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{{newreview<!-- remove 24/11 -->|authortitle= Dallas CampbellParenting through the Eyes of a Child: Memoirs of My Childhood |titleauthor= Ad Astra: An illustrated guide to leaving the planetTabitha Ochekpe Omeiza|rating= 54|genre= Popular ScienceAutobiography|summary= So… you want Tabitha Ochekpe Omeiza was brought up in Nigeria and came to Britain to leave the planet? Before you do you'd better study the whole history of human space flight for her A levels when she was 18. Her parents used their savings to get up to speedgive her this opportunity and called it an investment in her future. That could take Now a while… if only there was qualified pharmacist, married and with a handy guide that could condense it all down for youchild of her own, Tabitha looks back at her childhood and reflects on the way her mother and father raised her. Enter Dallas Campbell with this book: An illustrated guide to leaving the planetAnd she gives their parenting top marks.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14711640551524682853</amazonuk>

|author= Sharon Bennett ConnollyFiona Mitchell|title= Heroines of the Medieval WorldThe Maid's Room|rating= 5|genre= HistoryGeneral Fiction|summary= Many women In some apartments in medieval times left their mark 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 historythe floor of this 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 as not by much. Back in 2009 there were 201,000 female domestic workers in Singapore, many not earning any money for a rule year until they have been neglected by biographers 've repaid 'training' and historians as there is too little surviving information for them to have even brief biographies to themselves. Ms Connolly has adopted an enterprising solution other fees to the problem by writing a general account on a broadly thematic basisagency, many living in 'the maid's room'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14456626471473659566</amazonuk>

|author=Juno Dawson and Alex T SmithAllan Hailstone|title= Grave MatterBerlin in the Cold War: 1959 to 1966|rating= 4.5|genre= Dyslexia FriendlyHistory|summary= Since Eliza died, since ''Berlin in the night of Cold War: 1959-1966'' contains almost 200 photographs taken by author / photographer Allan Hailstone in his visits to the car crash that took her life, Sam is a broken soulcity during this period. He is lost without The images provide an insight into the girl he loves, feeling as though a part changing nature of him died that night too. But he is desperate the divide between East and he cannot live without Eliza. He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie West Berlin and her peculiar healing powers and wonders if she might be able to help him. However, finding his Aunt Marie leads him to discover the Milk Man, which causes Sam in his grieving state to make a pact with forces he doesn't understand. Things soon turn complicated as supernatural powers start to change Sam's glimpse into life in more ways than he bargained forthe city during the Cold War.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17811260461445672901</amazonuk>

|author= Kurt AndersenAsa Avdic|title= FantasylandThe Dying Game

|genre= History Thrillers|summary= Fantasyland covers In a futuristic dystopian Sweden, ministry worker Anna is presented with an offer from the formidable chairman. Except the history offer, is more of America from 1517 an order than a choice. With nothing to lose and everything to gain, Anna accepts. She is taken to 2017 an isolated Island with other ''candidates'' for a job in awesome detailthe super-secret organisation. Covering five centuries Anna's objective is simple, she is to ''die'' and then observe her fellows through hidden chambers of tempestuous historythe house. Once the experiment is finished, Andersen paints she will report her findings back to the conjuring of America in vivid reliefchairman. Discussing everything from pilgrims to politiciansHowever, the exhilarating gold rush to alternative factswhile this starts off smoothly at first, seminal episodes are explored in forensic detail other contestants start disappearing and Anna is faced with razor sharp witthe terror of knowing this is not just a game anymore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17850386561786090201</amazonuk>

|authortitle= Emily SuvadaScoop of the Year|titleauthor= This Mortal CoilTom Claver|rating= 4|genre= TeensThrillers|summary= A life threatening virus Martin is spreading through an ambitious journalist working on the United StatesFinancial Review. Martin is good at his job - accurate, dedicated, an already broken country hardworking and with a Government good nose for a scoop. But Martin is also uninterested in the culture that many do not trustcomes with reporting. The top scientists are frantically trying to produce He has a vaccine wife and two daughters at home and he doesn't want to save humanity, but it seems a hopeless race against waste time as the virus mutates into new and stronger strains at a frightening pace. Catarina has lived alone and money in hiding for the past two yearspub, since her brilliant father was rounded up by talking macho nonsense with the State and taken by force to work in the national laboratoriesother hacks. His last message to her was to hide He is a far cry from the State and not to trust them an inch. Set in Americahis colleague Tom de Lacy, but not an America we would recognisea charismatic, most of the citizens are incarcerated in underground bunkers, protected by air lock doors and bug free conditionssilver-spooned charmer with piercing blue eyes. Others, less trusting of Tom doesn't just grab the State, remain in hiding on limelight though - he also grabs the surface, hoping promotion to industrial correspondent. And that is the virus will job Martin not reach them and avoiding anyone who is infected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141379278</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Tony Mitton|title= Potter's Boy|rating= 4.5|genre= Confident Readers|summary= Life is unpredictable; it never goes exactly where we want it to despite how much effort we put in to shape a direction for ourselves. It's a hard lesson to learnonly wanted, and one Tony Mitton captures with vivid simplicity for the potter's boybut needed. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>19109893471788036220</amazonuk>

|author= Simon LelicMaureen Orth|title= Vulgar Favours: The HouseAssassination of Gianni Versace

|genre= ThrillersTrue Crime|summary= Syd loved the house, despite the fact that What is it about true crime which makes it so fascinating to such a wide audience? I guess it was crammed full of the seller's stuff and wanting to try to figure out what happened to make these people partake in the awful crimes they had committed, or else the same inexplicable impulse people have to take slow down when they overtake a car crash on the whole lot as a job lotmotorway. The seller had run off to Australia apparently and was up for a quick saleWhatever it is, lockMaureen Orth's book, stock and barrel. Jack wasn't so sure. He found the place creepyVulgar Favours, and taps right on into it wasn't just the stuffed birds, there was an air about the place that he just didn't like.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>02412965441785943103</amazonuk>

|author= Nicholas BowlingCharlotte Peacock|title= WitchbornInto The Mountain, A Life of Nan Shepherd

|genre= TeensBiography|summary=''There are yet more unholy discoveries withinMostly we choose what books to read, because there is so little time and so many books… I can understand the approach, but I also think we sell ourselves short by it, too foul for your eyes to look upon'' Enter and we sell the Elizabethan world of 1577myriad lesser known authors short as well. A world of intrigue So while, like most other people I have my favourite genres, terror and suspicion. A world of witchcraft favoured authors, and witch-hunting. Alyce is a young girl forced to flee from her home after the devastating death of her Motherwhile, like most other people I read the only person she had ever loved. Tried reviews and deemed follow up on what appeals, I also have a witch, her Mother was sentenced third string to being burnt at the stake by the notorious witchfinder John Hopkins who seems hell-bent on finding Alycemy reading bow: randomness.Haunted by the past she can It was in such a 't leave behind, Alyce escapes to London but sheleft-field's not alone. Endangered and being followed, Alyce is determined to keep her freedom, but as Alyce discovers her own dark magic she will find move that she is more dangerous than she ever thought possible.  And Alyce, although she doesn't yet realise it, is caught between two strong and powerful Queens, one desperate to steal 'Into the throne and the other determined Mountain'' was offered to keep it…me.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19110772521903385563</amazonuk>

|author= James RaviliousAlan Moorehead|title= The Recent PastRussian Revolution|rating= 54|genre= ArtHistory|summary= JamesFirst published in 1958, son of the war artist Eric Ravilious, inherited his fatherMoorhead's artistic talents. Although he was a gifted painter, his main career was to be account is regarded as a photographer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524936</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Robin Ravilious|title= James Ravilious: A Life|rating= 5|genre= Biography|summary= The name one of the most succinct accounts of Eric Raviliousits subject, war artist, engraver and designer, has long been familiar. Less well-known was his equally gifted son James. This delightful biography by his widow should help now reprinted to put mark the centenary of the situation rightrevolution.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19085249441445667320</amazonuk>

|author=Minette WaltersCatherine Hewitt|title=Renoir's Dancer: The Last HoursSecret Life of Suzanne Valadon

|genre=Historical FictionBiography|summary=In June 1348 the Black Death came into the country through Deep in the port rural parts of Melcombe France in Dorset. Ignorant of many rules of hygiene which we'd the 1860s, you would never really expect to find basic nearly seven hundred years latersomeone who would come to embody a full artistic period – and not just a movement at that, the disease rages through the countrybut a full generation of both creative and societal change. On the estate of Develish And if you were to expect that someone, Lady Anne Develish took control of they would like as not be male. But almost stumbling into the future hedonistic culture of Montmartre came Marie-Clementine Valadon. She started in the people who circus that first caught her teenaged eye, although her gymnastic career was short-lived in . But what she did have from that was the demesne after her husband had ridden off poise to try be an appealing model for some seriously important painters, and secure a marriage for his daughternatural beauty and figure to appeal to both them and their audiences. Two hundred bonded serfs lived on And what she also had, much to the estate surprise of many and when Lady Anne realised the virulence distaste of the plague she ordered that the estate refuse entry to anyonesome, including was artistic talent of her husband and his entourage, for fear that they would bring the disease to her people.own…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17606321391785782738</amazonuk>

|author= Javier Cercas and Frank Wynne (translator)David Melling|title= The ImpostorMerry Christmas, Hugless Douglas|rating= 4.5|genre= Literary FictionFor Sharing|summary= Enric Marco Hugless Douglas is without doubt an extraordinary man. A veteran a large, comfy sort of bear who burst onto the Spanish Civil War, honoured picture book scene a few years ago as he searched for his bravery on just the battlefield. A political prisoner right sort of two fascist regimeshug. A survivor His endearing, hopeful face and that chubby (to put it politely) body instantly melted young hearts, and to universal delight we have since been treated to several more of the Nazi concentration campshis adventures. A prominent figure in Douglas is hugless no longer, you'll be glad to know, but the clandestine resistance against Franconame stuck, mostly because it's tyranny. A tireless warrior for social justice such fun to say (go on, try it!) and the defence of human rights. A national hero. But the most extraordinary thing because he still bumbles through life embracing everything in sight as if cuddles are about Enric Marco is this: that he is really none of these things. He is an impostor. And Javier Cercas sets to go out to tell his story – the true story of Spain's most notorious liarfashion.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08570565061444906844</amazonuk>

|author=Susan Wood Julia Donaldson and Ross MacDonaldAxel Scheffler|title=American Gothic: The Life A Treasury of Grant Wood|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=Who won a national prize for a crayon drawing of three oak leaves before he was properly in his teens? Who sought acclaim as an artist and came to Europe to study from the greats, only to reject all they had to offer? Who instinctively knew a picture of his dentist (yes, his dentist) would be more appealing and say more to people than ''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 best, alongside Edward Hopper, at presenting his world minus any Modernist trappings.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419725335</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Stuart Hill and Sandra Lawrence|title=The Atlas 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 the dog. Careers may be a little puppy unnecessary in this scenario (the husband is very excited about his first ever Christmas Daysuccessful, 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. Everywhere he looks So Sophie is the preparations are underway sort of woman, one imagines, who might rub other people up the wrong way, especially those who find their own lives lacking.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786485214</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Adrian Mourby|title=Rooms with every dog a View: The Secret Life of Great Hotels|rating=4|genre=Travel|summary=Adrian Mourby has given us a flying visit to each of fifty grand hotels, from fourteen regions of the world, with the hotels in town helping outeach section being arranged chronologically rather than by region, which helps to give something of an overall picture. However will so many eager assistants joining So what makes a hotel 'grand'? The first hotel to call itself 'grand' was in covent Garden in 1774 and it ushered in the fray help or hinder beginning of a period when a hotel would be a lifestyle choice rather than a refuge for those without friends and will everything ever be ready family conveniently nearby. The hotels we visit all began life in different circumstances and each faced a different set of challenges. We begin in time?the Americas, move to the 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>14711661711785782754</amazonuk>

|author=Dr SeussJoseph Coelho and Fiona Lumbers|title=What Was I Scared Of?Luna Loves Library Day

|summary=All HallowsLuna is always excited when library day comes around, not just because she gets to take her books back and borrow some new ones, but also because it' Eve is upon us once more s the day she spends with her dad. Once inside the library, magical things occur as the books Luna and her dad discover seemingly come to life. They spend their time together sharing stories, some that can only mean that we are soon more significant than others, until it's time for Luna to be surrounded by all types of monstersgo home. Yet even once she's home, she still has her newly borrowed books to escape into, ghoulies and manifestationsthe memories of her day with her dad. Fear not|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783445483</amazonuk>}}{{newreview <!-- remove 11/11 -->|title=Under The Light of a Full Moon|author=Donna McGrath|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=When the bad dreams and the whispers at night first start, as many of these unsettling creatures will actually be children dressed up Clara has no idea what's going on another adventure trick or treating. But what about All she knows is that pair the lack of seemingly malevolent trousers that walk by themselves? That sleep is no child, but making her feel ill. But a visit from her Great Aunt Selina supplies some answers. Clara's family has a pair gift. One member of haunted keckseach generation has the ability to shape-shift into the form of any 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. Run, run, run, but perhaps if you have them a friendly hello these pants may be nicer than you think?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008252602B00D9V7QOA</amazonuk>

|author=Lorenzo Marone and Shaun Whiteside (Translator)Stephen Norman|title=The Temptation to Be HappyTrading Down|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionThrillers|summary=Cesare is 77, widowed, generally ignored by the offspring Chris Peters was happy in his work for a multinational bank in Hong Kong and excited when he likes was promoted and bothered too much by the one he doesn'tsent back to London. StillThe job had it all: a hectic trading floor, he finds ways to fill targets which were impossible and some of the fastest computers in the world under his dayssupervision. If heHe's not taking advantage of his friend-with-benefits arrangement with aging lady of the night Rossana, or keeping an eye on his grandson, happy at home too: heand Olivia met in Hong Kong: now they's making mischief in league with elderly neighbours like Signora Vitaliano (local mad cat woman) re married and Marino (the non-IT-literate computer guy)thinking about starting a family. But ... has he been promoted beyond his capabilities? Their minds There are diverted from their usual pursuits those in the bank who think so, particularly when a young couple move into the apartment block providing Cesare with a concern and the conviction that he has things start to do something, whatever the fall out or personal dangergo badly wrong. He was never there for Olivia either. Life for Chris Peters was turning sour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786072882B075QF8LJ8</amazonuk>

|author= Chris BeckettJenny Colgan|title= America CityChristmas at Little Beach Street Bakery

|genre= Dystopian Women's Fiction|summary= ''America City'' tells Polly, Huckle and Neil are back but in what, sadly for fans of the story of HollyLittle Beach series, an ambitious Publicist who sets aside her own political beliefs in order seems to help be the ambitious Senator Slaymaker with his Presidential campaignlast of this trilogy. Set in Never say never but by the 22nd centuryend of this book, the novel tells author has certainly secured the destiny of an incredibly disunited United Statesthese three much-loved characters. Don't be put off if you haven't read the previous ones, where it really won't matter particularly as the author provides a helpful little synopsis at the effects start to help those, like me, that are new to these stories.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>075156477X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Alice Hoffman|title= The Rules of Magic|rating= 5|genre= General Fiction |summary= I've read several of climate change have created deep divisions between the affluent Northern StatesAlice Hoffman's novels, although strangely, and not the Southone she's most famous for ''Practical Magic'', which is frequently ravaged by extreme weather. Holly and Slaymaker hope to change this, working together went on the plan they believe to be made into a film. ''The Rules of Magic'' is the solution long-awaited prequel to that book, and tells the problem story of three siblings of where the Owens family; Franny, Jet and Vincent. The two sisters, Franny and Jet, go on to place become the thousands of Americans who have been made homeless by devastating stormstwo aunts in the ''Practical Magic'' story.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17864915241471157679</amazonuk>

|author=Jessica TownsendPhilip Matyszak|title=Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow24 Hours in Ancient Rome

|genre=Confident ReadersHistory|summary=Morrigan Crow is a cursed childI've never been that interested in Ancient Rome. Everyone in Jackalfax where she lives believes she is responsible for 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 things interesting bits… Somehow I entered adulthood with the impression that go wrong in their lifeall Romans were bloodthirsty and hedonistic heathens with little to recommend them. And''Mea culpa'', if thatyou might say. So when my eye fell upon Philip Matyszak's not bad enough''24 Hours in Ancient Rome'', and its claim to introduce readers to the real Ancient Rome by examining the curse means she will die lives of ordinary people, I decided it was high time to update my education. And the lovely artwork on her eleventh birthdaythe front cover made this book all the more appealing. Morrigan believes there is no escape from her fate until a mysterious man appears and offers her a new life in |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782438564</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Dallas Campbell|title= Ad Astra: An illustrated guide to leaving the planet|rating= 5|genre= Popular Science|summary= So… you want to leave the planet? Before you do you'd better study the secret city whole history of Nevermoorhuman space flight to get up to speed. There is That could take a while… if only one problem – to stay in Nevermoor she needs there was a handy guide that could condense it all down for you. Enter Dallas Campbell with this book: An illustrated guide to gain a coveted place in leaving the Wunderous Society by competing against hundreds of other hopefuls to pass four seemingly impossible trialsplanet.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>15101041191471164055</amazonuk>

|author=Lars Mytting and Paul Russell Grant (Translator)Sharon Bennett Connolly|title=The Sixteen Trees Heroines of the SommeMedieval World|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionHistory|summary=While his grandfather lived the past was an area of certainty Many women in medieval times left their mark on history, but as a rule they have been neglected by biographers and historians as there is too little surviving information for Edvard. At aged 4 he'd been taken them to have even brief biographies to live with his grandparents, having survived the accident that killed his parentsthemselves. Now his grandfather Ms Connolly has died revelations are coming adopted an enterprising solution 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, problem by writing a determination that will take him away from his native Norway to an area of France synonymous with devastation and general account on a remote Scottish island loaded with secretsbroadly thematic basis.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08570560691445662647</amazonuk>

|author=Morag HoodJuno Dawson and Alex T Smith|title=I Am BatGrave Matter|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingDyslexia Friendly|summary=Bat Since Eliza died, since the night of the car crash that took her life, Sam is a creature with very definite opinionsbroken soul. He does not like morningsis lost without the girl he loves, for example, but feeling as though a part of him died that night too. But he is desperate and he does like cherriescannot live without Eliza. He remembers his estranged Aunt Marie and her peculiar healing powers and wonders if she might be able to help him. In factHowever, he really loves cherriesfinding his Aunt Marie leads him to discover the Milk Man, as they are which causes Sam in his grieving state to make a pact with forces he doesn''favourite of all things!'' What do you think might happen if somebody takes Batt understand. Things soon turn complicated as supernatural powers start to change Sam's cherries? Bat won't be happy, will life in more ways than he?!bargained for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>15098346131781126046</amazonuk>

|author=Dr SeussKurt Andersen|title=I Can Read With My Eyes ShutFantasyland|rating=4.5|genre=Emerging ReadersHistory |summary=''The more that you read,''<br>''The more things you will knowFantasyland covers the history of America from 1517 to 2017 in awesome detail.''''The more that you learnCovering five centuries of tempestuous history,''<br>''The more places you'll goAndersen paints the conjuring of America in vivid relief.'' This is a classic Dr Seuss quote Discussing everything from this bookpilgrims to politicians, and one that I painstakingly stickered onto the wall of my children's school library! The book is very silly, as Dr Seuss always isexhilarating gold rush to alternative facts, but is also a good rhyming ode to the joys of readingseminal episodes are explored in forensic detail with razor sharp wit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00082400191785038656</amazonuk>

|author=Twigs WayEmily Suvada|title=Tea Gardens (Britain's Heritage Series)This Mortal Coil|rating=4|genre=LifestyleTeens|summary=Tea Gardens really began in London in A life threatening virus is spreading through the late 18th century: United States, an already broken country with a trip Government that many do not trust. The top scientists are frantically trying to Kings Cross or St Pancras was effectively produce a trip vaccine to save humanity, but it seems a hopeless race against time as the country virus mutates into new and stronger strains at a frightening pace. Catarina has lived alone and in those days. Men had their coffee houseshiding for the past two years, but they were not places where women could or would be seen. Tea since her brilliant father was introduced rounded up by the State and taken by force to England work in the 17th century but it national laboratories. His last message to her was to hide from the State and not until 1784 that the high duty was reduced from 119% to 12½% and tea became the drink trust them an inch. Set in America, but not an America we would recognise, most of choice for the nation. Until then the working classes had been fuelled largely citizens are incarcerated in underground bunkers, protected by cheap ginair lock doors and bug free conditions. OnlyOthers, where would this beverage be drunk? One answer was less trusting of the pleasure gardens where State, remain in hiding on the fashionable went to see surface, hoping the virus will not reach them and be seen: by the mid 1600s tea was also being served in places such as Ranelagh Gardensavoiding anyone who is infected.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14456700110141379278</amazonuk>