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[[Category:Anthologies|*]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1737030942|title=The Time TravellerBag O's AlmanacGoodies|author=Anne VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeerJolly Walker Bittick
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|summary=Sometimes, you deserve a treat and mine was Jolly Walker Bittick's ''Bag O'Goodies''. I first encountered his writing about a year ago, when I read his [[Cape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]], a rollicking tale of what happens when five young men find a base for their partying. Right now, I didn't want a full-length novel, so I turned to this anthology of verse and short stories. Bittick's writing has matured - and so have his characters. Well... most of them!
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=140638853X
|title=Somebody Give This Heart a Pen
|author=Sophia Thakur
|rating=5
|genre=Anthologies
|summary=From H.G Wells to ''Doctor Who'Sophia Thakur', there s debut anthology is something about a good time-travel story collection of poems that has the power to ignite the imagination are all unique, whether in a way unique relation to the genretheir style, length or theme. Perhaps it The collection is due to the fact that when dealing with the subject of time travelsplit into four sections, titled 'grow', 'wait', literally 'break'anything is possibleand 'grow again', guiding you through a process which is one of the foundations that the anthology is built on. WellEach section begins with a foregrounded title page containing various small pieces of writing, ranging from a quote by a Nigerian playwright, almost anythingto African proverbs...apart from going back This provides a nice introduction to the section before you are immersed in time the beautifully written and killing your Grandfather, which we know would cause an almighty paradox eloquent poems that Thakur has clearly put her heart and probably destroy the universesoul into.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781853908</amazonuk>
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=1789016789
|title=You're the Froth On My Soy Cappuccino: Poems for the Present
|author=Don Behrend
|rating=4
|genre=Anthologies
|summary=''You're the Froth On My Soy Cappuccino'' begins with ''A Modern Love Story'':
''You’re the froth on my soy cappuccino''<br>''You’re the spread on my paleo toast''<br>''You’re the nose of my GM-free Pinot''<br>''You’re organic, my love. You’re the most!''<br> Ha! How can you not laugh at this gently mocking take on love in the hipster world? }}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=PUP_Rising|title=Stuff I've Been ReadingRising Stars: New Young Voices in Poetry|author=Nick HornbyPop Up Projects|rating=4.5
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|summary=I am lucky enough to be typing this while sitting on the fifth floor of the magnificent new Library of BirminghamThis collection brings together five emerging voices in poetry. Coming in at a whopping £189 million And despite what the burghers of the second city certainly havenpublisher says, I wouldn't skimped in trying to create a 21st century centre of learning. Amongst all personally impose an age restriction on the interactive learning zones, digital galleries and coffee shops there are of course bookswriting here. Many, Each poet uses words that will appeal to many booksreaders. Over one million in fact. And I found this in an era when some critics have said that the book in its current form is deadparticularly so with Jay Hulme's poetry.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241003334</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Stevenson_Garden|title=Beyond Rue Morgue: Further Tales of Edgar Allan PoeA Child's 1st DetectiveGarden of Verses|author=Paul Kane and Charles Prepolec (Editors)Robert Louis Stevenson|rating=3.52
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|summary=C. Auguste Dupin is often regarded as Robert Louis Stevenson was a very versatile writer; he delved deep into the first fictional detective human psyche when he wrote ''The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and at the very least Edgar Allan Poe’s character was the blueprint for many sleuths Mr Hyde'' but he did not restrict himself to come, most notably Sherlock Holmes. Dupin is an eccentric genius from Paris whose use representations of logic the gothic and deduction aid the police on their most baffling casespersecuted. The characters literary debut was in the short story He also wrote brilliant children's adventure stories such as ''The Murders in the Rue MorgueTreasure Island'' in 1841 and between 1842 and 1844 Poe wrote two more short stories about Dupin and his exploits. ''Beyond Rue MorgueKidnapped'' contains nine stories (in addition , but, again, he did not restrict himself to the original Poe tale) by various authors and gives many different takes on the same character or influenced by him. From samurai assassins and the apocalypse to an agoraphobic distant relative of Dupin attempting to solve a murder without even leaving her home; the different writers all take the intriguing character to places we wouldn’t expect and the creativity of all keeps the character fresh from story prose writing because here he demonstrates his ability to storywrite poetry.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781161755</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Esiri Poem|title=Best British Short Stories 2013A Poem for Every Day of the Year|author=Nicholas Royle (editor)Allie Esiri|rating=54|genre=Short StoriesAnthologies|summary=Expect For those who do not read much poetry, for those who do not know where to read some quality work in ''Best British Short Stories 2013''start, sourced from this is a number of short story magazines; 'Granta', 'Shadows fun and Tall Trees', 'Unthology' and 'The Edinburgh Review' are just some of the publications in which these pieces were easy commitment to be seen firsttake on. If asked to identify Reading a poem a red thread between the components of Nicholas Royle’s anthologyday does not take long, I would say that in each short storymere minutes, everything is left to simmer under the surface. There is a frustration brought about by the lack of clarity and with over three-hundred poems in every short story, which here there's bound to me is be a reflection of just how unclear the most seismic of situations may be poem that speaks to any individual involvedeach reader directly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773479</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Malcolm GladwellHerbertson_Wordsworth|title=The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs with ForewordWilliam and Dorothy Wordsworth: A Miscellany|author=Gavin Herbertson
|rating=5
|genre=PetsAnthologies|summary=I think it's fair to say that you're not even going to pick this book up unless you're William Wordsworth was a dog loverdefining member of the romantic literary era. If you've always yearned for a cat and shudder at the thought He was part of early morning walks in the rain then this is definitely no the book for you. But - if you knowfirst wave, or are known by and his poetry helped to shape a dog then large part of it. Nature was the key: existing in nature, finding one's own true nature and becoming natural in the equivalent of that massive hamper of chocolate delights to a chocoholic. Only a magazine like process were the ''New Yorker'' could raid its archives and produce such a massive compendium of humour, illustrations, essays, fiction, poems and cartoons about dogs, or have a cast of writers which could put many a bookshop to shamedriving forces behind it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>043402239X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Angela Macmillan Mahfouz_Muslim|title=A Little, Aloud for ChildrenThe Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write|author=Sabrina Mahfouz
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|genre=Anthologies
|summary=Twenty five years What does it mean to be British and Muslim? This is a question these writers tackle with stunning clarity. Modern- day British society has a quarter varied sense of cultural heritage; it is a century - society that is a long time. It's an incredible length of time changing and moving forward as an independent publisher, particularly one which specialises in publishing it adds more and more voices to the best in Welsh women's writingpopulation, but it is also one that's exactly what Honno have achieved. To celebrate the occasion they've published this anthology has an undercurrent of twenty five short stories anxiety and non-fiction piecesfear towards those who are minorities. They've previously been seen So this collection displays how all that fear is received; it comes in the numerous anthologies published by Honno but when combined they give an interesting form of stereotypical labels and enlightening insight into the work of these great writersracial prejudice, which are themes eloquently reproduced here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906784337</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary BeardHolland Cheap|title=All in a Don's DayView from the Cheap Seats|author=Barry Holland
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|genre=AutobiographyAnthologies|summary=Mary Beard's latest collection, 'All A little bit about Barry Holland: he was born in a Don's Day'Newport, of her assembled blog pieces from 2009 until the end of 2011South Wales, covers similar concerns to her previous selectionworking-class parents. He loves rugby and his son - his son is his favourite rugby player, [[It's A Don's Life by Mary Beard|It's a Don's Life]]which is just as it should be. Professor Beard He is a fellow qualified engineer but is unable to work because of Newnham College, Cambridge and became Classics Professor at there in 2004mental ill-health. She is also an expert in Roman laughterAll of these things feed into ''View from the Cheap Seats'', an interest which she fully indulges in the pages of her TLS blog. In her latest is a collection she bemoans the parlous current state of both Education poems and imaginings as vivid and the Academy, immediate and makes witty observations on matters striking as various as television chefs, what you could hope for. Barry sounds like a thoroughly nice bloke and how his book was a pleasure to visit in Rome and the art and worth of completing references in an age when only positive things may be said about postgraduate job-seekersread.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685362</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Adele Geras, Anne Fine, Henrietta Branford, Jacqueline Wilson, Malorie Blackman, Philip Pullman, Tony Mitton, Alan Garner, Berlie Doherty, Gillian Cross, Kit Wright, Michael Morpurgo, Susan Gates and Linda Newbery Marshall EFT|title=Magic BeansThe Book of English Folk Tales|author=Sybil Marshall and John Lawrence
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|summary=From ghosts to witches, to giants and fairies, ''The Monster's CornerBook of English Folk Tales'' is a fascinating collection of tales that are told from the monster's perspective. It takes the idea that we are all the heroes of our own story and has a gloriously good time with it. Ranging from the thought-provoking to the strange, to the shocking and gory – they're a great selection of stories from the likes of [[:Category:Kelley Armstrong|Kelley Armstrong]], [[:Category:Kevin J Anderson|Kevin J. Anderson]], Sarah Pinborough retold by social historian and many othersfolklorist Sybil Marshall.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749957859</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael Palin|title=Ox Travels|rating=4|genre=Travel|summary=Ox Travels is an anthology Out of travel writing compiled to raise funds print for Oxfamover three decades, but it this beautiful new clothbound edition is well worth buying and reading in its own right. Its generous 432 pages offer the chance to meet 36 writers, including travel writers, journalists and novelists, complete with an introduction wood-engraved illustrations by Michael Palin John Lawrence and an afterword by Barbara Stocking, Oxfam's Chief Executiveis sure to capture the attention of a new generation of lovers of folklore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668496X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David LodgeTrotman_Winter|title=The Art of FictionWinter: A Book for the Season|author=Felicity Trotman (editor)
|rating=4
|genre=Anthologies
|summary=Some academics produce streams This seasonal anthology contains a nice mixture of fantastic concepts poetry, nature and travel pieces, and ideas but their attempts at articulating them to excerpts from longer works of fiction. Felicity Trotman, a wider reading public stumble freelance editor and member of the English Civil War Society, has arranged the material into jargon three sections: 'The Old Year', 'Christmas, Sacred and complexity. Thankfully David Lodge has no such troubles. As a mighty fine novelist ([[Nice Work by David Lodge|Nice Work]]Secular', [[Thinksand 'The New Year'.This creates an appropriate sense of chronological progression and also serves to make Christmas the heart of the book.. by David Lodge|Thinks...]]Black-and-white illustrations – maps, Deaf Sentence photographs and many more) who also has a day job as a professor of Englishengravings – are interspersed throughout, Lodge is perfectly qualified to deliver and each author gets a book on the craft of writing an in The Art short paragraph of Fiction he has delivered one that is informative biography and enlightening as well as highly entertainingbackground.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099554240</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Waddell and Emma Chichester ClarkElphinstone_Winter|title=The Orchard Book Of Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy TalesWinter Magic|author=Abi Elphinstone (Editor)|rating=3.5
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|summary=With ''The Princess and the Pea''everything from dragons to mysterious crimes, ''The Ugly Duckling'', ''The Tinderbox'', ''The Little Match Girl'', ''The Emperor's New Clothes'', ''The Tin Soldier''voice-stealing witches to time travel, ''The Swineherd'', ''The Nightingale'' and ''The Little Mermaid''magical worlds to first performances of world-famous ballets, this is a must-have compendium collection of classic fairy talesshort stories that delights from start to finish. You Anthologies of short stories can't really go wrong sometimes fall flat, with Hans Christian Andersen's bestone or two good ones and then a bunch of mediocre fillers, can you? Martin Waddell and Emma Chichester Clark have not just churned out but this collection has no weak links...all the old classicsstories are good, but they've given and most of them an amazing freshness are brilliant. I felt entirely caught up in each individual world as I read, loving the varied and vibrancyextremely likeable heroines throughout.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846169380</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Penny DannPhinn_Virgin|title=The Orchard Book Of Nursery Rhymes For Your BabyVirgin Mary's Got Nits|author=Gervase Phinn
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseAnthologies|summary=All your favourite nursery rhymes are here, from Hickory Dickory Dock, through Little Bo Peep Christmas in our house is the time we tend to get on a plane and Three Blind Mice, head to Sing A Song Of Sixpence. With over sixty nursery rhymes to choose fromeither sun or snow, all the big names are presented in a beautiful compendium anywhere that you'll treasure for years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408304589</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Aesopis far, Fiona Waters and Fulvio Testa|title=Aesop's Fables|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Everyone knows and loves ''Aesop's Fables''. They're part of our literary tapestry and our everyday lives. We know sour grapesfar away from the madness at home, we know [[Tortoise vs. Hare last- The Rematch! by Preston Rutt and Ben Redlich|minute dashes to the tortoise shops on Christmas Eve and the hare]]food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are shutting for a month, nor a mere 36 hours. But I do remember the boy who cried wolf and so many more. Fiona Waters has retold 60 feeling of the most famous fables in this delightful anthology.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849390495</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tony Ross|title=My Favourite Fairy Tales|rating=3.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Tony Ross has pickedChristmas when I was younger, retold and illustrated his favourite fairy talesback when it was magical, taking in such classics as ''Rumpelstiltskin'' and ''Beauty and back when you knew exactly what the Beast'', whilst also offering up slightly lesser-known ones like ''The Hedley Kow'', ''The Musicians of Bremen'', ''Sweet Porridge'', ''Prince Hyacinth'' season would bring with carol concerts and ''Fairy Gifts''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842709801</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tony Bradman school nativities and Tony Ross|title=The Orchard Book of Swords, Sorcerers and Superheroes|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Jason and the Argonauts, King Arthur, Aladdin, William Tell, Hercules, Sinbad, St George, Ali Baba, Theseus and Robin HoodChristmas parties. If you love myths and legends as much as [[Top Ten Retellings This book is an anthology of Myths, Legends and Fairy Tales|we do]] then those ten heroes will have got your juices flowingmoments, and you'll be desperate it took me right back to dive in to this collection the wonder of adventures. It's fantastic. You'll love it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408309211</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Children's Trust|title=The Walrus and the Carpenter and Other Favourite Poems|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Celebrities, including [[:Category:Richard Hammond|Richard Hammond]], Paul O'Grady, Sienna Miller, McFly and Lorraine Kelly, have chosen their favourite poems for this anthology. All proceeds from the book go to [http://www.thechildrenstrust.org.uk/ The Children's Trust]. It's a fantastic charity, who help disabled children, and I urge you all to buy Christmas as a copy of ''The Walrus and the Carpenter'' to support themchild.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140632650X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael RosenAyrton_Pasaran|title=A To Z - The Best Children's Poetry From Agard To Zephaniah|rating=5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Michael Rosen has picked the best modern children's poetry, from John Agard through to Benjamin Zephaniah. It stemmed No Pasaran: Writings from Rosen performing in schools and libraries with many of the poets, and as children's poetry anthologies go, it's amongst the very best.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141324503</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSpanish Civil War|author=Zadie Smith|title=Changing My Mind: Occasional EssaysPete Ayrton (editor)
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|genre=Anthologies
|summary=Zadie Smith is best known as In ''¡No Pasarán!: Writings from the author of three novels: White TeethSpanish Civil War'', The Autograph Man and On Beauty. She now teaches Creative Writing at Columbia University in New York. This collection is Pete Ayrton has chosen a mixture majority of literary criticism and journalismtexts by Spanish writers, including travel writing, reviews and other writing on film and several pieces arguing that the conflict has long been written about Zadie Smith's family, and especially her father. It is divided into five sections under from the point of view of the headings Reading, Being, Seeing, Feeling and Rememberinginternational brigades.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241142954</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Spike MilliganEdwards_Manor|title=The Magical World of MilliganMurder at the Manor: Country House Mysteries (British Library Crime Classics)|author=Martin Edwards (editor)
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|genre=Confident ReadersAnthologies|summary=Some people you just have to loveI'm not big on short stories, but two factors nudged me towards this book. It Firstly, it's broadly golden age crime, one of my weaknesses and secondly, the law. Spike Milligan was always fantasticeditor is [[:Category:Martin Edwards|Martin Edwards]], a man whose knowledge of golden age crime is probably unsurpassed and he's much misseddone us proud, not only with his selection but with the half-page biographies of the writers, which precede each story. He There's got just enough there to allow you to place the perfect mix of nonsenseauthor and to direct you to other works if you're tempted. It's an elegant selection, heartfrom the well known and the less well known, and surreal humour. He speaks to people of all ages, set in and he's just plain lovelyaround the country house. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905264844</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carol Ann DuffyColfer_Place|title=New and Collected Poems for ChildrenOnce Upon a Place|author=Eoin Colfer (editor)|rating=3.5
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|summary=Sometimes You know the title is all bit of the introduction blurb on every ''Artemis Fowl'' book, where Eoin Colfer had it said about how you need: Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffypronounce his name? That wasn's 'New t the intention of an up-and-coming author to be recognisable; rather, it was pride. Pride in the difference of it, of the Irishness of it. Ireland, it seems to me, is more full than usual of people, things and ideas, and places that are different by dint of their singular nationality – and so many deserve to have pride attached to them. The places might not be the famous ones, but they can be the source of pride, and Collected Poems of stories, which is where this compilation of short works for Children'the young comes in, with the authors invited to select their chosen place and write about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571219683</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Harry HorseCleeves_Murder|title=Higglety Pigglety Pop! And The Starlings and Other First PoemsStories|author=Ann Cleeves (editor)
|rating=4
|genre=For SharingAnthologies|summary=A poetry anthology that includes Edward LearSix authors, Spike Milliganknown collectively as 'Murder Squad', AA Milneand their six accomplices were each given photographs of the remote landscape of Pembrokeshire by acclaimed photographer David Wilson and asked to come up with a short story inspired by what they saw. Some of the stories will be more to your taste than others, Lewis Carroll and Michael Rosen as is immediately worth only to be expected in such a look. They're timeless classics that everyone has read varied anthology, but none are weak and has had read to themif you enjoy crime short stories then this book could be a real treat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406323144</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Debi GlioriMilne_Love|title=Noisy PoemsLove From Pooh (Winnie the Pooh)|author=A A Milne
|rating=5
|genre=For SharingAnthologies|summary=Any For a small book, a small review – this is a quite delightful little thing, about which not a lot can be said. It is a gift book of poetry pure and simple, much in the way that Pooh Bear was a little simple at times (''Pooh… thought how wonderful it would be to have a Real Brain which could tell you things''). With it comes a simple blurb, and almost instructions that starts with Spike Milligan it is for giving, and ends with Roger McGough will get there is a space for a loving dedication at the thumbs up from mebeginning, which is again only apt, as it is all about love. Noisy Poems is full Love of just that: poems about soundshoney, with trucks honkinglove in friendship, ducks quackinglove of all various kinds, trains clickety-clacking and shoes squeakingbut just love. Itcan's awash with alliteration and rhythmt help but make you most warm-hearted. It's crying out to be read aloud and joined in with.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406323195</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John FosterWalton_Scifi|title=Twinkle Twinkle Chocolate Bar|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=I was recently subjected to a good 20 minutes of the rude version of Happy Birthday in Catalan, even though it was neither my birthday nor am I Catalan. I responded with the ol' squashed tomatoes and stew version that we all know and love, for a very restrained 15 minutes. Twinkle Twinkle Chocolate Bar is packed full of such things. Kids love those sort of rhymes, and childish adults love 'em too. Whilst Twinkle Twinkle Chocolate Bar isn't exactly rude, it does have a cheeky glint in its eye, a muddy splash on its new shoes, and gleeful laughter throughout.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192755811</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewWhat Makes This Book So Great: Re-Reading The Classics Of Science Fiction And Fantasy|author=Paul B Janeczko and Chris Raschka|title=A Kick In The Head: An Everyday Guide To Poetic FormsJo Walton
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|genre=Confident ReadersAnthologies|summary=As the subtitle saysJo Walton has published over ten books, A Kick In The Head is an everyday guide to poetic formsseveral of which have been award-winning. It's a perfect primer to couplets, limericks, acrostics, sonnetsOn top of that, haiku and many more. Each form she has a brief explanationvoracious appetite for books - both as a well-respected writer of original fiction, an example, and then but as a more detailed explanation at the backwell-respected reviewer too. It's Not only does she have time to do all that, but she also writes a wonderful educational book regular column for any child (or for any adult who wants to brush up Tor.com, on their basic understanding Science Fiction and Fantasy books, and it is these columns that a selection of poetry)which are collected here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763641324</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Brian MacArthurTennant_Grub|title=For King Did We Meet on Grub Street?|author=Emma Tennant, Hilary Bailey and Country: Voices from the First World War David Elliott|rating=3.5|genre=HistoryAnthologies|summary=''For King Essentially, the three authors (all of whom have long careers in the book industry) revel in the idea of being whining old curmudgeons who miss the good old days of publishing. This unashamed nostalgia provides the focus of the book and Country – Voices allows the writers to recount numerous anecdotes from their days in the First World War'' publishing business. Whilst the primary audience for this book may well be students of creative writing and media studies, it also serves as an interesting exploration of an aspect of modern history: how a once-burgeoning industry is an anthology now a shell of its former self, much like a lot of writings edited by Brian MacArthurmanufacturing. It features around 450 pages Because of journalsthis, poems, articles I was disappointed that no space was given to a consideration of how the rise of the e-book and memories Kindle has directly damaged both the sale of those involved in WWIbooks and the potential for new books to be written (fewer real books sold = fewer financial advances paid to writers = fewer books written). These factual accounts cover all kinds Also, given the clear love of stylesbooks as treasured artefacts, lengths and subject matterthe dismissal of the Harry Potter phenomenon seems truculent, but each one is hopefully able given the impetus the series gave to give reading amongst both the reader a real taste of a time most of us are too young to remember first-handand adults.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349120293</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tom Hodgkinson Penzler_Big|title=The Big Book of Idle Pleasures|rating=4.5|genre=Trivia|summary=We've all heard the clichés about modern life. You know – technology was meant to free us from drudgery. Instead we've become its slaves and work longer hours than ever. We're overloaded with means of communication but few of us know our neighbours, etc, etc. On hearing these, most of us shrug and carry on with our busy, busy lives. But now and then, something reminds us of who and what we are. This delightful, unassuming book is one of those things.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091923328</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewChristmas Mysteries|author=Richard Dawkins |title=The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing Otto Penzler (editor)
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|genre=Popular ScienceAnthologies|summary=Popular science Nostalgia is a huge field nowadaysbig part of the Christmas experience, populated and that's provided in sack-loads by both this hefty tome of short stories. Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot and Brother Cadfael jostle Morse, Rumpole and Vic Warshawski for space on these tightly packed pages, while lesser-known and long since forgotten writers who turn to science furnish new and scientists who took to writing. The collection I have unexpected pleasures for even the pleasure of reviewing contains samples of writing by scientists, most well-read of it at least illuminating, some truly excellentbook worms.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199216800</amazonuk>
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