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|author= K J WhittakerDK|title= False LightsMy Encyclopedia of Very Important Animals|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical Children's Non-Fiction|summary=CornwallThe animal kingdom is a diverse one, 1817. What if your worst mistake changed the course full of history? Napoleon has crushed the Duke creatures that do all sorts of Wellington at the Battle things. The number of Waterloo, and his ex-wife Josephine presides over French-occupied England. Cornwall erupts into open rebellion, and young heiress Hester escapes with Crow, Wellington's former intelligence officer, animals out there is so vast that even vets need to do a half-French aristocrat haunted by his part quick google when something strange appears in the catastrophic defeattheir practice. Together, they become embroiled in For budding vet-to-be animals are a web constant source of treachery fascination and espionage they will absorb as much knowledge as plans are laid you can give them. It is not practical to free Wellington from secret captivity in visit the Scilly Isles and lead zoo every day, but getting an uprising against the French occupation. In a country rife with traitors, Hester educational and Crow know it entertaining animal encylopedia is impossible to play such a game as this for long...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17866953400241276357</amazonuk>

|author=Cynthia Ryland and Mary BlairDK|title=Walt DisneyDK Children's Cinderella: Illustrated by Mary Blair (Walt Disney Classics)Encyclopedia|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=IMore than sixty years ago my grandparents bought me an encylopedia: it was a major purchase for them as they didn't really ''do''m sure almost all my readers are au fait with the story of Cinderellabooks, but it was a treasure trove for me and of how she went from the gutter to the stars in one romantic swoopI still have it today. It's only a good thing the relevant people didn't have foot fetishes or phobias, just teach me facts - it taught me how to find out information for then the tale would have been utterly differentmyself and how to use an index. Disney made it slightly different, of course, when they made the animated classic based It opened my eyes to subjects I'd never considered and widened my knowledge on the legendthose I already loved. In format, in size and this book, complete with art from the time the film content it was being made, is evidence of very similar to ''DK Children's Encyclopedia'' and I can imagine a younger me hunched over it and begging just how the look and the emotion of the piece were intended to beallowed to finish this bit before I went to bed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14052869970241283868</amazonuk>

|author=Jon Scieszka and Mary BlairKelly Barnhill|title=Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland: Illustrated by Mary Blair (Walt Disney Classics)The Girl Who Drank the Moon|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary=I'll take is Every year the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as read you have some knowledge of an offering to the witch who lives in the story of Alice forest, in Wonderland – certainly when she got to be 150 years old a couple of years back there were no end of editions of her storythe hope that this sacrifice will keep their town safe. And as you Little do they knowthat the witch, Xan, 150 years is a heck kind soul who rescues the children and finds them new homes with families on the other side of a lot of unbirthdaysthe forest. But her story got She feeds the babies on starlight to be slightly differentkeep them nourished throughout their journey, but one year she accidently feeds a baby moonlight which fills the child with a powerful magic. Xan names the baby Luna and if anything only more lovedrealises she must raise this magical child as her own, courtesy of locking away her magical abilities until her thirteenth birthday. But as the Disney cartoonday approaches where Luna's magic will emerge, she will have to learn to protect the safe and the fact that this book features artwork that was generated during the production of that film is the unique selling pointloving world she has always known.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14052870041848126476</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=MoonriseRobin Jarvis|authortitle=Sarah CrossanTime of Blood|rating=54

|summary=Joe is seventeen and he hasn't seen his brother for ten Travel back over a hundred years. And the reason for that is brutal - Ed is on Death Row in Texas, convicted of the murder of a police officer. Ed says heinto Whitby's innocentpast to see two witches battle an ancient evil. Aunt Karen doesn't believe him. And Mum is long gone, no-one knows where. When the execution date comes through, Joe passes up on his job and a spot on a summer athletics scholarship Follow young Lil as she tries to avoid spoilers and treks from New York across the country so that Ed is not alone. He is determined to spend these last weeks with his brother no matter what anybody else thinksfind her best friend.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140886780X1405280255</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=I am TraitorJ M Barrie and Robert Ingpen|authortitle=Sif Sigmarsdottir Peter Pan and Wendy|rating=4.5|genre=TeensFor Sharing|summary=Alien ships have arrived in It's a childhood staple - the story of Wendy, John and Michael Darling and their beloved nurse, Nana the skies above London. The Prime Minister appeared on TV Newfoundland dog who took them to announce this ominous visitation and order a curfewschool each day. After that It's George Darling, their father, who makes the mistake when he went AWOL locks Nana in the yard and took all reliable information with him, leaving the army children are whisked away to patrol the streetsNeverland by Peter Pan and Tinkerbell. Not that There's a wonderful mix of characters, from Peter Pan, the army has any answer boy who never wants to grow up, Tinkerbell, the long pipes that snake down from rather unpleasant fairy, Captain Hook, Tiger Lily, the ships lost boys and gobble up teenagers. To where- of course - Wendy, nobody knowsbut then it wouldn't have been a classic since the original stage production in 1904 and the novel of 1911 if it were otherwise.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14449344731786750856</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Charlotte SaysEmily Winslow|authortitle=Alex BellLook For Her|rating=4.5|genre=TeensCrime|summary=''Charlotte saysIn 1976, Annalise Wood disappeared on her journey home from school and instantly became a local celebrity... donFor decades the town of Lilling tried to solve the mystery of Annalise't open the doors disappearance until, almost twenty years later, her body was discovered.'' JemimaAnnalise's mother died in an awful fire not long ago and that is why Jemima decides to leave London body was badly decomposed and take up a job as a teacher on the Isle there was lack of Skye. But leaving DNA available, the place doesn't mean escaping only trace on the memories body was found in her skirt and Jemima is tormented by second-guessing what actually happened does not match anyone on that terrible nightrecord. It doesn't help that Miss Grayson, The chances of finding her killer were extremely low and the mistress at the school, is murder soon becomes a strange, forbidding sort, while 'cold case' – but still the school itself is a thoroughly creepy old buildingmost famous Lilling has ever seen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18471584040749022663</amazonuk>

|author= J Jefferson FarjeonGrady Hendrix|title= Seven DeadPaperbacks from Hell: A History of Horror Fiction from the '70s and '80s|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical FictionHorror|summary=Ted Lyte Demonic possession, murderous babies, man-eating moths… for these books, no plot was petty criminaltoo ludicrous, no cover art too appalling, but not usually the housebreaking typeno evil too despicable. He lacked the courage. However, needs must, Now horror author Grady Hendrix risks his soul and whilst feeling down on his luck he decided sanity (not to try his chances at an isolated house with a shuttered window. mention the reader''...he might find a bit of alright behind those shutterss! Wot abart it?'' Ted does indeed find something interesting behind ) to relate the shutterstrue, but it definitely isn't what he'd hoped. In untold story of a locked room he finds seven dead bodies; six men fascinating and a womanoften forgotten era in publishing. Fleeing  Read the house in horror, he is pursued and caught by a passing yachtsman, Thomas Hazeldean, who also happens to be a journalist. Fascinated by Ted's synapse-shattering story (and a possible scoop), Hazeldean decides to investigate this curious case and its assortment summaries!<br>See the horrific hand-painted cover imagery!<br>And learn the true-life tales of odd cluesthe writers, including a portrait shot through the heartartists, an old cricket ball and a mysterious note written by publishers who gleefully violated every literary law but one of the victims– never be boring.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07123568861594749817</amazonuk>

|author= Chris ColferLuke Dittrich|title= The Land Patient H.M.: A Story of Stories: Worlds CollideMemory, Madness and Family Secrets

|genre= Confident ReadersPopular Science|summary=Finally, after much anticipation, the grand finale Luke Dittrich seeks to the best-selling ''Land of Stories'' is here. The previous book [[The Land of Stories: An Author's Odyssey by Chris Colfer|The Land of Stories: An Author's Odyssey]] left us dangling shed light on an almighty cliffhanger, as well as leaving many plot threads unresolved. We have been with the Bailey twins from man behind the very beginning; seen them grow initials, and mature from awkward pre-teens to confident young adults. Orson Welles famously said: ''If you want in doing so, uncovered quite a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your storybit more than he expected.'' Is the fact that the book begins with this quote an ominous warning that the Bailey twins may not get their 'happily ever after' after all?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>03163558950099571862</amazonuk>

|author= Brian MastersSita Brahmachari and Jane Ray|title= Killing for CompanyWorry Angels|rating= 54|genre= True CrimeDyslexia Friendly|summary= Killing for Company is Amy-May was devastated when her parents split up: she and her mother left the delightful seaside cottage where the waves had sung her to sleep and moved into a detailed criminal study of Dennis Nilsen'garden flat'. That didn't mean that it had a garden, unique in just that it was produced with Nilsen's full cooperation and includes material from Nilsen's prison diarieson the ground floor. Covering Nilsen They didn's early life, his career and subsequent murders, this is t have a detailed analysis lot of possessions as the man behind the murder bailiffs had taken most of them. Her father was living in another old cottage now and an attempthopefully he'd be able to set up his kiln, on Mastersbut he wouldn't be able to home-school Amy-May. The alternative was Sandcastles Secondary School but the rather nervous Amy was considered to be too ''anxious'' part, to understand what shaped Nilsen and what could have caused such apparently senseless violencestart at the school full time. As a gentle introduction to schooling she went to Grace's art school instead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784759422178112695X</amazonuk>

|author= E V HarteCassandra Parkin|title= The Prime of Ms Dolly GreeneWinter's Child

|genre= CrimeParanormal|summary= I ''A modern Gothic tale of twisted love reading full stop so , secrets and hauntings'' it says on the cover. I was excited 'll go along with that. Suzannah Harper doesn't believe in life after death or gypsies being able to have tell the chance to read the first crime novel from established, well-regarded author Daisy Waughfuture, writing under a pseudonym. But, as a self-confessed chicklit fan, whobut that hasn's never read t stopped her spending a crime novel before, I wasn't sure if I was going to like it.fortune on psychics and fortune tellers in the desperate hunt for her son. Joel has been missing for five years. He skipped out of school one day after an argument at home and has not been seen since.turns out I absolutely loved it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14721242431785079034</amazonuk>

|author=Vicky HaywardClare Foges and Al Murphy|title=Juan Altamiras' New Art of Cookery: A Spanish Friar's Kitchen NotebookBathroom Boogie

|genre=CookeryFor Sharing|summary=In 1745 Every day I leave the house with the feeling that I left it in a Spanish friary cookpretty tidy state, Juan Altamiras, published the first edition but on my return some things always seem out of place. his ''New Art This is especially true of Cookerymy bathroom. Why is there toothpaste on the mirror, Drawn From or a flannel on the School of Economic Experience''. floor? It contained more than two hundred recipes for meat, poultry, game, salted and fresh fish, vegetables and desserts. The style was informal, chatty and humorous on occasions and it was aimed, would appear that I may not at those who could afford actually be to cook on a grand scale, but blame and that when I'm at those with more modest budgets, who sometimes needed to cook for large numbers. Whilst work all the ingredients were - bathroom items come out for the most part - modestly priced there is a stress on the careful combination of flavours and aromasboogie. Spices are used conservatively and the bluntness of some Moorish cooking is eschewed Will I ever catch them in favour of something much more subtle and we see influences from Altamiras' own region, Aragon, the Iberian court and the New World.act?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14422794190571337317</amazonuk>

|author= Clar Ni ChonghaileMark Alder|title= Rain Falls On EveryoneSon of the Night|rating= 54|genre= Literary FictionFantasy|summary= It's a cliché that In [[Son of the Irish have a picturesque turn Morning by Mark Alder|Son of phrasethe Morning]], but clichés only exist because they're true. Roddy Doyle put it differently in author Mark Alder plunges the reader into a recent interview with ''Writing'' magazinechaotic, when he said that ''With Irishdangerous world, there's another language bubbling under taking them back to the English''. However you express it, that art turbulent reign of expression is woven into every other line Edward III and the dangers of Clár's prosethe Hundred Years War. Pick a page at random Adding elements of fantasy and you'll find something like ''theology to the sickness that had come to roost mix, Alder created an intriguing read which is continued in her home like a cursed owl'' or Son of the Night''like he was . With Lucifer, Satan, God, Jesus Devils and Justin Timberlake rolled into one'' or ''Angels interacting with a low sobbingcast of real and well researched characters, slow and inevitable Alder continues his exploration of the Hundred Years war whilst rather incredibly keeping his readers as educated as rain on a Sunday'': expressions that catch your smile unawares, or tear at your heart in their mundane sadness. Or sometimes boththey are entertained.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17850790180575115203</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Salt CreekKenneth Grahame and Robert Ingpen|authortitle=Lucy TreloarThe Wind in The Willows|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionConfident Readers|summary=Kenneth Grahame's ''The Wind in the Willows'' was one of the defining books of my childhood and more than sixty years after I first chapter read the book I've just recently passed it onto another young reader. Since the book was first published in 1908 there have been some notable illustrators: Paul Bransom provided illustrations for the 1913 edition, Ernest H Shepard (perhaps better known for his illustrations of ''Salt CreekWinnie the Pooh'' opens ) in Chichester, England1933, Arthur Rackham (possibly the leading illustrator from the golden age of book illustration) in 1874. Hester Finch is a respected 1940 and reasonably wealthy member Robert Ingpen who illustrated the centenary edition of her community. But she can't stop her thoughts wandering back to her adolescence, spent on Salt Creek Station 'The Wind in the remote South Australian Coorong region. Hester feels ''has never felt so alive as then, when we had so littleWillows''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19107094171786751062</amazonuk>

|author= Bali RaiSimon Jenkins|title= Tales from IndiaBritain's 100 Best Railway Stations|rating= 45|genre= Confident ReadersReference|summary=Fairy stories, folk tales and fables are a rite of passage for an inquiring mind. They open In the mid twentieth century the door railway was something which harked back to enchantment, magic the Victorian age with trains being supplanted by cars and moral lessons. Many European collections existplanes, some of the most notable but steam was being that of Aesop, Hans Christian Andersenreplaced by oil, even then and in the Brothers Grimm, Andrew Lang and Perrault. Tales can also originate from exotic climestwenty-first century oil is giving way to electricity. An endless source of delight for me as a child was my great grandmother It's much cherished copy of The Arabian Nights. Full of mysterycleaner, imagination more environmentally friendly and charmthe stations which we'd all rushed through as quickly as possible, it communicated keen to me the power of storytelling escape their grime, were restored and transported me became places to different worldsbe admired, possibly even lingered in. This is what Bali Rai aims to do for young readers with Simon Jenkins has chosen his latest offering. Inspired by the collected tales of the C19th Sydney-born English folklorist Joseph Jacob, Rai has lovingly created a tribute to the traditional stories of Indiahundred best railway stations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141373067024197898X</amazonuk>

|author=Lucy AdlingtonSarah Baker|title=The Red RibbonEloise Undercover|rating=4.5

|summary=Ella is rushing to Eloise has a wonderful life with her audition for a job in fashiontwo best friends, Albert and Maddie, as are several other young womenuntil the German soldiers start to arrive and everything changes. Thrown in at the deep end in the highNazi-pressure workplace, she occupied France is tasked with creating not a dress from scratch for an important client before four pm that dayplace Eloise wants to be. Maddie and her family are taken away and Albert starts to act very strangely. Then her father disappears. But Eloise is lost until she manages it, even discovers her father has been working through for the non-existent lunch breakresistance and there might, if she is brave enough, be a way to design a silk wonder worthy of any environment. But this is no typical make-or-break-rescue him before he'em fashion design house, and this is no normal environment for the recipient s deported to be wearing the frockGermany. This is Birchwood – or Auschwitz-Birkenau to you She now has hope and Ia plan.But will the resistance let a twelve year old schoolgirl join them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14714062881910611131</amazonuk>

|author=Andy BellNalini Singh|title=Silver Silence A Psy-Changling Trinity Novel|rating= 4|genre= Paranormal|summary= Jump straight into a rich and diverse universe at this designated jumping on point. Visit a world of humans, changelings and Psy. The DIY Investor: How to take control world the books have set in has faced a dramatic change and a new world-order of your investments peace has been declared. The peace is painful and plan for not universally loved. Into this world a financially secure futurebear falls in love with an emotionless Psy – how'd ya reckon it'll turn out?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473217571</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Colin Thubron|title= Mirror to Damascus|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceTravel|summary=Investments are confusing. They're also rather frightening unless you have Damascus today is a background in finance: you could invest in equities which seem likely monument to make your fortuneher past, only to find that you've lost all your money. On the other hand you could put all your savings into a nice, safe building society or bank account only to find that the interest is so derisory that your capital doesn't actually have the same buying power people and civilisations that it did when you opened the accounthelped shape her. You could, In this enthusiastic piece of coursetravel writing, spend Collin Thubron tells the money, but what about when you want to buy tale of a housecity that has seen empires rise and fall, replace the roof or retire? The roof might be relatively cheap but the other conquerors come and go and has lasted for over two are going to need a substantial investment potthousand years. It's rich in impressive history and this book is rich in impressive detail.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08571960140099532298</amazonuk>

|author= E LockhartFearne Cotton and Sheena Dempsey|title= Genuine FraudYoga Babies

|genre= TeensFor Sharing|summary= I'm going to straight up say that I'm not going to mention the plot in this reviewRadio host, TV presenter, fashion designer, because I author – is there anything Fearne Cotton can't without inevitably spoiling something in do? Based on the content of this twistingbook, turning, great suspense of a novel. All I will say is that I felt like I was watching a proper thriller movie while I was reading it; I feel like I might see this advertised as a film on we can undoubtedly add Yogi to the side ongoing list of a bus any time soontalents, and if that happens, then because it will have an excellent female lead that kicks some serious backside's hard to imagine any other way in which this came into being. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>14714066281783445645</amazonuk>

|author= Jackie Morris Claire Freedman and James MayhewJane Massey|title= Mrs Noah's PocketsFlorence Frizzball|rating= 4.5

|summary= The heavy rainsFlorence Frizzball has the frizziest, curliest, most out of control mop of hair you've ever seen! And she longs for smooth, sleek, Noah building his ark and brushable locks like all her friends. As a kid, I remember being chased round the animals going in two garden by two my mother, brandishing a hair brush and trying to be saved. This most familiar of stories has been retold time get me to sit still and time again but not like thishave my frizz sorted out. This time there is twist and someone else quietly takes centre stageTo say I identified with Florence would be an understatement. When Mr Noah builds As the arktale goes on, though, he makes two lists - one for all we see another side to the animals who will come on board and one for those troublesome creatures he will leave behindstory. MeanwhileFlorence gets what she wants, Mrs Noah gets out but when her sewing machine dream comes true she quickly learns that maybe she was wanting all the wrong things, and makes a coat with very deep pockets. Lots that actually her frizzball is part of pocketsher identity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191095909X1471144542</amazonuk>

|author=Jem VanstonStuart Maconie|title=A Cat Called Dog 2 - The One with the KittensLong Road From Jarrow|rating=45|genre=General FictionTravel |summary=George, Dog the cat I cancelled my ''Country Walking'' magazine subscription about a year ago and Eric the stray were indulging themselves with a philosophical discussion when they heard some strange mewingonly thing I miss is Stuart Maconie's column. Three kittens had found their way into the garden His down-to-earth approach and sharp wit belie an equally sharp intellect and told the resident cats that their mother had told them a soul more sensitive than he might be willing to run away when a two-legs cat catcher came for them alladmit. Mother couldn Let't run as she had a sore paws be honest, though, but DaisyI picked this one up because of someone else's review, Maisie in which I spotted names like Ferryhill and Boo had run and run and runNewton Aycliffe. Places I grew up in. They'd Like Maconie I have no idea what happened connection (that I know of) to her - or how the Jarrow Crusade but when he talks about it being ''a whole matrix of events reducible to get back home again. George is getting on in years and wouldn't one word like to upset his two legsAberfan, The LadyHillsborough, by being away from home for or Orgreave'' then somehow it does become part of my history too long. Tangentially, so he appoints Dog as leader of an expedition to reunite the kittens and their Motherat least.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17862933901785030531</amazonuk>

|author= Cressida CowellKieran Larwood|title= The Wizards Gift of OnceDark Hollow

|summary= Xar This is the second marvellous book featuring the rabbits of Enderby, and Wish only meet because they are both where they are not supposed to be. Xar is an impetuous the delightful young wizard keen to prove his magical prowessrabbit hero, Podkin One Ear. Wish is I love the format of a story within a young warrior desperate to demonstrate her worthstory. They live The adventures of Podkin in ''The Gift of Dark Hollow'', are told by an old rabbit who has been a world in which Iron vanquishes Magic Bard all his life - a teller of stories and legends from the Magic of rabbit world. The Bard has an apprentice, Rue, desperately eager to learn his trade. He hangs on every word spoken by the witches Bard as they travel together to a festival. Rue is pretty evil stuff. Thankfullyhungry to learn the art of story-telling, but also wants to know all about Podkin One Ear, the warriors have used Iron and what better way to do this than to keep hear from the witches at bayMaster himself. And nowThe tale he tells Rue (and us) is a gripping and scary one, they are turning featuring Podkin and his friends in their attention ongoing battle to overturn the wizardsruthless Gorm, and their cruel leader, Scramashank.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571328415</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Phil Allcock and Richard Watson|title= Clumpety Bump|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary= Clumpety Bump likes apples. Nothing wrong with that, after all: they're tasty and full of goodness. But what if not all Magic you don't get delicious, juicy treats like that unless you deserve them, and naughty Clumpety is bad? What a bit too keen on saying ''I can't be bothered'' when his friend Wally asks for help. So, after several disasters, Wally decides he'd be better off leaving Clumpety at home and using his tractor instead. Unfortunately, things don't turn out too well, and our two heroes learn that if the witches are a threat you want to be properly happy, other people need to warrior and wizard alike? What then? be happy too. Selfishness just makes everyone sad. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>14449367001848862458</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 10/9 -->|author=Stuart BurrellRoger Moore|title=Twelve Times To The Max: One Man's Journey to, and Recollections of, Setting Twelve Verified World RecordsA Bientot...

|summary=The first news of Stuart Burrell's world records, well, the first two, actually, death of Sir Roger Moore in May 2017 came as a great shock: he's not a man to do things by halves, came about by accidentwas one of those people you knew would go on for ever. There had been a plan to raise some money for the Children was just one small glimmer of light in Need Charity and quite late on the people who were to have been sadness - the main attraction got news that a better offer and Burrell is not a man matter of days before his death he'd delivered the finished manuscript of his book, ''À bientôt…'', to let people downhis publishers. What could be done to bring people in and raise some money? Most of us would have thought of jumble sales and cake bakes, but Burrell had made Just a few months later a hobby of escapology copy landed on my desk and idea of a sponsored escape had life breathed into I didn't even bother to look as though I could resist reading it. On 3 November 2002 he went for the Fastest Handcuff Escape world record and immediately afterwards Most Handcuffs Escaped in One Hour. Both were successful and more than £300 was raised for Children in Needstraight away.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>154712251X1782438610</amazonuk>

|author= Susan Duxbury-NeumannJonathan Stroud|title= What Have the Germans Ever Done for Us?Lockwood and Co: A History of the German Population of Great BritainThe Empty Grave|rating= 45|genre= HistoryConfident Readers|summary= The adapted Monty Pythonesque rhetorical question In a world that takes some time to provide a full answerthe best and worst of Victorian times (atmospheric fogs, candles, mudlarks who scavenge along the banks of the Thames for treasures) and the modern day (leggings, skinny jeans, cabs and concrete underpasses) absolutely anything can happen – and it does. For fifty years ghosts of all kinds have infested Britain, and as only children and young people can see them, theirs is the task of protecting the adults and ridding the country of the menaces, one by painful one. Lucy, George, Holly and this slim Lockwood are the members of the smallest and most ramshackle independent agency, but useful volume does so very welltheir constant success (and survival despite forever lengthening odds) is a thorn in the flesh of the elite Fittes Agency, which has acquired almost total control over the whole ghost-bashing business. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>14456648600552575798</amazonuk>

|author= Holly HepburnKenneth Steven|title= The Picture House by the SeaWinter Tales|rating= 4|genre= Women's FictionShort Stories|summary=So Upon opening this book you are presented with an eclectic collection of twelve short stories centred around a common theme of Winter. You are taken around the world as another typically dreary British summer is drawing you read stories set in a variety of places from Helsinki to a closeNew York, I found myself craving Germany to Russia. Kenneth Steven cleverly utilises a fix key component of literary sunshine and sea kissed romance. In short stories - that you can read each story in one sitting - to his advantage as he gives each story an individual focal subject, such a mood it was thenas bullying, ensuring that I came across you are reading a distinct story every time you open the cover for ''The Picture House by the Sea''. Perfect blue skies, glistening sea, a beautiful Art Deco building and to top it off an old fashioned ice-cream cartbook. Consider me sold!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14711617141910674508</amazonuk>

|author=Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyreWilliam Sutton|title=Pug-a-Doodle-Do!Lawless and the House of Electricity|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsCrime (Historical)|summary=I was reading Campbell Lawless is back, this time tasked with solving a book so utterly different to this series of terrorist attacks across the other day, it has to bear mentionnation. It was an exceedingly academic book about graphic novels and comics for the YA audience, and Is it featured an essay picking up on the way books like work of the fill-in-bits-yourself entries in the Wimpy Kid French, as police and Dork Diaries series (such as [[Dork Diaries: How public are being led to Dork Your Diary by Rachel Renee Russell|this one]]) let you interact with the franchisebelieve, or someone closer to home? Who can be trusted and also what does Roxbury, an innovative inventor previously disgraced, have to create your own content. There was some weird high-falutin' academic language do with the bombs used to describe such books – but you know whatcause chaos across the country? I say (redacted) to that – let's just hang it and have fun. And this bookEmploying the services of Molly, spinning off the effervescent ragamuffin from the four books this partnership has so far been responsible forhis previous adventures, is certainly he sets in motion a provider campaign of thatsubterfuge which uncovers long held secrets, skulduggery and the desperate yearnings beneath Roxbury's constant invention.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>01927640471785650130</amazonuk>

|author=Jeremy Strong and Jamie SmithK J Lawrence|title=Nellie Choc-Ice, Penguin Explorer (Little Gems)The Cossack|rating=4.5|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyThrillers|summary=Meet Nellie Choc-Ice. Thus named by her grandparents (Daniel Brooking is not what you'd think of as hero material: he's a photographer of some merit and grandparents have in his fifties he has a habit in this book settled life. It was the disappearance of making unusual names his assistant, Ivan Shevchenko, which disrupted everything. It wasn't unknown for their grandchildren, whichever species they belong him to)disappear occasionally, she is but missing an exhibition was a first for him. He'd been distracted for a pretty little Macaroni penguinfew days - and then there were the strange papers which arrived, complete with pink feetto be kept safe. The authorities, bright yellow eyebrows and a woolly hat with in the world's biggest pompom on the end. She has form of a habit shadowy senior member of going exploring and finding out what's over the next ridge in the icesecurity services, and confirmed the nextview that Ivan was probably dead, because of some supposed connections with organised crime and the nextdrug dealing. But when disaster happens and the ice she is on is knocked off Antarctica by a submarine, even she can have no idea as to where she will end up…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17811272121999782704</amazonuk>

|author= Sally NichollsJames Goss and Russell T Davies|title= Things Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Bright Girl Can DoCollection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who)|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensChildren's Rhymes and Verse |summary=''Things a Bright Girl Can Do'' tells Consider the story of three teenage girls, all of whom are fighting for women's suffrage, despite coming from very different backgroundsDoctor. There's Evelyn Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each year, an upper-class girl expected were he to marry at keep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a young age, May, a middle-class girl with an opinionated Motherfew novelty gifts for some of them, and Nellsay, a working-class girl who does what she can to help her large family scrape by. The novel chronicles both their contributions to the fight for suffrageexample, and whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the way their lives change when World War One begins.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783445254</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Neil White|title= From The Shadows|rating= 4.5|genre= Crime|summary= I'm life of a bit old-fashioned Time Lord and therefore not a great fan that of some of stories that can't keep their timeline straighthis friends and enemies. I'll go with a prologue – even if As luck would have it's becoming a bit of clichéd way of creating a mystery at , he has the beginning of a story space in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, so my advice to him – sorry, her – but switching between 'now' would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. And if you're working on a fortnight ago' – just feels a little lazyshorter timescale, with a way of creating tension when all else fails. Thatshorter lifespan, howeverand thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is my only little gripe about ''From The Shadows'' and I admit, whether I like it or not, it does more or less workpretty much the same.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17857609201785942719</amazonuk>