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[[Category:Anthologies|*]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1737030942|title=A Broken World: Letters, diaries and memories of the Great WarBag O'Goodies|author=Sebastian Faulks and Hope WolfJolly Walker Bittick|rating=4.5|genre=HistoryAnthologies|summary=Sebastian Faulks and Dr Hope Wolf have expertly brought together this far-reaching collection of memoriesSometimes, diaries, letters and postcards written during you deserve a treat and after the First World War. While Faulks is the author of novels such as mine was Jolly Walker Bittick's 'Birdsong'Bag O' and ''Charlotte GrayGoodies''. I first encountered his writing about a year ago, when I read his [[Cape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]], Dr Hope Wolf is a research fellow in English at the University rollicking tale of Cambridgewhat happens when five young men find a base for their partying. Right now, whose doctoral research focused on archives at the Imperial War Museum. The combination of such I didn't want a respected author, whose most famous (and arguably his best) full-length novel is set in the First World War, so I turned to this anthology of verse and an academic whose expertise is the in the same area, means that this fascinating collection hits all the right notesshort stories. It Bittick's commemorative, poignant writing has matured - and very humanso have his characters.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091954223</amazonuk> Well... most of them!

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=140638853X|title=Dead But Not ForgottenSomebody Give This Heart a Pen|author=Charlaine Harris and Toni LP Kelner (Editors)Sophia Thakur|rating=3.5

|summary=''Dead But Not Forgotten'' returns to Sookie StackhouseSophia Thakur's worlddebut anthology is a collection of poems that are all unique, exploring the lives and misadventures of some of the more minor characters whether in the seriesrelation to their style, length or theme. The collection features stories about Pam Ravenscroftis split into four sections, Adele Hale Stackhousetitled 'grow', Luna'wait', Diantha'break' and 'grow again', Bubba and many guiding you through a process which is one of the other colourful characters from Bon Temps and foundations that the wider universe anthology is built on. Each section begins with a foregrounded title page containing various small pieces of Sookie's storywriting, written ranging from a quote by authors such as Seanan McGuirea Nigerian playwright, Rachel Caine, Nicole Peeler, Christopher Golden to African proverbs. This provides a nice introduction to the section before you are immersed in the beautifully written and eloquent poems that Thakur has clearly put her heart and many moresoul into.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00GBQXN6K</amazonuk>

{{newreview''You’re the froth on my soy cappuccino''<br>|title=Stories of World War One|author=Tony Bradman|rating=5|genre=Teens''You’re the spread on my paleo toast''<br>|summary=World War One, or ''You’re the Great War as it was known at the time, was a cataclysmic war. Millions died and life was changed forever for the survivors nose of my GM- for the women of Britainfree Pinot''<br>''You’re organic, and for the working classes and ruling classes alikemy love. 2014 is the centenary of its outbreak and the redoubtable Tony Bradman has gathered together a dozen of our best writers for young people to create an anthology of short stories to commemorate You’re the anniversary.|amazonuk=most!''<amazonuk>1408330350</amazonukbr> Ha! How can you not laugh at this gently mocking take on love in the hipster world?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=PUP_Rising|title=Daughters of TimeRising Stars: New Young Voices in Poetry|author=Mary Hoffman (editor)Pop Up Projects

|genre=Confident ReadersAnthologies|summary=This is collection brings together five emerging voices in poetry. And despite what the publisher says, I wouldn't personally impose an anthology aimed at tweens and younger teens age restriction on the subject of ''some of history's most remarkable women''writing here. It's an interesting idea, particularly as the usual suspects are perhaps avoidedEach poet uses words that will appeal to many readers. No Elizabeth I, Mary Queen of Scots, Victoria, or Florence Nightingale. Instead we get Boudica, Mary Seacole, Aphra Behn and Julian of Norwich, amongst others. It doesnfound this particularly so with Jay Hulme't altogether work for me but there are enough strong stories to make it well worth a looks poetry.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184877169X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Stevenson_Garden|title=No ManA Child's Land: Writings From Garden of Verses|author=Robert Louis Stevenson|rating=2|genre=Anthologies|summary=Robert Louis Stevenson was a very versatile writer; he delved deep into the human psyche when he wrote ''The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde'' but he did not restrict himself to representations of the gothic and the persecuted. He also wrote brilliant children's adventure stories such as ''Treasure Island'' and ''Kidnapped'', but, again, he did not restrict himself to prose writing because here he demonstrates his ability to write poetry.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Esiri Poem|title=A World At WarPoem for Every Day of the Year|author=Pete Ayrton (editor)Allie Esiri

|summary=July 2014 marks the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War: a war that has become imprinted on the national consciousness of Britain (and plenty of modern nation-states), partly because of the large numbers of people (mostly men) writing about it. I don't mean journalistsFor those who do not read much poetry, for those who had been covering wars for the Victorian publicdo not know where to start, but artists: poets, authors, memoirists this is a fun and painterseasy commitment to take on. The poets especially have stamped World War One on collective memory, through countless poetry anthologiesReading a poem a day does not take long, recitals at memorialsmere minutes, and with over three-hundred poems in school classroomshere there's bound to be a poem that speaks to each reader directly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846689252</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Herbertson_Wordsworth|title=Of Lions William and UnicornsDorothy Wordsworth: A Lifetime of Tales from the Master StorytellerMiscellany|author=Michael MorpurgoGavin Herbertson|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersAnthologies|summary=''Of Lions William Wordsworth was a defining member of the romantic literary era. He was part of the first wave, and Unicorns'' is his poetry helped to shape a collection large part of short stories and extracts from Morpurgo’s most popular booksit. The book is split into five sectionsNature was the key: existing in nature, which focus on recurring themes finding one's own true nature and becoming natural in his writingthe process were the driving forces behind it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007395353</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Mahfouz_Muslim|title=Rags and BonesThe Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write|author=Melissa Marr and Tim Pratt (Editors)Sabrina Mahfouz|rating=4.5

|summary=Some of today's top authors have come together What does it mean to retell classic tales be British and Muslim? This is a question these writers tackle with stunning clarity. Modern- from fairy stories to Victorian-era fiction. As usual with this kind day British society has a varied sense of anthology, cultural heritage; it's is a fairly hit-or-miss affairsociety that is changing and moving forward as it adds more and more voices to the population, but the hits here it is also one that has an undercurrent of anxiety and fear towards those who are so strong minorities. So this collection displays how all that they're well worth picking up fear is received; it comes in the book forform of stereotypical labels and racial prejudice, which are themes eloquently reproduced here. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472210522</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris MossHolland Cheap|title=Smoothly From Harrow: A Compendium for View from the London CommuterCheap Seats|author=Barry Holland

|summary=If you want A little bit about Barry Holland: he was born in Newport, South Wales, to get ''behind'' what commuting working-class parents. He loves rugby and his son - his son is his favourite rugby player, which is just as it should be. He is really like - not in an academic or a political way, qualified engineer but from the perspective of having your hand through a strap and wishing that the man next is unable to you wasn't ''quite'' so enamoured work because of Brut aftershave mental ill- then you need a travel journalisthealth. Step forward (but mind the gap), Chris Moss, who writes regularly for the All of these things feed into ''Daily Telegraph'' and has done the same for View from the ''GuardianCheap Seats'', ''Independent'' which is a collection of poems and imaginings as vivid and immediate and various magazinesstriking as you could hope for. Most importantly, he's commuted from Camberwell, Camden, Hackney, Harrow, Herne Hill, Surbiton Barry sounds like a thoroughly nice bloke and Tooting. Personally, I think he deserves his book was a medalpleasure to read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905131623</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Marshall EFT|title=The Time Traveller's AlmanacBook of English Folk Tales|author=Anne VanderMeer Sybil Marshall and Jeff VanderMeerJohn Lawrence

|summary=From H.G Wells ghosts to witches, to giants and fairies, ''Doctor WhoThe Book of English Folk Tales'', there is something about a good time-travel story that has the power to ignite the imagination in a way unique to the genrefascinating collection of stories retold by social historian and folklorist Sybil Marshall. Perhaps it is due to the fact that when dealing with the subject Out of time travelprint for over three decades, literally ''anything this beautiful new clothbound edition is possible''. Well, almost anything...apart from going back in time complete with wood-engraved illustrations by John Lawrence and killing your Grandfather, which we know would cause an almighty paradox and probably destroy is sure to capture the universeattention of a new generation of lovers of folklore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781853908</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Trotman_Winter|title=Stuff I've Been ReadingWinter: A Book for the Season|author=Nick HornbyFelicity Trotman (editor)|rating=4.5

|summary=I am lucky enough to be typing this while sitting on the fifth floor This seasonal anthology contains a nice mixture of the magnificent new Library poetry, nature and travel pieces, and excerpts from longer works of Birminghamfiction. Coming in at Felicity Trotman, a whopping £189 million freelance editor and member of the burghers of English Civil War Society, has arranged the second city certainly havenmaterial into three sections: 'The Old Year', 'Christmas, Sacred and Secular', and 'The New Year't skimped in trying . This creates an appropriate sense of chronological progression and also serves to create a 21st century centre make Christmas the heart of learningthe book. Amongst all the interactive learning zonesBlack-and-white illustrations – maps, digital galleries photographs and coffee shops there engravings – are interspersed throughout, and each author gets a short paragraph of course books. Many, many books. Over one million in fact. And this in an era when some critics have said that the book in its current form is deadbiography and background.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241003334</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Elphinstone_Winter|title=Beyond Rue Morgue: Further Tales of Edgar Allan Poe's 1st DetectiveWinter Magic|author=Paul Kane and Charles Prepolec Abi Elphinstone (EditorsEditor)

|summary=C. Auguste Dupin is often regarded as the first fictional detective and at the very least Edgar Allan Poe’s character was the blueprint for many sleuths With everything from dragons to comemysterious crimes, most notably Sherlock Holmes. Dupin is an eccentric genius from Paris whose use of logic and deduction aid the police on their most baffling cases. The characters literary debut was in the short story ''The Murders in the Rue Morgue'' in 1841 and between 1842 and 1844 Poe wrote two more short stories about Dupin and his exploits. ''Beyond Rue Morgue'' contains nine stories (in addition voice-stealing witches 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 to story.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781161755</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Best British Short Stories 2013|author=Nicholas Royle (editor)|rating=5|genre=Short Stories|summary=Expect to read some quality work in ''Best British Short Stories 2013'', sourced from a number of short story magazines; 'Granta', 'Shadows and Tall Trees'time travel, 'Unthology' and 'The Edinburgh Review' are just some of the publications in which these pieces were magical worlds to be seen first. If asked to identify a red thread between the components performances of Nicholas Royle’s anthologyworld-famous ballets, I would say that in each short story, everything is left to simmer under the surface. There this is a frustration brought about by the lack collection of clarity in every short story, which to me is a reflection of just how unclear the most seismic of situations may be to any individual involved.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773479</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Malcolm Gladwell|title=The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs with Foreword|rating=5|genre=Pets|summary=I think it's fair to say stories that you're not even going delights from start to pick this book up unless you're a dog loverfinish. If you've always yearned for a cat and shudder at the thought Anthologies of early morning walks in the rain then this is definitely no the book for you. But - if you knowshort stories can sometimes fall flat, with one or are known by a dog two good ones and then it's the equivalent of that massive hamper of chocolate delights to a chocoholic. Only a magazine like the ''New Yorker'' could raid its archives and produce such a massive compendium bunch of humourmediocre fillers, illustrations, essays, fiction, poems and cartoons about dogs, or have a cast of writers which could put many a bookshop to shamebut this collection has no weak links..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>043402239X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Angela Macmillan |title=A Little, Aloud for Children|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=This very special anthology of story extracts and poems to share aloud is a wonderful idea from The Reader Organisation to encourage reading aloud to children by parents, teachers, grandparents, librarians, friends or even other children. The terrific and very varied selection includes something to appeal to all tastes. It should tempt the reader to seek out the original books from which the extracts stories are taken good, and maybe to try children’s fiction that they have not considered beforemost of them are brilliant. The book includes classicsI felt entirely caught up in each individual world as I read, tried and tested old favourites and newer titles too. Dipping into this anthology for loving the first time feels a little like meeting old and maybe long forgotten friends varied and making new ones along the wayextremely likeable heroines throughout.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857560425</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephanie Tillotson and Penny ThomasPhinn_Virgin|title=All Shall be WellThe Virgin Mary's Got Nits|author=Gervase Phinn

|summary=Twenty five years Christmas in our house is the time we tend to get on a plane and head to either sun or snow, anywhere that is far, far away from the madness at home, last- minute dashes to the shops on Christmas Eve and food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are shutting for a quarter of a century - is month, nor a long timemere 36 hours. It's an incredible length But I do remember the feeling of time as an independent publisherChristmas when I was younger, particularly one which specialises in publishing the best in Welsh women's writingback when it was magical, but that's and back when you knew exactly what Honno have achieved. To celebrate the occasion they've published this anthology of twenty five short stories season would bring with carol concerts and school nativities and non-fiction piecesChristmas parties. They've previously been seen in the numerous anthologies published by Honno but when combined they give This book is an interesting anthology of those moments, and enlightening insight into it took me right back to the work wonder of these great writersChristmas as a child.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906784337</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary BeardAyrton_Pasaran|title=All in a Don's DayNo Pasaran: Writings from the Spanish Civil War|author=Pete Ayrton (editor)

|genre=AutobiographyAnthologies|summary=Mary BeardIn 's latest collection, 'All in a Don's Day', of her assembled blog pieces ¡No Pasarán!: Writings from 2009 until the end of 2011, covers similar concerns to her previous selection, [[ItSpanish Civil War's A Don's Life by Mary Beard|It's a Don's Life]]. Professor Beard is , Pete Ayrton has chosen a fellow majority of Newnham Collegetexts by Spanish writers, Cambridge and became Classics Professor at there in 2004. She is also an expert in Roman laughter, an interest which she fully indulges in arguing that the conflict has long been written about from the pages point of her TLS blog. In her latest collection she bemoans the parlous current state view of both Education and the Academy, and makes witty observations on matters as various as television chefs, what and how 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-seekersinternational brigades.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685362</amazonuk>

 {{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 Edwards_Manor|title=Magic Beans|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=I was attracted to this book because it features stories from [[:Category:Jacqueline Wilson|Jacqueline Wilson]], [[:Category:Philip Pullman|Philip Pullman]], [[:CategoryMurder at the Manor:Michael Morpurgo|Michael Morpurgo]], [[:Category:Alan Garner|Alan Garner]] and many other prominent children's writers. I thought it might make a great Christmas or birthday present Country House Mysteries (and it wouldBritish Library Crime Classics). There's a selection of stories from traditional sources such as Hans Christian Andersen, and Aesop, and I imagine that the authors were inveigled into writing for publisher David Fickling with a free choice of original stories. So don't expect a collection or compendium, but rather an anthology of tales that have entranced and inspired these writers in their own childhoods – magic beans indeed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857560433</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Christopher Golden Martin Edwards (Editoreditor)|title=Monster's Corner

|summary=I''The Monsterm not big on short stories, but two factors nudged me towards this book. Firstly, it's Corner'' broadly golden age crime, one of my weaknesses and secondly, the editor is [[:Category:Martin Edwards|Martin Edwards]], a collection man whose knowledge of tales that are told from the monstergolden age crime is probably unsurpassed and he's perspective. It takes done us proud, not only with his selection but with the idea that we are all half-page biographies of the heroes of our own writers, which precede each story and has a gloriously good time with it. Ranging from the thought-provoking There's just enough there to the strange, allow you to place the shocking author and gory – theyto direct you to other works if you're a great tempted. It's an elegant selection of stories , from the likes of [[:Category:Kelley Armstrong|Kelley Armstrong]]well known and the less well known, [[:Category:Kevin J Anderson|Kevin J. Anderson]], Sarah Pinborough all set in and many othersaround the country house.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749957859</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael PalinColfer_Place|title=Ox TravelsOnce Upon a Place|author=Eoin Colfer (editor)|rating=43.5|genre=TravelAnthologies|summary=Ox Travels is You know the bit of the blurb on every ''Artemis Fowl'' book, where Eoin Colfer had it said about how you pronounce his name? That wasn't the intention of an anthology up-and-coming author to be recognisable; rather, it was pride. Pride in the difference of travel writing compiled it, of the Irishness of it. Ireland, it seems to raise funds for Oxfamme, but it is well worth buying more full than usual of people, things and ideas, and places that are different by dint of their singular nationality – and reading in its own rightso many deserve to have pride attached to them. Its generous 432 pages offer The places might not be the chance to meet 36 writersfamous ones, including travel writersbut they can be the source of pride, journalists and novelistsof stories, which is where this compilation of short works for the young comes in, with an introduction by Michael Palin the authors invited to select their chosen place and an afterword by Barbara Stocking, Oxfam's Chief Executivewrite about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668496X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David LodgeCleeves_Murder|title=The Art of FictionStarlings and Other Stories|author=Ann Cleeves (editor)

|summary=Some academics produce streams Six authors, known collectively as 'Murder Squad', and their six accomplices were each given photographs of the remote landscape of fantastic concepts Pembrokeshire by acclaimed photographer David Wilson and ideas but their attempts at articulating them asked to come up with a wider reading public stumble into jargon and complexity. Thankfully David Lodge has no such troubles. As a mighty fine novelist ([[Nice Work short story inspired by David Lodge|Nice Work]], [[Thinkswhat they saw... by David Lodge|Thinks...]]Some of the stories will be more to your taste than others, Deaf Sentence and many more) who also has a day job as a professor of English, Lodge is perfectly qualified only to deliver be expected in such a varied anthology, but none are weak and if you enjoy crime short stories then this book on the craft of writing an in The Art of Fiction he has delivered one that is informative and enlightening as well as highly entertainingcould be a real treat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099554240</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Waddell and Emma Chichester ClarkMilne_Love|title=The Orchard Book Of Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy TalesLove From Pooh (Winnie the Pooh)|author=A A Milne

|summary=With ''The Princess and the Pea'', ''The Ugly Duckling'', ''The Tinderbox'', ''The Little Match Girl'', ''The Emperor's New Clothes'', ''The Tin Soldier'', ''The Swineherd'', ''The Nightingale'' and ''The Little Mermaid''For a small book, a small review – this is a must-have compendium of classic fairy tales. You can't really go wrong with Hans Christian Andersen's bestquite delightful little thing, about which not a lot can you? Martin Waddell be said. It is a gift book pure and Emma Chichester Clark have not just churned out simple, much in the old classics, but theyway that Pooh Bear was a little simple at times ('ve given them an amazing freshness and vibrancy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846169380</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Penny Dann|title=The Orchard Book Of Nursery Rhymes For Your Baby|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=All your favourite nursery rhymes are here, from Hickory Dickory Dock, through Little Bo Peep and Three Blind Mice, Pooh… thought how wonderful it would be to Sing A Song Of Sixpence. With over sixty nursery rhymes to choose from, all the big names are presented in have a beautiful compendium that Real Brain which could tell youthings'll treasure for years').|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408304589</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Aesop With it comes a simple blurb, 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 grapesalmost instructions that it is for giving, we know [[Tortoise vs. Hare - The Rematch! by Preston Rutt and Ben Redlich|there is a space for a loving dedication at the tortoise and the hare]]beginning, which is again only apt, the boy who cried wolf and so many moreas it is all about love. Fiona Waters has retold 60 Love 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 pickedhoney, retold and illustrated his favourite fairy tales, taking love in such classics as ''Rumpelstiltskin'' and ''Beauty and the Beast''friendship, whilst also offering up slightly lesser-known ones like ''The Hedley Kow'', ''The Musicians love of Bremen''all various kinds, but just love. It can''Sweet Porridge'', ''Prince Hyacinth'' and ''Fairy Gifts''t help but make you most warm-hearted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842709801</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Bradman and Tony RossWalton_Scifi|title=What Makes This Book So Great: Re-Reading The Orchard Book of Swords, Sorcerers and SuperheroesClassics Of Science Fiction And Fantasy|author=Jo Walton

|genre=Confident ReadersAnthologies|summary=Jason and the ArgonautsJo Walton has published over ten books, King Arthurseveral of which have been award-winning. On top of that, Aladdinshe has a voracious appetite for books - both as a well-respected writer of original fiction, William Tell, Hercules, Sinbad, St George, Ali Bababut as a well-respected reviewer too. Not only does she have time to do all that, Theseus and Robin Hoodbut she also writes a regular column for Tor. If you love myths and legends as much as [[Top Ten Retellings of Mythscom, Legends on Science Fiction and Fairy Tales|we do]] then those ten heroes will have got your juices flowingFantasy books, and you'll be desperate to dive in to this collection it is these columns that a selection of adventures. It's fantasticwhich are collected here. You'll love it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408309211</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Children's TrustTennant_Grub|title=The Walrus and the Carpenter Did We Meet on Grub Street?|author=Emma Tennant, Hilary Bailey and Other Favourite PoemsDavid Elliott

|summary=Zadie Smith is best known as Essentially, the author three authors (all of three novels: White Teeth, The Autograph Man and On Beauty. She now teaches Creative Writing at Columbia University whom have long careers in the book industry) revel in New Yorkthe idea of being whining old curmudgeons who miss the good old days of publishing. This collection is a mixture unashamed nostalgia provides the focus of literary criticism the book and journalism, including travel writing, reviews and other allows the writers to recount numerous anecdotes from their days in the publishing business. Whilst the primary audience for this book may well be students of creative writing on film and several pieces about Zadie Smith's familymedia studies, and especially her father. It it also serves as an interesting exploration of an aspect of modern history: how a once-burgeoning industry is divided into five sections under the headings Readingnow a shell of its former self, Beingmuch like a lot of manufacturing. Because of this, Seeing, Feeling I was disappointed that no space was given to a consideration of how the rise of the e-book and Remembering.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241142954</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Spike Milligan|title=The Magical World Kindle has directly damaged both the sale of Milligan|ratingbooks and the potential for new books to be written (fewer real books sold =4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summaryfewer financial advances paid to writers =Some people you just have to lovefewer books written). It's Also, given the law. Spike Milligan was always fantasticclear love of books as treasured artefacts, and he's much missed. He's got the perfect mix dismissal of nonsensethe Harry Potter phenomenon seems truculent, heart, and surreal humour. He speaks given the impetus the series gave to people of all ages, reading amongst both the young and he's just plain lovelyadults. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905264844</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Carol Ann DuffyPenzler_Big|title=New and Collected Poems for ChildrenThe Big Book of Christmas Mysteries|author=Otto Penzler (editor)

|summary=Sometimes the title Nostalgia is all the introduction you need: Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy's 'New and Collected Poems for Children'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571219683</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Harry Horse|title=Higglety Pigglety Pop! And Other First Poems|rating=4|genre=For Sharing|summary=A poetry anthology that includes Edward Lear, Spike Milligan, AA Milne, Lewis Carroll and Michael Rosen is immediately worth a look. They're timeless classics that everyone has read and has had read to them.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406323144</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Debi Gliori|title=Noisy Poems|rating=5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Any book big part of poetry that starts with Spike Milligan and ends with Roger McGough will get the thumbs up from me. Noisy Poems is full of just that: poems about soundsChristmas experience, with trucks honking, ducks quacking, trains clickety-clacking and shoes squeaking. It's awash with alliteration and rhythm. Itthat's crying out to be read aloud and joined provided in with.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406323195</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Foster|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 sack-loads by this hefty tome 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>}} {{newreview|author=Paul B Janeczko and Chris Raschka|title=A Kick In The Head: An Everyday Guide To Poetic Forms|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=As the subtitle says, A Kick In The Head is an everyday guide to poetic formsshort stories. It's a perfect primer to coupletsSherlock Holmes, limericks, acrostics, sonnets, haiku Hercule Poirot and many more. Each form has a brief explanation, an exampleBrother Cadfael jostle Morse, Rumpole and then a more detailed explanation at the back. It's a wonderful educational book Vic Warshawski for any child (or for any adult who wants to brush up space on their basic understanding of poetry).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763641324</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Brian MacArthur|title=For King and Country: Voices from the First World War |rating=3|genre=History|summary=''For King and Country – Voices from the First World War'' is an anthology of writings edited by Brian MacArthur. It features around 450 these tightly packed pages of journals, poems, articles while lesser-known and memories of those involved in WWI. These factual accounts cover all kinds of styles, lengths long since forgotten writers furnish new and subject matter, but each one is hopefully able to give unexpected pleasures for even the reader a real taste of a time most of us are too young to remember firstwell-hand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0349120293</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tom Hodgkinson |title=The Book read 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 thingsworms.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091923328</amazonuk>