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[[Category:Reference|*]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1394159544|title=Recycling for Dummies|author=DKSarah Winkler|rating=5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=''Recycling one ton of plastic can save up to 16.3 barrels of oil.'' ''Recycling one ton of paper can save 17 trees from being cut down.'' If you send an apple core to landfill, it will take between 6 months and 2 years to decompose. A glass bottle will take up to 1 million years. As a just-post-WWII baby, I faced a dilemma: reducing, reusing and recycling is part of my DNA. NEVER throw away anything that might ''possibly'' come in handy now or in the future. NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something that would serve the purpose. Almost everything can be used one more time and any purchase must pass the test of 'Is this absolutely essential?' On the other hand, I suspected I was guilty of wishcycling: assuming that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I'm looking at you) and dropping it in the kerbside bin. Yes, I could go searching on the internet - and get conflicting advice - but what I needed was a recycling bible.s}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1913750353|title=Britannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy|rating=5|genre=Children's Illustrated ThesaurusNon-Fiction|summary=''Britannica's Word of the Day'' has a sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to know about this brilliant book. It starts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', tells you how to pronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), gives you a definition and then includes the word in a sentence so that you know how it should be used. You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration too. I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!}}{{Frontpage|isbn=suppl_stafl|title=Supply Chain 20/20: A Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book Lovers|author=Kim Staflund

|genre=Children's Non-FictionReference|summary=One of So, you've finished writing your book and you think the most valuable literary skills which children can learn hard work is how to use reference books. all done? As a child every question which I began with You''how re convinced that all you need to do you spell...?'' would be answered with ''EXACTLY as now is get it says published and the money will start rolling in the dictionary''? Wrong and wrong again. This was fine, but You presumably wrote the family's Collins Little Gem Dictionary didn't encourage exploration, not least book because you wanted to - and you had a talent for delivering the font was small and difficult written word. You knew your subject back to readfront. Fortunately those times Now you're going to have now changed and reference to get to grips with the book for children are now much more inviting. Not every book comes with a set supply chain, which even parts of instructions the publishing industry believe to be wrong but it's worth studying too difficult to change and no one wants to be the first to try. Then, when you ''How to...finally'' sectionhave a copy of the book in your hands, not least you're going to have to work out how to sell it - because similar systems are used in other reference booksit ''is'' going to be down to you.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241286972</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Dorling KindersleyFrederic Gros|title=First Science EncyclopediaA Philosophy of Walking

|genre=Children's Non-FictionPolitics and Society|summary=I wasn't introduced to 'science' until confess I was eleven and went on to senior school: I wasn't alone picked this one up from the library in this, but it really was too latemy pre-lockdown forage of random stuff. Thankfully, times Now I have to go out an buy my own copy so that I can turn down the pages I have changed marked and children at primary school are getting return to its varying wisdom when I need to grips with plants and animals, atoms and molecules and even outer space from a very young age. What's needed is a good, basic reference book which will introduce all the subjects and give a good grounding Some books draw you in slowly. It needs to be something which would sit proudly This one had me in the classroom library and comfortably on a child's bookshelf. The first two pages, wherein Gros explains why ''First Science Encyclopediawalking is not a sport'' would do both well.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>024118875X</amazonuk>1781688370

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Deirdre Osborne (Editor)1788037812|title=The Cambridge Companion to British Black and Asian Literature (1945–2010)Fraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson

|genre=ReferenceBiography|summary=This literary companion offers fifteen essays addressing Originally passed in 1885, the contribution of black law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and Asian authors to 1908, three books on the British literary canon since 1945nature of homosexuality appeared. It covers not just fictionThey were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, but also poetry, plays and performance works. It sits as a kind of joyful cuckoo in well as the nest, interrupting heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the usual narratives margins of literary waves society and movements studying homosexuality was common on the European Continent, but barely talked about in Britain that take little notice of any perspective other than the dominant white - and posh! - direction of travel. It's a disparateUK, varied collection so the publications of essays, covering spoken word performance poetry, black British urban fiction, LGBTQ writing, liberationist writing and much more. I was really happy these men were hugely significant – contributing to see children's authors such as Malorie Blackmanthe scientific understanding of homosexuality, Jamila Gavin and Catherine Johnson discussed beginning the struggle for recognition and respectedequality, leading to the milestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in 1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1316504808</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr Sunil C Gebalanage1912242052|title=Beginner's Project Management Handbook: Art of Project DeliveryO Joy for me!|author=Keir Davidson|rating=43|genre=ReferenceArt|summary=In the last fifteen years I've project managed ' Oh Joy for me!'' gives Coleridge credit for being ''the construction of an office and first person to walk the extension of a building. On both occasions I looked mountains alone, not because he had to for work, as a resource which would give me a framework within which to proceedminer, quarryman, shepherd or pack-horse driver, but whilst I could find several volumes which dealt with individual parts of the project I couldn't find any literature which put it all togetherbecause he wanted to for pleasure and adventure. An additional problem was that what literature there was out there was written His rapturous encounters with specific professionals in mind their natural beauty, and didn't accommodate its literary consequences, changed our view of the generalist. It was with relief for those following me that I discovered ''Beginner's Project Management Handbook: Art of Project Deliveryworld''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524665568</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK1072549271|title=What's Where on Earth? AtlasThe Simple Act of Self-Publishing With Amazon: The World as You've Never Seen It BeforeA Simple Step by Step Guide|author=Georgianne Landy-Kordis

|genre=ReferenceBusiness and Finance|summary=I dread frequently meet authors who are struggling to think how old be published by the atlas we used when I was a child wastraditional houses, but at least we had one, and when I didnsuggest self-publishing they explain that they don't need have the big bucks required to go to school down that road with Author Solutions or Matador or a library their like. I then ask if they've considered Kindle and the answer is, inevitably, that they wouldn't know where to check up on whatever bit of trivia start. I was seekingcan empathise with that. Despite having used a computer for about thirty years, running most of my life ''and'' a website online, I'm so old a lot of things about still nervous when it now would be most redundant, but if you choose comes to starting something new. I like someone to risk your arm and buy an atlas hold my hand as I go through it for the family shelves that all generations will benefit from, as opposed to relying on electronic and updateable sources first time. That was why I was very interested when ''The Simple Act of information, then this is the one to haveSelf Publishing With Amazon'' came across my desk...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241228379</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Helen HollickHigashida_Fall|title= PiratesFall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: Truth A Young Man's Voice From the Silence of Autism|author=Naoki Higashida and TaleDavid Mitchell|rating= 45|genre= HistoryHome and Family|summary=Naoki Higashida was only 13 years old when he wrote the international best-seller ''The eighteenth century lived in terror of the tramps of the seas – piratesReason I Jump''. Pirates have fascinated people ever since. It The book was popular because it gave a harsh life for those who went 'on rare glimpse into the workings of the account'autistic mind, constantly overshadowed by as told from the threat unique perspective of death – through violence, illness, shipwrecka teenager with non-verbal autism. Naoki communicates by using an alphabet grid, or by tracing letters on the hangman's noose. The lure of gold, the excitement palm of the chase and the freedom that life aboard a pirate ship offered were judged by some to be worth the risktranscriber. Helen Hollick explores both the fiction Despite this slow and fact of the Golden Age laborious method of piracywriting, he has published several books in his native Japan and there are some surprises in store for those who think they know their Barbary Corsair from their boucaniermanages to give public presentations to raise awareness of his condition. Everyone has heard of Captain Morgan, but who recognises the name of the aristocratic Frenchman Daniel Montbars? He killed so many Spaniards he was known Fall Down 7 Times Get up 8 reintroduces us to Naoki as 'The Exterminator'. The fictional world of pirates, represented a young adult in novels his 20s and movies, is different from realityexplains how his perspectives on life have changed since writing his first book. What draws readers and viewers to these notorious hyenas of the high seas? What are the facts behind the fantasy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445652153</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= D J TaylorJenkins_100|title= The Prose FactoryBritain's 100 Best Railway Stations|author=Simon Jenkins|rating= 5|genre= ReferenceArt|summary= D J Taylor's exploration of writing, reading, publishing and critical reviews spans a In the mid-twentieth century of literary history, discussing everything from Eliot-era modernists and Georgian traditionalists, the railway was something which harked back to the impact of politicsVictorian age with trains being supplanted by cars and planes, creative writing degreesbut steam was being replaced by oil, reviewers and critics. It is a deep even then and thorough exploration of in the multitwenty-first-complex influences on English literary life over the past century oil is giving way to electricity. It's cleaner, more environmentally friendly and the way these have shaped readersstations which we' preferences d all rushed through as quickly as possible, keen to escape their grime, were restored and reading habits. But don't became places to be put off by thinking that this is a dustyadmired, encyclopaedic tome – it is a large book at around 500 pages – but it is accessible and thoroughly readablepossibly even lingered in. Simon Jenkins has chosen his hundred best railway stations. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099556073</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Van der KisteTaylor_Owls|title=Owls: A Beatles Miscellany: Everything You Always Wanted Guide to Know About the Beatles but Were Afraid to AskEvery Species|author=Marianne Taylor

|genre=ReferenceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=You might have thought that just about everything which could be said about I feel like I am being watched. A huge pair of piercing orange eyes are staring right at me, locking me into their gaze. In contrast with the Beatles had been said and certainly there's been no shortage hardness of books about what went wrongthe deep-amber eyes, what happened to soft grey feathers fan out into the money surrounding area, intricate, detailed and even what went rightbeautiful. But what I've never seen before is a 'miscellany' - all those little facts which are so hard to track down An enigma; harsh and this gentle at the same time, the owl is where historian John Van der Kiste comes into his own: he's a man with an eye for detail and beckoning the ability reader to bring everything together into turn the pages and take a very readable wholecloser look inside.. It's a wonderful collection of the small facts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781555826</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Paul JarvisJVDK_ELO|title=British Airways Colouring BookElectric Light Orchestra: Song by Song|author=John Van der Kiste|rating=4.5|genre=CraftsEntertainment|summary=Over My memories of pop music in the past couple of years we've seen a lot of colouring books: flowers, patterns, fantasy creatures, characters early sixties revolve around guitars and settings from television showsdrums, films sometimes the piano with only occasional excursions into strings and books brass. Pop music rarely stands still and lots more, but I canit wasn't recollect that we've ever long before had one which featured a ''company''. Mind youthe basic instruments were seen as constraints and The Beatles, British AirwaysThe Rolling Stones and The Beach Boys began to experiment, is rather special; iconic with other groups following where they led. Amongst these groups was The Move and rather more long lasting than most passing celebrities. It has ''heritage'' their lead guitarist and ''tradition''songwriter, Roy Wood. The ''British Airways Colouring Book'' is based on exclusive posters, photographs and artwork from Wood wanted to develop the companygroup's archives sound by adding more instruments but was prevented from achieving what he wanted by cost limitations and because the 46 images allow the reader to recreate these as they wish. There's a bonus too: on the facing page rest of each image there's a potted history. I passed the book to someone with an interest in BA and he found the book interesting and informative group didn''without'' even thinking of doing any colouringt really share his enthusiasm.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144566612X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Simon RogersHendrix_PBHell|title= InfographicsPaperbacks from Hell: TechnologyA History of Horror Fiction from the '70s and '80s|author=Grady Hendrix|rating= 4.5|genre= ReferenceHorror|summary=As parentsDemonic possession, murderous babies, man-eating moths… for these books, no plot was too ludicrous, no cover art too appalling, we can often be bombarded with questions as our children start no evil too despicable. Now horror author Grady Hendrix risks his soul and his sanity (not to discover the world. These questions soon become increasingly complex, especially with mention the latest technological advances. How do computers work? Whatreader's inside !) to relate the true, untold story of a smartphone? How can earth communicate with spacecraft? Thankfully we now have a handy, illustrated guide to help us: ''Infographics: Technology''fascinating and often forgotten era in publishing.|amazonuk=Read the synapse-shattering story summaries!<amazonukbr>1783704489See the horrific hand-painted cover imagery!</amazonukbr>And learn the true-life tales of the writers, artists, and publishers who gleefully violated every literary law but one – never be boring.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Felicity Trotman (editor)Browne_Many|title=Winter: A Book for the SeasonThe Many Faces of Coincidence|author=Laurence Browne

|genre=AnthologiesPopular Science|summary=This seasonal anthology contains a nice mixture of poetry, nature and travel pieces, and excerpts from longer works Browne does not mislead with this choice of fiction. Felicity Trotman, title; he does without a freelance editor and member of the English Civil War Society, has arranged the material into three sections: 'The Old Year', 'Christmas, Sacred and Secular', and 'The New Year'. This creates an appropriate sense of chronological progression, and also serves to make Christmas doubt explore the heart many faces of the book. Black-and-white illustrations – maps, photographs and engravings – are interspersed throughout, and each author gets a short paragraph of biography and backgroundcoincidence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445664747</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Caroline Taggart1903385679|title= Misadventures The 100 Best Novels in the English LanguageTranslation|author=Boyd Tonkin|rating= 3.5|genre= Reference|summary=Misadventures in the English Language styles itself as an examination of the confusing bits of grammar, vocabulary and punctuationConsider, with some indication of which rules matter and which can be broken without dire consequencesif you will, though translated fiction. Some say it's actually broader than this description makes impossible – that if a book was so good in one tongue it soundcould never survive being put into another. Samuel Beckett must have laboured over ever syllable and ''Breath'', but he could translate his own works, and other equally complex pieces can cross borders. It 's a market that has chapters on: words actually doubled in sales volume between 2000 and phrases borrowed from other languages2016 (thanks, ''Millennium Trilogy''). Novels, in particular, in translation, are – as the introduction here so smartly puts it – ''a privileged means of passing border posts, new usage and changes a sort of meaninguniversal passport issued by that Utopian state, common grammar the Republic of Letters''. We here at the 'Bag regularly try and punctuation pitfallsgive equal credit to the translator, confusing spellingswithout whom we wouldn't be reading what we have in our hands. But all that said, dreadful jargondo we really need one of those list books about the subject? I got given a book the other year detailing 1001 places to go to before I die, and using unnecessary words that donI might even then have missed out a zero. It would take as long as a fortnight't add anything s holiday to wade through, and even though this is not as long as your sentence except lengthtypical Bolano housebrick, it's not a short thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782436472</amazonuk>Should it take our time?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Dave Haslett and Geoff NelderFry_Mythos|title= How To Win Short Story Competitions|rating= 3.5|genre= Reference|summary= This guide to what is for many writers Mythos: A Retelling of the first step on their path to glory (or not) is only available as a Kindle download or as a PDF direct from the publisher's website. It is not issued in print format. Given the low price on Amazon, it feels like a worthwhile investment for anyone interested in taking this route to enhance their writing profile.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B0083YRFI0</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewMyths of Ancient Greece|author= Alexandra Coghlan|title= Carols from King's: The Stories of our Favourite Carols from King's CollegeStephen Fry|rating= 4.5|genre= Reference|summary=The exquisite sound of a lone chorister singing ''Once in Royal David's City'' amid the chapel of King's CollegeGreek Myths are, Cambridgearguably, marks the start of the Christmas festivities for millions of people round the globegreatest stories ever told. Broadcast at 3pm on Chrismas Eve, ''A Festival of Nine Lessons So old and Carols'' provides a precious moment of tranquility amongst the bustle of the festive season. Here author Alexandra Coghlan takes the reader on influential they cast a journey through the fascinating history of carols, from the very first - sung by the angels to the shepherds at Bethlehem - to anecdotes from contemporary King's choristers, shadow over western tales and shows them how carols have evolved from pagan songs to become one of our nation's most sacred treasures. Accompanied by lyrics and music and compiled in conjunction with Radio 4 and King's College Chapeltraditions, ''Carols from King's'' is the official companion for fans of Christmas yet remain relatable and carols alikereadable millennia later. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940945</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Dave Haslett and Kate Haslett|title= The Date-A-Base Book 2017|rating= 4|genre= Reference|summary=So here's a question for you: how do you go about reviewing a list - especially a list that runs to 3Here comedian,800 entries and 544 pages? Noactor, I'm not sure eithertelevision presenter, but I'm going to give it a go.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B01C4TZ4FA</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|actor and author= Nev Schulman|title= In Real Life: Love, Lies & Identity in the Digital Age|rating= 4|genre= Reference|summary= Nev (it's pronounced Neev) is a man who knows about the darker side of online dating. Known for Stephen Fry brings his documentary ''Catfish'' – a film which showed an online flirtation going sour, Nev then began making a tv show of the same name, travelling America to offer advice considerable talent to those in online relationships, these special stories and possibly being catfished (which means being lured into recreates them with a relationship by someone adopting a fictional online persona). Now the go-to expert in online relationships for millenials, a generation who have never known a world without Facebook, Twitter, Instagramwit, warmth and other online places where interactions can form. Here, he takes his investigation to the page – exploring relationships in the era of social media, delving deeply humanity that brings them into the complexities of dating in a digital modern age, whilst still giving the honour and respect that such ancient and continuing the dialogue his show has begun about how we interact with each other online – as well as sharing insights from his own storyinfluential stories deserve. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473608066</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Neil R A Bell, Trevor N Bond, Kate Clarke and M W OldridgeMahnke_Lore|title=The A-Z World of Victorian Crime Lore, Volume 1: Monstrous Creatures|author=Aaron Mahnke

|genre=True CrimeReference|summary= Victorian crime Every country, every town, every village has never ceased to cast its spella folktale – a story passed down through generations that often focuses on the dark and unexplained. Is it because such terrible goings-No matter how the modern world moves on took place sufficiently long ago that they do not disgust us in the same way as equally dreadful events from, say, the last few days of which we read from todaythere's papers or online coverage? Whatever the reason, there is an endless fascination with murders and other major transgressions a still a part of the law from the era of gas lamps and swirling fog – true Victorian melodrama, misbehaviour and horror from real life writ large. It everyone that is amply catered for in this title, the joint work of four authors.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445647869</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Alexandra Harris|title= Weatherland: Writers and artists under English skies|rating= 4.5|genre= Reference|summary=The story of English culture over vulnerable to a thousand years can be told as the story of changing ideas about the weathergood tale. A sweeping panoramaFrom ghosts to werewolves, ''Weatherland'' explores how writers by way of wendigos and artistselves, looking up at author Aaron Mahnke delivers the same skies and walking in reader legends from all over the brisk airworld, have felt very different things. A journey through centuries and cultureswhilst examining how they've become part of our collective imaginations, Harris walks still striking fear into the reader through misty moor and foggy fen, lays with them on bright sunlit beaches, treks with them to stormy summits, and introduces them to a fascinating cast hearts of many of writers, artists and cultural figures along the wayus today.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0500292655</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hugh JefferiesFowler_Forgotten|title=Great Britain Concise Catalogue 2016The Book of Forgotten Authors|author=Christopher Fowler

|summary=It's difficult to believe that it's Absence doesn't make the 30th anniversary of the first publication of heart grow fonder''Great Britain Concise. It makes people think you're dead. There's truth in that statement, you know, but this is the thirty-first edition, with just under 500 pages and over three and there's a half thousand illustrations. It feels almost painful to look back to the days conundrum when the choice was between the it's applied to authors. Shakespeare is dead: Dickens is dead, but we haven'Collect British Stampst buried what they'' series which never pretended (or pretends) to ve written: that lives on until... when? Is it until fashion decrees that they should be no more than a checklist (but got many people off to a sound start - myself included) and the specialised series? Or is it, which is beyond as in the purse case of many amateur collectors. some children''Great Britain Concise'' sits comfortably between the two extremes with an affordable cover prices authors that they are on life support through licensing deals and astute marketing? Christopher Fowler has unearthed (exhumed?) ninety-nine authors who were once hugely popular, but whose works have disappeared, sometimes quite literally.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852599722</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Robert KershawAngell_Triang|title= 24 Hours at the SommeTri-ang Collectables|author=Dave Angell|rating= 3.5|genre= Reference|summary=''They came past one by one...walking lumps of clay, with torn clothing, hollow cheeks and sunken eyes...There was a dreadful weariness, but a wildness burning in their fevered eyes, showing what this appalling hand to hand fighting had cost them. Utterly unforgivable for me...'' So goes the description of the men, the ''ghosts,'' at the end of the first day of the Somme. July 1 2016 will mark 100 years since this most bloody of battles took place. It was supposed A guide to be the optimistic 'Big Push' that would end the Great War, but trains produced by sunset of the first day Tri-ang company from its inception until the British casualties numbered 57,470company became Hornby. The battle would rage until November that year, with A very personal guide to the total number collecting of casualties on all sides exceeding one millionmodel trains.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753555476</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David CrystalChase_Orchids|title=The Oxford Dictionary Book of Original Shakespearean PronunciationOrchids: A life-size guide to six hundred species from around the world|author=Mark Chase, Maarten Christenhusz and Tom Mirenda

|summary=Language changes, not only One in the way that it's writtenseven flowering plants on earth is an orchid: there are 26, but also 000 species in the way that it's ''pronounced''749 genera. I've seen changes over my lifetime They flourish in remarkable habitats such as deserts and even more substantial changes have occurred the Arctic circle, in fact, all areas but the four hundred years since Shakespeare diedmost inhospitable. For someone watching or reading There's a play the differences are not usually materialwide range of colours, shapes and scents: we can generally understand what is being said, but occasionally wethey're going to miss jokes which rely on a certain pronunciationdramatic, or delicate and ingenious in the fine nuances of what is being saidways that they've developed not just to survive but to thrive. WhatTom Mirenda describes them as ''s required is a dictionary masters of the original pronunciation manipulation'' and that's exactly what David Crystal has provided. I'm only surprised that itfamous for lying and cheating their way to their many evolutionary successes''s taken so long , yet his love of them is as obvious as his respect for such a book the insight they give us into the processes which shaped our world. He hopes that understanding how that has come about will inspire us to appearconserve what we have.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199668426</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Andrew DicksonEdwards_Story|title= Worlds Elsewhere|rating= 4|genre= Reference|summary=From the sixteenth-century Baltic to the American Revolution, from colonial India to the skyscrapers of modern-day Shanghai, Shakespeare's plays appear at the most fascinating of times in the most unexpected The Story of places. But what is it about Shakespeare – a man who never once left England, which has made him an icon across the globe? Travelling across four continents, six countries and 400 years, ''Worlds Elsewhere'' attempts to understand Shakespeare Classic Crime in his role as an international phenomenon.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099578956</amazonuk>}}{{newreview100 Books (British Library Crime Classics)|author=Graeme Donald|title=Words of a FeatherMartin Edwards|rating=45

|summary= Words of a Feather. The title alone suggests an engaging read about language, and the book certainly delivers. It pairs seemingly unrelated words, digs up their etymological roots and reveals their common ancestry. The English language, of course, provides rich pickings indeed for a book of this type and it is fascinating to see the hidden meaning behind common and not-so-common words. Some connections are fairly obvious once you read them. For example, the link between ''grotto'' and ''grotesque'' is s easy to grasp: be confused by the word various 'ages'grotesque'' derives from unpleasant figures depicted in murals of crime writing: if you have an interest in Ancient Roman ''grottoes''. Other connections are just extraordinary, like the so-crazy-genre you-couldn't-make-it-up connection between ''furnace'' and ''fornicate''. These two words date back to Ancient Rome when prostitutes took over ll almost certainly have heard of the city's abandoned baking domes. And some connections are more than a little tenuous, seemingly just a collection Golden Age of words banded togetherCrime, generally acknowledged as is being the case with period between the first and second world wars. 'Classic Crime'insult'' on the other hand extends the time frame at either end and ''salmon'' pairingcovers books published in the first half of the twentieth century. One of Throughout my personal favourites: the Italian word ''schiavo'' for ''slave'' was used to summon or dismiss a slave; this word became corrupted to ''ciaoadult life, there's been just one genre of books which has fascinated me, and that's crime, a word so I could hardly resist the more well-heeled among us use instead chance of reading ''goodbyeThe Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books''particularly as the author, Martin Edwards is an accomplished author within the crime genre and an acknowledged expert on the subject.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178418814X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stephen HickmanDK_Childrens|title= The Art of Stephen Hickman|rating= 4|genre= Fantasy|summary= Stephen Hickman has been a well known artist in the Fantasy and Science Fiction worlds for a number of years now, having created covers for authors such as Harlan Ellison, Robert Heinlein, Anne McCaffrey, and Larry Niven. His paintings are vibrant, kinetic, sometimes scary, often sensual, traditional, and yet modern. Children''The Art of Stephen Hickman'' collects hundreds of these paintings, and the artist himself provides an intriguing commentary alongside which offers a fascinating glimpse into the artistic process. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783298456</amazonuk>}}{{newreviews Illustrated Thesaurus|author=John Sutherland|title=How Good is Your Grammar?DK|rating=34.5

|summary=In One of the preface of most valuable literary skills which children can learn is how to use reference books. As a child every question which I began with ''How Good is Your Grammarhow do you spell...?'', John Sutherland suggests that the abolition of grammar schools in the 1960s coincided would be answered with a general decline in grammatical standards ''EXACTLY as it says in the decades that followeddictionary''. In our modern age of This was fine, but the family'text-speaks Collins Little Gem Dictionary didn' and emoticonst encourage exploration, not least because the need for grammatical correctness seems font was small and difficult to be rather low on our agendaread. Fortunately, maybe even regarded as irrelevant by somethose times have now changed and reference book for children are now much more inviting. Is this gradual erosion an inevitable part Not every book comes with a set of the evolution of communication, or will certain rules always remain an intrinsic part of the fabric of language? Only time will tell, instructions but for those wishing to brush up on their grammar skills, Sutherland has compiled 100 quiz questions that he claims are it's worth studying the ''ultimate testHow to...'' for his readerssection, not least because similar systems are used in other reference books.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722575</amazonuk>

''One way Move on to understand neurodiversity is to think in terms of 'human operating systems' instead of diagnostic labels... Just because a computer is not running Windows doesn't mean that it's broken.'' This refreshing approach underpins the whole of this ground-breaking work, which is essentially a potted-history of autism from the distant past to the present day. It will fascinate and enlighten anyone with an interest in the subject, or who is affected, directly or indirectly, by the condition. For autistic people, this book represents their roots; their cultural history, and illustrates how far the autistic community have come over the past few decades.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760113638</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Science Fiction Reviews]]