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[[Category:New Reviews|Entertainment]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--> {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Johnny RoganPatti Smith|title= Ray Davies: A Complicated LifeYear of the Monkey|rating= 54|genre= EntertainmentBiography|summary= Most On the coast of Britain's most popular and successful songwriters Santa Cruz, Patti Smith enters the lunar year of the last 150 years, from Gilbert and Sullivan and Lennon and McCartneymonkey - one packed with mischief, to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice and Barrysorrow, Robin and Maurice Gibb, have been partnershipsunexpected moments. The only solo writer in the same league is Ray Davies, front man of The Kinks from their formation in 1963 to their final performance in 1994. While this mighty tome is partly an account of the groupIn a stranger's tortuous thirty-year historywords, it ''Anything is also first and foremostpossible: after all, as it's the title says, a biography year of Davies himselfthe monkey''. Through interviews with As Smith wanders the Davies brotherscoast of Santa Cruz in solitude, Ray and his younger brother Dave, the group's guitarist and only other constant member of the lineshe reflects on a year that brings huge shifts in her life -up, other group members, managers, friends loss and associatesageing are faced head on, Rogan has given us as complete a book of it the man as we are ever likely to getshifting political waters in America.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099554089</amazonuk>1526614758

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marian KeyesWalton_Ask|title=Making It Up As I Go AlongAsk For Blues|author=Malcolm Walton|rating=43.5|genre=EntertainmentAutobiography|summary=Oh, how the Malcolm Walton's book reviewing gods like to give, and equally like to take away. Here before me is clearly a brand, spanking new collection memoir about his introduction to the Trad Jazz scene of journalism by the wonderful Marian Keyes – late 1950s and early 1960s, but he has chosen to write it's in the form of a proof copynovel, so there's no photo of claiming in his prologue that this would give the author. Even if over the years I have stopped reading her novels, I have always turned book a different approach to the author picture to remind myself such sights exist in this worldmusic memoir. Himself is a lucky man, for sure. But beyond sounding like a letch, what can I say about this – the beautyHis protagonist 'Martin' takes on Malcolm's third large dose of essays, web columns mantle and other journalism? I can start begins with agreeing that I am not his first discovery of the target audience, but it's easy enough to see from these pages exactly what the target isSalvation Army band with his grandfather. So much like that test you do – you know the oneThis catapults him into a love of music, initially taking piano lessons, that formulates decisions about the age and commonality of all things in space to come up with how many billions of planets are likely to have alien life on later delving into his true love – you can narrow things down quite readily here, and still come up with a huge numberthe trumpet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718182529</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David WillsMoore Bientot|title=The Cinematic Legacy of Frank SinatraA Bientot...|author=Roger Moore

|summary=Oh, [[Celebrity: How Entertainers Took Over The World and Why We Need an Exit Strategy by Marina Hyde|news of the modern celebrity]] – they don't make them like they used to. Anodyne, uniform in (lack death of) thought and body shape, and far, far too prominent Sir Roger Moore in the lives of too many for too little. If they're ever expected to multi-task it will entail them being much acclaimed for doing one day job to a mediocre standard, as well May 2017 came as reading out someone's voice-over for a BBC3/Channel 4/Channel 5 clip show – oh, and if someone deems them really talented they get to mime to someone else's record, in a lip dub smash or whatever the heck they're calling it. Followed by panto. It is a shameful reflection on us, and great shock: he was one of those people you knew would go on the real celebrities we used to have, such as Frank Sinatraforever. By the time he There was starting just one small glimmer of light in film he was wellthe sadness -known for a character and singing talent the news that was making him a star already, even if, as this book proves, he had more or less the looks matter of a young Lee Evans. By the time he was finished days before his death he'd acted straightdelivered the finished manuscript of his book, comic''À bientôt…'', romantic, criminal, sung to his heart out, danced – even learnt the drums for one rolepublishers. He had Golden Globes, an Oscar – Just a few months later a copy landed on my desk and he directed one film I didn't even bother to look as well as produced several othersthough I could resist reading it straight away. In an age when the world is up in arms at the passing of anyone remotely famous, what tribute can we give to a great such as he was?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445655772</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim ParksMaslanka Sherlock|title=Where I'm Reading FromSherlock: The Changing World of BooksPuzzle Book|author=Christopher Maslanka and Steve Tribe|rating=3.54

|summary=Books, eh? – who here Who doesn't just love them? (And if you don'ta good puzzle, please exercise greater mouse control as you click away.) Some of us love books about books – and especially those really fiendish ones that includes a lot of us here at get the Bookbag. And who better brain working extra hard? There really is nothing to turn compare to regarding books than [[:Category:Tim Parks|Mr Tim Parks]], who writes them, writes about them, educates about them, translates them, teaches that buzz we get from the translation thereofAha! moment, blogs professionally about them… He tells us he has a split personality in that different worldly territories know him for different things, whether that be essays, travel writing, seriously serio-comic fiction, or just for being 'that bloke who never exactly set when everything falls into place and the world on fire but does do a definitely reliable turn every time I've tried him'solution reveals itself. This, being the pick of four years' web posts for If puzzles are your thing then you may wish to put your grey cells to the test with ''New York Review of BooksThe Sherlock Puzzle Book'', is his clearest statement in book form about books, and yes, it is yet again a pretty reliable turnbased on the popular TV series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784701793</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma MarriottCorcoran_Dylan|title=The World of PoldarkDo You Mr Jones?: Bob Dylan with the Poets and Professors|author=Neil Corcoran|rating=4.5

|summary=Back Bob Dylan's award of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016 'for having created new poetic expressions within the seventies I watched great American song tradition''Poldark'' on television: it was enjoyable, but I'll confess that if I'd missed an episode it wouldn't have worried me too muchproved highly controversial. When the gentleman rebel reappeared It inevitably led some people in 2015 I had no intention of watching, but a friend saw the first episode literary world to take stock and look at his work and said how good it reputation with a fresh eye. This volume of essays was. I caught up on iPlayerfirst published in 2002, almost for politeness - and was hooked. It wasn't just the story - but perhaps I'm more in tune is now reissued with it now that I was forty years ago - it was the quality of the production which kept me watching week after week. When Emma Marriott's book landed on my desk the temptation to 'just have a quick look' proved far too much for menew foreword by Will Self.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509813616</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alastair Fothergill and Huw CordeyKyncl_Stream|title=The Hunt|rating=4|genre=Animals and Wildlife |summary=My mother has long complained that nature programmes too often concentrate on the death and violence, or how it's all about the capture and killing of one animal by another. She's long had a point, but [[Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us by David Neiwert|killer whales]] swanning by doing nothing, and lions sleeping off the heat without munching on a passing wildebeest's leg really don't cut it when it comes to providing popular TV content. I doubt she will be tuning in to the series this book accompanies, even if the volume very quickly testifies that it's not all about the capture – often the chase can be just as thrilling, and the result for the intended victim is favourable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849907226</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewStream Punks|author=Justin Richards Robert Kyncl and Dan Green|title=Doctor Who: The Dangerous Book of MonstersMaany Peyvan|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=It's imperative you keep up with The Doctor, in both senses – meaning in case the first thing he tells you to do is ''Run!'' and in the sense of following all his various adventures and maintaining knowledge of what's what and who he's faced, enemy-wise. One great way to be enemy wise is to peruse this book, which really is a great present for the young fan – and of course a life-saving manual for when you yourself find sharks in the fog, gas-mask wearing boys ''sans'' their mothers or indeed gigantic Cyberking dreadnought spacecraft. Honestly, why this is classed as a fiction title I have no idea…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405920033</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Michael Klastorin and Randal Atamaniuk|title=Back to the Future: The Ultimate Visual History|rating=4

|summary=Well, thankfully I have never had watch quite a lot of YouTube. I play music videos when I want to listen to sit through ''Jaws 19'a particular song I don't already have in my collection. Of all I use it to find out how to do things, with the perks invented instruction videos they seem to have for pretty much anything. At the heady days of October 2015 by the middle film in the ''Back to the Future'' trilogygym, that was one of the least inviting. I've never actually seen that middle filmll stick it on on my phone, either – really liked prop it up on the original cross-trainer and still do, had watch some behind the middle one pass me by totally, then saw scenes interviews with the third so often as a cinema steward (cast of my favourite shows my age!) . And sometimes I was word perfect 'll treat it as if it is Netflix, to watch series with new episodes releasing every few days, exclusively on the scriptYouTube. The threesome is one of Having a most wholesome kind – the restoration of family values through grabbing hold of your own destiny by the hornsnew smart TV adds an extra, the application of science easy way to watch without having to save the day over brawns plug in my laptop or squint at a small phone screen. So yes, I like YouTube and shooting people up, the habitually dung-filled comeuppance of the baddies throughout time – itI use YouTube. But I didn's no wonder that t know a whole lot about the trilogy is much loved. And as site it's the most pictorial and detailed guide to their creation on paper imaginable, until I read this volume will follow it into many heartsbook.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783299703</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Caroline TaggartJVDK_Swing|title=New Words for OldWe Can Swing Together: Recycling Our Language for the Modern World|rating=3.5|genre=Trivia|summary=I never declare myself off to have a 'kip', as I recall reading that it originally meant the same amount of sleeping – and activity – as happens in a whorehouse. The word 'cleave' can mean either to split apart, or to connect together, and I'm sure there's another word that has completely changed its meaning from one end of things to another although I can't remember which. Certainly, ''literally'' has tried its best to make a full switch through rampant misuse. Such is the nature of our language – fluid both in spelling until moderately recently, and definitely in meaning. This attempt at capturing a corner Story of the trivia/words/novelty market is interested in such tales from the etymological world – the way we have adapted old words for our own, modern and perhaps very different usages. Certainly, having browsed it over a week, I can declare it a pretty strong attempt.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434720</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewLindisfarne|author= Spencer Leigh|title= Frank Sinatra: An Extraordinary LifeJohn Van der Kiste|rating= 4|genre= Entertainment|summary= Frank Sinatra was undoubtedly a legend. In a notoriously precarious profession, he managed to stay at the top, or very close to it, for a remarkably long time. Despite a few half-hearted flirtations with other styles which may have strayed a little from his comfort zone, he remained true to his musical style, won the respect of younger generations, and never really went out of fashion.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857160869</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Steve Tribe|title=The All New University Challenge Quiz Book: Questions, Answers, Facts, Figures and everything in between|rating=3.5

|summary=[Cue theme musicIt all began with a group of youngsters in North Shields. Lights up on presenterRod Clements, who waffles on about establishments providing contestants – De Montfort UniversitySimon 'Si' Cowe, local pubRay 'Jacka' Jackson and Ray Laidlaw formed ''The Downtown Faction'', family unit. Contestants donsoon changing the name to ''Brethren't, for once, introduce themselves as it's probably a given that when they know each otherwere joined by singer-songwriter Alan Hull. Contestants imbibe nervous sips of As a US-based group had a similar name they opted to change the name again - and 'water', and settle back.] Lindisfarne''You all know (with the name taken from an island off the rules, so let's not waste time – here's your first starter for tenNorthumberland coast) was born.''  Yes, this book throws no punches More than forty years on and attempts to put you with numerous changes of personnel the band is still very much around. They might not be touring or producing much in the spotlight way of new material, but they still perform, with Rod Clements, one of the nation's most superlative televisual institutions – but does it manage it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184949701X</amazonuk>original members on his fourth stint with the group.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jody RevensonJVDK_ELO|title= Harry PotterElectric Light Orchestra: 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, images, 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>}}{{newreviewSong by Song

|genre=BiographyEntertainment|summary=Jeff Lynne grew up in a Birmingham suburb right at the end My memories of 1947: even as a child he was passionate about pop music and was a much respected guitarist as a teenager. He was a member of various semi-professional groups - critical acclaim came when he fronted Idle Race in the late early sixties revolve around guitars and popularity drums, sometimes the piano with only occasional excursions into strings and a degree of commercial success arrived when he joined brass. Pop music rarely stands still and it wasn't long before the popular group basic instruments were seen as constraints and The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Beach Boys began to experiment, with other groups following where they led. Amongst these groups was The Move. Whilst still playing with that group he co-foundedand their lead guitarist and songwriter, along with Roy Wood, . Wood wanted to develop the groundbreaking Electric Light Orchestra, group's sound by adding more instruments but it was with Wood's departure that Lynne turned prevented from achieving what had been an occasionally uneasy fusion he wanted by cost limitations and because the rest of classical and rock into a successful and popular actthe group didn't really share his enthusiasm.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781554927</amazonuk>

{{newreviewplainFrontpage|isbn=Watkins_Lets|title=Thunderbirds are Go Official GuideLet's Make Lots of Money: My Life as the Biggest Man in Pop|author=Tom Watkins

|genre=Confident ReadersEntertainment|summary=It's time to admit that I am old. I remember Who on earth would be a manager in the first series larger than life, here today gone tomorrow world of ''Thunderbirds'' from Saturday morning kids' cinema – pop? Anybody with an episode of thatego, then a second-run filmruthless streak, both for a quid. They were only ten years old or so then, but at least that proved the franchise was durable. Nothing did that quite as much, however, as the news a couple of years ago that the Anderson estate was to allow a CG updating, bringing a new generation of people an opportunity to embrace the massed audience. Amid the usual worries about it losing everything chances and accept that made it special's not going to last, it actually did pretty well when it aired in 2015 – even with a breakfast time transmission slotevidently. This small(ish) format hardback Tom Watkins is, bar just one of several to have walked the annualfine line and, for part of the very first chance to look at an official book concerning the seriestime, and inasmuch as it inspired me to research the returnquite successfully. As his memoirs suggest, and certainly accept it as looking a worthy addition to part of the canon, it succeeds on all frontstime was achievement enough.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471124991</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Keith PartridgeKendrick_Scrappy|title=The Adventure Game: A Cameraman's Tales from Films at the Edge|rating= 4.5|genre= Animals and Wildlife|summary=Keith Partridge has been one of the world’s leading adventure cameramen for over twenty years. The award winning Touching the Void, Beckoning Silence and Human Planet are just some of the films that have taken him all over the earth, from the caves of Papua New Guinea to the summit of Mount Everest. No location has been too dangerous, no environment too wild, and if you have ever seen a climber or explorer in some outrageous position, chances are that Keith Partridge was there with his camera. Here Keith discusses the challenges that have faced him in the daring adventures has taken part in, with personalities such as [[:Category:Steve Backshall|Steve Backshall]], [[:Category:Joe Simpson|Joe Simpson]] and Stephen Venables.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124311</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewScrappy Little Nobody|author=Jonathan Rigby|title=English Gothic: Classic Horror Cinema 1897-2015Anna Kendrick|rating=3.5

|summary=WowCelebrity autobiographies. Every once in It's a genre long tainted by the examples of people who clearly didn't deserve to be a while you come across celebrity, let alone have a ghost-writer create their book such as this, which represents in two covers the complete sine qua non of its subject and type. There is by those who did so little vital but managed to say about this book except churn out five memoirs before they were even thirty. But more recently it is essential 's become a way of staking a claim to importance for anyone with any remote interest in British horror in motion picture form – yesfemale comics. They've not all written autobiographies, as Bridget Christie proved, it covers cinema but enough have to provide for a minute level but also regards TV in an addendum that will bring back equal memories to those who watch itrapidly-filling shelf at the bookstore. A book as long and detailed as this – and boy2016 we had Amy Schumer winning a GoodReads award, is Lena Dunham's been at it long and detailed – is immediately marked out as a sterling, five-star read, and yet the humble reviewer (like perhaps we've also got Anna Kendrick. Now she's not a victim strict comic – not all of one of these gothic fictions) has an exhaustive her films are designed to make you laugh, and exhausting time ahead. Yes, we here at The Bookbag do read every word some of the books we cover, even if the only verdict regarding them is blatantly evident from that are just don't – but this has to be in the first hour's perusalsame bracket.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957648162</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Antonia Fraser (editor)Ropek_Tragic|title=Tragic Magic: The Pleasure Life of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books That Inspired ThemTraffic's Chris Wood|author=Dan Ropek|rating=4.5

|summary= There has been Chris Wood was a trend for lists in recent yearsmember of Traffic, with numerous websites and books cashing the group formed by Steve Winwood in on this craze 1967 after he left The Spencer Davis Group. A gifted musician best known for cataloguing must-see filmshis flute and saxophone work, favourite foodshe also played keyboards, bass guitar and things to do before you die. ‘’The Pleasure contributed backing vocals as well as having a hand in writing several of Reading’’, edited by Antonia Fraser, may be, then, the most sophisticated songs and erudite result of this fascination for listography, since one or two instrumentals. This biography takes its premise is straightforwardly based around title from the top ten books chosen by famous authors. Behind this book is the curiosity readers feel name of one of his compositions for each other or the question, as Fraser puts it, ‘What ‘’do’’ other people read?’ But these people are some of the greatest writers working in recent years, with contributions from Margaret Atwood, Doris Lessing, and Tom Stoppard and others. The book, however, returns us to those early moments in their lives – before fame and prizes – when reading was a hobby like it is for so many peoplefifth album. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408859629</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephanie MiltonDolby_Sound|title=Minecraft Beginners's Handbook: Updated EditionThe Speed of Sound|author=Thomas Dolby|rating=4.5

|summary=If you haven't heard of ''MinecraftFrom struggling post-punk musician to pop star, from Silicon Valley innovator to university professor,'' where Thomas Dolby has had a remarkable if not unique career, often reinventing himself on earth have you been? This popular construction/survival game has captured the imagination of almost 30 million people worldwide and the craze shows no signs of abatingway. If, like me, you are curious as to what all the fuss This memoir is about and wonder why you can no longer get near the computer until after the kids have gone to bed, then this new series of books by Egmont are just what you need. In no time at all, you will be happily chatting about mobs, redstone, endermen based on his extensive notes and zombie pigmen as if you were an expert..journals.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405276770</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martin EdwardsMorris_Legion|title=The Golden Age Legion of MurderRegrettable Supervillains: Oddball Criminals from Comic Book History|author=Jon Morris

|summary=Martin Edwards has had such As much as I like comics – and I do, whether superhero ones or not – I have to admit one thing, namely that the villains in them are a good idea for this bookbit pants. He takes What is The Penguin but the foundation world's worst Mafioso, with a hobby of waddling along like his pet birds? Where else do you win an Oscar of all things by playing a two-bit killer who just fell in a vat of random chemicals and changed colour, and got mardier as a result (although recently he's become a nanotech genius – but let's not go there)? And what is it with the Detection Club gimp in the late 1920s and follows see-through into plant pot because he is the postwar period, ending his account sometime in embodiment of cold? And that's just some of the midbetter-1950sknown enemies of ''Batman'', perhaps with one of the death of Dorothy L Sayers in 1957better goodies. I may sound tentative here because there is no entirely precise end dateYou can imagine how awful the baddies related to the bad goodies can be. The Detection Club itself still lives onAnd if you can't, hosting three dinners a year for elected members. Edwards this is its current archivist – yet there are no archives, unless you count the hundreds of books produced by its members, which of course he does. And he also explores their livesperfect primer. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008105960</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter AckroydFletcher_Midnight|title=Charlie ChaplinIn the Midnight Hour: The Life & Soul of Wilson Pickett|author=Tony Fletcher

|genre=BiographyEntertainment|summary=Charlie Chaplin dominated Tamla Motown groups and singers apart, in the mid-sixties there were three major names in the formative years soul music field who mattered above all. James Brown was something of a cult name who rarely bothered about or troubled the cinemasingles charts, as actor and director, like no other. As we are told Otis Redding was on the verge of shooting into the stratosphere when he died in an early chapter of this book, on his first visit to America in 1910, he is alleged to have shouted, ‘I am coming to conquer youaeroplane crash. Every The other was the man woman and child shall have my name on their lips!’ Within a few years he had indeed conquered from Alabama, 'the entire movie-going world|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099287560</amazonuk>wicked Pickett'.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Charles SolomonPaling_Reading|title=A Wish Your Heart Makes Reading Allowed: From the Grimm Brothers' Aschenputtel to Disney's CinderellaTrue Stories and Curious Incidents from a Provincial Library|author=Chris Paling

|summary=It's not I once made a comical faux pas in a useful thinglibrary when I was younger, to have sniffy presumptions, when youbut it certainly didn're a humble book reviewert put me off returning. The same applies of course I once declared in a self-important way that I would start at the world beginning of cinema, the books for young children and a lot else besidesnot stop til the end, but I then do have to admit to be really quite dubious about the thought of a live action remake of Cinderellasame for those for the older children – ''and then do it all over again with them'', even before seeingI said, reading or hearing anything on which to form a proper judgementpointing at the large-print shelves. Did ''I hope not'', was the world need it, I wondered response – the original but little me was great enoughonly aware of a need for large font for my fellow whippersnappers, and surely so much a sine qua non in animation historynot for any other reason. What would some new young cast membersSince then I've needed libraries, and Kenneth Branagh, add going to – or possibly would them has been second nature. On the dole I made sure I could use the free Internet they overlay – decades provided to pay me back for my council tax; later I was intent on finding out if a Senior Library Assistant girl was worthy of cinema audiences' joint memory? Surely it would be a pig's ear. Wellher title, if this luscious first book regarding the new film is any indicationand of course, it's actually going to be pretty goodsaved a fortune on books for study and fun. The format of film tie-in guides itself doesnI't always engender much hope m not alone in sharing the warmth of both their heating system and the likewise prejudiced very thing they were born to provide – books, but I confirm this, too, there was still a huge step up between my level of use and knowledge of them to actually working in one. Which is an item well worth bearing where Chris Paling comes in mind.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1484713265</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sean SmithSpringsteen_Born|title=Tom Jones - The LifeBorn to Run|author=Bruce Springsteen|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyEntertainment|summary=Few singers have sustained a career over half No, you haven't stumbled into a century and appealed to succeeding generations in music review from the way that the former Thomas John Woodward of Treforest has managed to do1970s, I'm talking about The Boss's autobiography. Almost Lots of books have been written off during a lean period or twoabout Springsteen by folk who knew him, worked with him and by others who have only read the cuttings. Over the last seven years he proved himself has been going about – not putting the master of re-inventionrecord straight, and now in exactly – but telling it from his mid-70s own perspective. As he puts it: ''Writing about yourself is loved and revered as something of a national treasurefunny business''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>000810445X</amazonuk> By his own admission, it isn't the whole truth, discretion holds him back but ''in a project like this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader his mind.'' ''In these pages, I've tried to do this.''

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lincoln PeirceJVDK_Beatles|title=Big NateA Beatles Miscellany: Laugh-O-Rama (Big Nate Activity Book 4)Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Beatles but Were Afraid to Ask|author=John Van der Kiste|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionEntertainment|summary=This seems to You might have thought that just about everything which could be a firmly established publishing practise now – said about the enhanced readership experience offered Beatles had been said and certainly, there's been no shortage of books about what went wrong, what happened to fans of a franchise by a tie-in activity bookthe money and even what went right. This But what I've never seen before is yet another example – looking like a genuine entry in an on'miscellany' -going series, it instead offers the fan of the characters the chance all those little facts which are so hard to interact with them in new ways, as well as looking back through the shelves of their collection, track down and inwardly as well, at their this is where historian John Van der Kiste comes into his own thoughts and tastes. Note I say it: he's for a fan – this example will alienate anyone else from the first page – but man with an eye for detail and the right audience it’s generally ability to bring everything together into a good thingvery readable whole. And in this instance itIt's a very, very good thing indeedwonderful collection of the small facts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007569076</amazonuk>