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|author=Lily KuninMiles Russell|title=Good Clean FoodArthur and the Kings of Britain: PlantThe 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-Based Recipes That Will Help You Look Saxons had taken control of Britain. Being virtually the only work of its kind at the time, it proved very influential, and Feel Your Bestbecame well-known 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=Well of the Winds (DCI Daley)

|genre=CookeryCrime|summary=Lily Kunin It's not a happy time for DCI Jim Daley. The woman he loved is a health coach dead - there are those who blame him for what happened - and creator of [http://www.cleanfooddirtycity.com/ clean food dirty city site] his relationship with Liz, his ex wife, and [https://www.instagram.com/cleanfooddirtycity/?hl=en instagram account]his young son is deteriorating by the day. SheHe'd always been s finding solace in the bottom of a food lover but her attitude to glass, whilst the food she was eating changed when she began man who used to suffer from migrainesdo that all too often, his friend DS Brian Scott is off alcohol completely and has found exercise. A long (There's a new officer in charge at Kinloch - DS Carrie Simmington - and bad) time later whilst she tried avoiding gluten and her symptoms were alleviated within 48 hours. From this might look young, it's unlikely that she developed her food philosophy of seeing an intolerance got to gluten as a creative opportunity. I liked that she has ''position without having a constant dialogue'' with her body rather than sticking to a restrictive regime. That I can empathise withcore of steel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14197239011846973724</amazonuk>

|author=Ted DewanNicole Dennis-Benn |title=Something Here Comes the Sun |rating= 4|genre= Literary Fiction |summary= You have to assume the team behind the cover sleeve for Mummy (Bing)Nicole Dennis-Benn's debut novel Here Come's the Sun have a keen sense of irony. Either that or none of them read beyond the first page.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178607124X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 5/4 -->|author=W S Markendale|title=Owen Pendragon

|genre=For SharingTeens|summary=Having a child gives you a glimpse into a world that you never knew even existed. Unfortunately, this not a winter wonderland hidden Monsters are slipping through somehow from somewhere to kidnap children in a wardrobe, but a world of children's TV charactersCornwall and the army seems powerless to do anything about it. The mainstays of the genre have still survived; Sooty, Noddy 12-year-olds Owen and Mary assume they too are therefore powerless as they watch friends and Postman Pat, but who is RaRa or Mr Tumble? neighbours disappear. One popular show Imagine their surprise when they realise that takes some getting used thanks to is Bingan ancient relative, a series all about a rabbit that seems to they have a stuffed animal as a carermore influence on what happens than they think and not just on what happens on Earth. There are seemingly no parents in the show as if And their distant relative? The former monarch and head of the town is one giant crècheround table, so how come Bing and his helper Flop are making a gift for Mummy?no less: King Arthur.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00082120151524667579</amazonuk>

|author=John PrestonJon Morris|title=A Very English ScandalThe Legion of Regrettable Supervillains: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the EstablishmentOddball Criminals from Comic Book History

|genre=True CrimeGraphic Novels |summary=Jeremy Thorpe was As much as I like comics – and I do, whether superhero ones or not – I have to admit one thing, namely that the sort of person who was generally liked by othersvillains in them are a bit pants. He was flamboyant and gregarious What is The Penguin but could give the impression that meeting someone had made world's worst Mafioso, with a hobby of waddling along like his day. pet birds? He never seemed to forget Where else do you win an Oscar of all things by playing a two-bit killer who just fell in a name vat of random chemicals and he was wittychanged colour, charismatic and very charming. got mardier as a result (although recently he's become a nanotech genius – but let's not go there)? He appeared to be a decent man, And what is it with views with which I would have agreed on race, capital punishment and membership the gimp in the see-through plant pot because he is the embodiment of cold? And that's just some of the Common Marketbetter-known enemies of ''Batman'', as one of the European Union was then knownbetter goodies. For this was You can imagine how awful the nineteen sixties and Thorpe had entered Parliament at baddies related to the age of thirty and by 1967 he would bad goodies can be party leader. On And if you can't, this is the surface he was a man who had everything going for himperfect primer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>02419737401594749329</amazonuk>

|author= Bill Nye and Gregory MoneStefan Mohamed|title= Jack and the Geniuses 1Stanly's Ghost: At the Bottom of the WorldBook 3 (The Bitter Sixteen Trilogy)|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersScience Fiction|summary=It's tough being Cynical, solitary Stanly Bird used to be a fairly typical teenager – unless you count the fact that his best friend was a geniustalking beagle named Daryl. Then came the superpowers. There are few, if any, people you can talk about your interests to, and words like ''nerd'', ''geek'' and ''boffin'' get bandied around by folk who somehow think itAnd the super powered allies. And the mysterious enemies. And the terrifying monsters. And the stunning revelations. And the apocalypse. Now he's your fault your cleverness makes them feel a bit dimnot sure what he is. Or where he is. But Or how does it feel exactly one is supposed to be proceed after saving the one surrounded by such geniuses all day every day? Fortunately, Jack world. All he knows is a resilient sort, and that his common sense approach to life is going to be essential if he, Ava and Matt are going to survive their trip to Antarcticastory isn't finished. Not quite yet …|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14197230301784630764</amazonuk>

|author= Sherri SmithMichelle Robinson and Emily Fox|title= Follow Me DownMonkey's Sandwich|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersFor Sharing|summary= Mia is done with Monkeys have been given the small town she grew up inreputation 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 it mischievous little monkeys? Anyone who has driven through Knowsley Safari Park knows the truth. A perfectly good car drives in the monkey enclosure only takes one phone call to bring her backbe bereft of wing mirrors, hubcaps and windscreen wipers at the end. Her twin brother Lucas is missing and, worse still, Rumour has been implicated it that the monkeys sell these parts wholesale at a lockup in the death of one of his studentsSouth Kirby. Without him there to speak for himself The monkey in this tale may not be stealing car parts, but he is a little light fingered when it becomes her job to defend his reputation while trying to get comes to making the bottom of everything that has gone onultimate lunch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17856540470007580010</amazonuk>

|author= Kate BeaufoyYrsa Sigurdardottir and Victoria Cribb (translator)|title= The Gingerbread Legacy: Children's HouseBook 1|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionThrillers|summary=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'The Gingerbread House'' is not s a cottage from mother to a fairytale where young family, whose husband was abroad at a wicked old witch lives but it is in conference. Do you seek awkward, unusual and/or conflicted investigators? Well, here we have a wonderful rural setting, perfect for getting away detective from it all. Or it would bethe lower ranks, if it weren't for but the lady only one clean enough after post-financial crash investigations tainted all his superiors; and a woman who lives there who, while far from runs a witch, can be a bit home that investigates and recuperates child victims of a b*tchsex abuse. It She's here because the only witness to the murder was Elisa's not entirely her faultvery young daughter. Eleanor has dementia And lo and her fading mind makes her confusedbehold, angry 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 quite hard work to care fortheir untold threat. With her current carer off to attend her daughter So it's weddingtick, tick, Eleanor's daughter in law Tess steps up to assume this role tick – but what of the question marks left by the prologue, where another young family of children was separated as a best case scenario by the adoption agencies after a different nasty event in the interim, bringing her precocious daughter Katia with her.past?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17853008651473621526</amazonuk>

|author=Dinah JefferiesCharlotte Guillain and Yuval Zommer|title=Before the RainsThe Street Beneath My Feet|rating=4.5|genre=Historical Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Eliza has tragically punctuated childhood memories It's one thing for a non-fiction book for the young to show them something they themselves can explore – the pattern of India the stars, perhaps, or the life in their back yard. But when it gets to things that have feed her desire are equally important to know about but are impossible to returnsee in real life, why, then the game is changed. Therefore The artistic imagination has to be key, in 1930portraying the invisible, and presenting what can only come from the pages of a book. And this example does it at its best, following as it delves into the death layers of her husbandthe soil below said back yard, when down and down, through all the British government commission her to photograph scenes different kinds of Indian liferock, she jumps at until we reach the unattainable centre of the chanceplanet. What she doesnAnd there't realise is that not everyone she comes across is delighted s only one way to go from there – back out the other side, with the ideayet more for us to be shown. Living within the SultanaIt's opulent palace complex is definitely an attraction for hera fantastic journey, as is Jay, an Indian price who shows Eliza the real India. However, attractions are sometimes dangerous then – and even deadlya quite fantastic volume.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>02412870811784937312</amazonuk>

|author=Pam JenoffAlice Feeney|title=The Orphan's TaleSometimes I Lie|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=Herr NeuroffChristmas is barely over but Amber doesn's circus has a secret: as well as a t have much needed wartime source of entertainment, itto celebrate. She's also refuge to Jews escaping uncertain concentration camp fates. One such personin a coma, Astridtrapped with an active mind but an inactive body, a trapeze able to hear and high wire artist, lives a precarious life in which understand but not respond to what is going on around her possible discovery would be more dangerous than her nightly act. She's an expert who has perfected And her art over time and therefore resents Neuroff demanding she teach Noa, a non-circus family new comer, quickly. Theremind's a reason behind the circus owner's demand though. Noa arrives at the circus endangered by an act of kindness: little fuzzy on a Jewish baby few things too, like how she stole from a Nazi train before leaving the Netherlands. It ended up there, who else was a spur of the moment decision that will bind her to Astrid involved, and their future, no matter how long… or short… a time that may bewhat it all means.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18484553640008225354</amazonuk>

|author=Brian McClellanPolly Clark|title=Sins of EmpireLarchfield|rating=5|genre=FantasyLiterary Fiction |summary=The fantasy genre is home I It's early summer when a young poet, Dora Fielding, moves to some Helensburgh on the west coast of Scotland and her hopes are first challenged. Newly married, pregnant, she's excited by the best books prospect of a life that I have ever readcombines family and creativity. She thinks she knows what being a person, a wife, a mother, but also some means. She is soon shown that she is wrong. As the battle begins for her very sense of self, Dora comes to find the worst. The very nature realities of epic stories that span generations means that few fantasy books rock up under 400 pages small town life suffocating, and many are part of long running series or trilogies, eventually, terrifying; until she finds a way to escape reality altogether. Another poet, she discovers, lived in Helensburgh once. Wystan H. When done badlyAuden, fantasy books are bloated brilliant and boring affairs that rattle awkward at 24, with his first book of every cliché the genre has had to offer since Bilbo exited Bag Endpoetry published, but done well they can should be brilliantembarking on success and society in London. They can be ''Sins Instead, in 1930, fleeing a broken engagement, he takes a teaching post at Larchfield School for boys where he is mocked for his Englishness and suspected - rightly - of Empire'' by Brian McClellanhomosexuality. Yet in this repressed limbo Wystan will fall in love for the first time, even as he fights his deepest fears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>035650929X1786481928</amazonuk>

|author=Yuval ZommerPippa Mattinson|title=The Big Book of Beasts (Big Books)Choosing the Perfect Puppy

|genre=Children's Non-FictionPets|summary=One of the many issues people If you have with the TV nature programmeever, for even a fleeting moment, such as [[Planet Earth II by Stephen Moss|Planet Earth II]]thought about getting a puppy, is you really ought to read this book. Too many people are carried away in the obvious one heat of all the blood moment and guts it features – yes, in amongst all ''must'' have a particular breed and go ahead without any thought about the cutesy, comical animal life are creatures eating other creatures (normally consequences. They then have to live with the cutesy, comical ones, whatproblems which ''might''s worse)have been avoided for a decade or more. You'll The puppy and the adult dog also has to live with an owner who might not be pleased able to know, however, that this book accommodate his needs. [[:Category:Pippa Mattinson|Pippa Mattinson]] is very light my go-to author on death and destructionmatters dog related: she talks sense. Yes, here are lions sharing some chunks She doesn't try to talk you out of meat (while getting a particular breed or any puppy: she simply presents the females that caught and killed it sit facts and wait their turn), here are salmon seemingly willingly flying towards brown bears, and here is a red fox stashing a dead mouse while in a time of plenty, but there is so little allows you to make this even a PG book – it will be perfect for the home shelf or that in a primary schoolyour own decisions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>050065106X1785034375</amazonuk>

|author=Ulf Nilsson and Gitte SpeeMatilda Woods|title=A Case in Any CaseThe Boy, the Bird and the Coffin Maker|rating=4.5

|summary=The [[Detective Gordon: The First Case by Ulf Nilsson and Gitte Spee|last time]] we saw the toad called Detective Gordon at work he had Alberto is a mouse colleague in the forest police with himcarpenter, and in fact the two were so close they often shared a bed very best in the old prison cells togethertown of Allora. But now Gordon has practically retiredafter the plague sweeps through the town, taking many of the citizens and the mouseAlberto's wife and children, Police Chief Buffy, is doing all the work herselfhe turns his skills away from furniture and toys to making coffins. It's quite scary workWrapped in sadness, and waiting only for the plague to come and claim his life too, when something horridAlberto lives alone, nasty and slightly smelling of toad is rootling around keeping company with the police station at nightdead who are delivered to his house to await their coffin. But when the two are together there's no stopping themOne day, however, and any crime can be solved – which is probably he realises that he must have a very good thing when not one but two living visitor, as food starts to go missing. He begins to leave scraps of the forest babies go missing…food, to try and discover who his mystery thief is…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17765710961407178695</amazonuk>

{{newreview<!-- remove 30/3 -->|author=Kenneth Oppel and Jon KlassenMark Aylwin Thomas|title=The NestBlades of Grass|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersBiography|summary=Steven can narrate this Any book to us, but he can hardly ever mention that has me in tears at the name of his newborn baby brotherend has been worth my time. That's not down Any book that has me hoping it will end differently to a fault with Steven, although there are many of those – obsessive hand-washing, nightmares, anxiety attacks. It's because there's something wrong with the new addition to way I know it must is worth the familyreading. His parents mutter behind closed bedroom doors of regretting trying for a new child so late in life, but whatever the reason Any book that convinces me that maybe there is something demanding a lot of medical care and attention, even if the child can more or less live still hope in the family home. But hope seems to be shining a light into Steven from the most unlikely source world – angels that come to visit him in his dreamsfor all the mistakes made thus far, still being made right now, from within there is a pleasantcommon humanity which ultimately, light-filled haveneventually, with full knowledge of must do some good – that is worth the writing and the family's troubles reading and an offer of a way outthe time. Obviously, worried for the happiness Blades of his family, and knowing this Grass is just one such book. It's a dreamforgotten story, Steven will only say yes an unknown story to the offer of help…most people. It is one that should be told – and reflected upon.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19102008751524676969</amazonuk>

|author=Aino-Maija MetsolaLucy Jones|title=My First Animals Foxes Unearthed: A Story of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain|rating=4|genre=For SharingAnimals and Wildlife |summary=Get used to two simple words if you have As one of the largest predators left in Britain, the fox is captivating: a childcomfortably familiar figure in our country landscapes; an intriguing flash of bright-eyed wildness in our towns. Yet no other animal attracts such controversy, ''What's That?'' You will hear it 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 over and over againa worthy foe. If you are lucky they are pointing at something that you actually know – chairAs well as being the most ubiquitous of wild animals, hat, my sense of regret. Sometimes they will point at something that it is not too familiaralso the least understood. Here Lucy Jones investigates the parental practise of making something up comes truth about foxes – delving into play – it's a bird type thingfact, fiction, folklore and her own history with the creatures. Books that show images of itemsDiscussing the debate on foxes, colours or animals may seem a little dull to an adultJones asks what our attitudes towards foxes says about us, but to a toddler learning about and our relationship with the natural world they are a who's who of what's that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18478096771783963042</amazonuk>

{{newreview<!-- remove 29/3 -->|author= Quentin BlakeSteven Anthony|title= The Story Isaac Montgomery for the Love of the Dancing FrogBeth|rating= 4.53|genre= Dyslexia Friendly General Fiction|summary= When JoThere are words to describe the Isaac Montgomery we meet at the beginning of the story. Unfortunately they's Great Aunt Gertrudere not words you usually use in polite company. He's sea captain husband is drowned at sea she is grief-stricken d worked for many years in stockbroking andhad made a substantial fortune, but his life was devoid of much in despairthe way of personal relationships. When he required a woman as an escort, she goes for he paid. He assumed that if he was having a walk alone. During this walk good time, then she notices a small frog on a lilywas too -padif he even bothered to think about it. But He had a friend whom he is no ordinary frog - didn't see all that often and it was when hethought about Phil that a little ''jealousy'' crept into Isaac's a dancing frog and the two quickly become good friendsheart. Soon the duo are touring the world with their routine You see, spreading joy Phil was engaged to Penelope and fun they were obviously happy. Isaac began to wonder what love was - and carrying out the occasional rescue - wherever they gohow you went about finding someone to share your life with.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781125910152466815X</amazonuk>

|author=Otto de Kat and Laura Watkinson Martin Edwards (translatoreditor)|title=The Longest NightMiraculous Mysteries (British Library Crime Classics)|rating=3.5|genre=Literary FictionCrime|summary=Emma has Consider the following scenario: a philosophy – ''let the dead rest, policeman hears someone screaming and love the living''. The problem with that, as runs to a house on a 96-year-oldparticular street, is that there are too few living leftnumber 13, and so while from where the love remains she will go noise is emanating. When he peeps through her memories, taking the letterbox he discovers a woozy, diaphanous path through all dead man in the major events of her lifehallway with a knife in his throat. Starting in wartime Berlin with one husband, who gets snatched from her at work, fleeing to another place He goes to wait for peacefetch help, and wait for him in vainbut upon returning, moving to Holland finds that the street does not have a number 13 and finding new love, that the body and so on – this wispy journey will show all the impacts of war, from rationing right up to exile, death and survivalroom he saw have both mysteriously vanished... The memories are coming strongly here and now, as Emma is waiting for at least one of her two sons to visit, and then she will die…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08570560850712356738</amazonuk>

|author=Andrea Beaty and David RobertsBrian Moses|title=Rosie Revere's Big Project Book for Bold EngineersLost Magic: The Very Best of Brian Moses

|genre=Children's Non-FictionRhymes and Verse|summary=For a long time now, people have worried about females taking up STEM subjects – the sciences, engineering and suchlike. But I know of at least two sources of role models in that regard. One, most obviously, is ''Star Wars'' – let's face it, the latest main film had a girl who scavenged parts but could fly the ''Millennium Falcon'' poet with ease, and the likes very memorable name of [[Star Wars: Ahsoka by E K JohnstonCategory:Brian Moses|AhsokaMoses]] is adept at mending some sort , I have to admit never having come across it before, nor having knowingly read any of flying farming machineshis works. If you don't wish This collection was the perfect place for me to come late to go too fantastical, or are seeking role models for the younger audienceparty, there is as it takes the output of [[:Category:Andrea Beaty and David Roberts|Andrea Beaty]].|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419719106</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Irvine Welsh|title= The Blade Artist|rating= 5|genre= Crime |summary=So. In the interest of honest disclosure I should tell you that I love Irvine Welsh's work own favourites from several previous anthologies of his, and adds new verses. I must confess read them with very little clue as to which was which – and certainly couldn't tell having finished the book. There is a particularly gruesome fancy for Begbie, lot here that will grab the notoriously violentyoung schoolchild, terrifying protector/tormentor of but the Trainspotting gang. Whilst this means you are unlikely to receive an unbiased review, it does mean you topics cover so much there really will get be a passionate one. It is fair to say universal appeal, meaning that I loved ''The Blade Artist'' and my only critique would be that it was over too quickly. For those a lot of you who may not be familiar with Welsh's earlier manifestations people will have no feara definite favourite from these pages, you can pick up ''The Blade Artist'' and be transfixed by Jim Francis, artist, father, husband and elegant thug. For those of you with previous knowledge of Francis Begbie you'll be instantly drawn back into even if the world of a man previously defined by petty vengeance, violence and blood.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 not a winter wonderland hidden in Ilkley (it says a wardrobe, but a world of children'Oxfam' over the door) when I needed to restocks TV characters. Clothes were simple. Then I encountered The mainstays of the lovely [[:Category:Numba Pinkerton|Numba Pinkerton]] genre have still survived; Sooty, Noddy and suddenly I had colour in my life: not Postman Pat, but who is RaRa or Mr Tumble? One popular show that takes some getting used to is Bing, a series all of it could be had from Oxfamabout a rabbit that seems to have a stuffed animal as a carer. Sometimes I might even be buying ''new'' clothes. I needed help and more advice, because it really isn't There are seemingly no parents in the show as simple as just walking into if the nearest department store.town is one giant crèche, so how come Bing and his helper Flop are making a gift for Mummy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>05002927790008212015</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 16/3 -->|author=Marilyn BennettJohn Preston|title=Granny with BenefitsA Very English Scandal: Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the Heart of the Establishment|rating=45|genre=Women's FictionTrue Crime|summary=Thirty nine is a difficult age for a woman, particularly if she's not marriedJeremy Thorpe was the sort of person who was generally liked by others. Has she given up on He was flamboyant and gregarious but could give the idea of having impression that meeting someone had made his day. He never seemed to forget a family? name and he was witty, charismatic and very charming. Does her career mean everything He appeared to her? On the other hand is she desperately looking for be a decent man? Grace found herself in a difficult situation when she first met Dale (or Heaven , with views with which I would have agreed on Legs - HoL - as she thought race, capital punishment and membership of him). She'd volunteered to sort out her late grandmother's homethe Common Market, but she couldn't resist as the opportunity to do a little dressing upEuropean Union was then known. So, wearing her grandmother's clothes, wig resting just above her eyebrows For this was the nineteen sixties and heavy-rimmed glasses perched on Thorpe had entered Parliament at the end age of her nose she met the man of her dreamsthirty and by 1967 he would be party leader. Only, rather than laughing and explaining what she'd been doing, Grace carried on On the pantomime - and called herself Louisesurface he was a man who had everything going for him.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17858987360241973740</amazonuk>

|author=DKBill Nye and Gregory Mone|title=Forest Life Jack and Woodland Creaturesthe Geniuses 1: At the Bottom of the World|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Confident Readers|summary=This book knows that It's tough being a genius. There are few, if any, people you're going can talk about your interests to learn about forest life and the animals, plants and trees in itwords like ''nerd'', then you're only going to be itching to go 'geek'' and explore the woods for yourself. It''boffin'' get bandied around by folk who somehow think it's for your fault your cleverness makes them feel a very young audience, so always expects an adult hand bit dim. But how does it feel to guide you – but provides a warm companion itself through several quick and easy tasksbe the one surrounded by such geniuses all day every day? Fortunately, and Jack is a few lessons. The balance between carrot and stickresilient sort, or duty and reward, is great – but what exactly his common sense approach to life is the edutainment going to providebe essential if he, Ava and what will it demand of us?Matt are going to survive their trip to Antarctica. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>02412731101419723030</amazonuk>

|author=DKSherri Smith|title=Sharks and Other Sea CreaturesFollow Me Down|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-FictionThrillers|summary=Never before have I found much cause to point out Mia is done with the sort of lower-casesmall town she grew up in, almost-a-subtitle wording on the front of a bookbut it only takes one phone call to bring her back. I say that because very little of this Her twin brother Lucas is about sharks – so if you have a youngster intending to come here missing and learn all their bloodthirsty imagination can hold, then they may well be disappointed. If you take it on board that worse still, has been implicated in the 'other sea creatures' make up the bulk death of one of the book, then all well and goodhis students. And even better, if you expect yourself Without him there to speak for himself it becomes her job to defend his reputation while trying to get to ''make'' the bulk bottom of said creatures…everything that has gone on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>02412743891785654047</amazonuk>