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[[Category:Anthologies|*]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1737030942|title=Daughters of TimeBag O'Goodies|author=Mary Hoffman (editor)Jolly Walker Bittick
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|genre=Confident ReadersAnthologies|summary=This is an anthology aimed at tweens Sometimes, you deserve a treat and younger teens on the subject of mine was Jolly Walker Bittick's 'some of history's most remarkable womenBag O'Goodies'. It's an interesting idea, particularly as the usual suspects are perhaps avoided. No Elizabeth Ifirst encountered his writing about a year ago, Mary Queen when I read his [[Cape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]], a rollicking tale of Scots, Victoria, or Florence Nightingalewhat happens when five young men find a base for their partying. Instead we get Boudica Right now, Mary SeacoleI didn't want a full-length novel, Aphra Behn so I turned to this anthology of verse and Julian of Norwich, amongst othersshort stories. It doesn Bittick't altogether work for me but there are enough strong stories to make it well worth a looks writing has matured - and so have his characters. Well...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184877169X</amazonuk>most of them!
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=140638853X|title=No Man's Land: Writings From A World At WarSomebody Give This Heart a Pen|author=Pete Ayrton (editor)Sophia Thakur|rating=45
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|summary=July 2014 marks the centenary Sophia Thakur's debut anthology is a collection of the outbreak of the Great War: a war poems that has become imprinted on the national consciousness of Britain (and plenty of modern nation-states)are all unique, whether in relation to their style, partly because of the large numbers of people (mostly men) writing about itlength or theme. I donThe collection is split into four sections, titled 'grow't mean journalists, who had been covering wars for the Victorian public'wait', but artists: poets, authors, memoirists 'break' and painters. The poets especially have stamped World War One on collective memory'grow again', guiding you through countless poetry anthologiesa process which is one of the foundations that the anthology is built on. Each section begins with a foregrounded title page containing various small pieces of writing, recitals at memorialsranging from a quote by a Nigerian playwright, 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 in school classroomssoul into.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846689252</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1789016789|title=Of Lions and UnicornsYou're the Froth On My Soy Cappuccino: A Lifetime of Tales from Poems for the Master StorytellerPresent|author=Michael MorpurgoDon Behrend
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|genre=Confident ReadersAnthologies|summary=''Of Lions and UnicornsYou're the Froth On My Soy Cappuccino' is a collection of short stories and extracts from Morpurgo’s most popular books. The book is split into five sections, which focus on recurring themes in his writing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007395353</amazonuk>}}' begins with ''A Modern Love Story'':
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=PUP_Rising|title=The Time Traveller's AlmanacRising Stars: New Young Voices in Poetry|author=Anne VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeerPop Up Projects
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|summary=From HThis collection brings together five emerging voices in poetry.G Wells to And despite what the publisher says, I wouldn''Doctor Who'', there is something about a good time-travel story t personally impose an age restriction on the writing here. Each poet uses words that has the power to ignite the imagination in a way unique will appeal to the genremany readers. Perhaps it is due to the fact that when dealing I found this particularly so with the subject of time travel, literally ''anything is possible'Jay Hulme's poetry. Well, almost anything...apart from going back in time and killing your Grandfather, which we know would cause an almighty paradox and probably destroy the universe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781853908</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Stevenson_Garden|title=Stuff IA Child've Been Readings Garden of Verses|author=Nick HornbyRobert Louis Stevenson|rating=4.52
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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 Birmingham. Coming in at Robert Louis Stevenson was a whopping £189 million very versatile writer; he delved deep into the burghers human psyche when he wrote ''The Strange Case of the second city certainly havenDoctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde''t skimped in trying but he did not restrict himself to create a 21st century centre representations of learning. Amongst all the interactive learning zones, digital galleries gothic and coffee shops there are of course booksthe persecuted. ManyHe also wrote brilliant children's adventure stories such as ''Treasure Island'' and ''Kidnapped'', 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 deadbut, again, he did not restrict himself to prose writing because here he demonstrates his ability to write poetry.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241003334</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Esiri Poem|title=Beyond Rue Morgue: Further Tales A Poem for Every Day of Edgar Allan Poe's 1st Detectivethe Year|author=Paul Kane and Charles Prepolec (Editors)Allie Esiri|rating=3.54
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|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 those who do not read much poetry, for many sleuths those who do not know where to comestart, most notably Sherlock Holmes. Dupin this is an eccentric genius from Paris whose use of logic a fun and deduction aid the police easy commitment to take on their most baffling cases. The characters literary debut was Reading a poem a day does not take long, mere minutes, and with over three-hundred poems in the short story here there''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 s bound 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 be 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 poem that speaks to storyeach reader directly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781161755</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Herbertson_Wordsworth|title=Best British Short Stories 2013William and Dorothy Wordsworth: A Miscellany|author=Nicholas Royle (editor)Gavin Herbertson
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|genre=Short StoriesAnthologies|summary=Expect to read some quality work in ''Best British Short Stories 2013'', sourced from William Wordsworth was a number defining member of short story magazines; 'Granta', 'Shadows and Tall Trees', 'Unthology' and 'The Edinburgh Review' are just some the romantic literary era. He was part of the publications in which these pieces were to be seen first. If asked wave, and his poetry helped to identify shape a red thread between the components large part of Nicholas Royle’s anthology, I would say that in each short story, everything is left to simmer under the surfaceit. There is a frustration brought about by Nature was the lack of clarity key: existing in every short storynature, which to me is a reflection of just how unclear finding one's own true nature and becoming natural in the process were the most seismic of situations may be to any individual involveddriving forces behind it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773479</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Malcolm GladwellMahfouz_Muslim|title=The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs with ForewordThings I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write|author=Sabrina Mahfouz
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|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 perspectivestories retold by social historian and folklorist Sybil Marshall. It takes the idea that we are all the heroes Out of our own story and has a gloriously good time print for over three decades, this beautiful new clothbound edition is complete with it. Ranging from the thoughtwood-provoking engraved illustrations by John Lawrence and is sure to capture the strange, to the shocking and gory – they're attention of a great selection new generation of stories from the likes lovers of [[:Category:Kelley Armstrong|Kelley Armstrong]], [[:Category:Kevin J Anderson|Kevin J. Anderson]], Sarah Pinborough and many othersfolklore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0749957859</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael PalinTrotman_Winter|title=Ox TravelsWinter: A Book for the Season|author=Felicity Trotman (editor)
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|genre=TravelAnthologies|summary=Ox Travels is an This seasonal anthology contains a nice mixture of poetry, nature and travel writing compiled to raise funds for Oxfampieces, but it is well worth buying and reading in its own rightexcerpts from longer works of fiction. Its generous 432 pages offer Felicity Trotman, a freelance editor and member of the chance to meet 36 writersEnglish Civil War Society, has arranged the material into three sections: 'The Old Year', including travel writers'Christmas, journalists Sacred and novelistsSecular', with and 'The New Year'. This creates an introduction by Michael Palin appropriate sense of chronological progression and also serves to make Christmas the heart of the book. Black-and-white illustrations – maps, photographs and an afterword by Barbara Stockingengravings – are interspersed throughout, Oxfam's Chief Executiveand each author gets a short paragraph of biography and background.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668496X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David LodgeElphinstone_Winter|title=The Art of FictionWinter Magic|author=Abi Elphinstone (Editor)|rating=43.5
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|summary=Some academics produce streams of fantastic concepts With everything from dragons to mysterious crimes, voice-stealing witches to time travel, and ideas but their attempts at articulating them magical worlds to first performances of world-famous ballets, this is a wider reading public stumble into jargon collection of short stories that delights from start to finish. Anthologies of short stories can sometimes fall flat, with one or two good ones and complexity. Thankfully David Lodge then a bunch of mediocre fillers, but this collection has no such troublesweak links. As a mighty fine novelist ([[Nice Work by David Lodge|Nice Work]], [[Thinks... by David Lodge|Thinks...]]all the stories are good, Deaf Sentence and many more) who also has a day job most of them are brilliant. I felt entirely caught up in each individual world as a professor of EnglishI read, Lodge is perfectly qualified to deliver a book on loving the craft of writing an in The Art of Fiction he has delivered one that is informative varied and enlightening as well as highly entertainingextremely likeable heroines throughout.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099554240</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Waddell and Emma Chichester ClarkPhinn_Virgin|title=The Orchard Book Of Hans Christian AndersenVirgin Mary's Fairy TalesGot Nits|author=Gervase Phinn|rating=4.5
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|summary=With ''The Princess Christmas in our house is the time we tend to get on a plane and the Pea''head to either sun or snow, ''The Ugly Duckling''anywhere that is far, ''The Tinderbox''far away from the madness at home, ''The Little Match Girl''last-minute dashes to the shops on Christmas Eve and food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are shutting for a month, ''The Emperor's New Clothes''nor a mere 36 hours. But I do remember the feeling of Christmas when I was younger, ''The Tin Soldier''back when it was magical, ''The Swineherd'', ''The Nightingale'' and ''The Little Mermaid'', this back when you knew exactly what the season would bring with carol concerts and school nativities and Christmas parties. This book is a must-have compendium an anthology of classic fairy tales. You can't really go wrong with Hans Christian Andersen's bestthose moments, can you? Martin Waddell and Emma Chichester Clark have not just churned out it took me right back to the old classics, but they've given them an amazing freshness and vibrancywonder of Christmas as a child.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846169380</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Penny DannAyrton_Pasaran|title=The Orchard Book Of Nursery Rhymes For Your BabyNo Pasaran: Writings from the Spanish Civil War|author=Pete Ayrton (editor)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and VerseAnthologies|summary=All your favourite nursery rhymes are here, In ''¡No Pasarán!: Writings from Hickory Dickory Dockthe Spanish Civil War'', through Little Bo Peep and Three Blind MicePete Ayrton has chosen a majority of texts by Spanish writers, to Sing A Song Of Sixpence. With over sixty nursery rhymes to choose arguing that the conflict has long been written about from, all the big names are presented in a beautiful compendium that you'll treasure for yearspoint of view of the international brigades.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408304589</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Aesop, Fiona Waters and Fulvio TestaEdwards_Manor|title=Aesop's FablesMurder at the Manor: Country House Mysteries (British Library Crime Classics)|author=Martin Edwards (editor)
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|genre=Confident ReadersAnthologies|summary=Everyone knows and loves I''Aesopm not big on short stories, but two factors nudged me towards this book. Firstly, it's Fables''. They're part broadly golden age crime, one of our literary tapestry my weaknesses and our everyday lives. We know sour grapessecondly, we know the editor is [[Tortoise vs. Hare - The Rematch! by Preston Rutt :Category:Martin Edwards|Martin Edwards]], a man whose knowledge of golden age crime is probably unsurpassed and Ben Redlich|he's done us proud, not only with his selection but with the tortoise and half-page biographies of the hare]]writers, which precede each story. There's just enough there to allow you to place the boy who cried wolf author and so many moreto direct you to other works if you're tempted. Fiona Waters has retold 60 of It's an elegant selection, from the well known and the most famous fables less well known, all set in this delightful anthologyand around the country house.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849390495</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony RossColfer_Place|title=My Favourite Fairy TalesOnce Upon a Place|author=Eoin Colfer (editor)
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|genre=For SharingAnthologies|summary=Tony Ross has picked, retold and illustrated his favourite fairy tales, taking in such classics as You know the bit of the blurb on every ''RumpelstiltskinArtemis Fowl'' and 'book, where Eoin Colfer had it said about how you pronounce his name? That wasn'Beauty and t the Beast'', whilst also offering intention of an up slightly lesser-known ones like ''The Hedley Kow''and-coming author to be recognisable; rather, ''The Musicians it was pride. Pride in the difference of Bremen'', ''Sweet Porridge''it, ''Prince Hyacinth'' and ''Fairy Gifts''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1842709801</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tony Bradman and Tony Ross|title=The Orchard Book of Swords, Sorcerers and Superheroes|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Jason and the ArgonautsIrishness of it. Ireland, King Arthurit seems to me, Aladdinis more full than usual of people, William Tell, Hercules, Sinbad, St Georgethings and ideas, Ali Baba, Theseus and Robin Hood. If you love myths and legends as much as [[Top Ten Retellings places that are different by dint of Myths, Legends their singular nationality – and Fairy Tales|we do]] then those ten heroes will so many deserve to have got your juices flowing, and you'll be desperate pride attached to dive in to this collection of adventures. It's fantasticthem. You'll love it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408309211</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Children's Trust|title= The Walrus and places might not be the Carpenter and Other Favourite Poems|rating=3.5|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Celebritiesfamous ones, including [[:Category:Richard Hammond|Richard Hammond]], Paul O'Gradybut they can be the source of pride, Sienna Miller, McFly and Lorraine Kellyof stories, have chosen their favourite poems which is where this compilation of short works for this anthology. All proceeds from the book go to [http://www.thechildrenstrust.org.uk/ The Children's Trust]. It's a fantastic charityyoung comes in, who help disabled children, and I urge you all with the authors invited to buy a copy of ''The Walrus select their chosen place and the Carpenter'' to support themwrite about it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140632650X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael RosenCleeves_Murder|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 from Rosen performing in schools Starlings and libraries with many of the poets, and as children's poetry anthologies go, it's amongst the very best.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141324503</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewOther Stories|author=Zadie Smith|title=Changing My Mind: Occasional EssaysAnn Cleeves (editor)
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|summary=Zadie Smith is best Six authors, known collectively as 'Murder Squad', and their six accomplices were each given photographs of the author remote landscape of three novels: White Teeth, The Autograph Man Pembrokeshire by acclaimed photographer David Wilson and On Beauty. She now teaches Creative Writing at Columbia University in New Yorkasked to come up with a short story inspired by what they saw. This collection is a mixture Some of literary criticism and journalismthe stories will be more to your taste than others, including travel writing, reviews and other writing on film and several pieces about Zadie Smith's family, and especially her father. It as is divided into five sections under the headings Readingonly to be expected in such a varied anthology, Being, Seeing, Feeling but none are weak and Rememberingif you enjoy crime short stories then this book could be a real treat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241142954</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Spike MilliganMilne_Love|title=The Magical World of Milligan|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Some people you just have to love. It's Love From Pooh (Winnie the law. Spike Milligan was always fantastic, and he's much missed. He's got the perfect mix of nonsense, heart, and surreal humour. He speaks to people of all ages, and he's just plain lovely. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905264844</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewPooh)|author=Carol Ann Duffy|title=New and Collected Poems for ChildrenA A Milne
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|summary=Sometimes the title For a small book, a small review – this is a quite delightful little thing, about which not a lot can be said. It is all a gift book pure and simple, much in the introduction 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 need: Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffythings's 'New ). With it comes a simple blurb, and almost instructions that it is for giving, and Collected Poems there is a space for Children'a loving dedication at the beginning, which is again only apt, as it is all about love.|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 Love of honey, Spike Milliganlove in friendship, AA Milnelove of all various kinds, Lewis Carroll and Michael Rosen is immediately worth a lookbut just love. They It can're timeless classics that everyone has read and has had read to themt help but make you most warm-hearted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406323144</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Debi GlioriWalton_Scifi|title=Noisy PoemsWhat Makes This Book So Great: Re-Reading The Classics Of Science Fiction And Fantasy|author=Jo Walton
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|genre=For SharingAnthologies|summary=Any book Jo Walton has published over ten books, several of poetry that starts with Spike Milligan and ends with Roger McGough will get the thumbs up from mewhich have been award-winning. Noisy Poems is full On top of just that: poems about sounds, with trucks honkingshe has a voracious appetite for books - both as a well-respected writer of original fiction, ducks quackingbut as a well-respected reviewer too. Not only does she have time to do all that, trains clickety-clacking and shoes squeakingbut she also writes a regular column for Tor. It's awash with alliteration com, on Science Fiction and rhythm. It's crying out to be read aloud Fantasy books, and joined in withit is these columns that a selection of which are collected here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406323195</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John FosterTennant_Grub|title=Twinkle Twinkle Chocolate BarDid We Meet on Grub Street?|author=Emma Tennant, Hilary Bailey and David Elliott|rating=43.5|genre=For SharingAnthologies|summary=I was recently subjected to a 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 20 minutes old days of publishing. This unashamed nostalgia provides the rude version focus of Happy Birthday the book and allows the writers to recount numerous anecdotes from their days in Catalan, even though it was neither my birthday nor am I Catalanthe publishing business. I responded with Whilst the ol' squashed tomatoes primary audience for this book may well be students of creative writing and stew version that we all know and lovemedia studies, for it also serves as an interesting exploration of an aspect of modern history: how a very restrained 15 minutes. Twinkle Twinkle Chocolate Bar once-burgeoning industry is packed full now a shell of such thingsits former self, much like a lot of manufacturing. Kids love those sort Because of rhymesthis, I was disappointed that no space was given to a consideration of how the rise of the e-book and childish adults love 'em tooKindle has directly damaged both the sale of books and the potential for new books to be written (fewer real books sold = fewer financial advances paid to writers = fewer books written). Whilst Twinkle Twinkle Chocolate Bar isn't exactly rudeAlso, it does have a cheeky glint in its eyegiven the clear love of books as treasured artefacts, a muddy splash on its new shoesthe dismissal of the Harry Potter phenomenon seems truculent, given the impetus the series gave to reading amongst both the young and gleeful laughter throughoutadults.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192755811</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul B Janeczko and Chris RaschkaPenzler_Big|title=A Kick In The Head: An Everyday Guide To Poetic FormsBig Book of Christmas Mysteries|author=Otto Penzler (editor)
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|genre=Confident ReadersAnthologies|summary=As Nostalgia is a big part of the subtitle saysChristmas experience, A Kick In The Head is an everyday guide to poetic forms. Itand that's a perfect primer to couplets, limericks, acrostics, sonnetsprovided in sack-loads by this hefty tome of short stories. Sherlock Holmes, 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>
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