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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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|authorisbn= T R Hendrick1529428289|title= What if They KnewA Grave in the Woods (A Bruno, Chief of Police Novel)|author=Martin Walker|rating= 4|genre= General FictionCrime|summary= It's 2025. Underneath a lodge in Because of various property transactions, people were searching for the Blue Mountain resort in Pennsylvaniagrave but when they found it, is a secret facilityit came with three sets of bones. Here They dated back to World War II and it fell to Bruno, Dr Benton and his team are making some critical scientific advances on behalf the Chief of Police for St Denis, to discover the identities of the Benefactor, their anonymous funderbodies and establish whether or not a crime had been committed. Already, the team have succeeded in teleporting small primates from one place As if this isn't enough to another. Butworry about, unbeknownst to the Benefactor, Dr Benton has also coded for another type of teleportation altogether Dordogne River - normally tranquil - travel through timeis flowing at record levels. And he It's ready not just the local autumn rains that have caused the problem: various dams upstream on another river have had to testrelease water and St Denis faces the possibility of a devastating flood. If successful, Benton has a very specific use for his technology in mind|isbn=1734277211
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|authorisbn= Catherine Steadman152919640X|title= Mr NobodyThe Suspect|author=Rob Rinder|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersCrime|summary= DonThe nation't you just hate it when people are multi-talented? Author Catherine Steadman is both a successful actress and writers favourite daytime TV presenter, Jessica Holby, with this her second novel. I think in a way her acting background shows in her writing as to my mind the 'fight scene' at the end was somewhat unrealistic – you know the kind where the hero has been hurt so many times murdered live on television and it seems that itthere's virtually impossible theyonly one suspect. He'd still be alive let alone able s celebrity chef Sebastian Brooks and his contract stated that he must not serve anything containing miso to fight off Jessica Holby. She's seriously allergic and carries an attackerEpiPen in case of emergencies. The story also unfolded at Everything seemed as normal - as normal as they can be in a steady pace throughout until the ending which felt overstuffed in busy, live television studio - and Brooks served a frenetic bid ragout to Holby. Her EpiPen was nowhere to wrap everything up in the last few chaptersbe found and she was dead within minutes. It was almost as if the author wanted to keep the suspense until the last possible moment (which I liked) but then soon clear that this was somewhat left with too much to do in the closing stagesno accident.|isbn=1984890646
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|isbn=14736818470008385068|title=In Her EyesThe Midnight Feast|author=Sarah AldersonLucy Foley|rating=4.5
|genre=Thrillers
|summary=Ava lives a charmed life, but those things sometimes rub other people up It's midsummer on the wrong wayDorset coast and guests gather at The Manor. One evening she returns from a night out with a friend, It's their opening weekend and before she can finish her bedtime routine, splendid celebrations are promised. It's all headed up by Francesca Meadows. The Manor was her ancestral home, and her life, are under attack: masked men have broken in she's converted it into an impressive retreat for the wealthy and are demanding money from her famous. Her husband, while her young daughter cowers beside him. In Owen, was the scuffle than ensues, Ava architect and work is hurt, badlystill ongoing on parts of the site. When she wakes up in hospital she can barely remember what happened, but she knows it was life-changing. With her daughter still fighting for her life in a room down The heat is oppressive and amongst the corridor, Ava has a lot to contend with guests are enemies as well as she tries friends. Old scores are going to recover, wills her daughter to recover, be settled and attempts to piece together what happened and whyit won't be long before a body is found.
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|author=Leigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kit SeatonAshley Hickson-Lovence|title=Wonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic NovelWild East|rating=34.5
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|summary=DianaWritten in verse, being unique on her islandthis is Ronny's story, a young black fourteen year old boy from Hackney who suddenly has to move to Norwich and start at a mostly white school. The move is initiated by Ronny's mum who is the victim of worried for Ronny's safety after a tragic event, and so Ronny finds himself trying to settle in a new town, a lot of tauntsnew school, and claims keep himself out of nepotismtrouble. It's only her unique statusHe listens to music constantly, and her mother has always dreamed of being Queena rapper. But now, that has her with any standing at allin this new school, her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought his teacher encourages him to be part of a strong young woman. Perhaps too strong for poetry writing workshop group and, slowly, Ronny begins to see the islandconnections between rap and poetry, however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for and the World power of Mencreativity 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, and the things that make you ''immediately'' feel that this Diana is the heroine book for you. Before I started reading ''The Lavender Companion'', I visited the author's [https://www.pinelavenderfarm.com/ website] and there's a picture of yet another Wonder Woman origin storya slice of chocolate cake on the homepage. I don't eat cakes and desserts - but I wanted that cake viscerally. A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance (There's a recipe in a running racethe book, but which I'm avoiding with some difficulty!!) Then I started reading the survivor she drags from book and I was told to make a mess of it. Notes in the waters is only going margins are sanctioned. You get to disturb fold down the corners of pages. You suspect that smears of butter would not be a lot moreproblem. I ''loved'' this book already.}}{{Frontpage|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=14012825551783064617
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|isbnauthor=1786075695Jenny Valentine|title=When Us in the Dead Come Calling (Burrowhead Mysteries 1)|author=Helen SedgwickBefore 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.
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|author=Kieran 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?
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|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.
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|author=Stuart Douglas
|title=Lowe and Le Breton Mysteries - Death at the Dress Rehearsal
|rating=3.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=It began with During location filming for his 1970's sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the discovery dead body of a body under woman on the swings in the children's playgroundedge of a reservoir. It was Dr Alexis Crosse The police seem happy to assign it as an accidental death, but something about the whole thing bothers Lowe, and he was found by PC Simon Hunter, who loved him deeplyenlists the help of a fellow actor, but who had reason John Le Breton to mistrust help himinvestigate matters further. Crosse was a psychotherapist who grew up in GreeceThey travel across the country during their days off filming, uncovering more possible murders and, but such professions are misunderstood in Burrowhead (along with foreigners)seemingly, a community which regards anyone not born and brought up there as an outsiderlink to death during the Second World War. DI Georgie Strachan But is an outsider - you've only got there really a link between the deaths? And will they manage to look at her skin to realise that, and her husband, Fergus, well, he's a little strange too, not entirely ''here''.uncover who is responsible before more people lose their lives?|isbn=1803368209
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|authorisbn=Alastair ChisholmB0CYV674G2|title=Orion LostSwanton Morley (John Tanner)|author=David Blake|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=ThirteenIt seemed like an open-yearand-shut case. A man, covered in mud and blood -old Beth and her parents board carrying a knife, comes into the police station shouting that he hasn't killed the transport ship Orion ready for man. A body at the bottom of a new life on Eos Fivefreshly dug grave at Swanton Morley church - he's been stabbed to death. Their new home DCI John Tanner is still being terra-formed and life there isnjust back from his honeymoon, which coincided with the birth of his daughter Samantha. You would think he't going to d be grateful for an easy, answer but it the words 'perverse'isand 'John Tanner' going to be a fresh startwere made for each other. As BethHe's mum puts it, ''Theresleep-deprived to the point of falling asleep at work but he's a future waiting for us. A chance determined to make our own decisions, create our own liveskeep going - probably because he can't get any sleep at home.''|isbn=1788005929
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|isbn=07535532361787333175|title=Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change EverythingYou Don't Have to be Mad to Work Here|author=B J FoggBenji Waterhouse
|rating=5
|genre=LifestylePopular Science|summary=Go on, admit it - youI was tempted to read ''re not quite perfect. You still have those odd, quirky, even loveable (Don't Have to be Mad to you) habits that seem Work Here'' after enjoying Adam Kay's first book {{amazonurl|isbn=1509858636|title=This is Going to annoy other people. Other peopleHurt}}, a glorious mixture of insight into the workings of coursethe NHS, are sorely afflicted with some dreadful flaws which they could so easily correct, if only they would make just a little bit of efforthumour and autobiography. Or put another way, I get cross with myself because I forget to do things or do some actions more than I should and no matter how I try to make what seem ''You Don't Have to be quite monumental changes I never quite seem Mad...'' promised the same elements but moved from physical problems to get to grips with mental illness and the conceptswork of a psychiatrist. I constantly fail 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 then I get cross it is always delivered with myself for failing. Lack of willpower is another burden to add to the listempathy and understanding.
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|author= B T KeatonOnyi Nwabineli|title= TransferenceAllow Me to Introduce Myself|rating= 4.5|genre= Science General Fiction|summary= Barrabus Madzimure is about Anuri spent her childhood on display to diethe world, stranded thanks to her step-mother Ophelia's increasingly popular presence on a mining planet millions of light-years from homesocial media, executed for high crimes against the Church, the ruling body where she posted every step of Earth. Except heAnuri's not Barrabus Madzimurechildhood for sponsorships and influencer deals and, he's Thaniel Kilraven basically, monetary gain. Now Anuri is in Barrabus Madzimure's body. Such her twenties and she is the magic of Transference, the ability slowly trying to transplant a person's soul or consciousness into a different body - regain her confidence and a power that the Church has exclusive control over. As if Thaniel doesn't have enough things to worry aboutget her life back, a Church employee named Corvus has arrived from Earth suing her step-mother to interrogate himtake down the content about her. All Thaniel wants Anuri is battling alcoholism, failing to see his family againstart her PhD, undergoing therapy and secretly abusing people online and he'll stop at nothing to accomplish thisreceiving money from them for doing so. Most importantly, she is desperately worried about her little sister, but who is the Church isnnew focus of Ophelia't going to give in without a hell of a fight..s online empire. Can she save her sister, and perhaps herself and her relationship with her father at the same time?|isbn=B082WPHTHH0861546873
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|author=Christine BrownDavid Chadwick|title=Bucket Showers and Baby Goats: Volunteering in West AfricaHeadload of Napalm
|rating=4.5
|genre=TravelThrillers|summary=In the summer of 2008, this bookIt's author was spending her days working September 1973 in an office job Hicks, California. Hicks is a Mojave desert town of a few thousand people with its nearest neighbours of LA and Las Vegas both a significant drive away. Not much happens in Hicks. A silver mine and a defence contractor are the USA while spending her nights dreaming about being somewhere elsemain local employers but otherwise, doing something elsethere's not much of note other than dive bars and Joshua trees. Long story shortLife is quiet, she ended up volunteering in Ghana, West Africauntil.... Now coincidentally|isbn= B0D321VJ76}}{{Frontpage|author=Tom Percival|title=The Wrong Shoes|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Will's life is difficult, in the summer a multitude of 2010, this reviewways. He is bullied because he has 's author was spending the wrong shoes', he has the wrong shoes because his dad can'hert work and doesn't have enough money for even the most basic of things like food, and his dad can' days t work because he lost his job at the college, was working a cash-in -hand job on a building site and had an office job (albeit in accident. Throw into that mix the UK) while spending ''her'' nights dreaming about being somewhere else, doing something elsefact that his mum and dad are separated, and Will''she'' ended up just 3 countries away, volunteering s life seems bleak in Sierra Leoneevery direction. And yet, West Africahe still has a tiny amount of hope. So you can see why He is good at art, and clings to the moments of joy when this book came uphe is drawing, that feel like a light at the end of a long, said reviewer was delighted dark tunnel.|isbn=1398527122}}{{Frontpage|author=Sylvie Cathrall|title=A Letter to have the opportunity Luminous Deep|rating=5|genre=Science Fiction|summary= There are few greater joys than a book which lives up to read and critique ita compelling premise. And this is one of them.|isbn=171024299X0356522776
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|authorisbn=Mark Lingane0008517061|title=Degrade (Tesla Expansion)Death in a Lonely Place|author=Stig Abell
|rating=4
|genre=TeensCrime|summary= ''Degrade'' opens as it means to go on - with inyerfaceFormer Metropolitan Police detective, banging action. Poor Arid, alone in the desert since his parents were killedJake Johnson, has a narrow escape as two mega-rigs fight it out and settled into his is pretty much destroyedrustic life at Little Sky. He finds himself rescued by the mysterious-but-fascinating Ella and onboard the ''Moonlight'' under There’s perhaps a little uncertainty about the suspicious eyes future of its leaderhis life with his vet girlfriend, Queen Bea. Bea's eyes flash with recognition when he tells Livia and her daughter Diana, as moving in together would mean a lot of compromise: does Jake give up his name - Arid Geiger off- but before he can find out why that is, there's an assassination attempt grid and Arid relaxing life to move in with Livia or does Livia move to Little Sky despite her reservations about whether or not this is under suspicion and imprisoned. An escape facilitated by Ella - Queen Bea's daughter - sees Arid the future she wants for herself and her other daughter, Frey, stranded ? For the moment they’re enjoying life in the desert.present and putting the future on the back burner..|isbn= 099461649X
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|isbn=B07XLM3SM61786482126|title=Murder at the Dolphin HotelThe Janus Stone (Dr Ruth Galloway)|author=Helena DixonElly Griffiths|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=Elowed Underhay Builders were demolishing an old house in Norwich - the site was just twentygoing to hold seventy-five 'luxury' apartments -seven when she disappeared from Dartmouth in June 1916, leaving her daughter, Kitty, in they discovered the care bones of her grandmothera child beneath a doorway. 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 There was no evidence to suggest otherwiseskull. Kitty has come to terms with Was this and in 1933 she was running the Dolphin Hotel in Dartmouth a ritual killing or murder? Inevitably, Dr Ruth Galloway finds herself working with her grandmother when her grandmother had to leave to look after her sister who was illDCI Harry Nelson. She was reluctant to leave Kitty in charge - and Kitty could not understand why. SheIt's always coped difficult as Ruth knows, but Nelson doesn't, that she is pregnant with the mix his child as a result of holidaymakers, boating people and the naval college on the edge of town before - and she's done every job in the hotelone night they spent together some three months ago. 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 Her condition will be obvious before long, not least because Ruth is prone to take charge sudden bouts of security at the hotelsickness.
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|authorisbn=0008551324|title=Seishi Yokomizo and Louise Heal Kawai The Devil You Know (translatorD S Max Craigie)|titleauthor=The Honjin MurdersNeil Lancaster|rating=4.5
|genre=Crime
|summary=To many readers, the phrase It'locked room murder mystery' is enough to make s unusual for anyone from the book one Hardie family to read; preferably quantified by approach the words 'clever' police. Neither side likes or 'good'has any respect for the other. For those who need more, here But Davie Hardie is struggling in prison and he's prepared to tell the extra background – we're in rural Japan in police where the 1930sbody of a missing person is buried and who was responsible for her death. The oldest son of an esteemed family is belatedly getting marriedThis person, he promises, although the whole affair is really not as ostentatious as someone big and it might will be – hardly anybody has turned up, worth the police doing what with it being arranged at great hastehe wants. She only has an uncle representing her family, for one thing. Either way, the celebrations have gone ahead as planned, only for the wedded couple And what he wants is to be slashed transferred to death in their private annexe before an open prison to serve the sun rises on their marriageremainder of his sentence and to get an early parole date. What with a man missing parts of his fingers being in the neighbourhoodNot much to ask, is it? The new Deputy Police Constable doesn't think so and some mysterious use of a traditional musical instrument at she's even prepared to do the time of the crime, this case has a lot of the peculiar about itother thing that Hardie demanded - make certain that DS Max Craigie and anyone who works with him is kept well away from what's happening.|isbn=1782275002
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|authorisbn=Cixin Liu0008405026|title=Death's EndA Stranger in the Family (Maeve Kerrigan 11)|author=Jane Casey
|rating=5
|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary= If IIt'd been paying more attention when I picked this book ups 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 mother, Helena, I would have put it back on the shelfand her father are dead in their bed. Not because I didn't want to read Initially, it, looks like a straightforward murder/suicide but because Ithere'd have figured out s something about the positioning of the bodies that makes DS Maeve Kerrigan and her boss DI Josh Derwent suspicious. What looked as though it was the final part of going to be an open-and-shut case is now a trilogycomplex double murder. Coming in partway through a saga Kerrigan is never convinced that the easiest thing to do and itexplanation lies in Rosalie's particularly true in science fiction because without knowing the back-story there are not just people whose names mean nothing to you disappearance: others (when itsuch as Derwent's assumed they willboss, Una Burt) but there are whole concepts that you won't understandless convinced.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571379877|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. This latter is particularly true of Cixin LiuRobert's work – his range is phenomenala theatre director. George R R MartinHe's also self-obsessed, who knows a thing or two about world-creationdemanding, described it as ''a unique blend of scientific handsome and entitled and philosophical speculation, conspiracy theory uses Edward to run errands for him. Edward has been in love with Stanza since their university days - and cosmology'he's drunkenly confided how he feels to Robert. All 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 that and morethem kissing in a dark passageway.|isbn=1784971650
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|isbnauthor=1780894511Jo Callaghan|title=Die Alone|author=Simon KernickLeave No Trace
|rating=4
|genre=ThrillersCrime|summary=Ray Mason When a man is in prison awaiting trial for murder and he's in found crucified on the vulnerable prisoner unit: as a cop, he's something top of a targethill in Nuneaton, but DCS Kat Frank finds herself assigned to the unit is not as secure as case alongside her sidekick, the inmates would have hoped and Mason is injured in a riotAI detective Lock. On his way to hospital heIt's broken free by armed men and an offer is made to himtheir first live case together, having previously been very successful with several cold cases. He's to assassinate the man who But when there is a second body found crucified a few days later, Kat is likely to become the country's next prime minister suddenly struggling with a potential serial killer and he'll then be given a new identity so very high profile case that he can start afresh abroaddraws a lot of unwanted attention to their AI Future Policing project. His captors say that Will they're MI6be able to solve the case in time, but Mason has his doubts. His choices are limited though or will Kat find herself taken off the case and he has personal reasons to believe that it would be better if Alastair Sheridan was dead., potentially, out of a career?|isbn=139851120X
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|authorisbn=Akwaeke Emezi1399613073|title=PetMoral Injuries|author=Christie Watson
|rating=4.5
|genre=TeensThrillers|summary=The people of the town Lucille believe that all the monsters are gone. Their children are raised to understand that they were saved by the angelsOlivia, those who rid Laura and Anjali met on the town first day of evil, medical school and there are no monsters anymoretheir friendship would keep them inseparable for a quarter of a century. But one dayOlivia is ruthlessly ambitious, Jam accidentally cuts herself which is a bonus when you aim to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. Laura is a perfectionist and bleeds a little onto one trauma doctor. Anjali is the free spirit of her mother's paintingsthe group and she becomes a GP. The blood awakens When we first meet them they're at a bizarre, terrifyingdrug and alcohol-looking creature named Pet, who somehow comes to life fuelled party and declares that it is here 's going to hunt end in tragedy. We don't know who suffered the tragedy or the monsterconsequences. Though Jam tries to convince it that all the monsters are gone, Pet is certain that Twenty-five years later there is one, still, and will be an eerily similar event that will impact the monster is hiding in the home of her best friendthree friends. This time, Redemptionit's their teenage children who are involved.|isbn=0571355110
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|isbn=16867516800241636604|title=My Mummy does weird things / Maman fait des choses bizarresThe Trading Game: A Confession|author=Amelie Julien and GustyawanGary Stevenson|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingAutobiography|summary=Which child doesnIf you were to bring up an image of a city banker in your mind, you't re unlikely to think that their mother of someone like Gary Stevenson. A hoodie and jeans replaces the pin-stripe suit and his background isthe East End, wellwhere he was familiar with violence, ''weird''? poverty and injustice. It might be that in There was no posh public school on his CV - but he had been to the morning their mother doesn't like speaking much when every selfLondon School of Economics. Stevenson is bright - extremely bright -respecting child knows and he has a facility with numbers which most of us can only envy. He also realised that that is when you're at your brightest with lots most rich people expect poor people to say? ''Why'' then does Mummy stick her fingers in her ears? Then there's doing yoga in front of the television, which could be worrying if it wasn't so funnystupid. We won't go into too much detail about It was his ability at what goes on in the bathroom and the colour changes was, essentially, a card game which have occurred when Mummy emerges and frankly, the less said the better about her reactions to your artistic efforts on the wallgot him an internship with Citibank. I meanEventually, what else would you use paint for?this turned into permanent employment as a trader.
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|authorisbn=Justine Avery and Liuba Syrotiuk1035021803|title=What Wonders Do You See... When You Dream?The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder|author=C L Miller|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=It''The day s twenty years since Freya Lockwood has ended''<br>''Hasn't it been splendid?back to the English country village where she grew up. She'' <br>''But s back nowbecause of a request for help from her beloved aunt, itCarole. Freya's timeformer mentor and Carole's close friend, to be sure'' <br>''For an entirely different adventure'' <br> I hope you haven't forgotten how it feels to be much too excited for bed. If you're a parent at leastArthur Crockleford, you'll know how it is to persuade an excited small person that yesdead and the circumstances seem suspicious, it is in fact time for bed. ''What Wonders DoYou See...'' sets out to cater to these childrensay the least. Instead of trying Arthur was the reason why Freya had not been back to persuade them that night time is a calm timethe village: Arthur, she feels, it takes a slightly different tacklet her down badly. It tells them that sleep is actually an exciting time: a time of dreams Even though they were in which imagination takes over and business together as antique hunters, she has no limitnot felt able to be near the man or pursue the profession she loved. But After the trick split, she worked in accessing this wonderful a cafe, met and exciting world is to get calm married James (on the rebound from the love of her life, who was murdered) and relaxed first so that you can easily fall asleep Freya and open the door to itJames have now divorced. |isbn=194812422X
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|authorisbn=Michael HarrisAllTomorrowsFutureCover|title=SolitudeAll Tomorrow's Futures: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary= This is not the book I was expecting it to be. For some reason I expected it to be another self-help manual on how to find calm, how to step outside the mainstream, but it is not Fictions that at all. Instead of telling us how it is more about the ''why''. Harries examines how we're eroding solitude, which used to be a natural part of our human life, and why that matters. Of course, he talks about how some people have found solitude and what has come of that, and eventually in the final chapter he talks about his own experience of having deliberately sought it out, but mostly he wanders down the alleys and by-ways that his thinking about this lost art led him.|isbn=1847947662}}{{FrontpageDisrupt|author=Andy Briggs|title=Ctrl+SBenjamin Greenaway and Stephen Oram (Editors)
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|summary= In ''Opening up new ways of thinking about the near future, lifeshape of things to come.'' I've heard it said that 'technology' is what happens after you's pretty goodre eighteen. Climate change has been brought under control Well, the bee population has I must confess that there have been brought back from near-extinction, and 3D printing has made things cheaper and quicker more than ever beforea few decades of technology in my lifetime. But I've kept up reasonably well with what's advantageous to me but I'm left with the biggest triumph has got to be SPACE, a simulated world feeling that has the ability to mimic emotions as well as imagesit's all getting away from me. But, as with every technology, there Some of it is the potential for it to be abused- frankly - quite frightening. Every day Of course, people are being kidnapped, plugged into SPACE and have their emotions I could research the possibilities and feelings harvested for the richest probabilities and sickest members of society. And now Theoend up down rabbit holes without really understanding whether I'm reading someone who knows what they's mum has gone missing. As he follows re talking about or the trail left by her, he uncovers a vast latest conspiracy that would use any means necessary to stop him from finding out where his mum has gonetheorist. I needed people I knew I could trust and who could deliver information in a way I could understand..|isbn=1409184641
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|isbnauthor=1609809378Sunny Singh|title=The Rabbits' Rebellion|author=Ariel Dorfman and Chris RiddellHotel Arcadia|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers |summary=We're The Hotel Arcadia is a luxury hotel in the realm of the rabbits, only the foxes and wolves have an unnamed city that has suddenly been violently taken overby a terrorist group. King WolfHiding from the terrorists who are rampaging through, His Wolfinesskilling everyone on site, there is Sam, has declared the rabbits don't exista wartime photographer and Abhi, but the pesky birds have spread rumours from awing that hotel manager. As Abhi continues to try to care remotely for the bunnies residents who are still alive in fact still around. Demanding a propaganda spreethe hotel, King Wolf orders he forms a humble monkey bond with Sam who refuses to be his official portrait photographercowed by events, but whatever the poor innocent monkey prints and keeps on venturing out in his darkroom there is a distinct leporine hintof her room to try to capture what's happened through her photography. Can King Wolf succeed in proving himself victoriousAlthough they only ever talk over the phone, can the rabbits show their continued existence friendship grows as Abhi tries to all who need help her keep safe and they both wait to know of it – and what can see if they will be rescued before they are discovered by the poor monkey caught in between do?terrorists.|isbn=086154742X
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|authorisbn=Innosanto Nagara1529153298|title=M is for MovementThe List of Suspicious Things|author=Jennie Godfrey|rating=45|genre=Emerging ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Set in IndonesiaIt's 1979 and Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister. (A woman? I mean, in the honestly...) She's not too distant pastwhat's worrying Miv's family, this is a story about social changethough. Women have been disappearing. Dealing with some difficult issuesWell, such as political corruption and nepotismthey'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 book family 'Down South'. When you're from Yorkshire, Down South is neither boring nor preachya frightening, foreign place, best avoided. It educates gentlyFor Miv, with vibrantthe move would mean leaving her best friend, challenging illustrationsSharon, and it portrays how social movements need people who will try, even when it seems she'll do anything to prevent that they will fail. The message is a positive one; She's not worried about the dangers or that in an increasingly uncertain world, we do still have the power her Mum's stopped talking - to instigate changeanyone.|isbn=1609809351
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|isbn=17807240471398524085|title=A Dictionary of Interesting and Important DogsHas Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?|author=Peter J ConradiNicci French|rating=45|genre=PetsCrime|summary=I struggle to resist a book about dogs, but I did wonder why this one Charlotte Salter was so expected at her husband''thin'': given that I've s fiftieth birthday party but never encountered a dog who wasn't interesting or important turned up. Her children, sons Niall, Paul and Ollie and her daughter, Etty. are all worried but - strangely - and probably bothher husband, Alec, I was expecting a massive tomeis not. But ''A Dictionary of Interesting Shortly afterwards, Etty and Important Dogs'' is actually ''a rich compendium Greg, find the body of the worldGreg's most significant and beloved dogs'' and it's certainly a rich treasure trovefather, Duncan Ackerley, in the river. We begin with Peter J ConradiIt was an easy assumption for the police to make that Duncan had murdered Charlie and then committed suicide when he couldn's four collies: Cloudy, Sky. Bradley and Maxt stand the guilt. They're consecutive rather than simultaneous dogs, The Salter children are not convinced but what comes over is Conradithere's love for each little else they can do but get on with their lives and every one of them. I knew that I was in safe handswonder about what really happened.
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|isbn=17857692941035906708|title=Man at the Window (Detective Cardellini)Diva|author=Robert JeffreysDaisy Goodwin
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|genre=CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary=It's when we read that a young boy is creeping reluctantly We tend to a teacher's bedroom one October night that we realise something is badly wrong. Nowadays you ''might'' hope that something would be done about it fairly quickly think of Maria Callas as Greek, but this she was 1965 born to Greek parents in Manhattan, New York, in December 1923 and child abuse only moved to Athens when she was generally regarded as malicious mischief on the part of the childthirteen. The boy would be safe that night though - albeit Her original surname was Kalogeropoulos but her father changed it to 'Callas' to make it more manageable in the most horrific fashionStates. When he reached Captain Edmund's bedroom he found the man dead on the floor, the top of his skull missing. The school's initial reaction she was back in Athens - supposedly so that this she could get appropriate training for her voice - she was raised under the Nazi occupation by a dreadful accident: there had been a cull mother who mercilessly exploited her and made no secret of kangaroos in some nearby fields and it was obviously a stray bullet that had killed the Captainher preference for her elder sister, Jackie.
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