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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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===[[The Long Flight Home Deadwood Hall by A L HladLinda Jones]]===

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September 1940 - as WWII rages on, bombs rain down on Britain, destroying the homes In late December Dylan Beaumont and lives of a people his sister Emily were on their way to spend the edgeweek before Christmas at their grandfather's house. In Epping Forest, Susan Shepherd It was snowing heavily and her grandfather Bertie live together raising homing pigeons with you could sense that their parents were becoming annoyed at the birds proving a comfort for Susan following bickering in the loss back 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 Forcecar. Working Emily was rather brusque with the National Pigeon Service, he soon meets Susan and is tasked with airher nine-dropping hundreds of homing pigeons into Germanyear-occupied France, where many will not survive. As the mission is planned, the bond between Ollie and Susan grows strongerold brother's behaviour, but then that's your prerogative when Ollieyou's plane is downed behind enemy lines, it may be Duchess who provides an unexpected lifeline re a grown-up eleven year old. The snow was getting heavier and ensures that hope the journey longer when Emily opened the car window just a couple of inches. There was a reunion for Susan dreadful smell and Ollie remains… Dylan saw a horrible, snake-like figure clawing at the car window. [[The Long Flight Home Deadwood Hall by A L HladLinda Jones|Full Review]]

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Few government trade missions arrive by luxury liner, but the cruise ship ''An instruction manual for the forestGreat Britain'' is how Wohllebenberthed in Kinloch harbour and on board are high-powered international delegates. It's publisher described hard to avoid the idea for this booksuspicion that it's not ''entirely'' about work as the billionaires, entrepreneurs and their civil service minders tour the country, golfing and thatsightseeing with their entourage of security personnel. It's basically what it an event which DCI Daley hopes will pass quickly, particularly as his formal uniform is – although right at the end the author says that far too tight for comfort, but it is 's not intended to be long before one of the crew members and a reference book, but an appetiserlocal bird watcher go missing. [[Walks In The Wild by Peter Wohlleben and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp A Breath on Dying Embers (TranslatorDCI Daley)by Denzil Meyrick|Full Review]]

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===[[A Nearly Normal Family The Starlight Watchmaker by M T Edvardsson and Rachel Wilson-Boyles (translator)Lauren James]]===

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We're going to hear this story through the viewpoints of three different people: Adam SandellThis is a dyslexia-friendly, his wife, Ulrika and his daughter Stellascience fiction novella for young adults. Adam's a pastor in It tells the Church tale of Sweden Hugo, an unwanted and Ulrika is rather lonely android, who makes a lawyerliving for himself mending time-travel watches. Stella isWhen one of his clients demands that his broken watch be mended, well, just difficult. You sense that she's always been difficult and Hugo realises there have even been occasions when Ulrika has let slip that she wishes that Stella was more like her best friendis a mystery to be solved, Amina Bešic - and no one has ever said that if they don't think that the other person is betteronly too ready to help. We first meet the family on Stella's 18th birthday An exciting journey of discovery unfolds, which takes Hugo out of his drab attic workroom and we get into a sense scary adventure with some amazing new friends, exploring regions of Adam's controlling nature. Permission has the planet never before known to be given for a glass of wine for Stella at the celebration mealexist. [[A Nearly Normal Family The Starlight Watchmaker by M T Edvardsson and Rachel Wilson-Boyles (translator)Lauren James|Full Review]]

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===[[The House of Light Cold Granite (Logan McRae) by Julia GreenStuart MacBride]]===

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

Bonnie DS Logan McRae is growing up on 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 slightly strange island, living with her grandfather, scavenging ditch. He'd been missing for food, some time and rubbish it came as no surprise that has washed up on he was dead but he's the beach that she and her grandfather can use first of several child murders. To add to make thingsthe complications the police even have a body but no child reported missing. There is some sort of ban against anyone else landing on the islandA serial killer, a child killer and lots of suspicion around those who live thereabuser, including a great fear of anyone who gets sick. But when Bonnie is on the beach one day loose in Aberdeen and discovers not only an intact boat, but the press are missing no opportunity to bay for blood. As if that wasn't bad enough there seems to be a leak from within Force Headquarters: a young boy cowering beneathlocal journalist, rather than turn him in to the authorities she takes him home and hides himColin Miller, smuggling him boiled eggs and blankets in the shed whilst she tries to figure quickly finds out what to doeverything that's happening. [[The House of Light Cold Granite (Logan McRae) by Julia GreenStuart MacBride|Full Review]]

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===[[Check Mates Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Stewart FosterAngela Marsons]]===

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In many ways Felix is There's a typical boy in Year 7, enjoying playing games on his PS4 prologue and hanging out we know that we're dealing with his friend Jake at the weekend. However Felix someone who is struggling at schoolvery disturbed. He is not a problem child The descriptions are horrifying, but he does have a problem. His ADHD makes it hard for him to concentrate, he keeps getting into trouble and his grades are slipping. When his Mum suggests that he spends more time with his grandfather Felix worst of all is horrified. Ever since Grandma died his Granddad has been grumpy and more eccentric than before. All he wants to do is sit in the 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 othercoldness of the killer. [[Check Mates Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Stewart FosterAngela Marsons|Full Review]]

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===[[Needlemouse Exhalation by Jane O'ConnorTed Chiang]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]]

[[image:5starOver the past twenty-eight years Ted Chiang has published fifteen science fiction short stories. These magnificent stories have won twenty-seven major science fiction awards so if you are a science fiction fan it is likely that you have already come across some of the work by Ted Chiang. I cannot speak highly enough of this collection of short stories, they are so wide ranging in their themes and so beautifully written, Chiang has written an absolute masterpiece of a collection.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]If you come across Chiang's work before, take this opportunity to do so now. Trust me; your imagination will be grateful. [[:Category:Women's FictionExhalation by Ted Chiang|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]]<!-- VariousLawrence -->

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[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] ==[[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]Rose, [[:Category:Short Stories|Short StoriesInterrupted by Patrice Lawrence]]===

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 Browneimage:4star.jpg|hit 150 years of agelink=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]], I found that I didn't really find too much favour with it. The wacky-for-the-sake-of-it did not gel, and I don't remember loving it more as a child. 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 tangent, that show the benefits of the oblique glance. I've always preferred coming to an author's output through their least obvious, allegedly throw-away pieces, and it's the same with franchises – I'd more likely go for Bree Tanner's short novella than the whole Twilight saga (although 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 Various Authors: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]]<!-- Elphinstone Kate Atkinson -->

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| style=''"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;''"|===[[Rumblestar Started Early, Took My Dog (The Unmapped ChroniclesJackson Brodie) by Abi ElphinstoneKate Atkinson]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]]

[[image:4I guess that most of us have made the odd impulse purchase but Tracy Waterhouse, security chief at the Merrion Centre in Leeds, blew most people's ideas of an impulse purchase out of the water one morning. Seeing a known prostitute dragging a toddler through the shopping mall whilst cursing at her, Waterhouse followed the woman and bought the girl for £3000.5star The difficulty of a purchase like this is knowing what to do next and Tracy's humdrum life is replaced with one of stress, fear and an overwhelming love for four-year-old Courtney.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident ReadersStarted Early, Took My Dog (Jackson Brodie) by Kate Atkinson|Confident ReadersFull Review]]

Rumblestar follows the haphazard adventures of the anxious 11<!-- 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-yearalign: top; text-old Casper Tock who timetables his every movementalign: left;"|===[[Fire Girl, makes countless Forest Boy by Chloe Daykin]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers]] Maya has to do lists and is hounded by wealthy bullies with escape. She's on the absurdly humorous run in a country she doesn't know and appropriate names of Candida Cashmere Jumps and Leopold Splattercashhas no idea who to trust. He stumbles across Raul is escaping too - travelling back to his home where a magic portal by accident just like Lucy of Narnia fameterrible tragedy happened, meets a feisty girl troubled by her past and is plunged into a perilous questready to stir up trouble. In a kingdom where When their paths collide in the dark mythological forces middle of Midnights threaten the weather Marvels (equated here jungle, the sparks begin to fly. As modern world corruption meets the miracle magic and legends of nature) conjured by magical creaturesancient times, only unlikely heroes can battle against evil. Maya draw on her hidden light to find the way through to the truth? [[Rumblestar (The Unmapped Chronicles]) Fire Girl, Forest Boy by Abi ElphinstoneChloe Daykin|Full Review]]

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[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Jason likes chess. HeThere'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 prologue and we know that has streamlined his schoolwe's administrationre dealing with someone who is very disturbed. Jason's school, Easingdale Comprehensive, is very big on technology and its head, Mr JohnstonThe descriptions are horrifying, but worst of all 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 coldness of curriculum-enhancing apps. And Bill is a talented programmer..the killer. [[The Evil Occupants of Easingdale Castle Child's Play (D I Kim Stone) by Ray FilbyAngela Marsons|Full Review]]

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

DC Cat Kinsella is back at the Met after a secondment to the London Mayor's Office[[image: the hours were good but the job was boring4. She's grateful to be back with the old team - her partner DS Luigi Parnell, boss DCI Kate Steele and DC Rénee Akwa5star. She's still not prepared to say anything about the identity of her boyfriend: the knowledge that she's in a relationship 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 career. Kinsella and Parnell are called to the discovery of the body of a young womanjpg|link=Category: Naomi Lockhart was Australian, just twenty-two years old and her body was discovered by her flat mate, Kieran Drake, an ex-offender. {{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[Stone Cold Heart by Caz Frear: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]]<!-- Koomson Davis -->

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===[[Tell Me Your Secret What's That in Dog Years? by Dorothy KoomsonBen Davis and Julia Christians]]===

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Despite Dorothy Koomson regularly being suggested as an author I might likeGeorge and Gizmo have been together ever since George was born. Gizmo has always been a fun, adventurous dog and a loyal friend, ie people who like this author also like Dorothy Koomsonbut just recently, I have never read her beforeGeorge has noticed that he's starting to slow down a little. Having done A visit to the vets leaves George worried that Gizmo might not be around for very much longer, and so I he begins to write Gizmo a bucket list, of all the adventures that they can totally see why shestill have together in Gizmo's the bestselling author of fifteen bookslast days. But are they his last days? And who will help George to stay calm when Gizmo is gone? [[Tell Me Your Secret What's That in Dog Years? by Dorothy KoomsonBen Davis and Julia Christians|Full Review]]

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===[[The Boy Who Fell (Inspector Tom Reynolds) Long Flight Home by Jo SpainA L Hlad]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]]

[[image:4September 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.5starWorking 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:CrimeThe Long Flight Home by A L Hlad|CrimeFull 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 Peter Wohlleben -->

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[[image:4.5star''An instruction manual for the forest'' is how Wohlleben's publisher described the idea for this book, and that's basically what it is – although right at the end the author says that it is not intended to be a reference book, but an appetiser.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:TeensWalks In The Wild by Peter Wohlleben and Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp (Translator)|TeensFull Review]]

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 - who'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 M T Edvardsson and then for it to actually happen? And the dreadful headaches. Something's going on. Luckily for Annie, Joe is convinced and also willing to help. So they start to investigate the accident... [[Disbelieved: Skin and Bone CSIs by Beth Webb|Full Review]] <!-Rachel Wilson- Mick Herron Boyles -->

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===[[Joe Country A Nearly Normal Family by M T Edvardsson and Rachel Wilson-Boyles (Jackson Lamb 6translator) by Mick Herron]]===

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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]]===

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

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 Needlemouse by Jane O'Connor]]=== [[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 Strangers 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 Caro RamsayJane 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:4star4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:CrimeConfident Readers|Confident Readers]], [[:Category:Short Stories|CrimeShort Stories]]

Roberta 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 (please call her 150th Anniversary Edition) by Lewis Carroll and Anthony Browne|hit 150 years of age]], I found that I didn'Bobby') Chisholm is sleep deprivedt really find too much favour with it. SixThe wacky-weekfor-old Sholto doesnthe-sake-of-it did not gel, and I don't ''ever'' seem to sleep, so Bobby's like remember loving it more as a robotchild. There's a little light on But I would suggest I am the horizon, though: her husband James is up perfect audience for this book. I had every chance to enjoy these short stories that come at the core from a new jobtangent, which could mean quite a bit more moneythat show the benefits of the oblique glance. When he rings I've always preferred coming to tell her that hean author's got output through their least obvious, allegedly throw-away pieces, and it he's obviously over the moon and tells Bobby to same with franchises – I'd more likely go to for Bree Tanner's short novella than the local shop and get whole Twilight saga (although that remains just a bottle of champagne so that they can celebratehunch, for obvious reasons). For once Sholto has dropped off another thing, there was every reason to sleep and when Bobby gets to the shop she's reluctant to disturb him: expect some kind of greatness here – with Carroll much loved by millions, surely there won't be a problem if she dashes into the shop to get the bubblypieces written with that love in mind could only provide for success after success? She can keep an eye on the car through the shop window, but when she comes out, the car has gone... [[The Suffering of Strangers Return to Wonderland by Caro RamsayVarious Authors|Full Review]]

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===[[Rumblestar (The Longest Night of Charlie Noon Unmapped Chronicles) by Christopher EdgeAbi Elphinstone]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] ''If you go into Rumblestar follows the haphazard adventures of the woodsanxious 11-year-old Casper Tock who timetables his every movement, Old Crony will get youmakes countless to do lists and is hounded by wealthy bullies with the absurdly humorous and appropriate names of Candida Cashmere Jumps and Leopold Splattercash.'' SecretsHe stumbles across a magic portal by accident just like Lucy of Narnia fame, spies or maybe even meets a feisty girl troubled by her past and is plunged into a monsterperilous quest... What lies in In a kingdom where the heart dark mythological forces of Midnights threaten the woodweather Marvels (equated here to the miracle of nature) conjured by magical creatures, only unlikely heroes can battle against evil. [[Rumblestar (The Unmapped Chronicles]) by Abi Elphinstone|Full Review]] <!-- Filby -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1999683587.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1999683587/ref=nosim? Charlietag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"| ===[[The Evil Occupants of Easingdale Castle by Ray Filby]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Teens|Teens]] Jason likes chess. He's pretty good at it too - a level eight on his computer programme, Dizzy and Johnny are determined with level ten being Grand Master level. He's also good at systems, having contributed to discover the truthrelational database that has streamlined his school's administration. Jason's school, but when night falls without warning Easingdale Comprehensive, is very big on technology and its head, Mr Johnston, is keen to involve his pupils wherever they find themselves trapped in a nightmareshow promise. So Jason's friends have also helped out. Lost in the woods, strange dangers Liz is great with hardware and impossible puzzles lurk in helped with the shadowsschool's card reader system. As time plays tricks, can Charlie solve this mystery Becky has a flair for software and find has recommended lots of curriculum-enhancing apps. And Bill is a way out of the woods? But what if this night never endstalented programmer...? [[The Longest Night Evil Occupants of Charlie Noon Easingdale Castle by Christopher EdgeRay Filby|Full Review]]

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===[[Bold Lies (DI Kelly Porter 5) Stone Cold Heart by Rachel LynchCaz Frear]]===

It was DC Cat Kinsella is back at the smell which announced Met after a secondment to the presence of London Mayor's Office: the body in hours were good but the wheelhouse of a boat and identification wasnjob was boring. She't going s grateful to be easy as back with the man was stark nakedold team - her partner DS Luigi Parnell, boss DCI Kate Steele and DC Rénee Akwa. There were all She's still not prepared to say anything about the signs identity of her boyfriend: the knowledge that she's in a brutalrelationship with Aiden Doyle, cold-blooded execution but gradually the man was traced back to Allendale House, the estate brother of the former Lord Allendale, a murder victim and then to London, where two more bodies, naked, in moreover a staged setting in a garage, were discoveredmurder with which her father might have had some involvement could finish her career. Senior Investigating Officer DI Kelly Porter had to go to London Kinsella and was shocked Parnell are called to discover that the SIO for ''that'' case discovery of the body of a young woman: Naomi Lockhart was DCI Matt CarterAustralian, just twenty-two years old and her body was discovered by her manipulative and untrustworthy flat mate, Kieran Drake, an ex-lover. It was going to be anything but easy to work alongside Matt the Tw... Ah, well let's not go thereoffender. [[Bold Lies (DI Kelly Porter 5) Stone Cold Heart by Rachel LynchCaz Frear|Full Review]]