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[[Category:Reference|*]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1394159544|title=Recycling for Dummies|author=DKSarah Winkler|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=''Recycling one ton of plastic can save up to 16.3 barrels of oil.'' ''Recycling one ton of paper can save 17 trees from being cut down.'' If you send an apple core to landfill, it will take between 6 months and 2 years to decompose. A glass bottle will take up to 1 million years. As a just-post-WWII baby, I faced a dilemma: reducing, reusing and recycling is part of my DNA. NEVER throw away anything that might ''possibly'' come in handy now or in the future. NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something that would serve the purpose. Almost everything can be used one more time and any purchase must pass the test of 'Is this absolutely essential?' On the other hand, I suspected I was guilty of wishcycling: assuming that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I'm looking at you) and dropping it in the kerbside bin. Yes, I could go searching on the internet - and get conflicting advice - but what I needed was a recycling bible.s}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1913750353|title=WhatBritannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy|rating=5|genre=Children's Where Non-Fiction|summary=''Britannica's Word of the Day'' has a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to know about this brilliant book. It starts on Earth? Atlas: The World as January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', tells you how to pronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), gives you a definition and then includes the word in a sentence so that you know how it should be used. Youalso get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration too. I don't think I've Never Seen It Beforeever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!}}{{Frontpage|isbn=suppl_stafl|title=Supply Chain 20/20: A Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book Lovers|author=Kim Staflund

|summary=I dread to So, you've finished writing your book and you think how old the atlas we used when I was a child was, but at least we had one, and I didnhard work is all done? You't re convinced that all you need to go do now is get it published and the money will start rolling in? Wrong and wrong again. You presumably wrote the book because you wanted to school or - and you had a library talent for delivering the written word. You knew your subject back to check up on whatever bit of trivia I was seekingfront. INow you'm so old a lot re going to have to get to grips with the book supply chain, which even parts of things about it now would the publishing industry believe to be most redundant, wrong but if you choose it's too difficult to risk your arm change and buy an atlas for no one wants to be the family shelves that all generations will benefit fromfirst to try. Then, as opposed to relying on electronic and updateable sources when you ''finally'' have a copy of informationthe book in your hands, then this you're going to have to work out how to sell it - because it ''is the one '' going to be down to haveyou.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241228379</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Helen HollickFrederic Gros|title= Pirates: Truth and TaleA Philosophy of Walking|rating= 45|genre= HistoryPolitics and Society|summary=The eighteenth century lived I confess I picked this one up from the library in terror of the tramps my pre-lockdown forage of the seas – piratesrandom stuff. Pirates Now I have fascinated people ever since. It was a harsh life for those who went 'on to go out an buy my own copy so that I can turn down the account', constantly overshadowed by the threat of death – through violence, illness, shipwreck, or the hangman's noose. The lure of gold, the excitement of the chase pages I have marked and the freedom that life aboard a pirate ship offered were judged by some return to its varying wisdom when I need to be worth the risk. Helen Hollick explores both the fiction and fact of the Golden Age of piracy, and there are some surprises Some books draw you in store for those who think they know their Barbary Corsair from their boucanierslowly. Everyone has heard of Captain Morgan This one had me in the first two pages, but who recognises the name of the aristocratic Frenchman Daniel Montbars? He killed so many Spaniards he was known as wherein Gros explains why 'The Exterminator'. The fictional world of pirates, represented in novels and movies, is different from reality. What draws readers and viewers to these notorious hyenas of the high seas? What are the facts behind the fantasy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445652153</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= D J Taylor|title= The Prose Factory|rating= 5|genre= Reference|summary= D J Taylor's exploration of writing, reading, publishing and critical reviews spans a century of literary history, discussing everything from Eliot-era modernists and Georgian traditionalists, to the impact of politics, creative writing degrees, reviewers and critics. It walking is not a deep and thorough exploration of the multi-complex influences on English literary life over the past century and the way these have shaped readerssport' preferences and reading habits. But don't be put off by thinking that this is a dusty, encyclopaedic tome – it is a large book at around 500 pages – but it is accessible and thoroughly readable. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099556073</amazonuk>1781688370

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Van der Kiste1788037812|title=A Beatles MiscellanyThe Fraternity of the Estranged: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Beatles but Were Afraid to AskThe Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson

|genre=ReferenceBiography|summary=You might have thought Originally passed in 1885, the law that just about everything which could be said about the Beatles had been said made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and certainly there's been no shortage 1908, three books on the nature of books about what went wronghomosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, what happened to as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the money margins of society and even what went right. But what I've never seen before is a 'miscellany' - all those little facts which are studying homosexuality was common on the European Continent, but barely talked about in the UK, so hard the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to track down the scientific understanding of homosexuality, and this is where historian John Van der Kiste comes into his own: he's a man with an eye beginning the struggle for detail recognition and equality, leading to the ability to bring everything together into a very readable whole. It's a wonderful collection milestone legalisation of the small factssame-sex relationships in 1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781555826</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul Jarvis1912242052|title=British Airways Colouring BookO Joy for me!|author=Keir Davidson|rating=43|genre=CraftsArt|summary=Over the past couple of years we've seen a lot of colouring books: flowers, patterns, fantasy creatures, characters and settings from television shows, films and books and lots more, but I can't recollect that we've ever before had one which featured a ''company''. Mind you, British Airways, is rather special; iconic and rather more long lasting than most passing celebrities. It has ''heritage'' and ''tradition'Oh Joy for me!'. The 'gives Coleridge credit for being 'British Airways Colouring Book'' is based on exclusive posters, photographs and artwork from the company's archives and first person to walk the 46 images allow the reader mountains alone, not because he had to recreate these for work, as they wish. There's a bonus too: on the facing page of each image there's a potted historyminer, quarryman, shepherd or pack-horse driver, but because he wanted to for pleasure and adventure. I passed the book to someone His rapturous encounters with an interest in BA their natural beauty, and he found its literary consequences, changed our view of the book interesting and informative ''withoutworld'' even thinking of doing any colouring.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144566612X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Simon Rogers1072549271|title= InfographicsThe Simple Act of Self-Publishing With Amazon: TechnologyA Simple Step by Step Guide|author=Georgianne Landy-Kordis|rating= 4.5|genre= ReferenceBusiness and Finance|summary=As parents, we can often I frequently meet authors who are struggling to be bombarded with questions as our children start to discover published by the world. These questions soon become increasingly complextraditional houses, especially but when I suggest self-publishing they explain that they don't have the big bucks required to go down that road with Author Solutions or Matador or their like. I then ask if they've considered Kindle and the latest technological advancesanswer is, inevitably, that they wouldn't know where to start. How do computers work? What's inside a smartphone? How I can earth communicate empathise with spacecraft? Thankfully we now have that. Despite having used a computer for about thirty years, running most of my life ''and'' a handywebsite online, illustrated guide I'm still nervous when it comes to starting something new. I like someone to help us: hold my hand as I go through it for the first time. That was why I was very interested when ''Infographics: TechnologyThe Simple Act of Self Publishing With Amazon''came across my desk...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783704489</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Felicity Trotman (editor)Higashida_Fall|title=WinterFall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A Book for Young Man's Voice From the SeasonSilence of Autism|author=Naoki Higashida and David Mitchell|rating=3.5|genre=AnthologiesHome and Family|summary=This seasonal anthology contains Naoki Higashida was only 13 years old when he wrote the international best-seller ''The Reason I Jump''. The book was popular because it gave a nice mixture rare glimpse into the workings of poetrythe autistic mind, nature and travel pieces, and excerpts as told from longer works the unique perspective of fictiona teenager with non-verbal autism. Felicity TrotmanNaoki communicates by using an alphabet grid, or by tracing letters on the palm of a freelance editor transcriber. Despite this slow and member laborious method of the English Civil War Societywriting, he has arranged the material into three sections: 'The Old Year', 'Christmas, Sacred published several books in his native Japan and Secular', and 'The New Year'. This creates an appropriate sense of chronological progression, and also serves manages to give public presentations to make Christmas the heart raise awareness of the bookhis condition. Black-and-white illustrations – maps, photographs and engravings – are interspersed throughout, and each author gets Fall Down 7 Times Get up 8 reintroduces us to Naoki as a short paragraph of biography young adult in his 20s and backgroundexplains how his perspectives on life have changed since writing his first book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445664747</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Caroline TaggartJenkins_100|title= Misadventures in the English LanguageBritain's 100 Best Railway Stations|author=Simon Jenkins|rating= 3.5|genre= ReferenceArt|summary=Misadventures in In the mid-twentieth century, the English Language styles itself as an examination of railway was something which harked back to the confusing bits of grammarVictorian age with trains being supplanted by cars and planes, vocabulary and punctuationbut steam was being replaced by oil, with some indication of which rules matter even then and which can be broken without dire consequences, though itin the twenty-first-century oil is giving way to electricity. It's actually broader than this description makes it sound. It has chapters on: words and phrases borrowed from other languagescleaner, new usage more environmentally friendly and changes of meaningthe stations which we'd all rushed through as quickly as possible, common grammar and punctuation pitfalls, confusing spellings, dreadful jargonkeen to escape their grime, were restored and using unnecessary words that don't add anything became places to your sentence except lengthbe admired, possibly even lingered in. Simon Jenkins has chosen his hundred best railway stations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782436472</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Dave Haslett and Geoff NelderTaylor_Owls|title= How To Win Short Story CompetitionsOwls: A Guide to Every Species|author=Marianne Taylor|rating= 3.5|genre= ReferenceAnimals and Wildlife|summary= This guide to what I feel like I am being watched. A huge pair of piercing orange eyes are staring right at me, locking me into their gaze. In contrast with the hardness of the deep-amber eyes, soft grey feathers fan out into the surrounding area, intricate, detailed and beautiful. An enigma; harsh and gentle at the same time, the owl is for many writers beckoning the first step on their path reader to glory (or not) is only available as turn the pages and take a Kindle download or as a PDF direct from the publisher's websitecloser look inside. It is not issued in print format. Given the low price on Amazon, it feels like a worthwhile investment for anyone interested in taking this route to enhance their writing profile.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B0083YRFI0</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Alexandra CoghlanJVDK_ELO|title= Carols from King'sElectric Light Orchestra: The Stories of our Favourite Carols from King's CollegeSong by Song|author=John Van der Kiste|rating= 4.5|genre= ReferenceEntertainment|summary=The exquisite sound My memories of a lone chorister singing ''Once pop music in Royal David's City'' amid the chapel of King's College, Cambridge, marks the start of the Christmas festivities for millions of people round the globe. Broadcast at 3pm on Chrismas Eve, ''A Festival of Nine Lessons early sixties revolve around guitars and Carols'' provides a precious moment of tranquility amongst the bustle of the festive season. Here author Alexandra Coghlan takes the reader on a journey through the fascinating history of carolsdrums, from sometimes the very first - sung by the angels to the shepherds at Bethlehem - to anecdotes from contemporary King's choristers, piano with only occasional excursions into strings and shows them how carols have evolved from pagan songs to become one of our nation's most sacred treasuresbrass. Accompanied by lyrics and Pop music rarely stands still and compiled in conjunction with Radio 4 and Kingit wasn's College Chapel, ''Carols from King's'' is t long before the official companion for fans of Christmas basic instruments were seen as constraints and carols alike. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940945</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Dave Haslett The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Kate Haslett|title= The Date-A-Base Book 2017|rating= 4|genre= Reference|summary=So here's a question for you: how do you go about reviewing a list - especially a list that runs Beach Boys began to 3experiment,800 entries with other groups following where they led. Amongst these groups was The Move and their lead guitarist and 544 pages? Nosongwriter, IRoy Wood. Wood wanted to develop the group'm not sure either, s sound by adding more instruments but Iwas prevented from achieving what he wanted by cost limitations and because the rest of the group didn'm going to give it a got really share his enthusiasm.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B01C4TZ4FA</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Nev SchulmanHendrix_PBHell|title= In Real LifePaperbacks from Hell: Love, Lies & Identity in A History of Horror Fiction from the Digital Age|rating= 4|genre= Reference|summary= Nev (it's pronounced Neev) is a man who knows about the darker side of online dating. Known for his documentary 70s and ''Catfish'' – a film which showed an online flirtation going sour, Nev then began making a tv show of the same name, travelling America to offer advice to those in online relationships, and possibly being catfished (which means being lured into a relationship by someone adopting a fictional online persona). Now the go-to expert in online relationships for millenials, a generation who have never known a world without Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other online places where interactions can form. Here, he takes his investigation to the page – exploring relationships in the era of social media, delving deeply into the complexities of dating in a digital age, and continuing the dialogue his show has begun about how we interact with each other online – as well as sharing insights from his own story. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473608066</amazonuk>}}{{newreview80s|author= Neil R A Bell, Trevor N Bond, Kate Clarke and M W Oldridge|title=The A-Z of Victorian Crime Grady Hendrix

|genre=True CrimeHorror|summary= Victorian crime has never ceased to cast its spell. Is it because such terrible goingsDemonic possession, murderous babies, man-on took place sufficiently long ago that they do not disgust us in the same way as equally dreadful events fromeating moths… for these books, no plot was too ludicrous, sayno cover art too appalling, no evil too despicable. Now horror author Grady Hendrix risks his soul and his sanity (not to mention the last few days of which we read from todayreader's papers or online coverage? Whatever !) to relate the reasontrue, there is an endless fascination with murders untold story of a fascinating and other major transgressions of the law from the often forgotten era of gas lamps and swirling fog – true Victorian melodrama, misbehaviour and horror from real life writ large. It is amply catered for in this title, the joint work of four authorspublishing.|amazonuk=Read the synapse-shattering story summaries!<amazonukbr>1445647869See the horrific hand-painted cover imagery!</amazonukbr>And learn the true-life tales of the writers, artists, and publishers who gleefully violated every literary law but one – never be boring.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Alexandra HarrisBrowne_Many|title= Weatherland: Writers and artists under English skiesThe Many Faces of Coincidence|author=Laurence Browne|rating= 43.5|genre= ReferencePopular Science|summary=The story Browne does not mislead with this choice of English culture over title; he does without a thousand years can be told as the story of changing ideas about the weather. A sweeping panorama, ''Weatherland'' explores how writers and artists, looking up at the same skies and walking in the brisk air, have felt very different things. A journey through centuries and cultures, Harris walks doubt explore the reader through misty moor and foggy fen, lays with them on bright sunlit beaches, treks with them to stormy summits, and introduces them to a fascinating cast many faces of writers, artists and cultural figures along the waycoincidence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500292655</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hugh Jefferies1903385679|title=Great Britain Concise Catalogue 2016The 100 Best Novels in Translation|author=Boyd Tonkin|rating=3.5

|summary=ItConsider, if you will, translated fiction. Some say it's difficult to believe impossible – that if a book was so good in one tongue itcould never survive being put into another. Samuel Beckett must have laboured over ever syllable and 's the 30th anniversary of the first publication of ''Great Britain ConciseBreath'', but this is the thirty-first editionhe could translate his own works, with just under 500 pages and over three and a half thousand illustrationsother equally complex pieces can cross borders. It feels almost painful to look back to the days when the choice was 's a market that has actually doubled in sales volume between the 2000 and 2016 (thanks, ''Collect British StampsMillennium Trilogy'' series which never pretended (or pretends) to be more than . Novels, in particular, in translation, are – as the introduction here so smartly puts it – ''a checklist (but got many people off to privileged means of passing border posts, a sound start - myself included) and the specialised seriessort of universal passport issued by that Utopian state, which is beyond the purse Republic of many amateur collectorsLetters''. We here at the 'Bag regularly try and give equal credit to the translator, without whom we wouldn'Great Britain Conciset be reading what we have in our hands. But all that said, do we really need one of those list books about the subject? I got given a book the other year detailing 1001 places to go to before I die, and I might even then have missed out a zero. It would take as long as a fortnight's holiday to wade through, and even though this is not as long as your typical Bolano housebrick, it' sits comfortably between the two extremes with an affordable cover prices not a short thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852599722</amazonuk>Should it take our time?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Robert KershawFry_Mythos|title= 24 Hours at the Somme|rating= 5|genre= Reference|summary=''They came past one by one...walking lumps of clay, with torn clothing, hollow cheeks and sunken eyes...There was a dreadful weariness, but a wildness burning in their fevered eyes, showing what this appalling hand to hand fighting had cost them. Utterly unforgivable for me...'' So goes the description of the men, the ''ghosts,'' at the end of the first day of the Somme. July 1 2016 will mark 100 years since this most bloody of battles took place. It was supposed to be the optimistic 'Big Push' that would end the Great War, but by sunset Mythos: A Retelling of the first day the British casualties numbered 57,470. The battle would rage until November that year, with the total number Myths of casualties on all sides exceeding one million.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753555476</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewAncient Greece|author=David Crystal|title=The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean PronunciationStephen Fry

|summary=Language changesThe Greek Myths are, not only in the way that it's writtenarguably, but also in the way that it's ''pronounced''greatest stories ever told. I've seen changes So old and influential they cast a shadow over my lifetime western tales and even more substantial changes have occurred in the four hundred years since Shakespeare diedtraditions, yet remain relatable and readable millennia later. For someone watching or reading a play the differences are not usually material: we can generally understand what is being saidHere comedian, actor, television presenter, but occasionally we're going actor and author Stephen Fry brings his considerable talent to miss jokes which rely on these special stories and recreates them with a certain pronunciationwit, or warmth and humanity that brings them into the fine nuances of what is being said. What's required is a dictionary of modern age whilst still giving the original pronunciation honour and respect that's exactly what David Crystal has provided. I'm only surprised that it's taken so long for such a book to appearancient and influential stories deserve.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199668426</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Andrew DicksonMahnke_Lore|title= Worlds ElsewhereThe World of Lore, Volume 1: Monstrous Creatures|author=Aaron Mahnke|rating= 4.5|genre= Reference|summary=From Every country, every town, every village has a folktale – a story passed down through generations that often focuses on the sixteenth-century Baltic to the American Revolution, from colonial India to dark and unexplained. No matter how the skyscrapers of modern-day Shanghaiworld moves on, Shakespearethere's plays appear at the most fascinating a still a part of times in the most unexpected of places. But what everyone that is it about Shakespeare – vulnerable to a man who never once left Englandgood tale. From ghosts to werewolves, by way of wendigos and elves, which has made him an icon across author Aaron Mahnke delivers the reader legends from all over the globe? Travelling across four continentsworld, six countries and 400 yearswhilst examining how they've become part of our collective imaginations, ''Worlds Elsewhere'' attempts to understand Shakespeare in his role as an international phenomenonstill striking fear into the hearts of many of us today.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099578956</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graeme DonaldFowler_Forgotten|title=Words The Book of a FeatherForgotten Authors|author=Christopher Fowler|rating=45

|summary= Words of a Feather. The title alone suggests an engaging read about language, and ''Absence doesn't make the book certainly deliversheart grow fonder''. It pairs seemingly unrelated words, digs up their etymological roots and reveals their common ancestrymakes people think you're dead. The English language There's truth in that statement, of courseyou know, provides rich pickings indeed for but there's a book of this type and conundrum when it is fascinating 's applied to see the hidden meaning behind common and not-so-common wordsauthors. Some connections are fairly obvious once you read them. For example, the link between ''grotto'' and ''grotesque'' Shakespeare is easy to graspdead: the word ''grotesque'' derives from unpleasant figures depicted in murals in Ancient Roman ''grottoes''. Other connections are just extraordinaryDickens is dead, like the so-crazy-you-couldnbut we haven't-make-it-up connection between ''furnace'' and ''fornicate'buried what they've written: that lives on until... These two words date back to Ancient Rome when prostitutes took over the city's abandoned baking domes. And some connections are ? Is it until fashion decrees that they should be no more than a little tenuous, seemingly just a collection of words banded together? Or is it, as is in the case with the ''insult'of some children' s authors that they are on life support through licensing deals and ''salmon'' pairing. One of my personal favourites: the Italian word ''schiavo'' for ''slave'' was used to summon or dismiss a slave; this word became corrupted to ''ciao''astute marketing? Christopher Fowler has unearthed (exhumed?) ninety-nine authors who were once hugely popular, but whose works have disappeared, a word the more well-heeled among us use instead of ''goodbye''sometimes quite literally.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178418814X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stephen HickmanAngell_Triang|title= The Art of Stephen Hickman|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= Stephen Hickman has been a well known artist in the Fantasy and Science Fiction worlds for a number of years now, having created covers for authors such as Harlan Ellison, Robert Heinlein, Anne McCaffrey, and Larry Niven. His paintings are vibrant, kinetic, sometimes scary, often sensual, traditional, and yet modern. ''The Art of Stephen Hickman'' collects hundreds of these paintings, and the artist himself provides an intriguing commentary alongside which offers a fascinating glimpse into the artistic process. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783298456</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewTri-ang Collectables|author=John Sutherland|title=How Good is Your Grammar?Dave Angell|rating=3.5

|summary=In A guide to the preface of ''How Good is Your Grammar?'', John Sutherland suggests that trains produced by the abolition of grammar schools in Tri-ang company from its inception until the 1960s coincided with a general decline in grammatical standards in the decades that followedcompany became Hornby. In our modern age of 'text-speak' and emoticons, the need for grammatical correctness seems A very personal guide to be rather low on our agenda, maybe even regarded as irrelevant by some. Is this gradual erosion an inevitable part of the evolution of communication, or will certain rules always remain an intrinsic part of the fabric collecting of language? Only time will tell, but for those wishing to brush up on their grammar skills, Sutherland has compiled 100 quiz questions that he claims are the ''ultimate test'' for his readersmodel trains.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722575</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Lucy AdlingtonChase_Orchids|title= Stitches in Time: The Story Book of the Clothes We Wear |rating=4|genre= History|summary=''Stitches in Time'' is a lively history of clothing. Riffling through the wardrobes of years gone by, costume historian Lucy Adlington reveals the stories underneath the clothes we wear in this tour of the history of fashion, ranging Orchids: A life-size guide to six hundred species from ancient times to the present day. With beautiful illustrations and full colour photographs, ''Stitches in Time'' is a reminder of how the way we dress is inextricably bound up with considerations of aesthetics, sex, gender, class and lifestyle – and offers the reader the chance to appreciate the extraordinary qualities of the clothing we wear, and around the rich history it has led. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847947263</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewworld|author= Jody Revenson|title= Harry Potter: The Character Vault|rating= 4|genre= Entertainment|summary= Unlock new information about your favourite characters from the Harry Potter film series. This coffeetable book profiles the good, bad, and everything in between – from Harry and Ron to Voldemort and Umbridge. Hugely detailed and filled with beautiful illustrations, imagesMark Chase, Maarten Christenhusz and never before seen glimpses into the design process – this book will answer your questions about character design in the Harry Potter series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0062407449</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Steve Silberman|title=Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter about People Who Think DifferentlyTom Mirenda

|summary=''Neurotribes'' is One in seven flowering plants on earth is an ambitious bookorchid: there are 26,000 species in 749 genera. It aims to challenge They flourish in remarkable habitats such as deserts and the widely-held perception that autism is a disabilityArctic circle, in fact, or all areas but the most inhospitable. There's a developmental delay. One wide range of my favourite quotes from the book is thiscolours, shapes and scents: they're dramatic, delicate and ingenious in the ways that they'One way ve developed not just to understand neurodiversity is survive but to think in terms thrive. Tom Mirenda describes them as ''masters of manipulation'human operating systems' instead of diagnostic labels... Just because a computer is not running Windows doesnand 't mean that it's broken.famous for lying and cheating their way to their many evolutionary successes'' This refreshing approach underpins the whole , yet his love of this ground-breaking work, which them is essentially a potted-history of autism from as obvious as his respect for the distant past to insight they give us into the present dayprocesses which shaped our world. It He hopes that understanding how that has come about will fascinate and enlighten anyone with an interest in the subject, or who is affected, directly or indirectly, by the condition. For autistic people, this book represents their roots; their cultural history, and illustrates how far the autistic community inspire us to conserve what we have come over the past few decades.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760113638</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mary McDonagh MurphyEdwards_Story|title= Scout, Atticus and Boo|rating= 4.5|genre= Reference|summary= First published in 1960, ‘’To Kill a Mockingbird’’ is not only a beloved classic, but a touchstone The Story of Classic Crime in literary and social history. ‘’Scout, Atticus & Boo’’ commorates the fifty years plus since ‘’To Kill a Mockingbird’’ was published, and discusses its impact with contributions from Oprah Winfrey, James Patterson, Adriana Trigiani and Wally Lamb amongst others – particularly Alice Finch Lee, Harper Lee’s older sister who passed away last year. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>178475305X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview100 Books (British Library Crime Classics)|author=Stanley Gibbons|title=Great Britain Concise Stamp Catalogue 2015Martin Edwards

|summary=The thirtieth edition of the Stanley Gibbons Concise Stamp catalogue lives up to expectations once again. It's been extensively updated and prices easy to be confused by the various 'ages' of crime writing: if you have been revised an interest in line with the current market, leading to thousands genre you'll almost certainly have heard of the Golden Age of price increases (particularly in varietiesCrime, errors, Machins, Post & Go stamps generally acknowledged as being the period between the first and booklets), which will please you - or not - depending second world wars. 'Classic Crime' on whether you're a seller or a buyerthe other hand extends the time frame at either end and covers books published in the first half of the twentieth century. ItThroughout my adult life, there's pitched at that sector been just one genre of the market books which has outgrown ''Collect British Stamps'fascinated me, and that's crime, but not yet graduated to so I could hardly resist the [[Stamps chance of the World 2011 by Stanley Gibbons|Stamps reading ''The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books'' particularly as the World series]]. The cover price of £34.95 author, Martin Edwards is reasonable when you see an accomplished author within the amount of work - crime genre and technology - which has gone into the creation of an acknowledged expert on the booksubject.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852599447</amazonuk>

{{newreviewplainFrontpage|isbn=DK_Childrens|title=National Geographic Kids Infopedia 2016Children's Illustrated Thesaurus|author=DK

|summary=Annuals. They are not what they used One of the most valuable literary skills which children can learn is how to beuse reference books. As a child, every question which I remember snuggling into a chair began with ''how do you spell...?'' would be answered with my 1983 “Crackerjack” annual and being completely immersed by ''EXACTLY as it says in the facts, stories, jokes and activities insidedictionary''. Maybe I'm getting old This was fine, but many of todaythe family's annuals seem Collins Little Gem Dictionary didn't encourage exploration, not least because the font was small and difficult to be little more than a few flimsy sheets of colouring paper and posters sandwiched inside a hard coverread. If Fortunately, as a parent, you those times have now changed and reference book for children are aching to buy your children something now much more inviting. Not every book comes with a little more substance and qualityset of instructions but it's worth studying the ''How to...'' section, then the National Geographic Infopedia 2016 may be just what you not least because similar systems are looking forused in other reference books.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1426322445</amazonuk>