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|author= Marianne TaylorDK|title= Owls: A Guide to Every SpeciesMy Encyclopedia of Very Important Animals|rating= 4.5|genre= ReferenceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=I feel like I am being watchedThe animal kingdom is a diverse one, full of creatures that do all sorts of things. A huge pair The number of piercing orange eyes animals out there is so vast that even vets need to do a quick google when something strange appears in their practice. For budding vet-to-be animals are staring right at a constant source of fascination and they will absorb as much knowledge as you can give them. It is not practical to visit the zoo every day, but getting an educational and entertaining animal encylopedia is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241276357</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=DK|title=DK Children's Encyclopedia|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=More than sixty years ago my grandparents bought mean encylopedia: it was a major purchase for them as they didn't really ''do'' books, locking but it was a treasure trove for me into their gazeand I still have it today. In contrast with the hardness of the deep It didn't just teach me facts -amber eyes, soft grey feathers fan it taught me how to find out into the surrounding area, intricate, detailed information for myself and beautifulhow to use an index. An enigma; harsh It opened my eyes to subjects I'd never considered and gentle at the same timewidened my knowledge on those I already loved. In format, the owl is beckoning the reader in size and content it was very similar to turn the pages ''DK Children's Encyclopedia'' and take I can imagine a closer look inside..younger me hunched over it and begging just to be allowed to finish this bit before I went to bed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178240404X0241283868</amazonuk>

|author=Orlando WeeksKelly Barnhill|title=The GrittermanGirl Who Drank the Moon|rating=54|genre=Graphic NovelsConfident Readers|summary=There's Every year the people of the Protectorate leave a man baby as an offering to the witch who has an ice cream vanlives in the forest, in the hope that this sacrifice will keep their town safe. In summerLittle do they know that the witch, Xan, what there is a kind soul who rescues the children and finds them new homes with families on the other side of summer, he uses it the forest. She feeds the babies on starlight to sell ice creams, That's not his vocation thoughkeep them nourished throughout their journey, but it does keep him going whilst he waits for winter, when one year she accidently feeds a baby moonlight which fills the van becomes child with a Gritting Van and our narrator becomes a Grittermanpowerful magic. The fibreglass 99s on Xan names the roof light up baby Luna and rotaterealises she must raise this magical child as her own, playing a tune, whether locking away her magical abilities until her thirteenth birthday. But as the vanday approaches where Luna's gritting or selling ice creams. Tonight - Christmas Eve - magic will be the van's last trip. The council has sent the letter about his services no longer being required. Global warming. Dying professionemerge, they say. There's even a tarmac now that can de-ice itself, but she will have to learn to protect the Gritterman isn't sure that he wants to live in a safe and loving world where the B2116 doesn't need grittingshe has always known.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184614955X1848126476</amazonuk>

|author= Adam SilveraRobin Jarvis|title= They Both Die at the EndTime of Blood

|summary= ''No matter how we choose to live, we both die at the end'' The year is 2017, the place is America, but this is not Travel back over a place we recognise. A company called Death-Cast know the exact date of everyonehundred years into Whitby's death and make it their mission past to inform Deckers that they will be dead within the next twenty-four hourssee two witches battle an ancient evil. Many have tried Follow young Lil as she tries to cheat death, all have failedavoid spoilers and find her best friend. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>14711662011405280255</amazonuk>

|author= K J WhittakerM Barrie and Robert Ingpen|title= False LightsPeter Pan and Wendy|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical FictionFor Sharing|summary=Cornwall, 1817. What if your worst mistake changed the course of history? Napoleon has crushed the Duke of Wellington at It's a childhood staple - the Battle story of WaterlooWendy, John and his ex-wife Josephine presides over French-occupied England. Cornwall erupts into open rebellion, Michael Darling and young heiress Hester escapes with Crowtheir beloved nurse, WellingtonNana the Newfoundland dog who took them to school each day. It's former intelligence officerGeorge Darling, their father, a half-French aristocrat haunted by his part who makes the mistake when he locks Nana in the catastrophic defeatyard and the children are whisked away to Neverland by Peter Pan and Tinkerbell. Together, they become embroiled in There's a web wonderful mix of treachery and espionage as plans are laid to free Wellington characters, from secret captivity in Peter Pan, the Scilly Isles and lead an uprising against boy who never wants to grow up, Tinkerbell, the French occupation. In a country rife with traitorsrather unpleasant fairy, Captain Hook, Tiger Lily, Hester the lost boys and Crow know - of course - Wendy, but then it is impossible to play such wouldn't have been a game as this for long..classic since the original stage production in 1904 and the novel of 1911 if it were otherwise.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17866953401786750856</amazonuk>

|author=Cynthia Ryland and Mary BlairEmily Winslow|title=Walt Disney's Cinderella: Illustrated by Mary Blair (Walt Disney Classics)Look For Her|rating=4|genre=Emerging ReadersCrime|summary=I'm sure almost all my readers are au fait with the story of CinderellaIn 1976, Annalise Wood disappeared on her journey home from school and instantly became a local celebrity. For decades the town of how she went from the gutter Lilling tried to solve the stars in one romantic swoop. Itmystery of Annalise's only a good thing the relevant people didn't have foot fetishes or phobiasdisappearance until, almost twenty years later, for then the tale would have been utterly differenther body was discovered. Disney made it slightly different, Annalise's body was badly decomposed and there was lack of courseDNA available, when they made the animated classic based only trace on the legend, body was found in her skirt and this book, complete with art from the time the film was being made, is evidence does not match anyone on record. The chances of just how the look finding her killer were extremely low and the emotion of murder soon becomes a 'cold case' – but still the piece were intended to bemost famous Lilling has ever seen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14052869970749022663</amazonuk>

|author=Jon Scieszka and Mary BlairGrady Hendrix|title=Walt DisneyPaperbacks from Hell: A History of Horror Fiction from the '70s and 's Alice in Wonderland: Illustrated by Mary Blair (Walt Disney Classics)80s|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging ReadersHorror|summary=IDemonic possession, murderous babies, man-eating moths… for these books, no plot was too ludicrous, no cover art too appalling, no evil too despicable. Now horror author Grady Hendrix risks his soul and his sanity (not to mention the reader'll take is as read you have some knowledge of s!) to relate the true, untold story of Alice a fascinating and often forgotten era in Wonderland – certainly when she got to be 150 years old a couple of years back there were no end of editions of her publishing. Read the synapse-shattering story. summaries!<br>See the horrific hand-painted cover imagery!<br>And as you know, 150 years is a heck learn the true-life tales of a lot of unbirthdays. But her story got to be slightly different, and if anything only more lovedthe writers, courtesy of the Disney cartoonartists, and the fact that this book features artwork that was generated during the production of that film is the unique selling pointpublishers who gleefully violated every literary law but one – never be boring.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14052870041594749817</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=MoonriseLuke Dittrich|authortitle=Sarah CrossanPatient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness and Family Secrets|rating=4.5|genre=TeensPopular Science|summary=Joe is seventeen and he hasn't seen his brother for ten years. And the reason for that is brutal - Ed is Luke Dittrich seeks to shed light on Death Row in Texas, convicted of the murder of a police officer. Ed says he's innocent. Aunt Karen doesn't believe him. And Mum is long gone, no-one knows where. When man behind the execution date comes throughinitials, Joe passes up on his job and in doing so, uncovered quite 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 thinksbit more than he expected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140886780X0099571862</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=I am TraitorSita Brahmachari and Jane Ray|authortitle=Sif Sigmarsdottir Worry Angels|rating=4.5|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary=Alien ships have arrived in Amy-May was devastated when her parents split up: she and her mother left the delightful seaside cottage where the skies above London. The Prime Minister appeared on TV waves had sung her to announce this ominous visitation sleep and order moved into a curfew'garden flat'. After That didn't mean thatit had a garden, just that it was on the ground floor. They didn't have a lot of possessions as the bailiffs had taken most of them. Her father was living in another old cottage now and hopefully he went AWOL and took all reliable information with him'd be able to set up his kiln, leaving the army but he wouldn't be able to patrol the streetshome-school Amy-May. Not that The alternative was Sandcastles Secondary School but the army has any answer rather nervous Amy was considered to be too ''anxious'' to start at the long pipes that snake down from the ships and gobble up teenagersschool full time. To where, nobody knows As a gentle introduction to schooling she went to Grace's art school instead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444934473178112695X</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Charlotte SaysCassandra Parkin|authortitle=Alex BellThe Winter's Child|rating=4.5|genre=TeensParanormal|summary=''Charlotte A modern Gothic tale of twisted love, secrets and hauntings'' it says... don't open on the doorcover. I'' Jemima's mother died in an awful fire not long ago and ll go along with 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 Suzannah Harper doesn't mean escaping believe in life after death or gypsies being able to tell the memories and Jemima is tormented by second-guessing what actually happened on future, but that terrible night. It doesnhasn't help that Miss Grayson, the mistress at the school, is stopped her spending a strange, forbidding sort, while 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 itself is a thoroughly creepy old buildingone day after an argument at home and has not been seen since.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18471584041785079034</amazonuk>

|author= J Jefferson FarjeonClare Foges and Al Murphy|title= Seven DeadBathroom Boogie|rating= 4|genre= Historical FictionFor Sharing|summary=Ted Lyte was petty criminal, but not usually Every day I leave the housebreaking type. He lacked house with the courage. However, needs must, and whilst feeling down on his luck he decided to try his chances at an isolated house with that I left it in a shuttered window. ''...he might find a bit of alright behind those shutters! Wot abart it?'' Ted does indeed find something interesting behind the shutterspretty tidy state, but it definitely isn't what he'd hopedon my return some things always seem out of place. In a locked room he finds seven dead bodies; six men and a woman This is especially true of my bathroom. Fleeing Why is there toothpaste on the house in horrormirror, he is pursued and caught by or a passing yachtsman, Thomas Hazeldean, who also happens to flannel on the floor? It would appear that I may not actually be a journalist. Fascinated by Ted's story (and a possible scoop), Hazeldean decides to investigate this curious case blame and its assortment of odd clues, including a portrait shot through that when I'm at work all the heart, an old cricket ball and bathroom items come out for a mysterious note written by one of boogie. Will I ever catch them in the victims.act?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07123568860571337317</amazonuk>

|author= Chris ColferMark Alder|title= The Land Son of Stories: Worlds Collidethe Night|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersFantasy|summary=Finally, after much anticipation, the grand finale to the best-selling ''Land of Stories'' is here. The previous book In [[The Land Son of Stories: An Author's Odyssey the Morning by Chris ColferMark Alder|The Land Son of Stories: An Author's Odysseythe Morning]] left us dangling on an almighty cliffhanger, as well as leaving many plot threads unresolved. We have been with author Mark Alder plunges the reader into a chaotic, dangerous world, taking them back to the turbulent reign of Edward III and the Bailey twins from dangers of the very beginning; seen them grow Hundred Years War. Adding elements of fantasy and mature from awkward pre-teens theology to confident young adults. Orson Welles famously said: the mix, Alder created an intriguing read which is continued in ''Son of the Night''If you want a happy ending. With Lucifer, Satan, that dependsGod, Devils and Angels interacting with a cast of coursereal and well researched characters, on where you stop your storyAlder continues his exploration of the Hundred Years war whilst rather incredibly keeping his readers as educated as they are entertained.'' 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>03163558950575115203</amazonuk>

|author= Brian MastersKenneth Grahame and Robert Ingpen|title= Killing for CompanyThe Wind in The Willows|rating= 54|genre= True CrimeConfident Readers|summary= Killing for Company is a detailed criminal study of Dennis Nilsen, unique Kenneth Grahame's ''The Wind in that it the Willows'' was produced with Nilsen's full cooperation one of the defining books of my childhood and includes material from Nilsenmore than sixty years after I first read the book I's prison diariesve just recently passed it onto another young reader. Covering Nilsen's early life 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 career and subsequent murdersillustrations of ''Winnie the Pooh'') in 1933, this is a detailed analysis Arthur Rackham (possibly the leading illustrator from the golden age of book illustration) in 1940 and Robert Ingpen who illustrated the man behind centenary edition of ''The Wind in the murder and an attempt, on MastersWillows'' part, to understand what shaped Nilsen and what could have caused such apparently senseless violence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17847594221786751062</amazonuk>

|author= E V HarteSimon Jenkins|title= The Prime of Ms Dolly GreeneBritain's 100 Best Railway Stations|rating= 5|genre= CrimeReference|summary= I love reading full stop so I In the mid twentieth century the railway was excited something which harked back to have the chance to read Victorian age with trains being supplanted by cars and planes, but steam was being replaced by oil, even then and in the twenty-first crime novel from established, well-regarded author Daisy Waugh, writing under a pseudonymcentury oil is giving way to electricity. But It's cleaner, more environmentally friendly and the stations which we'd all rushed through as a self-confessed chicklit fanquickly as possible, who's never read a crime novel beforekeen to escape their grime, I wasn't sure if I was going were restored and became places to like it..be admired, possibly even lingered in. Simon Jenkins has chosen his hundred best railway stations.turns out I absolutely loved it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472124243024197898X</amazonuk>

|author=Vicky HaywardSarah Baker|title=Juan Altamiras' New Art of Cookery: A Spanish Friar's Kitchen NotebookEloise Undercover

|genre=CookeryConfident Readers|summary=In 1745 Eloise has a Spanish friary cook, Juan Altamiras, published the first edition of his ''New Art of Cookery, Drawn From the School of Economic Experience''. It contained more than wonderful life with her two hundred recipes for meat, poultry, gamebest friends, salted Albert and fresh fishMaddie, vegetables until the German soldiers start to arrive and dessertseverything changes. The style was informal, chatty and humorous on occasions and it was aimed, Nazi-occupied France is not at those who could afford to cook on a grand scale, but at those with more modest budgets, who sometimes needed place Eloise wants to cook for large numbersbe. Whilst the ingredients were - for the most part - modestly priced there is a stress on the careful combination of flavours Maddie and aromas. Spices her family are used conservatively taken away and Albert starts to act very strangely. Then her father disappears. Eloise is lost until she discovers her father has been working for the bluntness of some Moorish cooking is eschewed in favour of something much more subtle resistance and we see influences from Altamiras' own regionthere might, Aragonif she is brave enough, the Iberian court be a way to rescue him before he's deported to Germany. She now has hope and a plan. But will the New World.resistance let a twelve year old schoolgirl join them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14422794191910611131</amazonuk>

|author= Clar Ni ChonghaileNalini Singh|title= Rain Falls On EveryoneSilver Silence A Psy-Changling Trinity Novel|rating= 54|genre= Literary FictionParanormal|summary= It's Jump straight into a cliché that the Irish have rich and diverse universe at this designated jumping on point. Visit a picturesque turn world of phrasehumans, but clichés only exist because they're truechangelings and Psy. Roddy Doyle put it differently The world the books have set in has faced a recent interview with ''Writing'' magazine, when he said that ''With Irish, there's another language bubbling under the English''dramatic change and a new world-order of peace has been declared. However you express it, that art of expression The peace is woven into every other line of Clár's prosepainful and not universally loved. Pick Into this world a page at random and you'll find something like ''the sickness that had come to roost bear falls in her home like a cursed owllove with an emotionless Psy – how'd ya reckon it' or ''like he was God, Jesus and Justin Timberlake rolled into one'' or ''a low sobbing, slow and inevitable as rain on a Sunday'': expressions that catch your smile unawares, or tear at your heart in their mundane sadness. Or sometimes both.ll turn out?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17850790181473217571</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Salt CreekColin Thubron|authortitle=Lucy TreloarMirror to Damascus|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionTravel|summary=The first chapter of ''Salt Creek'' opens in Chichester, England, in 1874. Hester Finch Damascus today is a respected monument to her past, to all the people and reasonably wealthy member of civilisations that helped shape her community. But she can't stop her thoughts wandering back to her adolescenceIn this enthusiastic piece of travel writing, spent on Salt Creek Station in Collin Thubron tells the remote South Australian Coorong region. Hester feels ''tale of a city that has never felt so alive as thenseen empires rise and fall, when we had so little'conquerors come and go and has lasted for over two thousand years. It's rich in impressive history and this book is rich in impressive detail.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19107094170099532298</amazonuk>

|author= Bali RaiFearne Cotton and Sheena Dempsey|title= Tales from IndiaYoga Babies

|genre= Confident ReadersFor Sharing|summary=Fairy storiesRadio host, folk tales and fables are a rite of passage for an inquiring mind. They open the door to enchantmentTV presenter, magic and moral lessons. Many European collections existfashion designer, some of author – is there anything Fearne Cotton can't do? Based on the most notable being that content of Aesopthis book, Hans Christian Andersen, the Brothers Grimm, Andrew Lang and Perrault. Tales we can also originate from exotic climes. An endless source of delight for me as a child was my great grandmother's much cherished copy of The Arabian Nights. Full of mystery, imagination and charm, it communicated to me the power of storytelling and transported me to different worlds. This is what Bali Rai aims undoubtedly add Yogi to do for young readers with his latest offering. Inspired by the collected tales ongoing list of the C19th Sydney-born English folklorist Joseph Jacobtalents, Rai has lovingly created a tribute because it's hard to the traditional stories of Indiaimagine any other way in which this came into being.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>01413730671783445645</amazonuk>

|author=Lucy AdlingtonClaire Freedman and Jane Massey|title=The Red RibbonFlorence Frizzball|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersFor Sharing|summary=Ella is rushing to Florence Frizzball has the frizziest, curliest, most out of control mop of hair you've ever seen! And she longs for smooth, sleek, brushable locks like all her audition for friends. As a job in fashionkid, as are several other young women. Thrown in at the deep end in I remember being chased round the high-pressure workplacegarden by my mother, she is tasked brandishing a hair brush and trying to get me to sit still and have my frizz sorted out. To say I identified with creating a dress from scratch for Florence would be an important client before four pm that dayunderstatement. But she manages itAs the tale goes on, even working through the non-existent lunch breakthough, we see another side to design a silk wonder worthy of any environmentthe story. But this is no typical make-or-break-'em fashion design houseFlorence gets what she wants, but when her dream comes true she quickly learns that maybe she was wanting all the wrong things, and this that actually her frizzball is no normal environment for the recipient to be wearing the frock. This is Birchwood – or Auschwitz-Birkenau to you and Ipart of her identity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14714062881471144542</amazonuk>

|author=Andy BellStuart Maconie|title=The DIY Investor: How to take control of your investments and plan for a financially secure futureLong Road From Jarrow|rating=5|genre=Business and FinanceTravel |summary=Investments are confusing. TheyI cancelled my ''Country Walking''re also rather frightening unless you have magazine subscription about a background in finance: you could invest in equities which seem likely to make your fortune, year ago and the only to find that youthing I miss is Stuart Maconie've lost all your moneys column. On the other hand you could put all your savings into His down-to-earth approach and sharp wit belie an equally sharp intellect and a nicesoul more sensitive than he might be willing to admit. Let's be honest, safe building society or bank account only to find that the interest is so derisory that your capital doesnthough, I picked this one up because of someone else't actually s review, in which I spotted names like Ferryhill and Newton Aycliffe. Places I grew up in. Like Maconie I have the same buying power no connection (that it did when you opened the account. You could, I know of course, spend ) to the money, Jarrow Crusade but what when he talks about when you want it being ''a whole matrix of events reducible to buy a houseone word like Aberfan, Hillsborough, replace the roof or retire? Orgreave'' then somehow it does become part of my history too. The roof might be relatively cheap but the other two are going to need a substantial investment potTangentially, at least.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08571960141785030531</amazonuk>

|author= E LockhartKieran Larwood|title= Genuine FraudThe Gift of Dark Hollow|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensConfident Readers|summary= This is the second marvellous book featuring the rabbits of Enderby, and the delightful young rabbit hero, Podkin One Ear. Ilove the format of a story within a story. The adventures of Podkin in ''The Gift of Dark Hollow'm going to straight up say that I'm not going to mention , are told by an old rabbit who has been a Bard all his life - a teller of stories and legends from the plot in this reviewrabbit world. The Bard has an apprentice, because I can't without inevitably spoiling something in this twistingRue, turning, great suspense of desperately eager to learn his trade. He hangs on every word spoken by the Bard as they travel together to a novelfestival. All I will say Rue is that I felt like I was watching a proper thriller movie while I was reading it; I feel like I might see hungry to learn the art of story-telling, but also wants to know all about Podkin One Ear, and what better way to do this advertised as than to hear from the Master himself. The tale he tells Rue (and us) is a film on gripping and scary one, featuring Podkin and his friends in their ongoing battle to overturn the side of a bus any time soonruthless Gorm, and if that happenstheir cruel leader, then it will have an excellent female lead that kicks some serious backsideScramashank. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>14714066280571328415</amazonuk>

|author= Jackie Morris Phil Allcock and James MayhewRichard Watson|title= Mrs Noah's PocketsClumpety Bump|rating= 54

|summary= The heavy rainsClumpety Bump likes apples. Nothing wrong with that, Noah building his ark after all: they're tasty and the animals going in two by two to be savedfull of goodness. This most familiar of stories has been retold time But you don't get delicious, juicy treats like that unless you deserve them, and time again but not like this. This time there naughty Clumpety is twist and someone else quietly takes centre stagea bit too keen on saying ''I can't be bothered'' when his friend Wally asks for help. When Mr Noah builds the arkSo, after several disasters, Wally decides he makes two lists - one for all the animals who will come on board 'd be better off leaving Clumpety at home and one for those troublesome creatures he will leave behindusing his tractor instead. MeanwhileUnfortunately, Mrs Noah gets things don't turn out her sewing machine too well, and our two heroes learn that if you want to be properly happy, other people need to be happy too. Selfishness just makes a coat with very deep pockets. Lots of pocketseveryone sad.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191095909X1848862458</amazonuk>

|author=Jem VanstonRoger Moore|title=A Cat Called Dog 2 - The One with the KittensBientot...

|genre=General FictionAutobiography|summary=George, Dog The news of the cat and Eric the stray were indulging themselves with death of Sir Roger Moore in May 2017 came as a philosophical discussion when they heard some strange mewinggreat shock: he was one of those people you knew would go on for ever. Three kittens had found their way into There was just one small glimmer of light in the garden and told sadness - the resident cats news that their mother had told them to run away when a two-legs cat catcher came for them all. Mother couldnmatter of days before his death he't run as she had a sore pawd delivered the finished manuscript of his book, but Daisy''À bientôt…'', Maisie and Boo had run and run and run. They'd no idea what happened to her - or how to get back home againhis publishers. George is getting Just a few months later a copy landed on in years my desk and wouldnI didn't like even bother to upset his two legs, The Lady, by being look as though I could resist reading it straight away from home for too long, so he appoints Dog as leader of an expedition to reunite the kittens and their Mother.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17862933901782438610</amazonuk>

|author= Cressida CowellJonathan Stroud|title= Lockwood and Co: The Wizards of OnceEmpty Grave|rating= 4.5

|summary= Xar In a world that takes the best and Wish 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 meet because they are both where they are not supposed to be. Xar is an impetuous children and young wizard keen to prove his magical prowess. Wish people can see them, theirs is a young warrior desperate to demonstrate her worth. They live in a world in which Iron vanquishes Magic - the task of protecting the adults and ridding the Magic country of the witches is pretty evil stuffmenaces, one by painful one. ThankfullyLucy, George, Holly and Lockwood are the warriors have used Iron to keep members of the witches at bay. And nowsmallest and most ramshackle independent agency, they are turning but their attention to 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 wizardswhole ghost-bashing business. But what if not all Magic is bad? What if the witches are a threat to warrior and wizard alike? What then? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>14449367000552575798</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 10/9 -->|author=Stuart BurrellKenneth Steven|title=Twelve Times To The Max: One Man's Journey to, and Recollections of, Setting Twelve Verified World RecordsWinter Tales

|genre=AutobiographyShort Stories|summary=The first Upon opening this book you are presented with an eclectic collection of Stuart Burrell's twelve short stories centred around a common theme of Winter. You are taken around the world records, well, the first two, actually, as he's not you read stories set in a man variety of places from Helsinki to do things by halvesNew York, came about by accidentGermany to Russia. There had been Kenneth Steven cleverly utilises a plan to raise some money for the Children key component of short stories - that you can read each story in Need Charity and quite late on the people who were one sitting - to have been the main attraction got a better offer and Burrell is not a man to let people down. What could be done to bring people in and raise some money? Most of us would have thought of jumble sales and cake bakeshis advantage as he gives each story an individual focal subject, such as bullying, but Burrell had made ensuring that you are reading a hobby of escapology and idea of a sponsored escape had life breathed into it. On 3 November 2002 he went for distinct story every time you open 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 Needbook.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>154712251X1910674508</amazonuk>

|author= Susan Duxbury-NeumannWilliam Sutton|title= What Have Lawless and the Germans Ever Done for Us?: A History House of the German Population of Great BritainElectricity|rating= 45|genre= HistoryCrime (Historical)|summary= The adapted Monty Pythonesque rhetorical question takes some Campbell Lawless is back, this time tasked with solving a series of terrorist attacks across the nation. Is it the 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, have to provide do with the bombs used to cause chaos across the country? Employing the services of Molly, the effervescent ragamuffin from his previous adventures, he sets in motion a full answercampaign of subterfuge which uncovers long held secrets, skulduggery and this slim but useful volume does so very wellthe desperate yearnings beneath Roxbury's constant invention. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>14456648601785650130</amazonuk>

|author= Holly HepburnK J Lawrence|title= The Picture House by the SeaCossack|rating= 45|genre= Women's FictionThrillers|summary=So Daniel Brooking is not what you'd think of as another typically dreary British summer is drawing to hero material: he's a close, I found myself craving a fix photographer of literary sunshine some merit and sea kissed romancein his fifties he has a settled life. In such a mood it It was thenthe disappearance of his assistant, Ivan Shevchenko, which disrupted everything. It wasn't unknown for him to disappear occasionally, that I came across the cover but missing an exhibition was a first for him. He''d been distracted for a few days - and then there were the strange papers which arrived, to be kept safe. The Picture House by authorities, in the form of a shadowy senior member of the Sea''. Perfect blue skiessecurity services, glistening seaconfirmed the view that Ivan was probably dead, a beautiful Art Deco building because of some supposed connections with organised crime and to top it off an old fashioned ice-cream cartdrug dealing. Consider me sold!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14711617141999782704</amazonuk>

|author=Philip Reeve James Goss and Sarah McIntyreRussell T Davies|title=Pug-a-Doodle-Do!Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who)

|genre=CraftsChildren's Rhymes and Verse |summary=I was reading a book so utterly different Consider the Doctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to this the other dayhand out each year, it has were he to bear mention. keep in touch with even half of his companions? It was an exceedingly academic book about graphic novels and comics He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of them, say, for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the YA audience, life of a Time Lord and that of some of his friends and enemies. As luck would have it featured an essay picking up on , he has the way books like the fill-space in-bits-yourself entries his TARDIS to stock up in the Wimpy Kid and Dork Diaries series (such as [[Dork Diaries: How advance, so my advice to Dork Your Diary by Rachel Renee Russell|this one]]) let you interact with the franchisehim – sorry, and also her – would be to pop along to create your own content. There was some weird highhis local Earth-falutin' academic language to describe such books – but you know what? I say (redacted) to that – let's just hang it based book emporium and have funget himself ready. And this bookif you're working on a shorter timescale, with a shorter lifespan, spinning off from the four books this partnership has so far been responsible forand thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is certainly a provider of thatpretty much the same.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>01927640471785942719</amazonuk>