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<metadesc>Book review siteExpert, with books full book reviews from most walks of literary life; fiction, biographynon-fiction, crime, cookery and children's books & self-published books plus author interviews and & top tens.</metadesc><h1 id="mf-title">The Bookbag</h1>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=14012800481529428289|title=Batman: Nightwalker: The Graphic A Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris WildgooseMartin Walker
|rating=4
|genre=Crime
|summary=Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the grave but when they found it, it came with three sets of bones. They dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, the Chief of Police for St Denis, to discover the identities of the bodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. As if this isn't enough to worry about, the Dordogne River - normally tranquil - is flowing at record levels. It's not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to release water and St Denis faces the possibility of a devastating flood.
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|isbn=152919640X
|title=The Suspect
|author=Rob Rinder
|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=The nation's favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, was murdered live on television and it seems that there's only one suspect. He's celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to Jessica Holby. She's seriously allergic and carries an EpiPen in case of emergencies. Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a busy, live television studio - and Brooks served a ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to be found and she was dead within minutes. It was soon clear that this was no accident.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=0008385068
|title=The Midnight Feast
|author=Lucy Foley
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=It's midsummer on the Dorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. It's their opening weekend and splendid celebrations are promised. It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home and she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and famous. Her husband, Owen, was the architect and work is still ongoing on parts of the site. The heat is oppressive and amongst the guests are enemies as well as friends. Old scores are going to be settled and it won't be long before a body is found.
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|author=Ashley Hickson-Lovence
|title=Wild East
|rating=4.5
|genre=Teens
|summary=The young man called Bruce Wayne Written in verse, this is a very noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without people – bystanders, paparazzi, and suchlike – reminding him heRonny's story, a billionaire young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at the age of eighteena mostly white school. Feeling rather stuck with the legacy heThe move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is worried for Ronny's inherited from his murdered parentssafety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, a new school, he wants and keep himself out of trouble. He listens to do charitable deedsmusic constantly, and has always dreamed of being a rapper. But one nightnow, when he speeds off in this new school, his posh new car in pursuit teacher encourages him to be part of a criminalpoetry writing workshop group and, he goes too far as far as slowly, Ronny begins to see the authorities are concernedconnections between rap and poetry, and gets given the most unlikely stretch power of community service instead – cleaning in creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=0241645441}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1635866847|title=The Lavender Companion|author=Jessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=It's strange, the home for violent criminals things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is Arkham Asylumthe book for you. There he learns Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a slice of some other people who also allege charitable intent – chocolate cake on the Nightwalkers, homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. (There's a gang who steal any ten-figure bank account contents they canrecipe in the book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the book and murder I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the ownermargins are sanctioned. Can he You get close to one fold down the corners of them and get the truth pages. You suspect that smears of their schemes, or will the manipulative Madeleine butter would not be a step too far for the young do-gooder?problem. I ''loved'' this book already.
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|author=Rob Keeley
|title=Childish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Around here, we're big fans of children's author Rob Keeley. He's a ball of happy positivity, he understands children, and he writes for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector.
The ''Childish Spirits'' series is one of his greatest achievements. It's a sequence of ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the spirit world throws at her, and Edward, a spoiled lordling and the first spirit Ellie encounters
|isbn= 1783064617
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{{Frontpage
|isbnauthor=B07W4MNBSGJenny Valentine|title=Be Careful Who You MarryUs in the Before and After|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the time. But then chance brings them back together, and they are inseparable. Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and their friendship, together.|isbn=1471196585}}{{Frontpage|author=Lizzy MumfreyKieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=Dungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a team of warrior, mage and healer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and race to the exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, the only thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has been retired, eaten, and a new trio of questors is needed. Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, he has taken to the goading from the token bully of his world and stumbled into declaring he'll enter as a team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that, and how could he possibly hope to succeed?
|isbn=1839945184
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{{Frontpage
|author=Saima Mir
|title=Vengeance
|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary= I was instantly intrigued by the premise of this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the north of England run by a Muslim woman. The fact that it was the second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and screen) and it needn't be a hindrance if it's good enough. And that wasn't a problem here. Vengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, and I never felt lost.
|isbn=0861541561
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{{Frontpage
|author=Stuart Douglas
|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the dead body of a woman on the edge of a reservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he enlists the help of a fellow actor, John Le Breton to help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the Second World War. But is there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?
|isbn=1803368209
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B0CYV674G2
|title=Swanton Morley (John Tanner)
|author=David Blake
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. A body at the bottom of a freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the words 'perverse' and 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's determined to keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1787333175
|title=You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here
|author=Benji Waterhouse
|rating=5
|genre=Popular Science
|summary=I was tempted to read ''You Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to Hurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the workings of the NHS, humour and autobiography. ''You Don't Have to be Mad...'' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and the work of a psychiatrist. I did wonder whether it was acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and it is always delivered with empathy and understanding.
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{{Frontpage
|author=Onyi Nwabineli
|title=Allow Me to Introduce Myself
|rating=4.5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It was coming up Anuri spent her childhood on display to the world, thanks to Halloween in 1987 and a group of sixthher step-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fifty. When youmother Ophelia're only seventeen that seems positively ancients increasingly popular presence on social media, but Liz was convinced that ''your entire life depends on who you marry'where she posted every step of Anuri's childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, basically, monetary gain. The only eligible boys were the Young Farmers and the idea of living Now Anuri is in a farmhouse her twenties and having a couple of children called Will she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and Olly appealed to Charlotteget her life back, or perhaps William and Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined suing her step-mother to marry take down the rather superior Patrick Shepley-Bothamcontent about her. The place Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to start their search was obviously her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the Young Farmersnew focus of Ophelia' Halloween disco that weekends online empire. There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths in Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the class.same time?|isbn=0861546873
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{{Frontpage
|author=Michael J MaloneDavid Chadwick|title=In The Absence Headload of MiraclesNapalm|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=John DochertyIt's mother has been taken into September 1973 in Hicks, California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a nursing home following significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and a massive strokedefence contractor are the main local employers but otherwise, there's not much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Life is quiet, until.. It ..|isbn= B0D321VJ76}}{{Frontpage|author=Tom Percival|title=The Wrong Shoes|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Will's life is thought unlikely that she will ever be able to live independently againdifficult, in a multitude of ways. Faced with having to sell He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the family home in order to pay wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for her nursing careeven the most basic of things like food, Docherty starts and his dad can't work because he lost his job at the clear outcollege, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. In Throw into that mix the attic fact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he finds still has a childhood picture tiny amount of himself, holding a toddler – a toddler he knows nothing abouthope. He also finds is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when he is drawing, that feel like a blood-stained shoelight at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=191237479X1398527122
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{{Frontpage
|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to the Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to a compelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn= 0356522776}}{{Frontpage|isbn=06928535450008517061|title=The Things We DoDeath in a Lonely Place|author=Kay PfaltzStig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It's 2015 and Dr Eleanor Hartley is a prison psychologist Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at the state penitentiary and she knows that her next patient is not going to be easyLittle Sky. 'Jane Doe' has been convicted of There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the murder future of two men - one a police officer. She pleaded guilty his life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and since then has been silent: even her identity is daughter Diana, as moving in doubt. She was carrying identification as Jane Dunlap when she was arrested, but it's been proved together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to be false. There seem move in with Livia or does Livia move to be no family Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or friends who are missing not this is the future she wants for herself and her. daughter? Eleanor's task is to get Jane talking, to find out why a seemingly normal young woman would murder two menFor the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on the back burner.
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|authorisbn=Patti Smith1786482126|title=Year of the MonkeyThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyCrime|summary=On Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the coast bones of Santa Cruza child beneath a doorway. There was no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Patti Smith enters the lunar year of the monkey - one packed Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with mischief, sorrow, and unexpected momentsDCI Harry Nelson. In a stranger It's wordsdifficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn''Anything t, that she is possible: after all, it's the year pregnant with his child as a result of the monkey''one night they spent together some three months ago. As Smith wanders the coast Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to sudden bouts of Santa Cruz in solitude, she reflects on a year that brings huge shifts in her life - loss and aging are faced head on, as it the shifting political waters in Americasickness. |isbn=1526614758
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|authorisbn=Margaret Atwood0008551324|title=The TestamentsDevil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster
|rating=4.5
|genre=Dystopian FictionCrime|summary= Finally! Almost forty years on, we have a sequel It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. [[The HandmaidNeither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's Tale by Margaret Atwood|The Handmaid's Tale]]. I don't want prepared to tell you too much about the plot because it's police where the body of a novel that missing person is entirely plot drivenburied and who was responsible for her death. Suffice This person, he promises, is someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. And what he wants is to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to say that ''get an early parole date. Not much to ask, is it? The Testamentsnew Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she' takes place fifteen years later, fifteen years after Offred gets into a van, not knowing s even prepared to do the other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what will happen next's happening. }}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008405026|title=A Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=It's told by three narrators: Aunt Lydiasixteen years since nine-year-old Rosalie Marshall disappeared from her bed one summer night. She was never found and the investigation ground to a halt. Now, her mother, Helena, who is secretly writing and her memoirs father are dead in Ardua Hall; Agnestheir bed. Initially, it looks like a girl brought up in Gilead with straightforward murder/suicide but there's something about the expectation she will marry a commander; Daisy, a rebellious teenage girl in Canada who knows positioning of Gilead only from school lessons the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and its Pearl Girl missionaries who occasionally call into the store owned by her parentsboss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a complex double murder. Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, Una Burt) are less convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=17847423250571379877|title=The Kellerby Code|author=Jonny Sweet|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=Edward Jevons is a working-class young man, obsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and Stanza. Robert's a theatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. Most men in Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a relationship had begun between them but he's not like most men: Edward is left to stumble upon the two of them kissing in a dark passageway.
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|author=Anne BodenJo Callaghan|title=The Money RevolutionLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre= Business and FinanceCrime|summary= Money When a man is changingfound crucified on the top of a hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. It might not be in the ways you think's their first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. We’re not But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly getting struggling with a 3p or £3 coin (potential serial killer and have you ever even found a country very high profile case that offers anything different to the 1, 2, 5 model?) We’re getting draws a lot more digital with payments, which seems of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. Will they be able to suit most people apart from charity collectors and solve the homeless on case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the streetcase and, but although this book has the subtitle that includes the word ‘’digital’’potentially, it’s not really about this either. Instead it’s about the ‘’management’’ out of your finances, and how to take control.a career?|isbn=1789660610139851120X
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|isbn=147117316X1399613073|title=Guilty Not GuiltyMoral Injuries|author=Felix FrancisChristie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=The Honourable William Herbert Millgate Gordon-Russell (Bill Russell Olivia, Laura and Anjali met on the first day of medical school and their friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. Olivia is ruthlessly ambitious, which is a bonus when you aim to those who knew him well) was acting as be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and a volunteer steward at Warwick Racecourse when he was told trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of the violent death of his muchgroup and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-loved wifefuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. It would get worse though: We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the successful insurance actuary would consequences. Twenty-five years later there will be accused an eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. This time, it's their teenage children who are involved.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0241636604|title=The Trading Game: A Confession|author=Gary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=Autobiography|summary=If you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you're unlikely to think of killing her someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and hounded by jeans replaces the mediapin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, poverty and injustice. Then There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the London School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he would lose has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his job and his homeability at what was, essentially, a card game which got him an internship with Citibank. His best friends would turn against himEventually, this turned into permanent employment as they came a trader.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035021803|title=The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=3.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to believe him guilty the English country village where she grew up. She's back now because of a request for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. Freya's former mentor and Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is dead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the murderleast. Yet there Arthur was no really compelling evidence that he the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she feels, let her down badly. Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. After the split, she worked in a cafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was guiltymurdered) and Freya and James have now divorced.
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|isbn=AllTomorrowsFutureCover
|title=All Tomorrow's Futures: Fictions that Disrupt
|author=Benjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
|rating=5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=''Opening up new ways of thinking about the shape of things to come.''
I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you're eighteen. Well, I must confess that there have been more than a few decades of technology in my lifetime. I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the feeling that it's all getting away from me. Some of it is - frankly - quite frightening. Of course, I could research the possibilities and the probabilities and end up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they're talking about or the latest conspiracy theorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand.
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|author=Sunny Singh
|title=Hotel Arcadia
|rating=3.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken over by a terrorist group. Hiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, killing everyone on site, there is Sam, a wartime photographer and Abhi, the hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the residents who are still alive in the hotel, he forms a bond with Sam who refuses to be cowed by events, and keeps on venturing out of her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Although they only ever talk over the phone, their friendship grows as Abhi tries to help her keep safe and they both wait to see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the terrorists.
|isbn=086154742X
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|isbn=19087458191529153298|title=SurfacingThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Kathleen JamieJennie Godfrey
|rating=5
|genre=HistoryGeneral Fiction|summary=Sometimes when people suggest that you read a certain bookIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, they tell you honestly...) She's not what'this one has your name on it's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Mostly we take them at their word Well, or notthey've been murdered, but rarely do we ask them why they thought so, unless it turns out that we didnto have 'disappeared' doesn't like the booksound quite so frightening. That Miv's upset because she's a rare experienceoverheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. People who are sensitive to hearing When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a book calling your namefrightening, foreign place, rarely get it wrong. In this case I was told whybest avoided. The blurb speaks of For Miv, the author considering move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she''an older, less tethered sense of herselfll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum' Olders stopped talking - to anyone. Less tethered. That}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1398524085|title=Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=5|genre=Crime|summary=Charlotte Salter was expected at her husband's not a bad description of where I amfiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Add to that my love of the natural worldHer children, sons Niall, of those aspects of the poetic Paul and Ollie and lyrical that her daughter, Etty. are about style all worried but - strangely - her husband, Alec, is not form. Shortly afterwards, Etty and substance most Greg, find the body of allGreg's father, Duncan Ackerley, about connection. Of course this book had my name on itin the river. It was written an easy assumption for methe police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on with their lives and wonder about what really happened. It would have found its way }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1035906708|title=Diva|author=Daisy Goodwin|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=We tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to me eventuallyAthens when she was thirteen. I am pleased Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to have make it fall onto my path more manageable in the States. When she was back in Athens - supposedly so quicklythat she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of her preference for her elder sister, Jackie.
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