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|author=Orlando WeeksDK|title=The GrittermanMy Encyclopedia of Very Important Animals|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic NovelsChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=There's The animal kingdom is a man who has an ice cream vandiverse one, full of creatures that do all sorts of things. In summer, what The number of animals out there is of summer, he uses it so vast that even vets need to sell ice creams, do a quick google when something strange appears in their practice. That's not his vocation though, but it does keep him going whilst he waits for winter, when the van becomes For budding vet-to-be animals are a Gritting Van constant source of fascination and our narrator becomes a Grittermanthey will absorb as much knowledge as you can give them. The fibreglass 99s on It is not practical to visit the roof light up zoo every day, but getting an educational and rotate, playing a tune, whether the vanentertaining animal encylopedia is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241276357</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=DK|title=DK Children's gritting or selling ice creamsEncyclopedia|rating=4. Tonight 5|genre=Children's Non- Christmas Eve - will be the vanFiction|summary=More than sixty years ago my grandparents bought me an encylopedia: it was a major purchase for them as they didn't really ''do''s last tripbooks, but it was a treasure trove for me and I still have it today. The council has sent the letter about his services no longer being requiredIt didn't just teach me facts - it taught me how to find out information for myself and how to use an index. Global warmingIt opened my eyes to subjects I'd never considered and widened my knowledge on those I already loved. Dying professionIn format, they say. Therein size and content it was very similar to ''DK Children's even Encyclopedia'' and I can imagine a tarmac now that can de-ice itself, but the Gritterman isn't sure that he wants younger me hunched over it and begging just to be allowed to finish this bit before I went to live in a world where the B2116 doesn't need grittingbed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184614955X0241283868</amazonuk>

|author= Adam SilveraKelly Barnhill|title= They Both Die at The Girl Who Drank the EndMoon

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary= ''No matter how we choose Every year the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to livethe witch who lives in the forest, we both die at in the end'' The year hope that this sacrifice will keep their town safe. Little do they know that the witch, Xan, is 2017, a kind soul who rescues the children and finds them new homes with families on the other side of the forest. She feeds the place is Americababies on starlight to keep 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 realises she must raise this is not a place we recognisemagical child as her own, locking away her magical abilities until her thirteenth birthday. A company called Death-Cast know But as the exact date of everyoneday approaches where Luna's death and make it their mission to inform Deckers that they magic will emerge, she will be dead within the next twenty-four hours. Many have tried to cheat death, all have failedlearn to protect the safe and loving world she has always known. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>14711662011848126476</amazonuk>

|author= K J WhittakerRobin Jarvis|title= False LightsTime of Blood|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical FictionTeens|summary=Cornwall, 1817. What if your worst mistake changed the course of history? Napoleon has crushed the Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo, and his ex-wife Josephine presides Travel back over French-occupied England. Cornwall erupts a hundred years into open rebellion, and young heiress Hester escapes with Crow, WellingtonWhitby's former intelligence officer, a half-French aristocrat haunted by his part in the catastrophic defeatpast to see two witches battle an ancient evil. Together, they become embroiled in a web of treachery and espionage Follow young Lil as plans are laid she tries to free Wellington from secret captivity in the Scilly Isles and lead an uprising against the French occupation. In a country rife with traitors, Hester avoid spoilers and Crow know it is impossible to play such a game as this for long..find her best friend.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17866953401405280255</amazonuk>

|author=Cynthia Ryland J M Barrie and Mary BlairRobert Ingpen|title=Walt Disney's Cinderella: Illustrated by Mary Blair (Walt Disney Classics)Peter Pan and Wendy

|genre=Emerging ReadersFor Sharing|summary=IIt'm sure almost all my readers are au fait with s a childhood staple - the story of CinderellaWendy, John and Michael Darling and of how she went from their beloved nurse, Nana the gutter Newfoundland dog who took them to the stars in one romantic swoopschool each day. It's only a good thing George Darling, their father, who makes the mistake when he locks Nana in the relevant people didn't have foot fetishes or phobias, for then yard and the tale would have been utterly differentchildren are whisked away to Neverland by Peter Pan and Tinkerbell. Disney made it slightly differentThere's a wonderful mix of characters, of coursefrom Peter Pan, when they made the animated classic based on boy who never wants to grow up, Tinkerbell, the legendrather unpleasant fairy, Captain Hook, and this bookTiger Lily, complete with art from the time the film was being madelost boys and - of course - Wendy, is evidence of just how but then it wouldn't have been a classic since the look original stage production in 1904 and the emotion novel of the piece 1911 if it were intended to beotherwise.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14052869971786750856</amazonuk>

|author=Jon Scieszka and Mary BlairEmily Winslow|title=Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland: Illustrated by Mary Blair (Walt Disney Classics)Look For Her|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging ReadersCrime|summary=I'll take is as read you have some knowledge of In 1976, Annalise Wood disappeared on her journey home from school and instantly became a local celebrity. For decades the story town of Alice in Wonderland – certainly when she got Lilling tried to be 150 years old a couple solve the mystery of Annalise's disappearance until, almost twenty years back later, her body was discovered. Annalise's body was badly decomposed and there were no end of editions was lack of DNA available, the only trace on the body was found in her storyskirt and does not match anyone on record. And as you know, 150 years is a heck The chances of a lot of unbirthdays. But finding her story got to be slightly different, killer were extremely low and if anything only more loved, courtesy of the Disney cartoon, and the fact that this book features artwork that was generated during the production of that film is murder soon becomes a 'cold case' – but still the unique selling pointmost famous Lilling has ever seen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14052870040749022663</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=MoonriseGrady Hendrix|authortitle=Sarah CrossanPaperbacks from Hell: A History of Horror Fiction from the '70s and '80s|rating=4.5|genre=TeensHorror|summary=Joe is seventeen and he hasn't seen his brother Demonic possession, murderous babies, man-eating moths… for ten years. And the reason for that is brutal - Ed is on Death Row in Texasthese books, convicted of the murder of a police officer. Ed says he's innocent. Aunt Karen doesn't believe him. And Mum is long goneno plot was too ludicrous, no-one knows where. When the execution date comes throughcover art too appalling, Joe passes up on his job and a spot on a summer athletics scholarship 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 thinksevil too despicable.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140886780X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=I am Traitor|Now horror author=Sif Sigmarsdottir |rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=Alien ships have arrived in the skies above London. The Prime Minister appeared on TV to announce this ominous visitation Grady Hendrix risks his soul and order a curfew. After that, he went AWOL and took all reliable information with him, leaving the army his sanity (not to patrol mention the streets. Not that the army has any answer reader's!) to relate the long pipes that snake down from the ships true, untold story of a fascinating and gobble up teenagers. To where, nobody knows.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444934473</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Charlotte Says|author=Alex Bell|rating=4often forgotten era in publishing.5|genre=Teens|summary=''Charlotte says... don't open the door.''

Jemima's mother died in an awful fire not long ago and that is why Jemima decides to leave London and take up a job as a teacher on the Isle of Skye. But leaving the place doesn't mean escaping Read the memories and Jemima is tormented by secondsynapse-guessing what actually happened on that terrible night. It doesn't help that Miss Grayson, the mistress at the school, is a strange, forbidding sort, while the school itself is a thoroughly creepy old building.|amazonuk=shattering story summaries!<amazonukbr>1847158404See the horrific hand-painted cover imagery!</amazonukbr>}}{{newreview|author= J Jefferson Farjeon|title= Seven Dead|rating= 4|genre= Historical Fiction|summary=Ted Lyte was petty criminal, but not usually And learn the housebreaking type. He lacked the courage. However, needs must, and whilst feeling down on his luck he decided to try his chances at an isolated house with a shuttered window. ''...he might find a bit true-life tales of alright behind those shutters! Wot abart it?'' Ted does indeed find something interesting behind the shutterswriters, but it definitely isn't what he'd hoped. In a locked room he finds seven dead bodies; six men and a woman. Fleeing the house in horrorartists, he is pursued and caught by a passing yachtsman, Thomas Hazeldean, publishers who also happens to gleefully violated every literary law but one – never be a journalist. Fascinated by Ted's story (and a possible scoop), Hazeldean decides to investigate this curious case and its assortment of odd clues, including a portrait shot through the heart, an old cricket ball and a mysterious note written by one of the victimsboring.|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 Eloise has a wonderful life with her two best friends, Albert and Maddie, until the German soldiers start to arrive and everything changes. Nazi-occupied France is rushing not a place Eloise wants to be. Maddie and her audition for a job in fashion, as family are several other young womentaken away and Albert starts to act very strangely. Then her father disappears. Thrown in at Eloise is lost until she discovers her father has been working for the deep end in the high-pressure workplaceresistance and there might, if she is tasked with creating brave enough, be a dress from scratch for an important client way to rescue him before four pm that dayhe's deported to Germany. She now has hope and a plan. But she manages it, even working through will the nonresistance let a twelve year old schoolgirl join them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910611131</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Nalini Singh|title= Silver Silence A Psy-existent lunch break, to design Changling Trinity Novel|rating= 4|genre= Paranormal|summary= Jump straight into a rich and diverse universe at this designated jumping on point. Visit a silk wonder worthy world of any environment. But this is no typical make-or-break-'em fashion design househumans, changelings and this is no normal environment for Psy. The world the recipient to be wearing the frockbooks have set in has faced a dramatic change and a new world-order of peace has been declared. This The peace is Birchwood – or Auschwitz-Birkenau to you painful and Inot universally loved.Into this world a bear falls in love with an emotionless Psy – how'd ya reckon it'll turn out?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14714062881473217571</amazonuk>

|author=Andy BellColin Thubron|title=The DIY Investor: How Mirror to take control of your investments and plan for a financially secure futureDamascus|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 people and civilisations that the interest is so derisory that your capital doesn't actually have the same buying power 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 the witches is pretty evil stuffrabbit world. ThankfullyThe Bard has an apprentice, Rue, desperately eager to learn his trade. He hangs on every word spoken by the warriors have used Iron Bard as they travel together to keep a festival. Rue is hungry to learn the witches at bay. And nowart of story-telling, but also wants to know all about Podkin One Ear, they are turning their attention and what better way to do this than to hear from the wizardsMaster himself. But what if not all Magic The tale he tells Rue (and us) is bad? What if the witches are a threat gripping and scary one, featuring Podkin and his friends in their ongoing battle to warrior overturn the ruthless Gorm, and wizard alike? What then? their cruel leader, Scramashank.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14449367000571328415</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 10/9 -->|author=Stuart BurrellPhil Allcock and Richard Watson|title=Twelve Times To The MaxClumpety Bump|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary= Clumpety Bump likes apples. Nothing wrong with that, after all: One Manthey's Journey tore tasty and full of goodness. But you don't get delicious, juicy treats like that unless you deserve them, and naughty Clumpety is 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 Recollections ofour two heroes learn that if you want to be properly happy, Setting Twelve Verified World Recordsother people need to be happy too. Selfishness just makes everyone sad. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862458</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Roger Moore|title=A 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 Lockwood and Co: The Empty Grave|rating= 5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= In a world that takes the best and worst of Victorian times (atmospheric fogs, candles, mudlarks who scavenge along the banks of the Germans Ever Done Thames for Us?: A History 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 Lockwood are the members of the German Population smallest and most ramshackle independent agency, but their constant success (and survival despite forever lengthening odds) is a thorn in the flesh of Great Britainthe elite Fittes Agency, which has acquired almost total control over the whole ghost-bashing business.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0552575798</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kenneth Steven|title=Winter Tales|rating= 4|genre= HistoryShort Stories|summary= The adapted Monty Pythonesque rhetorical question takes some time 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 you read stories set in a variety of places from Helsinki to New York, Germany to provide Russia. Kenneth Steven cleverly utilises a full answerkey component of short stories - that you can read each story in one sitting - to his advantage as he gives each story an individual focal subject, and this slim but useful volume does so very wellsuch as bullying, ensuring that you are reading a distinct story every time you open the book. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>14456648601910674508</amazonuk>

|author= Holly HepburnWilliam Sutton|title= The Picture Lawless and the House by the Seaof Electricity|rating= 45|genre= Women's FictionCrime (Historical)|summary=So as another typically dreary British summer Campbell Lawless is drawing to a closeback, I found myself craving this time tasked with solving a fix series of literary sunshine and sea kissed romanceterrorist attacks across the nation. In such a mood Is it was thenthe work of the French, as police and public are being led to believe, or someone closer to home? Who can be trusted and what does Roxbury, an innovative inventor previously disgraced, that I came have to do with the bombs used to cause chaos across the cover for ''The Picture House by country? Employing the Sea''. Perfect blue skiesservices of Molly, glistening seathe effervescent ragamuffin from his previous adventures, he sets in motion a beautiful Art Deco building campaign of subterfuge which uncovers long held secrets, skulduggery and to top it off an old fashioned ice-cream cartthe desperate yearnings beneath Roxbury's constant invention. Consider me sold!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14711617141785650130</amazonuk>

|author=Philip Reeve and Sarah McIntyreK J Lawrence|title=Pug-a-Doodle-Do!The Cossack|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsThrillers|summary=I was reading Daniel Brooking is not what you'd think of as hero material: he's a book so utterly different to this the other day, it photographer of some merit and in his fifties he has to bear mentiona settled life. It was an exceedingly academic book about graphic novels and comics for the YA audiencedisappearance of his assistant, and it featured an essay picking up on the way books like the fill-in-bits-yourself entries in the Wimpy Kid and Dork Diaries series (such as [[Dork Diaries: How to Dork Your Diary by Rachel Renee Russell|this one]]) let you interact with the franchiseIvan Shevchenko, and also to create your own contentwhich disrupted everything. There was some weird high-falutinIt wasn' academic language t unknown for him to describe such books – disappear occasionally, but you know what? I say (redacted) to that – letmissing an exhibition was a first for him. He's just hang it d been distracted for a few days - and have funthen there were the strange papers which arrived, to be kept safe. And this bookThe authorities, spinning off from in the four books this partnership has so far been responsible for, is certainly form of a provider shadowy senior member of the security services, confirmed the view thatIvan was probably dead, because of some supposed connections with organised crime and drug dealing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>01927640471999782704</amazonuk>

|author=Jeremy Strong James Goss and Jamie SmithRussell T Davies|title=Nellie Choc-Ice, Penguin Explorer Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Little GemsDr Who)

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyChildren's Rhymes and Verse |summary=Meet Nellie Choc-IceConsider the Doctor. Thus named by her grandparents (Just how many birthday and grandparents Christmas gifts must he have a habit to hand out each year, were he to keep in this book touch with even half of making unusual names his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for their grandchildrensome of them, say, whichever species they belong to)for example, she is whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of a pretty little Macaroni penguin, complete with pink feet, bright yellow eyebrows Time Lord and that of some of his friends and a woolly hat with the world's biggest pompom on the endenemies. She As luck would have it, he has a habit of going exploring and finding out what's over the next ridge space in the icehis TARDIS to stock up in advance, and the nextso my advice to him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and the nextget himself ready. But when disaster happens and the ice she is And if you're working on is knocked off Antarctica by a submarineshorter timescale, with a shorter lifespan, and thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, even she can have no idea as to where she will end up…well my advice is pretty much the same.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17811272121785942719</amazonuk>