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|author=Jakob Wegelius and Peter Graves (translator)DK|title=The Murderer's ApeMy Encyclopedia of Very Important Animals

|genre=Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Sally Jones The animal kingdom is in clover as a mechanic on a cargo ship – whendiverse one, full of creatures that is, do all sorts of things. The number of animals out there is cargo so vast that even vets need to actually shipdo a quick google when something strange appears in their practice. Having needed emergency repairs, the twoFor budding vet-to-strong crew be animals are a constant source of her fascination and they will absorb as much knowledge as you can give them. It is not practical to visit the Chief are idling in Lisbonzoo every day, but getting an educational and are given 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 me an encylopedia: it was a mysterious and mysteriously overpaid job – a job that shouldnmajor purchase for them as they didn't go wrongreally ''do'' books, but does. Unfortunately it was a treasure trove for the Chief, taking even the first step at writing the wrong sees him arrested for murderme and I still have it today. Sally Jones is forced into hiding, which she manages It didn't just teach me facts - it taught me how to do with a lovely, kind woman with a hidden talent find out information for singing, myself and her landlord, who makes and repairs accordions and other musical instrumentshow to use an index. Life with them seems It opened my eyes to be a new form of cloversubjects I'd never considered and widened my knowledge on those I already loved. In format, then, but hints of that past nastiness keep coming back in size and content it was very similar to haunt Sally Jones, especially when there''DK Children's Encyclopedia'' and I can imagine a suggestion that the alleged murder victim might still younger me hunched over it and begging just to be alive… Oh, and did allowed to finish this bit before I say that Sally Jones is actually a gorilla?went to bed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17826916180241283868</amazonuk>

|author= David BergenKelly Barnhill|title= StrangerThe Girl Who Drank the Moon

|genre= Literary Fiction Confident Readers|summary=''Stranger'' tells Every year the story people of Íso, the Protectorate leave a young Guatemalan woman, and her affair with baby as an American doctor. When an accident forces him to return offering to the Stateswitch who lives in the forest, she is left pregnant and lonelyin the hope that this sacrifice will keep their town safe. Her anguish becomes even more profound when her daughter Little do they know that the witch, Xan, is abducted, a kind soul who rescues the children and taken to live finds them new homes with families on the other side of the doctor and his wifeforest. What followed - tales of She feeds the babies on starlight to keep them nourished throughout their journey Íso embarked upon in , but one year she accidently feeds a baby moonlight which fills the child with a powerful magic. Xan names the hope of finding baby Luna and realises she must raise this magical child as her own, locking away her magical abilities until her baby - was an amazing story of thirteenth birthday. But as the lengths a mother day approaches where Luna's magic will emerge, she will go have to in order learn to save her childprotect the safe and loving world she has always known.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07156524191848126476</amazonuk>

|author= Marianne TaylorRobin Jarvis|title= Owls: A Guide to Every SpeciesTime of Blood|rating= 54|genre= ReferenceTeens|summary=I feel like I am being watched. A huge pair of piercing orange eyes are staring right at me, locking me Travel back over a hundred years into their gaze. In contrast with the hardness of the deep-amber eyes, soft grey feathers fan out into the surrounding area, intricate, detailed and beautifulWhitby's past to see two witches battle an ancient evil. An enigma; harsh and gentle at the same time, the owl is beckoning the reader Follow young Lil as she tries to turn the pages avoid spoilers and take a closer look inside..find her best friend.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178240404X1405280255</amazonuk>

|author=Orlando WeeksJ M Barrie and Robert Ingpen|title=The GrittermanPeter Pan and Wendy|rating=54|genre=Graphic NovelsFor Sharing|summary=ThereIt's a man who has an ice cream van. In summerchildhood staple - the story of Wendy, what there is of summerJohn and Michael Darling and their beloved nurse, he uses it Nana the Newfoundland dog who took them to sell ice creams, school each day. ThatIt's not his vocation thoughGeorge Darling, but it does keep him going whilst he waits for wintertheir father, who makes the mistake when he locks Nana in the van becomes a Gritting Van yard and the children are whisked away to Neverland by Peter Pan and our narrator becomes a GrittermanTinkerbell. The fibreglass 99s on There's a wonderful mix of characters, from Peter Pan, the roof light boy who never wants to grow up and rotate, playing a tuneTinkerbell, the rather unpleasant fairy, Captain Hook, Tiger Lily, whether the van's gritting or selling ice creams. Tonight lost boys and - Christmas Eve of course - will be the van's last trip. The council has sent the letter about his services no longer being required. Global warming. Dying professionWendy, they say. Therebut then it wouldn's even t have been a tarmac now that can de-ice itself, but classic since the Gritterman isn't sure that he wants to live original stage production in a world where 1904 and the B2116 doesn't need grittingnovel of 1911 if it were otherwise.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184614955X1786750856</amazonuk>

|author= Adam SilveraEmily Winslow|title= They Both Die at the EndLook For Her

|genre=TeensCrime|summary= ''No matter how we choose In 1976, Annalise Wood disappeared on her journey home from school and instantly became a local celebrity. For decades the town of Lilling tried to live, we both die at solve the endmystery of Annalise's disappearance until, almost twenty years later, her body was discovered. Annalise' The year is 2017s body was badly decomposed and there was lack of DNA available, the place is America, but this is only trace on the body was found in her skirt and does not a place we recognisematch anyone on record. A company called Death-Cast know The chances of finding her killer were extremely low and the exact date of everyonemurder soon becomes a 'cold case's death and make it their mission to inform Deckers that they will be dead within – but still the next twenty-four hours. Many have tried to cheat death, all have failedmost famous Lilling has ever seen. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>14711662010749022663</amazonuk>

|author= K J WhittakerGrady Hendrix|title= False LightsPaperbacks from Hell: A History of Horror Fiction from the '70s and '80s

|genre= Historical FictionHorror|summary=CornwallDemonic possession, 1817murderous 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's!) to relate the true, untold story of a fascinating and often forgotten era in publishing.

What if your worst mistake changed Read the course of history? Napoleon has crushed synapse-shattering story summaries!<br>See the Duke of Wellington at horrific hand-painted cover imagery!<br>And learn the Battle true-life tales 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, a half-French aristocrat haunted by his part in the catastrophic defeat. Togetherwriters, they become embroiled in a web of treachery and espionage as plans are laid to free Wellington from secret captivity in the Scilly Isles and lead an uprising against the French occupation. In a country rife with traitorsartists, Hester and Crow know it is impossible to play such a game as this for long..publishers who gleefully violated every literary law but one – never be boring.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17866953401594749817</amazonuk>

|author=Cynthia Ryland and Mary BlairLuke Dittrich|title=Walt Disney's CinderellaPatient H.M.: Illustrated by Mary Blair (Walt Disney Classics)A Story of Memory, Madness and Family Secrets|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging ReadersPopular Science|summary=I'm sure almost all my readers are au fait with the story of Cinderella, and of how she went from the gutter Luke Dittrich seeks to shed light on the stars in one romantic swoop. It's only a good thing the relevant people didn't have foot fetishes or phobias, for then the tale would have been utterly different. Disney made it slightly different, of course, when they made the animated classic based on man behind the legendinitials, and this bookin doing so, complete with art from the time the film was being made, is evidence of just how the look and the emotion of the piece were intended to beuncovered quite a bit more than he expected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14052869970099571862</amazonuk>

|author=Jon Scieszka Sita Brahmachari and Mary BlairJane Ray|title=Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland: Illustrated by Mary Blair (Walt Disney Classics)Worry Angels|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=I'll take is as read you have some knowledge of the story of Alice in Wonderland – certainly Amy-May was devastated when her parents split up: she got and her mother left the delightful seaside cottage where the waves had sung her to be 150 years old sleep and moved into a couple of years back there were no end of editions of her story'garden flat'. And as you knowThat didn't mean that it had a garden, 150 years is just that it was on the ground floor. They didn't have a heck lot of a lot possessions as the bailiffs had taken most of unbirthdaysthem. But her story got Her father was living in another old cottage now and hopefully he'd be able to set up his kiln, but he wouldn't be slightly different, and if anything only more loved, courtesy of the Disney cartoon, and able to home-school Amy-May. The alternative was Sandcastles Secondary School but the fact that this book features artwork that rather nervous Amy was generated during considered to be too ''anxious'' to start at the production of that film is the unique selling pointschool full time. As a gentle introduction to schooling she went to Grace's art school instead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405287004178112695X</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=MoonriseCassandra Parkin|authortitle=Sarah CrossanThe Winter's Child|rating=5|genre=TeensParanormal|summary=Joe is seventeen ''A modern Gothic tale of twisted love, secrets and he hasnhauntings''t seen his brother for ten years. And the reason for that is brutal - Ed is it says on Death Row in Texas, convicted of the murder of a police officercover. Ed says he I's innocentll go along with that. Aunt Karen Suzannah Harper doesn't believe him. And Mum is long gone, no-one knows where. When in life after death or gypsies being able to tell the execution date comes throughfuture, Joe passes up on his job and but that hasn't stopped her spending a spot fortune on a summer athletics scholarship psychics and treks from New York across fortune tellers in the country so that Ed is not alonedesperate hunt for her son. Joel has been missing for five years. He is determined to spend these last weeks with his brother no matter what anybody else thinksskipped out of school one day after an argument at home and has not been seen since.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140886780X1785079034</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=I am TraitorClare Foges and Al Murphy|authortitle=Sif Sigmarsdottir Bathroom Boogie|rating=4.5|genre=TeensFor Sharing|summary=Alien ships have arrived Every day I leave the house with the feeling that I left it in a pretty tidy state, but on my return some things always seem out of place. This is especially true of my bathroom. Why is there toothpaste on the skies above London. The Prime Minister appeared mirror, or a flannel on TV the floor? It would appear that I may not actually be to announce this ominous visitation blame and order a curfew. After that, he went AWOL and took when I'm at work all reliable information with him, leaving the army to patrol the streetsbathroom items come out for a boogie. Not that the army has any answer to Will I ever catch them in the long pipes that snake down from the ships and gobble up teenagers. To where, nobody knows.act?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14449344730571337317</amazonuk>

|title=Charlotte Says|author=Alex BellMark Alder|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summarytitle=''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 Son of Skye. But leaving the place doesn't mean escaping the memories and Jemima is tormented by second-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=<amazonuk>1847158404</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= J Jefferson Farjeon|title= Seven DeadNight

|genre= Historical FictionFantasy|summary=Ted Lyte was petty criminalIn [[Son of the Morning by Mark Alder|Son of the Morning]], but not usually author Mark Alder plunges the housebreaking type. He lacked reader into a chaotic, dangerous world, taking them back to the turbulent reign of Edward III and the dangers of the courageHundred Years War. However, needs must, Adding elements of fantasy and whilst feeling down on his luck he decided theology to try his chances at the mix, Alder created an isolated house with a shuttered window. intriguing read which is continued in ''...he might find a bit Son of alright behind those shutters! Wot abart it?'' Ted does indeed find something interesting behind the shutters, but it definitely isnNight't what he'd hoped. In a locked room he finds seven dead bodies; six men and a woman. Fleeing the house in horrorWith Lucifer, he is pursued and caught by a passing yachtsmanSatan, Thomas HazeldeanGod, who also happens to be a journalist. Fascinated by Ted's story (Devils and Angels interacting with a possible scoop), Hazeldean decides to investigate this curious case cast of real and its assortment of odd clueswell researched characters, including a portrait shot through the heart, an old cricket ball and a mysterious note written by one Alder continues his exploration of the victimsHundred Years war whilst rather incredibly keeping his readers as educated as they are entertained.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07123568860575115203</amazonuk>

|author= Chris ColferKenneth Grahame and Robert Ingpen|title= The Land of Stories: Worlds CollideWind in The Willows|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary=Finally, after much anticipation, the grand finale to Kenneth Grahame's ''The Wind in the best-selling Willows''Land was one of the defining books of Storiesmy childhood and more than sixty years after I first read the book I'' is hereve just recently passed it onto another young reader. The previous Since the book [[The Land 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 Stories: An Author's Odyssey by Chris Colfer|The Land of Stories: An Author's Odyssey]] left us dangling on an almighty cliffhangerWinnie the Pooh'') in 1933, as well as leaving many plot threads unresolved. We have been with Arthur Rackham (possibly the Bailey twins leading illustrator from the very beginning; seen them grow golden age of book illustration) in 1940 and mature from awkward pre-teens to confident young adults. Orson Welles famously said: ''If you want a happy ending, that depends, Robert Ingpen who illustrated the centenary edition of course, on where you stop your story.'' Is the fact that the book begins with this quote an ominous warning that The Wind in the Bailey twins may not get their Willows'happily ever after' after all?.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>03163558951786751062</amazonuk>

|author= Brian MastersSimon Jenkins|title= Killing for CompanyBritain's 100 Best Railway Stations|rating= 5|genre= True CrimeReference|summary= Killing for Company is a detailed criminal study of Dennis NilsenIn the mid twentieth century the railway was something which harked back to the Victorian age with trains being supplanted by cars and planes, unique in that it but steam was produced with Nilsen's full cooperation being replaced by oil, even then and includes material from Nilsen's prison diariesin the twenty-first century oil is giving way to electricity. Covering Nilsen It's early lifecleaner, his career more environmentally friendly and subsequent murders, this is a detailed analysis of the man behind the murder and an attempt, on Mastersstations which we' partd all rushed through as quickly as possible, keen to understand what shaped Nilsen escape their grime, were restored and what could have caused such apparently senseless violence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784759422</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= E V Harte|title= The Prime of Ms Dolly Greene|rating= 5|genre= Crime|summary= I love reading full stop so I was excited became places to have the chance to read the first crime novel from establishedbe admired, well-regarded author Daisy Waugh, writing under a pseudonym. But, as a self-confessed chicklit fan, who's never read a crime novel before, I wasn't sure if I was going to like it..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 twelve short stories centred around a common theme of Stuart Burrell's 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 key component of short stories - that you can read each story in one sitting - to raise some money for his advantage as he gives each story an individual focal subject, such as bullying, ensuring that you are reading a distinct story every time you open the Children in Need Charity book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910674508</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= William Sutton|title= Lawless and quite late on the people who were to have been House of Electricity|rating= 5|genre= Crime (Historical)|summary= Campbell Lawless is back, this time tasked with solving a series of terrorist attacks across the nation. Is it the work of the main attraction got a better offer French, as police and Burrell is not a man public are being led to believe, or someone closer to let people down. What could home? Who can be done trusted and what does Roxbury, an innovative inventor previously disgraced, have to do with the bombs used to bring people in and raise some moneycause chaos across the country? Most Employing the services of us would have thought Molly, the effervescent ragamuffin from his previous adventures, he sets in motion a campaign of jumble sales subterfuge which uncovers long held secrets, skulduggery and cake bakes, but Burrell had made the desperate yearnings beneath Roxbury's constant invention.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785650130</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=K J Lawrence|title= The Cossack|rating=5|genre=Thrillers|summary=Daniel Brooking is not what you'd think of as hero material: he's a hobby photographer of escapology some merit and idea of in his fifties he has a sponsored escape had settled life breathed into it. On 3 November 2002 he went for It was the Fastest Handcuff Escape world record and immediately afterwards Most Handcuffs Escaped in One Hourdisappearance of his assistant, Ivan Shevchenko, which disrupted everything. Both were successful and more than £300 It wasn't unknown for him to disappear occasionally, but missing an exhibition was raised a first for him. He'd been distracted for Children a few days - and then there were the strange papers which arrived, to be kept safe. The authorities, in Needthe form of a shadowy senior member of the security services, confirmed the view that Ivan was probably dead, because of some supposed connections with organised crime and drug dealing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>154712251X1999782704</amazonuk>

|author= Susan Duxbury-NeumannJames Goss and Russell T Davies|title= What Have the Germans Ever Done for Us?Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A History Collection of the German Population of Great BritainTime Lord Verse (Dr Who)|rating= 4.5|genre= HistoryChildren's Rhymes and Verse |summary= The adapted Monty Pythonesque rhetorical question takes Consider the Doctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each year, were he to keep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some time of them, say, for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of a Time Lord and that of some of his friends and enemies. As luck would have it, he has the space in his TARDIS to provide stock up in advance, so my advice to him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. And if you're working on a shorter timescale, with a full answershorter lifespan, and this slim but useful volume does so very thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, wellmy advice is pretty much the same. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>14456648601785942719</amazonuk>