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|author=AinoMiles Russell|title= Arthur and the Kings of Britain: The Historical Truth Behind the Myths|rating= 4.5|genre= History|summary= As the author of the Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain), written in 1136, Geoffrey of Monmouth is commonly recognized as one of the first British historians. His book told – or is supposed to have told - the story of the British monarchy during the Dark Ages, from the arrival of the Trojan Brutus, grandson of Aeneas, up to the seventh century AD when the Anglo-Saxons had taken control of Britain. Being virtually the only work of its kind at the time, it proved very influential, and became well-Maija Metsolaknown throughout western Europe as one of the great works of medieval literature as the first retelling of the story of King Arthur, Lear and Cymbeline. Shakespeare was forever in his debt with regard to the two latter. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445662744</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Denzil Meyrick|title=My First Animals Well of the Winds (DCI Daley)

|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Get used to two simple words if you have a child, ''WhatIt's That?'' You will hear it over and over and over againnot a happy time for DCI Jim Daley. If you The woman he loved is dead - there are lucky they are pointing at something that you actually know – chairthose who blame him for what happened - and his relationship with Liz, hathis ex wife, my sense of regret. Sometimes they will point at something that and his young son is not too familiardeteriorating by the day. Here the parental practise of making something up comes into play – itHe's a bird type thing. Books that show images finding solace in the bottom of items, colours or animals may seem a little dull to an adultglass, but to a toddler learning about whilst the world they are a man whoused to do that all too often, his friend DS Brian Scott is off alcohol completely and has found exercise. There's who of whata new officer in charge at Kinloch - DS Carrie Simmington - and whilst she might look young, it's unlikely that she got to thatposition without having a core of steel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18478096771846973724</amazonuk>

|author= Quentin BlakeNicole Dennis-Benn |title= The Story of Here Comes the Dancing FrogSun |rating= 4.5|genre= Dyslexia Friendly Literary Fiction |summary= When JoYou have to assume the team behind the cover sleeve for Nicole Dennis-Benn's Great Aunt Gertrudedebut novel Here Come's sea captain husband is drowned at sea she is grief-stricken and, in despair, she goes for the Sun have a walk alonekeen sense of irony. During this walk she notices a small frog on a lily-pad. But he is no ordinary frog - he's a dancing frog and Either that or none of them read beyond the two quickly become good friends. Soon the duo are touring the world with their routine, spreading joy and fun - and carrying out the occasional rescue - wherever they gofirst page.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125910178607124X</amazonuk>

{{newreview<!-- remove 5/4 -->|author=Otto de Kat and Laura Watkinson (translator)W S Markendale|title=The Longest NightOwen Pendragon

|genre=Literary FictionTeens|summary=Emma has a philosophy – ''let the dead rest, Monsters are slipping through somehow from somewhere to kidnap children in Cornwall and love the living''army seems powerless to do anything about it. The problem with that, as a 9612-year-old, is that there olds Owen and Mary assume they too are too few living left, therefore powerless as they watch friends and so while the love remains she will go through her memories, taking a woozy, diaphanous path through all the major events of her lifeneighbours disappear. Starting in wartime Berlin with one husband, who gets snatched from her at work, fleeing Imagine their surprise when they realise that thanks to another place to wait for peacean ancient relative, they have more influence on what happens than they think and wait for him in vain, moving to Holland and finding new love, and so not just on what happens on – this wispy journey will show all the impacts of war, from rationing right up to exile, death and survivalEarth. And their distant relative? The memories are coming strongly here former monarch and now, as Emma is waiting for at least one head of her two sons to visitthe round table, and then she will die…no less: King Arthur.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08570560851524667579</amazonuk>

|author=Andrea Beaty and David RobertsJon Morris|title=Rosie Revere's Big Project The Legion of Regrettable Supervillains: Oddball Criminals from Comic Book for Bold EngineersHistory|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionGraphic Novels |summary=For a long time nowAs much as I like comics – and I do, people whether superhero ones or not – I have worried about females taking up STEM subjects – to admit one thing, namely that the villains in them are a bit pants. What is The Penguin but the sciencesworld's worst Mafioso, engineering and suchlike. with a hobby of waddling along like his pet birds? But I know Where else do you win an Oscar of at least all things by playing a two sources -bit killer who just fell in a vat of role models in that regard. Onerandom chemicals and changed colour, most obviously, is ''Star Wars'and got mardier as a result (although recently he' s become a nanotech genius – but let's face not go there)? And what is it, with the gimp in the see-through plant pot because he is the latest main film had a girl who scavenged parts but could fly embodiment of cold? And that's just some of the better-known enemies of ''Millennium FalconBatman'' with ease, and one of the better goodies. You can imagine how awful the baddies related to the likes of [[Star Wars: Ahsoka by E K Johnston|Ahsoka]] is adept at mending some sort of flying farming machinesbad goodies can be. If And if you doncan't wish to go too fantastical, or are seeking role models for the younger audience, there this is the output of [[:Category:Andrea Beaty and David Roberts|Andrea Beaty]]perfect primer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14197191061594749329</amazonuk>

|author= Irvine WelshStefan Mohamed|title= Stanly's Ghost: Book 3 (The Blade ArtistBitter Sixteen Trilogy)

|genre= Crime Science Fiction|summary=So. In Cynical, solitary Stanly Bird used to be a fairly typical teenager – unless you count the interest of honest disclosure I should tell you fact that I love Irvine Welsh's work and I must confess to his best friend was a particularly gruesome fancy for Begbie, talking beagle named Daryl. Then came the superpowers. And the super powered allies. And the mysterious enemies. And the notoriously violent, terrifying protector/tormentor of monsters. And the Trainspotting gangstunning revelations. Whilst this means you are unlikely to receive an unbiased review, it does mean you will get a passionate oneAnd the apocalypse. It Now he's not sure what he is fair to say that I loved ''The Blade Artist'' and my only critique would be that it was over too quickly. For those of you who may not be familiar with Welsh's earlier manifestations have no fear, you can pick up ''The Blade Artist'' and be transfixed by Jim Francis, artist, father, husband and elegant thugOr where he is. For those of you with previous knowledge of Francis Begbie you'll be instantly drawn back into Or how exactly one is supposed to proceed after saving the world of a man previously defined by petty vengeance, violence and blood.All he knows is that his story isn't finished. Not quite yet …|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178470055X1784630764</amazonuk>

|author=Jonny LambertMichelle Robinson and Emily Fox|title=Tiger Tiger Monkey's Sandwich

|summary=Until Monkeys have been given the reputation of being cheeky, but do you spend a day hanging out with a child you will never know how exhausting it also see them as petty thieves? How can these cheerful chimps beseen as anything other than cute, but mischievous little monkeys? Anyone who has driven through Knowsley Safari Park knows the truth. As an adult you are used A perfectly good car drives in the monkey enclosure only to peppering your day with little downtime treats; a cup be bereft of tea perhaps, a biscuitswing mirrors, or maybe even a cheeky nap? The kids I know have no end of energy hubcaps and windscreen wipers at best you will get a sip of cold coffee, have to give them most of the biscuit and end. Rumour has it that the monkeys sell these parts wholesale at a nap would consist of them jumping on your headlockup in South Kirby. However, although their enthusiasm and zest The monkey in this tale may not be tiringstealing car parts, it but he is also infectious, just ask any old tiger you meet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184869444X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 18/3 -->|author= Michael R Lane|title= UFOs and GOD: A Collection of Short Stories|rating= 4|genre= Short Stories|summary=From stories of young people caught up in a Robin Hood style operation gone wrong, to a believer in God having her faith shaken by the arrival of aliens, author Michael R Lane has compiled a collection of fascinating and clever short stories here. From farm to urban, from World War II little light fingered when it comes to making the Digital Age, the places and times, people and events in ''UFOs and God'' spotlight the tender underbelly of the human condition in all its glory and despair on these varied stages of fictionultimate lunch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>163491712X0007580010</amazonuk>

|author=DKYrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)|title=WhatThe Legacy: Children's Where on Earth? Atlas: The World as You've Never Seen It BeforeHouse Book 1

|genre=ReferenceThrillers|summary=I dread What do you wish for in your murder mysteries? An inventive death? Well you couldn't go much further than the unusual murder by household device that Elisa suffers here. She's a mother to think how old the atlas a young family, whose husband was abroad at a conference. Do you seek awkward, unusual and/or conflicted investigators? Well, here we used when I was have a child wasdetective from the lower ranks, but at least we had the only one, clean enough after post-financial crash investigations tainted all his superiors; and I didn't need to go to school or a library to check up on whatever bit woman who runs a home that investigates and recuperates child victims of trivia I was seekingsex abuse. IShe'm so old a lot of things about it now would be most redundant, but if you choose s here because the only witness to risk your arm the murder was Elisa's very young daughter. And lo and buy an atlas for behold, the family shelves that all generations will benefit from, two adults have history. Do you require taunting clues as opposed to relying on electronic why this crime will be repeated? You can't do much better than the messages in numerals received by other characters and updateable sources their untold threat. So it's tick, tick, tick – but what of informationthe question marks left by the prologue, then this is where another young family of children was separated as a best case scenario by the adoption agencies after a different nasty event in the one to have.past?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>02412283791473621526</amazonuk>

|author= Sarah BakewellCharlotte Guillain and Yuval Zommer|title= At The Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being and Apricot CocktailsStreet Beneath My Feet|rating=45|genre= Politics and SocietyChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= You know that old saying about judging books by It's one thing for a non-fiction book for the young to show them something they themselves can explore – the pattern of the stars, perhaps, or the life in their cover? back yard. Ignore But when it! I have found gets to things that by judging are equally important to know about but are impossible to see in real life, why, then the game is changed. The artistic imagination has to be key, in portraying the invisible, and presenting what can only come from the pages of a book by . And this example does it at its cover best, as it delves into the layers of the soil below said back yard, down and getting it completely wrong is a great down, through all the different kinds of rock, until we reach the unattainable centre of the planet. And there's only one way to find yourself committed go from there – back out the other side, with yet more for us to reading a book that yoube shown. It'd never have picked in s a million years fantastic journey, then – and yet, somehow, being amazingly glad you dida quite fantastic volume.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00995548871784937312</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 16/3 -->|author=Amanda RobertsAlice Feeney|title=The Roots of the TreeSometimes I Lie|rating=45|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=The strength of a tree comes not from what you can see, not from the trunk, the branches and the leaves, Christmas is barely over but from what you canAmber doesn't see - the roots. Disturbance have much to the roots can be devastatingcelebrate. ItShe's similar in human beings. Annie had lived for 63 yearsa coma, secure in the love of her parentstrapped with an active mind but an inactive body, Elsie able to hear and Frankunderstand but not respond to what is going on around her. She'd looked after them in And her home in their final years and it was quite by chance that she came across their wedding certificate when she was sorting out their effects. They had not been married until mind''after'' her births a little fuzzy on a few things too, but her birth certificate showed Frank as her father and that her mother was married to him. Something didn't add like how she ended up and there , who else was one inescapable conclusion: the man she'd loved as her father all those years ''wasn't'' her father after involved, and what it allmeans.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19097168630008225354</amazonuk>

|author=Ian Graham and Stephen BiestyPolly Clark|title=Stephen Biesty's TrainsLarchfield|rating=5|genre=ArtLiterary Fiction |summary=Trains look imposingI It's early summer when a young poet, but true fans (little boysDora Fielding, usually from about three years old and upwards) want moves to know what lies beneath Helensburgh on the skin which you can seewest coast of Scotland and her hopes are first challenged. They want to know how it works. Getting to grips with one in real life is quite a big askNewly married, pregnant, but the next best thing is ''Stephen Biestyshe's Trains'' which features trains from all over excited by the world prospect of a life that combines family and spanning creativity. She thinks she knows what being a person, a wife, a mother, means. She is soon shown that she is wrong. As the early steam train (complete with cow catcher) right through battle begins for her very sense of self, Dora comes to find the trains realities of the future which can reach small town life suffocating, and, eventually, terrifying; until she finds a speed way to escape reality altogether. Another poet, she discovers, lived in Helensburgh once. Wystan H. Auden, brilliant and awkward at 24, with his first book of 430 kph poetry published, should be embarking on success and don't even run on railssociety in London. Once the train reaches Instead, in 1930, fleeing a broken engagement, he takes a speed teaching post at Larchfield School for boys where he is mocked for his Englishness and suspected - rightly - of 150 kph homosexuality. Yet in this repressed limbo Wystan will fall in love for the wheels are raised and the train is held up by magnetic forces alonefirst time, even as he fights his deepest fears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17837042411786481928</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the WorldPippa Mattinson|authortitle=Rachel IgnotofskyChoosing the Perfect Puppy|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionPets|summary=If you have ever, for even a fleeting moment, thought about getting a puppy, you really ought to read this book. Too many people are carried away in the heat of the moment and ''Women in Sciencemust'' takes fifty prominent women in STEM fields have a particular breed and celebrates their achievementsgo ahead without any thought about the consequences. There are women from They then have to live with the ancient world problems which ''might'' have been avoided for a decade or more. The puppy and women working todaythe adult dog also has to live with an owner who might not be able to accommodate his needs. Each of them [[:Category:Pippa Mattinson|Pippa Mattinson]] is given a double page spread including a stylised portrait and infoboxes with factoids my go-to author on one side and a page matters dog related: she talks sense. She doesn't try to talk you out of text with getting a brief biography particular breed or any puppy: she simply presents the facts 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 Americaallows you to make your own decisions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>15263605191785034375</amazonuk>

|author=RedressMatilda Woods|title=Dress (with) sense: The Practical Guide to a Conscious ClosetBoy, the Bird and the Coffin Maker

|genre=LifestyleConfident Readers|summary=Not too long ago I didn't have any problems with clothesAlberto is a carpenter, the very best in the town of Allora. They were just about all black But after the plague sweeps through the town, taking many of the citizens and I wore them until they dropped off my back - Alberto's wife and then I used what I could of the material for other purposeschildren, he turns his skills away from furniture and toys to making coffins. I had this lovely little clothes shop Wrapped in Ilkley (it says 'Oxfam' over sadness, and waiting only for the door) when I needed plague to restock. Clothes were simple. Then I encountered the lovely [[:Category:Numba Pinkerton|Numba Pinkerton]] come and suddenly I had colour in my claim his life: not all of it could be had from Oxfamtoo, Alberto lives alone, keeping company with the dead who are delivered to his house to await their coffin. Sometimes I might even be buying ''new'' clothes. I needed help and more adviceOne day, however, he realises that he must have a living visitor, because it really isn't as simple as just walking into the nearest department storefood starts to go missing.He begins to leave scraps of food, to try and discover who his mystery thief is…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>05002927791407178695</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 1630/3 -->|author=Marilyn BennettMark Aylwin Thomas|title=Granny with BenefitsBlades of Grass|rating=4.5|genre=Women's FictionBiography|summary=Thirty nine is a difficult age for a woman, particularly if she's not marriedAny book that has me in tears at the end has been worth my time. Has she given up on the idea of having a family? Does her career mean everything Any book that has me hoping it will end differently to her? On the other hand way I know it must is she desperately looking for a man? worth the reading. Grace found herself Any book that convinces me that maybe there is still hope in a difficult situation when she first met Dale (or Heaven on Legs - HoL - as she thought of him). She'd volunteered to sort out her late grandmother's homethe world – that for all the mistakes made thus far, still being made right now, but she couldn't resist the opportunity to do there is a little dressing up. Socommon humanity which ultimately, wearing her grandmother's clotheseventually, wig resting just above her eyebrows must do some good – that is worth the writing and heavy-rimmed glasses perched on the end of her nose she met reading and the man time. Blades of her dreamsGrass is one such book. Only, rather than laughing and explaining what sheIt'd been doings a forgotten story, Grace carried on the pantomime - an unknown story to most people. It is one that should be told – and called herself Louisereflected upon.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17858987361524676969</amazonuk>

|author=DKLucy Jones|title=Forest Life Foxes Unearthed: A Story of Love and Woodland CreaturesLoathing in Modern Britain|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Animals and Wildlife |summary=This book knows that if you're going to learn about forest life and As one of the animals, plants and trees largest predators left in itBritain, then you're only going to be itching to go and explore the woods for yourselffox is captivating: a comfortably familiar figure in our country landscapes; an intriguing flash of bright-eyed wildness in our towns. It's for Yet 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 very young audiencebeautiful animal, so always expects an adult hand to guide you – but provides a warm companion itself through several quick and easy taskscunning rogue, a vicious pest and a few lessonsworthy foe. The balance between carrot and stick, or duty and rewardAs well as being the most ubiquitous of wild animals, it is great also the least understood. Here Lucy Jones investigates the truth about foxes – but what exactly is delving into fact, fiction, folklore and her own history with the creatures. Discussing the edutainment going to providedebate on foxes, and Jones asks what will it demand of our attitudes towards foxes says about us?, and our relationship with the natural world.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>02412731101783963042</amazonuk>

{{newreview<!-- remove 29/3 -->|author=DKSteven Anthony|title=Sharks and Other Sea CreaturesIsaac Montgomery for the Love of Beth|rating=43|genre=Children's Non-General Fiction|summary=Never before have I found much cause There are words to point out describe the Isaac Montgomery we meet at the sort beginning of lower-casethe story. Unfortunately they're not words you usually use in polite company. He'd worked for many years in stockbroking and had made a substantial fortune, almost-a-subtitle wording on but his life was devoid of much in the front way of personal relationships. When he required a bookwoman as an escort, he paid. I say He assumed that because very little of this is about sharks – so if you have he was having a youngster intending to come here and learn all their bloodthirsty imagination can holdgood time, then they may well be disappointedshe was too - if he even bothered to think about it. If you take He had a friend whom he didn't see all that often and it on board was when he thought about Phil that the a little ''jealousy''other sea creaturescrept into Isaac' make up the bulk of the books heart. You see, then all well Phil was engaged to Penelope and goodthey were obviously happy. And even better, if Isaac began to wonder what love was - and how you expect yourself went about finding someone to ''make'' the bulk of said creatures…share your life with.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241274389152466815X</amazonuk>

|author=Theo GuignardMartin Edwards (editor)|title=LabyrinthMiraculous Mysteries (British Library Crime Classics)|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=Of all Consider the books published for people's paper-based hobbies when I was following scenario: a youngster, it's remarkable that all of them have been revisited policeman hears someone screaming and revamped. I say this because they certainly weren't exactly brilliant fun back then. No, we didn't have quite the modern style of colouring-in booksruns to a house on a particular street, but they were availablenumber 13, if you'd gone beyond 'join from where the dots'. I read only recently that origami noise is allegedly coming back – and I remember how every church book sale for years had ''Origami'', ''Origami 2'' or ''Origami 3'' paperbacks somewhere for ten penceemanating. But When he peeps through the ultimate letterbox he discovers a dead man in paper-based fun back then was the use-once format of the maze bookhallway with a knife in his throat. This is the modern equivalent – He goes to fetch help, but boyupon returning, hasn't finds that the street does not have a number 13 and that the idea grown up since then…body and the room he saw have both mysteriously vanished...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18478099870712356738</amazonuk>

|author=Heather Alexander and Andres LozanoBrian Moses|title=Life on EarthLost Magic: Farm: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!The Very Best of Brian Moses

|genre=Children's Non-FictionRhymes and Verse|summary=I'm sure I was full For a poet with the very memorable name of questions when [[:Category:Brian Moses|Moses]], I was a nipper – which means I was too full have to admit never having come across it before, nor having knowingly read any of questionshis works. Parents just don't need This collection was the perfect place for me to come late to be deflecting questions all the timeparty, do they? Living on as it takes the edge author's own favourites from several previous anthologies of a village in the middle of nowhere as I didhis, and adds new verses. I knew quite a lot about farms and farming read them with very little clue as to which was which – that different animals gave different results, that different vehicles meant different things and that certainly couldn't tell having finished the crops behind our house changedbook. But for There is a lot here that will grab the inner city childyoung schoolchild, but the topics cover so much there is really will be a universal appeal, meaning that a chance they lot of people will have never met a cow or seen a silo. This colourful book, bright in both senses of the worddefinite favourite from these pages, will allow even if the very young reader the opportunity of their own fantasy trip to the working countryside.author himself cannot decide…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18478089991509838767</amazonuk>

|author=Heather Alexander and Andres LozanoNina Laden|title=Life on Earth: Human Body: With 100 Questions and 70 Lift-flaps!The Night I Followed the Dog|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction For Sharing|summary=I wonder how much time IThere's a Boy (who doesn've saved in not being t have a name) and a parent – Dog (likewise) and therefore not having had in the beginning you get the feeling that the Boy would prefer to answer such pesky questions as why have next door's Dog who wins prizes in obedience classes and does clever things with the television remote control. That is until one morning when Boy opens the sky blue, where did I come from, where does my wee come from, what is earwax, door a little earlier than usual and why do I have spots Dog getting out of a limousine. In a spleen? tuxedo. Still, apart from The he disappears into the first two, those questions and back garden. Boy's shocked but a few minutes later he goes to the answers to them back door and more are whistles for Dog, who comes dashing in this book, which is a lovely primer for biologyanxious to eat. At first Boy can't ''quite'' believe what he ''thinks'' he saw, and a great source of quick facts for the very young, all presented with an addictive lift-so he determines to follow Dog the-flap approachnext night.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18478090061452161348</amazonuk>

|author= Victoria AveyardPhil Earle|title= KingSuperDad's CageDay Off

|genre= TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=''He caught me in a princeStanley's trapdad is tired. And now I'm in It can be exhausting work being a King's cageSuperhero. But I'm not leaving this place unless I leave behind his corpse – or mine.'' The third instalment in For six days of the Red Queen series, picks up right after week he saves the final events of Glass Sword. Mare has been taken prisoner; shackled in Silent Stone world from disasters and powerless without her lightning. At the mercy of the boy who wears the crown, Mare is haunted by defeats the consequences of her past decisionsbaddies as Dynamo Dan. Tortured Stanley decides his poor dad needs a day off and weak, Mare has is determined to make sure that he gets a front seat proper rest. So they head off to watch Maventhe park for some much needed Dad and Son bonding time. However people don's clever tactics unfold and destroy all t seem to understand that she believes ineven Superheroes need time to recuperate. Being broken and beaten, Mare will never be the same again after her captivity but The requests for help keep on coming so what can she escape poor Stanley do other than step in to save the Palace with her life to fight another day? . |amazonuk=<amazonuk>14091511901781126844</amazonuk>

|author= Siobhan Dowd and Emma ShoardAndrew Cook|title= The Pavee and Murder of the Buffer GirlRomanovs|rating= 4.5|genre= Graphic NovelsHistory|summary=When Jim's family halt at DundrayThe fate of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, his heart grows heavy. A new Buffer school wife Alexandra and children, fuelled no end of rumour, misinformation and conspiracy theories for this Pavee boy to attend. Jim doesn't like school. He doesn't like Buffers. And you knowmany years, you couldn't really blame him because even though the truth was known not long after the distrust and suspicion is mutualevent. Prejudice against In the last few years, the Traveller community is strong and when Jim and his cousins turn up on their first dayadvance of forensic science, it's to stares DNA testing and muttered insults from the pupils and condescension from precise location of the teachers. Within days, Moss Cunningham and his gang bodies have accused Jim allowed for confirmation of stealing a CD - he did no such thing - the exact truth and have begun a campaign dismissal of threatsclaims by a noted so-called surviving Grand Duchess. Even so, bullying as Andrew Cook notes, straight after the deaths of the imperial family 'there would begin a ninety-year battle between science and worsesuperstition which is not over yet'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19113700491445666278</amazonuk>

|author= Helen HollickS L Grey|title= Pirates: Truth and TaleThe Apartment

|genre= HistoryHorror|summary=The eighteenth century lived Steph and Mark are in terror of the tramps of the seas – piratestrouble. Pirates have fascinated people ever since. It was Mark is running from a harsh life for those who went grief he can'on the accountt escape and Steph is anxiously juggling her joy at being a mother with her guilt at being a ', constantly overshadowed by the threat of death – through violence, illness, shipwreck, or the hangmankept woman's noose. The lure of gold, the excitement of the chase and the freedom that life aboard Add a pirate ship offered were judged by some brutal home invasion to be worth the risk. Helen Hollick explores both the fiction mix and fact of the Golden Age of piracy, and there are some surprises in store you have a recipe for those who think they know their Barbary Corsair from disaster. Desperate to save their boucanier. Everyone has heard of Captain Morgan, but who recognises once happy marriage the name of the aristocratic Frenchman Daniel Montbars? He killed so many Spaniards he was known as 'The Exterminator'. The fictional world of pirates, represented in novels couple decide to take a romantic trip to Paris only to discover that some terror is inescapable and movies, is different from realityevil has a vice like grip. What draws readers and viewers to these notorious hyenas of the high seas? What are the facts behind the fantasy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14456521531447266560</amazonuk>

|author=Clare HibbertZachary Leader|title=Moments in History that Changed the WorldThe Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune 1915-1964 |rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionBiography|summary=One At over eight hundred pages, 'The Life of the problems with presenting humankindSaul Bellow's history as a timeline is that not a lot happened at perfectly identified timeslight book, but it is the most complete account of the life and work of America's most honoured literary figure. Of During the course we can pinpoint when of his life, a number of notable attempts were made to capture the US Declaration essence of Independence was signed, or when Poland was invaded the man in September 1939, but when (and even why) biographical form. Zachary Leader benefits from this groundwork; he also has the Maya cities died out? We donadvantage that his work has been compiled since Bellow't knows death in 2005. How do you pin As a date result, he has had access to the Renaissancesources, or manuscripts and letters denied to previous biographers. Leader's research is exemplary and incredibly detailed. He not only looks at the invention life of the modern city? This book may aim to be a portrayal of key moments in time, man but even it admits you have to be vague in itemising at the creative process that made him the specific days colossus that he became and dates. Get over thatit's all written with a genuine passion, love and the pages are packed with informationrespect for his subject.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07123567030099520931</amazonuk>

|author= Marisa SilverLily Kunin|title= Little NothingGood Clean Food: Plant-Based Recipes That Will Help You Look and Feel Your Best|rating= 54|genre= Literary Fiction Cookery|summary=In an unnamed country at the beginning Lily Kunin is a health coach and creator of [http://www.cleanfooddirtycity.com/ clean food dirty city site] and [https://www.instagram.com/cleanfooddirtycity/?hl=en instagram account]. She'd always been a food lover but her attitude to the last century, a peasant couple longs for a childfood she was eating changed when she began to suffer from migraines. In despair they turn to gypsy tonics A long (and archaic prescriptions, bad) time later she tried avoiding gluten and one cold wintery night, the couple's wish comes trueher symptoms were alleviated within 48 hours. But the silence that follows the birth forewarns From this she developed her food philosophy of darker days seeing an intolerance to comegluten as a creative opportunity. Strangers look on askance and fall speechless in the child I liked that she has ''a constant dialogue''s presence, and villagers protectively hush their children as they pass on narrow market laneswith her body rather than sticking to a restrictive regime. Pavla is no ordinary child, but then this is no ordinary tale That I can empathise with.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17860712741419723901</amazonuk>

|author=Ali Sparkes Ted Dewan|title=Thunderstruck Something for Mummy (Bing)|rating=43.5|genre=Confident ReadersFor Sharing|summary=Alisha and new boyHaving a child gives you a glimpse into a world that you never knew even existed. Unfortunately, Theo, are both struggling to fit this not a winter wonderland hidden in at Beechwood Junior. Howevera wardrobe, they soon become celebrities when theybut a world of children're struck by lightning on sports days TV characters. Now everyone wants to be their friend – including all the ghosts who haunt Easthampton. Having several thousands The mainstays of volts skipped through their nervous systems has made both Alisha and Theo unusually sensitive to the spirit world. The pair are happy to make friends with two teenage ghosts from the 1970s (Doug genre have still survived; Sooty, Noddy and Lizzie) Postman Pat, but Alisha and Theo are much less keen on the faceless grey entities who is RaRa or Mr Tumble? One popular show that start following them around. It's almost like the ghosts are trying takes some getting used to tell them something – trying to warn them is Bing, a series all about something a rabbit that's going seems to happenhave a stuffed animal as a carer. Will Alisha There are seemingly no parents in the show as if the town is one giant crèche, so how come Bing and Theo be able to figure out what before it's too latehis helper Flop are making a gift for Mummy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>01927393600008212015</amazonuk>

|author=Antonin Varenne and Sam Taylor (translator)John Preston|title=Retribution RoadA Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Fiction True Crime|summary=''Sergeant Bowman wasn't just a hard man, he Jeremy Thorpe was the sort of person who was something else: a dangerous mangenerally liked by others.'' If, indeed, there He was flamboyant and gregarious but could give the impression that meeting someone who had made his day. He never seemed to forget a name and he was ideal for a suicide missionwitty, it was himcharismatic and very charming. Working as He appeared to be a soldier for the East India Company in the ruraldecent man, remotewith views with which I would have agreed on race, outlaw hotbeds capital punishment and membership of Asia in the 1850sCommon Market, he's tasked with taking a boat of unknown prospects up as the Irrawaddy to try and combat local warlord Pagan MinEuropean Union was then known. It doesn't go well – to start with, he's supposed to run For this was the rule over ruffians saved from nineteen sixties and Thorpe had entered Parliament at the gallows, but can't command them until age of thirty and by 1967 he's forced his way to having the knowledge of would be party leader. On the mission surface he needs first, only was a man who had everything going for all hell to break loosehim. 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>08570537440241973740</amazonuk>

|author= Abi ElphinstoneBill Nye and Gregory Mone|title= The Night SpinnerJack and the Geniuses 1: At the Bottom of the World|rating= 4.5

|summary= The finalIt's tough being a genius. There are few, and in my opinion the bestif any, book in the Dream Snatcher trilogy opens with Moll and Gryff back in Tanglefern Forest people you can talk about your interests to embark on their quest to find the last Amulet of Truth , and defeat the terrible Shadowmasks words like ''nerd'', ''geek'' and their dark magic once and for all''boffin'' get bandied around by folk who somehow think it's your fault your cleverness makes them feel a bit dim. Their adventure begins with a night time journey by train But how does it feel to be the far north where Moll and her friends must brave the barren northern wildernessone surrounded by such geniuses all day every day? Fortunately, scale mountainous peaksJack is a resilient sort, defeat goblinsand his common sense approach to life is going to be essential if he, bog-monsters, witches Ava and giants while the sinister and evil Shadowmasks lurk unseen but always present. All the time Moll clings Matt are going to the faint hope that her friend Alfie is not lost survive their trip to them for everAntarctica. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>14711460571419723030</amazonuk>

|author=Tony Benn and Ruth Winstone (editor)Sherri Smith|title=The Benn Diaries: The Definitive CollectionFollow Me Down|rating=54|genre=BiographyThrillers|summary=Tony Benn must be Mia is done with the small town she grew up in, but it only takes one of the most famous diarists of the modern agephone call to bring her back. He kept a diary from his schooldays Her twin brother Lucas is missing and, worse still, has been implicated in the nineteen forties until he made death of one of his last entry in 2009, five years before his deathstudents. Benn was also a particularly charismatic politician: since my teens I've found myself listening Without him there to him believing that I disagreed with what he was saying and then realising that perhaps we weren't so far apart after all. Whatever he spoke about always gave food speak for thought. Of course the ideal way himself it becomes her job to enjoy the diaries would be defend his reputation while trying to read the individual volumes, beginning with {{amazonurl|isbn=0099497719|title=Years Of Hope: Diaries,Letters and Papers 1940-1962}}, but that's a lengthy undertaking and ''The Benn Diaries: The Definitive Collection'' edited by Ruth Winstone gives you the opportunity get to sample the best bottom of the diaries in a mere seven hundred or so pages. Be warned though: there everything that has been a previous {{amazonurl|isbn=0099634112|title=composite volume}}, also called ''The Benn Diaries'' and published in 1996. The current volume goes to 2009gone on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17863307681785654047</amazonuk>