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|author=Anna PitoniakThomas Dolby|title=The FuturesSpeed of Sound|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionEntertainment|summary=When we first meet Evan PeckFrom struggling post-punk musician to pop star, from Silicon Valley innovator to university professor, he Thomas Dolby has just started at Yale Collegehad a remarkable if not unique career, where he plays ice hockeyoften reinventing himself on the way. This memoir is based on his extensive notes and journals.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785781952</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Ron Butlin|title= Steve and Frandan Take on the World|rating= 4. 5|genre= Teens|summary= Like lots many books for confident readers and teens, our heroes are the victims of cruel bullies – to be precise, as we are well into the other playerstwenty-first century here, he is actually Canadianof the cyber kind. But this isn't some worthy self-help, from smalltell-an-town British Columbiaadult book, nor is it a gloomy book about young people who can't see the point of going on. One night after a party Evan meets Julia Edwards at their dorm Nope – these guys take the unusual (and they go out for pizza. She technically has , in the light of later events, utterly daft) decision to simply sail away into the sunset, to take a boyfriend break from her Boston boarding school dayscivilisation, but they soon break up online Thor and before long Julia his idiot Viking horde, and Evan have become inseparable, as they will remain for the rest insanities in general of all adults. In their college yearsdefence, it seems a sensible move at the time...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07181845641780274394</amazonuk>

|author= Lee ChildElaine Everest|title= No Middle NameThe Butlins Girls

|genre= Crime Historical Fiction|summary= There is Fresh-faced Molly Missons has just arrived in Skegness to start her new job as a theory, to which those who regularly read my reviews will know I sometimes subscribe, which says that Butlins auntie. Behind the short story's heyday has passed smiles and it confident appearance, she hides a secret; she has now put itself out taken the job to grassescape escalating problems at home. This is particularly true, some sayShe soon finds good friends in her chalet-mates Bunty and Plum, and I it turns out that they each have been known to concur, of the crime and thriller genres. Tosh! I can only apologise to all authors involved and their own up: I simply haven't been paying attention. Not even to shorter offerings my by favourite authors. So: big thanks to Lee Child and publishers Bantam Press reasons for putting me straight with ''No Middle Name'' : wanting a collection of short stories about my favourite latter-dayfresh start. Meanwhile, AmericanMolly is shocked to discover that her movie-style, Robin Hood by star crush Johnny Johnson is working as an entertainment adviser at the name of ''Jack Reacher''camp.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0593079019</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!Is he really as suave as his on-- remove 21/5 -->|author=Lizzy Mumfrey|title=Fall Out|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Charlton's the sort of village where people aspire to live, despite its apparent ordinariness. There's the usual mix of commuters (it's not ''too'' far from London) and those who make their lives in the village. Richard Hughes screen persona? And why is a commuter, but his wife Jessica works he working at the local academycamp anyway? As hidden secrets become discovered, where both their children - Alfie Molly and Hannah - are pupils. Pete Cole is a newly-promoted police superintendent her new friends face new threats and clearly still fond of his voluptuous wife, Susie. Actually, some of dangers that voluptuousness might be better described as fat may threaten their new- Pete suspects that he might need longer arms to hug her before long. Less popular is Gary Webber. He's the sort of man who causes people to heave a sigh of relief when he joins someone else for a drink at the golf clubfound freedom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19110798401447295536</amazonuk>

|author= Cath StaincliffeBenjamin Ludwig|title= The Silence Between BreathsOriginal Ginny Moon

|genre= CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary= I'm always wary of author endorsementsTo Ginny, even those from people I rate as writersa child with autism, but the ''harrowing and humane'' quote word Forever means until the police come. Five years ago the police forcibly removed her from Ian Rankin on the front cover home of her abusive birth mother, Gloria. Now fourteen, and in her fourth Forever Home, Ginny remains hell-bent on finding her way back to Gloria's apartment. She has no illusions about her mother'The Silence Between Breathss addictions or lack of parenting skills. She knows that it might be dangerous – that it might even kill her. Still she plots, obsessed with returning to Gloria'' does not overstate s to find something she insists she left behind, something she hid under her bed. Her teachers, therapist, and new Forever Parents are in turn frustrated, infuriated, and perplexed. As Gloria returns to her life, the case. This is an extremely powerful bookreader follows Ginny on a journey filled with danger and discovery, in her quest to find a place she can truly call her Forever Home.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14721180141848456611</amazonuk>

|author=Jill ArmitageHolly Webb|title= Arbella Stuart: The Uncrowned Queen Homeless Kitten|rating= 4.5|genre= BiographyEmerging Readers|summary= Lady Arbella StuartLily loves their rescue dog, cousin to both Elizabeth I of England and James VI of ScotlandHugo. However, was one of the unfortunate figures of English history who might have been Queen Lily also really wants a cat – and whoor better still a kitten. She, like the even more tragic Lady Jane Greytherefore, might have paid the ultimate price. This is a sad but engrossing story can't believe her luck when Hugo sniffs out three abandoned kittens while out of one whose only crime was to have royal blood coursing through his walk with Lily and her veinsdad.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445650193</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Stephan Talty|title= The Black Hand|rating=4|genre=True Crime|summary=History is a fascinating subject to study as there Better still (from Lily's point of view at least) the animal shelter is full so much of it, so why do we keep going back Lily's mum and dad reluctantly offer to hand-rear the same places? I feel like I have walked the steps of Julius Caesar and married at least two of Henry VIIItiny kittens until they're old enough to be rehomed. Lily's wivesin heaven looking after the kittens, so often I have read about themespecially the little fluffy white one whom she names Stanley. There are countless other tales out there to learn about that may be more obscure, but are is just as exciting. I donone problem – it't know much about New York around 1900, but after reading ''The Black Hand'' by Stephan Talty I now know it was a violent place s going to live, but an interesting one break her heart when the time comes to learn aboutsay goodbye.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17850371291847157831</amazonuk>

|author= A P McGrathHarriet Cummings|title= A Burning in the DarknessWe All Begin As Strangers

|genre= CrimeGeneral Fiction|summary= At In the summer of 1984, a busy airport, Michael Kieh is Chilterns village was gripped with fear and suspicion as a full time faith representative serving mysterious intruder known as ''The Fox'' broke into the needs of some homes of several residents in the 80 million passengersarea. Despite an increased police presence, but circumstance regular patrols and evidence point vigilante groups, this slippery character still managed to his guilt in a terrible crimeevade detection. His struggle A huge police ''Foxhunt'' followed, and finally, forensic evidence led to prove his innocence leads him on a charged journey that pitches love against revengethe eventual capture of the perpetrator. When This real-life news story sparked the imagination of a mysterious woman confides a dark secretyoung Harriet Cummings, he is motivated to redress a heart-breaking injustice. Together they must battle against powerful forces as they edge dangerously close to unmasking a past crime. But Michael faces defeat when he chooses who went on to protect create a young witness, sparking memories fictional version of Michael's past in Liberia. As he fights to prove his innocenceevents, Michael has which invites the reader to risk anything for the sake turn detective and try and unmask ''The Fox'' from a range of love and truthpossible suspects.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B06ZYXJ1KL1409169049</amazonuk>

|author=Nosy CrowMalcolm Devlin|title=British Museum: ABCYou Will Grow Into Them|rating=45|genre=For SharingShort Stories|summary=Learning your ABCs ''You Will Grow Into Them'' is also seemingly learning a thrilling collection of ten short stories all centred on the same items appearing over nature of transition and over againchange. A is not only A – it is also Apple. B is BallThe often grisly, C is Car. It is almost as if there are only 26 objects in the world macabre and they happen to start with different letters ghoulish nature of the alphabet. In fact, apart from Xylophone and X-Ray, there stories included in Devlin's debut collection are loads of things that you could choose to put in an ABC book, if only you had a vast repository of objects intoxicatingly illicit and art that you could choose from …the darkness within each tale is deviously addictive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08576381651907389431</amazonuk>

|author=Liz PichonTove Jansson|title=Family, Friends and Furry Creatures (Tom Gates)Letters From Klara|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Tom Gates has got a problem: his shoes are making a noise. They sort Famed in the UK for her creation of rasp when he walksthe Moomin family, only he can't recreate Jansson is rather belatedly beginning to gather the sound at homerichly deserved esteem for her adult writings. At school it's a different matter: not only is the noise very loud, there are those of his classmates who suggest For that it has originated from somewhere a little more, well, I offer my heart-felt thanks to publishers ''intimateSort of books''and Thomas Teal, who has been responsible for most of the translations. All in all it's not a good start Receiving this one, two things strike: firstly I somehow seem to have missed one of the day for Tomseries, particularly and secondly there'll come a time sooner rather than later when he realises that hethere's also forgotten his baby photo for the latest school projectll be no more to be had. Class 5F are building their family trees and they've got to interview family members to get stories of their lives for The former will be rectified, the projectlatter is a sad thought.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14071681181908745614</amazonuk>

|author= Clare FisherJane Menczer|title= All the Good ThingsAn Unlikely Agent

|genre= General FictionCrime (Historical)|summary= NatureLondon, nurture1905. Margaret Trant lives with her ailing, chance and circumstance; all combine to produce the story of Bethany Mitchellirascible mother in a dreary boarding house in St John's Wood. The pair have fallen on hard times, with only Margaret's meagre salary from a ramshackle import-export company keeping them afloat.When a young adult who writes from stranger on the tram hands her prison cell. We know only a newspaper open at the recruitment page, Margaret spots an advertisement that she has committed a promises to 'bad thingopen new horizons beyond your wildest dreams!'. After a gruelling interview, she finds herself in a bad thing that she sees new position as the end of her storya secretary in a dingy backstreet shop. Armed with But all is not as it seems; she is in fact working for a simple taskhighly secret branch of the intelligence service, ErikaBureau 8, whose mission is to track down and neutralise a psychologistruthless band of anarchists known as the Scorpions.Margaret's guilty love of detective fiction scarcely prepares her for the reality of true criminality, sets out to challenge this. She asks Beth simply to compile a list and her journey of all self-discovery forms the good things heart of this remarkable novel, as she discovers in her lifeherself resourcefulness, courage, independence and the first stirrings of love.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024127575X1846973805</amazonuk>

|author= Robert HarrisHenry Marsh|title= ConclaveAdmissions: A Life in Brain Surgery|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionAutobiography|summary= It is hard to believe that Harris has managed to bring such pace to the often lengthy 's more than two years since I read [[Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and complex process Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh|Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery]] but the memories have stayed with me. I had thought then that a conclavebook about brain surgery might sound as though I was taking my pleasures too sadly, but he has wrung out every piece of mystery the book was superb - and the result had me very easy reading through long into the nightand when I heard about ''Admissions'' I decided to treat myself to an audio download, particularly as Henry Marsh was narrating. I simply could not put this down.knew that my expectations were unreasonably high, but how did the book do?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17847518391474603866</amazonuk>

|author= Samantha KingDK|title= The ChoiceChildren's Illustrated Thesaurus|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= It's perfectly possible to be drawn towards one One of your the most valuable literary skills which children more than the others at can learn is how to use reference books. As a particular point child every question which I began with ''how do you spell...?'' would be answered with ''EXACTLY as it says in timethe dictionary''. Maybe for a moment This was fine, just a momentbut the family's Collins Little Gem Dictionary didn't encourage exploration, you prefer not least because the sleeping 4 year old over his up all night baby sister, font was small and then later when off difficult to do the Big Shop you favour the littlest one read. Fortunately those times have now changed and reference book for sheer portability and lower likelihood children are now much more inviting. Not every book comes with a set of running off in instructions but it's worth studying the carpark''How to...'' section, but if you ask most parents they will say they love their children equallynot least because similar systems are used in other reference books. End |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241286972</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 28/5 -->|author=Val Harris|title=Hunting Ground|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Nyara Camp is one of. In different ways the newest camps in the Masai Mara and it's run by James and for different things, but equallyAlexia Sackville. You The guests might jokingly pick a favouritesleep in tents, but deep down thereit's no such thingstill luxury accommodation in anybody's book. So imagine Chui Camp, on the other hand, sticks with the worst thing traditional way that could comesafaris were run, including bucket showers. Imagine a stranger arriving at your door with a gun Owner Ralph Somerton is convinced that's what the guests ''should'' want and making you choose between your childrenhe won't listen to any of his wife Tessa's suggestions for updating the tired venue. One can live It's beginning to be reflected in the profits Chui makes, but one must die. Welcome instead of upping his own game Somerton would rather see Nyara as unfair competition and it's only a small step from that reasoning to Madelinelooking at ways of ensuring Nyara's world and her living nightmarefailure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>03494146530955599717</amazonuk>

|author= Suzanne LealMarian Veevers|title= The Teacher's SecretJane and Dorothy: A True Tale of Sense and Sensibility|rating= 4.5|genre= General FictionBiography|summary= Terry has been teaching at his suburban Australian junior school for yearsThe idea of a dual biography of two contemporaries who never met throughout their lives is an intriguing one. Everyone knows himHowever, heck half the kids in his class have parents who there were former pupils of hisseveral unifying factors, which makes it seem logical enough. He's an institution. You know Jane Austen and Dorothy Wordsworth were both renowned writers though one was much more famous than the sort. And he does not take kindly to a new young upstart showing up other, and trying to meddle. He's not nasty about itboth were born just four years apart, but it rubs him up in the wrong way1770s.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17850790771910985775</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Cheeky Charlie: Bugs and Bananas (My Crazy Brother Book 2)Geraint Jones|authortitle=Mat WaughBlood Forest|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersHistorical Fiction|summary=Cheeky Charlie has already had [[Cheeky Charlie by Mat Waugh|Felix. The lucky one book]] written about him . He doesn't feel especially lucky when he staggers out into the grove and now he has another. His slapstick adventures are related once more by finds twelve of his sister Harrycomrades butchered and mutilated in the worst possible ways. I love Harry He felt even less lucky when the soldiers arrived, Roman cavalry. Harry is by turn infuriated and amused by her brother CharlieHe might have run, but he knew he'd never make it. And Harry also brims over with enthusiasmHe stepped out to face whatever came next. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>B072F586440718184815</amazonuk>

|author=Patrick NessDorling Kindersley|title= ReleaseFirst Science Encyclopedia|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= Adam lives I wasn't introduced to 'science' until I was eleven and went on to senior school: I wasn't alone in small-town America in a deeply religious householdthis, but it really was too late. His father is an evangelical preacher. His brother is Thankfully, times have changed and children at primary school are getting to grips with plants and animals, atoms and molecules and even outer space from a Christian college training to be an evangelical preachervery young age. Adam What's needed is used to a restricted life good, basic reference book which will introduce all the subjects and he is also used give a good grounding. It needs to an atmosphere of suspicion. Because Adam is gay. And this must be unspoken because to acknowledge it something which would lead to.....sit proudly in the classroom library and comfortably on a child's bookshelf. The ''First Science Encyclopedia'' would do both well, best not to think about that.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1406331171024118875X</amazonuk>

|author= Claire FayersSue Hendra and Paul Linnet|title= Journey to Dragon Island (The Accidental Pirates)Supertato Run Veggies Run|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Two quests. Can the crew of the good ship Onion (don't ask) help their young friend Brine to find her home? And does the legendary island of dragons really exist or – a rather important point, this – if the ship keeps sailing west, will it just topple off the edge of the world? Of course, if you think a little thing like terrible peril and near-certain death should stop Captain Cassie and her shipmates from going wherever they fancy, then you're reading the wrong series4. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447290623</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 17/5 -->|title=Go To Sleep!|author=Marion Adams|rating=4

|summary=I''It was midnight on the wild moors. The round white moon peeped over the clouds. The barn owl flew from tree ve heard of these so called superfoods, they are reported to tree without making a sound. The cool night breeze rustled through the gorse bushes.'' Parents - isn't boost your immune system and flush out areas of your body that have gone unnoticed for decades, but does this just a lovely way make them super? In my mind to start be a bedtime story? It's an oft-forgotten truth about picture books that they superfood you need to engage the parents as well as the childrendo something spectacular; lift a car from a trapped child, or leap over a building in one bound. How else The vegetable and fruit in my house can 't do any of this, but then they read it aloud successfully? So I loved this opening paragraph of aren''Go To Sleep!'' - it not only set t Supertato; a spectacular spud that, more than once, has saved the scene beautifully but it also made me want to rush off and find a child to read it today with his powers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>09930794741471121038</amazonuk>

|author=Noah HawleyThe British Museum|title=Before the FallOrigami, Poems and Pictures|rating=45|genre=ThrillersCrafts|summary=All artist Scott Burroughs did Sometimes you find a delight of a book. On an afternoon when it was unseasonably cold and decidedly wet I discovered ''Origami, Poems and Pictures'' and I was transported to accept Japan. As the offer from title suggests we're looking at three celebrated arts and crafts: the wife ancient art of a media mogul for a short plane ridepaper folding, not realising haiku poetry and painting. I'll confess that it will shape was the origami which caught my attention, but I was surprised by the extent to which the rest of his lifethe book caught my imagination. The private jet falls out of the sky, making him We begin with something very simple: a hero boat and in the way he saved the only other survivorcase you're worried, all the mogulentries have a degree of difficulty (from 'simple' through to 'tricky's small son ) and heir JJ. The search for answers makes Scott uncomfortable in many ways, especially when he realises that for some he's not so much the hero as this one is at the murdererlowest level. Are they right?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144477977X0857639382</amazonuk>

|author=Antonia SeniorWarner Brothers|title=Harry Potter Colouring Book Celebratory Edition: The Tyrant's ShadowBest of Harry Potter colouring

|genre=Historical FictionCrafts|summary=Warning: spoilers ahead Imagine pages and pages of images from the Harry Potter books and films for you to colour as you wish. You ''Treasonmight's Daughter' have seen some of the images before - I know I have - as they've appeared in the ''Harry Potter Colouring Book''.Patience lives with her widowed brother, William''Harry Potter Magical Creatures Colouring Book'', helping to care for his son Richard (nicknamed Blackberry). Despite the Civil war ending, the times are still uncertain. Cromwell is increasingly annoyed with a parliament of rebels refusing to go to the electorate for ratification. William sees this problem at close quarters once heand 's effectively forced to become Cromwell's legal advisor in an atmosphere poisoned by espionage Harry Potter Magical Places and religious factions. However when Patience comes across Shadrick Simpson, a charismatic preacher, all becomes clearer for her at least. Meanwhile Sam Challoner, WilliamCharacters Colouring Book''s brother in law, comes home after privateering with Prince Rupert and realises that but there are several exclusive never-before-seen images which will please the fight at sea is better than peace at homecollector of Harry Potter memorabilia. At least when If you're privateering in need of inspiration as to colours then you know who your enemy is'll enjoy the sixteen pages of film stills, unit photography and concept art at the back of the book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17823966161783708255</amazonuk>

|authortitle=Leonardo PaduraThe Secret of the Wooden Chest (Roman Magic)|titleauthor=HereticsCatherine Rosevear|rating=43.5|genre=CrimeConfident Readers|summary=Daniel Kaminsky Hannah lives with her parents in a flat above the nursing home where her mother is matron. Hannah is a an only child émigré to Cuba and so she enjoys making friends with some of the home's residents. So when Mrs Oberto moves in 1939, looking forward Hannah is keen to being joined from Germany by his parentsmake her acquaintance - Hannah has never met anyone Italian before. They're on board the St Louis in Havana docks Mrs Oberto is quite standoffish at first but in a country Hannah persists and a time rife soon they are the best of friends. Mrs Oberto is particularly keen on helping Hannah with politics her school project about ancient Rome and corruptionrelates many interesting stories about her Sicilian childhood. But she remains tight-lipped about the mysterious wooden chest, the ship is turned back without permitting any of their passengers key to disembarkwhich she keeps around her neck. Now, nearly 80 years later, Daniel's son wants to know how an auction house obtained a family heirloom: a Rembrandt painting that the Kaminskys had with them on the ill-fated ship. He approaches retired Cuban policeman Mario Conde for answers to something that may seem straightforward but they soon realise it will prove to be anything but.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19085247821788032535</amazonuk>

|author= David BarbareeDominic Smith|title= DeposedThe Last Painting of Sara de Vos|rating= 4.5

|summary= AIf you find the techniques used by Rembrandt and Vermeer fascinating, ''The Last Painting of Sara de Vos'' provides a masterclass in how to work up a canvas in stages.D 68. A deposed emperor lies in Framing the novel as the story of a prison cellseventeenth century Dutch painting, betrayed Dominic Smith vividly sketches out the main contours of his characters and newly blinded by those who were sworn to protect himthe three time periods they inhabit before we are even one fifth of the way through. He Sara is now crippled and deprived one of power, left completely on the edge few women artists of despair with a frightened young slave named Marcus as his only companion. Ten years later the period and it her painting is Emperor Vespasian who wears the purpleof children skating on a frozen canal, her now dead daughter its central figure. Things may have settled since the civil war but VespasianThe painting has been in Marty de Groot's son Titus family since before Isaac Newton was born and he is plagued by worry about plots to murder his father. Gruesome atrocities and mysterious disappearances are rife throughout Rome; the patent lawyer from whom it is stolen in 1950s Manhattan. Ellie Shipley forged a city full copy of falsehoods the painting in her postgraduate student years and intrigues with in 2000 finds herself at the fear centre of a gathering storm which threatens to destroy her reputation as one of rebellion lurking beneath the surfaceSydney's foremost fine art academics. Furthermore Satisfying though those first descriptions are, a man who we then understand these are merely the author's equivalent of the delicate chalk lines used by painters of the Dutch Golden Age to be emperor still lives – a blind man who everyone believes to be dead. His name is Nero and he seeks revenge against those who wronged himmark out the composition which will follow. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785762672192526680X</amazonuk>

|author= Colleen OakleyDeirdre Osborne (Editor)|title= Close Enough The Cambridge Companion to TouchBritish Black and Asian Literature (1945–2010)|rating= 45|genre= Women's FictionReference|summary=''One time, a boy kissed me This literary companion offers fifteen essays addressing the contribution of black and I almost died...My lips started tingling. My tongue swelled Asian authors to fill my mouththe British literary canon since 1945. My throat closed; I couldn't breatheIt covers not just fiction, but also poetry, plays and performance works. Everything went black.'' So begins It sits as a kind of joyful cuckoo in the nest, interrupting the tale usual narratives of an unlikely romantic heroine: a girl who is allergic to other human beings. After the extreme humiliation suffered literary waves and movements in the aftermath Britain that take little notice of any perspective other than the events above, Jubilee Jenkins becomes a recluse dominant white - and hides herself away from the world for nine yearsposh! - direction of travel. When her source It's a disparate, varied collection of income suddenly dries upessays, covering spoken word performance poetry, Jubilee needs to overcome her fearsblack British urban fiction, LGBTQ writing, step out into the world liberationist writing and find a jobmuch more. Working at the local libraryI was really happy to see children's authors such as Malorie Blackman, she meets divorced dad Eric Jamila Gavin and his quirky adopted son, Aja Catherine Johnson discussed and strikes up a friendship with themrespected. As their mutual attraction starts to grow, can there be any future for a relationship where even a simple kiss could be fatal?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17602941361316504808</amazonuk>

|author=Harold D Clarke, Matthew Goodwin and Paul WhiteleyDr Seuss|title=Brexit: Why Britain Voted to Leave the European UnionDr Seuss's ABC

|genre=Politics and SocietyFor Sharing|summary=Ten, nearly eleven months on from the June 2016 referendum I'm still struggling to come to terms with the thought No one who has read his work can deny that the United Kingdom voted by Dr Seuss had a narrow powerful imagination. He was able to pluck from his brainpan not only interesting takes on old ideas, but decisive majority to leave the European Unionalso new creatures and worlds that had never been seen before. Since then I've been searching for enlightenment in the form of hard facts rather His books are often madder than opinions: given a handful box of people you'll get at least half a dozen 'valid' reasons. March hares, but even he must have had his limits? Personally, The humble ABC book (dare I blame Boris Johnson. ''Brexit: Why Britain Voted to Leave say the European Union'' isn't a dull ABC book ), surely he could not bring his sense of ''opinions'' about why the United Kingdom voted anarchic fun to leave this staple of the European Union but a close look at what the statistics tell us. Itchildren's a dry but informative read.education market?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>11071507280007487754</amazonuk>

|author=Tim MooreStewart O'Nan|title=The Cyclist Who Went Out in Last Night at the Cold: Adventures Along the Iron Curtain TrailLobster|rating=4|genre=TravelGeneral Fiction|summary= One The Red Lobster seafood restaurant chain is closing some of its poorly-performing branches just before Christmas. Amid the results I find from travel documentariesChristmas lights, often on TV but also in book formoffice parties and forced jollity Manny DeLeon, is the verdict 'rather him than me' (and it generally is a he). Yesmanager of one of these failing outlets, I'd like has to go there and see what he's seen, but I'm damned if I would risk the danger, the potential consequences and/or the effort the whole experience requiredkeep it all together for one last day. This book is the epitome of thatShort-handed, for as much as I love with most of the twenty countries it hits on – give me a chance, Istaff who've not quite been bothered to them all – I wouldn't countenance making this exact and exacting trip. A couple of years agoturn up facing unemployment, those in the know somewhere in an office deemed he tries to make the route best of a bad job, all the entire old Iron Curtain – while knowing this will be the fringe of last day he'll spend with the Soviet Unionwaitress he shouldn't still be in love with, plus Romania, Bulgaria etc – particularly not now he's about to be a pan-continental biking routedad. With the news that he can dismiss other attempts Oh, and still have there's a claim to being blizzard on the first person to clock the whole mammoth trip, our gutsy way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760293865</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author undertakes it all, =Tom Malmquist and thus surveys Henning Koch (translator)|title=In Every Moment We Are Still Alive|rating=4.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Tom Malmquist is a scar across the entire continent to see if poet from Sweden. Originally published in Swedish in 2015, this is his first work of prose. While it's still visiblebeing marketed as a novel, and what flesh it once upon reads more like a time dividedstylized memoir. Oh Similar to Karl Ove Knausgaard's books, it features the author as the central character and he did it on a Communist-era piddly little bikenarrator, lacking in both gears and good brakes, that was designed for nothing more strenuous than conveying you around the story of grief it tells is a campsite, not for 6,000 miles…highly personal one.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>02241002111473640008</amazonuk>

|author= Diney CosteloeMichel Deon|title= The Married GirlsYour Father's Room

|genre= Historical Literary Fiction|summary=Wynsdown, 1949. In the small Somerset village of Wynsdown, Charlotte Shepherd is happily married I don't feel altogether qualified to farmer Billy. She arrived from Germany on the Kindertransport as a child during the war and now feels settled in her adopted home. Meanwhile, the squirereview Michel Déon's 2004 fictionalised memoir ''Your Father's fighter pilot sonRoom'', Felix, has returned to translated here into English for the village with a fiancée in towfirst time. Daphne is beautifulI hadn't heard of Déon before receiving my copy, charming... and harbouring secrets. After meeting during the war, Felix knows some let alone read any of Daphne's pasthis books, but she has worked hard published over a 70 year period to conceal that which could unravel her carefully built life. For Charlotte, too, a dangerous past is coming back much acclaim in the shape of fellow refugee, bad boy Harry Blackhis homeland. Forever bound by their childhoods, Charlotte will always care for him, but HarryBut it's return disrupts part of the village quiet and it's not long before gossip spreads. The war may have endedpleasure of book reviewing to read with no prior knowledge or prejudice, but for these girls, trouble is only just beginning..all the more so if you discover an absolute gem.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17849761211910477346</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!--remove 15/5 -->|author=Michael PronkoAndrew Wilson|title=The Last Train (Detective Hiroshi)A Talent for Murder

|genre=ThrillersCrime (Historical)|summary=Detective Hiroshi Shimizu usually investigates white collar Agatha Christie wrote some tantalising crime thrillers back in Tokyo. It suits him: he gets her day, and here Andrew Wilson makes her a victim to have his a plot not unlike one of her own office, which is rare. HeIt's got space at home too: his girlfriend has not only left him, but she's moved back to the States as well. He's yet to ship all her boxes out of his apartment but when he's done that he'll be able to sleep in about the bed again. White collar crime's usually non-violentmystery, but Hiroshi speaks English (many years spent in Boston when he was studying) and when an American businessman ends up dead under it really drives the story forward. Agatha is ambushed by a strange man at the last trainstation; she is given a proposition that confuses her and secretly intrigues her. Indeed, he's called in to help. He could have done without having for this man wants her to see the body - or the people removing it from the tracks with chopsticks - but detective Takamatsu insistedcommit a murder.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19424101231471148211</amazonuk>