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  • Every Contact Leaves a Trace by Elanor Dymott
    ...ritical in understanding who may have killed her, and why. What follows is Alex learning about this hidden past. ''Every Contact Leaves a Trace'' is partly Early on the book swings back and forth in time, including Alex's own childhood although this particular thread doesn't seem particularly r
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  • Alex, the Dog and the Unopenable Door by Ross Montgomery
    |title=Alex, the Dog and the Unopenable Door |summary=Alex meets friendly dogs, not-so-friendly wolves, daffy scientists and a very od
    3 KB (499 words) - 12:01, 17 April 2018
  • Flip by Martyn Bedford
    ..., and is actually stuck in the body of a boy who he has never seen before, Alex is forced to face a day in the life of Philip Garamond, literally. As he go ...oncrete answers. Even Rob, a fellow ''psychic evacuee'', who meets up with Alex face to face and seems confident and sure of himself at first, is shown to
    4 KB (699 words) - 14:59, 25 February 2018
  • Veiled by Benedict Jacka
    |summary=Future divining mage and Londoner Alex Verus is back a 6th time and his life isn't getting any safer as he takes o ...and one applicant, in particular, isn't exactly Mary Poppins. Meanwhile, Alex adds a new chapter to his life by working with the Keepers, the Council's p
    4 KB (733 words) - 11:22, 16 August 2020
  • My Mum Has X-Ray Vision by Angela McAllister and Alex T Smith
    |author=Angela McAllister and Alex T Smith ...uirky and fun, but with appropriate subtlety that rewards further reading. Alex T Smith's illustrations are excellent and it all works really well together
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  • Claude at the Circus by Alex T Smith
    |author=Alex T Smith ...ry=Another wonderfully funny, silly, entertaining story from the brilliant Alex T Smith which made my five-year-old laugh out loud many times!
    3 KB (573 words) - 09:14, 20 August 2020
  • Crocodile Tears (Alex Rider) by Anthony Horowitz
    |title= Crocodile Tears (Alex Rider) |summary= The eighth installment in the Alex Rider series lacks subtlety and nuaunce but will be loved by boys in the tw
    3 KB (602 words) - 21:27, 1 April 2018
  • The Soldier's Story by Bryan Forbes
    ...er seems assured until Alex uncovers a secret that will rip to the core of Alex's loyalties and jeopardise more than just their love. ...tion, we also witness the Nuremberg war trials. Then, continuing further, Alex goes from being intelligence officer to spy as the Cold War is born, facing
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  • Heroic Measures by Jill Ciment
    ...l) is their Daschund. She's getting on in years, but then so are Ruth and Alex. Then - the day before the open house - two things happen. An unmarked pe I empathised with Ruth and Alex too: ageing is never kind, but Ciment doesn't make them into doddery old fo
    3 KB (590 words) - 13:42, 26 September 2020
  • Chronosphere: Malfunction by Alex Woolf
    |author=Alex Woolf ...d lives... Alex Woolf was kind enough to [[The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Alex Woolf|talk to Bookbag]].
    3 KB (497 words) - 15:34, 1 April 2018
  • Alex's Adventures In Numberland by Alex Bellos
    |title=Alex's Adventures In Numberland |author=Alex Bellos
    4 KB (676 words) - 12:10, 28 February 2018
  • Ostrich by Matt Greene
    ...Matt Greene follows quite similar lines, although this time the narrator, Alex, has a brain tumour. ...ugh when you're nearly thirteen and making your way in a large world. For Alex, it's even more so, as he has fits and blank periods thanks to his illness.
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  • For My Sins by Alex Nye
    |author=Alex Nye ...YA fiction in later years. Taking her inspiration from her new homeland, Alex now brings us adult historical fiction that shines a wonderful depth, under
    4 KB (721 words) - 13:09, 22 February 2018
  • Sektion 20 by Paul Dowswell
    ...s Western counterparts are enjoying Coca Cola, fashion and rock music, but Alex can only dream of these things. His time is spent at school listening to en ...g the songs in public is out of the question. As his rebelliousness grows, Alex's life becomes more and more difficult. His teachers write reports about hi
    3 KB (545 words) - 22:14, 21 April 2018
  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Benedict Jacka
    ...particularly impressed by Benedict Jacka's urban fantasy novels featuring Alex Verus. We had a few questions to ask him when he popped in to see us. ...:Category:Benedict Jacka|Benedict Jacka's]] urban fantasy novels featuring Alex Verus. We had a few questions to ask him when he popped in to see us.
    6 KB (1,063 words) - 11:22, 28 February 2013
  • The Stronger Sex by Hans Werner Kettenbach and Anthea Bell (Translator)
    .... His illness confines him to just a couple of rooms. It's apparent that Alex is rather taken with his wife, Cilly Klofft, who is still rather beautiful ...lmost claustrophobic feel throughout, which I liked. I got the sense that Alex felt out of his depth at times having to put delicate questions to a moneye
    4 KB (631 words) - 12:19, 19 March 2018
  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Alex Kovacs
    |title=The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Alex Kovacs ...per by Alex Kovacs|The Currency of Paper]], but the opportunity to chat to Alex Kovacs was not one to miss.
    5 KB (857 words) - 14:12, 29 November 2013
  • The Wraiths of War (Obsidian Heart book 3) by Mark Morris
    ...who visited him a century or so later. It's not as simple as it seems, as Alex keeps telling himself… or rather as Alexes (plural) keep telling himself. ...nd the many sleepless nights the temporal conundrums must have caused. As Alex leaps back and forth across the centuries, the complications of time travel
    3 KB (591 words) - 11:08, 16 April 2018
  • Eye Spy by Tessa Buckley
    Twins Alex and Donna live in a somewhat unusual household. Their mum died when they we ...re isn't much money sloshing around the house. In an attempt to earn some, Alex and Donna set up Eye Spy Investigations. Their first case is that of Kiki,
    3 KB (586 words) - 12:46, 23 April 2018
  • Alex and Ada Volume 1 by Jonathan Luna and Sarah Vaughn
    |title=Alex and Ada Volume 1 ...ng like its own, as it is not allowed to get that close to sentience. But Alex changes his mind right upon the point of returning the thing, and begins to
    5 KB (795 words) - 12:46, 9 August 2020
  • The Glory by Lauren St John
    ...teenage boot camp. But even naughty teenagers have their plus points, and Alex's is her love of horses. She'll do anything to save the mustang scout from ...mile endurance race with a $250,000 dollar prize. Winning would offer both Alex and Will a way out of their current difficulties... but who will win? And w
    3 KB (521 words) - 10:22, 24 April 2018
  • Bullet Boys by Ally Kennen
    ''Alex is a crack shot. His gamekeeper father trained him well.''<br> ...s to connect with the world more, especially since his mother died, and so Alex goes along with his wishes with as glad a heart as he can manage. Max doesn
    3 KB (529 words) - 11:43, 1 March 2018
  • Dream Lake by Lisa Kleypas
    ...brothers who grew up in a somewhat dysfunctional home. This one focuses on Alex, youngest of the three, who is a brilliant designer and builder. Unfortunat ...nexpectedly, the ghost finds that he can leave the house - but can’t leave Alex.
    5 KB (912 words) - 13:39, 31 March 2018
  • Charlotte Says by Alex Bell
    |author=Alex Bell |summary=Fab prequel to [[Charlotte Says by Alex Bell|Charlotte Says]] which explores the origin story of the murderous Char
    3 KB (462 words) - 12:26, 26 August 2020
  • Fated: An Alex Verus Novel by Benedict Jacka
    |title=Fated: An Alex Verus Novel ...powerful, unscrupulous enemies. Sometimes Camden shop owner and diviner, Alex Verus, wishes he hadn't got out of bed. He may be able to see into the fut
    5 KB (901 words) - 11:16, 16 August 2020
  • All The Things That Could Go Wrong by Stewart Foster
    ...telling. ''All The Things That Could Go Wrong'' takes us into the heads of Alex and Dan, neither of whom are happy, but both for entirely different reasons ...Alex and Dan's stories as they just try to make it through the days. While Alex fights his OCD and his bullies, Dan fights his loneliness and all the anger
    5 KB (830 words) - 12:25, 12 March 2018
  • Furnace: Death Sentence by Alexander Gordon Smith
    ...the knife of the warden, who has a new tactic. He does not want to break Alex - he aims to remake him, with medicine, surgery and Clockwork Orange-style ...... They're chiefly concerned with the torture and mind-wipe inflicted on Alex, and the way things swing so often from dream to nightmare to real life, fr
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  • 17 Equations That Changed The World by Ian Stewart
    ...iful Experiments by George Johnson]], [[Alex's Adventures In Numberland by Alex Bellos]] is a fantastic read about maths. [[Professor Stewart's Hoard of Ma
    2 KB (367 words) - 13:24, 14 April 2018
  • You, Me and Thing 4: The Mummy That Went Moo by Karen McCombie
    ...h]] and these help the story along. I like Thing's big bushbaby eyes, and Alex is very good at capturing the expressions of the children as various events ...might also like to check out Alex T. Smith's book [[Claude in the City by Alex T Smith|Claude in the City]].
    3 KB (602 words) - 08:50, 7 August 2020
  • Yuck! Said the Yak (Early Reader) by Alex English and Emma Levey
    |author=Alex English and Emma Levey |summary=Adapted from the [[Yuck! Said the Yak by Alex English and Emma Levey|picture book]] of the same name, ''Yuck! said the Ya
    3 KB (521 words) - 12:06, 18 April 2018
  • Eye Spy II by Tessa Buckley
    ...trange things happening at the Priory, home to school friend Jimmy Devlin. Alex doesn't believe in ghosts and he is very keen to persuade Donna that they d ...figures that keep appearing? What about the items that keep going missing? Alex is about to have his own beliefs severely tested.
    3 KB (557 words) - 11:44, 17 August 2020
  • Claude in the Spotlight by Alex T Smith
    |author=Alex T Smith ...ts in the way! He's a sweet little dog, and it's amazing how much emotion Alex T Smith manages to put into a stripey sock! Great fun to read together, or
    3 KB (508 words) - 09:44, 20 August 2020
  • The Legend of the Swan Children (Island Fiction) by Maureen Marks-Mendonca
    ...y the beloved silver panman he inherited from his father before his death. Alex is determined to find his mother before she is hurt by her kidnappers, peop ...was the Caribbean setting, and this is referred to throughout the book as Alex's journey takes him through small, ramshackle villages to the rainforests t
    4 KB (707 words) - 15:28, 16 April 2018
  • The Society of Blood (Obsidian Heart book 2) by Mark Morris
    |summary=Alex Locke is back in the 19th century still searching for the stone heart in or ...le of years before are just as lethal but the danger isn't totally human. Alex doesn't quite know how you'd classify it, but it stands between him and the
    4 KB (733 words) - 15:04, 31 August 2020
  • Claude All at Sea by Alex T Smith
    |author=Alex T Smith ...obblysock are, of course, not new. They’re best known as the characters of Alex T Smith’s hugely successful series of chapter books for young readers. It
    4 KB (666 words) - 10:11, 19 August 2020
  • Don't You Cry by Mary Kubica
    ...' know the girl with whom she shares a home and a life. A little way away, Alex is working in a restaurant when a mysterious stranger comes in. He can't qu ...ourse they are to some degree, but I just felt Quinn would lead me towards Alex, rather than the other way around.
    3 KB (535 words) - 11:56, 2 April 2018
  • See You in the Cosmos by Jack Cheng
    ...emingly comatose couch potato mother, and the father he was told died when Alex was three years old. This book is a transcript of verbal essays and conver ..., but it's not a problem that he's an unreliable narrator due to his age. Alex is a strong, responsible child, and quite adept in getting adults to help h
    4 KB (671 words) - 12:21, 10 March 2018
  • The Wedding Guest by Jonathan Kellerman
    |summary=It's number 34 in the Alex Delaware series. Don't be worried about picking up part way through a long ...stigating officer and he called on the help of his friend, psychologist Dr Alex Delaware.
    4 KB (609 words) - 12:02, 9 February 2022
  • Jamie's Keepsake by Michael Gallagher
    ...not to mention TB and to say it was tonsillitis. Good luck with that one, Alex. ...grief for Peter. At one stage she had thought that she was going to lose Alex too. It's all been too much for her. Just occasionally, the mother he rem
    5 KB (853 words) - 10:26, 31 December 2020
  • The Bone Vault by Linda Fairstein
    ...go around the block with the three main and immensely likeable characters, Alex, Detective Mike Chapman and Detective Mercer Wallace and watch them work th And so Alex and Chapman begin their investigation, Alex having been tenuously drafted in by Chapman under the pre-text of potential
    4 KB (576 words) - 13:59, 9 May 2018
  • City of the Dead by Jonathan Kellerman
    |summary=It's book no 37 in the Alex Delaware series and whilst I wouldn't say it was one of the best, it's stil ...a brothel. When the police gain entry, they discover a woman's body - and Alex Delaware knows her. She's a psychologist too. Well, 'psychologist' might
    3 KB (566 words) - 08:13, 31 March 2024
  • The Heart Broke In by James Meek
    ...devout Christian opposed to the scientific studies of Alex and his father, Alex's uncle. Meek's handling of the gene therapy scientific content is exemplar
    4 KB (713 words) - 10:00, 17 March 2018
  • Life with Sir Alex: A Fan's Story of Ferguson's 25 Years at Manchester United by Will Tidey
    |title=Life with Sir Alex: A Fan's Story of Ferguson's 25 Years at Manchester United |summary=A very detailed, yet still very readable, history of the Alex Ferguson years at Manchester United. I wanted to hate it, but it was too w
    4 KB (765 words) - 10:10, 16 April 2018
  • The Currency of Paper by Alex Kovacs
    |author=Alex Kovacs ...lex Kovacs popped into Bookbag Towers to [[The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Alex Kovacs|chat to us]].
    4 KB (659 words) - 13:33, 24 April 2022
  • Jimmy Coates: Revenge by Joe Craig
    ...inism at every turn and this ratchets up his story a good few notches. The Alex Rider books are more complex and certainly darker. They probably provide a ...nt=I don't think The Alex rider books are that bad. I have read all of the Alex rider books and i find them very interesting. I also think that Jimmy Coate
    5 KB (784 words) - 09:00, 5 September 2020
  • Desert Heart: 2 (Ellen Martin Disasters) by Mark Lingane
    ...ending doom. We now catch up with them to discover that Ellen has ditched Alex, has become a partner in her law firm and is about to fly out to the Middle ...eyond Belief by Mark Lingane|sci-fi detective noir]], that first Ellen and Alex story and now this second adventure. How can someone rattle these off at s
    3 KB (549 words) - 10:22, 8 March 2018
  • No Way Out by Gene Kemp
    ...thing worse. Adam is always happy to read to their little sister Emmy, but Alex resents the attention she gets (she's disabled, y'see). By and large, they' ...re's a mysterious air throughout the book - you're along for the ride with Alex and Adam; just like them, you don't quite know what's going on. Is it just
    3 KB (557 words) - 09:58, 6 September 2020
  • Beautiful Americans by Lucy Silag
    ...e the most exciting thing that you've ever done, and so it was PJ, Olivia, Alex and Zack. PJ's not so much running to Paris as running away from all that ...moral' doesn't quite sum her up, but it's getting close. What Alex wants, Alex is determined to have, no matter what.
    3 KB (572 words) - 10:58, 12 October 2020
  • Furnace: Fugitives by Alexander Gordon Smith
    ...ne of their tools. It's only now, on the outside for the first time, that Alex gets a clearer picture of just how many tools there are - and just how much ...tolen Humvees chased by helicopter gunships, and forever our likeable hero Alex is finding his biology altering, with the evils of Nectar coursing through
    4 KB (690 words) - 19:43, 29 August 2020
  • The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Alex Woolf
    |title=The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Alex Woolf ...g their time-suspended lives. We were keen to take the opportunity to ask Alex Woolf a few questions.
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