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|author=Stuart Hill and Sandra LawrenceFiona Mitchell|title=The Atlas Maid's Room|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=In some apartments in Singapore you'll find a bomb shelter - airless and without a window. It will probably house the washing machine and the other domestic paraphernalia that's got nowhere else to go. There'll be a mattress on the floor of Monstersthis stifling room, with the heat increased by the tumble dryer. This is the maid's room. It's possibly better than sleeping under the dining room table, but not by much. Back in 2009 there were 201,000 female domestic workers in Singapore, many not earning any money for a year until they've repaid 'training' and other fees to the agency, many living in 'the maid's room'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473659566</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Allan Hailstone|title=Berlin in the Cold War: 1959 to 1966

|genre=Children's Non-FictionHistory|summary=There are monsters and mysterious characters, such as trolls, leprechauns, goblins and minotaurs. They're 'Berlin in the stuff of far too many stories Cold War: 1959-1966'' contains almost 200 photographs taken by author / photographer Allan Hailstone in his visits to remain mysterious, and every schoolchild should know all about them. There are monsters and mysterious characters, such as Gog and Magog, Scylla and Charybdis, and the bunyipcity during this period. They are what you find if you take The images provide an interest in this kind insight into the changing nature of thing to the next level; even if you cannot place them all on divide between East and West Berlin and a map you should have come across them. But there are monsters and mysterious characters, such as the dobhar-chu, glimpse into life in the llambigyn y dwr, and city during the girtablili. To gain any knowledge of them you really need a book that knows its stuffCold War. A book like this one…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17837069611445672901</amazonuk>

|author= Stephen FryAsa Avdic|title= Mythos: A Retelling of the Myths of Ancient GreeceThe Dying Game|rating= 54|genre= ReferenceThrillers|summary= The Greek Myths are, arguablyIn a futuristic dystopian Sweden, ministry worker Anna is presented with an offer from the greatest stories ever toldformidable chairman. So old and influential they cast Except the offer, is more of an order than a shadow over western tales choice. With nothing to lose and traditionseverything to gain, yet remain relatable and readable millennia laterAnna accepts. Here comedian, actor, television presenter, actor and author Stephen Fry brings his considerable talent She is taken to these special stories and recreates them an isolated Island with other ''candidates'' for a witjob in the super-secret organisation. Anna's objective is simple, warmth she is to ''die'' and humanity that brings them into then observe her fellows through hidden chambers of the house. Once the modern age whilst still giving experiment is finished, she will report her findings back to the honour chairman. However, while this starts off smoothly at first, other contestants start disappearing and respect that such ancient and influential stories deserveAnna is faced with the terror of knowing this is not just a game anymore. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>07181887211786090201</amazonuk>

|authortitle=Lisa CuttsScoop of the Year|titleauthor=Buried SecretsTom Claver|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeThrillers|summary=You never know what goes Martin is an ambitious journalist working on the Financial Review. Martin is good at his job - accurate, dedicated, hardworking and with a good nose for a scoop. But Martin is also uninterested in a marriage: most people thought the culture that Detective Inspector Milton Bowman had the ideal lifecomes with reporting. He had has a beautiful wife and a house that had a mortgage which was smaller than most people's credit card bill. On the other hand, there werentwo daughters at home and he doesn't that many people who had a good word want to say about him waste time and when he was involved money in the pub, talking macho nonsense with the other hacks. He is a serious road traffic accident which left him minus far cry from his colleague Tom de Lacy, a leg and charismatic, silver-spooned charmer with only a few hours to live, people were more worried about the extra work than saddenedpiercing blue eyes. When his wifeTom doesn's battered body was found in their kitchen, t just grab the limelight though - he also grabs the idea promotion to industrial correspondent. And that it was a murder/suicide seemed like is the obvious answerjob Martin not only wanted, but needed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14711531421788036220</amazonuk>

|author= Moira YoungMaureen Orth|title= Vulgar Favours: The Road to Ever AfterAssassination of Gianni Versace

|genre= Confident ReadersTrue Crime|summary= A grumpy old lady who can no longer drive requires What is it about true crime which makes it so fascinating to such a chauffeurwide audience? I guess it's wanting to try to figure out what happened to make these people partake in the awful crimes they committed, and we watch as she gradually softens towards him and or else the same inexplicable impulse people have to slow down when they become friendsovertake a car crash on the motorway. So farWhatever it is, so ''Driving Miss Daisy'Maureen Orth's book, an apt comparison in a book which references several well-loved classic films. But the obvious similarity ends there. DavyVulgar Favours, hired to take Miss Flint taps right on her final road trip, is thirteen years old and has not the foggiest idea how to drive a carinto it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>15098325641785943103</amazonuk>

|author=Benny Lindelauf, Ludwig Volbeda and Laura Watkinson (translator)Charlotte Peacock|title=TortotInto The Mountain, the Cold Fish Who Lost His World and Found His HeartA Life of Nan Shepherd|rating=4.5|genre=TeensBiography|summary=Meet Tortot. Mostly we choose what books to read, because there is so little time and so many books… He's a camp chef for an armyI can understand the approach, with a cold heart – he sheds no tearsbut I also think we sell ourselves short by it, or at least as much as does a fish – and a brilliant way of gauging we sell the warfare going on around himmyriad lesser known authors short as well. The book even starts with him crossing So while, like most other people I have my favourite genres, and favoured authors, and while, like most other people I read the battlefield to start work for the enemy the night before they turn the tables reviews and follow up on his previous employers and defeat themwhat appeals, leaving Tortot on the winning side once moreI also have a third string to my reading bow: randomness. But now he's not alone – for he has managed to also inherit an assistant, who lives It was in such a barrel of 'left-field' move that ''Into the EmperorsMountain'' favourite and most important gherkins…was offered to me.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17826915451903385563</amazonuk>

|author=Annabel PitcherAlan Moorehead|title=The Last Days of Archie MaxwellRussian Revolution|rating=4|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: LeonFirst published in 1958, Moorhead's Dad had left and so had Mo'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 his sisters are sad to see their father leave, but they don't seem to have any problem with the ''why'' and they tell their friends. But Archie daren't tell the lads at school: the bullying account is bad enough regarded as it is. And then there's one of the problem most succinct accounts of Tiaits subject, 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 and now reprinted to mark the day on which her brother committed suicide by throwing himself in front centenary of a train on the line which runs at the back of Archie's houserevolution.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112728X1445667320</amazonuk>

|author= Jason Segel and Kirsten MillerCatherine Hewitt|title= OtherworldRenoir's Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon|rating= 4.5|genre=FantasyBiography|summary=imon Deep in the rural parts of France in the 1860s, you would never really expect to find someone who would come to embody a full artistic period – and not have considered himself just a hero. In fact, by all accounts, particularly movement at that of his parents, Simon is an epic failure. He's large, he's hairy, he has but a ridiculously oversized nose and he's been kicked out full generation of boarding school both creative and kept on a federal watch listsocietal change. And if you were to expect that someone, they would like as not be male. But Simon is sure something is up with his friend Katalmost stumbling into the hedonistic culture of Montmartre came Marie-Clementine Valadon. She won't speak to himstarted in the circus that first caught her teenaged eye, although her gymnastic career was short-lived. So he resorts But what she did have from that was the poise to buying be an incredibly expensive new virtual reality video game appealing model for them both - Otherworld. Otherworld engages your senses with graphics so good, you'll swear they are realsome seriously important painters, and it's here that Simon really wants a natural beauty and figure to talk appeal 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 consequencesboth them and their audiences. And if it dies? Simon would rather not think about that. If he wants to save Katwhat she also had, he has much to keep pressing on. Simon is the chosen onesurprise of many and the distaste of some, this is not a game. was artistic talent of her own…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17860736921785782738</amazonuk>

|author= Alison Ritchie and Marisa MoreaDavid Melling|title= The Twelve Dogs of Merry Christmas, Hugless Douglas|rating= 4.5

|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'Many women in medieval times left their mark on history, but as a range of books which are more like a long-form essay, explore often seemingly mundane items. ''Personal Stereo'' packs a lot of rule they have been neglected by biographers and historians as there is too little surviving information into a small spacefor them to have even brief biographies to themselves. Split into three distinct sections: Novelty, Norm, and Nostalgia, 'Novelty' traces Ms Connolly has adopted an enterprising solution to the origin of the Sony Walkman, from its conception problem by two Japanese business men to it becoming writing a recognised entity on the streets of America. 'Norm' follows general account on from the universal success of the personal stereo, relating this to the technology which it set the groundwork for, such 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 freedombroadly thematic basis. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>15013228181445662647</amazonuk>

{{newreview <!-- remove 2/11 -->|author=Marjorie OrrJuno Dawson and Alex T Smith|title=By the Light of a LieGrave Matter|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeDyslexia Friendly|summary=Tire Thane was devastated when Since Eliza died, since the night of the car crash that took her best friendlife, EricaSam is a broken soul. He is lost without the girl he loves, was killed in feeling as though a hit-part of him died that night too. But he is desperate and-run accident (if, indeed, it was an accident) but she really couldn't understand why she should have been in Hammersmithhe cannot live without Eliza. She'd left He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie and her getting into a taxi at 11 o'clock the night before outside the theatre in St Martin's Lane peculiar healing powers and wonders if she was on her way home to Hampstead might be able to review papers ready for a court appearance the following morninghelp him. Then she died three hours later and miles out of her way. The police didn't seem likely However, finding his Aunt Marie leads him to pursue discover the case on the grounds that it had probably been an accidentMilk Man, but being an investigative journalist made Tire suspicious and she wasnwhich causes Sam in his grieving state to make a pact with forces he doesn't going understand. Things soon turn complicated as supernatural powers start to leave her friend unavengedchange Sam's life in more ways than he bargained for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>09562587271781126046</amazonuk>

|author= Melissa CarusoKurt Andersen|title= The Tethered MageFantasyland|rating= 4.5|genre= FantasyHistory |summary= The Raverran Empire is run by a doge and Fantasyland covers the council history of sevenAmerica from 1517 to 2017 in awesome detail. Covering five centuries of tempestuous history, Andersen paints the governing group formed by the aristocratic families conjuring of EruviaAmerica in vivid relief. The Empire thrives Discussing everything from tradepilgrims to politicians, culture and the obedience of the cities surrounding Raverra. The Empire has obtained this power and dominance by harnessing and controlling the magic of Eruvia and all the ''mage-marked'' that possess it. For years the Raverran empire has known peaceexhilarating gold rush to alternative facts, but seminal episodes are explored in forensic detail with whispers of a rebellion, the discovery of a fire-warlock and the disappearance of children, the Empire's authority over Eruvia is in danger and war is looming on the horizonrazor sharp wit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>03565106111785038656</amazonuk>

|author= Amanda FoodyEmily Suvada|title= Daughter of the Burning CityThis Mortal Coil

|genre= Confident ReadersTeens|summary=GomorrahA life threatening virus is spreading through the United States, an already broken country with a Government that many do not trust. The top scientists are frantically trying to produce a vaccine to save humanity, but it seems a travelling circus as big hopeless race against time as the virus mutates into new and stronger strains at a city, tours frightening pace. Catarina has lived alone and in hiding for the landpast two years, entertaining since her brilliant father was rounded up by the crowds with fantastic shows of magic, illusion State and sleight of handtaken by force to work in the national laboratories. But His last message to her was to hide from the proprietor of GomorrahState and not to trust them an inch. Set in America, Villiambut not an America we would recognise, believes he has a far more important role than merely organising most of the acts citizens are incarcerated in underground bunkers, protected by air lock doors and bug free conditions. Others, less trusting of the circus. He has political ambitionState, which he keeps a secret from his adopted daughter. Growing up remain in hiding on the circussurface, Sorina knows that she hoping the virus will one day become the Proprietor not reach them and take over from her father. At sixteen, she avoiding anyone who is keen to start learning everything she can from Villiaminfected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18484554450141379278</amazonuk>