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• Top Ten Fantasy Books of 2013
  |summary= A fantastic start to a new series that may disappoint Otherworld fans, but for those looking for a superb crime novel |summary= |summary=2013 seems to be a year for excellent fantasy debuts as here's another one. In
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• The Shadow King: The Bizarre Afterlife of King Tut's Mummy by Jo Marchant
  |date=June 2013 ...of death. Marchant is open-minded about each theory and concludes that we may never know the truth about the boy-king’s death as the recent political u
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• Young Knights of the Round Table by Julia Golding
  |date=April 2013 ...ry-style training they have undergone when they begin to realise that they may not be in possession of all the facts, and that the Fey clearly do not have
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• Fade To Black by Francis Knight
  |date=February 2013 ...only his niece has gone missing, but lots of girls. But to solve it, Rojan may have to use what he most fears - his forbidden pain magic.
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• Harvest by Jim Crace
  |date=February 2013 ...ave much of a conclusion - it's an anecdote, an episode, a pondering. Some may find it frustrating, but I love it for that subtle refusal. It's is a story
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• May 2013 Newsletter
  == May's News from Bookbag Towers == ...details [http://my.redhouse.co.uk/content/red-house-young-writers-yearbook-2013-competition here].
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• Bang by Leo Timmers
  |date=May 2013 ...child will not learn a lot of new words from this book, but they very well may learn to recognise the word ''bang'' even if they are nowhere near reading
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• Five Star Billionaire by Tash Aw
  |date=February 2013 ...feel smug. If you're not content and want more than you've attained, Tash may have hit upon a way of making you think again.
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• Intermission by Owen Martell
  |date=January 2013 |summary=A well observed story that may be a little downbeat and slow moving for some, but is made wonderful by bei
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• Twerp by Mark Goldblatt
  |date=May 2013 ...t him suspended, his relationships with his friends, and his worry that he may no longer be the fastest kid in school - is a brilliant central character.
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• Ding Dong Gorilla by Michelle Robinson and Leonie Lord
  |date=September 2013 ...esses so he disappeared just as the boy's mother came downstairs. All this may sound like bad news - but wait the really bad news is......
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• A Possibility of Violence: An Inspector Avraham Avraham Novel (Inspector Avraham 2) by D A Mishani and Todd Hasak-Lowy (Translator)
  ...ector Avraham Avraham wants to find the bomber before next time as then it may not be pretence. Meanwhile Chaim Sara has a special interest in the bomb a ...of Violence'' itself was (deep breath and here we go) short listed for the 2013 CWA International Dagger award and won the Martin Beck (best translated cri
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• The Mirror Chronicles: the Bell Between Worlds by Ian Johnstone
  |date=June 2013 ...y first seem) and he quickly learns and has to accept that innocent people may well die because of him. It's a hard burden for such a young boy to carry.
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• Thirst by Kerry Hudson
  |date=July 2013 I’m aware the above synopsis may make this book sound a little like bad chick-lit, something I tend to avoid
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• The Trader of Saigon by Lucy Cruickshanks
  |date=July 2013 ...obably take an instant dislike to if someone else described him to us. We may not want to invite him to dinner but he's as much a victim of his past life
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• The Girl In The Mask by Marie-Louise Jensen
  '''Longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2013''' '''Shortlisted for Romantic Novelists Association Award 2013: The Young Adult Romantic Novel'''
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• Top 10 of Everything 2015 by Paul Terry
  ...r games in any of the lists. That said, particularly sensitive individuals may wish to avoid the section about human parasites and the picture of the man ...t readers, who don't like the idea of reading a story from cover to cover, may be more comfortable with this sort of book. I had a lot of fun reading with
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• Deadly Detectives: Top Tips to Track Wildlife by Steve Backshall
  |date=November 2013 ...ther footprint illustrations, teaching children subtle differences between may types of prints. It even had crab and bird prints to look for at the seasid
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• The River of No Return by Bee Ridgway
  |date=May 2013 ...'t only send him back, they won't take no for an answer. Any thought Nick may have about a possible catch is supplanted by memories of Julia, the girl Ni
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• Jasmine Nights by Julia Gregson
  |date=January 2013 ...en you might like to try [[Wildflower Hill by Kimberley Freeman]] or [[The May Queen by Helen Irene Young]].
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