters to You Unmapped Chronicles]) by Rob WalkerAbi Elphinstone|Full Review]]

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

Rachel Cater was having an affair with her boss, Chris Philips, an auctioneerJason likes chess. It wasHe's pretty good at it too - a level eight on his computer programme, she told her mother, love at first sightwith level ten being Grand Master level. Her mother was more sceptical and wondered why, if it had been love He's also good at first sightsystems, it had taken him so long having contributed to do anything about itthe relational database that has streamlined his school's administration. StillJason's school, more than anythingEasingdale Comprehensive, she wanted her daughter is very big on technology and its head, Mr Johnston, is keen to be happyinvolve his pupils wherever they show promise. That was what Rachel wanted too and it was why she went to the PhilipsSo Jason' family home, determined to s friends have it all also helped out in . Liz is great with hardware and helped with the openschool's card reader system. Becky has a flair for software and has recommended lots of curriculum-enhancing apps. And Bill is a talented programmer. Instead she was stabbed fifteen times. Her lover was convicted of her murder. [[The Playground Murders Evil Occupants of Easingdale Castle by Lesley ThomsonRay Filby|Full Review]]

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

[[imageDC Cat Kinsella is back at the Met after a secondment to the London Mayor's Office:4starthe hours were good but the job was boring.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Can you imagine what it would be like to win a billion pounds? The UK She's biggest ever lottery winners were a couple from Ayrshiregrateful to be back with the old team - her partner DS Luigi Parnell, who won a £161 million EuroMillions jackpot a few years agoboss DCI Kate Steele and DC Rénee Akwa. That She's so much money that it landed them on still not prepared to say anything about the Sunday Times Rich List identity of her boyfriend: the UKknowledge that she's thousand most wealthy people. So in a relationship with Aiden Doyle, the brother of a billion pounds. That's murder victim and moreover 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 murder with your nearest and dearest? What it would be like? How which her father might have had some involvement could you keep your friends finish her career. Kinsella and family from knowing that you were now one Parnell are called to the discovery of the richest people in the country? body of a young woman: Naomi Lockhart was Australian, just twenty-two years old and her body was discovered by her flat mate, Kieran Drake, an ex-offender. [[The Billion Pound Lie Stone Cold Heart by Bill DareCaz Frear|Full Review]]