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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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===[[A Nearly Normal Family Deadwood Hall by M T Edvardsson and Rachel Wilson-Boyles (translator)Linda Jones]]===

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We're going In late December Dylan Beaumont and his sister Emily were on their way to hear this story through spend the viewpoints of three different people: Adam Sandell, his wife, Ulrika and his daughter Stella. Adamweek before Christmas at their grandfather's a pastor house. It was snowing heavily and you could sense that their parents were becoming annoyed at the bickering in the Church back of Sweden and Ulrika is a lawyerthe car. Stella is, well Emily was rather brusque with her nine-year-old brother's behaviour, just difficult. You sense but then that she's always been difficult and there have even been occasions your prerogative when Ulrika has let slip that she wishes that Stella you're a grown-up eleven year old. The snow was more like her best friend, Amina Bešic - getting heavier and no one has ever said that if they don't think that the other person is better. We first meet journey longer when Emily opened the family on Stella's 18th birthday and we get car window just a sense couple of Adam's controlling natureinches. Permission has to be given for There was a dreadful smell and Dylan saw a glass of wine for Stella horrible, snake-like figure clawing at the celebration mealcar window. [[A Nearly Normal Family Deadwood Hall by M T Edvardsson and Rachel Wilson-Boyles (translator)Linda Jones|Full Review]]

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===[[The House of Light A Breath on Dying Embers (DCI Daley) by Julia GreenDenzil Meyrick]]===

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Bonnie Few government trade missions arrive by luxury liner, but the cruise ship ''Great Britain'' is growing up on a slightly strange island, living with her grandfather, scavenging for food, berthed in Kinloch harbour and rubbish that has washed up on board are high-powered international delegates. It's hard to avoid the beach suspicion that she it's not ''entirely'' about work as the billionaires, entrepreneurs and her grandfather can use to make things. There is some sort of ban against anyone else landing on their civil service minders tour the islandcountry, golfing and lots sightseeing with their entourage of suspicion around those who live there, including a great fear of anyone who gets sicksecurity personnel. But when Bonnie It's an event which DCI Daley hopes will pass quickly, particularly as his formal uniform is on the beach one day and discovers not only an intact boatfar too tight for comfort, but a young boy cowering beneath, rather than turn him in to it's not long before one of the authorities she takes him home crew members and hides him, smuggling him boiled eggs and blankets in the shed whilst she tries to figure out what to doa local bird watcher go missing. [[The House of Light A Breath on Dying Embers (DCI Daley) by Julia GreenDenzil Meyrick|Full Review]]

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===[[Check Mates The Starlight Watchmaker by Stewart FosterLauren James]]===

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In many ways Felix This is a typical boy in Year 7dyslexia-friendly, enjoying playing games on his PS4 science fiction novella for young adults. It tells the tale of Hugo, an unwanted and hanging out with his friend Jake at the weekend. However Felix is struggling at school. He is not a problem child but he does have rather lonely android, who makes a problem. His ADHD makes it hard living for him to concentrate, he keeps getting into trouble and his grades are slippinghimself mending time-travel watches. When one of his Mum suggests clients demands that he spends more time with his grandfather Felix broken watch be mended, Hugo realises there is horrifieda mystery to be solved, and is only too ready to help. Ever since Grandma died An exciting journey of discovery unfolds, which takes Hugo out of his Granddad has been grumpy drab attic workroom and more eccentric than into a scary adventure with some amazing new friends, exploring regions of the planet never before. All he wants known to do is 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 perhaps Granddad and Felix can help each otherexist. [[Check Mates The Starlight Watchmaker by Stewart FosterLauren James|Full Review]]

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===[[Needlemouse Cold Granite (Logan McRae) by Jane O'ConnorStuart MacBride]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]

[[image:5starDS Logan McRae is just back from a year's sick leave after he was attacked by a killer. He's just about OK and he's supposed to be easing himself back into the swing of the job in a gentle way - until three-year-old David Reid's body is discovered in a ditch. He'd been missing for some time and it came as no surprise that he was dead but he's the first of several child murders. To add to the complications the police even have a body but no child reported missing. A serial killer, a child killer and abuser, is on the loose in Aberdeen and the press are missing no opportunity to bay for blood.jpg|link=Category As if that wasn't bad enough there seems to be a leak from within Force Headquarters:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]a local journalist, Colin Miller, quickly finds out everything that's happening. [[:Category:Women's FictionCold Granite (Logan McRae) by Stuart MacBride|Women's FictionFull Review]]

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]]<!-- VariousAngela Marsons -->

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In following a young girl called Alice down the rabbit hole a few years ago, when the first book she was in [[AliceThere's Adventures in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition) by Lewis Carroll a prologue and Anthony Browne|hit 150 years of age]], I found we know that I didnwe't really find too much favour re dealing with itsomeone who is very disturbed. The wacky-for-the-sake-descriptions are horrifying, but worst of-it did not gel, and I don't remember loving it more as a child. But I would suggest I am all is the perfect audience for this book. I had every chance to enjoy these short stories that come at the core from a tangent, that show the benefits coldness of the oblique glancekiller. I've always preferred coming to an author[[Child's output through their least obvious, allegedly throw-away pieces, and it's the same with franchises – Play (D I'd more likely go for Bree Tanner's short novella than the whole Twilight saga (although that remains just a hunch, for obvious reasonsKim Stone). 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 Various AuthorsAngela Marsons|Full Review]]

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Rumblestar follows Over the haphazard adventures of the anxious 11past twenty-yeareight years Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short stories. These magnificent stories have won twenty-old Casper Tock who timetables his every movement, makes countless to do lists and seven major science fiction awards so if you are a science fiction fan it is hounded likely that you have already come across some of the work by wealthy bullies with the absurdly humorous and appropriate names Ted Chiang. I cannot speak highly enough of Candida Cashmere Jumps and Leopold Splattercash. He stumbles across a magic portal by accident just like Lucy this collection of Narnia fameshort stories, meets a feisty girl troubled by her past they are so wide ranging in their themes and is plunged into so beautifully written, Chiang has written an absolute masterpiece of a perilous questcollection. In a kingdom where the dark mythological forces of Midnights threaten the weather Marvels (equated here If you come across Chiang's work before, take this opportunity to the miracle of nature) conjured by magical creatures, only unlikely heroes can battle against evildo so now. Trust me; your imagination will be grateful. [[Rumblestar (The Unmapped Chronicles]) Exhalation by Abi ElphinstoneTed Chiang|Full Review]]

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===[[The Evil Occupants of Easingdale Castle Rose, Interrupted by Ray FilbyPatrice Lawrence]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]]  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]]<!-- Kate Atkinson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:9780552772464.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0552772461/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Started Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie) by Kate Atkinson]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]

[[image:4starI guess that most of us have made the odd impulse purchase but Tracy Waterhouse, security chief at the Merrion Centre in Leeds, blew most people's ideas of an impulse purchase out of the water one morning. Seeing a known prostitute dragging a toddler through the shopping mall whilst cursing at her, Waterhouse followed the woman and bought the girl for £3000. The difficulty of a purchase like this is knowing what to do next and Tracy's humdrum life is replaced with one of stress, fear and an overwhelming love for four-year-old Courtney.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensStarted Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie) by Kate Atkinson|TeensFull Review]]

Jason likes chess<!-- Chloe Daykin -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0571349439.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co. He's pretty good at it too uk/dp/0571349439/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text- a level eight on his computer programmealign: left;"|===[[Fire Girl, with level ten being Grand Master levelForest Boy by Chloe Daykin]]=== [[image:5star. He's also good at systems, having contributed jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers]] Maya has to the relational database that has streamlined his school's administrationescape. JasonShe's school, Easingdale Comprehensive, is very big on technology the run in a country she doesn't know and its head, Mr Johnston, has no idea who to trust. Raul is keen escaping too - travelling back to involve his pupils wherever they show promisehome where a terrible tragedy happened, ready to stir up trouble. So Jason's friends have also helped outWhen their paths collide in the middle of the jungle, the sparks begin to fly. Liz is great with hardware and helped with As modern world corruption meets the school's card reader system. Becky has a flair for software magic and has recommended lots legends of curriculum-enhancing apps. And Bill is a talented programmer... ancient times, can Maya draw on her hidden light to find the way through to the truth? [[The Evil Occupants of Easingdale Castle Fire Girl, Forest Boy by Ray FilbyChloe Daykin|Full Review]]

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===[[Child's Play (D I Kim Stone Cold Heart ) by Caz FrearAngela Marsons]]===

DC Cat Kinsella is back at the Met after a secondment to the London MayorThere's Office: the hours were good but the job was boring. She's grateful to be back with the old team - her partner DS Luigi Parnell, boss DCI Kate Steele a prologue and DC Rénee Akwa. She's still not prepared to say anything about the identity of her boyfriend: the knowledge we know that shewe's in a relationship re dealing with Aiden Doyle, the brother of a murder victim and moreover a murder with which her father might have had some involvement could finish her careersomeone who is very disturbed. Kinsella and Parnell The descriptions are called to horrifying, but worst of all is the discovery coldness of the body of a young woman: Naomi Lockhart was Australian, just twenty-two years old and her body was discovered by her flat mate, Kieran Drake, an ex-offenderkiller. [[Child's Play (D I Kim Stone Cold Heart ) by Caz FrearAngela Marsons|Full Review]]

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Despite Dorothy Koomson regularly being suggested as an author I might like, ie people who like this author also like Dorothy Koomson, I have never read her before[[image:4. Having done so I can totally see why she's the bestselling author of fifteen books5star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Tell Me Your Secret by Dorothy Koomson:Category:Teens|Full ReviewTeens]]

Gemma has just started her A levels at school. She's a keen student and she has a good, close set of friends. Gemma loves country music and in her spare time she enjoys writing and singing country songs. She's pretty good at it too. Home life is busy - Gemma's brother Michael has a chance at a football career and the whole family, propelled by Gemma's rather over-invested dad, is supporting him with everything they've got. Gemma hasn't had a serious boyfriend yet, so when the handsome Aaron appears and an instant attraction fizzles between them, Gemma is keen to see where romance could lead... [[I Hold Your Heart by Karen Gregory|Full Review]]<!-- Jo Spain Davis -->

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===[[The Boy Who Fell (Inspector Tom Reynolds) What's That in Dog Years? by Jo SpainBen Davis and Julia Christians]]===

[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeConfident Readers|CrimeConfident Readers]] George and Gizmo have been together ever since George was born. 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 little. 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? [[What's That in Dog Years? by Ben Davis and Julia Christians|Full Review]]

There were six friends: four men and two women. They're all about eighteen and they've known each other since they started school. Both girls - Hazel Brophy and Charlotte Burke - have been in relationships with one of the boys, but Charlotte was determined that it would not be sexual. Hazel's views were so dramatically opposite that you wondered how they could be friends. They were all partying in a derelict house when Luke Connelly was pushed to his death from a third floor window and Daniel Konaté Jones was charged with rape and murder. Daniel was loosely associated with the group but never felt himself one of them. He didn't come from a wealthy background, is of mixed race and openly gay. Targets don't come much easier than that, except for one thing. [[The Boy Who Fell (Inspector Tom Reynolds) by Jo Spain|Full Review]]<!-- Webb Hlad -->

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September 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. 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… [[The Long Flight Home by A L Hlad|Full Review]] <!-- Peter Wohlleben -->|-| style=''width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;''|[[image:41846045576.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.5starco.uk/dp/1846045576/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style=''vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''|===[[Walks In The Wild by Peter Wohlleben and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translator)]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensAnimals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife]], [[:Category:Politics and Society|TeensPolitics and Society]]

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 ''An instruction manual for the minor premonitions she has - whoforest'' is how Wohlleben's on publisher described the other end of the ringing phoneidea for this book, or at the door when thereand that's a knock - are in her imagination. But to foresee a serious accident and then for basically what it to actually happen? And is – although right at the end the dreadful headaches. Something's going on. Luckily for Annie, Joe author says that it is convinced and also willing not intended to help. So they start to investigate the accident..be a reference book, but an appetiser. [[Disbelieved: Skin Walks In The Wild by Peter Wohlleben and Bone CSIs by Beth WebbRuth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translator)|Full Review]]

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IWe'd like re going to say that all hear this story through the old crew are in Slough House but the rate viewpoints of natural (or unnatural) wastage is such as to have Health and Safety worried. Roderick Ho's there thoughthree different people: Adam Sandell, narcissistic as everhis wife, Ulrika and so's Louisa Guyhis daughter Stella. SheAdam's getting over a pastor in the death Church of Min Harper to the extent Sweden and Ulrika is a lawyer. Stella is, well, just difficult. You sense that she's not ''too'' concerned always been difficult and there have even been occasions when Ulrika has let slip that she gets a phone call from Clare Harperwishes that Stella was more like her best friend, MinAmina Bešic - and no one has ever said that if they don's wifet think that the other person is better. River Cartwright has got death We first meet the family on his mind too, but in his case itStella's the impending demise 18th birthday and we get a sense of his beloved grandfather and former spook, the OBAdam's controlling nature. Diana Taverner Permission has taken over from Claude Whelan as First Desk at Regent Park and she's going to make changes: one be given for a glass of the first is a shock. An argument with Emma Flyte sees the head dog departing the service. Meanwhile wine for Stella at Slough House, Catherine Standish is buying booze again, Jackson Lamb is offensive as ever and Shirley Dander and J K Coe do their best to remain unnoticed, the latter by saying nothingcelebration meal. [[Joe Country A Nearly Normal Family by M T Edvardsson and Rachel Wilson-Boyles (Jackson Lamb 6translator) by Mick Herron|Full Review]]

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===[[Vintage 1954 The House of Light by Antoine Laurain, Jane Aitken (translator) and Emily Boyce (translator)Julia Green]]===

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Vintage 1954 starts by thrusting several completely different characters upon usBonnie is growing up on a slightly strange island, before deciding to run living with them her grandfather, scavenging for food, and formulate a plotrubbish that has washed up on the beach that she and her grandfather can use to make things. So we have an American biker, just There is some sort of ban against anyone else landing in Paris but unfortunately not with on the wife who shared his dream island, and lots of visiting the city together. We have a goth girl suspicion around those who everyone recognises from an American crime showlive there, but actually is including a humble restorer great fear of antiquesanyone who gets sick. We have a cocktail barman, infatuated with But when Bonnie is on 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 togetherbeach one day and discovers not only an intact boat, and drinking from the same bottle of but a rare 1954 red wine. Onlyyoung boy cowering beneath, one of them has a bizarre incidence rather than turn him in his family history that also features to the same plonk – where a grandfather imbibedauthorities she takes him home and hides him, smuggling him boiled eggs and walked blankets in the shed whilst she tries to figure out the door one rainy morning, never what to be seen againdo. But of course nobody will be doing any disappearing now, though – will they? [[Vintage 1954 The House of Light by Antoine Laurain, Jane Aitken (translator) and Emily Boyce (translator)Julia Green|Full Review]]

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===[[The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t With Her Mind Check Mates by Jackson FordStewart Foster]]===

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As the title suggests, this book In many ways Felix is all about a girltypical boy in Year 7, Teagan Frost, who has psychokinesis. Forced to secretly work for enjoying playing games on his PS4 and hanging out with his friend Jake at the government along with a few unique (and shady) individuals, Teagan has to use her power for unimaginable tasksweekend. All of this whilst under the pretence of working for a moving-companyHowever Felix is struggling at school. After her latest job goes wrong and her and the team escape by the skin of their teeth, Teagan finds herself as a murder suspect when the victim He is found in such not a way that only she could problem child but he does have committed the crimea problem. The rest of the story unfolds in a fast-paced race against time His ADHD makes it hard for him to clear Teagan's name concentrate, he keeps getting into trouble and find out exactly what has happenedhis grades are slipping. Is it possible When his Mum suggests that someone he spends more time with a gift like Teagan's his grandfather Felix is horrified. Ever since Grandma died his Granddad has managed been grumpy and more eccentric than before. All he wants to fly under do is sit in the radar? 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. [[The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t With Her Mind Check Mates by Jackson FordStewart Foster|Full Review]]

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===[[The Suffering of Strangers Needlemouse by Caro RamsayJane O'Connor]]===

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Roberta (please call We first meet Sylvia Penton on her birthday and her 'Bobby') Chisholm boss, the Prof, is sleep deprivedtaking her out to lunch. Six-week-old Sholto doesn't ''ever'' seem to sleepThis is her favourite day of the year, so Bobbynot because it's like a robother birthday but because of the special time she gets to spend with the man she loves. ThereHe'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 told her that he's got it he's obviously over the moon and tells Bobby to go his wife are going to divorce - Martha is apparently having an affair - and Sylvia is convinced that the local shop Prof will then declare his love and get a bottle of champagne so that they can celebratebe together. For once Sholto has dropped off to sleep and when Bobby gets to the shop She hasn't fully constructed 'together' in her own mind - sheenvisages it as romantic, but her imagination hasn's reluctant t yet progressed to disturb him: surely there won't be a problem if she dashes into the shop to get sexual part of the bubbly? relationship. She can keep an eye on the car through the shop window, but when There's time though - she comes out, 's only been the car has gone..prof's PA for fifteen years. [[The Suffering of Strangers Needlemouse by Caro RamsayJane O'Connor|Full Review]] <!-- Christopher Edge Various-->

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===[[The Longest Night of Charlie Noon Return to Wonderland by Christopher EdgeVarious Authors]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: Confident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] In following a young girl called Alice down the rabbit hole a few years ago, when the first book she was in [[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (150th Anniversary Edition) by Lewis Carroll and Anthony Browne|hit 150 years of age]], I found that I didn'If you go into t really find too much favour with it. The wacky-for-the woods-sake-of-it did not gel, Old Crony will get you.and I don'' Secrets, spies or maybe even t remember loving it more as a monsterchild. But I would suggest I am the perfect audience for this book.. What lies in I had every chance to enjoy these short stories that come at the core from a tangent, that show the heart benefits of the wood? Charlieoblique glance. I've always preferred coming to an author's output through their least obvious, allegedly throw-away pieces, Dizzy and Johnny are determined to discover it's the same with franchises – I'd more likely go for Bree Tanner's short novella than the truth, but when night falls without warning they find themselves trapped in whole Twilight saga (although that remains just a nightmare. Lost in the woodshunch, strange dangers and impossible puzzles lurk in the shadowsfor obvious reasons). As time plays tricks For another thing, can Charlie solve this mystery and find a way out there was every reason to expect some kind of the woods? But what if this night never ends...greatness here – with Carroll much loved by millions, surely pieces written with that love in mind could only provide for success after success? [[The Longest Night of Charlie Noon Return to Wonderland by Christopher EdgeVarious Authors|Full Review]]

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It was Rumblestar follows the smell which announced the presence haphazard adventures of the body in anxious 11-year-old Casper Tock who timetables his every movement, makes countless to do lists and is hounded by wealthy bullies with the wheelhouse absurdly humorous and appropriate names of a boat Candida Cashmere Jumps and identification wasn't going to be easy as the man was stark nakedLeopold Splattercash. There were all the signs of He stumbles across a brutal, cold-blooded execution but gradually the man was traced back to Allendale House, the estate magic portal by accident just like Lucy of the former Lord AllendaleNarnia fame, meets a feisty girl troubled by her past and then to London, where two more bodies, naked, in is plunged into a staged setting in perilous quest. In a garage, were discovered. Senior Investigating Officer DI Kelly Porter had to go to London and was shocked to discover that kingdom where the dark mythological forces of Midnights threaten the SIO for ''that'' case was DCI Matt Carter, her manipulative and untrustworthy ex-lover. It was going weather Marvels (equated here to be anything but easy to work alongside Matt the Tw... Ahmiracle of nature) conjured by magical creatures, well let's not go thereonly unlikely heroes can battle against evil. [[Bold Lies Rumblestar (DI Kelly Porter 5The Unmapped Chronicles]) by Rachel LynchAbi Elphinstone|Full Review]]

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[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Dyslexia Friendly|Dyslexia Friendly]], [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident ReadersThe Evil Occupants of Easingdale Castle by Ray Filby]]===

How do you explain to children about dementia? Injuries or illnesses are obvious, but when the problem is the brain which isn't functioning quite as it used to it isn't as easy to grasp[[image:4star. Frank was a normal nine year old and like many nine year olds what he wanted was a new bikejpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Jason likes chess. He'd had his for about seventys pretty good at it too -a level eight years and he didnon his computer programme, with level ten being Grand Master level. He't want s also good at systems, having contributed to raise the seat any morerelational database that has streamlined his school's administration. Mum pointed out that it wasnJason't his birthday or Christmas any time soon s school, Easingdale Comprehensive, is very big on technology and bikes cost a lot of moneyits head, Mr Johnston, which didnis keen to involve his pupils wherever they show promise. So Jason't grow on treess friends have also helped out. His sister Lottie had a solution: Frank could help her Liz is great with hardware and helped with her paper roundthe school's card reader system. Frank agreed despite thinking that it would take him Becky has a thousand years to save up the money flair for software and has recommended lots of curriculum-enhancing apps. And Bill is a bike AND he had to get up at six o'clock in the morningtalented programmer... [[Special Delivery The Evil Occupants of Easingdale Castle by Jonathan MeresRay Filby|Full Review]]

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===[[The Spectacular Revenge of Suzi Sims Stone Cold Heart by Vivian FrenchCaz Frear]]===

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Suzi Simms loved running and it 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 her ambition boring. She's grateful to win be back with the 100 metres race on sports day at the end of term old team - her partner DS Luigi Parnell, boss DCI Kate Steele and that was next weekDC Rénee Akwa. WeShe're going s still not prepared to read say anything about what happened in the identity of her diary, although thereboyfriend: the knowledge that she's in a warning that we really shouldn't be reading itrelationship with Aiden Doyle, particularly as it's about Barbie Meek. To say that the two girls don't get on at all well is brother of a murder victim and moreover a bit of an understatementmurder with which her father might have had some involvement could finish her career. Suzi wouldn't actually do anything about it, but Barbie is a troublemaker Kinsella and she wants Parnell are called to win the 100 metres race too discovery of the body of a young woman: Naomi Lockhart was Australian, just twenty- two years old and her body was discovered by fair means or foulher flat mate, Kieran Drake, an ex-offender. [[The Spectacular Revenge of Suzi Sims Stone Cold Heart by Vivian FrenchCaz Frear|Full Review]]