Changes

From TheBookbag
Jump to navigationJump to search
no edit summary
__NOTOC__
 {|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" =='''3 NOVEMBER'''== <!-- Eoin Colfer -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:0008324859.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0008324859/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Fowl Twins by Eoin Colfer]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Relax, everyone – our old friend Artemis may be off planet, but the baddies aren't getting away with skulduggery any time soon because they now have not one but two members of the Fowl family to contend with. Those cute little twins are now eleven (and, frankly, cute no longer) and in this, their first independent adventure, they meet a troll and without even trying manage to make two deadly enemies: a nobleman obsessed with immortality whatever the cost (to other people), and an unusual interrogator-nun. The boys are chased, kidnapped, arrested and even killed (though not for long), all with the help of one trainee fairy. [[Fowl Twins by Eoin Colfer|Full Review]] |}{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"=='''7 NOVEMBER4 JULY'''==
{{Frontpage
|author=Mary H.K. ChoiMax Boucherat|title=Permanent RecordThe Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Pablo, a college drop-out, is working at a New York bodega. HeWe meet Lori on the first evening she's massively got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in debt, he's avoiding his babysitter poorly, motherat work, 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 superjust an avidly rule-famous pop star and, as unlikely as it may seembreaking eleven year old, they start a relationshipon her lonesome. With What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one character who main intention, and that is trying very hard not to be seen or noticed by anyonelog on to Voxminer, and the other who is seen and followed and hounded by everyone all over the world-building, itcritter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's an interesting clash as they come togetherworld. This isnBut first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't just a love story thoughfind herself entirely on her own, and actually it's really just Pab's storythen she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, about and her safe place in the journey he takes in his life via his meet-up with Leanna Smart.game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=03490034590008666482
}}
{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"
<!-- Keret -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:1609809319.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1609809319/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
 
 
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[Long-Haired Cat-Boy Cub by Etgar Keret, Aviel Basil and Sondra Silverston (translator)]]===
 
[[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]
 
One day a boy is in the zoo with his father, when the man gets called away on urgent business. The boy isn't hustled into a cab and taken home first, though, no – he's given hot dog money, and taxi money, and told to just stick around on his own and enjoy himself. Well, it's no surprise that the orphan-for-an-afternoon sensation the lad feels doesn't make him happy, and so he thinks of a species name for himself, and curls himself up into an empty cage, as if he were a new exhibit. And it's then the drama begins… [[Long-Haired Cat-Boy Cub by Etgar Keret, Aviel Basil and Sondra Silverston (translator)|Full Review]]
 
|}
 
{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"
=='''12 NOVEMBER'''==
<!-- Claire North -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:williamabbey.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0316316849/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
 
 
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire North]]===
 
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fantasy]]
 
When William Abbey fails to prevent the lynching of a young boy in 1880'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, as the shadow of the dead boy begins to follow him across the world. Never stopping, always growing – it crosses oceans and mountains in pursuit of William. As he finds himself unable to resist speaking the truths that he hears in others, he also learns that the dark shadow is deadly – and seeks to kill the one he loves the most… [[The Pursuit of William Abbey by Claire North|Full Review]]
|}
 
{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"
 
=='''14 NOVEMBER '''==
<!-- Gardner -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:1786695227.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1786695227/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
 
 
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[Invisible in a Bright Light by Sally Gardner]]===
 
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]
 
The beginning of this excellent story will leave the reader more than a little confused: who is the man in the green suit, what is the Reckoning, and why are rows of people in a cave? But stick with it – Ms Gardner is very cleverly letting us experience 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 her to answer his questions. But for some reason Celeste, despite her bewilderment, remains wary and gives nothing away. [[Invisible in a Bright Light by Sally Gardner|Full Review]]
 
<!-- Holliday -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:1912374854.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1912374854/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
 
 
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[Violet by S J I Holliday]]===
 
[[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]]
 
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 that'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 for the Trans-Siberian train and Violet is trying to unsuccessfully buy a ticket for the same sold-out journey. As the two team up, travelling through Mongolia, Serbia and into Russia, it could've been the start of a beautiful friendship but this a thriller after all so it quickly becomes a tale of obsession, manipulation and toxic friendships. [[Violet by S J I Holliday|Full Review]]
 
<!-- Will Carver -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:1912374838.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1912374838/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
 
 
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[Nothing Important Happened Today by Will Carver]]===
 
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]]
 
Nothing Important Happened Today is a dark, twisted, difficult read. Stories about cults often are, but this is different; it's written with a sense of style that is quite unlike anything I've read before. I can't remember ever having read a novel with such an odd, distinctive narrative voice. While a slim and relatively small book, the slow-moving nature of the plot makes it feel far larger than its 276 pages. [[Nothing Important Happened Today by Will Carver|Full Review]]
 
|}
 
{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15"
 
=='''21 NOVEMBER'''==
{|class-wikitable" cellpadding="15"
<!-- Ariel Dorfman and Chris Riddell -->
|-
| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|
[[image:1609809378.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1609809378/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]
 
 
| style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|
===[[The Rabbits' Rebellion by Ariel Dorfman and Chris Riddell]]===
 
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]]
 
We're in the realm of the rabbits, only the foxes and wolves have taken over. King Wolf, His Wolfiness, has declared the rabbits don't exist, but the pesky birds have spread rumours from awing that the bunnies are in fact still around. Demanding a propaganda spree, King Wolf orders a humble monkey to be his official portrait photographer, but whatever the poor innocent monkey prints out in his darkroom there is a distinct leporine hint. Can King Wolf succeed in proving himself victorious, can the rabbits show their continued existence to all who need to know of it – and what can the poor monkey caught in between do? [[The Rabbits' Rebellion by Ariel Dorfman and Chris Riddell|Full Review]]
|}
 
{{Frontpage
|author=Innosanto NagaraJenny Lecoat|title=M is for MovementBeyond Summerland
|rating=4
|genre=Emerging ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Set in Indonesia, in the not too distant past, this is a story about social change. Dealing Jean lives on Jersey with some difficult issues, such as political corruption and nepotism, the book is neither boring nor preachy. It educates gently, with vibrant, challenging illustrations, and it portrays how social movements need people who will try, even when it seems that her mother where they will fail. The message is a positive one; that in an increasingly uncertain world, we do still have the power to instigate change.|isbn=1609809351}} =='''28 NOVEMBER'''=={{Frontpage|isbn=1780894511|title=Die Alone|author=Simon Kernick|rating=4|genre=Thrillers|summary=Ray Mason is in prison awaiting trial for murder and he's in are celebrating the vulnerable prisoner unit: as a cop he's something end of a target, but the unit is not as secure as the inmates would have hoped and Mason is injured in a riotoccupation. On his way to hospital heDuring the war, Jean's broken free by armed men and an offer is made father was arrested for listening to him. He's 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 banned radio and he has personal reasons to believe that it would be better if Alastair Sheridan was dead.}} == '''11 DECEMBER''' =={{Frontpage|isbn=B07XLM3SM6|title=Murder at the Dolphin Hotel|author=Helena Dixon|rating=4|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Elowed Underhay was just twenty seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in June 1916soldiers took him away one night, leaving her daughter, Kitty, in the care of her grandmother. A great deal of money had been spent to find out what happened to her and the conclusion was that she was dead, mainly because there was no evidence to suggest otherwise. Kitty has come to terms with this Jean and in 1933 she was running the Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth with her grandmother, when her grandmother had to leave to look after her sister who was ill. She was reluctant to leave Kitty in charge - and Kitty could not understand why. She's always coped with the mix mother waiting for years for news of holidaymakers, boating people and the naval college on the edge of town before - and she's done every job in the hotelhim. 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 As the hotel.}} |}{|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" =='''9 JANUARY 2020'''== <!-- Sarah Alderson -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473681847.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473681847/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[In Her Eyes by Sarah Alderson]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Thrillers|Thrillers]] Ava lives a charmed life, but those things sometimes rub other people up British finally free the wrong way. One evening she returns Channel islands from a night out with a friendthe Nazis, and before she can finish her bedtime routine, her home, and her life, are under attack: masked men have broken in and are demanding money from her husband, while her young daughter cowers beside him. In the scuffle than ensues, Ava war is hurtfinally over, badly. When she wakes up in hospital she can barely remember their hopes rise that they will finally learn what happened, but she knows it was life-changingbecame of him. With her daughter still fighting for her life in a room down But will the corridor, Ava has truth come as a lot to contend with as she tries to recoverrelief, wills her daughter to recover, and attempts to piece together or will it raise further questions around what else happened and why. [[In Her Eyes by Sarah Alderson|Full Review]] |} =='''23 JANUARY'''== {{Frontpage|isbn=0241985110|title=All during the Rage (D I Fawley)|author=Cara Hunter|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=A very beautiful, but extremely distressed teenage girl war? Who was picked up by a minicab driver on the outskirts of Oxford. She didn't want to go to informer who told the police station or Nazis about the hospital: she just wanted to be taken home. radio? The driver wasn't so certain though - and after dropping the girl at home he went to the police, which is why DI Adam Fawley found himself talking to Faith Appleford and her mother. Both were adamant that this was nothing more than an April Fool's joke which had gone wrong. No crime had And what other secrets have been committed and Faith didn't want to take kept throughout the matter any further. Fawley and his team weren't prepared to leave it at that and they began investigating. What they found strange was that Faith Appleford didn't seem to have much of a history.}}{{Frontpage|author=Rory Clements|title=Hitler's Secret|rating=3.5|genre=Thrillers|summary=So, Hitler had a secretoccupation? Two, if you include the reproductive detail mentioned in a certain sing-song aspersion. But this is a secret that is counter to that, and in fact is a secret that Hitler himself doesn't even know about. His neice, Geli Raubal, the attractive young woman he seemed to be very close to in the early 1930s, had had his daughter behind his back. Protected under a false identity ever since, the girl is completely ignorant of her past, and the truth is a very rare thing. Martin Bormann, the 'gatekeeper' to Hitler and his right hand man, knows – and is desperately intent on wiping the slate clean and removing all connected with her existence from the Reich. So it's down to Tom Wilde, an American history professor at Oxbridge, to go in and extract her, in this most shadowy race against time.|isbn=18387702751846976537
}}
 
<!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->
You can work your way through the newest review, category by category, starting [[Newest Animals and Wildlife Reviews|here]].
[[Category:Non-Fiction]]
[[Category:Fiction]]
[[Category:Children's Books]]

Navigation menu