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|author=Ted DewanMiles Russell|title=Something for Mummy (Bing)Arthur and the Kings of Britain: The Historical Truth Behind the Myths|rating=34.5|genre=For SharingHistory|summary=Having a child gives you a glimpse into a world that you never knew even existed. UnfortunatelyAs the author of the Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain), this not a winter wonderland hidden written in a wardrobe1136, but a world Geoffrey of children's TV charactersMonmouth is commonly recognized as one of the first British historians. His book told – or is supposed to have told - The mainstays the story of the British monarchy during the Dark Ages, from the arrival of the genre have still survived; SootyTrojan Brutus, Noddy and Postman Patgrandson of Aeneas, but who is RaRa or Mr Tumble? One popular show that takes some getting used up to is Bingthe 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, a series all about a rabbit that seems to have a stuffed animal and became well-known throughout western Europe as a carer. There are seemingly no parents in one of the show great works of medieval literature as if the town is one giant crèchefirst retelling of the story of King Arthur, so how come Bing Lear and Cymbeline. Shakespeare was forever in his helper Flop are making a gift for Mummy?debt with regard to the two latter. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>00082120151445662744</amazonuk>

|author=John PrestonDenzil Meyrick|title=A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart Well of the EstablishmentWinds (DCI Daley)|rating=54|genre=True Crime|summary=Jeremy Thorpe was the sort of person who was generally liked by othersIt's not a happy time for DCI Jim Daley. He was flamboyant The woman he loved is dead - there are those who blame him for what happened - and his relationship with Liz, his ex wife, and gregarious but could give his young son is deteriorating by the impression that meeting someone had made his day. He never seemed to forget 's finding solace in the bottom of a name and he was wittyglass, charismatic and very charming. He appeared whilst the man who used to be a decent mando that all too often, with views with which I would have agreed on race, capital punishment his friend DS Brian Scott is off alcohol completely and membership of the Common Market, as the European Union was then knownhas found exercise. For this was the nineteen sixties and Thorpe had entered Parliament There's a new officer in charge at the age of thirty Kinloch - DS Carrie Simmington - and by 1967 he would be party leader. On the surface he was whilst she might look young, it's unlikely that she got to that position without having a man who had everything going for himcore of steel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>02419737401846973724</amazonuk>

|author= Bill Nye and Gregory MoneNicole Dennis-Benn |title= Jack and Here Comes the Sun |rating= 4|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= You have to assume the team behind the Geniuses 1: At cover sleeve for Nicole Dennis-Benn's debut novel Here Come's the Bottom Sun have a keen sense of irony. Either that or none of them read beyond the Worldfirst page.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178607124X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 5/4 -->|author=W S Markendale|title=Owen Pendragon|rating= 43.5|genre= Confident ReadersTeens|summary=It's tough being a genius. There Monsters are few, if any, people you can talk about your interests slipping through somehow from somewhere to, kidnap children in Cornwall and words like ''nerd'', ''geek'' and ''boffin'' get bandied around by folk who somehow think the army seems powerless to do anything about it's your fault your cleverness makes them feel a bit dim. But how does it feel to be the one surrounded by such geniuses all day every day? Fortunately, Jack is a resilient sort, 12-year-olds Owen and Mary assume they too are therefore powerless as they watch friends and his common sense approach to life is going neighbours disappear. Imagine their surprise when they realise that thanks to be essential if hean ancient relative, Ava they have more influence on what happens than they think and Matt are going to survive not just on what happens on Earth. And their trip to Antarcticadistant relative? The former monarch and head of the round table, no less: King Arthur. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>14197230301524667579</amazonuk>

|author= Sherri SmithJon Morris|title= Follow Me DownThe Legion of Regrettable Supervillains: Oddball Criminals from Comic Book History|rating= 45|genre= ThrillersGraphic Novels |summary= Mia As much as I like comics – and I do, whether superhero ones or not – I have to admit one thing, namely that the villains in them are a bit pants. What is done The Penguin but the world's worst Mafioso, with the small town she grew up a hobby of waddling along like his pet birds? Where else do you win an Oscar of all things by playing a two-bit killer who just fell ina vat 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 only takes one phone call to bring her back. Her twin brother Lucas with the gimp in the see-through plant pot because he is missing and, worse still, has been implicated in the death embodiment of cold? And that's just some of the better-known enemies of ''Batman'', one of his studentsthe better goodies. Without him there to speak for himself it becomes her job to defend his reputation while trying to get You can imagine how awful the baddies related to the bottom of everything that has gone onbad goodies can be. And if you can't, this is the perfect primer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17856540471594749329</amazonuk>

|author= Kate BeaufoyStefan Mohamed|title= Stanly's Ghost: Book 3 (The Gingerbread HouseBitter Sixteen Trilogy)|rating= 45|genre= General Science Fiction|summary=''The Gingerbread House'' is not Cynical, solitary Stanly Bird used to be a cottage from fairly typical teenager – unless you count the fact that his best friend was a fairytale where a wicked old witch lives but it is in a wonderful rural setting, perfect for getting away from it alltalking beagle named Daryl. Then came the superpowers. And the super powered allies. And the mysterious enemies. And the terrifying monsters. And the stunning revelations. Or it would be, if it weren't for And the lady who lives there who, while far from a witch, can be a bit of a b*tchapocalypse. ItNow he's not entirely her faultsure what he is. Eleanor has dementia and her fading mind makes her confused, angry and quite hard work Or where he is. Or how exactly one is supposed to care forproceed after saving the world. With her current carer off to attend her daughterAll he knows is that his story isn's wedding, Eleanor's daughter in law Tess steps up to assume this role in the interim, bringing her precocious daughter Katia with hert finished.Not quite yet …|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17853008651784630764</amazonuk>

|author=Dinah JefferiesMichelle Robinson and Emily Fox|title=Before the RainsMonkey's Sandwich

|genre=Historical FictionFor Sharing|summary=Eliza Monkeys have 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? Anyone who has tragically punctuated childhood memories of India that have feed her desire to returndriven through Knowsley Safari Park knows the truth. Therefore A perfectly good car drives in 1930, following the death of her husband, when the British government commission her monkey enclosure only to photograph scenes be bereft of Indian lifewing mirrors, she jumps hubcaps and windscreen wipers at the chanceend. What she doesn't realise is Rumour has it that not everyone she comes across is delighted with the ideamonkeys sell these parts wholesale at a lockup in South Kirby. Living within the Sultana's opulent palace complex is definitely an attraction for herThe monkey in this tale may not be stealing car parts, as but he is Jay, an Indian price who shows Eliza a little light fingered when it comes to making the real India. However, attractions are sometimes dangerous and even deadlyultimate lunch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>02412870810007580010</amazonuk>

|author=Pam JenoffYrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)|title=The OrphanLegacy: Children's TaleHouse Book 1

|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=Herr NeuroffWhat 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 circus has a secret: as well as mother to a much needed wartime source of entertainmentyoung family, it's also refuge to Jews escaping uncertain concentration camp fateswhose husband was abroad at a conference. One such personDo you seek awkward, Astridunusual and/or conflicted investigators? Well, here we have a trapeze detective from the lower ranks, but the only one clean enough after post-financial crash investigations tainted all his superiors; and high wire artist, lives a precarious life in which her possible discovery would be more dangerous than her nightly actwoman who runs a home that investigates and recuperates child victims of sex abuse. She's an expert who has perfected her art over time here because the only witness to the murder was Elisa's very young daughter. And lo and therefore resents Neuroff demanding she teach Noabehold, a non-circus family new comer, quicklythe two adults have history. ThereDo you require taunting clues as to why this crime will be repeated? You can's a reason behind t do much better than the circus ownermessages in numerals received by other characters and their untold threat. So it's demand though. Noa arrives at tick, tick, tick – but what of the circus endangered question marks left by an act the prologue, where another young family of kindness: children was separated as a Jewish baby she stole from a Nazi train before leaving best case scenario by the Netherlands. It was adoption agencies after a spur of different nasty event in the moment decision that will bind her to Astrid and their future, no matter how long… or short… a time that may be.past?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18484553641473621526</amazonuk>

|author=Brian McClellanCharlotte Guillain and Yuval Zommer|title=Sins of EmpireThe Street Beneath My Feet

|genre=FantasyChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=The fantasy genre is home It's one thing for a non-fiction book for the young to some show them something they themselves can explore – the pattern of the best books stars, perhaps, or the life in their back yard. But when it gets to things that I have ever readare equally important to know about but are impossible to see in real life, but also some of why, then the worstgame is changed. The very nature of epic stories that span generations means that few fantasy books rock up under 400 artistic imagination has to be key, in portraying the invisible, and presenting what can only come from the pages and many are part of long running series or trilogiesa book. When done badlyAnd this example does it at its best, as it delves into the layers of the soil below said back yard, fantasy books are bloated down and boring affairs that rattle down, through all the different kinds of rock, until we reach the unattainable centre of every cliché the genre has had planet. And there's only one way to offer since Bilbo exited Bag Endgo from there – back out the other side, but done well they can with yet more for us to be brilliantshown. They can be It''Sins of Empire'' by Brian McClellans a fantastic journey, then – and a quite fantastic volume.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650929X1784937312</amazonuk>

|author=Yuval ZommerAlice Feeney|title=The Big Book of Beasts (Big Books)Sometimes I Lie|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionThrillers|summary=One of the many issues people have with the TV nature programme, such as [[Planet Earth II by Stephen Moss|Planet Earth II]], Christmas is the obvious one of all the blood and guts it features – yes, in amongst all the cutesy, comical animal life are creatures eating other creatures (normally the cutesy, comical ones, whatbarely over but Amber doesn's worse)t have much to celebrate. YouShe'll be pleased to knows in a coma, howevertrapped with an active mind but an inactive body, that this book able to hear and understand but not respond to what is very light going on death and destructionaround her. YesAnd her mind's a little fuzzy on a few things too, here are lions sharing some chunks of meat (while the females that caught and killed it sit and wait their turn)like how she ended up there, here are salmon seemingly willingly flying towards brown bearswho else was involved, and here is a red fox stashing a dead mouse while in a time of plenty, but there is so little to make this even a PG book – what it will be perfect for the home shelf or that in a primary schoolall means.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>050065106X0008225354</amazonuk>

|author=Ulf Nilsson and Gitte SpeePolly Clark|title=A Case in Any CaseLarchfield|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction |summary=The [[Detective Gordon: The First Case I It's early summer when a young poet, Dora Fielding, moves to Helensburgh on the west coast of Scotland and her hopes are first challenged. Newly married, pregnant, she's excited by Ulf Nilsson the prospect of a life that combines family and Gitte Spee|last time]] we saw creativity. She thinks she knows what being a person, a wife, a mother, means. She is soon shown that she is wrong. As the toad called Detective Gordon at work he had a mouse colleague in battle begins for her very sense of self, Dora comes to find the forest police with himrealities of small town life suffocating, and in fact the two were so close they often shared , eventually, terrifying; until she finds a bed way to escape reality altogether. Another poet, she discovers, lived in the old prison cells togetherHelensburgh once. Wystan H. But now Gordon has practically retiredAuden, brilliant and the mouseawkward at 24, Police Chief Buffywith his first book of poetry published, is doing all the work herselfshould be embarking on success and society in London. It's quite scary workInstead, tooin 1930, when something horridfleeing a broken engagement, nasty he takes a teaching post at Larchfield School for boys where he is mocked for his Englishness and slightly smelling suspected - rightly - of toad is rootling around the police station at nighthomosexuality. But when Yet in this repressed limbo Wystan will fall in love for the two are together there's no stopping themfirst time, and any crime can be solved – which is probably a very good thing when not one but two of the forest babies go missing…even as he fights his deepest fears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17765710961786481928</amazonuk>

|author=Kenneth Oppel and Jon KlassenPippa Mattinson|title=The NestChoosing the Perfect Puppy|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersPets|summary=Steven can narrate If you have ever, for even a fleeting moment, thought about getting a puppy, you really ought to read this book to us, but he can hardly ever mention the name of his newborn baby brother. That's not down to a fault with Steven, although there Too many people are many carried away in the heat of those – obsessive hand-washing, nightmares, anxiety attacks. Itthe moment and ''must's because there's something wrong with have a particular breed and go ahead without any thought about the new addition consequences. They then have to live with the family. His parents mutter behind closed bedroom doors of regretting trying problems which ''might'' have been avoided for a new child so late in life, but whatever the reason there is something demanding a lot of medical care and attention, even if the child can decade or more or less live in the family home. But hope seems The puppy and the adult dog also has to live with an owner who might not be shining a light into Steven from the most unlikely source – angels that come able to visit him in accommodate his dreams, from within a pleasant, lightneeds. [[:Category:Pippa Mattinson|Pippa Mattinson]] is my go-filled haven, with full knowledge of the familyto author on matters dog related: she talks sense. She doesn's troubles and an offer t try to talk you out of getting a way out. Obviously, worried for particular breed or any puppy: she simply presents the happiness of his family, facts and knowing this is just a dream, Steven will only say yes allows you to the offer of help…make your own decisions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19102008751785034375</amazonuk>

|author=Aino-Maija MetsolaMatilda Woods|title=My First Animals The Boy, the Bird and the Coffin Maker|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingConfident Readers|summary=Get used to two simple words if you have Alberto is a childcarpenter, ''Whatthe very best in the town of Allora. But after the plague sweeps through the town, taking many of the citizens and Alberto's That?'' You will hear it over wife and over children, he turns his skills away from furniture and over againtoys to making coffins. If you are lucky they are pointing at something that you actually know – chairWrapped in sadness, and waiting only for the plague to come and claim his life too, hatAlberto lives alone, my sense of regretkeeping company with the dead who are delivered to his house to await their coffin. Sometimes they will point at something One day, however, he realises that is not too familiar. Here the parental practise of making something up comes into play – it's he must have a bird type thingliving visitor, as food starts to go missing. Books that show images He begins to leave scraps of itemsfood, colours or animals may seem a little dull to an adult, but to a toddler learning about the world they are a try and discover who's who of what's that.his mystery thief is…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18478096771407178695</amazonuk>

{{newreview<!-- remove 30/3 -->|author= Quentin BlakeMark Aylwin Thomas|title= The Story Blades of the Dancing FrogGrass

|genre= Dyslexia Friendly Biography|summary= When Jo's Great Aunt Gertrude's sea captain husband Any book that has me in tears at the end has been worth my time. Any book that has me hoping it will end differently to the way I know it must is drowned at sea she worth the reading. Any book that convinces me that maybe there is grief-stricken andstill hope in the world – that for all the mistakes made thus far, in despairstill being made right now, she goes for there is a walk alonecommon humanity which ultimately, eventually, must do some good – that is worth the writing and the reading and the time. During this walk she notices a small frog on a lily-pad Blades of Grass is one such book. But he is no ordinary frog - heIt's a dancing frog and the two quickly become good friendsforgotten story, an unknown story to most people. Soon the duo are touring the world with their routine, spreading joy It is one that should be told – and fun - and carrying out the occasional rescue - wherever they goreflected upon.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17811259101524676969</amazonuk>

|author=Otto de Kat and Laura Watkinson (translator)Lucy Jones|title=The Longest NightFoxes Unearthed: A Story of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain|rating=3.54|genre=Literary FictionAnimals and Wildlife |summary=Emma has a philosophy – ''let As one of the dead restlargest predators left in Britain, and love the living''fox is captivating: a comfortably familiar figure in our country landscapes; an intriguing flash of bright-eyed wildness in our towns. The problem with thatYet 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 96-year-oldbeautiful animal, a cunning rogue, a vicious pest and a worthy foe. As well as being the most ubiquitous of wild animals, it is that there are too few living leftalso the least understood. Here Lucy Jones investigates the truth about foxes – delving into fact, fiction, folklore and so while her own history with the creatures. Discussing the love remains she will go through her memoriesdebate on foxes, taking a woozyJones asks what our attitudes towards foxes says about us, diaphanous path through all 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 describe the Isaac Montgomery we meet at the major events beginning of her lifethe story. Starting Unfortunately they're not words you usually use in wartime Berlin with one husband, who gets snatched from her at work, fleeing to another place to wait polite company. He'd worked for peace, and wait for him many years in vain, moving to Holland stockbroking and finding new lovehad made a substantial fortune, and so on – this wispy journey will show all but his life was devoid of much in the impacts way of warpersonal relationships. When he required a woman as an escort, from rationing right up he paid. He assumed that if he was having a good time, then she was too - if he even bothered to exilethink about it. He had a friend whom he didn't see all that often and it was when he thought about Phil that a little ''jealousy'' crept into Isaac's heart. You see, death Phil was engaged to Penelope and survivalthey were obviously happy. The memories are coming strongly here Isaac began to wonder what love was - and now, as Emma is waiting for at least one of her two sons how you went about finding someone to visit, and then she will die…share your life with.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857056085152466815X</amazonuk>

|author=Andrea Beaty and David RobertsMartin Edwards (editor)|title=Rosie Revere's Big Project Book for Bold EngineersMiraculous Mysteries (British Library Crime Classics)|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-FictionCrime|summary=For Consider the following scenario: a long time now, people have worried about females taking up STEM subjects – the sciences, engineering policeman hears someone screaming and suchlike. But I know of at least two sources of role models in that regard. Oneruns to a house on a particular street, most obviouslynumber 13, from where the noise is ''Star Wars'' – let's face it, emanating. When he peeps through the latest main film had letterbox he discovers a girl who scavenged parts but could fly dead man in the ''Millennium Falcon'' hallway with ease, and the likes of [[Star Wars: Ahsoka by E K Johnston|Ahsoka]] is adept at mending some sort of flying farming machinesa knife in his throat. If you don't wish He goes to go too fantasticalfetch help, or are seeking role models for but upon returning, finds that the younger audience, there is street does not have a number 13 and that the output of [[:Category:Andrea Beaty body and David Roberts|Andrea Beaty]]the room he saw have both mysteriously vanished...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14197191060712356738</amazonuk>

|author= Irvine WelshBrian Moses|title= Lost Magic: The Blade ArtistVery Best of Brian Moses|rating= 54|genre= Crime Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=So. In For a poet with the interest very memorable name of honest disclosure [[:Category:Brian Moses|Moses]], I should tell you that I love Irvine Welsh's work and I must confess have to a particularly gruesome fancy for Begbie, the notoriously violentadmit never having come across it before, terrifying protector/tormentor nor having knowingly read any of his works. This collection was the Trainspotting gang. Whilst this means you are unlikely perfect place for me to come late to receive an unbiased reviewthe party, as it does mean you will get a passionate one. It is fair to say that I loved ''The Blade Artist'takes the author' s own favourites from several previous anthologies of his, and my only critique would be that it was over too quicklyadds new verses. For those of you who may not be familiar I read them with Welshvery little clue as to which was which – and certainly couldn's earlier manifestations have no feart tell having finished the book. There is a lot here that will grab the young schoolchild, you can pick up ''The Blade Artist'' and but the topics cover so much there really will be transfixed by Jim Francisa universal appeal, artist, father, husband and elegant thug. For those of you with previous knowledge of Francis Begbie you'll be instantly drawn back into the world meaning that a lot of people will have a man previously defined by petty vengeancedefinite favourite from these pages, violence and blood.even if the author himself cannot decide…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178470055X1509838767</amazonuk>

|author=Jonny LambertNina Laden|title=Tiger Tiger The Night I Followed the Dog

|summary=Until you spend There's a Boy (who doesn't have a day hanging out with name) and a child Dog (likewise) and in the beginning you will never know how exhausting it can beget the feeling that the Boy would prefer to have next door's Dog who wins prizes in obedience classes and does clever things with the television remote control. As an adult you are used to peppering your day with That is until one morning when Boy opens the door a little downtime treats; a cup earlier than usual and spots Dog getting out of tea perhaps, a biscuits, or maybe even limousine. In a cheeky nap? tuxedo. The kids I know have no end of energy and at best you will get he disappears into the back garden. Boy's shocked but a sip of cold coffee, have few minutes later he goes to give them most of the biscuit back door and a nap would consist of them jumping on your headwhistles for Dog, who comes dashing in, anxious to eat. HoweverAt first Boy can't ''quite'' believe what he ''thinks'' he saw, although their enthusiasm and zest may be tiring, it is also infectious, just ask any old tiger you meetso he determines to follow Dog the next night.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184869444X1452161348</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 18/3 -->|author= Michael R LanePhil Earle|title= UFOs and GOD: A Collection of Short StoriesSuperDad's Day Off|rating= 4.5|genre= Short StoriesDyslexia Friendly|summary=From stories Stanley's dad is tired. It can be exhausting work being a Superhero. For six days of young people caught up in the week he saves the world from disasters and defeats the baddies as Dynamo Dan. Stanley decides his poor dad needs a Robin Hood style operation gone wrong, day off and is determined to make sure that he gets a believer in God having her faith shaken by proper rest. So they head off to the arrival of aliens, author Michael R Lane has compiled a collection of fascinating park for some much needed Dad and clever short stories hereSon bonding time. From farm However people don't seem to urban, from World War II understand that even Superheroes need time to the Digital Age, the places and times, people and events recuperate. The requests for help keep on coming so what can poor Stanley do other than step in ''UFOs and God'' spotlight the tender underbelly of to save the human condition in all its glory and despair on these varied stages of fictionday.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>163491712X1781126844</amazonuk>

|author=DKAndrew Cook|title=What's Where on Earth? Atlas: The World as You've Never Seen It BeforeMurder of the Romanovs|rating=4.5|genre=ReferenceHistory|summary=I dread to think how old The fate of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, his wife Alexandra and children, fuelled no end of rumour, misinformation and conspiracy theories for many years, even though the atlas we used when I was a child truth wasknown not long after the event. In the last few years, but at least we had onethe advance of forensic science, DNA testing and the precise location of the bodies have allowed for confirmation of the exact truth and I didn't need to go to school or a library to check up on whatever bit dismissal of trivia I was seekingclaims by a noted so-called surviving Grand Duchess. I'm Even so old a lot , as Andrew Cook notes, straight after the deaths of things about it now would be most redundant, but if you choose to risk your arm and buy an atlas for the imperial family shelves that all generations will benefit from, as opposed to relying on electronic 'there would begin a ninety-year battle between science and updateable sources of information, then this superstition which is the one to havenot over yet'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>02412283791445666278</amazonuk>

|author= Sarah BakewellS L Grey|title= At The Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being and Apricot CocktailsApartment|rating=4|genre= Politics and SocietyHorror|summary= You know that old saying about judging books by their cover? Ignore it! I have found that by judging Steph and Mark are in trouble. Mark is running from a book by its cover grief he can't escape and getting it completely wrong Steph is anxiously juggling her joy at being a great way to find yourself committed to reading mother with her guilt at being a book that you'd never have picked in a million years and yet, somehow, being amazingly glad you didkept woman'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099554887</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 16/3 -->|author=Amanda Roberts|title=The Roots of the Tree|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=The strength of Add a tree comes not from what you can see, not from brutal home invasion to the trunk, the branches mix and the leaves, but from what you can't see - the rootshave a recipe for disaster. Disturbance Desperate to save their once happy marriage the roots can be devastating. It's similar in human beings. Annie had lived for 63 years, secure in the love of her parents, Elsie and Frank. She'd looked after them in her home in their final years and it was quite by chance couple decide to take a romantic trip to Paris only to discover that she came across their wedding certificate when she was sorting out their effects. They had not been married until ''after'' her birth, but her birth certificate showed Frank as her father some terror is inescapable and that her mother was married to him. Something didn't add up and there was one inescapable conclusion: the man she'd loved as her father all those years ''wasn't'' her father after allevil has a vice like grip.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19097168631447266560</amazonuk>

|author=Ian Graham and Stephen BiestyZachary Leader|title=Stephen Biesty's TrainsThe Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune 1915-1964

|genre=ArtBiography|summary=Trains look imposingAt over eight hundred pages, but true fans (little boys, usually from about three years old and upwards) want to know what lies beneath the skin which you can see. They want to know how it works. Getting to grips with one in real life 'The Life of Saul Bellow' is quite not a big asklight book, but it is the next best thing is ''Stephen Biestymost complete account of the life and work of America's Trains'' which features trains from all over most honoured literary figure. During the world and spanning the early steam train (complete with cow catcher) right through course of his life, a number of notable attempts were made to capture the trains essence of the future which can reach man in biographical form. Zachary Leader benefits from this groundwork; he also has the advantage that his work has been compiled since Bellow's death in 2005. As a speed of 430 kph result, he has had access to sources, manuscripts and donletters denied to previous biographers. Leader't even run on railss research is exemplary and incredibly detailed. Once He not only looks at the train reaches a speed life of 150 kph the wheels are raised man but at the creative process that made him the colossus that he became and the train is held up by magnetic forces aloneit's all written with a genuine passion, love and respect for his subject.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17837042410099520931</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the WorldLily Kunin|authortitle=Rachel IgnotofskyGood Clean Food: Plant-Based Recipes That Will Help You Look and Feel Your Best|rating=54|genre=Children's Non-FictionCookery|summary=''Women in Science'' takes fifty prominent women in STEM fields Lily Kunin is a health coach and creator of [http://www.cleanfooddirtycity.com/ clean food dirty city site] and celebrates their achievements[https://www. There are women instagram.com/cleanfooddirtycity/?hl=en instagram account]. She'd always been a food lover but her attitude to the food she was eating changed when she began to suffer from the ancient world migraines. A long (and bad) time later she tried avoiding gluten and women working todayher symptoms were alleviated within 48 hours. Each From this she developed her food philosophy of them is given seeing an intolerance to gluten as a double page spread including creative opportunity. I liked that she has ''a stylised portrait and infoboxes constant dialogue'' with factoids on one side and her body rather than sticking to a page of text restrictive regime. That I can empathise 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 America.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>15263605191419723901</amazonuk>

|author=RedressTed Dewan|title=Dress Something for Mummy (withBing) sense: The Practical Guide to a Conscious Closet|rating=43.5|genre=LifestyleFor Sharing|summary=Not too long ago I didn't have any problems with clothesHaving a child gives you a glimpse into a world that you never knew even existed. They were just about all black and I wore them until they dropped off my back - and then I used what I could of the material for other purposes. I had Unfortunately, this lovely little clothes shop in Ilkley (it says 'Oxfam' over the door) when I needed 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 of it could be had from Oxfam. Sometimes I might even be buying ''new'' clothes. I needed help and more advice, because it really isn't as simple as just walking into 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 winter wonderland hidden in a womanwardrobe, particularly if shebut a world of children's not marriedTV characters. Has she given up on The mainstays of the idea of having a familygenre have still survived; Sooty, Noddy and Postman Pat, but who is RaRa or Mr Tumble? Does her career mean everything One popular show that takes some getting used to her? On the other hand is she desperately looking for Bing, a series all about a man? Grace found herself in rabbit that seems to have a difficult situation when she first met Dale (or Heaven on Legs - HoL - stuffed animal as she thought of him). She'd volunteered to sort out her late grandmother's home, but she couldn't resist the opportunity to do a little dressing upcarer. So, wearing her grandmother's clothes, wig resting just above her eyebrows and heavy-rimmed glasses perched on There are seemingly no parents in the end of her nose she met show as if the man of her dreams. Onlytown is one giant crèche, rather than laughing so how come Bing and explaining what she'd been doing, Grace carried on the pantomime - and called herself Louise.his helper Flop are making a gift for Mummy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17858987360008212015</amazonuk>

|author=DKJohn Preston|title=Forest Life A Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and Woodland Creaturesa Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment|rating=45|genre=Children's Non-Fiction True Crime|summary=This book knows that if you're going to learn about forest life and Jeremy Thorpe was the animals, plants sort of person who was generally liked by others. He was flamboyant and trees in it, then you're only going to be itching to go and explore gregarious but could give the woods for yourselfimpression that meeting someone had made his day. It's for a very young audience, so always expects an adult hand He never seemed to guide you – but provides forget a warm companion itself through several quick name and easy taskshe was witty, charismatic and a few lessonsvery charming. The balance between carrot and stickHe appeared to be a decent man, with views with which I would have agreed on race, or duty capital punishment and rewardmembership of the Common Market, is great – but what exactly is as the European Union was then known. For this was the edutainment going to provide, nineteen sixties and what will it demand Thorpe had entered Parliament at the age of us?thirty and by 1967 he would be party leader. On the surface he was a man who had everything going for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>02412731100241973740</amazonuk>

|author=DKBill Nye and Gregory Mone|title=Sharks Jack and Other Sea Creaturesthe Geniuses 1: At the Bottom of the World|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionConfident Readers|summary=Never before have I found much cause to point out the sort of lower-case, almost-It's tough being a-subtitle wording on the front of a bookgenius. I say that because very little of this is about sharks – so There are few, if any, people you have a youngster intending can talk about your interests to come here , and learn all their bloodthirsty imagination can holdwords like ''nerd'', then they may well be disappointed. If you take it on board that the 'other sea creatures' make up the bulk of the book, then all well geek'' and good. And even better, if you expect yourself to ''makeboffin''get bandied around by folk who somehow think it' s your fault your cleverness makes them feel a bit dim. But how does it feel to be the bulk of said creatures…one surrounded by such geniuses all day every day? Fortunately, Jack is a resilient sort, and his common sense approach to life is going to be essential if he, Ava and Matt are going to survive their trip to Antarctica. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>02412743891419723030</amazonuk>

|author=Theo GuignardSherri Smith|title=LabyrinthFollow Me Down|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionThrillers|summary=Of all Mia is done with the books published for people's paper-based hobbies when I was a youngstersmall town she grew up in, but it's remarkable that all of them have been revisited and revamped. I say this because they certainly weren't exactly brilliant fun only takes one phone call to bring her back then. NoHer twin brother Lucas is missing and, worse still, we didn't have quite has been implicated in the modern style death of colouring-in books, but they were available, if you'd gone beyond 'join the dots'one of his students. I read only recently that origami is allegedly coming back – and I remember how every church book sale Without him there to speak for years had ''Origami'', ''Origami 2'' or ''Origami 3'' paperbacks somewhere for ten pence. But the ultimate in paper-based fun back then was himself it becomes her job to defend his reputation while trying to get to the use-once format bottom of the maze bookeverything that has gone on. This is the modern equivalent – but boy, hasn't the idea grown up since then…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18478099871785654047</amazonuk>