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[[Category:New Reviews|Entertainment]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--> {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Theo GuignardPatti Smith|title=LabyrinthYear of the Monkey|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-FictionBiography|summary=Of all On the books published for people's paper-based hobbies when I was a youngster, it's remarkable that all coast of them have been revisited and revamped. I say this because they certainly weren't exactly brilliant fun back then. NoSanta Cruz, we didn't have quite Patti Smith enters the modern style lunar year of colouringthe monkey -in booksone packed with mischief, but they were availablesorrow, if youand unexpected moments. In a stranger'd gone beyond s words, 'join the dots'. I read only recently that origami Anything is allegedly coming back – and I remember how every church book sale for years had ''Origami''possible: after all, it's the year of the monkey'Origami 2'' or ''Origami 3'' paperbacks somewhere for ten pence. But As Smith wanders the ultimate coast of Santa Cruz in solitude, she reflects on a year that brings huge shifts in paperher life -based fun back then was loss and ageing are faced head on, as it the use-once format of the maze bookshifting political waters in America. This is the modern equivalent – but boy, hasn't the idea grown up since then…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847809987</amazonuk>1526614758

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Tony FletcherWalton_Ask|title= In the Midnight Hour: The Life & Soul of Wilson PickettAsk For Blues|author=Malcolm Walton|rating= 43.5|genre= EntertainmentAutobiography|summary= Tamla Motown groups Malcolm Walton's book is clearly a memoir about his introduction to the Trad Jazz scene of the late 1950s and singers apartearly 1960s, but he has chosen to write it in the mid-sixties there were three major names form of a novel, claiming in his prologue that this would give the book a different approach to the soul music field who mattered above allmemoir. James Brown was something His protagonist 'Martin' takes on Malcolm's mantle and begins with his first discovery of the Salvation Army band with his grandfather. This catapults him into a cult name who rarely bothered about or troubled the singles chartslove of music, initially taking piano lessons, and Otis Redding was on the verge of shooting later delving into his true love – the stratosphere when he died in an aeroplane crashtrumpet. The other was the man from Alabama, 'the wicked Pickett'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0190252944</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris PalingMoore Bientot|title=Reading Allowed: True Stories and Curious Incidents from a Provincial LibraryA Bientot...|author=Roger Moore|rating=4.5

|summary=I once made a comical faux pas The news of the death of Sir Roger Moore in May 2017 came as a library when I great shock: he was younger, but it certainly didn't put me off returningone of those people you knew would go on forever. I once declared There was just one small glimmer of light in a selfthe sadness -important way the news that I would start at a matter of days before his death he'd delivered the beginning finished manuscript of the books for young children and not stop til the endhis book, then do the same for those for the older children – ''and then do it all over again with themÀ bientôt…'', I said, pointing at the large-print shelvesto his publishers. ''I hope not'', was the response – but little me was only aware of Just a few months later a need for large font for copy landed on my fellow whippersnappers, desk and not for any other reason. Since then Ididn've needed libraries, and going t even bother to them has been second nature. On the dole I made sure look as though I could use the free Internet they provided to pay me back for my council tax; later I was intent on finding out if a Senior Library Assistant girl was worthy of her title; and of course resist reading it saved a fortune on books for study and fun. I'm not alone in sharing the warmth of both their heating system and the very thing they were born to provide – books, but there was still a huge step up between my level of use and knowledge of them to actually working in one. Which is where Chris Paling comes instraight away. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472124715</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Bruce SpringsteenMaslanka Sherlock|title= Born to RunSherlock: The Puzzle Book|author=Christopher Maslanka and Steve Tribe|rating= 54|genre= AutobiographyEntertainment|summary= No you havenWho doesn't stumbled into love a music review good puzzle, especially those really fiendish ones that get the brain working extra hard? There really is nothing to compare to that buzz we get from the 1970sAha! moment, I'm talking about The Boss's autobiography. Lots of books have been written about Springsteen by folk who knew him, worked with him when everything falls into place and by others who have only read the cuttingssolution reveals itself. Over If puzzles are your thing then you may wish to put your grey cells to the last seven years he has been going about – not putting the record straight, exactly – but telling it from his own perspective. As he puts it: test with ''Writing about yourself is a funny business'The Sherlock Puzzle Book'. By his own admission, it isn't the whole truth, discretion holds him back but ''in a project like this, the writer has made one promise, to show based on the reader his mindpopular TV series.'' ''In these pages, I've tried to do this.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471157792</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Van der KisteCorcoran_Dylan|title=A Beatles MiscellanyDo You Mr Jones?: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Bob Dylan with the Beatles but Were Afraid to AskPoets and Professors|author=Neil Corcoran|rating=4.5|genre=ReferenceEntertainment|summary=You might have thought that just about everything which could be said about the Beatles had been said and certainly thereBob Dylan's been no shortage award of books about what went wrong, what happened to the money and even what went right. But what INobel Prize for Literature in 2016 've never seen before is a for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition'miscellany' - all those little facts which are so hard proved highly controversial. It inevitably led some people in the literary world to track down take stock and this is where historian John Van der Kiste comes into look at his own: he's work and reputation with a man with an fresh eye for detail and the ability to bring everything together into a very readable whole. It's a wonderful collection of the small facts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781555826</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Julian Palacios|title= Syd Barrett & Pink Floyd: Dark Globe|rating= 4|genre= Entertainment|summary= There were few sadder casualties of the sixties music scene than Syd (real name Roger) Barrett. The original songwriting genius and front man This volume of Pink Floyd, he burnt out all too soon. A few months essays was first published in the spotlight were followed all too soon by a pathetic postscript of a stuttering solo career2002, and over three decades as is now reissued with a largely housebound reclusenew foreword by Will Self.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859655482</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jason FryKyncl_Stream|title=Star Wars Rogue One: Mission FilesStream Punks|author=Robert Kyncl and Maany Peyvan

|genre=Confident Readers Entertainment|summary=Out I watch quite a lot of several books YouTube. I've seen play music videos when I want to tie-in listen to the seventh official cinema movie a particular song I don't already have in the ''Star Wars'' universe, this – and the resulting review – is the greatest source of spoilersmy collection. What you get is a surprisingly mature look at the background and events I use it to find out how to ''Rogue One'' for such a juvenile bookdo things, with some fine stills photographs, and a volume that introduces all the main characters and gears you up instruction videos they seem to understand and enjoy a lot of the events of have for pretty much anything. At the film. So if you don't want to know those in advancegym, look away now. But certainly consider this as a purchase for reading once you've watched it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405285036</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Lucasfilm|title=Star Wars Rogue One: Art of Colouring|rating=3.5|genre=Crafts|summary=Colour me happy that ''Rogue One: A Star Wars Story'' is around. While I've not had the chance of seeing ll stick it yeton on my phone, I'm dead chuffed prop it takes place at a central point of up on the main arc of films' storylines, cross-trainer and not watch some nebulous place elsewhere in [[Star Wars: Galactic Atlas by Emil Fortune and Tim McDonagh|that galaxy far, far away]]behind the scenes interviews with the cast of my favourite shows. Yes, And sometimes I'll treat it does do what the 'new trilogy' did, and have much more gloss and many more technologies than the films set after as if itis Netflix, but what is not to like? Wellwatch series with new episodes releasing every few days, the expected expenditure exclusively on tie-YouTube. Having a new smart TV adds an extra, easy way to watch without having to plug in books my laptop or squint at a small phone screen. So yes, I like YouTube and articles, I guess – several hundred pounds on ''one'' collector's card is a little steepuse YouTube. But seeing as I handily mentioned colouring above, in didn't know a whole lot about the vernacular, why not take site it literally and use until I read this large format paperback, promising ''100 Images to Inspire Creativity''?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405286377</amazonuk>book.

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=JVDK_Swing|title=We Can Swing Together: The Story of Lindisfarne

|summary=You know those questions you get It all began with a group of youngsters in celebrity interviews - North Shields. Rod Clements, Simon 'which extinct being would you most like to see brought back to life?Si' WellCowe, IRay 'Jacka' Jackson and Ray Laidlaw formed ''The Downtown Faction''d like , soon changing the name to see Jimmy Savile brought back, so that he could get his comeuppance''Brethren'' when they were joined by singer-songwriter Alan Hull. It's not just As a US-based group had a similar name they opted to change the damage he did to children name again - and young people, dreadful as that was - it's 'Lindisfarne'' (with the shadow he cast over name taken from an island off the entertainment industryNorthumberland coast) was born. We know that he wasn't alone in what he did, but somehow there's a whole era More than forty years on and with numerous changes of entertainment which has been tarred by personnel the same brushband is still very much around. John Van der Kiste has turned They might not be touring or producing much in the spotlight away from Savile and on to five way of new material, but they still perform, with Rod Clements, one of the great DJs of original members on his fourth stint with the music industrygroup.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781555443</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emil Fortune and Tim McDonaghJVDK_ELO|title=Star WarsElectric Light Orchestra: Galactic Atlas|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=At the time of writing this review, people are eagerly tapping away at phones, laptops and screens everywhere to find out what they can about ''Rogue One'', the ''Star Wars'' film that's the first live action cinema effort to be off to one edge of the canon, and is five whole weeks away. Perhaps, however, there is a chance that all the many books being released that mention the ability to tie in to ''Rogue One'' will let slip something important. The volume at hand ''includes a map from…'' said movie, and all the maps here initially seem to feature a huge amount of information. Could valuable secrets be herein?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405279982</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewSong by Song|author=Marc Myers|title= Anatomy of a Song: The Oral History of 45 Iconic Hits That Changed Rock, R&B and PopJohn Van der Kiste

|summary= This book developed from a series of columns My memories of the same title which appeared pop music in the ''Wall Street Journal'' over a period of five yearsearly sixties revolve around guitars and drums, in which forty-five songs (what an appropriate number) from the years 1952 to 1991 were put under sometimes the microscope and examined through interviews piano with the artists, songwriters only occasional excursions into strings and others who created thembrass.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>080212559X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Stephen Moss|title=Planet Earth II|rating=5|genre= Animals Pop music rarely stands still and Wildlife|summary=''Planet Earth II'it wasn' is t long before the official companion basic instruments were seen as constraints and The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Beach Boys began to the upcoming BBC wildlife documentary series of the same nameexperiment, with other groups following where they led. Our understanding of the world around us has reached a new levelAmongst these groups was The Move and their lead guitarist and songwriter, courtesy of ground-breaking technology that gives us unparalleled access Roy Wood. Wood wanted to a diverse range of environments and a develop the group''sneak peek'' into previously hidden worlds. The book looks at six vastly different environments: Jungles, Mountains, Deserts, Grasslands, Islands s sound by adding more instruments but was prevented from achieving what he wanted by cost limitations and Cities and showcases some because the rest of the amazing creatures that live in each onegroup didn't really share his enthusiasm.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849909652</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John SeabrookWatkins_Lets|title= The Song MachineLet's Make Lots of Money: How to Make a HitMy Life as the Biggest Man in Pop|author=Tom Watkins

|summary= The popular music business has always been about – wellWho on earth would be a manager in the larger than life, here today gone tomorrow world of pop? Anybody with an ego, a ruthless streak, business – an opportunity to embrace the chances and some might say accept that music comes a poor secondit's not going to last, evidently. Ever since Tom Watkins is just one of several to have walked the advent fine line and, for part of the 78 r.p.m. disctime, record companies have competed with each other and sought new ways of marketing their goodsquite successfully. The songwriterAs his memoirs suggest, or if you like the person or partnership at the controls part of ‘the song machine’, has long been a vital link in the chaintime was achievement enough. In today’s climate of increasingly free music, how much does this still hold true?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009959045X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rod GreenKendrick_Scrappy|title=Only Fools and Horses: The Peckham ArchivesScrappy Little Nobody|author=Anna Kendrick|rating=43.5|genre=Entertainment |summary=We are in Celebrity autobiographies. It's a genre long tainted by the world examples of one of the countrypeople who clearly didn's most famous t deserve to be a celebrity, let alone have a ghost-writer create their book, and well-loved sitcoms – by those who did so little but managed to churn out five memoirs before they were even if thirty. But more recently it was sort-'s become a way of killed off staking a claim to importance for Christmas 2003female comics. YesThey've not all written autobiographies, there have been specials since, and more repeats to clog up the BBC schedules than is really pukkaas Bridget Christie proved, but very few people failed enough have to succumb to its charms provide for a rapidly-filling shelf at one time or anotherthe bookstore. I2016 we had Amy Schumer winning a GoodReads award, Lena Dunham'm sure there have s been books before now celebrating the stony-faced reception of at it, and we've also got Anna Kendrick. Now she'that'' drop through the open bar hatchs not a strict comic – not all of her films are designed to make you laugh, and ''some of them thatare just don'' chandelier scene, t – but this is much more meaty. Purporting has to be the family archives, found dumped in Nelson Mandela House, the documents here were passed from pillar to post, from one council worker in a department with a clumsy acronym to another, from them to the police – and now here they are being published for their social history worthsame bracket. Will enough readers find them of worth, as the series quietly celebrates its 35th birthday?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849909245</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mojang ABRopek_Tragic|title= Minecraft Exploded BuildsTragic Magic: Medieval Fortress|rating= 5|genre= Entertainment|summary=If you have ever marvelled at the creative architecture designed by the talented members of the Minecraft community and been inspired to give it a go yourself, then ''Exploded Builds'' might be the perfect book for you. It is aimed at those The Life of us who have the ambition but lack the necessary expertise to design such stunning buildings. ''Medieval Fortress'Traffic' will guide you every step of the way with detailed diagrams and customisation options, allowing you be king of you own castle in no time at all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140528417X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviews Chris Wood|author=Bruno Vincent|title=Danger Mouse: DeclassifiedDan Ropek|rating=4.5|genre=Entertainment |summary=There is nothing else for it but to declare my love for ''Danger Mouse'' (and noChris Wood was a member of Traffic, I don't mean the group formed by Steve Winwood in 1967 after he left The Spencer Davis Group. A gifted musician/producer, or the remakebest known for his flute and saxophone work, which I've not sampled). What I didn't know at the time to call 'breaking the fourth wall'he also played keyboards, the chutzpah bass guitar and energy contributed backing vocals as well as having a hand in writing several of the storytelling, songs and primarily the simple and simply brilliant character design made it one of my go-to sources for entertainment, and about the only thing that would get the TV switched to ITV, apart or two instrumentals. This biography takes its title from ''Blockbusters''. The dates on the front name of this volume prove we're referring to the genius original series, but these contents seem to me fully new. Taking it that they are, has the idea stood the test one of time, and will people be on board his compositions for what is surely a much-belated tribute gift book?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753545225</amazonuk>their fifth album.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Simon CallowDolby_Sound|title=Orson Welles, Volume 3: One-Man BandThe Speed of Sound|author=Thomas Dolby

|genre=BiographyEntertainment|summary= Orson WellesFrom struggling post-punk musician to pop star, the noted actorfrom Silicon Valley innovator to university professor, director and producerThomas Dolby has had a remarkable if not unique career, was one of those larger than life characters whose impact often reinventing himself on the world of stage and screen during his lifetime was inestimableway. Simon Callow has found the task of condensing This memoir is based on his story into a single volume is impossible, extensive notes and this is the third of three solid instalmentsjournals.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099502836</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter DoggettMorris_Legion|title= Electric ShockThe Legion of Regrettable Supervillains: From the Gramophone to the iPhone - 125 Years of PopOddball Criminals from Comic Book History|author=Jon Morris

|summary= For many of usAs much as I like comics – and I do, it must be difficult whether superhero ones or not – I have to imagine admit one thing, namely that the villains in them are a life without recorded musicbit pants. Millions What is The Penguin but the world's worst Mafioso, with a hobby of waddling along like his pet birds? Where else do you win an Oscar of us must have grown up with, even to, all things by playing a two-bit killer who just fell in a very varied soundtrack consisting vat of one genre after another. In this bookrandom chemicals and changed colour, Peter Doggett takes and got mardier as a marvellous broad sweep result (although recently he's become a nanotech genius – but let's not go there)? And what is it with the gimp in the see-through plant pot because he is the history embodiment of cold? And that's just some of popular music from the end better-known enemies of ''Batman'', one of the better goodies. You can imagine how awful the nineteenth century baddies related to the present day, from wax cylinders to streaming servicesbad goodies can be. A rather maudlin ditty 'After The BallAnd if you can't, by Charles K. Harris, this is regarded as the first modern popular song (well, it was modern in 1891) – the first of millionsperfect primer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184792218X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= John LydonFletcher_Midnight|title= RottenIn the Midnight Hour: No Irish, No Blacks, No DogsThe Life & Soul of Wilson Pickett|author=Tony Fletcher|rating=34.5

|summary= Picking up this book immediately makes you wonder what exactly you make of John LydonTamla Motown groups and singers apart, in the man who became notorious mid-sixties there were three major names in the late 1970s as 'Johnny Rotten' soul music field who mattered above all. James Brown was something of the Sex Pistols. Was he the iconoclast a cult name who if some of the tabloids were to be believed was rarely bothered about to destroy western civilization almost single-handed? Had he really come to destroy, or merely to use troubled the showbusiness system singles charts, and end up becoming part Otis Redding was on the verge of what shooting into the stratosphere when he had set out to fightdied in an aeroplane crash. The other was the man from Alabama, or both – or what?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859653412</amazonuk>'the wicked Pickett'.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Nev SchulmanPaling_Reading|title= In Real LifeReading Allowed: Love, Lies & Identity in the Digital AgeTrue Stories and Curious Incidents from a Provincial Library|author=Chris Paling|rating= 4.5|genre= ReferenceEntertainment|summary= Nev (I once made a comical faux pas in a library when I was younger, but itcertainly didn's pronounced Neev) is t put me off returning. I once declared in a man who knows about self-important way that I would start at the darker side beginning of online datingthe books for young children and not stop til the end, then do the same for those for the older children – ''and then do it all over again with them'', I said, pointing at the large-print shelves. Known for his documentary ''CatfishI hope not'' , was the response – but little me was only aware of a film which showed an online flirtation going sourneed for large font for my fellow whippersnappers, Nev and not for any other reason. Since then began making a tv show of the same nameI've needed libraries, travelling America and going to offer advice to those in online relationships, and possibly being catfished (which means being lured into a relationship by someone adopting a fictional online persona)them has been second nature. Now On the go-dole I made sure I could use the free Internet they provided to expert in online relationships pay me back for millenials, my council tax; later I was intent on finding out if a generation who have never known a world without FacebookSenior Library Assistant girl was worthy of her title, Twitter, Instagramand of course, it saved a fortune on books for study and other online places where interactions can formfun. Here, he takes his investigation to the page – exploring relationships I'm not alone in sharing the era warmth of social mediaboth their heating system and the very thing they were born to provide – books, delving deeply into the complexities but there was still a huge step up between my level of use and knowledge of dating them to actually working in one. Which is where Chris Paling comes in a digital age, and continuing the dialogue his show has begun about how we interact with each other online – as well as sharing insights from his own story. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473608066</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John HowlettSpringsteen_Born|title= James Dean: Rebel LifeBorn to Run|author=Bruce Springsteen|rating=45|genre=BiographyEntertainment|summary= James Dean was in No, you haven't stumbled into a sense to the 1950s what Sid Vicious was to music review from the 1970s – the ultimate , I'live fast, die youngm talking about The Boss' characters autobiography. Lots of books have been written about Springsteen by folk who knew him, although as worked with him and by others who have only read the cuttings. Over the star of three classic movies of last seven years he has been going about – not putting the era record straight, exactly – but telling it from his own perspective. As he achieved rather more in puts it: ''Writing about yourself is a funny business''. By his short life than own admission, it isn't the hapless punk icon ever did whole truth, discretion holds him back but ''in a project like this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader hismind.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859655342</amazonuk>'' ''In these pages, I've tried to do this.''

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Sue PerkinsJVDK_Beatles|title= Spectacles|rating= 4|genre= Autobiography|summary= A dash of drama, a sprinkling of gossip and a smattering of laugh-out-loud funny make for Beatles Miscellany: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the best sort of memoir.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405918551</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBeatles but Were Afraid to Ask|author=Stephanie Milton|title=Minecraft: The Survivors' Book of SecretsJohn Van der Kiste|rating=3.5

|summary=Ready to take your Minecraft game to the next level? Then you You might have thought that just might need about everything which could be said about the advice Beatles had been said and certainly, there's been no shortage of books about what went wrong, what happened to the money and even what went right. But what I've never seen before is a professional. 'The Survivorsmiscellany' - all those little facts which are an elite group of gaming experts who are proficient in survival skills. They are breaking their cover so hard to share their most precious secrets track down and this is where historian John Van der Kiste comes into his own: he's a man with us; valuable insider knowledge on an eye for detail and the best ways ability to survive and prosper in the most inhospitable online environmentsbring everything together into a very readable whole. Minecraft proudly present their latest official book: It''The Survivors' Book s a wonderful collection of Secretsthe small facts.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405283335</amazonuk>