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|author=Jonny LambertMiles Russell|title=Tiger Tiger Arthur and the Kings of Britain: The Historical Truth Behind the Myths|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingHistory|summary=Until you spend a day hanging out with a child you will never know how exhausting it can be. As an adult you are used to peppering your day with little downtime treats; a cup the author of the Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of tea perhapsBritain), a biscuitswritten in 1136, or maybe even a cheeky nap? The kids I know have no end Geoffrey of energy and at best you will get a sip of cold coffee, have to give them most Monmouth is commonly recognized as one of the biscuit and a nap would consist of them jumping on your headfirst British historians. However, although their enthusiasm and zest may be tiring, it His book told – or is also infectious, just ask any old tiger you meet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184869444X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!supposed to have told -- remove 18/3 -->|author= Michael R Lane|title= UFOs and GOD: A Collection the story of Short Stories|rating= 4|genre= Short Stories|summary=From stories of young people caught up in a Robin Hood style operation gone wrongthe British monarchy during the Dark Ages, to a believer in God having her faith shaken by from the arrival of aliensthe Trojan Brutus, author Michael R Lane has compiled a collection grandson of fascinating and clever short stories here. From farm to urbanAeneas, from World War II up to the Digital Ageseventh century AD when the Anglo-Saxons had taken control of Britain. Being virtually the only work of its kind at the time, the places and timesit proved very influential, people and events in ''UFOs and God'' spotlight became well-known throughout western Europe as one of the great works of medieval literature as the tender underbelly first retelling of the human condition story of King Arthur, Lear and Cymbeline. Shakespeare was forever in all its glory and despair on these varied stages of fictionhis debt with regard to the two latter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>163491712X1445662744</amazonuk>

|author=DKDenzil Meyrick|title=What's Where on Earth? Atlas: The World as You've Never Seen It BeforeWell of the Winds (DCI Daley)|rating=4.5|genre=ReferenceCrime|summary=I dread to think how old the atlas we used when I was It's not a child washappy time for DCI Jim Daley. The woman he loved is dead - there are those who blame him for what happened - and his relationship with Liz, but at least we had onehis ex wife, and I didn't need to go to school or a library to check up on whatever bit of trivia I was seekinghis young son is deteriorating by the day. IHe'm so old s finding solace in the bottom of a lot of things about it now would be most redundantglass, but if you choose whilst the man who used to risk your arm and buy an atlas for the family shelves do that all generations will benefit fromtoo often, as opposed to relying on electronic his friend DS Brian Scott is off alcohol completely and has found exercise. There's a new officer in charge at Kinloch - DS Carrie Simmington - and updateable sources of informationwhilst she might look young, then this is the one it's unlikely that she got to havethat position without having a core of steel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>02412283791846973724</amazonuk>

|author= Sarah BakewellNicole Dennis-Benn |title= At The Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being and Apricot CocktailsHere Comes the Sun |rating=4|genre= Politics and SocietyLiterary Fiction |summary= You know that old saying about judging books by their cover? Ignore it! I have found that by judging a book by its to assume the team behind the cover and getting it completely wrong is a great way to find yourself committed to reading a book that yousleeve for Nicole Dennis-Benn's debut novel Here Come'd never s the Sun have picked in a million years and yet, somehow, being amazingly glad you didkeen sense of irony. Either that or none of them read beyond the first page.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099554887178607124X</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 165/3 4 -->|author=Amanda RobertsW S Markendale|title=The Roots of the TreeOwen Pendragon|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionTeens|summary=The strength of a tree comes not Monsters are slipping through somehow from what you can see, not from the trunk, the branches somewhere to kidnap children in Cornwall and the leaves, but from what you can't see - the roots. Disturbance army seems powerless to the roots can be devastatingdo anything about it. It's similar in human beings. Annie had lived for 63 years, secure in the love of her parents, Elsie 12-year-olds Owen and Mary assume they too are therefore powerless as they watch friends and Frankneighbours disappear. She'd looked after them in her home in Imagine their final years and it was quite by chance surprise when they realise that she came across their wedding certificate when she was sorting out their effects. They had not been married until ''after'' her birththanks to an ancient relative, but her birth certificate showed Frank as her father they have more influence on what happens than they think and that her mother was married to himnot just on what happens on Earth. Something didn't add up And their distant relative? The former monarch and there was one inescapable conclusionhead of the round table, no less: the man she'd loved as her father all those years ''wasn't'' her father after allKing Arthur.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19097168631524667579</amazonuk>

|author=Ian Graham and Stephen BiestyJon Morris|title=Stephen Biesty's TrainsThe Legion of Regrettable Supervillains: Oddball Criminals from Comic Book History

|genre=ArtGraphic Novels |summary=Trains look imposingAs much as I like comics – and I do, but true fans (little boyswhether superhero ones or not – I have to admit one thing, usually from about three years old and upwards) want to know what lies beneath namely that the skin which you can seevillains in them are a bit pants. They want to know how it works. What is The Penguin but the world's worst Mafioso, with a hobby of waddling along like his pet birds? Getting to grips with one Where else do you win an Oscar of all things by playing a two-bit killer who just fell in real life is quite a big askvat of random chemicals and changed colour, and got mardier as a result (although recently he's become a nanotech genius – but let's not go there)? And what is it with the next best thing gimp in the see-through plant pot because he is the embodiment of cold? And that's just some of the better-known enemies of 'Stephen Biesty's TrainsBatman'' which features trains from all over , one of the world and spanning better goodies. You can imagine how awful the early steam train (complete with cow catcher) right through baddies related to the trains of the future which bad goodies can be. And if you can reach a speed of 430 kph and don't even run on rails. Once the train reaches a speed of 150 kph the wheels are raised and , this is the train is held up by magnetic forces aloneperfect primer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17837042411594749329</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the WorldStefan Mohamed|authortitle=Rachel IgnotofskyStanly's Ghost: Book 3 (The Bitter Sixteen Trilogy)|rating=5|genre=Children's Non-Science Fiction|summary=Cynical, solitary Stanly Bird used to be a fairly typical teenager – unless you count the fact that his best friend was a talking beagle named Daryl. Then came the superpowers. And the super powered allies. And the mysterious enemies. And the terrifying monsters. And the stunning revelations. And the apocalypse. Now he''Women in Science'' takes fifty prominent women in STEM fields and celebrates their achievementss not sure what he is. Or where he is. There are women from Or how exactly one is supposed to proceed after saving the ancient world and women working today. Each of them All he knows is given a double page spread including a stylised portrait and infoboxes with factoids on one side and a page of text with a brief biography and outline of her achievements. These intrepid women are inspirational for their work and their discoveries but also for the barriers they overcame - barred from classes or employment because they were women or even barred from employment because they were black in racially segregated Americathat his story isn't finished.Not quite yet …|amazonuk=<amazonuk>15263605191784630764</amazonuk>

|author=RedressMichelle Robinson and Emily Fox|title=Dress (with) sense: The Practical Guide to a Conscious ClosetMonkey's Sandwich

|genre=LifestyleFor Sharing|summary=Not too long ago I didn't Monkeys have any problems with clothes. been given the reputation of being cheeky, but do you also see them as petty thieves? How can these cheerful chimps be seen as anything other than cute, but mischievous little monkeys? They were just about all black and I wore them until they dropped off my back - and then I used what I could of Anyone who has driven through Knowsley Safari Park knows the material for other purposestruth. I had this lovely little clothes shop A perfectly good car drives in Ilkley (it says 'Oxfam' over the door) when I needed monkey enclosure only to restock. Clothes were simple. Then I encountered the lovely [[:Category:Numba Pinkerton|Numba Pinkerton]] and suddenly I had colour in my life: not all be bereft of it could be had from Oxfam. Sometimes I might even be buying ''new'' clothes. I needed help wing mirrors, hubcaps and more advice, because it really isn't as simple as just walking into windscreen wipers at the nearest department store.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500292779</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 16/3 -->|author=Marilyn Bennett|title=Granny with Benefits|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Thirty nine is a difficult age for a woman, particularly if she's not marriedend. Has she given up on Rumour has it that the idea of having monkeys sell these parts wholesale at a family? Does her career mean everything to her? On the other hand is she desperately looking for a man? Grace found herself lockup in a difficult situation when she first met Dale (or Heaven on Legs - HoL - as she thought of him)South Kirby. She'd volunteered to sort out her late grandmother's homeThe monkey in this tale may not be stealing car parts, but she couldn't resist the opportunity to do he is a little dressing up. So, wearing her grandmother's clothes, wig resting just above her eyebrows and heavy-rimmed glasses perched on light fingered when it comes to making the end of her nose she met the man of her dreams. Only, rather than laughing and explaining what she'd been doing, Grace carried on the pantomime - and called herself Louiseultimate lunch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17858987360007580010</amazonuk>

|author=DKYrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)|title=Forest Life and Woodland CreaturesThe Legacy: Children's House Book 1|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Thrillers|summary=This book knows that if What do you're going to learn about forest life and the animals, plants and trees wish for in it, then your murder mysteries? An inventive death? Well youcouldn're only going to be itching to t go and explore much further than the woods for yourselfunusual murder by household device that Elisa suffers here. ItShe's for a very mother to a young audiencefamily, so always expects an adult hand to guide whose husband was abroad at a conference. Do you – but provides seek awkward, unusual and/or conflicted investigators? Well, here we have a warm companion itself through several quick and easy tasksdetective from the lower ranks, but the only one clean enough after post-financial crash investigations tainted all his superiors; and a few lessonswoman who runs a home that investigates and recuperates child victims of sex abuse. She's here because the only witness to the murder was Elisa's very young daughter. The balance between carrot And lo and stickbehold, or duty the two adults have history. Do you require taunting clues as to why this crime will be repeated? You can't do much better than the messages in numerals received by other characters and rewardtheir untold threat. So it's tick, is great tick, tick – but what exactly is of the edutainment going to providequestion marks left by the prologue, and what will it demand where another young family of uschildren was separated as a best case scenario by the adoption agencies after a different nasty event in the past?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>02412731101473621526</amazonuk>

|author=DKCharlotte Guillain and Yuval Zommer|title=Sharks and Other Sea CreaturesThe Street Beneath My Feet|rating=45

|summary=Never before have I found much cause It's one thing for a non-fiction book for the young to point out show them something they themselves can explore – the sort pattern of lower-casethe stars, perhaps, almost-a-subtitle wording on or the front of a booklife in their back yard. I say But when it gets to things that because very little of this is are equally important to know about sharks – so if you have a youngster intending but are impossible to come here and learn all their bloodthirsty imagination can holdsee in real life, why, then they may well the game is changed. The artistic imagination has to be disappointedkey, in portraying the invisible, and presenting what can only come from the pages of a book. If you take And this example does it at its best, as it on board that the 'other sea creatures' make up delves into the bulk layers of the booksoil below said back yard, down and down, then through all well and goodthe different kinds of rock, until we reach the unattainable centre of the planet. And even betterthere's only one way to go from there – back out the other side, if you expect yourself with yet more for us to be shown. It''make'' the bulk of said creatures…s a fantastic journey, then – and a quite fantastic volume.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>02412743891784937312</amazonuk>

|author=Theo GuignardAlice Feeney|title=LabyrinthSometimes I Lie|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionThrillers|summary=Of all the books published for peopleChristmas is barely over but Amber doesn's paper-based hobbies when I was a youngster, it's remarkable that all of them t have been revisited and revampedmuch to celebrate. I say this because they certainly werenShe't exactly brilliant fun back then. No, we didn't have quite the modern style of colouring-s in booksa coma, trapped with an active mind but they were availablean inactive body, if youable to hear and understand but not respond to what is going on around her. And her mind'd gone beyond 'join the dots'. I read only recently that origami is allegedly coming back – and I remember s a little fuzzy on a few things too, like how every church book sale for years had ''Origami''she ended up there, ''Origami 2'' or ''Origami 3'' paperbacks somewhere for ten pence. But the ultimate in paper-based fun back then who else was the use-once format of the maze bookinvolved, and what it all means. This is the modern equivalent – but boy, hasn't the idea grown up since then…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18478099870008225354</amazonuk>

|author=Heather Alexander and Andres LozanoPolly Clark|title=Life on Earth: Farm: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!Larchfield|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-Literary Fiction|summary=IIt'm sure I was full of questions s early summer when I was a nipper – which means I was too full young poet, Dora Fielding, moves to Helensburgh on the west coast of questionsScotland and her hopes are first challenged. Parents just donNewly married, pregnant, she't need to be deflecting questions all s excited by the timeprospect of a life that combines family and creativity. She thinks she knows what being a person, a wife, a mother, do they? Living on means. She is soon shown that she is wrong. As the edge battle begins for her very sense of a village in self, Dora comes to find the middle realities of nowhere as I didsmall town life suffocating, and, eventually, I knew quite terrifying; until she finds a lot about farms way to escape reality altogether. Another poet, she discovers, lived in Helensburgh once. Wystan H. Auden, brilliant and farming – that different animals gave different resultsawkward at 24, with his first book of poetry published, that different vehicles meant different things should be embarking on success and that the crops behind our house changedsociety in London. But for the inner city childInstead, in 1930, there is fleeing a chance they have never met broken engagement, he takes a cow or seen a siloteaching post at Larchfield School for boys where he is mocked for his Englishness and suspected - rightly - of homosexuality. This colourful book, bright Yet in this repressed limbo Wystan will fall in both senses of love for the wordfirst time, will allow the very young reader the opportunity of their own fantasy trip to the working countrysideeven as he fights his deepest fears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18478089991786481928</amazonuk>

|author=Heather Alexander and Andres LozanoPippa Mattinson|title=Life on Earth: Human Body: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!Choosing the Perfect Puppy|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Pets|summary=I wonder how much time I've saved in not being If you have ever, for even a fleeting moment, thought about getting a parent – and therefore not having had puppy, you really ought to answer such pesky questions as why is read this book. Too many people are carried away in the heat of the sky blue, where did I come from, where does my wee come from, what is earwax, moment and why do I ''must'' have a spleen? Still, apart from the first two, those questions particular breed and go ahead without any thought about the answers consequences. They then have to them and more are in this book, live with the problems which is ''might'' have been avoided for a lovely primer for biology, decade or more. The puppy and a great source of quick facts for the very young, all presented adult dog also has to live with an addictive liftowner who might not be able to accommodate his needs. [[:Category:Pippa Mattinson|Pippa Mattinson]] is my go-to author on matters dog related: she talks sense. She doesn't try to talk you out of getting a particular breed or any puppy: she simply presents the-flap approachfacts and allows you to make your own decisions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18478090061785034375</amazonuk>

|author= Victoria AveyardMatilda Woods|title= KingThe Boy, the Bird and the Coffin Maker|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Alberto is a carpenter, the very best in the town of Allora. But after the plague sweeps through the town, taking many of the citizens and Alberto's Cagewife and children, he turns his skills away from furniture and toys to making coffins. Wrapped in sadness, and waiting only for the plague to come and claim his life too, Alberto lives alone, keeping company with the dead who are delivered to his house to await their coffin. One day, however, he realises that he must have a living visitor, as food starts to go missing. He begins to leave scraps of food, to try and discover who his mystery thief is…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407178695</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 30/3 -->|author= Mark Aylwin Thomas|title= Blades of Grass

|genre= TeensBiography|summary=''He caught Any book that has me in a prince's traptears at the end has been worth my time. And now Any book that has me hoping it will end differently to the way I'm know it must is worth the reading. Any book that convinces me that maybe there is still hope in a King's cage. But I'm not leaving this place unless I leave behind his corpse the world – or mine.'' The third instalment in that for all the Red Queen seriesmistakes made thus far, picks up still being made right after now, there is a common humanity which ultimately, eventually, must do some good – that is worth the final events of Glass Sword. Mare has been taken prisoner; shackled in Silent Stone writing and the reading and powerless without her lightningthe time. At the mercy Blades of the boy who wears the crown, Mare Grass is haunted by the consequences of her past decisionsone such book. Tortured and weak It's a forgotten story, Mare has a front seat an unknown story to watch Maven's clever tactics unfold most people. It is one that should be told – and destroy all that she believes inreflected upon. Being broken and beaten, Mare will never be the same again after her captivity but can she escape the Palace with her life to fight another day? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>14091511901524676969</amazonuk>

|author= Siobhan Dowd and Emma ShoardLucy Jones|title= The Pavee Foxes Unearthed: A Story of Love and the Buffer GirlLoathing in Modern Britain|rating= 54|genre= Graphic NovelsAnimals and Wildlife |summary=When Jim's family halt at DundrayAs one of the largest predators left in Britain, his heart grows heavythe fox is captivating: a comfortably familiar figure in our country landscapes; an intriguing flash of bright-eyed wildness in our towns. A new Buffer school for this Pavee boy to attendYet no other animal attracts such controversy, has provoked more column inches or been so ambiguously woven into our culture over centuries, perceived variously as a beautiful animal, a cunning rogue, a vicious pest and a worthy foe. Jim doesn't like schoolAs well as being the most ubiquitous of wild animals, it is also the least understood. He doesn't like Buffers. And you knowHere Lucy Jones investigates the truth about foxes – delving into fact, fiction, you couldn't really blame him because folklore and her own history with the distrust and suspicion is mutualcreatures. Prejudice against Discussing the Traveller community is strong and when Jim and his cousins turn up debate on their first dayfoxes, it's Jones asks what our attitudes towards foxes says about us, and our relationship with the natural world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783963042</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 29/3 -->|author=Steven Anthony|title=Isaac Montgomery for the Love of Beth|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary=There are words to stares and muttered insults from describe the Isaac Montgomery we meet at the pupils and condescension from beginning of the teachersstory. Unfortunately they're not words you usually use in polite company. Within days He'd worked for many years in stockbroking and had made a substantial fortune, Moss Cunningham and but his gang have accused Jim life was devoid of much in the way of stealing personal relationships. When he required a woman as an escort, he paid. He assumed that if he was having a CD good time, then she was too - if he even bothered to think about it. He had a friend whom he did no such thing - didn't see all that often and have begun it was when he thought about Phil that a campaign of threatslittle ''jealousy'' crept into Isaac's heart. You see, bullying Phil was engaged to Penelope and they were obviously happy. Isaac began to wonder what love was - and worsehow you went about finding someone to share your life with.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911370049152466815X</amazonuk>

|author= Helen HollickMartin Edwards (editor)|title= Pirates: Truth and TaleMiraculous Mysteries (British Library Crime Classics)|rating= 45|genre= HistoryCrime|summary=The eighteenth century lived in terror of Consider the tramps of the seas – pirates. Pirates have fascinated people ever since. It was following scenario: a policeman hears someone screaming and runs to a harsh life for those who went 'house on the account'a particular street, constantly overshadowed by the threat of death – through violencenumber 13, illness, shipwreck, or from where the hangman's noosenoise is emanating. The lure of gold, When he peeps through the excitement of the chase and letterbox he discovers a dead man in the freedom that life aboard hallway with a pirate ship offered were judged by some knife in his throat. He goes to be worth fetch help, but upon returning, finds that the risk. Helen Hollick explores both the fiction street does not have a number 13 and fact of that the Golden Age of piracy, body and there are some surprises in store for those who think they know their Barbary Corsair from their boucanier. Everyone has heard of Captain Morgan, but who recognises the name of the aristocratic Frenchman Daniel Montbars? He killed so many Spaniards room he was known as 'The Exterminator'saw have both mysteriously vanished.. The fictional world of pirates, represented in novels and movies, is different from reality. What draws readers and viewers to these notorious hyenas of the high seas? What are the facts behind the fantasy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14456521530712356738</amazonuk>

|author=Clare HibbertBrian Moses|title=Moments in History that Changed the WorldLost Magic: The Very Best of Brian Moses

|genre=Children's Non-FictionRhymes and Verse|summary=One For a poet with the very memorable name of [[:Category:Brian Moses|Moses]], I have to admit never having come across it before, nor having knowingly read any of his works. This collection was the perfect place for me to come late to the party, as it takes the problems with presenting humankindauthor's history as a timeline is that not a lot happened at perfectly identified timesown favourites from several previous anthologies of his, and adds new verses. Of course we can pinpoint when the US Declaration of Independence I read them with very little clue as to which was signed, or when Poland was invaded in September 1939, but when (which – and even why) the Maya cities died out? We doncertainly couldn't knowtell having finished the book. How do you pin There is a date to lot here that will grab the Renaissanceyoung schoolchild, or but the invention of the modern city? This book may aim to topics cover so much there really will be a portrayal universal appeal, meaning that a lot of key moments in timepeople will have a definite favourite from these pages, but even it admits you have to be vague in itemising if the specific days and dates. Get over that, and the pages are packed with information.author himself cannot decide…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07123567031509838767</amazonuk>

|author= Marisa SilverNina Laden|title= Little NothingThe Night I Followed the Dog|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary Fiction For Sharing|summary=In an unnamed country at the beginning of the last century, There's a peasant couple longs for Boy (who doesn't have a child. In despair they turn to gypsy tonics name) and archaic prescriptions, a Dog (likewise) and one cold wintery night, in the beginning you get the feeling that the coupleBoy would prefer to have next door's wish comes trueDog who wins prizes in obedience classes and does clever things with the television remote control. But That is until one morning when Boy opens the silence that follows the birth forewarns door a little earlier than usual and spots Dog getting out of darker days to comea limousine. In a tuxedo. Strangers look on askance and fall speechless in The he disappears into the childback garden. Boy's presenceshocked but a few minutes later he goes to the back door and whistles for Dog, who comes dashing in, and villagers protectively hush their children as they pass on narrow market lanesanxious to eat. Pavla is no ordinary child At first Boy can't ''quite'' believe what he ''thinks'' he saw, but then this is no ordinary taleso he determines to follow Dog the next night.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17860712741452161348</amazonuk>

|author=Ali Sparkes Phil Earle|title=Thunderstruck SuperDad's Day Off|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=Alisha and new boy, Theo, are both struggling to fit in at Beechwood Junior. However, they soon become celebrities when theyStanley're struck by lightning on sports days dad is tired. Now everyone wants to It can be their friend – including all the ghosts who haunt Easthamptonexhausting work being a Superhero. Having several thousands For six days of volts skipped through their nervous systems has made both Alisha the week he saves the world from disasters and Theo unusually sensitive to defeats the spirit worldbaddies as Dynamo Dan. The pair are happy Stanley decides his poor dad needs a day off and is determined to make friends with two teenage ghosts from sure that he gets a proper rest. So they head off to the 1970s (Doug park for some much needed Dad and Lizzie) but Alisha and Theo are much less keen on the faceless grey entities that start following them aroundSon bonding time. ItHowever people don's almost like the ghosts are trying t seem to tell them something – trying to warn them about something understand that's going even Superheroes need time to happenrecuperate. Will Alisha and Theo be able The requests for help keep on coming so what can poor Stanley do other than step in to figure out what before it's too late?save the day. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>01927393601781126844</amazonuk>

|author=Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)Andrew Cook|title=Retribution RoadThe Murder of the Romanovs|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction History|summary=''Sergeant Bowman wasn't just a hard manThe fate of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, he was something else: a dangerous man.'' Ifhis wife Alexandra and children, indeedfuelled no end of rumour, there was someone who was ideal misinformation and conspiracy theories for a suicide missionmany years, it even though the truth was himknown not long after the event. Working as a soldier for In the East India Company in last few years, the ruraladvance of forensic science, remote, outlaw hotbeds DNA testing and the precise location of Asia in the 1850s, he's tasked with taking a boat bodies have allowed for confirmation of unknown prospects up the Irrawaddy to try exact truth and combat local warlord Pagan Mina dismissal of claims by a noted so-called surviving Grand Duchess. It doesn't go well – to start withEven so, as Andrew Cook notes, he's supposed to run straight after the rule over ruffians saved from deaths of the gallows, but canimperial family 't command them until hethere would begin a ninety-year battle between science and superstition which is not over yet's forced his way to having the knowledge of the mission he needs first, only for all hell to break loose. But get back he does, only to find that while his nightmares about what really happened are met with equally dark goings-on, the official record suggests the mission never actually existed…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08570537441445666278</amazonuk>

|author= Abi ElphinstoneS L Grey|title= The Night SpinnerApartment|rating= 54|genre= Confident ReadersHorror|summary= The final, Steph and Mark are in my opinion the best, book in the Dream Snatcher trilogy opens trouble. Mark is running from a grief he can't escape and Steph is anxiously juggling her joy at being a mother with Moll and Gryff back in Tanglefern Forest about to embark on their quest her guilt at being a 'kept woman'. Add a brutal home invasion to find the last Amulet of Truth and defeat the terrible Shadowmasks mix and you have a recipe for disaster. Desperate to save their dark magic once and for all. Their adventure begins with happy marriage the couple decide to take a night time journey by train romantic trip to the far north where Moll and her friends must brave the barren northern wilderness, scale mountainous peaks, defeat goblins, bog-monsters, witches and giants while the sinister and evil Shadowmasks lurk unseen but always present. All the time Moll clings Paris only to the faint hope discover that her friend Alfie some terror is not lost to them for everinescapable and evil has a vice like grip. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>14711460571447266560</amazonuk>

|author=Tony Benn and Ruth Winstone (editor)Zachary Leader|title=The Benn DiariesLife of Saul Bellow: The Definitive CollectionTo Fame and Fortune 1915-1964

|summary=Tony Benn must be one At over eight hundred pages, 'The Life of Saul Bellow' is not a light book, but it is the most famous diarists complete account of the modern agelife and work of America's most honoured literary figure. He kept a diary from his schooldays in During the nineteen forties until he made course of his last entry in 2009life, five years before his death. Benn was also a particularly charismatic politician: since my teens I've found myself listening number of notable attempts were made to him believing that I disagreed with what capture the essence of the man in biographical form. Zachary Leader benefits from this groundwork; he was saying and then realising also has the advantage that perhaps we werenhis work has been compiled since Bellow't so far apart after alls death in 2005. Whatever As a result, he spoke about always gave food for thought. Of course the ideal way has had access to enjoy the diaries would be to read the individual volumes, beginning with {{amazonurl|isbn=0099497719|title=Years Of Hope: Diariessources,Letters manuscripts and Papers 1940-1962}}, but thatletters denied to previous biographers. Leader's a lengthy undertaking research is exemplary and ''The Benn Diaries: The Definitive Collection'' edited by Ruth Winstone gives you incredibly detailed. He not only looks at the life of the opportunity to sample man but at the best of creative process that made him the diaries in colossus that he became and it's all written with a mere seven hundred or so pages. Be warned though: there has been a previous {{amazonurl|isbn=0099634112|title=composite volume}}genuine passion, also called ''The Benn Diaries'' love and published in 1996. The current volume goes to 2009respect for his subject.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17863307680099520931</amazonuk>

|author=Jeremy LewisLily Kunin|title=David AstorGood Clean Food: Plant-Based Recipes That Will Help You Look and Feel Your Best

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