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|author= Emily SuvadaFiona Mitchell|title= This Mortal CoilThe Maid's Room|rating= 45|genre= TeensGeneral Fiction|summary= A life threatening virus is spreading through the United States, an already broken country with In some apartments in Singapore you'll find a bomb shelter - airless and without a Government that many do not trustwindow. The top scientists are frantically trying to produce a vaccine to save humanity, but it seems a hopeless race against time as It will probably house the virus mutates into new washing machine and stronger strains at the other domestic paraphernalia that's got nowhere else to go. There'll be a frightening pace. Catarina has lived alone and in hiding for mattress on the past two yearsfloor of this stifling room, since her brilliant father was rounded up by with the State and taken heat increased by force to work in the national laboratoriestumble dryer. His last message to her was to hide from This is the State and not to trust them an inchmaid's room. Set in America It's possibly better than sleeping under the dining room table, but not an America we would recogniseby much. Back in 2009 there were 201, most of the citizens are incarcerated 000 female domestic workers in underground bunkersSingapore, protected by air lock doors many not earning any money for a year until they've repaid 'training' and bug free conditions. Others, less trusting of other fees to the Stateagency, remain many living in hiding on the surface, hoping 'the virus will not reach them and avoiding anyone who is infectedmaid's room'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>01413792781473659566</amazonuk>

|author= Tony MittonAllan Hailstone|title= Potter's BoyBerlin in the Cold War: 1959 to 1966|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident ReadersHistory|summary= Life is unpredictable; it never goes exactly where we want it to despite how much effort we put ''Berlin in the Cold War: 1959-1966'' contains almost 200 photographs taken by author / photographer Allan Hailstone in his visits to shape a direction for ourselvesthe city during this period. It's The images provide an insight into the changing nature of the divide between East and West Berlin and a hard lesson to learn, and one Tony Mitton captures with vivid simplicity for glimpse into life in the city during the potter's boyCold War. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>19109893471445672901</amazonuk>

|author= Simon LelicAsa Avdic|title= The HouseDying Game|rating= 54

|summary= Syd loved In a futuristic dystopian Sweden, ministry worker Anna is presented with an offer from the houseformidable chairman. Except the offer, despite the fact that it was crammed full is more of the seller's stuff an order than a choice. With nothing to lose and they had everything to take the whole lot as a job lotgain, Anna accepts. The seller had run off She is taken to Australia apparently and was up an isolated Island with other ''candidates'' for a quick salejob in the super-secret organisation. Anna's objective is simple, lock, stock she is to ''die'' and barrel. Jack wasn't so surethen observe her fellows through hidden chambers of the house. He found Once the place creepyexperiment is finished, and it wasn't just she will report her findings back to the stuffed birdschairman. However, there was an air about while this starts off smoothly at first, other contestants start disappearing and Anna is faced with the place that he terror of knowing this is not just didn't likea game anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>02412965441786090201</amazonuk>

|authortitle= Nicholas BowlingScoop of the Year|titleauthor= WitchbornTom Claver|rating= 4.5|genre= TeensThrillers|summary=''There are yet more unholy discoveries within, too foul for your eyes to look upon'' Enter Martin is an ambitious journalist working on the Elizabethan world of 1577Financial Review. A world of intrigueMartin is good at his job - accurate, dedicated, terror hardworking and suspicionwith a good nose for a scoop. A world of witchcraft and witch-huntingBut Martin is also uninterested in the culture that comes with reporting. Alyce is He has a young girl forced wife and two daughters at home and he doesn't want to flee from her home after waste time and money in the devastating death of her Motherpub, talking macho nonsense with the only person she had ever lovedother hacks. Tried and deemed He is a far cry from his colleague Tom de Lacy, a witchcharismatic, her Mother was sentenced to being burnt at the stake by the notorious witchfinder John Hopkins who seems hellsilver-bent on finding Alycespooned charmer with piercing blue eyes.Haunted by the past she canTom doesn't leave behind, Alyce escapes just grab the limelight though - he also grabs the promotion to London but she's not aloneindustrial correspondent. Endangered and being followed, Alyce And that is determined to keep her freedomthe job Martin not only wanted, but as Alyce discovers her own dark magic she will find that she is more dangerous than she ever thought possibleneeded.  And Alyce, although she doesn't yet realise it, is caught between two strong and powerful Queens, one desperate to steal the throne and the other determined to keep it…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19110772521788036220</amazonuk>

|author= James RaviliousMaureen Orth|title= Vulgar Favours: The Recent PastAssassination of Gianni Versace

|genre= ArtTrue Crime|summary= JamesWhat is it about true crime which makes it so fascinating to such a wide audience? I guess it's wanting to try to figure out what happened to make these people partake in the awful crimes they committed, son of or else the war artist Eric Ravilioussame inexplicable impulse people have to slow down when they overtake a car crash on the motorway. Whatever it is, inherited his fatherMaureen Orth's artistic talents. Although he was a gifted painterbook, Vulgar Favours, his main career was to be as a photographertaps right on into it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19085249361785943103</amazonuk>

|author= Robin RaviliousCharlotte Peacock|title= James Ravilious: Into The Mountain, A Lifeof Nan Shepherd|rating= 4.5

|summary= The name of Eric RaviliousMostly we choose what books to read, war artistbecause there is so little time and so many books… I can understand the approach, but I also think we sell ourselves short by it, engraver and designerwe sell the myriad lesser known authors short as well. So while, like most other people I have my favourite genres, and favoured authors, has long been familiarand 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. Less well It was in such a 'left-known field' move that ''Into the Mountain'' was his equally gifted son James. This delightful biography by his widow should help offered to put the situation rightme.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19085249441903385563</amazonuk>

|author=Minette WaltersAlan Moorehead|title=The Last HoursRussian Revolution|rating=4.5|genre=Historical FictionHistory|summary=In June 1348 the Black Death came into the country through the port of Melcombe First published in Dorset. Ignorant of many rules 1958, Moorhead's account is regarded as one of hygiene which we'd find basic nearly seven hundred years later, the disease rages through the country. On the estate most succinct accounts of Develishits subject, Lady Anne Develish took control of the future of the people who lived in the demesne after her husband had ridden off and now reprinted to try and secure a marriage for his daughter. Two hundred bonded serfs lived on the estate and when Lady Anne realised mark the virulence centenary 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 peoplerevolution.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17606321391445667320</amazonuk>

|author= Javier Cercas and Frank Wynne (translator)Catherine Hewitt|title= Renoir's Dancer: The ImpostorSecret Life of Suzanne Valadon|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary FictionBiography|summary= Enric Marco is without doubt an extraordinary man. A veteran Deep in the rural parts of France in the Spanish Civil War1860s, honoured for his bravery on the battlefieldyou would never really expect to find someone who would come to embody a full artistic period – and not just a movement at that, but a full generation of both creative and societal change. A political prisoner of two fascist regimes And if you were to expect that someone, they would like as not be male. A survivor But almost stumbling into the hedonistic culture of the Nazi concentration campsMontmartre came Marie-Clementine Valadon. A prominent figure She started in the clandestine resistance against Franco's tyranny. A tireless warrior for social justice and the defence of human rights. A national herocircus that first caught her teenaged eye, although her gymnastic career was short-lived. But what she did have from that was the most extraordinary thing about Enric Marco is this: that he is really none of these things. He is poise to be an impostorappealing model for some seriously important painters, and a natural beauty and figure to appeal to both them and their audiences. And Javier Cercas sets out what she also had, much to tell his story – the true story surprise of many and the distaste of some, was artistic talent of Spain's most notorious liar.her own…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08570565061785782738</amazonuk>

|author=Susan Wood and Ross MacDonaldDavid Melling|title=American Gothic: The Life of Grant WoodMerry Christmas, Hugless Douglas|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionFor Sharing|summary=Who won Hugless Douglas is a national prize large, comfy sort of bear who burst onto the picture book scene a few years ago as he searched for a crayon drawing just the right sort of three oak leaves before he was properly in his teens? Who sought acclaim as an artist hug. His endearing, hopeful face and came that chubby (to Europe to study from the greatsput it politely) body instantly melted young hearts, only and to reject all they had universal delight we have since been treated to offer? Who instinctively knew a picture several more of his dentist (yesadventures. Douglas is hugless no longer, his dentist) would you'll be more appealing and say more glad to people than ''floating water lilies and frilly ballet dancers''? The answer in all cases was Grant Woodknow, practically but the most well-known painter in America at one timename stuck, mostly because it's such fun to say (go on, try it!) and because he still the best, alongside Edward Hopper, at presenting his world minus any Modernist trappingsbumbles through life embracing everything in sight as if cuddles are about to go out of fashion.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14197253351444906844</amazonuk>

|author=Stuart Hill Julia Donaldson and Sandra LawrenceAxel Scheffler|title=The Atlas A Treasury of MonstersSongs

|genre=Children's Non-FictionRhymes and Verse|summary=There are monsters and mysterious charactersSome people have all the skills, such as trollsnot only is Julia Donaldson one of the most successful children's authors, leprechauns, goblins and minotaursshe can also carry a tune. They're For the stuff past few years she has adapted many of far too many her most popular stories to remain mysterious, into songs and every schoolchild should know all about plays them. There are monsters and mysterious charactersduring open readings, such or releases them as Gog and Magog, Scylla and Charybdis, and the bunyip. They are what you find if you take an interest in this kind part of thing to the next level; even if you cannot place them all on a map you should have come across themsong book. But there are monsters and mysterious characters, such as For the dobhar-chu, the llambigyn y dwr, first time ''A Treasury of Songs'' brings together several of her books in one omnibus and it also has a CD too of Donaldson singing the girtablilisongs. To gain any knowledge of them you really need a book that knows its stuff. A book like this one…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17837069611509846131</amazonuk>

|author= Stephen FryAlexander McCall Smith|title= Mythos: A Retelling of the Myths of Ancient GreeceThe Good Pilot Peter Woodhouse|rating= 5|genre= ReferenceGeneral Fiction|summary= The Greek Myths areIf you've never read an Alexander McCall Smith novel, arguablybut have always thought you might like to try, one day then this might be the greatest stories ever toldbook to start with. So old Rather than face the daunting task of leaping into one of his now very long-running series, this is a standalone novel, and influential they cast it gives a good flavour of AMS's style, the way he can write to evoke a shadow over western tales feeling of time and place, and the warm optimism underlying his words that is so very reassuring and traditionscomforting to read. It calls itself 'a wartime romance', which it is, and yet remain relatable and readable millennia laterit is much more than that besides. Here comedian Focussing mainly on Val, actora young woman working as a Land Girl, television presenterwe see her falling in love with an American pilot, actor and author Stephen Fry brings his considerable talent Mike Rogers. Thanks to these special stories and recreates them a sheepdog on Val's farm (the Peter Woodhouse from the title) their lives become entwined with that of a witGerman soldier, warmth and humanity that brings them into the modern age whilst still giving book shows us a variety of friendships as they grow and develop over the honour and respect that such ancient and influential stories deserveyears. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>07181887211846974097</amazonuk>

|author=Lisa CuttsChristopher Maslanka and Steve Tribe|title=Buried SecretsSherlock: The Puzzle Book|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeEntertainment|summary=You never know what goes on in Who doesn't love a marriage: most people thought good puzzle, especially those really fiendish ones that Detective Inspector Milton Bowman had get the ideal life. He had a beautiful wife and a house brain working extra hard? There really is nothing to compare to that had a mortgage which was smaller than most peoplebuzz we get from the ''Aha!''s credit card bill. On the other handmoment, there weren't that many people who had a good word to say about him and when he was involved in a serious road traffic accident which left him minus a leg everything falls into place and with only a few hours the solution reveals itself. If puzzles are your thing then you may wish to put your grey cells to live, people were more worried about the extra work than saddened. When his wifetest with ''s battered body was found in their kitchenThe Sherlock Puzzle Book, '' based on the idea that it was a murder/suicide seemed like the obvious answerpopular TV series.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14711531421785943030</amazonuk>

|author= Moira YoungHilary Lee-Corbin|title= The Road to Ever AfterConkers and Grenades|rating= 54

|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 It''Driving Miss Daisy'', an apt comparison s Bristol in a book which references several well-loved classic films1916. But Britain is halfway through the obvious similarity ends thereGreat War and everyone is expected to put their shoulder to the wheel of the war effort. DavyMar and Appy might be boys, hired to take Miss Flint on her final road trip, is thirteen years old but they're no different. Both their fathers are away fighting and has not the foggiest idea how two young boys are expected to drive help with household chores, look after younger siblings, earn a carfew extra pennies through casual jobs and concentrate on getting an education... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>15098325641788033515</amazonuk>

|author=Benny Lindelauf, Ludwig Volbeda and Laura Watkinson (translator)Krysten Ritter|title=Tortot, the Cold Fish Who Lost His World and Found His HeartBonfire|rating=4.5|genre=TeensGeneral Fiction|summary=Meet TortotIt has been ten years since Abby Williams left home and scrubbed away all visible evidence of her small town roots. He's a camp chef for Now working as an armyenvironmental lawyer in Chicago, with she has a cold heart – he sheds no tearsthriving career, or at least as much as does a fish – modern apartment, and her pick of meaningless one-night stands.But when a brilliant way of gauging new case takes her back home to Barrens, Indiana, the warfare going on around himlife Abby painstakingly created begins to crack. The book even starts Tasked with him crossing investigating Optimal Plastics, the battlefield town's most high-profile company and economic heart, Abby begins to start work 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 enemy key to solving any case lies in the night before they turn the tables on his previous employers and defeat themweak spots, leaving Tortot on the winning side once moreunanswered questions. But now he's not alone – for he has managed as she tries desperately to find out what really happened to Kaycee, troubling memories begin to resurface and she begins to also inherit doubt her own observations. And when she unearths an assistanteven more disturbing secret--a ritual called ''The Game,'' it will threaten the reputations, who and lives in a barrel , of the Emperors' favourite community and most important gherkins…risk exposing a darkness that may consume her.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17826915451524759848</amazonuk>

|author=Annabel PitcherSue Hendra and Paul Linnet|title=The Last Days of Archie MaxwellSupertato: Evil Pea Rules

|genre=Dyslexia FriendlyFor Sharing|summary=Archie Maxwell was shocked when his parents told him For all their heroics and lantern jaws, everyone knows that they were getting divorcedthe good guy is never the best thing about a book or film. It wasn't that Dads leaving was that unusual: Leon's Dad had left and so had Mo'sThat accolade goes to the bad guy. 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 They are sad to see their father leave, but they don't seem able to have any problem with chew the ''why'' scenery and they tell their friendsgive the type of larger than life performance a hero could only dream of. But Archie daren't tell One of the lads at school: the bullying is best bad enough as it is. And then thereguys in children's the problem of Tiafiction is not a guy at all, whom he really fancies but he can't say anything about ita pea. An evil pea. What Tia really needs At last this pea is given his opportunity to shine, but where there is an Evil Pea, 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 houseSupertato cannot be far behind.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178112728X1471144062</amazonuk>

|author= Jason Segel and Kirsten MillerStephen Aryan|title= OtherworldMageborn (Age of Dread)|rating= 54|genre=Fantasy|summary=imon would not have considered himself a hero. In fact, by ''Magic will destroy us all accounts, particularly that of his parents, Simon is an epic failure. He's large, he's hairy Ten years after the devastating battlemage war when mages used their immense power to tear each other apart and sundered the world itself, he has a ridiculously oversized nose and he's been kicked out suspicion of boarding school and kept on a federal watch list. But Simon those who wield magic is sure something is up with his friend Kat. She won't speak to him. So he resorts to buying at an incredibly expensive new virtual reality video game for them both all- Otherworldtime high. Otherworld engages your senses with graphics so goodWith the recent resurrection of the Red Tower, you'll swear they are realan institution for students to learn to control and expand their magic, and it's here that Simon really wants Seekers visit villages each month to talk to Kattest children for magical abilities. But for those children and their families it isn't realis not a gift, it's is a game… until a turn cursed For Habreel, who will never forget the destruction during the war, the elimination of events lands Simon in Otherworld in an all together different waymagic will save countless lives and is the only solution to long lasting stability. This time, whatever harm He will stop at nothing to achieve his avatar suffers has real consequences. And if it dies? Simon would rather not think about that. If aim; he wants to save Kat, he has to keep pressing on. Simon is will deal with the chosen onedevil, this is not a gamecrush villages and kill anyone in his way. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>17860736920356508471</amazonuk>

|author= Alison Ritchie and Marisa MoreaLaura Wilson|title= The Twelve Dogs of ChristmasOther Woman

|genre= For SharingThrillers|summary= Christmas is approaching Based on the blurb on the back, Sophie might not be the most likable heroine. She's a quote-unquote perfect woman, with the house, the husband, the children and one little puppy is very excited about his first ever Christmas Day. Everywhere he looks the preparations are underway with every dog in town helping out. However will so many eager assistants joining Careers may be a little unnecessary in this scenario (the fray help or hinder and will everything ever be ready in husband is successful, but her own achievements seem linked to having bagged herself a catch), though there's a sort of part time?hobby running her own shop, because, well, yes. So Sophie is the sort of woman, one imagines, who might rub other people up the wrong way, especially those who find their own lives lacking.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14711661711786485214</amazonuk>

|author=Dr SeussAdrian Mourby|title=What Was I Scared Of?Rooms with a View: The Secret Life of Great Hotels

|genre=For SharingTravel|summary=All Hallows' Eve is upon Adrian Mourby has given us once more and that can only mean that we are soon a flying visit to be surrounded by all types each of fifty grand hotels, from fourteen regions of monstersthe world, ghoulies and manifestations. Fear notwith the hotels in each section being arranged chronologically rather than by region, as many which helps to give something of these unsettling creatures will actually be children dressed up on another adventure trick or treatingan overall picture. But So what about that pair makes a hotel 'grand'? The first hotel to call itself 'grand' was in covent Garden in 1774 and it ushered in the beginning of seemingly malevolent trousers that walk by themselves? a period when a hotel would be a lifestyle choice rather than a refuge for those without friends and family conveniently nearby. That is no child, but The hotels we visit all began life in different circumstances and each faced a pair different set of haunted keckschallenges. RunWe begin in the Americas, runmove to the United Kingdom, runcircumnavigate Europe, but perhaps if you have them a friendly hello these pants may be nicer than you think?briefly visit Russia and Turkey then northern Africa, India and Asia. Australia, it seems, does not go for the grand.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00082526021785782754</amazonuk>

|author=Lorenzo Marone Joseph Coelho and Shaun Whiteside (Translator)Fiona Lumbers|title=The Temptation to Be HappyLuna Loves Library Day|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionFor Sharing|summary=Cesare Luna is 77always excited when library day comes around, widowednot just because she gets to take her books back and borrow some new ones, generally ignored by but also because it's the offspring he likes and bothered too much by the one he doesn'tday she spends with her dad. StillOnce inside the library, he finds ways magical things occur as the books Luna and her dad discover seemingly come to fill his dayslife. If he's not taking advantage of his friend-with-benefits arrangement with aging lady of the night RossanaThey spend their time together sharing stories, or keeping an eye on his grandsonsome that are more significant than others, heuntil it's making mischief in league with elderly neighbours like Signora Vitaliano (local mad cat woman) and Marino (the non-IT-literate computer guy)time for Luna to go home. Their minds are diverted from their usual pursuits when a young couple move into the apartment block providing Cesare with a concern and the conviction that he Yet even once she's home, she still has her newly borrowed books to do somethingescape into, whatever and the fall out or personal dangermemories of her day with her dad.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17860728821783445483</amazonuk>

{{newreview<!-- remove 11/11 -->|authortitle= Chris BeckettUnder The Light of a Full Moon|titleauthor= America CityDonna McGrath|rating= 43.5|genre= Dystopian FictionConfident Readers|summary= When the bad dreams and the whispers at night first start, Clara has no idea what''America City'' tells s going on. All she knows is that the story lack of Holly, an ambitious Publicist who sets aside sleep is making her feel ill. But a visit from her own political beliefs in order to help the ambitious Senator Slaymaker with his Presidential campaignGreat Aunt Selina supplies some answers. Clara's family has a gift. Set in One member of each generation has the 22nd century, ability to shape-shift into the novel tells form of an incredibly disunited United States, where the effects any species of climate change have created deep divisions between the affluent Northern States, and the South, which is frequently ravaged by extreme weatheranimal. Holly and Slaymaker hope to change this, working together on But the plan they believe to be the solution to gift comes with an ancient curse - bearers of it can only transform during the problem three days of where to place the thousands of Americans who have been made homeless by devastating stormsfull moon each month.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786491524B00D9V7QOA</amazonuk>

|author=Jessica TownsendStephen Norman|title=Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan CrowTrading Down|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersThrillers|summary=Morrigan Crow is Chris Peters was happy in his work for a cursed childmultinational bank in Hong Kong and excited when he was promoted and sent back to London. Everyone in Jackalfax where she lives believes she is responsible for The job had it all : a hectic trading floor, targets which were impossible and some of the things that go wrong fastest computers in their lifethe world under his supervision. And, if that He's not bad enough, the curse means she will die on her eleventh birthday. Morrigan believes there is no escape from her fate until a mysterious man appears happy at home too: he and Olivia met in Hong Kong: now they're married and offers her thinking about starting a new life in the secret city of Nevermoorfamily. But ... has he been promoted beyond his capabilities? There is only one problem – to stay in Nevermoor she needs to gain a coveted place are those in the Wunderous Society by competing against hundreds of other hopefuls bank who think so, particularly when things start to pass four seemingly impossible trialsgo badly wrong. He was never there for Olivia either. Life for Chris Peters was turning sour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510104119B075QF8LJ8</amazonuk>

|author=Lars Mytting and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)Jenny Colgan|title=The Sixteen Trees of the SommeChristmas at Little Beach Street Bakery|rating=4.5|genre=General Women's Fiction|summary=While his grandfather lived Polly, Huckle and Neil are back but in what, sadly for fans of the past was an area Little Beach series, seems to be the last of certainty for Edvardthis trilogy. At aged 4 he'd been taken to live with his grandparentsNever say never but by the end of this book, having survived the accident that killed his parentsauthor has certainly secured the destiny of these three much-loved characters. Now his grandfather has died revelations are coming to light showing Edvard his family history is different from what heDon'd believed… his mothert be put off if you haven's birthplacet read the previous ones, his motherit really won's name, t matter particularly as the whereabouts of late Great-Uncle Einar… and that's without looking more deeply into author provides a helpful little synopsis at the fatal accident itself. Edvard is determined start to solve the puzzlehelp those, like me, a determination that will take him away from his native Norway are new to an area of France synonymous with devastation and a remote Scottish island loaded with secretsthese stories.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857056069075156477X</amazonuk>

|author=Morag HoodAlice Hoffman|title=I Am BatThe Rules of Magic|rating=5|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction |summary=Bat is 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 be made into a creature with very definite opinionsfilm. He does not like mornings''The Rules of Magic'' is the long-awaited prequel to that book, for exampleand tells the story of three siblings of the Owens family; Franny, but he does like cherriesJet and Vincent. In factThe two sisters, he really loves cherriesFranny and Jet, as they are his go on to become the two aunts in the ''favourite of all things!Practical Magic'' What do you think might happen if somebody takes Bat's cherries? Bat won't be happy, will he?!story.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>15098346131471157679</amazonuk>

|author=Dr SeussPhilip Matyszak|title=I Can Read With My Eyes Shut24 Hours in Ancient Rome

|genre=Emerging ReadersHistory|summary=I''The more ve never been that you readinterested 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 interesting bits… Somehow I entered adulthood with the impression that all Romans were bloodthirsty and hedonistic heathens with little to recommend them. ''<br>Mea culpa''The more things , you will knowmight say.So when my eye fell upon Philip Matyszak''s ''The more that you learn,24 Hours in Ancient Rome''<br>''The more places you'll go.'' This is a classic Dr Seuss quote from this book, and one that I painstakingly stickered onto its claim to introduce readers to the real Ancient Rome by examining the wall lives of ordinary people, I decided it was high time to update my children's school library! The education. And the lovely artwork on the front cover made this book is very silly, as Dr Seuss always is, but is also a good rhyming ode to all the joys of readingmore appealing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00082400191782438564</amazonuk>

|author=Twigs WayDallas Campbell|title=Tea Gardens (Britain's Heritage Series)Ad Astra: An illustrated guide to leaving the planet|rating=45|genre=LifestylePopular Science|summary=Tea Gardens really began in London in So… you want to leave the late 18th century: a trip planet? Before you do you'd better study the whole history of human space flight to Kings Cross or St Pancras was effectively a trip get up to the country in those daysspeed. Men had their coffee houses, but they were not places where women That could or would be seen. Tea take a while… if only there was introduced to England in the 17th century but a handy guide that could condense it was not until 1784 that the high duty was reduced from 119% to 12½% and tea became the drink of choice all down for the nationyou. Until then the working classes had been fuelled largely by cheap gin. Only, where would Enter Dallas Campbell with this beverage be drunk? One answer was the pleasure gardens where the fashionable went book: An illustrated guide to see and be seen: by leaving the mid 1600s tea was also being served in places such as Ranelagh Gardensplanet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14456700111471164055</amazonuk>

|author=Gladys MitchellSharon Bennett Connolly|title=Murder in Heroines of the Snow: A Cotswold Christmas MysteryMedieval World|rating=45|genre=CrimeHistory|summary=Adela Bradley decided to spend Christmas with her nephew Jonathan and his wife Deborah at Many women in medieval times left their new home in the Cotswolds. Mrs Bradley is a well-known psychiatrist mark on history, but she's also as a respected detective renowned rule they have been neglected by biographers and historians as there is too little surviving information for her sharp powers of observationthem to have even brief biographies to themselves. She soon comes Ms Connolly has adopted an enterprising solution to hear the story of problem by writing a local ghost, that of a country parson whose apparition can sometimes be seen slung over the gate leading to Groaning Spinney: the ghost will play general account on a part in what is about 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 to give festive wishesbroadly thematic basis.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17847083211445662647</amazonuk>

|author= Melita ThomasJuno Dawson and Alex T Smith|title= The King's Pearl: Henry VIII and His Daughter MaryGrave Matter|rating= 4.5|genre= BiographyDyslexia Friendly|summary= As Since Eliza died, since the eldest surviving child night of the car crash that took her life, Sam is a much-married father whose main aim was broken soul. He is lost without the girl he loves, feeling as though a part of him died that night too. But he is desperate and he cannot live without Eliza. He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie and her peculiar healing powers and wonders if she might be able to secure help him. However, finding his Aunt Marie leads him to discover the royal succession with sonsMilk Man, Mary Tudor's relationship which causes Sam in his grieving state to make a pact with Henry VIII, who called her his forces he doesn'pearl of the worldt understand. Things soon turn complicated as supernatural powers start to change Sam', was inevitably an important and often fraught ones life in more ways than he bargained for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144566125X1781126046</amazonuk>

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