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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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|authorisbn= B T Keaton1838593187|title= Transference|rating= 4|genre= Science Fiction|summary= In the year 2102, mankind has discovered the secret of eternal life. Human souls can be moved from one body to another through the process known as transference. Control of this new technology has fallen under the dominion of Jovian—a powerful prophet and head of the Church which governs every aspect of existence. Banished to a mining colony on a distant planet for lawlessness is Barrabas Madzimure—the king of thieves. Only when Barrabas faces execution does he claim that another man committed his infamous crimes decades earlier. The authorities are suspicious. Is he Guess What I Found in the Madzimure of legend, or just another victim of transference?|isbn=B082WPHTHH}}{{FrontpagePlayground!|author=Christine Brown|title=Bucket Showers and Baby Goats: Volunteering in West AfricaVictoria Thompson
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|genre=TravelFor Sharing|summary=In Tilly is excited. She's just come dashing out of the summer of 2008classroom, this bookpigtails flapping behind her and a big grin on her face. Dad's author was spending come to collect her and her days working in an office job brother and he ''has'' to try to guess what she found in the USA while spending her nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something else. Long story shortplayground today, although she ended up volunteering in Ghana, West Africaconcedes that he will never guess. Now coincidentally Dad wants to know how school was, in the summer of 2010, this review's author was spending but ''herobviously'' days working in an office job (albeit in the UK) while spending 'that's not important. Could Tilly have found more collectable things for herscrap box? (Isn't that so much more sensible than a scrap ' nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something else, and ''shebook'' ended up just 3 countries away?) Well, volunteering in Sierra Leoneactually, West AfricaTilly did find exciting stuff. So you can see why There are sequins, when this book came upglittered paper and all sorts of other things in her pocket, said reviewer was delighted but that's not what she wants Dad to have the opportunity to read and critique itguess.|isbn=171024299X
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|author=Mark LinganeBecky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed|title=Degrade (Tesla Expansion)Yes No Maybe So |rating=4|genre=Teens|summary= ''DegradeWe might give it our all and crash and burn. But we might win. We might actually change things. And that maybe makes it still worth going for, don't you think?'' opens as it means Jaime has been spending his summer helping his cousin with campaigning in time for a special election. When his mother encourages him to go on - with inyerfacecanvassing, banging actionhe can't think of anything worse. Poor AridHowever, alone in Jaime has always wanted to be a politician and decides there is no time like the desert since present to conquer his fear of speaking to the public. Maya is a Pakistani-American Muslim girl who is having the worst summer of her life. Her parents were killedare going through a separation, she has a narrow escape as two mega-rigs fight it out zero plans for the summer to help take her mind off things and his her only close friend is pretty much destroyedpermanently busy. He finds himself rescued by To help occupy her, her parents offer to buy her a car if she agrees to go canvassing. The pair could possibly be the mysterious-but-fascinating Ella and onboard the ''Moonlight'' under the suspicious eyes worst canvassing duo in history, as neither of its leaderthem really want to be there, Queen Bea. Bea's eyes flash with recognition when he tells her his name - Arid Geiger - but before he can find out why as the campaign goes on they discover that isthey care, a lot, there's an assassination attempt and Arid is under suspicion and imprisoned. An escape facilitated by Ella about the election - Queen Bea's daughter - sees Arid and her maybe even about each other daughter, Frey, stranded in the desert...?|isbn= 099461649X1471184668
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|isbnauthor=B07XLM3SM6Gregg Hurwitz|title=Murder at the Dolphin Hotel|author=Helena DixonInto The Fire|rating=45|genre=Crime (Historical)Thrillers|summary=Elowed Underhay was just twenty-seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in June 1916, leaving her daughter, Kitty, in the care of her grandmotherGrant Merriweather is a forensic accountant. A great deal of money had been spent to find out what happened to her and the conclusion was that she was deadOr rather, mainly because there was no evidence to suggest otherwise. Kitty has come to terms He was brought into an ER room after an alleged car crash, his friend pleading with this and in 1933 she was running the Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with her grandmother when her grandmother had medics to leave to look after her sister who was illkeep him alive. She He was reluctant needed alive just long enough to leave Kitty in charge - and Kitty could not understand whygive up a name. She's always coped with the mix of holidaymakersHis cousin, boating people and the naval college on the edge of town before - and she's done every job in the hotel. And she particularly cannot understand why her grandmother's friends have been roped in to keep an eye on things ''and'' why Captain Matthew Bryant has been hired to take charge of security at the hotelMax.|isbn=0718185501
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|authorisbn=Seishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai (translator)1529124395|title=The Honjin MurdersWhen You See Me|author=Lisa Gardner
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|summary=To many readersFor Janet and Chuck, it was a hiking break in the phrase 'locked room murder mystery' is enough to make Appalachians in Georgia and pure chance that Chuck went off the book one beaten track to read; preferably quantified by the words 'clever' or 'good'find a stick. For those who need moreWhat he found was a human bone and SSA Kimberley Quincy was called in, here is the extra background – we're in rural Japan along with Sergeant D D Warren. Both women were experienced in this type of rather gruesome work but they also called on the 1930s. The oldest son services of an esteemed family is belatedly getting marriedKeith Edgar, a computer analyst, although and Flora Dane who brought something unique to the whole affair is really not as ostentatious as it might be – hardly anybody has turned up, what with it being arranged at great hastetable. She only has an uncle representing her family, Flora had been kidnapped and held for one thing. Either way, 472 days by the celebrations have gone ahead as plannednotorious killer, only for the wedded couple to be slashed to death in their private annex before the sun rises on their marriageJacob Ness. What If Ness had anything to do with a man missing parts of his fingers being in the neighbourhood, and some mysterious use of a traditional musical instrument at the time of the crime, this case has a lot of the peculiar about itcurrent discoveries then what Flora had to say could be invaluable.|isbn=1782275002
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|authorisbn=Cixin Liu1529009677|title=Death's EndA Window Breaks|author=C M Ewan|rating=3.5|genre=Science FictionThrillers|summary= If ITom Sullivan and his wife Rachel are having problems. It'd been paying s not just the usual growing apart after more attention when I picked this book up, I would have put it back on the shelfthan a decade of marriage. Not because I didn't want to read itTheir son, Michael, but because I'd have figured out that it was the final part of a trilogy. Coming killed in partway through a saga is never the easiest thing to do and itcar crash some months before: he was driving his father's particularly true in science fiction because without knowing the back-story there are not just people whose names mean nothing to you (when it's assumed they will) but there are whole concepts that you wonAudi and at sixteen wasn't understandlegally entitled to drive. This latter is particularly true of Cixin Liu's work – Not only did he kill himself when the car rammed into a tree, but he also killed his range is phenomenalgirlfriend, fifteen-year-old Fiona Connor. George R R Martin, who knows a thing or two Tom can't think about world-creation, described it as ''Michael without a unique blend sense of scientific shame and philosophical speculationguilt. Rachel is broken, conspiracy theory and cosmology''but she wants to forgive Michael. All To give some space, Tom's moved out of the family home, but stresses to his thirteen-year-old daughter, Holly, that and moreit is only a trial separation.|isbn=1784971650
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|isbn=17808945110241985153|title=Die AloneThe House on the Lake|author=Simon KernickNuala Ellwood|rating=43.5
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|summary=Ray Mason is in prison awaiting trial for murder and he's in the vulnerable prisoner unit: as a cop, he's We know that something of a target, but has gone wrong - badly wrong - when the unit is not as secure as woman who was alone in the inmates would have hoped and Mason house is injured in a riot. On his way to hospital he's broken free taken away by armed men and an offer is made to him. Hethe police, but it's going to assassinate the man who is likely to become the country's next prime minister and he'll then be given a new identity so that he can start afresh abroad. His captors say that they're MI6, but Mason has his doubts. His choices are limited though and he while before we learn exactly what has personal reasons to believe that it would be better if Alastair Sheridan was deadhappened.
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|author=Akwaeke EmeziStruan Murray and Manuel Sumberac (illustrator)|title=PetOrphans of the Tide|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=In the last city on Earth, anyone can be the vessel of The people of Enemy - the town Lucille believe that all god who drowned the monsters are gone. Their children are raised world - who has come to understand that they were saved by the angels, those who rid wreak havoc on the town last of evil, and there are no monsters anymorehumanity. But one day, Jam accidentally cuts herself and bleeds When a little onto one mysterious boy is pulled from the corpse of her mother's paintings. The blood awakens a bizarrewhale, terrifyingthe citizens immediately believe him to be the Vessel -looking creature named Petall except for young Ellie Lancaster, who somehow comes to life and declares that it is here to hunt a girl inventor. As the monster. Though Jam tries ruthless Inquisition prepares to convince it that all execute the monsters are goneboy, Pet is certain Ellie must prove that there he is one, still, and that the monster is hiding in the home of innocent - even if it means revealing her best frienddeepest, Redemptiondarkest secrets....|isbn=05713551100241384435
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|isbn=16867516800008297169|title=My Mummy does weird things / Maman fait des choses bizarresThe Guest List|author=Amelie Julien and GustyawanLucy Foley|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Which child doesn't think that their mother isThe boat trip out to Inis Amploir, welloff the Irish coast, ''weird''? It might be that in have been enough to put some guests off, but it was the wedding of the morning their mother doesn't like speaking much when every self-respecting child knows that that is when you're at your brightest with lots year. Will Slater (television personality, if not yet a celebrity) was to say? ''Why'' then does Mummy stick her fingers marry Jules Keegan, online magazine publisher, in her ears? the ruined chapel on the island. Then thereThe bride's doing yoga in front of the televisionsister, Olivia, which could would be worrying if it wasn't so funny. We won't go into too much detail about what goes on in her only bridesmaid and the bathroom wedding planner and the colour changes which have occurred when Mummy emerges chef are Aoife and franklyher husband, Freddy. They gave a huge discount to get the less said the better about her reactions couple to your artistic efforts on the wall. I meanisland, what else but surely it would you use paint be worth it forthe publicity?
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|authorisbn=Justine Avery and Liuba SyrotiukB07ZGL6B1B|title=What Wonders Do You See... When You Dream?In Plain Sight (D I Clare Mackay)|author=Marion Todd|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=''The day has ended''<br>''Hasn't it been splendid?'' <br>''But now, it's time, It was a coincidence that Detective Sergeant Chris West and DI Clare Mackay were at the beach when the baby was stolen. They were there for the fun run and their attention was taken by the NEFEW protesters who tried to be suredisrupt the race. They'' <br>''For an entirely different adventure'' <br> I hope you haven't forgotten how it feels re against the planned McIntosh Water bottled water plant to be much too excited for bedconstructed on Priory Marsh and the firm is sponsoring the fun run. If you It was Lisa Mitchell're a parent at leasts scream which stopped everything. Her daughter, you'll know how it is to persuade an excited small person that yessix-month-old Abi, it is in fact time for bedhad been taken from her pram whilst no one was looking. It's a major incident when ''What Wonders DoYou See...any'' sets out to cater to these children. Instead child is abducted but Abi needs regular medication because of trying to persuade them that night time is a calm timeheart problem: without it, it takes a slightly different tack. It tells them that sleep is actually an exciting time: a time of dreams in which imagination takes over and has no limit. But the trick in accessing this wonderful and exciting world is to get calm and relaxed first so that you can easily fall asleep and open the door she might have only forty-eight hours to itlive. |isbn=194812422X
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|authorisbn=Michael Harris1471180921|title=Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded WorldFirewatching|author=Russ Thomas
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|genre=LifestyleCrime|summary= This Detective Sergeant Adam Tyler is not in the book I was expecting it Cold Cas Review Unit at South Yorkshire Police and there are those who think that he's lucky to bethere, given that he decked a superior officer. For some reason I expected it to be another self He's there because Tyler came off worse in the exchange -help manual there's a scar on how his face to find calm, how prove it - and the superior officer was forced to step outside the mainstream, but it is not that at alltake early retirement. Instead of telling us how it is more about the There's a suggestion too that Tyler'whys godmother (she''. Harries examines how we're eroding solitude, which used to be a natural part of our human life, s on the force too) has looked after him and why that matters. Of course, he talks about how some people his current boss is keen to have found solitude and what has a tame gay to put on the town hall steps come of thatPride. Either way, and eventually in the final chapter he talks about his own experience of having deliberately sought it out's there, but mostly he wanders down the alleys and by-ways that without anything really interesting to get his thinking about this lost art led himteeth into.|isbn=1847947662
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|author=Andy BriggsA K Larkwood|title=Ctrl+SThe Unspoken Name|rating=54|genre=Science FictionFantasy|summary= Life in What does it mean to betray someone? What if that someone is a god? Csorwe has been raised knowing that she would be sacrificed to her god on her fourteenth birthday, yet when the near future's not all bad. We've reversed global warming opportunity arises, she chooses to abandon everything she knows and fixed the collapsing bee populationflee with her life. We even created SPACE, a virtual-sensory universe where average guys like Theo Wilson Who can do almost anything they desire. But almost anything isnblame her? Her god't enough for some. Every day, normal people are being taken, their emotions harvested - s reach is limited and lives traded - Csorwe intends to create death-defying thrills for the rich stay far beyond it, yet fate is a funny thing and twisted. Now Theo’s mother has disappeared. And as he follows when circumstances bring her breadcrumb trail back within the reach of clues, he'll come up against the most dangerous SPACE has to offer: policeher god Csorwe learns that her god remembers her, AI Bots and anarchists - as well as a criminal empire that will kill to stop him finding blames her . . very much indeed.|isbn=14091846411250238900
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|isbnauthor=1609809378M G Leonard and Sam Sedgman|title=The Rabbits' Rebellion|author=Ariel Dorfman and Chris RiddellHighland Falcon Thief|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=WeHarrison Beck, or Hal as he prefers to be called, isn're in t exactly pleased when his parents send him off with his uncle Nat, a travel writer, on a long train journey. Although, this isn't any old train; this is the realm of Highland Falcon, the rabbitsroyal train, only the foxes and wolves have taken overthis is its last ever journey before it gets sent to a museum. King WolfA number of high-society figures, including film stars, His Wolfinessmillionaires and aristocrats, has declared the rabbits don't existwill be on this train, but so it is quite the pesky birds have spread rumours from awing that event on the bunnies are in fact still aroundsocial calendar. Demanding a propaganda spreeHowever, when an expensive brooch is stolen, King Wolf orders a humble monkey Hal realises that maybe this trip won't be as boring as he previously thought. As the passengers begin to be his official portrait photographerturn on each other, but whatever Hal vows to get to the poor innocent monkey prints out in his darkroom there is a distinct leporine hint. Can King Wolf succeed in proving himself victorious, can bottom of the mystery…before the rabbits show their continued existence train gets to all who need to know the end of it – and what can the poor monkey caught in between do?line.|isbn=1529013062
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|authorisbn=Innosanto Nagara0008275246|title=M is for MovementPerfect Kill (D I Callanach)|author=Helen Fields
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|genre=Emerging ReadersCrime|summary=Set in IndonesiaWhen Maggie Campbell realised that her son, in the not too distant pastBart, this is was missing he was already 200 miles away and just waking from a story about social changechemically-induced sleep. Maggie knew straight away that something was wrong. Dealing with some difficult issues, such as political corruption Bart might be twenty but he was considerate of his mother and nepotism, the book is neither boring nor preachywouldn't have stayed out all night without letting her know. It educates gentlyBesides, he didn't have his phone with vibrant, challenging illustrations, him and it portrays how social movements need people who will try, even when it seems he wouldn't have gone far without that they will fail. The message is a positive one; It's not long before Bart realises that he's alone, trapped in an increasingly uncertain worlda shipping container and on his way to France, we do still have the power to instigate changewhere his fate has already been decided.|isbn=1609809351
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|isbnauthor=1780724047Alyssa Sheinmel|title=A Dictionary What Kind of Interesting and Important Dogs|author=Peter J ConradiGirl|rating=4|genre=PetsWomen's Fiction|summary=I struggle to resist a book about dogs, but I did wonder why this one was so ''thinDoing something when you're scared is braver than doing something when you're not'': given that I When Mike Parker've never encountered s girlfriend comes into school with a dog who wasn't interesting or important - and probably bothblack eye, claiming he gave it to her, I was expecting a massive tomeher whole world is tipped upside down. But ''A Dictionary of Interesting Her relationship has just ended and Important Dogsnow she'' is actually ''a rich compendium s the talk of the world's school. Mike was the most significant popular boy in school who was always so in love with her, everyone knew that, so why did he do what he did? Some people believe her and beloved dogssome don't, but one thing is for sure, this isn' t going to blow over any time soon.|isbn=0349003297}}{{Frontpage|author= Holly Rivers|title= Demelza and itthe Spectre Detectors|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Demelza Clock is a scientist, often staying up late to work on her various gadgets, much to her Grandma Maeve's certainly irritation. However, she has also inherited a rich treasure trove. We begin with Peter J Conradi's four colliescertain set of skills that are not especially scientific: CloudySpectre Detecting, Skythe ability to summon the ghosts of the recently deceased. Bradley and MaxUnder the guidance of her Grandma Maeve, Demelza begins to master her newfound skills. They're consecutive rather than simultaneous dogsHowever, but what comes over there is Conradia mysterious individual on the prowl, kidnapping young Spectre Detectors. It's love for each up to Demelza and every one her best friend Percy to get to the bottom of themthis.. I knew that I was in safe hands.|isbn=1912626039
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|isbn=17857692941787477533|title=Man at the Window The Lantern Men (Detective CardelliniDr Ruth Galloway)|author=Robert JeffreysElly Griffiths|rating=4.5
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|summary=ItEverything has changed for Dr Ruth Galloway. She's when we read that a young boy is creeping reluctantly no longer providing assistance to a teacherthe police and isn't even working at the University of North Norfolk. She's bedroom one October night that we realise something is badly wronglecturing at Cambridge and has moved from her beloved Saltmarsh cottage to live with Dr Frank Barker in Cambridge. Nowadays you ''might'' hope that something would be done about it fairly quickly but this was 1965 Her daughter, Katie, has settled into school better than she could ever have hoped and child abuse was generally regarded as malicious mischief on the part of the childlife is looking good. The boy would be safe that night though - albeit in the most horrific fashionSettled. When he reached Captain EdmundShe can't help thinking about Harry Nelson, Katie's bedroom he found the man dead on the floorfather, the top of because Katie sees him regularly and there's a close relationship with his skull missingfamily. The schoolYou might ''almost'' think that Ruth'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 that had killed the Captainlife is settling down.
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|isbn=1786695227183895015X|title=Invisible A Bit of a Stretch: The Diaries of a Prisoner|author=Chris Atkins|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Documentary filmmakers don't usually get the run of establishments within the Mountbatten-Windsor Hotel Group, but after getting involved in an illegal tax scheme to fund his latest film, Chris Atkins was invited for a five-year stay. The first nine months were spent in HMP Wandsworth, which is probably the oldest, largest 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 Bright Lightpleasure, then, to get a novel with world-building you actually want to delve into. Sarah Kozloff's debut novel presents a startlingly rich and layered world, with a complex history of connecting nations that seems certain to have more to tap, and the characters are interesting – if a little underdeveloped. But it's a world I could – and did – eagerly buy into, and the struggle of each Queen to discover and hone her magical talent felt very real and very apt.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1543987877|title=Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life|author=Sally GardnerDr Thomas Jordan
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|genre=Confident ReadersLifestyle|summary=The beginning of this excellent story will leave the reader more ''Learn to Love: Guide to Healing Your Disappointing Love Life'' is a book about love relationships rather than a little confused: who book about love. The two greatest emotions are love and grief and love is the man in opposite of grief: ''if you love'', Dr Thomas Jordan tells us, ''you will inevitably grieve''. Your love relationships begin the green suit, what is moment you're born and end only when you die. Whilst we all come into the Reckoning, world hoping to give and why receive love there are rows of many people in a cave? for whom love is not quite so simple. But stick with it – Ms. Gardner is very cleverly letting us experience Some people suffer multiple disappointments - sometimes repeating the same disorientation as our heroinemistakes - and this eventually becomes resignation. We watch in dismay as For people who are making the strange mansame mistakes repeatedly, who seems to have no eyesself-preservation, does his best to persuade her to answer his questions. But for some reason, Celeste, despite her bewilderment, remains wary and gives nothing awayin the form of resignation is a necessity.
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|isbnauthor=1912374854Chris Hauty|title=Violet|author=S J I HollidayDeep State|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=I've never been but understand that travelling Hayley Chill is a fighter. She is all about meeting new people every kind of fighter, and forming instantaneous bonds with people well-trained in often chance situationsmost of them. Well, thatShe's exactly what happens when the two main/only characters meet in a travel agency in Beijing - Carrie is unsuccessfully trying to get a refund on an extra ticket army infantry and she boxes for the Trans-Siberian train fun – and Violet she wins. Always. She wins because she is trying to unsuccessfully buy a ticket for the same sold-out journeyfocussed. As the two team upShe works hard, travelling through Mongoliamentally and physically, Serbia and into Russia, it could've been she knows how to deal with the start of a beautiful friendship but this a thriller after all pain. She is not so it quickly becomes a tale of obsession, manipulation, and toxic friendshipsmuch cold as controlled. This fight is against someone she is not expected to beat. And she is being watched.|isbn=1471185605
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|isbnauthor=1912374838H G Parry |title=Nothing Important Happened Today|author=Will CarverThe Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep
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|genre=General Fiction
|summary=Nothing Important Happened Today Brothers Rob and Charley have struggled to see eye to eye for years - Rob a sensible lawyer who exists in the "normal" world - and Charley a man who is a darkblessed with an ability he can't fully control - one which allows him to bring literary characters into the real world. After years of protecting Charley, twisted, difficult readRob wants to discharge his duties and leave Charley to his own devices - but circumstances soon take choices out of both their hands. Stories about cults often areAs literary characters begin to appear everywhere, but this is different; itsoon becomes clear that someone out there shares Charley's written with powers and intends to use them for nefarious gains. Rob and Charley must team up to stop the madness - in a sense of style that is quite unlike anything I've read battle to win before. I can't remember ever having read a novel with such an oddthey, distinctive narrative voice. While a slim the characters and relatively small book, the slow-moving nature of the plot makes it feel far larger than its 276 pages.world reach The End…|isbn=0356513777
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|isbn= williamabbey1444776185|title=The Pursuit of William AbbeyHaven't they Grown|author=Claire NorthSophie Hannah|rating=34.5|genre=ParanormalThrillers|summary=When William Abbey fails It was when Beth Leeson was ferrying her son, Ben, to prevent the lynching of a young boy football match that she found herself on Wyddial Lane in 1880Hemingford Abbots. Actually, It's South Africa, he finds himself cursed by the grieving mother. A naïve English Doctor, he slowly learns the weight of the curse upon him, a little disingenuous to say 'found herself' as Beth had made a deliberate detour on the shadow grounds that she didn't find herself in this neck of the dead boy begins woods very often and she was curious to follow him across the worldsee where a family who'd come into money had lived before they'd all lost contact twelve years ago. Never stopping, always growing – And it crosses oceans might have gone no further than that had Beth not seen a car draw up and mountains in pursuit of Williamher friend Flora get out along with two children she called Thomas and Emily. As he finds himself unable to resist speaking Beth remembered the truths that he hears in others, he also learns that the dark shadow is deadly – names well - but these children were about three and five and Flora's children - Thomas and Emily - would now be fifteen and seeks to kill the one he loves the most…seventeen.
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|isbn=16437850361529123763|title=The Wondrous ApothecaryMiss Austen|author=Mary E MartinGill Hornby|rating=45|genre=General Historical Fiction|summary=Those who have It's long been known Alexander Wainwright, the landscape artist famous for his Turner prize-winning ''The Hay Wagon'', and Rinaldo, the renowned conceptual artist would say that they're chalk and cheese, if not sworn enemies. If you've watched Cassandra Austen burned most of the relationship, as has our narrator, art dealer Jamie Helmsworth, you'd have said that they were magnets, drawing letters which she and repulsing each other in equal measure. Wainwright was at the socially acceptable end members of the artistic continuum, but extensive Austen family had exchanged with Rinaldo, it was all too obvious that there was but a fine dividing line between conceptual art and public nuisanceor about her sister Jane. As time has worn on, heWhat is not known is 's frequently been brought to the attention of the police. On this latest occasion, we see him charged with arson and theft of 'why'The Hay Wagon''.}}{{Frontpage|author=Mary H.K. Choi|title=Permanent Record|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Pablo, a college dropshe did this and at this stage -out, is working at a New York bodega. Hemore than two hundred years after Jane's massively in debt, he's avoiding his mother, and he finds his joy in creating unusual snacks with random ingredients! Whilst working one evening, he's surprised to discover that the girl he is chatting with as he serves is a superdeath -famous pop star and, as unlikely as it may seem, they start a relationship. With one character who definitive answer is trying very hard not unlikely to be seen or noticed by anyone and the other who is seen and followed and hounded by everyone all over the world, it's an interesting clash as they come togetherforthcoming. This isn't just Gill Hornby has provided us with some possible answers in a love story though, and actually it's really just Pab's story, about the journey he takes in his life via his meet-up with Leanna Smartbook that proved to be far more emotionally complex than I was expecting.|isbn=0349003459
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