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|summary=Language changes So, you've finished writing your book and evolves you think the hard work is all done? You're convinced that all you need to do now is get it published and the money will start rolling in? Wrong and wrong again. You presumably wrote the book because you wanted to - and you had a talent for delivering the written word. You knew your subject back to front. Now you're going to have to get to grips with the timebook supply chain, which even parts of the publishing industry believe to be wrong but since it's too difficult to change and no one wants to be the first to try. Then, when you ''finally'' have a copy of the dawn book in your hands, you're going to have to work out how to sell it - because it ''is'' going to be down to you.}} {{Frontpage|author=Frederic Gros|title=A Philosophy of Walking|rating=5|genre= Politics and Society|summary= I confess I picked this one up from the internet library in my pre-lockdown forage of random stuff. Now I have to go out an buy my own copy so that change seems I can turn down the pages I have marked and return to its varying wisdom when I need to have accelerated. Not only Some books draw you in slowly. This one had me in the first two pages, wherein Gros explains why ''walking is not a sport''.|isbn=1781688370}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1788037812|title=The Fraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson|rating=5|genre=Biography|summary=Originally passed in 1885, the law thathad made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, three books on the nature of homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the margins of society and studying homosexuality was common on the European Continent, but barely talked about in the pervasion UK, so the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to the web into nearly every aspect scientific understanding of our daily lives means homosexuality, and beginning the written word has more power struggle for recognition and relevance than perhaps at any other time equality, leading to the milestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in human history1967. Given }}{{Frontpage|isbn=1912242052|title=O Joy for me!|author=Keir Davidson|rating=3|genre=Art|summary='' Oh Joy for me!'' gives Coleridge credit for being ''the first person to walk the mountains alone, not because he had to for work, as a miner, quarryman, shepherd or pack-horse driver, but because he wanted to for pleasure and adventure. His rapturous encounters with their natural beauty, and its influence over usliterary consequences, changed our view of the world''.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1072549271|title=The Simple Act of Self-Publishing With Amazon: A Simple Step by Step Guide|author=Georgianne Landy-Kordis|rating=4.5|genre=Business and Finance|summary=I frequently meet authors who are struggling to be published by the traditional houses, but when I suggest self-publishing they explain that they don't have the big bucks required to go down that road with Author Solutions or Matador or their like. I then ask if they've considered Kindle and the answer is, inevitably, that they wouldn't know where to start. I can empathise with that. Despite having used a computer for about thirty years, running most of my life ''and'' a website online, I'm still nervous when it seems only prudent that we should try comes to understand starting something of how this new vernacular of . I like someone to hold my hand as I go through it for the internet worksfirst time. In That was why I was very interested when ''Microstyle: The Art Simple Act of Writing LittleSelf Publishing With Amazon'' naming came across my desk...}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Higashida_Fall|title=Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A Young Man's Voice From the Silence of Autism|author=Naoki Higashida and David Mitchell|rating=5|genre=Home and Family|summary=Naoki Higashida was only 13 years old when he wrote the international best-seller ''The Reason I Jump''. The book was popular because it gave a rare glimpse into the workings of the autistic mind, as told from the unique perspective of a teenager with non-verbal branding expert Christopher Johnson seeks autism. Naoki communicates by using an alphabet grid, or by tracing letters on the palm of a transcriber. Despite this slow and laborious method of writing, he has published several books in his native Japan and manages to give public presentations to do just thatraise awareness of his condition. Fall Down 7 Times Get up 8 reintroduces us to Naoki as a young adult in his 20s and explains how his perspectives on life have changed since writing his first book.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Jenkins_100|title=Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations|author=Simon Jenkins|rating=5|genre=Art|summary=In the mid-twentieth century, presenting us the railway was something which harked back to the Victorian age with trains being supplanted by cars and planes, but steam was being replaced by oil, even then and in the twenty-first-century oil is giving way to electricity. It's cleaner, more environmentally friendly and the stations which we'd all rushed through as quickly as possible, keen to escape their grime, were restored and became places to be admired, possibly even lingered in. Simon Jenkins has chosen his hundred best railway stations.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Taylor_Owls|title=Owls: A Guide to Every Species|author=Marianne Taylor|rating=5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=I feel like I am being watched. A huge pair of piercing orange eyes are staring right at me, locking me into their gaze. In contrast with the hardness of the deep-amber eyes, soft grey feathers fan out into the surrounding area, intricate, detailed and beautiful. An enigma; harsh and gentle at the same time, the owl is beckoning the reader to turn the pages and take a field guide to everyday verbal ingenuity'closer look inside...}}{{Frontpage|isbn=JVDK_ELO|title=Electric Light Orchestra: Song by Song|author=John Van der Kiste|rating=4.5|amazonukgenre=<amazonuk>039334181X</amazonuk>Entertainment|summary=My memories of pop music in the early sixties revolve around guitars and drums, sometimes the piano with only occasional excursions into strings and brass. Pop music rarely stands still and it wasn't long before the basic instruments were seen as constraints and The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Beach Boys began to experiment, with other groups following where they led. Amongst these groups was The Move and their lead guitarist and songwriter, Roy Wood. Wood wanted to develop the group's sound by adding more instruments but was prevented from achieving what he wanted by cost limitations and because the rest of the group didn't really share his enthusiasm.

Read the synapse-shattering story summaries!<br>See the horrific hand-painted cover imagery!<br>And learn the true-life tales of the writers, artists, and publishers who gleefully violated every literary law but one – never be boring.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Browne_Many|title=The Many Faces of Coincidence|author=Scarlett ThomasLaurence Browne|rating=3.5|genre=Popular Science|summary=Browne does not mislead with this choice of title; he does without a doubt explore the many faces of coincidence.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1903385679|title=Monkeys with Typewriters: How The 100 Best Novels in Translation|author=Boyd Tonkin|rating=3.5|genre=Reference|summary=Consider, if you will, translated fiction. Some say it's impossible – that if a book was so good in one tongue it could never survive being put into another. Samuel Beckett must have laboured over ever syllable and ''Breath'', but he could translate his own works, and other equally complex pieces can cross borders. It's a market that has actually doubled in sales volume between 2000 and 2016 (thanks, ''Millennium Trilogy''). Novels, in particular, in translation, are – as the introduction here so smartly puts it – ''a privileged means of passing border posts, a sort of universal passport issued by that Utopian state, the Republic of Letters''. We here at the 'Bag regularly try and give equal credit to the translator, without whom we wouldn't be reading what we have in our hands. But all that said, do we really need one of those list books about the subject? I got given a book the other year detailing 1001 places to go to before I die, and I might even then have missed out a zero. It would take as long as a fortnight's holiday to Write Fiction wade through, and Unlock even though this is not as long as your typical Bolano housebrick, it's not a short thing. Should it take our time?}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Fry_Mythos|title=Mythos: A Retelling of the Secret Power Myths of StoriesAncient Greece|author=Stephen Fry|rating=45

|summary=I really wasn't expecting The Greek Myths are, arguably, the greatest stories ever told. So old and influential they cast a book about how shadow over western tales and traditions, yet remain relatable and readable millennia later. Here comedian, actor, television presenter, actor and author Stephen Fry brings his considerable talent to write fiction to change my TV viewing habitsthese special stories and recreates them with a wit, warmth and humanity that brings them into the modern age whilst still giving the honour and respect that such ancient and influential stories deserve. Alter my reading? Possibly. Improve my writing? Hopefully. But watching Grand Designs in a completely different light?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857863789</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Phil Daoust (editor)Mahnke_Lore|title=Write.The World of Lore, Volume 1: Monstrous Creatures|author=Aaron Mahnke

|summary=The Guardian newspaper Every country, every town, every village has for some years now been publishing articles a folktale – a story passed down through generations that often focuses on the dark and interviews unexplained. No matter how the modern world moves on how , there's a still a part of everyone that is vulnerable to writea good tale. Successful authorsFrom ghosts to werewolves, agents by way of wendigos and publishers have offered pearls elves, author Aaron Mahnke delivers the reader legends from all over the world, whilst examining how they've become part of wisdom in the Guardian Masterclasses for genres as wide-ranging as travel writingour collective imaginations, picture books and screenplays. Now their wisdom and their insights have been collected together in this slim volume which will intrigue both still striking fear into the readers and the writers among hearts of many of ustoday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>085265328X</amazonuk>

There's truth in that statement, you know, but there's a conundrum when it's applied to authors. Shakespeare is dead: Dickens is dead, but we haven't buried what they've written: that lives on until... when? Is it until fashion decrees that they should be no more? Or is it, as in the case of some children's authors that they are on life support through licensing deals and astute marketing? Christopher Fowler has unearthed (exhumed?) ninety-nine authors who were once hugely popular, but whose works have disappeared, sometimes quite literally.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr Keith SouterAngell_Triang|title=The Classic Guide to King Arthur (Classic Guides)Tri-ang Collectables|author=Dave Angell

|summary=This is a comprehensive A guide to the Arthurian legend, with trains produced by the first half taking readers through the tale Tri-ang company from Merlin helping Uther Pendragon to sleep with Gorlois - thus giving birth to King Arthur - right up to its inception until the deaths of all of the principal players in the storycompany became Hornby. The final section gives details of literary sources used for A very personal guide to the legend, Arthurian poetry, folklore, the real people who may have inspired the legend, and depictions collecting of King Arthur in popular culture. In between, there's a fairly short but useful guide to 'Who, What, Where and When In Arthur's Realm'model trains.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780950063</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Chase_Orchids|authortitle=The EconomistBook of Orchids: A life-size guide to six hundred species from around the world|titleauthor=Pocket World in Figures 2013Mark Chase, Maarten Christenhusz and Tom Mirenda|rating=45

|summary=Pocket World One in Figures 2013 seven flowering plants on earth is the twenty-second edition of the annual bestseller and once again it follows the tried and tested formatan orchid: there are 26,000 species in 749 genera. It opens with world rankings They flourish in remarkable habitats such as deserts and is straight into natural facts - the largest thisArctic circle, in fact, all areas but the longest that and the highest of the othermost inhospitable. The facts are largely incontrovertibleThere's a wide range of colours, mostly unsurprising shapes and scents: they're going dramatic, delicate and ingenious in the ways that they've developed not just to survive but to be the same year after yearthrive. Populations do change though Tom Mirenda describes them as do ''masters of manipulation'' and ''famous for lying and cheating their rate of growth. India looks set way to overtake China as the largest population by 2025 but even India doesntheir many evolutionary successes't have the fastest growing population - that's Niger, with an average annual growth yet his love of 3.52%. By contrast, Russia which currently has the ninth largest population, them is declining at 0.1% annually. If you're looking as obvious as his respect for the place with insight they give us into the densest population (as in people per square kilometre rather than in terms of intelligence!) then processes which shaped our world. He hopes that understanding how that's Macauhas come about will inspire us to conserve what we have.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685990</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=VariousEdwards_Story|title=Hello Kitty DictionaryThe Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books (British Library Crime Classics)|author=Martin Edwards

|genre=Children's Non-FictionReference|summary=The Hello Kitty Dictionary takes a concept that many young students might not find too interesting (meIt's easy to be confused by the various 'ages' of crime writing: if you have an interest in the genre you'll almost certainly have heard of the Golden Age of Crime, generally acknowledged as being the period between the first and second world wars. 'Classic Crime' on the other handextends the time frame at either end and covers books published in the first half of the twentieth century. Throughout my adult life, there's been just one genre of books which has fascinated me, and that's crime, so I love books full could hardly resist the chance of reading ''The Story of words) Classic Crime in 100 Books'' particularly as the author, Martin Edwards is an accomplished author within the crime genre and puts a colourful and fun spin an acknowledged expert on itthe subject.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=DK_Childrens|title=Children's Illustrated Thesaurus|author=DK|rating=4. Because if you’re having to look up 5|genre=Reference|summary=One of the most valuable literary skills which children can learn is how to spell use reference books. As a word, or what something means, it helps to have pages child every question which I began with lemon and violet and aquamarine borders, dotted ''how do you spell...?'' would be answered with presents and hearts and stars''EXACTLY as it says in the dictionary''. That’s This was fine, but the family's Collins Little Gem Dictionary didn't encourage exploration, not to say least because the dictionary isn’t clear font was small and easy difficult to read because . Fortunately, those times have now changed and reference book for children are now much more inviting. Not every book comes with a set of instructions but it certainly is: 's worth studying the decorations don’t extend into the centre of the pages''How to...'' section, and the entries themselves not least because similar systems are bold fuchsia followed by neat black explanations, all neatly formatted on crisp white pagesused in other reference books.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007457197</amazonuk>

{{newreview|author=Simon Heffer|title=Strictly English: The correct way to write ... and why it matters|rating=4|genre=Business and Finance|summary=As a child I was taught English grammar. I began by resenting it but gradually I appreciated the subtlety and nuances of expression that could be achieved by the correct use of language. I loved the fact that I could say something precisely and convey exactly what I meant in a few words. And then I was stunned to find that there was no longer the same emphasis Move on grammar in schools, that freedom of expression was encouraged without worrying about the form it took – and now I regularly encounter official letters, even books where the English language is subjected to grievous bodily harm. It isn't difficult to get right – it just requires a little knowledge, a logical mind and practice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099537931</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Science Fiction Reviews]]