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|titleauthor=Greta Zargo and the Death Robots from Outer SpaceDK|authortitle=A F HarroldMy Encyclopedia of Very Important Animals

|genre=Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=''No The animal kingdom is a diverse one knew , full of creatures that only three do all sorts of things stood . The number of animals out there is so vast that even vets need to do a quick google when something strange appears in the way their practice. For budding vet-to-be animals are a constant source of the complete fascination and utter destruction of they will absorb as much knowledge as you can give them. It is not practical to visit the Earth: one elderly parrotzoo every day, one eleven-year-old spelling mistake but getting an educational and one intrepid young newspaper-reporter-cum-schoolgirl in search of a Big Scoopentertaining animal encylopedia is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241276357</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=DK|title=DK Children's Encyclopedia|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction Oh |summary=More than sixty years ago my word! What grandparents bought me an encylopedia: it was a prospect! Let major purchase for them as they didn't really ''do'' books, but it was a treasure trove for me and I still have it today. It didn't just teach me break facts - it down taught me how to find out information for youmyself and how to use an index. The parrot has only ever learned It opened my eyes to speak one sentencesubjects I'd never considered and widened my knowledge on those I already loved. The spelling mistake is between great In format, in size and Greta. Both these things point the alien danger content it was very similar to Earth, ''DK Children's Encyclopedia'' and I can imagine a silvery robot, in the direction of Greta Zargo, who is the wannabe reporteryounger me hunched over it and begging just to be allowed to finish this bit before I went to bed. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>14088694700241283868</amazonuk>

|author= Yaba BadoeKelly Barnhill|title= A Jigsaw of Fire and StarsThe Girl Who Drank the Moon

|genre= Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary=Sante was Every year the people of the Protectorate leave a baby when she was washed ashore as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest, in the hope that this sacrifice will keep their town safe. Little do they know that the witch, Xan, is a sea-chest laden kind soul who rescues the children and finds them new homes with treasure. It seems she is families on the sole survivor other side of the tragic sinking of a ship carrying migrants and refugeesforest. Her people. Fourteen years She feeds the babies on starlight to keep them nourished throughout their journey, but one year she's accidently feeds a baby moonlight which fills the child with a member of Mama Rose's unique powerful magic. Xan names the baby Luna and dazzling circusrealises she must raise this magical child as her own, locking away her magical abilities until her thirteenth birthday. Butas the day approaches where Luna's magic will emerge, from their watery grave, the unquiet dead are calling Sante she will have to avenge them. A bamboo flute. A golden bangle. A ripening mango which must not fall... if Sante is learn to tell their story protect the safe and her ownloving world she has always known. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17866954801848126476</amazonuk>

|author= Martha Batalha and Eric M B Becker (translator)Robin Jarvis|title= The Invisible Life Time of Euridice GusmaoBlood|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary FictionTeens|summary= On the surface, young housewife Euridice Gusmao has it all. A nice-enough, parent-pleasing husband with Travel back over a steady banking job, two young children upon whom to dote, an immaculate home complete with maid. Thathundred years into Whitby's all anyone could ever want, isn't it? Not Euridice. She has past to see two witches battle an inexplicable ache inside her for something more, like many of usancient evil. Yet each of her pet projects, from a desire to publish a recipe book to starting a cottage sewing industry in her living room, are met with scorn from her stern husband Antenor. He wants a wife who doesn't draw attention Follow young Lil as she tries to herself, whose only domains are her house avoid spoilers and find her familybest friend.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178607298X1405280255</amazonuk>

|author=Jakob Wegelius J M Barrie and Peter Graves (translator)Robert Ingpen|title=The Murderer's ApePeter Pan and Wendy|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersFor Sharing|summary=Sally Jones is in clover as It's a mechanic on a cargo ship – whenchildhood staple - the story of Wendy, that isJohn and Michael Darling and their beloved nurse, there is cargo Nana the Newfoundland dog who took them to actually shipschool each day. Having needed emergency repairsIt's George Darling, their father, who makes the mistake when he locks Nana in the two-strong crew of her yard and the Chief children are idling in Lisbon, whisked away to Neverland by Peter Pan and are given Tinkerbell. There's a mysterious and mysteriously overpaid job – a job that shouldn't go wrongwonderful mix of characters, from Peter Pan, but does. Unfortunately for the Chiefboy who never wants to grow up, Tinkerbell, taking even the first step at writing the wrong sees him arrested for murder. Sally Jones is forced into hiding, which she manages to do with a lovelyrather unpleasant fairy, kind woman with a hidden talent for singingCaptain Hook, and her landlordTiger Lily, who makes the lost boys and repairs accordions and other musical instruments. Life with them seems to be a new form - of clovercourse - Wendy, but then, but hints of that past nastiness keep coming back to haunt Sally Jones, especially when thereit wouldn's t have been a suggestion that classic since the alleged murder victim might still be alive… Oh, original stage production in 1904 and did I say that Sally Jones is actually a gorilla?the novel of 1911 if it were otherwise.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17826916181786750856</amazonuk>

|author= David BergenEmily Winslow|title= StrangerLook For Her

|genre= Literary Fiction Crime|summary=''Stranger'' tells 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 solve the story mystery of ÍsoAnnalise's disappearance until, a young Guatemalan womanalmost twenty years later, and her affair with an American doctorbody was discovered. When an accident forces him to return to the States, she is left pregnant Annalise's body was badly decomposed and lonely. Her anguish becomes even more profound when her daughter is abductedthere was lack of DNA available, and taken to live with the doctor only trace on the body was found in her skirt and his wifedoes not match anyone on record. What followed - tales of the journey Íso embarked upon in the hope The chances of finding her baby - was an amazing story of killer were extremely low and the lengths murder soon becomes a mother will go to in order to save her child'cold case' – but still the most famous Lilling has ever seen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07156524190749022663</amazonuk>

|author= Marianne TaylorGrady Hendrix|title= OwlsPaperbacks from Hell: A Guide to Every SpeciesHistory of Horror Fiction from the '70s and '80s|rating= 4.5|genre= ReferenceHorror|summary=I feel like I am being watched. A huge pair of piercing orange eyes are staring right at meDemonic possession, murderous babies, locking me into their gaze. In contrast with the hardness of the deepman-amber eyeseating moths… for these books, soft grey feathers fan out into the surrounding areano plot was too ludicrous, intricateno cover art too appalling, detailed and beautifulno evil too despicable. An enigma; harsh Now horror author Grady Hendrix risks his soul and gentle at his sanity (not to mention the same timereader's!) to relate the true, untold story of a fascinating and often forgotten era in publishing. Read the owl is beckoning synapse-shattering story summaries!<br>See the reader to turn horrific hand-painted cover imagery!<br>And learn the true-life tales of the pages writers, artists, and take a closer look inside..publishers who gleefully violated every literary law but one – never be boring.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178240404X1594749817</amazonuk>

|author=Orlando WeeksLuke Dittrich|title=The GrittermanPatient H.M.: A Story of Memory, Madness and Family Secrets|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic NovelsPopular Science|summary=There's a man who has an ice cream van. In summer, what there is of summer, he uses it Luke Dittrich seeks to sell ice creams, That's not his vocation though, but it does keep him going whilst he waits for winter, when shed light on the van becomes a Gritting Van and our narrator becomes a Gritterman. The fibreglass 99s on man behind the roof light up initials, and rotate, playing a tune, whether the van's gritting or selling ice creams. Tonight - Christmas Eve - will be the van's last trip. The council has sent the letter about his services no longer being required. Global warming. Dying professionin doing so, they say. There's even uncovered quite a tarmac now that can de-ice itself, but the Gritterman isn't sure that bit more than he wants to live in a world where the B2116 doesn't need grittingexpected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184614955X0099571862</amazonuk>

|author= Adam SilveraSita Brahmachari and Jane Ray|title= They Both Die at the EndWorry Angels|rating= 4|genre=TeensDyslexia Friendly|summary= ''No matter how we choose 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 live, we both die at the endsleep and moved into a 'garden flat'. The year is 2017That didn't mean that it had a garden, just that it was on the place is America, but this is not ground floor. They didn't have a place we recognise. A company called Death-Cast know lot of possessions as the exact date bailiffs had taken most of everyonethem. Her father was living in another old cottage now and hopefully he's death and make it their mission d be able to inform Deckers that they will set up his kiln, but he wouldn't be dead within the next twentyable to home-school Amy-four hoursMay. Many have tried The alternative was Sandcastles Secondary School but the rather nervous Amy was considered to be too ''anxious'' to cheat death, all have failedstart at the school full time. As a gentle introduction to schooling she went to Grace's art school instead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471166201178112695X</amazonuk>

|author= K J WhittakerCassandra Parkin|title= False LightsThe Winter's Child|rating= 4.5|genre= Historical FictionParanormal|summary=Cornwall, 1817. What if your worst mistake changed the course of history? Napoleon has crushed the Duke of Wellington at the Battle ''A modern Gothic tale of Waterlootwisted love, secrets and his ex-wife Josephine presides over French-occupied Englandhauntings'' it says on the cover. Cornwall erupts into open rebellion, and young heiress Hester escapes I'll go along with Crow, Wellingtonthat. Suzannah Harper doesn's former intelligence officer, a half-French aristocrat haunted by his part t believe in life after death or gypsies being able to tell the catastrophic defeat. Togetherfuture, they become embroiled in but that hasn't stopped her spending a web of treachery fortune on psychics and espionage as plans are laid to free Wellington from secret captivity fortune tellers in the Scilly Isles and lead an uprising against the French occupationdesperate hunt for her son. In a country rife with traitors, Hester and Crow know it is impossible to play such a game as this Joel has been missing for long.five years. He skipped out of school one day after an argument at home and has not been seen since.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17866953401785079034</amazonuk>

|author=Cynthia Ryland Clare Foges and Mary BlairAl Murphy|title=Walt Disney's Cinderella: Illustrated by Mary Blair (Walt Disney Classics)Bathroom Boogie

|genre=Emerging ReadersFor Sharing|summary=Every day I'm sure almost all my readers are au fait leave the house with the story of Cinderellafeeling that I left it in a pretty tidy state, and but on my return some things always seem out of how she went from the gutter to the stars in one romantic swoopplace. It's only a good thing the relevant people didn't have foot fetishes or phobias, for then the tale would have been utterly differentThis is especially true of my bathroom. Disney made it slightly different, of course, when they made the animated classic based Why is there toothpaste on the legendmirror, and this book, complete with art from or a flannel on the time the film was being made, is evidence of just how the look floor? It would appear that I may not actually be to blame and that when I'm at work all the emotion of bathroom items come out for a boogie. Will I ever catch them in the piece were intended to be.act?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14052869970571337317</amazonuk>

|author=Jon Scieszka and Mary BlairMark Alder|title=Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland: Illustrated by Mary Blair (Walt Disney Classics)Son of the Night|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging ReadersFantasy|summary=I'll take is as read you have some knowledge In [[Son of the story Morning by Mark Alder|Son of Alice in Wonderland – certainly when she got to be 150 years old the Morning]], author Mark Alder plunges the reader into a couple of years chaotic, dangerous world, taking them back there were no end to the turbulent reign of editions Edward III and the dangers of her storythe Hundred Years War. And as you knowAdding elements of fantasy and theology to the mix, 150 years Alder created an intriguing read which is a heck continued in ''Son of a lot of unbirthdaysthe Night''. But her story got to be slightly differentWith Lucifer, Satan, God, Devils and if anything only more loved, courtesy Angels interacting with a cast of the Disney cartoonreal and well researched characters, and the fact that this book features artwork that was generated during the production Alder continues his exploration of that film is the unique selling pointHundred Years war whilst rather incredibly keeping his readers as educated as they are entertained.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14052870040575115203</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=MoonriseKenneth Grahame and Robert Ingpen|authortitle=Sarah CrossanThe Wind in The Willows|rating=54|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Joe is seventeen Kenneth Grahame's ''The Wind in the Willows'' was one of the defining books of my childhood and he hasnmore than sixty years after I first read the book I't seen his brother for ten yearsve just recently passed it onto another young reader. And Since the reason book was first published in 1908 there have been some notable illustrators: Paul Bransom provided illustrations for that is brutal - Ed is on Death Row in Texasthe 1913 edition, convicted Ernest H Shepard (perhaps better known for his illustrations of ''Winnie the murder of a police officer. Ed says hePooh's innocent. Aunt Karen doesn't believe him. And Mum is long gone) in 1933, no-one knows where. When Arthur Rackham (possibly the leading illustrator from the execution date comes through, Joe passes up on his job golden age of book illustration) in 1940 and a spot on a summer athletics scholarship and treks from New York across Robert Ingpen who illustrated the centenary edition of ''The Wind in the country so that Ed is not alone. He is determined to spend these last weeks with his brother no matter what anybody else thinksWillows''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140886780X1786751062</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=I am TraitorSimon Jenkins|authortitle=Sif Sigmarsdottir Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations|rating=4.5|genre=TeensReference|summary=Alien ships have arrived in In the mid twentieth century the skies above London. The Prime Minister appeared on TV railway was something which harked back to announce this ominous visitation the Victorian age with trains being supplanted by cars and order a curfew. After thatplanes, but steam was being replaced by oil, he went AWOL even then and took all reliable information with him, leaving in the army twenty-first century oil is giving way to patrol the streetselectricity. Not that It's cleaner, more environmentally friendly and the army has any answer stations which we'd all rushed through as quickly as possible, keen to the long pipes that snake down from the ships escape their grime, were restored and gobble up teenagersbecame places to be admired, possibly even lingered in. To where, nobody knows Simon Jenkins has chosen his hundred best railway stations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444934473024197898X</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Charlotte SaysSarah Baker|authortitle=Alex BellEloise Undercover|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=''Charlotte saysEloise 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 not a place Eloise wants to be.Maddie and her family are taken away and Albert starts to act very strangely.Then her father disappears. don't open Eloise is lost until she discovers her father has been working for the door.'' Jemimaresistance and there might, if she is brave enough, be a way to rescue him before he's mother died in an awful fire not long ago and that is why Jemima decides deported to leave London Germany. She now has hope and take up a job as a teacher on the Isle of Skyeplan. But leaving the place doesn't mean escaping will 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 resistance let a strange, forbidding sort, while the school itself is a thoroughly creepy twelve year old building.schoolgirl join them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18471584041910611131</amazonuk>

|author= J Jefferson FarjeonNalini Singh|title= Seven DeadSilver Silence A Psy-Changling Trinity Novel

|genre= Historical FictionParanormal|summary=Ted Lyte was petty criminal, but not usually the housebreaking type. He lacked the courage. However, needs must, Jump straight into a rich and whilst feeling down diverse universe at this designated jumping on his luck he decided to try his chances at an isolated house with a shuttered windowpoint. ''...he might find Visit a bit world of alright behind those shutters! Wot abart it?'' Ted does indeed find something interesting behind the shuttershumans, but it definitely isn't what he'd hopedchangelings and Psy. In The world the books have set in has faced a locked room he finds seven dead bodies; six men dramatic change and a womannew world-order of peace has been declared. Fleeing the house in horror, he The peace is pursued painful and caught by a passing yachtsman, Thomas Hazeldean, who also happens to be a journalistnot universally loved. Fascinated by Ted's story (and a possible scoop), Hazeldean decides to investigate Into this curious case and its assortment of odd clues, including world a portrait shot through the heart, bear falls in love with an old cricket ball and a mysterious note written by one of the victims.emotionless Psy – how'd ya reckon it'll turn out?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07123568861473217571</amazonuk>

|author= Chris ColferColin Thubron|title= The Land of Stories: Worlds CollideMirror to Damascus

|genre= Confident ReadersTravel|summary=Finally, after much anticipationDamascus today is a monument to her past, the grand finale to all the best-selling ''Land of Stories'' is herepeople and civilisations that helped shape her. The previous book [[The Land of Stories: An Author's Odyssey by Chris Colfer|The Land In this enthusiastic piece of Stories: An Author's Odyssey]] left us dangling on an almighty cliffhangertravel writing, as well as leaving many plot threads unresolved. We have been with Collin Thubron tells the Bailey twins from the very beginning; tale of a city that has seen them grow empires rise and fall, conquerors come and go and mature from awkward pre-teens to confident young adultshas lasted for over two thousand years. Orson Welles famously said: It''If you want a happy endings rich in impressive history and this book is rich in impressive detail.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099532298</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Fearne Cotton and Sheena Dempsey|title= Yoga Babies|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary= Radio host, that dependsTV presenter, of coursefashion designer, author – is there anything Fearne Cotton can't do? Based on where you stop your story.'' Is the fact that the content of this book begins with this quote an ominous warning that , we can undoubtedly add Yogi to the Bailey twins may not get their ongoing list of talents, because it'happily ever after' after all?s hard to imagine any other way in which this came into being.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>03163558951783445645</amazonuk>

|author= Brian MastersClaire Freedman and Jane Massey|title= Killing for CompanyFlorence Frizzball|rating= 4.5|genre= True CrimeFor Sharing|summary= Killing Florence Frizzball has the frizziest, curliest, most out of control mop of hair you've ever seen! And she longs for Company is a detailed criminal study of Dennis Nilsensmooth, sleek, unique in that it was produced with Nilsen's full cooperation and includes material from Nilsen's prison diariesbrushable locks like all her friends. Covering Nilsen's early lifeAs a kid, his career and subsequent murdersI remember being chased round the garden by my mother, this is brandishing a detailed analysis of the man behind the murder hair brush and trying to get me to sit still and have my frizz sorted out. To say I identified with Florence would be an attemptunderstatement. As the tale goes on, on Masters' partthough, we see another side to understand the story. Florence gets what shaped Nilsen she wants, but when her dream comes true she quickly learns that maybe she was wanting all the wrong things, and what could have caused such apparently senseless violencethat actually her frizzball is part of her identity.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17847594221471144542</amazonuk>

|author= E V HarteStuart Maconie|title= The Prime of Ms Dolly GreeneLong Road From Jarrow

|genre= CrimeTravel |summary= I love reading full stop so cancelled my ''Country Walking'' magazine subscription about a year ago and the only thing I was excited miss is Stuart Maconie's column. His down-to have the chance to read the first crime novel from established, well-regarded author Daisy Waugh, writing under earth approach and sharp wit belie an equally sharp intellect and a pseudonymsoul more sensitive than he might be willing to admit. But Let's be honest, as a self-confessed chicklit fanthough, whoI picked this one up because of someone else's never read a crime novel beforereview, in which I wasnspotted names like Ferryhill and Newton Aycliffe. Places I grew up in. Like Maconie I have no connection (that I know of) to the Jarrow Crusade but when he talks about it being ''t sure if I was going a whole matrix of events reducible to one word like Aberfan, Hillsborough, or Orgreave'' then somehow itdoes become part of my history too. Tangentially, at least...turns out I absolutely loved it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14721242431785030531</amazonuk>

|author=Vicky HaywardKieran Larwood|title=Juan Altamiras' New Art The Gift of Cookery: A Spanish Friar's Kitchen NotebookDark Hollow|rating=4.5|genre=CookeryConfident Readers|summary=In 1745 a Spanish friary cookThis is the second marvellous book featuring the rabbits of Enderby, Juan Altamirasand the delightful young rabbit hero, published Podkin One Ear. I love the first edition format of his a story within a story. The adventures of Podkin in ''New Art The Gift of Cookery, Drawn From the School of Economic ExperienceDark Hollow''. It contained more than two hundred recipes for meat, poultry, game, salted are told by an old rabbit who has been a Bard all his life - a teller of stories and fresh fish, vegetables and dessertslegends from the rabbit world. The style was informalBard has an apprentice, chatty and humorous on occasions and it was aimedRue, not at those who could afford desperately eager to cook learn his trade. He hangs on every word spoken by the Bard as they travel together to a grand scale, but at those with more modest budgets, who sometimes needed to cook for large numbersfestival. Whilst the ingredients were - for the most part - modestly priced there Rue is a stress on hungry to learn the careful combination art of flavours story-telling, but also wants to know all about Podkin One Ear, and aromaswhat better way to do this than to hear from the Master himself. Spices are used conservatively The tale he tells Rue (and the bluntness of some Moorish cooking us) is eschewed in favour of something much more subtle a gripping and we see influences from Altamiras' own regionscary one, Aragonfeaturing Podkin and his friends in their ongoing battle to overturn the ruthless Gorm, the Iberian court and the New Worldtheir cruel leader, Scramashank.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14422794190571328415</amazonuk>

|author= Clar Ni ChonghailePhil Allcock and Richard Watson|title= Rain Falls On EveryoneClumpety Bump|rating= 54|genre= Literary FictionFor Sharing|summary= It's a cliché Clumpety Bump likes apples. Nothing wrong with that the Irish have a picturesque turn of phrase, but clichés only exist because after all: they're truetasty and full of goodness. Roddy Doyle put it differently in a recent interview with But you don''Writing'' magazinet get delicious, when he said juicy treats like that unless you deserve them, and naughty Clumpety is a bit too keen on saying ''With Irish, thereI can's another language bubbling under the Englisht be bothered''when his friend Wally asks for help. However you express itSo, after several disasters, that art of expression is woven into every other line of ClárWally decides he's prose. Pick a page d be better off leaving Clumpety at random home and you'll find something like ''the sickness that had come to roost in her home like a cursed owl'' or ''like he was Godusing his tractor instead. Unfortunately, Jesus and Justin Timberlake rolled into onethings don'' or ''a low sobbingt turn out too well, slow and inevitable as rain on a Sunday'': expressions our two heroes learn that catch your smile unawaresif you want to be properly happy, or tear at your heart in their mundane sadnessother people need to be happy too. Or sometimes bothSelfishness just makes everyone sad.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17850790181848862458</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Salt CreekRoger Moore|authortitle=Lucy TreloarA Bientot...|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionAutobiography|summary=The first chapter news of the death of Sir Roger Moore in May 2017 came as a great shock: he was one of those people you knew would go on for ever. There was just one small glimmer of light in the sadness - the news that a matter of days before his death he'd delivered the finished manuscript of his book, ''Salt CreekÀ bientôt…'' opens in Chichester, England, in 1874to his publishers. Hester Finch is Just a respected few months later a copy landed on my desk and reasonably wealthy member of her community. But she canI didn't stop her thoughts wandering back even bother to her adolescence, spent on Salt Creek Station in the remote South Australian Coorong region. Hester feels ''has never felt so alive look as then, when we had so little''though I could resist reading it straight away.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19107094171782438610</amazonuk>

|author= Bali RaiJonathan Stroud|title= Tales from IndiaLockwood and Co: The Empty Grave|rating= 45

|summary=Fairy stories, folk tales In a world that takes the best and fables are a rite worst of passage for an inquiring mind. They open the door to enchantmentVictorian times (atmospheric fogs, magic and moral lessons. Many European collections existcandles, some mudlarks who scavenge along the banks of the most notable being that of Aesop, Hans Christian AndersenThames for treasures) and the modern day (leggings, the Brothers Grimmskinny jeans, Andrew Lang cabs and Perrault. Tales concrete underpasses) absolutely anything can also originate from exotic climeshappen – and it does. An endless source For fifty years ghosts of delight for me all kinds have infested Britain, and as a child was my great grandmother's much cherished copy only children and young people can see them, theirs is the task of protecting the adults and ridding the country of The Arabian Nightsthe menaces, one by painful one. Full of mysteryLucy, George, imagination Holly and charm, it communicated to me Lockwood are the power members of storytelling the smallest and most ramshackle independent agency, but their constant success (and transported me to different worlds. This survival despite forever lengthening odds) is what Bali Rai aims to do for young readers with his latest offering. Inspired by a thorn in the collected tales flesh of the C19th Sydney-born English folklorist Joseph Jacobelite Fittes Agency, Rai which has lovingly created a tribute to acquired almost total control over the traditional stories of Indiawhole ghost-bashing business.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>01413730670552575798</amazonuk>

|author=Lucy AdlingtonKenneth Steven|title=The Red RibbonWinter Tales|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersShort Stories|summary=Ella is rushing to her audition for Upon opening this book you are presented with an eclectic collection of twelve short stories centred around a job in fashion, as common theme of Winter. You are several other young women. Thrown in at taken around the deep end world as you read stories set in the high-pressure workplace, she is tasked with creating a dress variety of places from scratch for an important client before four pm that day. But she manages it, even working through the non-existent lunch breakHelsinki to New York, Germany to design Russia. Kenneth Steven cleverly utilises a silk wonder worthy key component of any environment. But this is no typical makeshort stories -orthat you can read each story in one sitting -break-'em fashion design houseto his advantage as he gives each story an individual focal subject, such as bullying, and this is no normal environment for ensuring that you are reading a distinct story every time you open the recipient to be wearing the frock. This is Birchwood – or Auschwitz-Birkenau to you and Ibook.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14714062881910674508</amazonuk>

|author=Andy BellWilliam Sutton|title=The DIY Investor: How to take control Lawless and the House of your investments and plan for a financially secure futureElectricity|rating=5|genre=Business and FinanceCrime (Historical)|summary=Investments 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 confusing. They're also rather frightening unless you have a background in finance: you could invest in equities which seem likely being led to make your fortunebelieve, only or someone closer to find that you've lost all your money. On the other hand you could put all your savings into a nicehome? Who can be trusted and what does Roxbury, an innovative inventor previously disgraced, safe building society or bank account only have to find that do with the interest is so derisory that your capital doesn't actually have bombs used to cause chaos across the same buying power that it did when you opened country? Employing the account. You could, services of courseMolly, spend the moneyeffervescent ragamuffin from his previous adventures, but what about when you want to buy he sets in motion a housecampaign of subterfuge which uncovers long held secrets, replace skulduggery and the roof or retire? The roof might be relatively cheap but the other two are going to need a substantial investment potdesperate yearnings beneath Roxbury's constant invention.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08571960141785650130</amazonuk>

|author= E LockhartK J Lawrence|title= Genuine FraudThe Cossack|rating= 45|genre= TeensThrillers|summary= IDaniel Brooking is not what you'm going to straight up say that Id think of as hero material: he'm not going to mention s a photographer of some merit and in his fifties he has a settled life. It was the plot in this reviewdisappearance of his assistant, Ivan Shevchenko, because I canwhich disrupted everything. It wasn't without inevitably spoiling something in this twistingunknown for him to disappear occasionally, turning, great suspense of but missing an exhibition was a novelfirst for him. All I will say is that I felt like I was watching He'd been distracted for a proper thriller movie while I was reading it; I feel like I might see this advertised as a film on few days - and then there were the strange papers which arrived, to be kept safe. The authorities, in the side form of a bus any time soonshadowy senior member of the security services, and if confirmed the view that happensIvan was probably dead, then it will have an excellent female lead that kicks because of some serious backsidesupposed connections with organised crime and drug dealing. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>14714066281999782704</amazonuk>

|author= Jackie Morris James Goss and James MayhewRussell T Davies|title= Mrs Noah's PocketsDoctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who)|rating= 4.5|genre= For SharingChildren's Rhymes and Verse |summary= The heavy rains, Noah building his ark and Consider the animals going in two by two to be saved. This most familiar of stories has been retold time and time again but not like thisDoctor. This time there is twist Just how many birthday and someone else quietly takes centre stage. When Mr Noah builds the arkChristmas gifts must he have to hand out each year, were he makes two lists - one for all the animals who will come on board and one for those troublesome creatures he will leave behind. Meanwhile, Mrs Noah gets out her sewing machine and makes a coat to keep in touch with very deep pockets. Lots even half of pockets.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191095909X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 10/9 -->|author=Stuart Burrell|title=Twelve Times To The Max: One Man's Journey to, and Recollections his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some ofthem, Setting Twelve Verified World Records|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=The first of Stuart Burrell's world recordssay, wellfor example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the first two, actually, as he's not life of a man to do things by halves, came about by accidentTime Lord and that of some of his friends and enemies. There had been a plan to raise some money for As luck would have it, he has the Children space in Need Charity and quite late on the people who were his TARDIS to have been the main attraction got a better offer and Burrell is not a man stock up in advance, so my advice to let people down. What could him – sorry, her – would be done to bring people in pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and raise some money? get himself ready. Most of us would have thought of jumble sales and cake bakesAnd if you're working on a shorter timescale, but Burrell had made with a hobby of escapology shorter lifespan, and idea of a sponsored escape had life breathed into it. On 3 November 2002 he went for thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much 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 Needsame.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>154712251X1785942719</amazonuk>