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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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|isbn=17808945111838593187|title=Die AloneGuess What I Found in the Playground!|author=Simon KernickVictoria Thompson|rating=4.5|genre=ThrillersFor Sharing|summary=Ray Mason Tilly is in prison awaiting trial for murder and heexcited. She's in just come dashing out of the vulnerable prisoner unit: as a cop he's something of a targetclassroom, but the unit is not as secure as the inmates would have hoped pigtails flapping behind her and Mason is injured in a riotbig grin on her face. On his way Dad's come to hospital collect her and her brother and he's broken free by armed men and an offer is made 'has'' to try to himguess what she found in the playground today, although she concedes that he will never guess. HeDad wants to know how school was, but ''s to assassinate the man who is likely to become the countryobviously's next prime minister and he'll then be given a new identity so that he can start afresh abroad's not important. His captors say Could Tilly have found more collectable things for her scrap box? (Isn't that theyso much more sensible than a scrap ''book're MI6'?) Well, but Mason has his doubtsactually, Tilly did find exciting stuff. His choices There are limited though sequins, glittered paper and he has personal reasons all sorts of other things in her pocket, but that's not what she wants Dad to believe that it would be better if Alastair Sheridan was deadguess.
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|author=Akwaeke EmeziBecky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed|title=PetYes No Maybe So |rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=The people of the town Lucille believe ''We might give it our all and crash and burn. But we might win. We might actually change things. And that all the monsters are gonemaybe makes it still worth going for, don't you think?''Jaime has been spending his summer helping his cousin with campaigning in time for a special election. Their children are raised When his mother encourages him to understand that they were saved by the angelsgo canvassing, those who rid the town he can't think of evilanything worse. However, Jaime has always wanted to be a politician and decides there are is no monsters anymoretime like the present to conquer his fear of speaking to the public. But one day, Jam accidentally cuts herself, and bleeds Maya is a little onto one Pakistani-American Muslim girl who is having the worst summer of her mother's paintingslife. The blood awakens Her parents are going through a bizarreseparation, terrifying-looking creature named Pet, who somehow comes she has zero plans for the summer to life help take her mind off things and declares that it her only close friend is here permanently busy. To help occupy her, her parents offer to buy her a car if she agrees to hunt go canvassing. The pair could possibly be the monster. Though Jam tries worst canvassing duo in history, as neither of them really want to convince it that all be there, but as the monsters are gone, Pet is certain campaign goes on they discover that there is onethey care, stilla lot, about the election - and that the monster is hiding in the home of her best friend, Redemption.maybe even about each other?|isbn=05713551101471184668
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|isbnauthor=1686751680Gregg Hurwitz|title=My Mummy does weird things / Maman fait des choses bizarres|author=Amelie Julien and GustyawanInto The Fire|rating=45|genre=For SharingThrillers|summary=Which child doesn't think that there mother Grant Merriweather isa forensic accountant. Or rather, well, ''weird''? was. It might be that in the morning their mother doesn't like speaking muchHe was brought into an ER room after an alleged car crash, when every self-respecting child knows that that is when you're at your brightest his friend pleading with lots the medics to say? keep him alive. ''Why'' then does Mummy stick her fingers in her ears? Then there's doing yoga in front of the television, which could be worrying if it wasn't so funny. We won't go into too much detail about what goes on in the bathroom and the colour changes which have occured when Mummy emerges and frankly, the less said the better about her reactions He was needed alive just long enough to your artistic efforts on the wallgive up a name. I meanHis cousin, what else would you use paint for?Max.|isbn=0718185501
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|authorisbn=Justine Avery and Liuba Syrotiuk1529124395|title=What Wonders Do When You See... When You Dream?Me|author=Lisa Gardner
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|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=''The day has ended''<br>''Hasn't it been splendid?'' <br>''But nowFor Janet and Chuck, it's time, was a hiking break in the Appalachians in Georgia and pure chance that Chuck went off the beaten track to be sure'' <br>''For an entirely different adventure'' <br> I hope you haven't forgotten how it feels to be much too excited for bedfind a stick. If you're What he found was a parent at leasthuman bone and SSA Kimberley Quincy was called in, you'll know how it is to persuade an excited small person that yes, it is along with Sergeant D D Warren. Both women were experienced in fact time for bed. ''What Wonders DoYou See...'' sets out to cater to these children. Instead this type of rather gruesome work but they also called on the services of trying to persuade them that night time is calm timeKeith Edgar, it takes a slightly different tackcomputer analyst, and Flora Dane who brought something unique to the table. It tells them that sleep is actually an exciting time: a time of dreams in which imagination takes over Flora had been kidnapped and has no limit. But held for 472 days by the trick in accessing this wonderful and exciting worldnotorious killer, is Jacob Ness. If Ness had anything to get calm and relaxed first so that you can easily fall asleep and open do with the door current discoveries then what Flora had to itsay could be invaluable. |isbn=194812422X
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|authorisbn=Michael Harris1529009677|title=Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded WorldA Window Breaks|author=C M Ewan|rating=3.5|genre=LifestyleThrillers|summary= This is Tom Sullivan and his wife Rachel are having problems. It's not just the book I usual growing apart after more than a decade of marriage. Their son, Michael, was killed in a car crash some months before: he was expecting it driving his father's Audi and at sixteen wasn't legally entitled to bedrive. For some reason I expected it to be another self-help manual on how to find calm, how to step outside Not only did he kill himself when the mainstreamcar rammed into a tree, but it is not that at allhe also killed his girlfriend, fifteen-year-old Fiona Connor. Instead Tom can't think about Michael without a sense of telling us how, it is more about the ''why''shame and guilt. Harries examines how we're eroding solitudeRachel is broken, which used but she wants to be a natural part of our human life, and why that mattersforgive Michael. Of course he talks about how To give some people have found solitude and what has come space, Tom's moved out of that, and eventually in the final chapter he talks about his own experience of having deliberately sought it outfamily home, but mostly he wanders down the alleys and bystresses to his thirteen-year-ways old daughter, Holly, that his thinking about this lost art led himit is only a trial separation.|isbn=1847947662
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|authorisbn=Andy Briggs0241985153|title=Ctrl+SThe House on the Lake|author=Nuala Ellwood|rating=3.5|genre=Science FictionThrillers|summary= Life We know that something has gone wrong - badly wrong - when the woman who was alone in the near future's not all bad. We've reversed global warming and fixed the collapsing bee population. We even created SPACE, a virtual-sensory universe where average guys like Theo Wilson can do almost anything they desire. But almost anything isn't enough for some. Every day, normal people are being house is taken, their emotions harvested - and lives traded - to create death-defying thrills for away by the rich and twisted. Now Theo’s mother has disappeared. And as he follows her breadcrumb trail of cluespolice, hebut it'll come up against the most dangerous SPACE has s going to offer: vPolice, AI Bots and anarchists - as well as be a criminal empire that will kill to stop him finding her . while before we learn exactly what has happened. .|isbn=1409184641
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|isbnauthor=1609809378Struan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)|title=The Rabbits' Rebellion|author=Ariel Dorfman and Chris RiddellOrphans of the Tide|rating=4.5
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|summary=We're in In the realm last city on Earth, anyone can be the vessel of The Enemy - the rabbits, only god who drowned the foxes and wolves have taken over. King Wolf, His Wolfiness, world - who has declared come to wreak havoc on the rabbits don't exist, but the pesky birds have spread rumours last of humanity. When a mysterious boy is pulled from awing that the bunnies are in fact still around. Demanding corpse of a propaganda spreewhale, King Wolf orders a humble monkey the citizens immediately believe him to be his official portrait photographerthe Vessel - all except for young Ellie Lancaster, but whatever the poor innocent monkey prints out in his darkroom there is a distinct leporine hintgirl inventor. Can King Wolf succeed in proving himself victorious, can As the rabbits show their continued existence ruthless Inquisition prepares to all who need to know of execute the boy, Ellie must prove that he is innocent - even if it – and what can the poor monkey caught in between do?means revealing her deepest, darkest secrets....|isbn=0241384435
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|authorisbn=Innosanto Nagara0008297169|title=M is for MovementThe Guest List|author=Lucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging ReadersCrime|summary=Set in IndonesiaThe boat trip out to Inis Amploir, in off the not too distant pastIrish coast, might have been enough to put some guests off, this is a story about social changebut it was the wedding of the year. Dealing with some difficult issuesWill Slater (television personality, if not yet a celebrity) was to marry Jules Keegan, such as political corruption and nepotismonline magazine publisher, in the ruined chapel on the book is neither boring nor preachyisland. It educates gentlyThe bride's sister, with vibrant, challenging illustrationsOlivia, would be her only bridesmaid and the wedding planner and chef are Aoife and it portrays how social movements need people who will tryher husband, even when it seems that they will failFreddy. The message is They gave a positive one; that in an increasingly uncertain worldhuge discount to get the couple to the island, we do still have but surely it would be worth it for the power to instigate change.|isbn=1609809351publicity?
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|isbn=1780724047B07ZGL6B1B|title=A Dictionary of Interesting and Important DogsIn Plain Sight (D I Clare Mackay)|author=Peter J ConradiMarion Todd|rating=4.5|genre=PetsCrime|summary=I struggle to resist It was a book about dogs, but I did wonder why this one coincidence that Detective Sergeant Chris West and DI Clare Mackay were at the beach when the baby was so ''thin'': given that I've never encountered a dog who wasn't interesting or important - stolen. They were there for the fun run and probably both, I their attention was expecting a massive tometaken by the NEFEW protesters who tried to disrupt the race. But They''A Dictionary of Interesting re against the planned McIntosh Water bottled water plant to be constructed on Priory Marsh and Important Dogs'' the firm is actually ''a rich compendium of sponsoring the worldfun run. It was Lisa Mitchell's most significant and beloved dogs'' and it's certainly a rich treasure trovescream which stopped everything. We begin with Peter J Conradi's four collies: CloudyHer daughter, six-month-old Abi, Sky. Bradley and Maxhad been taken from her pram whilst no one was looking. TheyIt's a major incident when ''any''re consecutive rather than simultaneous dogs, child is abducted but what comes over is Conradi's love for each and every one Abi needs regular medication because of them. I knew that I was in safe handsa heart problem: without it, she might have only forty-eight hours to live.
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|isbn=17857692941471180921|title=Man at the Window (Detective Cardilini)Firewatching|author=Robert JeffreysRuss Thomas|rating=4.5
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|summary=ItDetective Sergeant Adam Tyler is in the Cold Cas Review Unit at South Yorkshire Police and there are those who think that he's when we read lucky to be there, given that he decked a young boy is creeping reluctantly to a teacher's bedroom one October night that we realise something is badly wrongsuperior officer. Nowadays you He's there because Tyler came off worse in the exchange - there'might'' hope that something would be done about s a scar on his face to prove it fairly quickly but this was 1965 - and child abuse the superior officer was generally regarded as malicious mischief on the part of the childforced to take early retirement. The boy would be safe There's a suggestion too that night though - albeit in the most horrific fashion. When he reached Captain EdmundTyler's godmother (she's bedroom he found on the man dead force too) has looked after him and that his current boss is keen to have a tame gay to put on the floor, the top of his skull missingtown hall steps come Pride. The schoolEither way, he's initial reaction was that this was a dreadful accident: there had been a cull of kangaroos in some nearby fields and it was obviously a stray bullet which had killed the Captain, but without anything really interesting to get his teeth into.
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|isbnauthor=1786695227A K Larkwood|title=Invisible in a Bright Light|author=Sally GardnerThe Unspoken Name|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersFantasy|summary=The beginning of this excellent story will leave the reader more than What does it mean to betray someone? What if that someone is a little confused: who is the man in the green suitgod? Csorwe has been raised knowing that she would be sacrificed to her god on her fourteenth birthday, what is yet when the Reckoningopportunity arises, she chooses to abandon everything she knows and why are rows of people in a caveflee with her life. Who can blame her? But stick with Her god's reach is limited and Csorwe intends to stay far beyond it – Ms Gardner , yet fate is very cleverly letting us experience a funny thing and when circumstances bring her back within the same disorientation as our heroine. We watch in dismay as the strange man, who seems to have no eyes, does his best to persuade reach of her god Csorwe learns that her to answer his questions. But for some reason Celeste, despite god remembers her bewilderment, remains wary and gives nothing awayblames her very much indeed.|isbn=1250238900
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|isbnauthor=1912374854M G Leonard and Sam Sedgman|title=Violet|author=S J I HollidayThe Highland Falcon Thief|rating=3.5|genre=ThrillersConfident Readers|summary=I've never been but understand that travelling is all about meeting new people and forming instantaneous bonds with people in often chance situations. Well thatHarrison Beck, or Hal as he prefers to be called, isn's t exactly what happens pleased when the two main/only characters meet in his parents send him off with his uncle Nat, a travel agency in Beijing - Carrie writer, on a long train journey. Although, this isn't any old train; this is unsuccessfully trying to get a refund on an extra ticket for the Trans-Siberian Highland Falcon, the royal train , and Violet this is trying its last ever journey before it gets sent to unsuccessfully buy a ticket for the same soldmuseum. A number of high-out journey. As the two team upsociety figures, travelling through Mongoliaincluding film stars, Serbia millionaires and into Russiaaristocrats, will be on this train, so it couldis quite the event on the social calendar. However, when an expensive brooch is stolen, Hal realises that maybe this trip won've been t be as boring as he previously thought. As the passengers begin to turn on each other, Hal vows to get to the start bottom of a beautiful friendship but this a thriller after all so it quickly becomes a tale the mystery…before the train gets to the end of obsession, manipulation and toxic friendshipsthe line.|isbn=1529013062
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|isbn=19123748380008275246|title=Nothing Important Happened TodayPerfect Kill (D I Callanach)|author=Will CarverHelen Fields
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|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Nothing Important Happened Today is a darkWhen Maggie Campbell realised that her son, twistedBart, difficult readwas missing he was already 200 miles away and just waking from a chemically-induced sleep. Stories about cults often are Maggie knew straight away that something was wrong. Bart might be twenty but he was considerate of his mother and wouldn't have stayed out all night without letting her know. Besides, but this is different; ithe didn's written t have his phone with a sense of style him and he wouldn't have gone far without that is quite unlike anything I. It've read s not long before. I canBart realises that he't remember ever having read a novel with such an odds alone, distinctive narrative voice. While trapped in a slim shipping container and relatively small bookon his way to France, the slow-moving nature of the plot makes it feel far larger than its 276 pageswhere his fate has already been decided.
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|isbnauthor= williamabbeyAlyssa Sheinmel|title=The Pursuit What Kind of William Abbey|author=Claire NorthGirl|rating=3.54|genre=ParanormalWomen's Fiction|summary='' Doing something when you're scared is braver than doing something when you're not'' When William Abbey fails to prevent the lynching of a young boy in 1880Mike Parker's South Africagirlfriend comes into school with a black eye, claiming he finds himself cursed by the grieving mothergave it to her, her whole world is tipped upside down. A naïve English Doctor, he slowly learns Her relationship has just ended and now she's the weight talk of the curse upon him, as school. Mike was the shadow of the dead most popular boy begins to follow him across the world. Never stopping, in school who was always growing – it crosses oceans and mountains so in pursuit of William. As love with her, everyone knew that, so why did he finds himself unable to resist speaking the truths that do what he hears in othersdid? Some people believe her and some don't, he also learns that the dark shadow but one thing is deadly – and seeks for sure, this isn't going to kill the one he loves the most…blow over any time soon.|isbn=0349003297
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|isbnauthor=1643785036Holly Rivers|title=The Wondrous Apothecary|author=Mary E MartinDemelza and the Spectre Detectors|rating=45|genre=General FictionConfident Readers|summary=Those who have known Alexander WainwrightDemelza Clock is a scientist, the landscape artist famous for his Turner prize winning ''The Hay Wagon''often staying up late to work on her various gadgets, and Rinaldo, renowned conceptual artist would say that theymuch to her Grandma Maeve're chalk and cheese, if not sworn enemiess irritation. If you've watched the relationshipHowever, as she has our narrator, art dealer Jamie Helmsworth, you'd have said also inherited a certain set of skills that they were magnetsare not especially scientific: Spectre Detecting, drawing and repulsing each other in equal measurethe ability to summon the ghosts of the recently deceased. Wainwright was at Under the socially acceptable end guidance of the artistic continuumher Grandma Maeve, Demelza begins to master her newfound skills. However, but with Rinaldo it was all too obvious that there was but is a fine dividing line between conceptual art and public nuisance. As time has worn mysterious individual onthe prowl, hekidnapping young Spectre Detectors. It's frequently been brought up to Demelza and her best friend Percy to get to the attention bottom of the policethis.. On this latest occasion we see him charged with arson and theft of ''The Hay Wagon''.|isbn=1912626039
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|authorisbn=Mary H.K. Choi1787477533|title=Permanent RecordThe Lantern Men (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=45|genre=TeensCrime|summary=Pablo, a college drop-out, is working at a New York bodegaEverything has changed for Dr Ruth Galloway. HeShe's massively in debt, heno longer providing assistance to the police and isn's avoiding his mother, and he finds his joy in creating unusual snacks with random ingredients! t even working at the University of North Norfolk. Whilst working one evening, heShe's surprised lecturing at Cambridge and has moved from her beloved Saltmarsh cottage to discover that the girl he is chatting live with as he serves is a super-famous pop star and, as unlikely as it may seem, they start a relationshipDr Frank Barker in Cambridge. With one character who is trying very hard not to be seen or noticed by anyoneHer daughter, Katie, has settled into school better than she could ever have hoped and the other who life is seen and followed and hounded by everyone all over the world, it's an interesting clash as they come togetherlooking good. Settled. This isnShe can't just a love story thoughhelp thinking about Harry Nelson, Katie's father, because Katie sees him regularly and actually itthere's really just Paba close relationship with his family. You might ''almost'' think that Ruth's story, about the journey he takes in his life via his meet-up with Leanna Smartis settling down.|isbn=0349003459
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|isbn=1609809319183895015X|title=Long-Haired Cat-Boy CubA Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner|author=Etgar Keret, Aviel Basil and Sondra Silverston (translator)Chris Atkins
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|genre=Confident ReadersPolitics and Society|summary=One day a boy is Documentary filmmakers don't usually get the run of establishments within the Mountbatten-Windsor Hotel Group, but after getting involved in the zoo with an illegal tax scheme to fund his fatherlatest film, when the man gets called away on urgent businessChris Atkins was invited for a five-year stay. The boy isn't hustled into a cab and taken home firstnine months were spent in HMP Wandsworth, thoughwhich is probably the oldest, no – he's given hot dog moneylargest and most dysfunctional prison in Europe.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1250168546|author=Sarah Kozloff|title=A Queen In Hiding|rating=3|genre=Fantasy|summary= World-building is the backbone by which fantasy novels live and die. And what a pleasure, and taxi moneythen, and told to just stick around on his own and enjoy himselfget a novel with world-building you actually want to delve into. Well, itSarah Kozloff's no surprise that the orphan-for-an-afternoon sensation the lad feels doesn't make him happydebut novel presents a startlingly rich and layered world, and so he thinks with a complex history of a species name for himselfconnecting nations that seems certain to have more to tap, and curls himself up into an empty cage, as the characters are interesting – if he were a new exhibitlittle underdeveloped. And But it's then a world I could – and did – eagerly buy into, and the drama begins… struggle of each Queen to discover and hone her magical talent felt very real and very apt.
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|isbn=17857855161543987877|title=Fucking Good MannersLearn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Simon GriffinDr Thomas Jordan|rating=4.5
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|summary=Manners maketh man, they say''Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is a book about love relationships rather than a book about love. It certainly makes life easier if everybody abides by a set of conventions, some of which The two greatest emotions are ages old love and grief and other which have evolved over time. Manners are not about how much to tip or how you should behave love is the opposite of grief: ''if you get an invitation to Buckingham Palacelove'', Dr Thomas Jordan tells us, they have nothing to do with class or financial status: ''you will inevitably grieve''. theyYour love relationships begin the moment you're about getting born and end only when you die. Whilst we all come into the basics right before we try world hoping to deal with more difficult mattersgive and receive love there are many people for whom love is not quite so simple. Of course we all have more relaxed manners when we're with family Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating the same mistakes - and friendsthis eventually becomes resignation. For people who are making the same mistakes repeatedly, self-preservation, in the form of resignation is a necessity.}}{{Frontpage|author=Chris Hauty|title=Deep State|rating=3|genre=Thrillers|summary= Hayley Chill is a fighter. She is every kind of fighter, but itand well-trained in most of them. She's best if we learn to distinguish between our public army infantry and she boxes for fun – and she wins. Always. She wins because she is focussed. She works hard, mentally and private lives physically, and she knows how to act appropriatelydeal with the pain. She is not so much cold as controlled. ''Fucking Good Manners'' aims This fight is against someone she is not expected to help us on the waybeat. And she is being watched.|isbn=1471185605
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|isbnauthor=0008324859H G Parry |title=Fowl Twins|author=Eoin ColferThe Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Relax, everyone – our old friend Artemis may be off planet, but Brothers Rob and Charley have struggled to see eye to eye for years - Rob a sensible lawyer who exists in the baddies aren"normal" world - and Charley a man who is blessed with an ability he can't getting away with skulduggery any time soon because they now have not fully control - one but two members of which allows him to bring literary characters into the Fowl family to contend withreal world. Those cute little twins are now eleven (andAfter years of protecting Charley, frankly, cute no longer) Rob wants to discharge his duties and in this, leave Charley to his own devices - but circumstances soon take choices out of both their first independent adventurehands. As literary characters begin to appear everywhere, they meet a troll it soon becomes clear that someone out there shares Charley's powers and intends to use them for nefarious gains. Rob and without even trying manage Charley must team up to make two deadly enemies: stop the madness - in a nobleman obsessed with immortality whatever the cost (battle to other people)win before they, the characters and an unusual interrogator-nun. the world reach The boys are chased, kidnapped, arrested and even killed (though not for long), all with the help of one trainee fairy.End…|isbn=0356513777
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|isbn=14722557981444776185|title=The Bad Fire (Bob Skinner)Haven't they Grown|author=Quintin JardineSophie Hannah
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|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=Nine years ago local councillor Marcia Brown took It was when Beth Leeson was ferrying her own life after being accused of shoplifting from son, Ben, to a local supermarketfootball match that she found herself on Wyddial Lane in Hemingford Abbots. Actually, It's always been assumed a little disingenuous to say 'found herself' as Beth had made a deliberate detour on the grounds that she couldndidn't live with find herself in this neck of the shame. People were surprised that woods very often and she committed suicide just was curious to see where a family who'd come into money had lived before the court case when she had been adamant that she would fight to clear her namethey'd all lost contact twelve years ago. She said And it might have gone no further than that she'd been set had Beth not seen a car draw up because and her friend Flora get out along with two children she was hot on called Thomas and Emily. Beth remembered the trail of corruption in the council. Her exnames well -husband has contacted Alex Skinner, Solicitor Advocate as well as retired Police Constable Bob Skinnerbut these children were about three and five and Flora's daughter, children - Thomas and Emily - would now be fifteen and asked that she look into clearing Brown's name: it's something which he feels that he has to do in memory of his son who was murdered recentlyseventeen.
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|isbn=B07X6GLQ3Q1529123763|title=See Them RunMiss Austen|author=Marion ToddGill Hornby|rating=45|genre=CrimeHistorical Fiction|summary=D I Clare Mackay is still relatively new to St AndrewIt's: long been known that Cassandra Austen burned most of the letters which she was previously at Maryhill Rd station in Glasgowand other members of the extensive Austen family had exchanged with or about her sister Jane. SheWhat is not known is 's left quite a lot behind including a relationship that wasn't going anywhere after Tom failed to support her when the chips were down. She also left a nasty situation, of her own making but not her fault, and St Andrewwhy''s is a fresh start. Not long into the job shedid this and at this stage - more than two hundred years after Jane's faced with a hit and run death and there's little doubt that it wasn't accidental - the card with the number five suggests murder. Andy Robb was married a definitive answer is unlikely to Sandraforthcoming. You could say Gill Hornby has provided us with some possible answers in a book that they had an open marriage but there seemed proved to be a lot of the 'open' and very little of the 'marriage' left - on both sides, but would she want him dead?far more emotionally complex than I was expecting.
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