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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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'''Read [[:Category:Features|the latest features]].''' <! '''Read [[Forthcoming Publications|reviews of books about to be published]].{{Frontpage|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 - INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->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.}}{{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= Karina Sainz Borgo and Elizabeth Bryer (translator)Ashley Hickson-Lovence|title= It Would Be Night in CaracasWild East|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction Teens|summary= ''It Would Be Night Written in Caracasverse, this is Ronny'' illuminates the everyday horrors of modern day Venezuelas story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. It begins with the death of Adelaida Falcon The move is initiated by Ronny's mother and chronicles Adelaidamum who is worried for Ronny's coming safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to terms with her settle in a new town, a new solitude school, and keep himself out of trouble. He listens to music constantly, and has always dreamed of being a rapper. But now, in this world new school, his teacher encourages him to be part of a poetry writing workshop group and her attempts , slowly, Ronny begins to escape it. Danger stalks see the shadows connections between rap andpoetry, in a society where and the establishment is crumbling, who can you turn to? power of creativity and crafting your words.|isbn=00629368670241645441
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|isbn=03494230671635866847|title=The Body on the Train (Kate Shackleton Mysteries)Lavender Companion|author=Frances BrodyJessica Dunham and Terry Barlin Vesci
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|genre=Crime (Historical)Lifestyle|summary=From Christmas to Easter a train ran from Leeds City Station to King’s CrossIt's strange, arriving before dawn so the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this is the forced rhubarb it carried could be taken to Covent Gardenbook for you. In early March 1929 one of Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the porters who was unloading the boxes discovered the body author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of a man, stripped naked slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and with no means of identificationdesserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. Scotland Yard hit (There's a dead end and called on recipe in the services of Kate Shackleton in book, which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the hope that her knowledge book and connections I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in Yorkshire would give them the lead they neededmargins are sanctioned. Kate immediately found herself hamstrung: Commander Woodhead remembered her as a child and could not come You get to terms with fold down the fact corners of pages. You suspect that she was now smears of butter would not be a woman experienced in dealing with murderproblem. He was reluctant to give her all the information which the police heldI ''loved'' this book already.
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|isbnauthor=1925820025Rob Keeley|title=Once, I was Loved|author=Belinda LandsberryChildish Spirits: 10th anniversary special edition
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|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=TockAround here, the toy rabbit, is in a box we're big fans of toys going to the charity shopchildren's author Rob Keeley. He realises that he's not wanted any morea ball of happy positivity, but muses that it wasn't always this way. ''Once''he understands children, and he sayswrites for their pleasure and enjoyment, not to lecture or hector. The ''I was lovedChildish Spirits''series is one of his greatest achievements. And he tells us It's a sequence of all ghost stories centring on Ellie, a stalwart young girl who can cope with anything the children who have loved him over spirit world throws at her, and Edward, a spoiled lordling and the years.first spirit Ellie encounters|isbn= 1783064617
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|author= Stephen BaxterJenny Valentine|title= World Engines: DestroyerUs in the Before and After|rating= 45|genre= Science FictionTeens|summary= Hundreds of years Elk and Mab are best friends, or more than that even, their friendship is a once in the future, a lifetime connection. They meet as children one day on a stagnating and almost empty Earth, a space shuttle pilot from the early days of the 21st century is awoken from trip out but unfortunately they don't get each other's contact details at the cryogenic sleep he entered after a devastating accidenttime. As he comes to terms with this new world But then chance brings them back together, he begins to realise that their history does not match what he remembers - and that only he may be able to stop the coming catastrophe destined to destroy the planetthey are inseparable. Until he meets a young woman who seems to have a drive of her own Something has happened though, something terrible and tragic, and now they must work through their grief, and a plan..their friendship, together.|isbn=14732231721471196585
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|isbnauthor=1406389331Kieran Larwood and Joe Todd-Stanton|title=In the Key of Code|author=Aimee LucidoDungeon Runners: Hero Trial
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Emmy Meet Kit. Like most of the people in his world, it seems, he is moving with her parents halfway across America, to follow her father's dreams an avid fan of Dungeon Running – the sport where a big break in his music career. She leaves behind her friends team of warrior, mage and her school in Wisconsinhealer enter specially prepared, century-old, magical mazes, and moves race to Californiathe exit, perhaps bothering with the treasure or the big bad and the points they grant you along the way. Unfortunately for Kit, knowing the only what she thing he's seen of the latest race on the inn TV equivalent is that one team has heard in songs. Her struggle to settle into her new lifebeen retired, eaten, make friends and feel happy and confident again, a new trio of questors is agonisingly told in a way we can all relate toneeded. There are many new opportunities and setbacks Possibly very unfortunately indeed for Kit, taking he has taken to the reader on a rollercoaster goading from the token bully of emotions, but it isnhis world and stumbled into declaring he't until Emmy joins ll enter as a coding class using computer language team. What chance does this friendless, muscle-free-zone have in actually managing that she begins , and how could he possibly hope to feel she might have a chance to feel like she truly belongs.succeed?|isbn=1839945184
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|isbnauthor=1529402255Saima Mir|title=A Body in the Bookshop (Kitt Hartley Yorkshire Mysteries)|author=Helen CoxVengeance
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|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary= Evie Bowes is very conscious I was instantly intrigued by the premise of the scars on her face. They were acquired when she was rescued from a car this novel – an organised crime syndicate in the River Ouse north of England run by Inspector Hallorana Muslim woman. She’d been suspected of The fact that it was the murder of her boyfriend, Owen, second in a series I hadn't read didn't stop me – I've jumped midway into a few series before (on page and in the process of clearing her name she screen) and her best friend, Kitt Hartley developed it needn't be a taste for detectionhindrance if it's good enough. Kitt developed And that wasn't a taste for Inspector Halloran Too, but they’re taking it slowlyproblem here. WellVengeance swiftly brings you up to speed, sort of slowlyand I never felt lost.|isbn=0861541561
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|author= Alexandra ChristoStuart Douglas|title= Into Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Crooked PlaceDress Rehearsal|rating= 43.5|genre= TeensCrime|summary= In 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 world thriving with black magicreservoir. The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, four young crooks embark on and he enlists the help of a quest fellow actor, John Le Breton to take down help him investigate matters further. They travel across the country during their criminal leader after they discover days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, seemingly, a link to death during the plot behind his dangerous new magicSecond 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=12503183781803368209
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|authorisbn=Kathlaine C Gill and D Clark GillB0CYV674G2|title=Madness Between Light and DarkSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake
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|genre=FantasyCrime|summary=It's 1912seemed like an open-and-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood - and at New Hope Sanatoriumcarrying a knife, Christine Agnes Tupper is fast growing upcomes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the man. Abandoned there by parents who were ashamed A body at the bottom of her hunchback, shea freshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's nevertheless grown up been stabbed to an intelligent girl with a good heartdeath. Her encounters DCI John Tanner is just back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the inhabitants birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he'd be grateful for an easy answer but the asylum swiftly take her on a fascinating, thrilling words 'perverse' and sometimes terrifying journey 'John Tanner' were made for each other. He's sleep-deprived to the point of self discovery, allowing Agnes falling asleep at work but he's determined to prove that, even with a twisted spine, her heart is in the right place!|isbn=1641110708keep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.
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|isbn=190874572X1787333175|title=Letters from ToveYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=Tove Jansson (Author), Boel Westin (Editor), Helen Svensson (Editor), Sarah Death (Translator)Benji Waterhouse
|rating=5
|genre=AutobiographyPopular Science|summary=Back at 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 beginning workings of the century I went on holiday NHS, humour and autobiography. ''You Don't Have to Nepalbe Mad. I met a wonderful Finnish woman ..'' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to mental illness and we became sort the work of friends. I can't remember if it was on that holiday or a later one that Paula told me I really had to read Tove Janssonpsychiatrist. I do know that did wonder whether it was four years later that I finally acquired an English translation of The Summer Book, acceptable to be looking for humour in this setting but the laughter is directed at a situation rather than a person and that I eagerly awaited the ''Sort Of'' translations of the rest of Jansson's work it is always delivered with empathy and devoured them as soon as I could get my hands on themunderstanding.
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|isbnauthor=1784742783Onyi Nwabineli|title=The Benefit of Hindsight (Simon Serrailler)|author=Susan HillAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=A superficial look would suggest Anuri spent her childhood on display to you that Simon Serrailer has been lucky and the world, thanks to her step- all things considered - his life is as good as it could be. Hemother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on social media, where she posted every step of Anuri's back at work after a long break to recuperate from the violent incident which cost him his arm childhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and almost his life, basically, monetary gain. When he's not at work he's spending his time Now Anuri is in her twenties and she is slowly trying to regain her confidence and to get her life back, suing her step-mother to take down the cathedral roof drawing the medieval angels which are being restored. There's talk of an exhibition of his drawingscontent about her. Lafferton seems to be quite settled as far as crime Anuri is concerned until one night when two local men open their front door battling alcoholism, failing to a couple seeking shelterstart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and receiving money from them for doing so. It's Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, who is the usual story new focus of a broken-down car, and a phone which wonOphelia't make a calls online empire. The man are generous Can she save her sister, and welcoming perhaps herself and have no suspicions that her relationship with her father at the couple are simply there to plan a robbery. It's a serious error of judgement in the course of this investigation which will throw Simon Serrailler's future into doubt.same time?|isbn=0861546873
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|isbnauthor=140638853XDavid Chadwick|title=Somebody Give This Heart a Pen|author=Sophia ThakurHeadload of Napalm|rating=4.5|genre=AnthologiesThrillers|summary=Sophia ThakurIt's debut anthology is a collection of poems that are all unique, whether September 1973 in relation to their styleHicks, length or themeCalifornia. The collection Hicks is split into four sections, titled 'grow','wait','break'and 'grow again', guiding you through a process which is one Mojave desert town of the foundations that the anthology is built on. Each section begins a few thousand people with a foregrounded title page containing various small pieces its nearest neighbours of writing, ranging from LA and Las Vegas both a quote by a Nigerian playwright, to African proverbssignificant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. This provides A silver mine and a nice introduction to the section before you defence contractor are immersed into the beautifully written main local employers but otherwise, there's not much of note other than dive bars and eloquent poems that Thakur has clearly put her heart and soul intoJoshua trees. Life is quiet, until....|isbn= B0D321VJ76
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|isbnauthor=1910989460Tom Percival|title=Flember: The Secret Book|author=Jamie SmartWrong Shoes
|rating=5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=A mysterious islandWill's life is difficult, in a multitude of ways. A strange He is bullied because he has 'the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can't work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and mystical power called Flemberhis dad can't work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in-hand job on a building site and had an accident. A boy-inventor called Dev Throw into that mix the fact that his mum and dad are separated, who uncovers a long forgotten secretand Will's life seems bleak in every direction. And yet, he still has a gianttiny amount of hope. He is good at art, red robot bear?! The sleepy village and clings to the moments of Eden joy when he is about to descend into hilarious chaos - can disastrous Dev save his brand new best friend? Find out in this fully illustrated mad-cap adventuredrawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122
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|isbnauthor=0241355222Sylvie Cathrall|title=Frostheart|author=Jamie LittlerA Letter to the Luminous Deep
|rating=5
|genre=Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=Way out 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=0008517061|title=Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= Former Metropolitan Police detective, Jake Johnson, has settled into his rustic life at Little Sky. There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the furthest part future of the known worldhis life with his vet girlfriend, Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a tiny stronghold exists all lot of compromise: does Jake give up his off-grid and relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is the future she wants for herself and her daughter? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the present and putting the future on its own, cut off from the rest back burner.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1786482126|title=The Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Elly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was going to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments - when they discovered the bones of human-kin by monsters that lurk a child beneath the Snow Seaa doorway. Therewas no skull. Was this a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with DCI Harry Nelson. It's difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with his child as a little boy called Ash waits for result of the return of his parentsone night they spent together some three months ago. Her condition will be obvious before long, singing a forbidden lullaby not least because Ruth is prone to remind him sudden bouts of themsickness.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0008551324|title=The Devil You Know (D S Max Craigie)|author=Neil Lancaster|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=It's unusual for anyone from the Hardie family to approach the police. Neither side likes or has any respect for the other. But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and doing his best he's prepared to avoid his verytell the police where the body of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. This person, VERY grumpy yeti guardianhe promises, Tobuis someone big and it will be worth the police doing what he wants. But life And what he wants is about to be transferred to an open prison to serve the remainder of his sentence and to get a whole lot more crazy-adventurous for Ashan early parole date. When a brave rescue attempt reveals he has amazing magical powers Not much to ask, heis it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and she's whisked aboard even prepared to do the Frostheart, a sleigh packed full of daring explorers other thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who could use his helpworks with him is kept well away from what's happening. But can they help him find his family?
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|isbn=19131010370008405026|title=The Extremely Inconvenient Adventures of Bronte MettlestoneA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jaclyn MoriartyJane Casey
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|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Bronte doesnIt't miss s sixteen 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 parentsmother, Helena, and sheher father are dead in their bed. Initially, it looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but there's not particularly sad when she learns something about the positioning of their terrible fate at the hands of piratesbodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. And why should she be? After all, they just dumped her on Aunt Isabelle (without even asking if What looked as though it would was going to be an open-and-shut case is now a convenient arrangement for either party) when she was a babycomplex double murder. They swanned off to have adventures Kerrigan is convinced that the explanation lies in Rosalie's disappearance: others (such as Derwent's boss, and never once came back to check if their only child was healthy and happyUna Burt) are less convinced.
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|isbn=14012800480571379877|title=Batman: Nightwalker: The Graphic NovelKellerby Code|author=Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris WildgooseJonny Sweet|rating=43.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=The Edward Jevons is a working-class young man called Bruce Wayne is a very noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without people – bystanders, paparazziobsessed with his upper-class friends, Robert and suchlike – reminding him heStanza. Robert's a billionaire at the age of eighteentheatre director. He's also self-obsessed, demanding, handsome and entitled and uses Edward to run errands for him. Feeling rather stuck Edward has been in love with the legacy Stanza since their university days - and he's inherited from his murdered parents, drunkenly confided how he wants feels to do charitable deedsRobert. But one night, when he speeds off Most men in his posh new car in pursuit of Robert's position would stay away from Stanza or tell Edward that a criminal, relationship had begun between them but he goes too far as far as the authorities are concerned, and gets given the 's not like most unlikely stretch of community service instead – cleaning in the home for violent criminals that men: Edward is Arkham Asylum. There he learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent – left to stumble upon the Nightwalkers, a gang who steal any ten-figure bank account contents they can, and murder the owner. Can he get close to one two of them and get the truth of their schemes, or will the manipulative Madeleine be kissing in a step too far for the young do-gooder?dark passageway.
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|isbnauthor=B07W4MNBSGJo Callaghan|title=Be Careful Who You Marry|author=Lizzy MumfreyLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=It was coming up to Halloween in 1987 and When a group man is found crucified on the top of sixth-form schoolgirls wondered what they would be doing when they were fiftya hill in Nuneaton, DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the case alongside her sidekick, the AI detective Lock. When youIt're only seventeen that seems positively ancients their first live case together, but Liz was convinced that ''your entire life depends on who you marry''having previously been very successful with several cold cases. The only eligible boys were the Young Farmers But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and the idea of living in a farmhouse and having very high profile case that draws a couple lot of children called Will and Olly appealed unwanted attention to Charlotte, or perhaps William and Oliver if you were Elizabeth who was determined to marry the rather superior Patrick Shepley-Bothamtheir AI Future Policing project. The place Will they be able to start their search was obviously solve the Young Farmers' Halloween disco that weekend. There was just one problem - there were too many Elizabeths case in time, or will Kat find herself taken off the class.case and, potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|authorisbn=Michael J Malone1399613073|title=In The Absence of MiraclesMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=John Docherty's mother has been taken into 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 be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a nursing home following perfectionist and a massive stroketrauma doctor. It Anjali is thought unlikely that the free spirit of the group and she becomes a GP. When we first meet them they're at a drug and alcohol-fuelled party and it's going to end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the consequences. Twenty-five years later there will ever be able to live independently againan eerily similar event that will impact the three friends. Faced with having 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 sell the family home bring up an image of a city banker in order your mind, you're unlikely to pay for her nursing carethink of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background is the East End, where he was familiar with violence, Docherty starts poverty and injustice. There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the clear outLondon School of Economics. In the attic Stevenson is bright - extremely bright - and he finds has a childhood picture facility with numbers which most of himselfus can only envy. He also realised that most rich people expect poor people to be stupid. It was his ability at what was, essentially, holding a toddler – a toddler he knows nothing aboutcard game which got him an internship with Citibank. He also finds Eventually, this turned into permanent employment as a blood-stained shoetrader.|isbn=191237479X
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|isbn=06928535451035021803|title=The Things We DoAntique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=Kay PfaltzC L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=It's 2015 and Dr Eleanor Hartley is a prison psychologist at twenty years since Freya Lockwood has been back to the state penitentiary and English country village where she knows that her next patient is not going to be easygrew up. She'Jane Doe' has been convicted s back now because of the murder of two men - one a police officerrequest for help from her beloved aunt, Carole. She pleaded guilty Freya's former mentor and since then has been silent: even her identity Carole's close friend, Arthur Crockleford, is in doubtdead and the circumstances seem suspicious, to say the least. She Arthur was carrying identification as Jane Dunlap when the reason why Freya had not been back to the village: Arthur, she was arrestedfeels, but it's been proved to be falselet her down badly. There seem Even though they were in business together as antique hunters, she has not felt able to be no family near the man or friends who are missing herpursue the profession she loved. Eleanor's task is to get Jane talkingAfter the split, to find out why she worked in a seemingly normal young woman would murder two mencafe, met and married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) 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.
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|isbn=1529153298
|title=The List of Suspicious Things
|author=Jennie Godfrey
|rating=5
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, honestly...) She's not what's worrying Miv's family, though. Women have been disappearing. Well, they've been murdered, but to have 'disappeared' doesn't sound quite so frightening. Miv's upset because she's overheard that her father wants to move the family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is a frightening, foreign place, best avoided. For Miv, the move would mean leaving her best friend, Sharon, and she'll do anything to prevent that. She's not worried about the dangers or that her Mum's stopped talking - to anyone.
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|authorisbn=Patti Smith1398524085|title=Year of the MonkeyHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Nicci French|rating=45|genre=BiographyCrime|summary=On the coast of Santa CruzCharlotte Salter was expected at her husband's fiftieth birthday party but never turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Patti Smith enters the lunar year of the monkey Etty. are all worried but - strangely - one packed with mischiefher husband, Alec, sorrowis not. Shortly afterwards, Etty and unexpected moments. In a strangerGreg, find the body of Greg's wordsfather, ''Anything is possible: after allDuncan Ackerley, it's in the year of the monkey''river. As Smith wanders It was an easy assumption for the coast of Santa Cruz in solitude, she reflects on a year police to make that brings huge shifts in her life - loss Duncan had murdered Charlie and aging then committed suicide when he couldn't stand the guilt. The Salter children are faced head not convinced but there's little else they can do but get on, as it the shifting political waters in Americawith their lives and wonder about what really happened. |isbn=1526614758
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|authorisbn=Margaret Atwood1035906708|title=The TestamentsDiva|author=Daisy Goodwin
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|genre=Dystopian General Fiction|summary= Finally! Almost forty years onWe tend to think of Maria Callas as Greek, we have a sequel but she was born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and only moved to Athens when she was thirteen. [[The HandmaidHer original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 's Tale by Margaret Atwood|The HandmaidCallas's Tale]]. I don't want to tell you too much about make it more manageable in the plot because it's a novel that is entirely plot drivenStates. Suffice it to say When she was back in Athens - supposedly so that ''The Testaments'' takes place fifteen years later, fifteen years after Offred gets into a van, not knowing what will happen next. It's told by three narrators: Aunt Lydia, who is secretly writing she could get appropriate training for her memoirs in Ardua Hall; Agnes, a girl brought up in Gilead with voice - she was raised under the expectation she will marry Nazi occupation by a commander; Daisy, a rebellious teenage girl in Canada mother who knows mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of Gilead only from school lessons and its Pearl Girl missionaries who occasionally call into the store owned by her parents..preference for her elder sister, Jackie.|isbn=1784742325
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|author=Anne BodenChristopher Edge|title=The Money RevolutionBlack Hole Cinema Club
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|genre= Business and FinanceConfident Readers|summary= Money is changing. It might not be Lucas and his friends are all booked in the ways you think. We’re not suddenly getting for a 3p or £3 coin (and have you ever even found movie marathon at their local cinema, a country place that offers anything different has the nickname of 'The Black Hole'. All big movie fans, they're looking forward to the 1lots of exciting films, 2and many, 5 model?) We’re getting a lot more digital with paymentsmany snacks! However, which seems to suit most people apart from charity collectors and the homeless on as the streetmovie starts, but although this book has the subtitle they very quickly realise that includes the word ‘’digital’’, it’s not really something about this eithernew film format is very different, and they are swept up into an adventure they couldn't even imagine. Instead it’s about But as they lurch from one film genre to the next, can they figure out what on earth is going on? Will they ever get back to the ‘’management’’ of your financescinema, and how to take control.their real lives?|isbn=17896606101839942738
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