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|author=Benny Lindelauf, Ludwig Volbeda and Laura Watkinson (translator)Fiona Mitchell|title=Tortot, the Cold Fish Who Lost His World and Found His HeartThe Maid's Room|rating=4.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet Tortot. HeIn some apartments in Singapore you's a camp chef for an army, with a cold heart – he sheds no tears, or at least as much as does ll find a fish – bomb shelter - airless and without a brilliant way of gauging the warfare going on around himwindow. The book even starts with him crossing It will probably house the washing machine and the battlefield other domestic paraphernalia that's got nowhere else to start work for go. There'll be a mattress on the enemy floor of this stifling room, with the night before they turn heat increased by the tables on his previous employers and defeat them, leaving Tortot on tumble dryer. This is the winning side once moremaid's room. But now heIt's possibly better than sleeping under the dining room table, but not alone – by much. Back in 2009 there were 201,000 female domestic workers in Singapore, many not earning any money for he has managed a year until they've repaid 'training' and other fees to also inherit an assistantthe agency, who lives many living in a barrel of 'the Emperorsmaid's room' favourite and most important gherkins….|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17826915451473659566</amazonuk>

|author=Annabel PitcherAllan Hailstone|title=The Last Days of Archie MaxwellBerlin in the Cold War: 1959 to 1966

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyHistory|summary=Archie Maxwell was shocked when his parents told him that they were getting divorced. It wasn't that Dads leaving was that unusual'Berlin in the Cold War: Leon's Dad had left and so had Mo1959-1966's. It was ''why'' he was leaving and Archie was embarrassed that his sister had suspected that their father was gay some time ago. Both of contains almost 200 photographs taken by author / photographer Allan Hailstone in his sisters are sad visits to see their father leave, but they don't seem to have any problem with the ''why'' and they tell their friendscity during this period. But Archie daren't tell The images provide an insight into the lads at school: changing nature of the bullying is bad enough as it is. And then there's the problem of Tia, whom he really fancies but he can't say anything about it. What Tia really needs is divide between East and West Berlin and a friend: it's just about the first anniversary of the day on which her brother committed suicide by throwing himself glimpse into life in front of a train on the line which runs at city during the back of Archie's houseCold War.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112728X1445672901</amazonuk>

|author= Jason Segel and Kirsten Miller|title= Otherworld|rating= 5|genre=Fantasy|summary=imon would not have considered himself a hero. In fact, by all accounts, particularly that of his parents, Simon is an epic failure. He's large, he's hairy, he has a ridiculously oversized nose and he's been kicked out of boarding school and kept on a federal watch list. But Simon is sure something is up with his friend Kat. She won't speak to him. So he resorts to buying an incredibly expensive new virtual reality video game for them both - Otherworld. Otherworld engages your senses with graphics so good, you'll swear they are real, and it's here that Simon really wants to talk to Kat. But it isn't real, it's a game… until a turn of events lands Simon in Otherworld in an all together different way. This time, whatever harm his avatar suffers has real consequences. And if it dies? Simon would rather not think about that. If he wants to save Kat, he has to keep pressing on. Simon is the chosen one, this is not a game. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786073692</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Alison Ritchie and Marisa MoreaAsa Avdic|title= The Twelve Dogs of ChristmasDying Game

|genre= For SharingThrillers|summary= Christmas In a futuristic dystopian Sweden, ministry worker Anna is approaching presented with an offer from the formidable chairman. Except the offer, is more of an order than a choice. With nothing to lose and one little puppy everything to gain, Anna accepts. She is very excited about his first ever Christmas Daytaken to an isolated Island with other ''candidates'' for a job in the super-secret organisation. Everywhere he looks Anna's objective is simple, she is to ''die'' and then observe her fellows through hidden chambers of the preparations are underway with every dog in town helping outhouse. However Once the experiment is finished, she will so many eager assistants joining in report her findings back to the fray help or hinder chairman. However, while this starts off smoothly at first, other contestants start disappearing and will everything ever be ready in time?Anna is faced with the terror of knowing this is not just a game anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14711661711786090201</amazonuk>

|authortitle=Dr SeussScoop of the Year|titleauthor=What Was I Scared Of?Tom Claver

|genre=For SharingThrillers|summary=All Hallows' Eve Martin is an ambitious journalist working on the Financial Review. Martin is upon us once more good at his job - accurate, dedicated, hardworking and with a good nose for a scoop. But Martin is also uninterested in the culture that can only mean that we are soon comes with reporting. He has a wife and two daughters at home and he doesn't want to be surrounded by all types of monsterswaste time and money in the pub, ghoulies and manifestationstalking macho nonsense with the other hacks. Fear notHe is a far cry from his colleague Tom de Lacy, a charismatic, as many of these unsettling creatures will actually be children dressed up on another adventure trick or treatingsilver-spooned charmer with piercing blue eyes. Tom doesn't just grab the limelight though - he also grabs the promotion to industrial correspondent. But what about And that pair of seemingly malevolent trousers that walk by themselves? That is no childthe job Martin not only wanted, but a pair of haunted kecksneeded. Run, run, run, but perhaps if you have them a friendly hello these pants may be nicer than you think?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00082526021788036220</amazonuk>

|author=Lorenzo Marone and Shaun Whiteside (Translator)Maureen Orth|title=Vulgar Favours: The Temptation to Be HappyAssassination of Gianni Versace|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionTrue Crime|summary=Cesare What is 77, widowed, generally ignored by the offspring he likes and bothered too much by the one he doesn't. Still, he finds ways it about true crime which makes it so fascinating to fill his days. If hesuch a wide audience? I guess it's not taking advantage of his friend-with-benefits arrangement with aging lady of wanting to try to figure out what happened to make these people partake in the night Rossanaawful crimes they committed, or keeping an eye else the same inexplicable impulse people have to slow down when they overtake a car crash on his grandsonthe motorway. Whatever it is, heMaureen Orth's making mischief in league with elderly neighbours like Signora Vitaliano (local mad cat woman) and Marino (the non-IT-literate computer guy). Their minds are diverted from their usual pursuits when a young couple move book, Vulgar Favours, taps right on into the apartment block providing Cesare with a concern and the conviction that he has to do something, whatever the fall out or personal dangerit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17860728821785943103</amazonuk>

|author= Chris BeckettCharlotte Peacock|title= America CityInto The Mountain, A Life of Nan Shepherd|rating= 4.5|genre= Dystopian FictionBiography|summary= ''America City'' tells Mostly we choose what books to read, because there is so little time and so many books… I can understand the story of Hollyapproach, but I also think we sell ourselves short by it, an ambitious Publicist who sets aside her own political beliefs in order to help and we sell the ambitious Senator Slaymaker with his Presidential campaignmyriad lesser known authors short as well. Set in the 22nd century, the novel tells of an incredibly disunited United States So while, where the effects of climate change like most other people I have created deep divisions between the affluent Northern Statesmy favourite genres, and the Southfavoured authors, which is frequently ravaged by extreme weather. Holly and Slaymaker hope to change thiswhile, working together like most other people I read the reviews and follow up on the plan they believe what appeals, I also have a third string to be my reading bow: randomness. It was in such a 'left-field' move that ''Into the solution to the problem of where Mountain'' was offered to place the thousands of Americans who have been made homeless by devastating stormsme.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17864915241903385563</amazonuk>

|author=Jessica TownsendAlan Moorehead|title=Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan CrowRussian Revolution|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersHistory|summary=Morrigan Crow is a cursed child. Everyone First published in Jackalfax where she lives believes she is responsible for all the things that go wrong in their life. And1958, if thatMoorhead's not bad enough, the curse means she will die on her eleventh birthday. Morrigan believes there account is no escape from her fate until a mysterious man appears and offers her a new life in regarded as one of the secret city most succinct accounts of Nevermoor. There is only one problem – to stay in Nevermoor she needs its subject, and now reprinted to gain a coveted place in mark the Wunderous Society by competing against hundreds centenary of other hopefuls to pass four seemingly impossible trialsthe revolution.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>15101041191445667320</amazonuk>

|author=Lars Mytting and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)Catherine Hewitt|title=Renoir's Dancer: The Sixteen Trees Secret Life of the SommeSuzanne Valadon

|genre=General FictionBiography|summary=While his grandfather lived Deep in the rural parts of France in the past was an area 1860s, you would never really expect to find someone who would come to embody a full artistic period – and not just a movement at that, but a full generation of certainty for Edvardboth creative and societal change. At aged 4 he'd been taken And if you were to live with his grandparentsexpect that someone, having survived the accident that killed his parentsthey would like as not be male. Now his grandfather has died revelations are coming to light showing Edvard his family history is different from what he'd believed… his mother's birthplace, his mother's name, But almost stumbling into the whereabouts hedonistic culture of late GreatMontmartre came Marie-Uncle Einar… and that's without looking more deeply into the fatal accident itselfClementine Valadon. Edvard is determined to solve She started in the puzzlecircus that first caught her teenaged eye, a determination although her gymnastic career was short-lived. But what she did have from that will take him away from his native Norway was the poise to be an area of France synonymous with devastation appealing model for some seriously important painters, and a remote Scottish island loaded with secretsnatural beauty and figure to appeal to both them and their audiences. And what she also had, much to the surprise of many and the distaste of some, was artistic talent of her own…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08570560691785782738</amazonuk>

|author=Morag HoodDavid Melling|title=I Am BatMerry Christmas, Hugless Douglas|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing|summary=Bat Hugless Douglas is a creature with very definite opinions. He does not like morningslarge, comfy sort of bear who burst onto the picture book scene a few years ago as he searched for example, but he does like cherriesjust the right sort of hug. In factHis endearing, he really loves cherrieshopeful face and that chubby (to put it politely) body instantly melted young hearts, as they are and to universal delight we have since been treated to several more of his adventures. Douglas is hugless no longer, you''favourite of all things!'' What do you think might happen if somebody takes Batll be glad to know, but the name stuck, mostly because it's cherries? Bat won't be happysuch fun to say (go on, will try it!) and because he?!still bumbles through life embracing everything in sight as if cuddles are about to go out of fashion. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>15098346131444906844</amazonuk>

|author=Dr SeussJulia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler|title=I Can Read With My Eyes ShutA Treasury of Songs|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging ReadersChildren's Rhymes and Verse|summary=''The more that you readSome people have all the skills,''<br>''The more things you will know.''''The more that you learn,''<br>''The more places you'll go.'' This not only is a classic Dr Seuss quote from this book, and Julia Donaldson one that I painstakingly stickered onto of the wall of my most successful children's school library! authors, she can also carry a tune. The book is very sillyFor the past few years she has adapted many of her most popular stories into songs and plays them during open readings, or releases them as Dr Seuss always is, but is part of a song book. For the first time ''A Treasury of Songs'' brings together several of her books in one omnibus and it also has a good rhyming ode to CD too of Donaldson singing the joys of readingsongs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00082400191509846131</amazonuk>

|author=Twigs WayAlexander McCall Smith|title=Tea Gardens (Britain's Heritage Series)The Good Pilot Peter Woodhouse|rating=45|genre=LifestyleGeneral Fiction|summary=Tea Gardens really began in London in the late 18th century: a trip to Kings Cross or St Pancras was effectively a trip If you've never read an Alexander McCall Smith novel, but have always thought you might like to the country in those days. Men had their coffee housestry, but they were not places where women could or would one day then this might be seenthe book to start with. Tea was introduced to England in Rather than face the 17th century but daunting task of leaping into one of his now very long-running series, this is a standalone novel, and it was not until 1784 that gives a good flavour of AMS's style, the high duty was reduced from 119% way he can write to 12½% evoke a feeling of time and place, and tea became the drink of choice for the nationwarm optimism underlying his words that is so very reassuring and comforting to read. Until then the working classes had been fuelled largely by cheap ginIt calls itself 'a wartime romance', which it is, and yet it is much more than that besides. OnlyFocussing mainly on Val, a young woman working as a Land Girl, we see her falling in love with an American pilot, where would this beverage be drunk? Mike Rogers. One answer was Thanks to a sheepdog on Val's farm (the pleasure gardens where Peter Woodhouse from the fashionable went to see title) their lives become entwined with that of a German soldier, and be seen: by the mid 1600s tea was also being served in places such book shows us a variety of friendships as Ranelagh Gardensthey grow and develop over the years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14456700111846974097</amazonuk>

|author=Gladys MitchellChristopher Maslanka and Steve Tribe|title=Murder in the SnowSherlock: A Cotswold Christmas MysteryThe Puzzle Book|rating=4|genre=CrimeEntertainment|summary=Adela Bradley decided to spend Christmas with her nephew Jonathan and his wife Deborah at their new home in Who doesn't love a good puzzle, especially those really fiendish ones that get the Cotswolds. Mrs Bradley brain working extra hard? There really is a well-known psychiatrist but she's also a respected detective renowned for her sharp powers of observation. She soon comes nothing to compare to hear that buzz we get from the story of a local ghost''Aha!'' moment, that of a country parson whose apparition can sometimes be seen slung over when everything falls into place and the gate leading solution reveals itself. If puzzles are your thing then you may wish to Groaning Spinney: the ghost will play a part in what is about put your grey cells to happen. Jonathan Bradley has effectively become the local squire test with ''The Sherlock Puzzle Book,'' based on the acquisition of his property and Mrs Bradley quickly becomes acquainted with some of the locals as they visit to give festive wishespopular TV series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17847083211785943030</amazonuk>

|author= Melita ThomasHilary Lee-Corbin|title= The King's Pearl: Henry VIII Conkers and His Daughter MaryGrenades|rating= 54|genre= BiographyConfident Readers|summary= As It's Bristol in 1916. Britain is halfway through the eldest surviving child Great War and everyone is expected to put their shoulder to the wheel of a much-married father whose main aim was to secure the royal succession with sonswar effort. Mar and Appy might be boys, Mary Tudorbut they's relationship re no different. Both their fathers are away fighting and the two young boys are expected to help with Henry VIIIhousehold chores, who called her his 'pearl of the world'look after younger siblings, was inevitably earn a few extra pennies through casual jobs and concentrate on getting an important and often fraught oneeducation...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144566125X1788033515</amazonuk>

|author=Lily Murray and Chris WormellKrysten Ritter|title=Dinosaurium (Welcome to the Museum)Bonfire|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceGeneral Fiction|summary=One of the selling points for entities like the ''Jurassic Park'' films is that they bring It has been ten years since Abby Williams left home and scrubbed away all the high-energy action visible evidence of dinosaur life to the screenher small town roots. Now working as an environmental lawyer in Chicago, in she has a way that is suitablethriving career, they would saya modern apartment, for children and her pick of all agesmeaningless one-night stands. But there is when a very different way of going about thingsnew case takes her back home to Barrens, Indiana, the life Abby painstakingly created begins to crack. This book does feature dinosaurTasked with investigating Optimal Plastics, the town's most high-on-dinosaur combatprofile company and economic heart, but only in presenting Abby begins to find strange connections to Barrens' biggest scandal from more than a decade ago involving the most scientific of fossil remainspopular Kaycee Mitchell and her closest friends--just before Kaycee disappeared for good. It delves into Abby knows the evolutionary life of what we have long loved key to enjoy and all solving any case lies in the major scientific developments for weak spots, the most inquisitive studentunanswered questions. But as she tries desperately to find out what really happened to Kaycee, so the book is actually worth considering in troubling memories begin to resurface and she begins to doubt her own observations. And when she unearths an even more disturbing secret--a very different way. I would say this is ideal for ritual called ''adultsThe Game,'' it will threaten the reputations, and lives, of all agesthe community and risk exposing a darkness that may consume her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17837079251524759848</amazonuk>

|author=Kes Gray Sue Hendra and Jim FieldPaul Linnet|title=Oi Cat!Supertato: Evil Pea Rules|rating=4.5

|summary=When did children's books become so Meta? For all their heroics and lantern jaws, everyone knows that the good guy is never the best thing about a book or film. Back in That accolade goes to the day each Thomas bad guy. They are able to chew the Tank Engine adventure was separate from scenery and give the other as if they lived in their own episodic wildness, but not todaytype of larger than life performance a hero could only dream of. In this world One of Nintendo Switches and online platforms the average adult best bad guys in children's fiction is too scared to venture ontonot a guy at all, we have metaphysical children booksbut a pea. Books that reflect back on previous outings in the seriesAn evil pea. If you are going At last this pea is given his opportunity to get the most out of ''Oi Cat!''shine, but where there is an Evil Pea, you best know about your ''Oi Frog!'' and ''Oi Dog!'' tooa Supertato cannot be far behind.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14449325191471144062</amazonuk>

|author=Cath Jones and Chris JevonsStephen Aryan|title=Bonkers about BeetrootMageborn (Age of Dread)|rating=54|genre=For SharingFantasy|summary=Sunset Safari Park rarely has any visitors ''Magic will destroy us all'' Ten years after the devastating battlemage war when mages used their immense power to tear each other apart and sundered the world itself, suspicion of those who wield magic is in danger of closing downat an all-time high. To tackle With the problem Zebra calls a meeting recent resurrection of all the animals Red Tower, an institution for students to learn to control and challenges them expand their magic, Seekers visit villages each month to find a way to make the safari park more interestingtest children for magical abilities. Penguin thinks there's no hope but Zebra has But for those children and their families it is not a totally bonkers idea – they'll grow gift, it is a beetroot. They'll grow cursed For Habreel, who will never forget the destruction during the biggest beetroot in war, the world! It should be easy because they have plenty elimination of manure (animal poo) to help it grow. At first it looks like Zebra's plan all magic will save countless lives and is going the only solution to worklong lasting stability. One beetroot grows so big that crowds of people come He will stop at nothing to see it. There is just one problem – achieve his aim; he will deal with the beetroot keeps growing. Soon there won't be any room for visitors. Luckilydevil, Zebra has another idea: an equally bonkers but totally brilliant ideacrush villages and kill anyone in his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18488628140356508471</amazonuk>

|author= Martin Cruz SmithLaura Wilson|title= The Girl from VeniceOther Woman|rating= 4.5

|summary= The romantic in me was immediately drawn to this book. Venice in 1945 at Based on the blurb on the close of back, Sophie might not be the war is enticement enoughmost likable heroine. Add She's a backdrop of partisansquote-unquote perfect woman, with the house, the husband, Mussolini the children and the desperate fight of dog. Careers may be a little unnecessary in this scenario (the losing SS and my interest husband is certainly piquedsuccessful, but present the aforementioned along with her own achievements seem linked to having bagged herself a catch), though there's a sort of part time hobby running her own shop, because, well, yes. So Sophie is the mystery sort of a young woman found floating in , one imagines, who might rub other people up the Venice Lagoon in the dead of night and resistance is futilewrong way, especially those who find their own lives lacking.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184983816X1786485214</amazonuk>

|author=Nathan ConnollyAdrian Mourby|title=Know Your PlaceRooms with a View: Essays on the Working Class by the Working ClassThe Secret Life of Great Hotels|rating=54|genre=Politics and SocietyTravel|summary=Simple summary: Adrian Mourby has given us a flying visit to each of fifty grand hotels, from fourteen regions of the world, with the hotels in each section being arranged chronologically rather than by region, which helps to give something of an overall picture. So what makes a hotel 'grand'Know Your Place? The first hotel to call itself 'grand' is an anthology was in covent Garden in 1774 and it ushered in the beginning of a period when a hotel would be a lifestyle choice rather than a refuge for those without friends and family conveniently nearby. The hotels we visit all began life in different circumstances and each faced a different set of essays on the working class by the working classchallenges. There are twenty-three disparate pieces talking about everything you can imagine: day trips to We begin in the seasideAmericas, access move to the artsUnited Kingdom, food povertycircumnavigate Europe, pub culturebriefly visit Russia and Turkey then northern Africa, glass ceilingsIndia and Asia. Australia, housing estatesit seems, vulgarity-as-class-marker, and much moredoes not go for the grand. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>19115853631785782754</amazonuk>

|author=Nina StibbeJoseph Coelho and Fiona Lumbers|title=An Almost Perfect ChristmasLuna Loves Library Day|rating=4.5|genre=Humour For Sharing|summary=Christmas – Luna is always excited when library day comes around, not just because she gets to take her books back and borrow some new ones, but also because it's the time of traditional traumaday she spends with her dad. You only have to think about Once inside the turkey for that – once upon a time it was leaving it sat on library, magical things occur as the downstairs loo books Luna and her dad discover seemingly come to defrost overnightlife. They spend their time together sharing stories, and if some that failed the hair-dryer shoved inside are more significant than others, until it treatment was your next best bet's time for Luna to go home. Nowadays itYet even once she's all having home, she still has her newly borrowed books to make sure it's suitably free-range and organic – but not too organic that you can go and visit itescape into, and get too friendly the memories of her day with it to want to eat ither dad.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783445483</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 11/11 -->|title=Under The Light of a Full Moon|author=Donna McGrath|rating=3. Christmas, though5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=When the bad dreams and the whispers at night first start, Clara has no idea what's going on. All she knows is that the lack of course also sleep is making her feel ill. But a time of great boonsvisit from her Great Aunt Selina supplies some answers. ItClara's cash in hand for family has a lot gift. One member of plump people who can hire red suits and beards, it was always a godsend for postmen with all each generation has the thank-you letters ability to aunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you write out in longshape-hand as a child, and as for shift into the makers form of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they even try and sell them any other time species of animal. But the gift comes with an ancient curse - bearers of it can only transform during the three days of the year?full moon each month.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241309824B00D9V7QOA</amazonuk>

|author=Andy MulliganStephen Norman|title=DogTrading Down

|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=What life can you find Chris Peters was happy in his work for yourself, a multinational bank in Hong Kong and excited when it seems he was promoted and sent back to be marked out at the start that this – the only one you get – begins at such a lowly place? London. That's the question the dog in ''Dog'' faces, especially when The job had it all: a snide spider tells him he is the runt of the litterhectic trading floor, targets which were impossible and instead some of being bought has been selected by an adult only because he's freethe fastest computers in the world under his supervision. He wasn't even really chosen, s happy at home too: he and Olivia met in Hong Kong: now they had thought to get 're married and thinking about starting a catfamily. But .. . has he been promoted beyond his capabilities? Oddly enough There are those in the mutt gets to be called Spider by Tombank who think so, the lad who gets particularly when things start to call him his, but he's fraught with self-doubtgo badly wrong. He was never there for Olivia either. The spider tells him heLife for Chris Peters was turning sour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B075QF8LJ8</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jenny Colgan|title= Christmas at Little Beach Street Bakery|rating= 4|genre= Women's only going to cause harm – which he does. But the neighbourhood cat declares that Spider has something Fiction|summary= Polly, Huckle and Neil are back but in what, sadly for fans of the feline in his mongrel mixLittle Beach series, and tempts him across seems to her way be the last of livingthis trilogy. Tom himselfNever say never but by the end of this book, meanwhile, is being nudged into thinking he's beginning at a lowly place – he ignores his absent mother, he the author has certainly secured the privilege destiny of a scholarship for him to get beaten up and bullied at schoolthese three much-loved characters. Don't be put off if you haven't read the previous ones, and he canit really won't see much future for himselfmatter particularly as the author provides a helpful little synopsis at the start to help those, either. Can Spider work out his lotlike me, and match his life with that of Tom, or will outside agencies get in the way?are new to these stories.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782691715075156477X</amazonuk>

|author= Rebecca Tuhus-DubrowAlice Hoffman|title= Personal StereoThe Rules of Magic

|genre=LifestyleGeneral Fiction |summary= These tiny I'Object Lessonsve read several of Alice Hoffman's novels, a range of books which are more like a long-form essayalthough strangely, explore often seemingly mundane items. not the one she's most famous for ''Personal StereoPractical Magic'' packs a lot of information , which went on to be made into a small spacefilm. Split into three distinct sections: Novelty, Norm, and Nostalgia, 'Novelty' traces the origin of the Sony Walkman, from its conception by two Japanese business men to it becoming a recognised entity on the streets The Rules of America. Magic'Norm' follows on from is the universal success of the personal stereo, relating this long-awaited prequel to the technology which it set the groundwork forthat book, such as and tells the ubiquitous proliferation story of three siblings of MP3s, the iPodOwens family; Franny, Jet and Smartphones, leading to the eventual downfall in the popularity of the WalkmanVincent. FinallyThe two sisters, in 'Nostalgia'Franny and Jet, Tuhus-Dubrow examines our need to hark back go on to a simpler time, when become the personal stereo seemed the height of freedom. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1501322818</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 2/11 -->|author=Marjorie Orr|title=By two aunts in the Light of a Lie|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Tire Thane was devastated when her best friend, Erica, was killed in a hit-and-run accident (if, indeed, it was an accident) but she really couldn't understand why she should have been in Hammersmith. She'd left her getting into a taxi at 11 o'clock the night before outside the theatre in St Martin's Lane and she was on her way home to Hampstead to review papers ready for a court appearance the following morning. Then she died three hours later and miles out of her way. The police didnPractical Magic't seem likely to pursue the case on the grounds that it had probably been an accident, but being an investigative journalist made Tire suspicious and she wasn't going to leave her friend unavengedstory.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>09562587271471157679</amazonuk>

|author= Melissa CarusoPhilip Matyszak|title= The Tethered Mage24 Hours in Ancient Rome|rating= 4.5|genre= FantasyHistory|summary= The Raverran Empire is run by a doge and the council of sevenI've never been that interested in Ancient Rome. Blame my teachers, or our oh-so-dry visits to Roman villas with their earnest interpretation panels, or perhaps I just daydreamed through all the governing group formed by interesting bits… Somehow I entered adulthood with the aristocratic families of Eruviaimpression that all Romans were bloodthirsty and hedonistic heathens with little to recommend them. The Empire thrives from trade''Mea culpa'', culture and the obedience of the cities surrounding Raverrayou might say. The Empire has obtained this power and dominance by harnessing and controlling the magic of Eruvia and all the So when my eye fell upon Philip Matyszak's ''mage-marked24 Hours in Ancient Rome'' that possess it. For years the Raverran empire has known peace, but with whispers of a rebellion, and its claim to introduce readers to the discovery of a fire-warlock and real Ancient Rome by examining the disappearance lives of childrenordinary people, I decided it was high time to update my education. And the Empire's authority over Eruvia is in danger and war is looming lovely artwork on the horizonfront cover made this book all the more appealing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>03565106111782438564</amazonuk>

|author= Amanda FoodyDallas Campbell|title= Daughter of Ad Astra: An illustrated guide to leaving the Burning Cityplanet|rating= 45|genre= Confident ReadersPopular Science|summary=Gomorrah, a travelling circus as big as a city, tours So… you want to leave the land, entertaining planet? Before you do you'd better study the crowds with fantastic shows whole history of magic, illusion and sleight of handhuman space flight to get up to speed. But the proprietor of Gomorrah, Villiam, believes he has That could take a far more important role than merely organising the acts in the circus. He has political ambition, which he keeps while… if only there was a secret from his adopted daughter. Growing up in the circus, Sorina knows handy guide that she will one day become the Proprietor and take over from her fathercould condense it all down for you. At sixteen, she is keen Enter Dallas Campbell with this book: An illustrated guide to start learning everything she can from Villiamleaving the planet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18484554451471164055</amazonuk>

|author=L Frank Baum, Michel Laporte, Olivier Latyk and Vanessa Mieville (translator)Sharon Bennett Connolly|title=The Wizard Heroines of Ozthe Medieval World|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersHistory|summary=''TotoMany women in medieval times left their mark on history, I've but as a feeling we're not in Hollywood any more.'' And no, indeed we are not. We are in the realm of L Frank Baum, and not the cinema version of this fantasy quest story. So those slippers are silver and not ruby, the companions do not get given solid things that may imply rule they have achieved what they seek, been neglected by biographers and the flying monkeys played backwards do not work out historians as there is too little surviving information for them to have even brief biographies to be singing Pink Floyd records, or whatever the urban myth wasthemselves. Otherwise, we're pretty much on Ms Connolly has adopted an enterprising solution to the same, assured, solid ground, with the greyness of Kansas (in problem by writing a scene that seemed to foretell of the Dust Bowl decades later) being swapped for the quartet of queer, questing characters, the yellow bricked road and everything else you would want of general account on a young reader adaptation of the novelbroadly thematic basis.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191027738X1445662647</amazonuk>

|author=Kate Jane NealJuno Dawson and Alex T Smith|title=Words and Your HeartGrave Matter|rating=4.5|genre=For Sharing Dyslexia Friendly|summary=TrollingSince Eliza died, bullying, cyber-shamingsince the night of the car crash that took her life, whatever-it's-called-this-week-ing – all act as proof that the adage about sticks and stones Sam is actually a lot of pifflebroken soul. In a world where we all have heartsHe is lost without the girl he loves, we should have feeling as though a heart part of him died that what we say to other people night too. But he is positivedesperate and he cannot live without Eliza. We can examine our world He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie and the sound it makes through communication, we can make each other smile, laugh, sing her peculiar healing powers and wonders if she might be happy togetherable to help him. However, and bit by bit finding his Aunt Marie leads him to discover the world can be Milk Man, which causes Sam in his grieving state to make a better place. And hang the 'no, after youpact with forces he doesn' attitude some people would have in responset understand. There, IThings soon turn complicated as supernatural powers start to change Sam've given the entire plot of this book away s life in my summary, but that's not really an issuemore ways than he bargained for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14711685301781126046</amazonuk>

|author=Matt TavaresKurt Andersen|title=Red and LuluFantasyland|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging ReadersHistory |summary=Meet Red and Lulu. They're a committed couple Fantasyland covers the history of cardinals, and they have lived for some time in someone's garden, safely in an evergreen tree. It seems America from 1517 to them that every year people mention their home 2017 in a lovely song, which tells the tree ''thy leaves are so unchanging''awesome detail. But one yearCovering five centuries of tempestuous history, just as Andersen paints the seasons turn for the cold conjuring of winterAmerica in vivid relief. Discussing everything from pilgrims to politicians, the tree vanishesexhilarating gold rush to alternative facts, taking Lulu seminal episodes are explored in forensic detail with it…razor sharp wit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14063769221785038656</amazonuk>

|author= Nathen AminEmily Suvada|title=The House of Beaufort: The Bastard Line that Captured the CrownThis Mortal Coil

|genre= HistoryTeens|summary= A life threatening virus is spreading through the United States, an already broken country with a Government that many do not trust. The family name of Beaufort played top scientists are frantically trying to produce a vaccine to save humanity, but it seems a hopeless race against time as the virus mutates into new and stronger strains at a major part frightening pace. Catarina has lived alone and in British history during hiding for the past two years, since her brilliant father was rounded up by the fourteenth State and fifteenth centuriestaken by force to work in the national laboratories. It therefore seems remarkable that little has been written about His last message to her was to hide from the State and not to trust them until an inch. Set in America, but not an America we would recognise, most of the appearance citizens are incarcerated in underground bunkers, protected by air lock doors and bug free conditions. Others, less trusting of this bookthe State, remain in hiding on the surface, hoping the virus will not reach them and avoiding anyone who is infected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14456476480141379278</amazonuk>