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|author= Moira YoungAllan Hailstone|title= The Road Berlin in the Cold War: 1959 to Ever After1966|rating= 54|genre= Confident ReadersHistory|summary= A grumpy old lady who can no longer drive requires a chauffeur, and we watch as she gradually softens towards him and they become friends. So far, so ''Driving Miss DaisyBerlin in the Cold War: 1959-1966'', an apt comparison contains almost 200 photographs taken by author / photographer Allan Hailstone in a book which references several well-loved classic filmshis visits to the city during this period. But The images provide an insight into the obvious similarity ends there. Davy, hired to take Miss Flint on her final road trip, is thirteen years old changing nature of the divide between East and West Berlin and has not a glimpse into life in the city during the foggiest idea how to drive a carCold War. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>15098325641445672901</amazonuk>

|author=Benny Lindelauf, Ludwig Volbeda and Laura Watkinson (translator)Asa Avdic|title=Tortot, the Cold Fish Who Lost His World and Found His HeartThe Dying Game|rating=4.5|genre=TeensThrillers|summary=Meet TortotIn a futuristic dystopian Sweden, ministry worker Anna is presented with an offer from the formidable chairman. He's Except the offer, is more of an order than a camp chef for choice. With nothing to lose and everything to gain, Anna accepts. She is taken to an army, isolated Island with other ''candidates'' for a cold heart – he sheds no tearsjob in the super-secret organisation. Anna's objective is simple, or at least as much as does a fish – she is to ''die'' and a brilliant way then observe her fellows through hidden chambers of gauging the warfare going on around himhouse. The book even starts with him crossing Once the battlefield experiment is finished, she will report her findings back to the chairman. However, while this starts off smoothly at first, other contestants start work for the enemy the night before they turn the tables on his previous employers disappearing and defeat them, leaving Tortot on Anna is faced with the winning side once more. But now he's terror of knowing this is not alone – for he has managed to also inherit an assistant, who lives in just a barrel of the Emperors' favourite and most important gherkins…game anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17826915451786090201</amazonuk>

|authortitle=Annabel PitcherScoop of the Year|titleauthor=The Last Days of Archie MaxwellTom Claver

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyThrillers|summary=Archie Maxwell was shocked when Martin is an ambitious journalist working on the Financial Review. Martin is good at his parents told him job - accurate, dedicated, hardworking and with a good nose for a scoop. But Martin is also uninterested in the culture that they were getting divorcedcomes with reporting. It wasnHe has a wife and two daughters at home and he doesn't that Dads leaving was that unusual: Leon's Dad had left want to waste time and so had Mo'smoney in the pub, talking macho nonsense with the other hacks. It was ''why'' he was leaving and Archie was embarrassed that He is a far cry from his sister had suspected that their father was gay some time ago. Both of his sisters are sad to see their father leavecolleague Tom de Lacy, a charismatic, but they don't seem to have any problem silver-spooned charmer with the ''why'' and they tell their friendspiercing blue eyes. But Archie darenTom doesn't tell just grab the lads at school: limelight though - he also grabs the bullying is bad enough as it ispromotion to industrial correspondent. And then there's that is the problem of Tiajob Martin not only wanted, whom he really fancies but he can't say anything about it. What Tia really needs is a friend: it's just about the first anniversary of the day on which her brother committed suicide by throwing himself in front of a train on the line which runs at the back of Archie's houseneeded.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112728X1788036220</amazonuk>

|author= Jason Segel and Kirsten MillerMaureen Orth|title= OtherworldVulgar Favours: The Assassination of Gianni Versace

|genre=FantasyTrue Crime|summary=imon would not have considered himself a hero. In fact, by all accounts, particularly that of his parents, Simon What is an epic failure. He's large, he's hairy, he has it about true crime which makes it so fascinating to such a ridiculously oversized nose and hewide audience? I guess it's been kicked wanting to try to figure 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 what happened 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 make these people partake in the awful crimes they are realcommitted, and it's here that Simon really wants or else the same inexplicable impulse people have to talk to Katslow down when they overtake a car crash on the motorway. But Whatever it isn't realis, itMaureen Orth's a game… until a turn of events lands Simon in Otherworld in an all together different way. This timebook, whatever harm his avatar suffers has real consequences. And if it dies? Simon would rather not think about that. If he wants to save KatVulgar Favours, he has to keep pressing taps right on. Simon is the chosen one, this is not a gameinto it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17860736921785943103</amazonuk>

|author= Alison Ritchie Charlotte Peacock|title= Into The Mountain, A Life of Nan Shepherd|rating= 4.5|genre= Biography|summary= Mostly we choose what books to read, because there is so little time and so many books… I can understand the approach, but I also think we sell ourselves short by it, and we sell the myriad lesser known authors short as well. So while, like most other people I have my favourite genres, and Marisa Moreafavoured authors, and while, like most other people I read the reviews and follow up on what appeals, I also have a third string to my reading bow: randomness. It was in such a 'left-field' move that ''Into the Mountain'' was offered to me.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1903385563</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Alan Moorehead|title= The Twelve Dogs of ChristmasRussian Revolution

|summary= Christmas Hugless Douglas is approaching a large, comfy sort of bear who burst onto the picture book scene a few years ago as he searched for just the right sort of hug. His endearing, hopeful face and one little puppy is very excited about that chubby (to put it politely) body instantly melted young hearts, and to universal delight we have since been treated to several more of his first ever Christmas Dayadventures. Everywhere Douglas is hugless no longer, you'll be glad to know, but the name stuck, mostly because it's such fun to say (go on, try it!) and because he looks the preparations still bumbles through life embracing everything in sight as if cuddles are underway with every dog in town helping about to go outof fashion. However will so many eager assistants joining in the fray help or hinder and will everything ever be ready in time?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14711661711444906844</amazonuk>

|author=Dr SeussJulia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler|title=What Was I Scared Of?A Treasury of Songs

|genre=For SharingChildren's Rhymes and Verse|summary=All Hallows' Eve Some people have all the skills, not only is upon us once more and that can only mean that we are soon to be surrounded by all types Julia Donaldson one of monstersthe most successful children's authors, ghoulies and manifestationsshe can also carry a tune. Fear notFor 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 many part of these unsettling creatures will actually be children dressed up on another adventure trick or treatinga song book. But what about that pair For the first time ''A Treasury of seemingly malevolent trousers that walk by themselves? That is no child, but Songs'' brings together several of her books in one omnibus and it also has a pair CD too of haunted kecksDonaldson singing the songs. Run, run, run, but perhaps if you have them a friendly hello these pants may be nicer than you think?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00082526021509846131</amazonuk>

|author=Lorenzo Marone and Shaun Whiteside (Translator)Alexander McCall Smith|title=The Temptation to Be HappyGood Pilot Peter Woodhouse|rating=4.5

|summary=Cesare is 77If you've never read an Alexander McCall Smith novel, widowedbut have always thought you might like to try, generally ignored by one day then this might be the offspring he likes and bothered too much by book to start with. Rather than face the daunting task of leaping into one he doesnof his now very long-running series, this is a standalone novel, and it gives a good flavour of AMS't. Stills style, the way he finds ways can write to fill evoke a feeling of time and place, and the warm optimism underlying his dayswords that is so very reassuring and comforting to read. If heIt calls itself 'a wartime romance's not taking advantage of his friend-, which it is, and yet it is much more than that besides. Focussing mainly on Val, a young woman working as a Land Girl, we see her falling in love with-benefits arrangement with aging lady of the night Rossanaan American pilot, or keeping an eye Mike Rogers. Thanks to a sheepdog on his grandson, heVal's making mischief in league with elderly neighbours like Signora Vitaliano (local mad cat woman) and Marino farm (the non-IT-literate computer guyPeter Woodhouse from the title). Their minds are diverted from their usual pursuits when lives become entwined with that of a young couple move into German soldier, and the apartment block providing Cesare with book shows us a concern variety of friendships as they grow and develop over the conviction that he has to do something, whatever the fall out or personal dangeryears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17860728821846974097</amazonuk>

|author= Chris BeckettChristopher Maslanka and Steve Tribe|title= America CitySherlock: The Puzzle Book

|genre= Dystopian FictionEntertainment|summary= Who doesn't love a good puzzle, especially those really fiendish ones that get the brain working extra hard? There really is nothing to compare to that buzz we get from the 'America City'Aha!' tells the story of Holly, an ambitious Publicist who sets aside her own political beliefs in order to help the ambitious Senator Slaymaker with his Presidential campaign. Set in the 22nd century, the novel tells of an incredibly disunited United States, where the effects of climate change have created deep divisions between the affluent Northern States' moment, when everything falls into place and the South, which is frequently ravaged by extreme weathersolution reveals itself. Holly and Slaymaker hope If puzzles are your thing then you may wish to put your grey cells to change thisthe test with ''The Sherlock Puzzle Book, working together '' based on the plan they believe to be the solution to the problem of where to place the thousands of Americans who have been made homeless by devastating stormspopular TV series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17864915241785943030</amazonuk>

|author=Jessica TownsendHilary Lee-Corbin|title=Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan CrowConkers and Grenades|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Morrigan Crow is a cursed childIt's Bristol in 1916. Everyone in Jackalfax where she lives believes she Britain is responsible for all halfway through the things that go wrong in Great War and everyone is expected to put their lifeshoulder to the wheel of the war effort. AndMar and Appy might be boys, if thatbut they's not bad enough, the curse means she will die on her eleventh birthdayre no different. Morrigan believes there is no escape from her fate until a mysterious man appears Both their fathers are away fighting and offers her a new life in the secret city of Nevermoor. There is only one problem – two young boys are expected to stay in Nevermoor she needs to gain help with household chores, look after younger siblings, earn a coveted place in the Wunderous Society by competing against hundreds of other hopefuls to pass four seemingly impossible trialsfew extra pennies through casual jobs and concentrate on getting an education...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>15101041191788033515</amazonuk>

|author=Lars Mytting and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)Krysten Ritter|title=The Sixteen Trees of the SommeBonfire|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=While his grandfather lived the past was It has been ten years since Abby Williams left home and scrubbed away all visible evidence of her small town roots. Now working as an area environmental lawyer in Chicago, she has a thriving career, a modern apartment, and her pick of certainty for Edvardmeaningless one-night stands. At aged 4 he'd been taken But when a new case takes her back home to live with his grandparentsBarrens, Indiana, having survived the accident that killed his parentslife Abby painstakingly created begins to crack. 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 birthplaceTasked with investigating Optimal Plastics, his motherthe town's name, the whereabouts of late Greatmost high-Uncle Einar… profile company and thateconomic heart, Abby begins to find strange connections to Barrens's without looking biggest scandal from more deeply into than a decade ago involving the fatal accident itselfpopular Kaycee Mitchell and her closest friends--just before Kaycee disappeared for good. Edvard is determined Abby knows the key to solve solving any case lies in the weak spots, the puzzleunanswered questions. But as she tries desperately to find out what really happened to Kaycee, troubling memories begin to resurface and she begins to doubt her own observations. And when she unearths an even more disturbing secret--a determination that ritual called ''The Game,'' it will take him away from his native Norway to an area threaten the reputations, and lives, of France synonymous with devastation the community and risk exposing a remote Scottish island loaded with secretsdarkness that may consume her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08570560691524759848</amazonuk>

|author=Morag HoodSue Hendra and Paul Linnet|title=I Am BatSupertato: Evil Pea Rules|rating=54

|summary=Bat For all their heroics and lantern jaws, everyone knows that the good guy is never the best thing about a creature with very definite opinionsbook or film. He does not like mornings, for example, but he does like cherriesThat accolade goes to the bad guy. In fact, he really loves cherries, as they They are his ''favourite able to chew the scenery and give the type of larger than life performance a hero could only dream of all things!'' . What do you think might happen if somebody takes BatOne of the best bad guys in children's cherries? fiction is not a guy at all, but a pea. Bat won't An evil pea. At last this pea is given his opportunity to shine, but where there is an Evil Pea, a Supertato cannot be happy, will he?!far behind.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>15098346131471144062</amazonuk>

|author=Dr SeussStephen Aryan|title=I Can Read With My Eyes ShutMageborn (Age of Dread)|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging ReadersFantasy|summary=''The more that you read,''<br>''The more things you Magic will know.''''The more that you learn,''<br>''The more places you'll go.destroy us all''

This 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 a classic Dr Seuss quote from this bookat an all-time high. With the recent resurrection of the Red Tower, an institution for students to learn to control and one that I painstakingly stickered onto the wall of my expand their magic, Seekers visit villages each month to test children for magical abilities. But for those children's school library! The book and their families it is very sillynot a gift, as Dr Seuss always it isa cursed For Habreel, but who will never forget the destruction during the war, the elimination of all magic will save countless lives and is also a good rhyming ode the only solution to long lasting stability. He will stop at nothing to achieve his aim; he will deal with the joys of readingdevil, crush villages and kill anyone in his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00082400190356508471</amazonuk>

|author=Twigs WayLaura Wilson|title=Tea Gardens (Britain's Heritage Series)The Other Woman|rating=4|genre=LifestyleThrillers|summary=Tea Gardens really began in London in Based on the late 18th century: a trip to Kings Cross or St Pancras was effectively a trip to blurb on the country in those days. Men had their coffee housesback, but they were Sophie might not places where women could or would be seenthe most likable heroine. Tea was introduced to England She's a quote-unquote perfect woman, with the house, the husband, the children and the dog. Careers may be a little unnecessary in this scenario (the 17th century husband is successful, but it was not until 1784 that the high duty was reduced from 119% her own achievements seem linked to 12½% and tea became the drink having bagged herself a catch), though there's a sort of choice for the nationpart time hobby running her own shop, because, well, yes. Until then So Sophie is the working classes had been fuelled largely by cheap gin. Onlysort of woman, one imagines, where would this beverage be drunk? One answer was who might rub other people up the pleasure gardens where the fashionable went to see and be seen: by the mid 1600s tea was also being served in places such as Ranelagh Gardenswrong way, especially those who find their own lives lacking.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14456700111786485214</amazonuk>

|author=Gladys MitchellAdrian Mourby|title=Murder in the SnowRooms with a View: A Cotswold Christmas MysteryThe Secret Life of Great Hotels

|genre=CrimeTravel|summary=Adela Bradley decided Adrian Mourby has given us a flying visit to spend Christmas each of fifty grand hotels, from fourteen regions of the world, with her nephew Jonathan and his wife Deborah at their new home the hotels in the Cotswoldseach section being arranged chronologically rather than by region, which helps to give something of an overall picture. Mrs Bradley is So what makes a well-known psychiatrist but shehotel 'grand's also a respected detective renowned for her sharp powers of observation. ? She soon comes The first hotel to hear call itself 'grand' was in covent Garden in 1774 and it ushered in the story beginning of a local ghost, that of period when a country parson whose apparition can sometimes hotel would be seen slung over the gate leading to Groaning Spinney: the ghost will play a part lifestyle choice rather than a refuge for those without friends and family conveniently nearby. The hotels we visit all began life in what is about to happendifferent circumstances and each faced a different set of challenges. Jonathan Bradley has effectively become We begin in the local squire with Americas, move to the acquisition of his property United Kingdom, circumnavigate Europe, briefly visit Russia and Turkey then northern Africa, India and Mrs Bradley quickly becomes acquainted with some of Asia. Australia, it seems, does not go for the locals as they visit to give festive wishesgrand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17847083211785782754</amazonuk>

|author= Melita ThomasJoseph Coelho and Fiona Lumbers|title= The King's Pearl: Henry VIII and His Daughter MaryLuna Loves Library Day|rating= 54|genre= BiographyFor Sharing|summary= As the eldest surviving child of a much-married father whose main aim was Luna is always excited when library day comes around, not just because she gets to secure the royal succession with sonstake her books back and borrow some new ones, Mary Tudorbut also because it's relationship the day she spends with Henry VIIIher dad. Once inside the library, who called magical things occur as the books Luna and her his dad discover seemingly come to life. They spend their time together sharing stories, some that are more significant than others, until it'pearl of the worlds time for Luna to go home. Yet even once she's home, she still has her newly borrowed books to escape into, was inevitably an important and often fraught onethe memories of her day with her dad.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144566125X1783445483</amazonuk>

{{newreview<!-- remove 11/11 -->|authortitle=Lily Murray and Chris WormellUnder The Light of a Full Moon|titleauthor=Dinosaurium (Welcome to the Museum)Donna McGrath|rating=3.5|genre=Popular ScienceConfident Readers|summary=One of When the selling points for entities like bad dreams and the whispers at night first start, Clara has no idea what''Jurassic Park'' films s going on. All she knows is that they bring all the high-energy action lack of dinosaur life to the screen, in a way that sleep is suitable, they would say, for children of all agesmaking her feel ill. But there is a very different way visit from her Great Aunt Selina supplies some answers. Clara's family has a gift. One member of going about things. This book does feature dinosaureach generation has the ability to shape-on-dinosaur combat, but only in presenting shift into the most scientific form of any species of fossil remainsanimal. It delves into But the evolutionary life gift comes with an ancient curse - bearers of what we have long loved to enjoy and all it can only transform during the major scientific developments for the most inquisitive student, so three days of the book is actually worth considering in a very different way. I would say this is ideal for ''adults'' of all agesfull moon each month.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783707925B00D9V7QOA</amazonuk>

|author=Kes Gray and Jim FieldStephen Norman|title=Oi Cat!Trading Down|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingThrillers|summary=When did children's books become so Meta? Back Chris Peters was happy in his work for a multinational bank in the day each Thomas the Tank Engine adventure Hong Kong and excited when he was separate from promoted and sent back to London. The job had it all: a hectic trading floor, targets which were impossible and some of the other as if they lived fastest computers in their own episodic wildness, but not todaythe world under his supervision. In this world of Nintendo Switches He's happy at home too: he and Olivia met in Hong Kong: now they're married and online platforms the average adult is too scared to venture onto, we have metaphysical children booksthinking about starting a family. Books that reflect back on previous outings in the seriesBut ... has he been promoted beyond his capabilities? If you There are going to get those in the most out of ''Oi Cat!''bank who think so, you best know about your ''Oi Frog!'' and ''Oi Dog!'' tooparticularly when things start to go badly wrong. He was never there for Olivia either. Life for Chris Peters was turning sour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444932519B075QF8LJ8</amazonuk>

|author=Cath Jones and Chris JevonsJenny Colgan|title=Bonkers about BeetrootChristmas at Little Beach Street Bakery|rating=54|genre=For SharingWomen's Fiction|summary=Sunset Safari Park rarely has any visitors Polly, Huckle and is Neil are back but in danger what, sadly for fans of the Little Beach series, seems to be the last of closing downthis trilogy. To tackle Never say never but by the problem Zebra calls a meeting end of all this book, the animals and challenges them to find a way to make author has certainly secured the safari park more interestingdestiny of these three much-loved characters. Penguin thinks thereDon's no hope but Zebra has a totally bonkers idea – theyt be put off if you haven'll grow a beetroot. Theyt read the previous ones, it really won'll grow t matter particularly as the biggest beetroot in author provides a helpful little synopsis at the world! It should be easy because they have plenty of manure (animal poo) start to help it grow. At first it looks those, like Zebra's plan is going to work. One beetroot grows so big me, that crowds of people come are new to see it. There is just one problem – the beetroot keeps growing. Soon there won't be any room for visitors. Luckily, Zebra has another idea: an equally bonkers but totally brilliant ideathese stories.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848862814075156477X</amazonuk>

|author= Martin Cruz SmithAlice Hoffman|title= The Girl from VeniceRules of Magic|rating= 4.5|genre= ThrillersGeneral Fiction |summary= The romantic in me was immediately drawn I've read several of Alice Hoffman's novels, although strangely, not the one she's most famous for ''Practical Magic'', which went on to this bookbe made into a film. Venice in 1945 at the close ''The Rules of Magic'' is the war is enticement enough. Add a backdrop of partisanslong-awaited prequel to that book, Mussolini and tells the desperate fight story of three siblings of the losing SS Owens family; Franny, Jet and my interest is certainly piquedVincent. The two sisters, Franny and Jet, but present go on to become the aforementioned along with the mystery of a young woman found floating two aunts in the Venice Lagoon in the dead of night and resistance is futile''Practical Magic'' story.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184983816X1471157679</amazonuk>

|author=Nathan ConnollyPhilip Matyszak|title=Know Your Place: Essays on the Working Class by the Working Class|rating=5|genre=Politics and Society|summary=Simple summary: ''Know Your Place'' is an anthology of essays on the working class by the working class. There are twenty-three disparate pieces talking about everything you can imagine: day trips to the seaside, access to the arts, food poverty, pub culture, glass ceilings, housing estates, vulgarity-as-class-marker, and much more. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911585363</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Nina Stibbe|title=An Almost Perfect Christmas24 Hours in Ancient Rome

|genre=Humour History|summary=Christmas – the time of traditional traumaI've never been that interested in Ancient Rome. You only have Blame my teachers, or our oh-so-dry visits to think about Roman villas with their earnest interpretation panels, or perhaps I just daydreamed through all the turkey for that – once upon a time it was leaving it sat on interesting bits… Somehow I entered adulthood with the downstairs loo to defrost overnight, and if impression that failed the hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. Nowadays it's all having to make sure it's suitably free-range Romans were bloodthirsty and organic – but not too organic that you can go and visit it, and get too friendly hedonistic heathens with it little to want to eat itrecommend them. Christmas''Mea culpa'', though, is of course also a time of great boonsyou might say. ItSo when my eye fell upon Philip Matyszak's cash ''24 Hours in hand for a lot Ancient Rome'', and its claim to introduce readers to the real Ancient Rome by examining the lives of plump ordinary people who can hire red suits and beards, I decided it was always a godsend for postmen with all high time to update my education. And the lovely artwork on the thank-you letters to aunties you saw twice a decade that your parents front cover made you write out in long-hand as a child, and as for this book all the makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they even try and sell them any other time of the year?more appealing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>02413098241782438564</amazonuk>

|author=Andy MulliganDallas Campbell|title=DogAd Astra: An illustrated guide to leaving the planet|rating=45|genre=Confident ReadersPopular Science|summary=What life can So… you find for yourself, when it seems want to be marked out at leave the start that this – the only one planet? Before you do you get – begins at such a lowly place? That's the question d better study the dog in ''Dog'' faces, especially when a snide spider tells him he is the runt of the litter, and instead whole history of being bought has been selected by an adult only because he's free. He wasn't even really chosen, and they had thought human space flight to get a cat. Oddly enough the mutt gets to be called Spider by Tom, the lad who gets up to call him his, but he's fraught with self-doubtspeed. The spider tells him he's That could take a while… if only going to cause harm – which he does. But the neighbourhood cat declares there was a handy guide that Spider has something of the feline in his mongrel mix, and tempts him across to her way of living. Tom himself, meanwhile, is being nudged into thinking he's beginning at a lowly place – he ignores his absent mother, he has the privilege of a scholarship could condense it all down for him to get beaten up and bullied at school, and he can't see much future for himself, eitheryou. Can Spider work out his lot, and match his life Enter Dallas Campbell with that of Tom, or will outside agencies get in this book: An illustrated guide to leaving the way?planet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17826917151471164055</amazonuk>

|author= Rebecca Tuhus-DubrowSharon Bennett Connolly|title= Personal StereoHeroines of the Medieval World

|genre=LifestyleHistory|summary= These tiny 'Object Lessons', a range of books which are more like a long-form essay, explore often seemingly mundane items. ''Personal Stereo'' packs a lot of information into a small space. 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 of America. 'Norm' follows Many women in medieval times left their mark on from the universal success of the personal stereohistory, relating this to the technology which it set the groundwork for, such but as the ubiquitous proliferation of MP3s, the iPod, and Smartphones, leading to the eventual downfall in the popularity of the Walkman. Finally, in 'Nostalgia', Tuhus-Dubrow examines our need to hark back to a simpler time, when the personal stereo seemed the height of freedom. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1501322818</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 2/11 -->|author=Marjorie Orr|title=By 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 rule they 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 neglected by biographers and she was on her way home historians as there is too little surviving information for them to Hampstead have even brief biographies to review papers ready for a court appearance the following morningthemselves. Then she died three hours later and miles out of her way. The police didn't seem likely Ms Connolly has adopted an enterprising solution to pursue the case problem by writing a general account 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 unavengeda broadly thematic basis.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>09562587271445662647</amazonuk>

|author= Melissa CarusoJuno Dawson and Alex T Smith|title= The Tethered MageGrave Matter

|genre= FantasyDyslexia Friendly|summary= The Raverran Empire Since Eliza died, since the night of the car crash that took her life, Sam is run by a doge and broken soul. He is lost without the council of sevengirl he loves, the governing group formed by the aristocratic families feeling as though a part of Eruviahim died that night too. The Empire thrives from trade, culture But he is desperate and the obedience of the cities surrounding Raverrahe cannot live without Eliza. The Empire has obtained this power and dominance by harnessing He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie and controlling the magic of Eruvia her peculiar healing powers and all the ''mage-marked'' that possess itwonders if she might be able to help him. For years However, finding his Aunt Marie leads him to discover the Raverran empire has known peaceMilk Man, but which causes Sam in his grieving state to make a pact with whispers of a rebellion, the discovery of a fire-warlock and the disappearance of children, the Empireforces he doesn't understand. Things soon turn complicated as supernatural powers start to change Sam's authority over Eruvia is life in danger and war is looming on the horizonmore ways than he bargained for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>03565106111781126046</amazonuk>

|author= Amanda FoodyKurt Andersen|title= Daughter of the Burning CityFantasyland

|genre= Confident ReadersHistory |summary=Gomorrah, a travelling circus as big as a city, tours the land, entertaining Fantasyland covers the crowds with fantastic shows history of magic, illusion and sleight of handAmerica from 1517 to 2017 in awesome detail. But the proprietor Covering five centuries of Gomorrahtempestuous history, Villiam, believes he has a far more important role than merely organising Andersen paints the acts conjuring of America in the circusvivid relief. He has political ambition, which he keeps a secret Discussing everything from his adopted daughter. Growing up in the circuspilgrims to politicians, Sorina knows that she will one day become the Proprietor and take over from her father. At sixteenexhilarating gold rush to alternative facts, she is keen to start learning everything she can from Villiamseminal episodes are explored in forensic detail with razor sharp wit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18484554451785038656</amazonuk>

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