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|author= James RaviliousFiona Mitchell|title= The Recent PastMaid's Room|rating= 5|genre= ArtGeneral Fiction|summary= JamesIn 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 this stifling room, son of with the heat increased by the tumble dryer. This is the war artist Eric Ravilious, inherited his fathermaid's room. It's artistic talentspossibly better than sleeping under the dining room table, but not by much. Although he was Back in 2009 there were 201,000 female domestic workers in Singapore, many not earning any money for a gifted painteryear until they've repaid 'training' and other fees to the agency, his main career was to be as a photographermany living in 'the maid's room'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19085249361473659566</amazonuk>

|author= Robin RaviliousAllan Hailstone|title= James RaviliousBerlin in the Cold War: A Life1959 to 1966|rating= 54|genre= BiographyHistory|summary= The name of Eric Ravilious, war artist, engraver and designer, has long been familiar. Less well''Berlin in the Cold War: 1959-known was his equally gifted son James. This delightful biography 1966'' contains almost 200 photographs taken by author / photographer Allan Hailstone in his widow should help visits to put the situation rightcity during this period. The images provide an insight into the changing nature of the divide between East and West Berlin and a glimpse into life in the city during the Cold War.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19085249441445672901</amazonuk>

|author=Minette WaltersAsa Avdic|title=The Last HoursDying Game|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionThrillers|summary=In June 1348 a futuristic dystopian Sweden, ministry worker Anna is presented with an offer from the Black Death came into formidable chairman. Except the country through the port offer, is more of Melcombe an order than a choice. With nothing to lose and everything to gain, Anna accepts. She is taken to an isolated Island with other ''candidates'' for a job in Dorsetthe super-secret organisation. Ignorant of many rules of hygiene which weAnna'd find basic nearly seven hundred years laters objective is simple, the disease rages she is to ''die'' and then observe her fellows through hidden chambers of the countryhouse. On Once the estate of Develishexperiment is finished, Lady Anne Develish took control of the future of the people who lived in the demesne after she will report her husband had ridden off findings back to try and secure a marriage for his daughterthe chairman. Two hundred bonded serfs lived on the estate However, while this starts off smoothly at first, other contestants start disappearing and when Lady Anne realised Anna is faced with the virulence terror of the plague she ordered that the estate refuse entry to anyone, including her husband and his entourage, for fear that they would bring the disease to her peopleknowing this is not just a game anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17606321391786090201</amazonuk>

|authortitle= Javier Cercas and Frank Wynne (translator)Scoop of the Year|titleauthor= The ImpostorTom Claver|rating= 54|genre= Literary FictionThrillers|summary= Enric Marco Martin is without doubt an extraordinary manambitious journalist working on the Financial Review. A veteran of the Spanish Civil WarMartin is good at his job - accurate, dedicated, honoured hardworking and with a good nose for his bravery on a scoop. But Martin is also uninterested in the battlefieldculture that comes with reporting. A political prisoner of He has a wife and two fascist regimes. A survivor of the Nazi concentration camps. A prominent figure daughters at home and he doesn't want to waste time and money in the clandestine resistance against Franco's tyranny. A tireless warrior for social justice and pub, talking macho nonsense with the defence of human rightsother hacks. A national heroHe is a far cry from his colleague Tom de Lacy, a charismatic, silver-spooned charmer with piercing blue eyes. But Tom doesn't just grab the most extraordinary thing about Enric Marco is this: that limelight though - he is really none of these thingsalso grabs the promotion to industrial correspondent. He And that is an impostor. And Javier Cercas sets out to tell his story – the true story of Spain's most notorious liarjob Martin not only wanted, but needed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08570565061788036220</amazonuk>

|author=Susan Wood and Ross MacDonaldMaureen Orth|title=American GothicVulgar Favours: The Life Assassination of Grant WoodGianni Versace|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionTrue Crime|summary=Who won What is it about true crime which makes it so fascinating to such a national prize for a crayon drawing of three oak leaves before he was properly in his teenswide audience? Who sought acclaim as an artist and came I guess it's wanting to Europe try to study from figure out what happened to make these people partake in the greatsawful crimes they committed, only or else the same inexplicable impulse people have to reject all slow down when they had to offer? Who instinctively knew overtake a picture of his dentist (yescar crash on the motorway. Whatever it is, his dentist) would be more appealing and say more to people than Maureen Orth''floating water lilies and frilly ballet dancers''? The answer in all cases was Grant Wood, practically the most well-known painter in America at one time, and still the bests book, alongside Edward HopperVulgar Favours, at presenting his world minus any Modernist trappingstaps right on into it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14197253351785943103</amazonuk>

|author=Stuart Hill and Sandra LawrenceCharlotte Peacock|title=Into The Atlas Mountain, A Life of MonstersNan Shepherd|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionBiography|summary=There are monsters and mysterious charactersMostly we choose what books to read, such as trolls, leprechauns, goblins because there is so little time and minotaurs. so many books… They're I can understand the stuff of far too many stories to remain mysteriousapproach, but I also think we sell ourselves short by it, and every schoolchild should know all about themwe sell the myriad lesser known authors short as well. There are monsters and mysterious charactersSo while, like most other people I have my favourite genres, such as Gog and Magogfavoured authors, Scylla and Charybdiswhile, like most other people I read the reviews and the bunyip. They are follow up on what you find if you take an interest in this kind of thing appeals, I also have a third string to the next level; even if you cannot place them all on a map you should have come across themmy reading bow: randomness. But there are monsters and mysterious characters, It was in such as the dobhara 'left-chu, field' move that ''Into the llambigyn y dwr, and the girtabliliMountain'' was offered to me. To gain any knowledge of them you really need a book that knows its stuff. A book like this one…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17837069611903385563</amazonuk>

|author= Stephen FryAlan Moorehead|title= Mythos: A Retelling of the Myths of Ancient GreeceThe Russian Revolution|rating= 54|genre= ReferenceHistory|summary= The Greek Myths are, arguablyFirst published in 1958, Moorhead's account is regarded as one of the greatest stories ever told. So old and influential they cast a shadow over western tales and traditions, yet remain relatable and readable millennia later. Here comedian, actormost succinct accounts of its subject, television presenter, actor and author Stephen Fry brings his considerable talent now reprinted to these special stories and recreates them with a wit, warmth and humanity that brings them into mark the modern age whilst still giving centenary of the honour and respect that such ancient and influential stories deserverevolution. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>07181887211445667320</amazonuk>

|author=Lisa CuttsCatherine Hewitt|title=Buried SecretsRenoir's Dancer: The Secret Life of Suzanne Valadon

|genre=CrimeBiography|summary=You never know what goes on Deep in the rural parts of France in a marriage: most people thought that Detective Inspector Milton Bowman had the ideal life. He had 1860s, you would never really expect to find someone who would come to embody a beautiful wife full artistic period – and not just a house movement at that had , but a mortgage which was smaller than most people's credit card billfull generation of both creative and societal change. And if you were to expect that someone, they would like as not be male. But almost stumbling into the hedonistic culture of Montmartre came Marie-Clementine Valadon. On She started in the other handcircus that first caught her teenaged eye, there weren't although her gymnastic career was short-lived. But what she did have from that many people who had a good word was the poise to say about him be an appealing model for some seriously important painters, and when he was involved in a serious road traffic accident which left him minus a leg natural beauty and with only a few hours figure to appeal to live, people were more worried about the extra work than saddenedboth them and their audiences. When his wife's battered body was found in their kitchenAnd what she also had, much to the surprise of many and the idea that it distaste of some, was a murder/suicide seemed like the obvious answer.artistic talent of her own…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14711531421785782738</amazonuk>

|author= Moira YoungDavid Melling|title= The Road to Ever AfterMerry Christmas, Hugless Douglas|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersFor Sharing|summary= A grumpy old lady Hugless Douglas is a large, comfy sort of bear who can no longer drive requires burst onto the picture book scene a chauffeurfew years ago as he searched for just the right sort of hug. His endearing, hopeful face and that chubby (to put it politely) body instantly melted young hearts, and to universal delight we watch as she gradually softens towards him and they become friendshave since been treated to several more of his adventures. So farDouglas is hugless no longer, so ''Driving Miss Daisy'you'll be glad to know, an apt comparison in a book which references several well-loved classic films. But but the obvious similarity ends there. Davyname stuck, hired mostly because it's such fun to take Miss Flint say (go on her final road trip, is thirteen years old try it!) and has not the foggiest idea how because he still bumbles through life embracing everything in sight as if cuddles are about to drive a cargo out of fashion. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>15098325641444906844</amazonuk>

|author=Benny Lindelauf, Ludwig Volbeda Julia Donaldson and Laura Watkinson (translator)Axel Scheffler|title=Tortot, the Cold Fish Who Lost His World and Found His HeartA Treasury of Songs|rating=4.5|genre=TeensChildren's Rhymes and Verse|summary=Meet Tortot. HeSome people have all the skills, not only is Julia Donaldson one of the most successful children's a camp chef for an armyauthors, with she can also carry a cold heart – he sheds no tears, or at least as much as does a fish – and a brilliant way of gauging the warfare going on around himtune. The book even starts with him crossing For the battlefield to start work for the enemy the night before they turn the tables on his previous employers past few years she has adapted many of her most popular stories into songs and defeat plays themduring open readings, leaving Tortot on the winning side once moreor releases them as part of a song book. But now heFor the first time ''A Treasury of Songs''s not alone – for he brings together several of her books in one omnibus and it also has managed to also inherit an assistant, who lives in a barrel CD too of Donaldson singing the Emperors' favourite and most important gherkins…songs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17826915451509846131</amazonuk>

|author=Annabel PitcherAlexander McCall Smith|title=The Last Days of Archie MaxwellGood Pilot Peter Woodhouse|rating=45|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyGeneral Fiction|summary=Archie Maxwell was shocked when his parents told him that they were getting divorcedIf you've never read an Alexander McCall Smith novel, but have always thought you might like to try, one day then this might be the book to start with. It wasn't that Dads leaving was that unusual: Leon's Dad had left Rather than face the daunting task of leaping into one of his now very long-running series, this is a standalone novel, and so had Moit gives a good flavour of AMS's. It was ''why'' style, the way he was leaving can write to evoke a feeling of time and place, and Archie was embarrassed that the warm optimism underlying his sister had suspected words that their father was gay some time agois so very reassuring and comforting to read. Both of his sisters are sad to see their father leave, but they don't seem to have any problem with the ''whyIt calls itself 'a wartime romance' , which it is, and they tell their friends. But Archie daren't tell the lads at school: the bullying is bad enough as yet it ismuch more than that besides. And then there's the problem of TiaFocussing mainly on Val, a young woman working as a Land Girl, we see her falling in love with an American pilot, whom he really fancies but he can't say anything about itMike Rogers. What Tia really needs is Thanks to a friend: itsheepdog on Val's just about farm (the first anniversary of Peter Woodhouse from the day on which her brother committed suicide by throwing himself in front title) their lives become entwined with that of a train on German soldier, and the line which runs at book shows us a variety of friendships as they grow and develop over the back of Archie's houseyears.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112728X1846974097</amazonuk>

|author= Jason Segel Christopher Maslanka and Kirsten MillerSteve Tribe|title= OtherworldSherlock: The Puzzle Book|rating= 54|genre=FantasyEntertainment|summary=imon would not have considered himself Who doesn't love a hero. In factgood puzzle, by all accounts, particularly especially those really fiendish ones that of his parents, Simon get the brain working extra hard? There really is an epic failure. Henothing to compare to that buzz we get from the ''Aha!'s large, he's hairymoment, he has a ridiculously oversized nose when everything falls into place and he's been kicked out of boarding school and kept on a federal watch listthe solution reveals itself. But Simon is sure something is up with his friend Kat. She won't speak If puzzles are your thing then you may wish to him. So he resorts put your grey cells to buying an incredibly expensive new virtual reality video game for them both - Otherworld. Otherworld engages your senses the test with graphics so good, you'll swear they are real'The Sherlock Puzzle Book, 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 based on. Simon is the chosen one, this is not a gamepopular TV series. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17860736921785943030</amazonuk>

|author= Alison Ritchie and Marisa MoreaHilary Lee-Corbin|title= The Twelve Dogs of ChristmasConkers and Grenades

|genre= For SharingConfident Readers|summary= Christmas It's Bristol in 1916. Britain is approaching halfway through the Great War and one little puppy everyone is very excited about his first ever Christmas Dayexpected to put their shoulder to the wheel of the war effort. Everywhere he looks Mar and Appy might be boys, but they're no different. Both their fathers are away fighting and the preparations two young boys are underway expected to help with every dog household chores, look after younger siblings, earn a few extra pennies through casual jobs and concentrate on getting an education...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788033515</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Krysten Ritter|title= Bonfire|rating= 4.5|genre= General Fiction|summary=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 environmental lawyer in Chicago, she has a thriving career, a modern apartment, and her pick of meaningless one-night stands.But when a new case takes her back home to Barrens, Indiana, the life Abby painstakingly created begins to crack. Tasked with investigating Optimal Plastics, the town helping 's most high-profile company and economic heart, Abby begins to find strange connections to Barrens' biggest scandal from more than a decade ago involving the popular Kaycee Mitchell and her closest friends--just before Kaycee disappeared for good.Abby knows the key to solving any case lies in the weak spots, the unanswered questions. But as she tries desperately to find outwhat really happened to Kaycee, troubling memories begin to resurface and she begins to doubt her own observations. However And when she unearths an even more disturbing secret--a ritual called ''The Game,'' it will so many eager assistants joining in threaten the reputations, and lives, of the fray help or hinder community and will everything ever be ready in time?risk exposing a darkness that may consume her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14711661711524759848</amazonuk>

|author=Dr SeussSue Hendra and Paul Linnet|title=What Was I Scared Of?Supertato: Evil Pea Rules

|summary=All Hallows' Eve is upon us once more For all their heroics and lantern jaws, everyone knows that can only mean that we the good guy is never the best thing about a book or film. That accolade goes to the bad guy. They are soon able to be surrounded by all types chew the scenery and give the type of larger than life performance a hero could only dream of monsters, ghoulies and manifestations. Fear not, as many One of these unsettling creatures will actually be the best bad guys in children dressed up on another adventure trick or treating. But what about that pair of seemingly malevolent trousers that walk by themselves? That 's fiction is no childnot a guy at all, but a pair of haunted keckspea. An evil pea. RunAt last this pea is given his opportunity to shine, run, runbut where there is an Evil Pea, but perhaps if you have them a friendly hello these pants may Supertato cannot be nicer than you think?far behind.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00082526021471144062</amazonuk>

|author=Lorenzo Marone and Shaun Whiteside (Translator)Stephen Aryan|title=The Temptation to Be HappyMageborn (Age of Dread)|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionFantasy|summary=Cesare is 77, widowed, generally ignored by ''Magic will destroy us all'' Ten years after the offspring he likes devastating battlemage war when mages used their immense power to tear each other apart and bothered too much by sundered the one he doesn't. Stillworld itself, he finds ways to fill his days. If he's not taking advantage suspicion of his friendthose who wield magic is at an all-with-benefits arrangement with aging lady time high. With the recent resurrection of the night RossanaRed Tower, or keeping an eye on his grandsoninstitution for students to learn to control and expand their magic, he's making mischief in league with elderly neighbours like Signora Vitaliano (local mad cat woman) Seekers visit villages each month to test children for magical abilities. But for those children and Marino (the non-IT-literate computer guy). Their minds are diverted from their usual pursuits when families it is not a gift, it is a young couple move into cursed For Habreel, who will never forget the destruction during the war, the apartment block providing Cesare with a concern elimination of all magic will save countless lives and is the conviction that only solution to long lasting stability. He will stop at nothing to achieve his aim; he has to do somethingwill deal with the devil, whatever the fall out or personal dangercrush villages and kill anyone in his way.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17860728820356508471</amazonuk>

|author= Chris BeckettLaura Wilson|title= America CityThe Other Woman

|genre= Dystopian FictionThrillers|summary= ''America City'' tells Based on the blurb on the story of Hollyback, an ambitious Publicist who sets aside her own political beliefs in order to help Sophie might not be the ambitious Senator Slaymaker most likable heroine. She's a quote-unquote perfect woman, with his Presidential campaign. Set in the 22nd centuryhouse, the novel tells of an incredibly disunited United Stateshusband, where the effects of climate change have created deep divisions between the affluent Northern States, children and the South, which is frequently ravaged by extreme weatherdog. Holly and Slaymaker hope to change Careers may be a little unnecessary in thisscenario (the husband is successful, working together on the plan they believe but her own achievements seem linked to be 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 solution to the problem sort of where to place woman, one imagines, who might rub other people up the thousands of Americans wrong way, especially those who have been made homeless by devastating stormsfind their own lives lacking.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17864915241786485214</amazonuk>

|author=Jessica TownsendAdrian Mourby|title=NevermoorRooms with a View: The Trials Secret Life of Morrigan CrowGreat Hotels|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTravel|summary=Morrigan Crow is Adrian Mourby has given us a cursed child. Everyone in Jackalfax where she lives believes she is responsible for all flying visit to each of fifty grand hotels, from fourteen regions of the world, with the things that go wrong hotels in their life. Andeach section being arranged chronologically rather than by region, if that's not bad enough, the curse means she will die on her eleventh birthdaywhich helps to give something of an overall picture. Morrigan believes there is no escape from her fate until So what makes a mysterious man appears hotel 'grand'? The first hotel to call itself 'grand' was in covent Garden in 1774 and offers her a new life it ushered in the secret city beginning of Nevermoora period when a hotel would be a lifestyle choice rather than a refuge for those without friends and family conveniently nearby. There is only one problem – to stay The hotels we visit all began life in Nevermoor she needs to gain different circumstances and each faced a coveted place different set of challenges. We begin in the Wunderous Society by competing against hundreds of other hopefuls Americas, move to pass four seemingly impossible trialsthe United Kingdom, circumnavigate Europe, briefly visit Russia and Turkey then northern Africa, India and Asia. Australia, it seems, does not go for the grand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>15101041191785782754</amazonuk>

|author=Lars Mytting Joseph Coelho and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)Fiona Lumbers|title=The Sixteen Trees of the SommeLuna Loves Library Day|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=While his grandfather lived the past was an area of certainty for Edvard. At aged 4 he'd been taken to live with his grandparents, having survived the accident that killed his parents. 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, the whereabouts of late Great-Uncle Einar… and that's without looking more deeply into the fatal accident itself. Edvard is determined to solve the puzzle, a determination that will take him away from his native Norway to an area of France synonymous with devastation and a remote Scottish island loaded with secrets.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857056069</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Morag Hood|title=I Am Bat|rating=5

|summary=Bat Luna is a creature 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 day she spends with very definite opinionsher dad. He does not like morningsOnce inside the library, for example, but he does like cherriesmagical things occur as the books Luna and her dad discover seemingly come to life. In factThey spend their time together sharing stories, he really loves cherriessome that are more significant than others, as they are his ''favourite of all things!'until it' s time for Luna to go home. What do you think might happen if somebody takes BatYet even once she's cherries? Bat won't be happyhome, she still has her newly borrowed books to escape into, will he?!and the memories of her day with her dad.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>15098346131783445483</amazonuk>

{{newreview<!-- remove 11/11 -->|authortitle=Dr SeussUnder The Light of a Full Moon|titleauthor=I Can Read With My Eyes ShutDonna McGrath|rating=43.5|genre=Emerging Confident Readers|summary=''The more that you read,''<br>''The more things you will know.''''The more that you learnWhen the bad dreams and the whispers at night first start,Clara has no idea what''<br>''The more places you'll gos going on.'' This All she knows is a classic Dr Seuss quote from this book, and one that I painstakingly stickered onto the wall lack of my childrensleep is making her feel ill. But a visit from her Great Aunt Selina supplies some answers. Clara's school library! The book is very silly, as Dr Seuss always is, but is also family has a good rhyming ode gift. One member of each generation has the ability to shape-shift into the joys form of readingany species of animal. But the gift comes with an ancient curse - bearers of it can only transform during the three days of the full moon each month.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008240019B00D9V7QOA</amazonuk>

|author=Twigs WayStephen Norman|title=Tea Gardens (Britain's Heritage Series)Trading Down

|genre=LifestyleThrillers|summary=Tea Gardens really began Chris Peters was happy in London his work for a multinational bank in the late 18th century: a trip to Kings Cross or St Pancras Hong Kong and excited when he was effectively a trip promoted and sent back to the country in those daysLondon. Men The job had their coffee housesit all: a hectic trading floor, but they targets which were not places where women could or would be seenimpossible and some of the fastest computers in the world under his supervision. Tea was introduced to England He's happy at home too: he and Olivia met in the 17th century but it was not until 1784 that the high duty was reduced from 119% to 12½% Hong Kong: now they're married and tea became the drink of choice for the nationthinking about starting a family. Until then the working classes had But ... has he been fuelled largely by cheap gin. promoted beyond his capabilities? OnlyThere are those in the bank who think so, where would this beverage be drunk? particularly when things start to go badly wrong. One answer He was the pleasure gardens where the fashionable went to see and be seen: by the mid 1600s tea never there for Olivia either. Life for Chris Peters was also being served in places such as Ranelagh Gardensturning sour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445670011B075QF8LJ8</amazonuk>

|author=Gladys MitchellJenny Colgan|title=Murder in the Snow: A Cotswold Christmas Mysteryat Little Beach Street Bakery|rating=4|genre=CrimeWomen's Fiction|summary=Adela Bradley decided to spend Christmas with her nephew Jonathan Polly, Huckle and his wife Deborah at their new home Neil are back but in what, sadly for fans of the Little Beach series, seems to be the Cotswoldslast of this trilogy. Mrs Bradley is a well-known psychiatrist Never say never but she's also a respected detective renowned for her sharp powers of observation. She soon comes to hear by the story end of a local ghostthis book, that the author has certainly secured the destiny of a country parson whose apparition can sometimes these three much-loved characters. Don't be seen slung over put off if you haven't read the gate leading to Groaning Spinney: previous ones, it really won't matter particularly as the ghost will play author provides a part in what is about helpful little synopsis at the start to happen. Jonathan Bradley has effectively become the local squire with the acquisition of his property and Mrs Bradley quickly becomes acquainted with some of the locals as they visit help those, like me, that are new to give festive wishesthese stories.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784708321075156477X</amazonuk>

|author= Melita ThomasAlice Hoffman|title= The King's Pearl: Henry VIII and His Daughter MaryRules of Magic

|genre= BiographyGeneral Fiction |summary= As the eldest surviving child I've read several of a much-married father whose main aim was to secure Alice Hoffman's novels, although strangely, not the royal succession with sons, Mary Tudorone she's relationship with Henry VIIImost famous for ''Practical Magic'', who called her his which went on to be made into a film. ''The Rules of Magic''pearl is the long-awaited prequel to that book, and tells the story of three siblings of the world'Owens family; Franny, Jet and Vincent. The two sisters, was inevitably an important Franny and often fraught oneJet, go on to become the two aunts in the ''Practical Magic'' story.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144566125X1471157679</amazonuk>

|author=Lily Murray and Chris WormellPhilip Matyszak|title=Dinosaurium (Welcome to the Museum)24 Hours in Ancient Rome|rating=4.5|genre=Popular ScienceHistory|summary=One of I'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 selling points for entities like interesting bits… Somehow I entered adulthood with the impression that all Romans were bloodthirsty and hedonistic heathens with little to recommend them. ''Jurassic ParkMea culpa'' films is that they bring all the high-energy action of dinosaur life to the screen, in a way that is suitable, they would you might say, for children of all ages. But there is a very different way of going about things. This book does feature dinosaur-on-dinosaur combatSo when my eye fell upon Philip Matyszak's ''24 Hours in Ancient Rome'', but only in presenting and its claim to introduce readers to the most scientific of fossil remains. It delves into real Ancient Rome by examining the evolutionary life lives of what we have long loved ordinary people, I decided it was high time to enjoy and all update my education. And the major scientific developments for the most inquisitive student, so lovely artwork on the front cover made this book is actually worth considering in a very different way. I would say this is ideal for ''adults'' of all agesthe more appealing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17837079251782438564</amazonuk>

|author=Kes Gray and Jim FieldDallas Campbell|title=Oi Cat!Ad Astra: An illustrated guide to leaving the planet|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingPopular Science|summary=When did childrenSo… you want to leave the planet? Before you do you's books become so Meta? Back in the day each Thomas d better study the Tank Engine adventure was separate from the other as if they lived in their own episodic wildness, but not today. In this world whole history of Nintendo Switches and online platforms the average adult is too scared human space flight to get up to venture onto, we have metaphysical children booksspeed. Books That could take a while… if only there was a handy guide that reflect back on previous outings in the seriescould condense it all down for you. If you are going Enter Dallas Campbell with this book: An illustrated guide to get leaving the most out of ''Oi Cat!'', you best know about your ''Oi Frog!'' and ''Oi Dog!'' tooplanet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14449325191471164055</amazonuk>

|author=Cath Jones and Chris JevonsSharon Bennett Connolly|title=Bonkers about BeetrootHeroines of the Medieval World|rating=5|genre=For SharingHistory|summary=Sunset Safari Park rarely has any visitors and is Many women in danger of closing down. To tackle the problem Zebra calls a meeting of all the animals and challenges them to find a way to make the safari park more interesting. Penguin thinks there's no hope medieval times left their mark on history, but Zebra has as a totally bonkers idea – they'll grow a beetroot. They'll grow the biggest beetroot in the world! It should be easy because rule they have plenty of manure (animal poo) to help it grow. At first it looks like Zebra's plan been neglected by biographers and historians as there is going too little surviving information for them to work. One beetroot grows so big that crowds of people come have even brief biographies to see it. There is just one problem – the beetroot keeps growingthemselves. Soon there won't be any room for visitors. Luckily, Zebra Ms Connolly has another idea: adopted an equally bonkers but totally brilliant ideaenterprising solution to the problem by writing a general account on a broadly thematic basis.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18488628141445662647</amazonuk>

|author= Martin Cruz Juno Dawson and Alex T Smith|title= The Girl from VeniceGrave Matter

|genre= ThrillersDyslexia Friendly|summary= The romantic in me was immediately drawn to this book. Venice in 1945 at Since Eliza died, since the close night of the war car crash that took her life, Sam is enticement enougha broken soul. Add He is lost without the girl he loves, feeling as though a backdrop part of partisans, Mussolini him died that night too. But he is desperate and he cannot live without Eliza. He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie and the desperate fight of the losing SS her peculiar healing powers and my interest is certainly piquedwonders if she might be able to help him. However, but present finding his Aunt Marie leads him to discover the aforementioned along Milk Man, which causes Sam in his grieving state to make a pact with the mystery of a young woman found floating in the Venice Lagoon forces he doesn't understand. Things soon turn complicated as supernatural powers start to change Sam's life in the dead of night and resistance is futilemore ways than he bargained for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184983816X1781126046</amazonuk>

|author=Nathan ConnollyKurt Andersen|title=Know Your Place: Essays on the Working Class by the Working ClassFantasyland|rating=54|genre=Politics and SocietyHistory |summary=Simple summary: ''Know Your Place'' is an anthology Fantasyland covers the history of America from 1517 to 2017 in awesome detail. Covering five centuries of essays on tempestuous history, Andersen paints the working class by the working classconjuring of America in vivid relief. There are twenty-three disparate pieces talking about Discussing everything you can imagine: day trips from pilgrims to politicians, the seaside, access exhilarating gold rush to the artsalternative facts, food poverty, pub culture, glass ceilings, housing estates, vulgarity-as-class-marker, and much moreseminal episodes are explored in forensic detail with razor sharp wit. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>19115853631785038656</amazonuk>

|author=Nina StibbeEmily Suvada|title=An Almost Perfect ChristmasThis Mortal Coil|rating=4.5|genre=Humour Teens|summary=Christmas – A life threatening virus is spreading through the time of traditional traumaUnited States, an already broken country with a Government that many do not trust. You only have The top scientists are frantically trying to produce a vaccine to think about save humanity, but it seems a hopeless race against time as the turkey virus mutates into new and stronger strains at a frightening pace. Catarina has lived alone and in hiding for that – once upon a time it the past two years, since her brilliant father was leaving it sat on rounded up by the downstairs loo State and taken by force to defrost overnight, and if that failed work in the hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment national laboratories. His last message to her was your next best bet. Nowadays it's all having to make sure it's suitably free-range hide from the State and organic – but not too organic that you can go and visit it, and get too friendly with it to want to eat ittrust them an inch. ChristmasSet in America, thoughbut not an America we would recognise, is most of course also a time of great boons. It's cash the citizens are incarcerated in hand for a lot of plump people who can hire red suits underground bunkers, protected by air lock doors and beardsbug free conditions. Others, it was always a godsend for postmen with all less trusting of the thank-you letters to aunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you write out State, remain in long-hand as a childhiding on the surface, and as for hoping the makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they even try virus will not reach them and sell them any other time of the year?avoiding anyone who is infected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>02413098240141379278</amazonuk>