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|author=Zachary LeaderMiles Russell|title=The Life Arthur and the Kings of Saul BellowBritain: To Fame and Fortune 1915-1964 The Historical Truth Behind the Myths|rating=4.5|genre=BiographyHistory|summary=At over eight hundred pagesAs the author of the Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain), 'The Life written in 1136, Geoffrey of Saul Bellow' Monmouth is not a light commonly recognized as one of the first British historians. His book, but it told – or is supposed to have told - the most complete account story of the life and work British monarchy during the Dark Ages, from the arrival of America's most honoured literary figure. During the course Trojan Brutus, grandson of his lifeAeneas, a number of notable attempts were made up to capture the essence seventh century AD when the Anglo-Saxons had taken control of the man in biographical formBritain. Zachary Leader benefits from this groundwork; he also has Being virtually the advantage that his only work has been compiled since Bellow's death in 2005. As a resultof its kind at the time, he has had access to sourcesit proved very influential, manuscripts and letters denied to previous biographers. Leader's research is exemplary and incredibly detailed. He not only looks at became well-known throughout western Europe as one of the life great works of medieval literature as the man but at first retelling of the creative process that made him the colossus that he became and it's all written with a genuine passionstory of King Arthur, love Lear and respect for Cymbeline. Shakespeare was forever in his subjectdebt with regard to the two latter.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00995209311445662744</amazonuk>
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|author=Lily KuninDenzil Meyrick|title=Good Clean Food: Plant-Based Recipes That Will Help You Look and Feel Your BestWell of the Winds (DCI Daley)
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|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>
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|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
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|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>
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|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
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|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>
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|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>
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|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>
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|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>
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|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>
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|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>
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|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>
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|author=Yuval ZommerPippa Mattinson|title=The Big Book of Beasts (Big Books)Choosing the Perfect Puppy
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|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>
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|author=Ulf Nilsson and Gitte SpeeMatilda Woods|title=A Case in Any CaseThe Boy, the Bird and the Coffin Maker|rating=4.5
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|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 Alberto's wife and children, he turns his skills away from furniture and toys to making coffins. Wrapped in sadness, and waiting only for the mouseplague to come and claim his life too, Police Chief BuffyAlberto lives alone, is doing all keeping company with the work herselfdead who are delivered to his house to await their coffin. It's quite scary workOne day, however, toohe realises that he must have a living visitor, when something horridas food starts to go missing. He begins to leave scraps of food, nasty to try and slightly smelling discover who his mystery thief is…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1407178695</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 30/3 -->|author= Mark Aylwin Thomas|title= Blades of toad Grass|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography|summary= 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 rootling around worth the police station at nightreading. But when Any book that convinces me that maybe there is still hope in the world – that for all the two are together mistakes made thus far, still being made right now, thereis a common humanity which ultimately, eventually, must do some good – that is worth the writing and the reading and the time. Blades of Grass is one such book. It's no stopping thema forgotten story, and any crime can an unknown story to most people. It is one that should be solved told which is probably a very good thing when not one but two of the forest babies go missing…and reflected upon.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17765710961524676969</amazonuk>
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|author=Kenneth Oppel and Jon KlassenLucy Jones|title=The NestFoxes Unearthed: A Story of Love and Loathing in Modern Britain|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersAnimals and Wildlife |summary=Steven can narrate this book to usAs one of the largest predators left in Britain, but he can hardly ever mention the name fox is captivating: a comfortably familiar figure in our country landscapes; an intriguing flash of his newborn baby brotherbright-eyed wildness in our towns. That's not down to 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 beautiful animal, a fault with Stevencunning rogue, although there are many a vicious pest and a worthy foe. As well as being the most ubiquitous of those wild animals, it is also the least understood. Here Lucy Jones investigates the truth about foxes obsessive hand-washingdelving into fact, nightmaresfiction, anxiety attacksfolklore and her own history with the creatures. It's because there's something wrong Discussing the debate on foxes, Jones asks what our attitudes towards foxes says about us, and our relationship with the new addition 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 familyIsaac Montgomery we meet at the beginning of the story. His parents mutter behind closed bedroom doors of regretting trying Unfortunately they're not words you usually use in polite company. He'd worked for many years in stockbroking and had made a new child so late in lifesubstantial fortune, but whatever the reason there is something demanding a lot his life was devoid of medical care and attention, even if the child can more or less live much in the family homeway of personal relationships. But hope seems to be shining When he required a light into Steven from the most unlikely source – angels woman as an escort, he paid. He assumed that come to visit him in his dreams, from within if he was having a pleasantgood time, lightthen she was too -filled haven, with full knowledge of the familyif he even bothered to think about it. He had a friend whom he didn's troubles t see all that often and an offer of it was when he thought about Phil that a way outlittle ''jealousy'' crept into Isaac's heart. Obviously, worried for the happiness of his familyYou see, Phil was engaged to Penelope and they were obviously happy. Isaac began to wonder what love was - and knowing this is just a dream, Steven will only say yes how you went about finding someone to the offer of help…share your life with.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910200875152466815X</amazonuk>
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|author=Aino-Maija MetsolaMartin Edwards (editor)|title=My First Animals Miraculous Mysteries (British Library Crime Classics)|rating=45|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=Get used Consider the following scenario: a policeman hears someone screaming and runs to two simple words if you have a child, ''What's That?'' You will hear it over and over and over again. If you are lucky they are pointing at something that you actually know – chairhouse on a particular street, hatnumber 13, my sense of regret. Sometimes they will point at something that from where the noise is not too familiaremanating. Here When he peeps through the letterbox he discovers a dead man in the parental practise of making something up comes into play – it's hallway with a bird type thingknife in his throat. Books that show images of items, colours or animals may seem a little dull He goes to an adultfetch help, but to a toddler learning about upon returning, finds that the world they are street does not have a who's who of what's number 13 and thatthe body and the room he saw have both mysteriously vanished...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18478096770712356738</amazonuk>
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|author= Quentin BlakeBrian Moses|title= Lost Magic: The Story Very Best of the Dancing FrogBrian Moses|rating= 4.5|genre= Dyslexia Friendly Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary= When Jo's Great Aunt Gertrude's sea captain husband is drowned at sea she is grief-stricken andFor a poet with the very memorable name of [[:Category:Brian Moses|Moses]], in despairI have to admit never having come across it before, she goes for a walk alone. During this walk she notices a small frog on a lily-padnor having knowingly read any of his works. But he is no ordinary frog - heThis collection was the perfect place for me to come late to the party, as it takes the author's a dancing frog own favourites from several previous anthologies of his, and adds new verses. I read them with very little clue as to which was which – and certainly couldn't tell having finished the two quickly become good friendsbook. Soon There is a lot here that will grab the duo are touring young schoolchild, but the world with their routinetopics cover so much there really will be a universal appeal, meaning that a lot of people will have a definite favourite from these pages, spreading joy and fun - and carrying out even if the occasional rescue - wherever they go.author himself cannot decide…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17811259101509838767</amazonuk>
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|author=Otto de Kat and Laura Watkinson (translator)Nina Laden|title=The Longest NightI Followed the Dog|rating=34.5|genre=Literary FictionFor Sharing|summary=Emma has There's a philosophy – Boy (who doesn't have a name) and a Dog (likewise) and in the beginning you get the feeling that the Boy would prefer to have next door'let the dead rest, s Dog who wins prizes in obedience classes and love does clever things with the living''television remote control. The problem with that, as That is until one morning when Boy opens the door a 96-year-old, is that there are too few living left, little earlier than usual and so while the love remains she will go through her memories, taking spots Dog getting out of a limousine. In a woozy, diaphanous path through all tuxedo. The he disappears into the major events of her lifeback garden. Starting in wartime Berlin with one husband, who gets snatched from her at work, fleeing Boy's shocked but a few minutes later he goes to another place to wait the back door and whistles for peaceDog, and wait for him who comes dashing in vain, moving anxious to Holland and finding new loveeat. At first Boy can't ''quite'' believe what he ''thinks'' he saw, and so on – this wispy journey will show all he determines to follow Dog the impacts of war, from rationing right up to exile, death and survivalnext night. 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>08570560851452161348</amazonuk>
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|author=Andrea Beaty and David RobertsPhil Earle|title=Rosie RevereSuperDad's Big Project Book for Bold EngineersDay Off|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionDyslexia Friendly|summary=For Stanley's dad is tired. It can be exhausting work being a long time now, people have worried about females taking up STEM subjects – the sciences, engineering and suchlikeSuperhero. But I know For six days 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 week he saves the ''Millennium Falcon'' with ease, world from disasters and defeats the likes of [[Star Wars: Ahsoka by E K Johnston|Ahsoka]] baddies as Dynamo Dan. Stanley decides his poor dad needs a day off and is adept at mending determined to make sure that he gets a proper rest. So they head off to the park for some sort of flying farming machinesmuch needed Dad and Son bonding time. If you However people don't wish seem to go too fantastical, or are seeking role models understand that even Superheroes need time to recuperate. The requests for help keep on coming so what can poor Stanley do other than step in to save the younger audience, there is the output of [[:Category:Andrea Beaty and David Roberts|Andrea Beaty]]day.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14197191061781126844</amazonuk>
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|author= Irvine WelshAndrew Cook|title= The Blade ArtistMurder of the Romanovs|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime History|summary=So. In the interest The fate of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, his wife Alexandra and children, fuelled no end of honest disclosure I should tell you that I love Irvine Welsh's work rumour, misinformation and I must confess to a particularly gruesome fancy conspiracy theories for Begbiemany years, even though the notoriously violenttruth was known not long after the event. In the last few years, terrifying protector/tormentor the advance of the Trainspotting gang. Whilst this means you are unlikely to receive an unbiased reviewforensic science, it does mean you will get a passionate one. It is fair to say that I loved ''The Blade Artist'' DNA testing and my only critique would be that it was over too quickly. For those the precise location of you who may not be familiar with Welsh's earlier manifestations the bodies have no fear, you can pick up ''The Blade Artist'' allowed for confirmation of the exact truth and be transfixed a dismissal of claims by Jim Francisa noted so-called surviving Grand Duchess. Even so, artistas Andrew Cook notes, father, husband and elegant thug. For those straight after the deaths of you with previous knowledge of Francis Begbie youthe imperial family 'll be instantly drawn back into the world of there would begin a man previously defined by petty vengeance, violence ninety-year battle between science and bloodsuperstition which is not over yet'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178470055X1445666278</amazonuk>
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|author=Jonny LambertS L Grey|title=Tiger Tiger |rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Until you spend a day hanging out with a child you will never know how exhausting it can be. As an adult you are used to peppering your day with little downtime treats; a cup of tea perhaps, a biscuits, or maybe even a cheeky nap? The kids I know have no end of energy and at best you will get a sip of cold coffee, have to give them most of the biscuit and a nap would consist of them jumping on your head. However, although their enthusiasm and zest may be tiring, it 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 StoriesApartment
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|genre= Short StoriesHorror|summary=From stories of young people caught up Steph and Mark are in trouble. Mark is running from a Robin Hood style operation gone wrong, to grief he can't escape and Steph is anxiously juggling her joy at being a believer in God having mother with her faith shaken by the arrival of aliens, author Michael R Lane has compiled guilt at being a collection of fascinating and clever short stories here'kept woman'. From farm Add a brutal home invasion to urban, from World War II to the Digital Age, the places mix and times, people and events in ''UFOs and God'' spotlight you have a recipe for disaster. Desperate to save their once happy marriage the tender underbelly of the human condition in all its glory couple decide to take a romantic trip to Paris only to discover that some terror is inescapable and despair on these varied stages of fictionevil has a vice like grip.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>163491712X1447266560</amazonuk>
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|author=DKZachary Leader|title=What's Where on Earth? AtlasThe Life of Saul Bellow: The World as You've Never Seen It BeforeTo Fame and Fortune 1915-1964 |rating=4.5|genre=ReferenceBiography|summary=I dread to think how old the atlas we used when I was At over eight hundred pages, 'The Life of Saul Bellow' is not a child waslight book, but at least we had one, it is the most complete account of the life and I didnwork of America't need to go to school or s most honoured literary figure. During the course of his life, a library number of notable attempts were made to check up on whatever bit capture the essence of trivia I was seekingthe man in biographical form. IZachary Leader benefits from this groundwork; he also has the advantage that his work has been compiled since Bellow'm so old s death in 2005. As a lot of things about it now would be most redundantresult, he has had access to sources, but if you choose manuscripts and letters denied to risk your arm previous biographers. Leader's research is exemplary and buy an atlas for incredibly detailed. He not only looks at the life of the man but at the creative process that made him the family shelves colossus that he became and it's all generations will benefit fromwritten with a genuine passion, as opposed to relying on electronic love and updateable sources of information, then this is the one to haverespect for his subject.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>02412283790099520931</amazonuk>
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|author= Sarah BakewellLily Kunin|title= At The Existentialist CaféGood Clean Food: Freedom, Being Plant-Based Recipes That Will Help You Look and Apricot CocktailsFeel Your Best
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|genre= Politics and SocietyCookery|summary= You know that old saying about judging books by their cover? Ignore it! I have found that by judging a book by its cover and getting it completely wrong Lily Kunin is a great way to find yourself committed to reading a book that you'd never have picked in a million years health coach and yet, somehow, being amazingly glad you didcreator of [http://www.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099554887<cleanfooddirtycity.com/ clean food dirty city site] and [https:/amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 16/3 -->|author=Amanda Roberts|title=The Roots of the Tree|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=The strength of a tree comes not from what you can see, not from the trunk, the branches and the leaves, but from what you can't see - the rootswww. Disturbance to the roots can be devastatinginstagram. It's similar in human beings. Annie had lived for 63 years, secure in the love of her parents, Elsie and Frankcom/cleanfooddirtycity/?hl=en instagram account]. She'd looked after them in always been a food lover but her home in their final years and it attitude to the food she was quite by chance that she came across their wedding certificate eating changed when she was sorting out their effectsbegan to suffer from migraines. They had not been married until ''after'' A long (and bad) time later she tried avoiding gluten and her birth, but symptoms were alleviated within 48 hours. From this she developed her birth certificate showed Frank food philosophy of seeing an intolerance to gluten as her father and that her mother was married to hima creative opportunity. Something didn't add up and there was one inescapable conclusion: the man I liked that shehas 'd loved as her father all those years ''wasn'ta constant dialogue'' with her father after allbody rather than sticking to a restrictive regime. That I can empathise with.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19097168631419723901</amazonuk>
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|author=Ian Graham and Stephen BiestyTed Dewan|title=Stephen Biesty's TrainsSomething for Mummy (Bing)|rating=3.5|genre=ArtFor Sharing|summary=Trains look imposing, but true fans (little boys, usually from about three years old and upwards) want to know what lies beneath the skin which Having a child gives you a glimpse into a world that you can seenever knew even existed. They want to know how it works. Getting to grips with one Unfortunately, this not a winter wonderland hidden in real life is quite a big askwardrobe, but the next best thing is ''Stephen Biestya world of children's Trains'' which features trains from all over TV characters. The mainstays of the world genre have still survived; Sooty, Noddy and spanning the early steam train (complete with cow catcher) right through Postman Pat, but who is RaRa or Mr Tumble? One popular show that takes some getting used to is Bing, a series all about a rabbit that seems to the trains of the future which can reach have a stuffed animal as a speed of 430 kph and don't even run on railscarer. Once the train reaches a speed of 150 kph There are seemingly no parents in the wheels are raised and show as if the train town is held up by magnetic forces alone.one giant crèche, so how come Bing and his helper Flop are making a gift for Mummy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17837042410008212015</amazonuk>
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|author=John Preston|title=Women in ScienceA Very English Scandal: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed Sex, Lies and a Murder Plot at the World|author=Rachel IgnotofskyHeart of the Establishment
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionTrue Crime|summary=''Women in Science'' takes fifty prominent women in STEM fields Jeremy Thorpe was the sort of person who was generally liked by others. He was flamboyant and celebrates their achievementsgregarious but could give the impression that meeting someone had made his day. There are women from the ancient world He never seemed to forget a name and he was witty, charismatic and women working todayvery charming. Each of them is given He appeared to be a double page spread including a stylised portrait and infoboxes decent man, with views with factoids which I would have agreed on one side race, capital punishment and a page membership of text with a brief biography the Common Market, as the European Union was then known. For this was the nineteen sixties and outline Thorpe had entered Parliament at the age of her achievementsthirty and by 1967 he would be party leader. These intrepid women are inspirational for their work and their discoveries but also On the surface he was a man who had everything going 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 Americahim.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>15263605190241973740</amazonuk>
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|author=RedressBill Nye and Gregory Mone|title=Dress (with) senseJack and the Geniuses 1: The Practical Guide to a Conscious ClosetAt the Bottom of the World|rating=4.5|genre=LifestyleConfident Readers|summary=Not too long ago I didnIt't have s tough being a genius. There are few, if any problems with clothes. They were just , people you can talk about all black your interests to, 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 this lovely little clothes shop in Ilkley (it says words like ''nerd'', ''geek'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 ''newboffin'' clothes. I needed help and more advice, because get bandied around by folk who somehow think 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 your fault your cleverness makes them feel a difficult age for a woman, particularly if she's not marriedbit dim. Has she given up on But how does it feel to be the idea of having a familyone surrounded by such geniuses all day every day? Does her career mean everything to her? On the other hand Fortunately, Jack is she desperately looking for a man? Grace found herself in a difficult situation when she first met Dale (or Heaven on Legs - HoL - as she thought of him). She'd volunteered to resilient sort out her late grandmother's home, but she couldn't resist the opportunity and his common sense approach to life is going to do a little dressing up. Sobe essential if he, wearing her grandmother's clothes, wig resting just above her eyebrows Ava and heavy-rimmed glasses perched on the end of her nose she met the man of her dreams. Only, rather than laughing and explaining what she'd been doing, Grace carried on the pantomime - and called herself LouiseMatt are going to survive their trip to Antarctica.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17858987361419723030</amazonuk>
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|author=DKSherri Smith|title=Forest Life and Woodland CreaturesFollow Me Down|rating=4|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Thrillers|summary=This book knows that if you're going to learn about forest life and Mia is done with the animalssmall town she grew up in, plants and trees in but it, then you're only going to be itching takes one phone call to go and explore the woods for yourselfbring her back. It's for a very young audience, so always expects an adult hand to guide you – but provides a warm companion itself through several quick and easy tasks, Her twin brother Lucas is missing and a few lessons. The balance between carrot and stick, or duty and rewardworse still, is great – but what exactly is has been implicated in the edutainment going death of one of his students. Without him there to provide, and what will speak for himself it demand becomes her job to defend his reputation while trying to get to the bottom of us?everything that has gone on.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>02412731101785654047</amazonuk>
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