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|author=Maja Lunde and Diane Oatley (translator)DK|title=The History My Encyclopedia of BeesVery Important Animals|rating=4.5|genre=General Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Bees are The animal kingdom is a handy symbol diverse one, full of the planet's environmental degradation, as you'll know if you've read anything by [[:Category:Dave Goulson|Dave Goulson]] – whose endorsement is featured proudly on the cover creatures that do all sorts of this Uthings.K The number of animals out there is so vast that even vets need to do a quick google when something strange appears in their practice. release For budding vet-to-be animals are a constant source of Norwegian children's writer Maja Lunde's first novel for adultsfascination and they will absorb as much knowledge as you can give them. The creatures also provide subtle links between It is not practical to visit the book's three story lineszoo every day, but getting an educational and entertaining animal encylopedia is.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14711627450241276357</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Greta Zargo and the Death Robots from Outer SpaceDK|authortitle=A F HarroldDK Children's Encyclopedia

|genre=Confident ReadersChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=More than sixty years ago my grandparents bought me an encylopedia: it was a major purchase for them as they didn't really 'No one knew that only three things stood in the way of the complete and utter destruction of the Earth: one elderly parrot'do'' books, one eleven-year-old spelling mistake but it was a treasure trove for me and one intrepid young newspaper-reporter-cum-schoolgirl in search of a Big ScoopI still have it today. It didn'' Oh my word! What a prospect! Let 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 feeling that I left it in a pretty tidy state, but on my return some things always seem out of Cinderella, and place. This is especially true of how she went from my bathroom. Why is there toothpaste on the gutter to mirror, or a flannel on the stars in one romantic swoop. floor? Itwould appear that I may not actually be to blame and that when I's only a good thing m at work all the relevant people didn't have foot fetishes or phobias, bathroom items come out for then the tale would have been utterly differenta boogie. Disney made it slightly different, Will I ever catch them in the act?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571337317</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Mark Alder|title= Son of the Night|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary=In [[Son of the Morning by Mark Alder|Son of coursethe Morning]], when they made author Mark Alder plunges the animated classic based on reader into a chaotic, dangerous world, taking them back to the legend, turbulent reign of Edward III and this book, complete with art from the time dangers of the film was being madeHundred Years War. Adding elements of fantasy and theology to the mix, Alder created an intriguing read which is evidence continued in ''Son of just how the look Night''. With Lucifer, Satan, God, Devils and Angels interacting with a cast of real and the emotion well researched characters, Alder continues his exploration of the piece were intended to beHundred Years war whilst rather incredibly keeping his readers as educated as they are entertained.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14052869970575115203</amazonuk>

|author=Jon Scieszka Kenneth Grahame and Mary BlairRobert Ingpen|title=Walt Disney's Alice The Wind in Wonderland: Illustrated by Mary Blair (Walt Disney Classics)The Willows|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary=IKenneth Grahame's ''The Wind in the Willows''ll take is as read you have some knowledge was one of the story defining books of Alice in Wonderland – certainly when she got to be 150 my childhood and more than sixty years old a couple of years back there were no end of editions of her storyafter I first read the book I've just recently passed it onto another young reader. And as you knowSince the book was first published in 1908 there have been some notable illustrators: Paul Bransom provided illustrations for the 1913 edition, 150 years is a heck Ernest H Shepard (perhaps better known for his illustrations of a lot of unbirthdays. But her story got to be slightly different''Winnie the Pooh'') in 1933, and if anything only more loved, courtesy of Arthur Rackham (possibly the Disney cartoon, and leading illustrator from the fact that this golden age of book features artwork that was generated during illustration) in 1940 and Robert Ingpen who illustrated the production centenary edition of that film is ''The Wind in the unique selling pointWillows''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14052870041786751062</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=MoonriseSimon Jenkins|authortitle=Sarah CrossanBritain's 100 Best Railway Stations

|genre=TeensReference|summary=Joe is seventeen In the mid twentieth century the railway was something which harked back to the Victorian age with trains being supplanted by cars and planes, but steam was being replaced by oil, even then and he hasn't seen his brother for ten years. And in the reason for that is brutal twenty- Ed first century oil is on Death Row in Texas, convicted of the murder of a police officergiving way to electricity. Ed says he It's innocent. Aunt Karen doesn't believe him. And Mum is long gonecleaner, no-one knows where. When more environmentally friendly and the execution date comes stations which we'd all rushed throughas quickly as possible, Joe passes up on keen to escape their grime, were restored and became places to be admired, possibly even lingered in. Simon Jenkins has chosen his job and hundred best railway stations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024197898X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Sarah Baker|title=Eloise Undercover|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary= Eloise has a spot on a summer athletics scholarship wonderful life with her two best friends, Albert and treks from New York across Maddie, until the country so that Ed German soldiers start to arrive and everything changes. Nazi-occupied France is not alonea place Eloise wants to be. He Maddie and her family are taken away and Albert starts to act very strangely. Then her father disappears. Eloise is determined lost until she discovers her father has been working for the resistance and there might, if she is brave enough, be a way to spend these last weeks with his brother no matter what anybody else thinksrescue him before he's deported to Germany. She now has hope and a plan.But will the resistance let a twelve year old schoolgirl join them?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140886780X1910611131</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=I am TraitorNalini Singh|authortitle=Sif Sigmarsdottir Silver Silence A Psy-Changling Trinity Novel|rating=4.5|genre=TeensParanormal|summary=Alien ships have arrived in the skies above LondonJump straight into a rich and diverse universe at this designated jumping on point. The Prime Minister appeared on TV to announce this ominous visitation and order Visit a curfew. After thatworld of humans, he went AWOL changelings and took all reliable information with him, leaving the army to patrol the streetsPsy. Not that The world the army books have set in has any answer to the long pipes that snake down from the ships faced a dramatic change and gobble up teenagersa new world-order of peace has been declared. To where, nobody knowsThe peace is painful and not universally loved.Into this world a bear falls in love with an emotionless Psy – how'd ya reckon it'll turn out?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14449344731473217571</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Charlotte SaysColin Thubron|authortitle=Alex BellMirror to Damascus|rating=4.5|genre=TeensTravel|summary=''Charlotte says... don't open the door.'' Jemima's mother died in an awful fire not long ago and that Damascus today is why Jemima decides a monument to her past, to leave London and take up a job as a teacher on the Isle of Skye. But leaving all the place doesn't mean escaping the memories people and Jemima is tormented by second-guessing what actually happened on civilisations that terrible nighthelped shape her. It doesn't help that Miss GraysonIn this enthusiastic piece of travel writing, Collin Thubron tells the mistress at the school, is tale of a strangecity that has seen empires rise and fall, forbidding sort, while the school itself conquerors come and go and has lasted for over two thousand years. It's rich in impressive history and this book is a thoroughly creepy old buildingrich in impressive detail.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18471584040099532298</amazonuk>

|author= J Jefferson FarjeonFearne Cotton and Sheena Dempsey|title= Seven DeadYoga Babies

|genre= Historical FictionFor Sharing|summary=Ted Lyte was petty criminalRadio host, but not usually the housebreaking type. He lacked the courage. HoweverTV presenter, needs mustfashion designer, and whilst feeling down on his luck he decided to try his chances at an isolated house with a shuttered window. author – is there anything Fearne Cotton can''...he might find a bit of alright behind those shutters! Wot abart itt do?'' Ted does indeed find something interesting behind Based on the shutterscontent of this book, but it definitely isn't what he'd hoped. In a locked room he finds seven dead bodies; six men and a woman. Fleeing we can undoubtedly add Yogi to the house in horrorongoing list of talents, he is pursued and caught by a passing yachtsman, Thomas Hazeldean, who also happens to be a journalist. Fascinated by Tedbecause it's story (and a possible scoop), Hazeldean decides hard to investigate imagine any other way in which this curious case and its assortment of odd clues, including a portrait shot through the heart, an old cricket ball and a mysterious note written by one of the victimscame into being.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07123568861783445645</amazonuk>

|author= Chris ColferClaire Freedman and Jane Massey|title= The Land of Stories: Worlds CollideFlorence Frizzball

|genre= Confident ReadersFor Sharing|summary=FinallyFlorence Frizzball has the frizziest, after much anticipationcurliest, the grand finale to the best-selling ''Land most out of Stories'' is here. The previous book [[The Land control mop of Stories: An Authorhair you's Odyssey by Chris Colfer|The Land of Stories: An Author's Odyssey]] left us dangling on an almighty cliffhangerve ever seen! And she longs for smooth, sleek, as well as leaving many plot threads unresolvedbrushable locks like all her friends. We have been with As a kid, I remember being chased round the Bailey twins from the very beginning; seen them grow garden by my mother, brandishing a hair brush and mature from awkward pre-teens trying to get me to confident young adultssit still and have my frizz sorted out. Orson Welles famously said: ''If you want a happy endingTo say I identified with Florence would be an understatement. As the tale goes on, that dependsthough, of course, on where you stop your we see another side to the story.'' Is the fact Florence gets what she wants, but when her dream comes true she quickly learns that maybe she was wanting all the book begins with this quote an ominous warning wrong things, and that the Bailey twins may not get their 'happily ever after' after all?actually her frizzball is part of her identity. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>03163558951471144542</amazonuk>

|author= Brian MastersStuart Maconie|title= Killing for CompanyLong Road From Jarrow

|genre= True CrimeTravel |summary= Killing for Company I cancelled my ''Country Walking'' magazine subscription about a year ago and the only thing I miss is a detailed criminal study of Dennis Nilsen, unique in that it was produced with NilsenStuart Maconie's full cooperation column. His down-to-earth approach and sharp wit belie an equally sharp intellect and includes material from Nilsena soul more sensitive than he might be willing to admit. Let's prison diaries. Covering Nilsenbe honest, though, I picked this one up because of someone else's early lifereview, his career in which I spotted names like Ferryhill and subsequent murders, this is 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 ''a detailed analysis whole matrix of the man behind the murder and an attemptevents reducible to one word like Aberfan, Hillsborough, on Mastersor Orgreave' ' then somehow it does become partof my history too. Tangentially, to understand what shaped Nilsen and what could have caused such apparently senseless violenceat least.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17847594221785030531</amazonuk>

|author= E V HarteKieran Larwood|title= The Prime Gift of Ms Dolly GreeneDark Hollow|rating= 4.5|genre= CrimeConfident Readers|summary= This is the second marvellous book featuring the rabbits of Enderby, and the delightful young rabbit hero, Podkin One Ear. I love reading full stop so I was excited the format of a story within a story. The adventures of Podkin in ''The Gift of Dark Hollow'', are told by an old rabbit who has been a Bard all his life - a teller of stories and legends from the rabbit world. The Bard has an apprentice, Rue, desperately eager to have learn his trade. He hangs on every word spoken by the chance Bard as they travel together to a festival. Rue is hungry to read learn the first crime novel art of story-telling, but also wants to know all about Podkin One Ear, and what better way to do this than to hear from establishedthe Master himself. The tale he tells Rue (and us) is a gripping and scary one, featuring Podkin and his friends in their ongoing battle to overturn the ruthless Gorm, well-regarded and their cruel leader, Scramashank.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571328415</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author Daisy Waugh= Phil Allcock and Richard Watson|title= Clumpety Bump|rating= 4|genre= For Sharing|summary= Clumpety Bump likes apples. Nothing wrong with that, writing under a pseudonymafter all: they're tasty and full of goodness. Butyou don't get delicious, juicy treats like that unless you deserve them, as and naughty Clumpety is a self-confessed chicklit fanbit too keen on saying ''I can't be bothered'' when his friend Wally asks for help. So, after several disasters, whoWally decides he's never read a crime novel befored be better off leaving Clumpety at home and using his tractor instead. Unfortunately, I wasnthings don't sure turn out too well, and our two heroes learn that if I was going you want to be properly happy, other people need to like itbe happy too.Selfishness just makes everyone sad...turns out I absolutely loved it!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14721242431848862458</amazonuk>

|author=Vicky HaywardRoger Moore|title=Juan Altamiras' New Art of Cookery: A Spanish Friar's Kitchen NotebookBientot...

|genre=CookeryAutobiography|summary=In 1745 a Spanish friary cook, Juan Altamiras, published the first edition of his ''New Art The news of Cookery, Drawn From the School death of Economic Experience''. It contained more than two hundred recipes for meat, poultry, game, salted and fresh fish, vegetables and desserts. The style Sir Roger Moore in May 2017 came as a great shock: he was informal, chatty and humorous on occasions and it was aimed, not at one of those who could afford to cook people you knew would go on a grand scale, but at those with more modest budgets, who sometimes needed to cook for large numbersever. Whilst There was just one small glimmer of light in the ingredients were sadness - for the most part - modestly priced there is news that a stress on matter of days before his death he'd delivered the careful combination finished manuscript of flavours and aromashis book, ''À bientôt…'', to his publishers. Spices are used conservatively Just a few months later a copy landed on my desk and the bluntness of some Moorish cooking is eschewed in favour of something much more subtle and we see influences from AltamirasI didn' own region, Aragon, the Iberian court and the New Worldt even bother to look as though I could resist reading it straight away.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14422794191782438610</amazonuk>

|author= Clar Ni ChonghaileJonathan Stroud|title= Rain Falls On EveryoneLockwood and Co: The Empty Grave

|genre= Literary FictionConfident Readers|summary= It's In a cliché world that takes the Irish have a picturesque turn best and worst of Victorian times (atmospheric fogs, candles, mudlarks who scavenge along the banks of phrasethe Thames for treasures) and the modern day (leggings, skinny jeans, but clichés only exist because they're truecabs and concrete underpasses) absolutely anything can happen – and it does. Roddy Doyle put it differently in a recent interview with ''Writing'' magazineFor fifty years ghosts of all kinds have infested Britain, when he said that ''With Irishand as only children and young people can see them, there's another language bubbling under theirs is the English''. However you express it, that art task of expression is woven into every other line protecting the adults and ridding the country of Clár's prosethe menaces, one by painful one. Pick a page at random Lucy, George, Holly and you'll find something like ''Lockwood are the members of the sickness that had come to roost in her home like a cursed owl'' or ''like he was God, Jesus smallest and Justin Timberlake rolled into one'' or ''a low sobbingmost ramshackle independent agency, slow but their constant success (and inevitable as rain on survival despite forever lengthening odds) is a Sunday'': expressions that catch your smile unawaresthorn in the flesh of the elite Fittes Agency, or tear at your heart in their mundane sadness. Or sometimes bothwhich has acquired almost total control over the whole ghost-bashing business.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17850790180552575798</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Salt CreekKenneth Steven|authortitle=Lucy TreloarWinter Tales|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionShort Stories|summary=The first chapter Upon opening this book you are presented with an eclectic collection of twelve short stories centred around a common theme of ''Salt Creek'' opens Winter. You are taken around the world as you read stories set in Chichestera variety of places from Helsinki to New York, England, in 1874Germany to Russia. Hester Finch is Kenneth Steven cleverly utilises a respected and reasonably wealthy member key component of her community. But she short stories - that you can't stop her thoughts wandering back read each story in one sitting - to her adolescencehis advantage as he gives each story an individual focal subject, spent on Salt Creek Station in the remote South Australian Coorong region. Hester feels ''has never felt so alive such as thenbullying, when we had so little''ensuring that you are reading a distinct story every time you open the book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19107094171910674508</amazonuk>

|author= Bali RaiWilliam Sutton|title= Tales from IndiaLawless and the House of Electricity|rating= 45|genre= Confident ReadersCrime (Historical)|summary=Fairy storiesCampbell Lawless is back, folk tales and fables are this time tasked with solving a rite series of passage for an inquiring mind. They open terrorist attacks across the door to enchantment, magic and moral lessonsnation. Many European collections exist, some of Is it the most notable being that work of Aesop, Hans Christian Andersen, the Brothers GrimmFrench, Andrew Lang and Perrault. Tales 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 police and charmpublic are being led to believe, it communicated or someone closer to me the power of storytelling home? Who can be trusted and transported me to different worlds. This is what Bali Rai aims does Roxbury, an innovative inventor previously disgraced, have to do for young readers with his latest offering. Inspired by the collected tales of bombs used to cause chaos across the C19th Sydney-born English folklorist Joseph Jacob, Rai has lovingly created a tribute to country? Employing the traditional stories services of India.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141373067</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lucy Adlington|title=The Red Ribbon|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Ella is rushing to her audition for a job in fashionMolly, as are several other young women. Thrown in at the deep end in the high-pressure workplace, she is tasked with creating a dress effervescent ragamuffin from scratch for an important client before four pm that day. But she manages ithis previous adventures, even working through the non-existent lunch break, to design he sets in motion a silk wonder worthy campaign of any environment. But this is no typical make-or-break-'em fashion design housesubterfuge which uncovers long held secrets, skulduggery and this is no normal environment for the recipient to be wearing the frock. This is Birchwood – or Auschwitz-Birkenau to you and Idesperate yearnings beneath Roxbury's constant invention.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14714062881785650130</amazonuk>

|author=Andy BellK J Lawrence|title=The DIY Investor: How to take control of your investments and plan for a financially secure futureCossack

|genre=Business and FinanceThrillers|summary=Investments are confusing. TheyDaniel Brooking is not what you'd think of as hero material: he're also rather frightening unless you have s a background photographer of some merit and in finance: you could invest in equities his fifties he has a settled life. It was the disappearance of his assistant, Ivan Shevchenko, which seem likely disrupted everything. It wasn't unknown for him to make your fortunedisappear occasionally, only to find that youbut missing an exhibition was a first for him. He've lost all your money. On d been distracted for a few days - and then there were the other hand you could put all your savings into a nicestrange papers which arrived, to be kept safe building society or bank account only to find that the interest is so derisory that your capital doesn't actually have the same buying power that it did when you opened the account. You couldThe authorities, in the form of a shadowy senior member of coursethe security services, spend confirmed the moneyview that Ivan was probably dead, but what about when you want to buy a house, replace the roof or retire? The roof might be relatively cheap but the other two are going to need a substantial investment potbecause of some supposed connections with organised crime and drug dealing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08571960141999782704</amazonuk>

|author= E LockhartJames Goss and Russell T Davies|title= Genuine FraudDoctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who)|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensChildren's Rhymes and Verse |summary= Consider the Doctor. I'm going Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to straight up say that I'm not going hand out each year, were he to mention the plot keep in this reviewtouch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of them, because I can't without inevitably spoiling something in this twistingsay, turningfor example, great suspense whimsical books of a novel. All I will say is verse that I felt like I was watching a proper thriller movie while I was reading it; I feel like I might see this advertised as a film on pithily encapsulate the side life of a bus any time soon, Time Lord and if that happens, then it will have an excellent female lead that kicks of some serious backsideof his friends and enemies. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471406628</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 10/9 -->|author=Stuart Burrell|title=Twelve Times To The Max: One Man's Journey to, and Recollections of, Setting Twelve Verified World Records|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=The first of Stuart Burrell's world records, well As luck would have it, he has the first two, actuallyspace in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, as he's not a man so my advice to do things by halveshim – sorry, came about by accident. There had been a plan her – would be to raise some money for the Children in Need Charity and quite late on the people who were pop along to have been the main attraction got a better offer his local Earth-based book emporium and Burrell is not a man to let people downget himself ready. What could be done to bring people in and raise some money? 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>