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|summary=My memories of pop music in So, you've finished writing your book and you think the early sixties revolve around guitars hard work is all done? You're convinced that all you need to do now is get it published and drums, sometimes the piano with only occasional excursions into strings money will start rolling in? Wrong and brasswrong again. Pop music rarely stands still You presumably wrote the book because you wanted to - and it wasn't long before you had a talent for delivering the basic instruments were seens as constraints and The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Beach Boys began to experiment, with other groups following where they ledwritten word. Amongst these groups was The Move and their lead guitarist and songwriter, Roy WoodYou knew your subject back to front. Wood wanted Now you're going to have to get to develop grips with the book supply chain, which even parts of the grouppublishing industry believe to be wrong but it's sound by adding more instruments but was prevented from achieving what he wanted by cost limitations too difficult to change and because no one wants to be the rest first to try. Then, when you ''finally'' have a copy of the group didnbook in your hands, you't really share his enthusiasm.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781556008</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Dave Angell|title= Trire going to have to work out how to sell it -ang Collectables|rating= 3.5|genre=Reference|summary= A guide because it ''is'' going to the trains produced by the Tri-ang company from its inception until the company became Hornby. A very personal guide be down to the collecting of model trainsyou.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445664577</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mark Chase, Maarten Christenhusz and Tom MirendaFrederic Gros|title=The Book A Philosophy of Orchids: A life-size guide to six hundred species from around the worldWalking
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|genre=ReferencePolitics and Society|summary=One I confess I picked this one up from the library in seven flowering plants on earth is my pre-lockdown forage of random stuff. Now I have to go out an orchid: there are 26,000 species buy my own copy so that I can turn down the pages I have marked and return to its varying wisdom when I need to. Some books draw you in 749 generaslowly. They flourish This one had me in remarkable habitats such as deserts and the Arctic circlefirst two pages, in fact all areas but the most inhospitable. Therewherein Gros explains why 's a wide range of colours, shapes and scents: they're dramatic, delicate and ingenious in the ways that they've developed walking is not just to survive but to thrive. Tom Mirenda describes them as a sport''masters of manipulation'' and ''famous for lying and cheating their way to their many evolutionary successes'', yet his love of the is as obvious as his respect for 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 conserve what we have.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782404031</amazonuk>1781688370
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin Edwards1788037812|title=The Story Fraternity of Classic Crime the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in 100 Books (British Library Crime Classics)England, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson
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|genre=ReferenceBiography|summary=It's easy to be confused by Originally passed in 1885, the various 'ages' of law that had made homosexual relations a crime writing: if you've an interest remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, three books on the genre you'll almost certainly have heard nature of the Golden Age of Crimehomosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, generally acknowledged as being well as the period between heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the first margins of society and second world wars. 'Classic Crime' studying homosexuality was common on the other hand extends European Continent, but barely talked about in the time frame at either end and covers books published in UK, so the first half publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to the twentieth century. Throughout my adult life there's been just one genre scientific understanding of books which has fascinated mehomosexuality, and that's crimebeginning the struggle for recognition and equality, so I could hardly resist leading to the chance milestone legalisation of reading same-sex relationships in 1967.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1912242052|title=O Joy for me!|author=Keir Davidson|rating=3|genre=Art|summary='' Oh Joy for me!''The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Booksgives Coleridge credit for being '' particularly the first person to walk the mountains alone, not because he had to for work, as the authora miner, quarryman, shepherd or pack-horse driver, but because he wanted to for pleasure and adventure. His rapturous encounters with their natural beauty, and its literary consequences, Martin Edwards is an accomplished author within changed our view of the crime genre world''and'' an acknowledged expert on the subject.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356967</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DK1072549271|title=Children's Illustrated ThesaurusThe Simple Act of Self-Publishing With Amazon: A Simple Step by Step Guide|author=Georgianne Landy-Kordis
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionBusiness and Finance|summary=One of I frequently meet authors who are struggling to be published by the traditional houses, but when I suggest self-publishing they explain that they don't have the most valuable literary skills which children can learn is how big bucks required to use reference booksgo down that road with Author Solutions or Matador or their like. As a child every question which I began with then ask if they've considered Kindle and the answer is, inevitably, that they wouldn'how do you spellt know where to start. I can empathise with that..? Despite having used a computer for about thirty years, running most of my life '' would be answered with and''EXACTLY a website online, I'm still nervous when it comes to starting something new. I like someone to hold my hand as I go through it says in for the dictionaryfirst time. That was why I was very interested when ''The Simple Act of Self Publishing With Amazon''came across my desk. This was fine..}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Higashida_Fall|title=Fall Down Seven Times, but the familyGet Up Eight: A Young Man's Collins Little Gem Dictionary didn't encourage exploration, not least because Voice From the font was small Silence of Autism|author=Naoki Higashida and difficult to read. Fortunately those times have now changed David Mitchell|rating=5|genre=Home and reference book for children are now much more invitingFamily|summary=Naoki Higashida was only 13 years old when he wrote the international best-seller ''The Reason I Jump''. Not every The book comes with was popular because it gave a set rare glimpse into the workings of instructions but it's worth studying the ''How toautistic mind, as told from the unique perspective of a teenager with non-verbal autism.Naoki communicates by using an alphabet grid, or by tracing letters on the palm of a transcriber.Despite this slow and laborious method of writing, he has published several books in his native Japan and manages to give public presentations to raise awareness of his condition.'' section, not least because similar systems are used Fall Down 7 Times Get up 8 reintroduces us to Naoki as a young adult in other reference bookshis 20s and explains how his perspectives on life have changed since writing his first book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241286972</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dorling KindersleyJenkins_100|title=First Science EncyclopediaBritain's 100 Best Railway Stations|author=Simon Jenkins
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|genre=Children's Non-FictionArt|summary=I wasn't introduced In the mid-twentieth century, the railway was something which harked back to 'science' until I was eleven the Victorian age with trains being supplanted by cars and went on to senior school: I wasn't alone in thisplanes, but it really steam was too late. Thankfullybeing replaced by oil, times have changed even then and children at primary school are getting in the twenty-first-century oil is giving way to grips with plants and animals, atoms and molecules and even outer space from a very young ageelectricity. WhatIt's needed is a goodcleaner, basic reference book more environmentally friendly and the stations which will introduce we'd all the subjects rushed through as quickly as possible, keen to escape their grime, were restored and give a good grounding. It needs became places to be something which would sit proudly admired, possibly even lingered in the classroom library and comfortably on a child's bookshelf. The ''First Science Encyclopedia'' would do both wellSimon Jenkins has chosen his hundred best railway stations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>024118875X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Deirdre Osborne (Editor)Taylor_Owls|title=The Cambridge Companion Owls: A Guide to British Black and Asian Literature (1945–2010)Every Species|author=Marianne Taylor
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|genre=Animals and Wildlife
|summary=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 hardness of the deep-amber eyes, soft grey feathers fan out into the surrounding area, intricate, detailed and beautiful. An enigma; harsh and gentle at the same time, the owl is beckoning the reader to turn the pages and take a closer look inside...
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=JVDK_ELO
|title=Electric Light Orchestra: Song by Song
|author=John Van der Kiste
|rating=4.5
|genre=Entertainment
|summary=My memories of pop music in the early sixties revolve around guitars and drums, sometimes the piano with only occasional excursions into strings and brass. Pop music rarely stands still and it wasn't long before the basic instruments were seen as constraints and The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Beach Boys began to experiment, with other groups following where they led. Amongst these groups was The Move and their lead guitarist and songwriter, Roy Wood. Wood wanted to develop the group's sound by adding more instruments but was prevented from achieving what he wanted by cost limitations and because the rest of the group didn't really share his enthusiasm.
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|isbn=Hendrix_PBHell
|title=Paperbacks from Hell: A History of Horror Fiction from the '70s and '80s
|author=Grady Hendrix
|rating=4.5
|genre=Horror
|summary=Demonic possession, murderous babies, man-eating moths… for these books, no plot was too ludicrous, no cover art too appalling, no evil too despicable. Now horror author Grady Hendrix risks his soul and his sanity (not to mention the reader's!) to relate the true, untold story of a fascinating and often forgotten era in publishing.
Read the synapse-shattering story summaries!<br>
See the horrific hand-painted cover imagery!<br>
And learn the true-life tales of the writers, artists, and publishers who gleefully violated every literary law but one – never be boring.
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=Browne_Many
|title=The Many Faces of Coincidence
|author=Laurence Browne
|rating=3.5
|genre=Popular Science
|summary=Browne does not mislead with this choice of title; he does without a doubt explore the many faces of coincidence.
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|isbn=1903385679
|title=The 100 Best Novels in Translation
|author=Boyd Tonkin
|rating=3.5
|genre=Reference
|summary=This literary companion offers fifteen essays addressing the contribution of black Consider, if you will, translated fiction. Some say it's impossible – that if a book was so good in one tongue it could never survive being put into another. Samuel Beckett must have laboured over ever syllable and Asian authors to the British literary canon since 1945. It covers not just fiction''Breath'', but also poetryhe could translate his own works, plays and performance worksother equally complex pieces can cross borders. It sits 's a market that has actually doubled in sales volume between 2000 and 2016 (thanks, ''Millennium Trilogy''). Novels, in particular, in translation, are – as the introduction here so smartly puts it – ''a kind privileged means of joyful cuckoo in the nestpassing border posts, a sort of universal passport issued by that Utopian state, interrupting the usual narratives Republic of literary waves Letters''. We here at the 'Bag regularly try and movements give equal credit to the translator, without whom we wouldn't be reading what we have in Britain our hands. But all that take little notice said, do we really need one of any perspective those list books about the subject? I got given a book the other than the dominant white - year detailing 1001 places to go to before I die, and posh! - direction of travelI might even then have missed out a zero. Itwould take as long as a fortnight's a disparateholiday to wade through, varied collection of essays, covering spoken word performance poetry, black British urban fiction, LGBTQ writingand even though this is not as long as your typical Bolano housebrick, liberationist writing and much more. I was really happy to see childrenit's authors such as Malorie Blackman, Jamila Gavin and Catherine Johnson discussed and respectednot a short thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1316504808</amazonuk>Should it take our time?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr Sunil C GebalanageFry_Mythos|title=Beginner's Project Management HandbookMythos: Art A Retelling of Project Deliverythe Myths of Ancient Greece|author=Stephen Fry|rating=45
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|summary=In The Greek Myths are, arguably, the last fifteen years I've project managed the construction of an office greatest stories ever told. So old and the extension of influential they cast a buildingshadow over western tales and traditions, yet remain relatable and readable millennia later. On both occasions I looked for a resource which would give me Here comedian, actor, television presenter, actor and author Stephen Fry brings his considerable talent to these special stories and recreates them with a framework within which to proceedwit, but warmth and humanity that brings them into the modern age whilst I could find several volumes which dealt with individual parts of still giving the project I couldn't find any literature which put it all together. An additional problem was honour and respect that what literature there was out there was written with specific professionals in mind such ancient and didn't accommodate the generalist. It was with relief for those following me that I discovered ''Beginner's Project Management Handbook: Art of Project Delivery''influential stories deserve.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524665568</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DKMahnke_Lore|title=What's Where on Earth? Atlas: The World as You've Never Seen It Beforeof Lore, Volume 1: Monstrous Creatures|author=Aaron Mahnke
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|summary=I dread to think Every country, every town, every village has a folktale – a story passed down through generations that often focuses on the dark and unexplained. No matter how old the atlas we used when I was a child was, but at least we had onemodern world moves on, and I didnthere't need to go s a still a part of everyone that is vulnerable to school or a library good tale. From ghosts to check up on whatever bit werewolves, by way of wendigos and elves, author Aaron Mahnke delivers the reader legends from all over the world, whilst examining how they've become part of our collective imaginations, still striking fear into the hearts of many of us today.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Fowler_Forgotten|title=The Book of trivia I was seekingForgotten Authors|author=Christopher Fowler|rating=5|genre=Reference|summary=''Absence doesn't make the heart grow fonder''. It makes people think you're dead. I There's truth in that statement, you know, but there'm so old s a lot of things about conundrum when it now would be most redundant's applied to authors. Shakespeare is dead: Dickens is dead, but if you choose to risk your arm and buy an atlas for the family shelves we haven't buried what they've written: that lives on until... when? Is it until fashion decrees that all generations will benefit fromthey should be no more? Or is it, as opposed to relying in the case of some children's authors that they are on electronic life support through licensing deals and updateable sources of informationastute marketing? Christopher Fowler has unearthed (exhumed?) ninety-nine authors who were once hugely popular, then this is the one to but whose works havedisappeared, sometimes quite literally.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241228379</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Helen HollickAngell_Triang|title= Pirates: Truth and TaleTri-ang Collectables|author=Dave Angell|rating= 43.5|genre= HistoryReference|summary=The eighteenth century lived in terror of A guide to the tramps of the seas – pirates. Pirates have fascinated people ever since. It was a harsh life for those who went 'on the account', constantly overshadowed trains produced by the threat of death – through violence, illness, shipwreck, or Tri-ang company from its inception until the hangman's noosecompany became Hornby. The lure of gold, the excitement of the chase and the freedom that life aboard a pirate ship offered were judged by some A very personal guide to be worth the risk. Helen Hollick explores both the fiction and fact of the Golden Age collecting of piracy, and there are some surprises in store for those who think they know their Barbary Corsair from their boucaniermodel trains. 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 as 'The Exterminator'. The fictional world of pirates, represented in novels and movies, is different from reality. What draws readers and viewers to these notorious hyenas of the high seas? What are the facts behind the fantasy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445652153</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= D J TaylorChase_Orchids|title= The Prose FactoryBook of Orchids: A life-size guide to six hundred species from around the world|author=Mark Chase, Maarten Christenhusz and Tom Mirenda|rating= 5|genre= Reference|summary= D J Taylor's exploration of writingOne in seven flowering plants on earth is an orchid: there are 26, reading, publishing 000 species in 749 genera. They flourish in remarkable habitats such as deserts and critical reviews spans a century of literary historythe Arctic circle, discussing everything from Eliot-era modernists and Georgian traditionalistsin fact, to all areas but the impact most inhospitable. There's a wide range of politicscolours, creative writing degreesshapes and scents: they're dramatic, reviewers delicate and criticsingenious in the ways that they've developed not just to survive but to thrive. It is a deep Tom Mirenda describes them as ''masters of manipulation'' and ''famous for lying and thorough exploration cheating their way to their many evolutionary successes'', yet his love of them is as obvious as his respect for the multi-complex influences on English literary life over the past century and insight they give us into the way these have processes which shaped readers' preferences and reading habitsour world. But don't be put off by thinking He hopes that understanding how that this is a dusty, encyclopaedic tome – it is a large book at around 500 pages – but it is accessible and thoroughly readablehas come about will inspire us to conserve what we have. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099556073</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Van der KisteEdwards_Story|title=A Beatles Miscellany: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Beatles but Were Afraid to AskThe Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books (British Library Crime Classics)|author=Martin Edwards
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|summary=You might It's easy to be confused by the various 'ages' of crime writing: if you have an interest in the genre you'll almost certainly have thought that just about everything which could be said about heard of the Golden Age of Crime, generally acknowledged as being the period between the first and second world wars. 'Classic Crime' on the other hand extends the Beatles had been said time frame at either end and certainly covers books published in the first half of the twentieth century. Throughout my adult life, there's been no shortage just one genre of books about what went wrongwhich has fascinated me, and that's crime, so I could hardly resist the chance of reading ''The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books'' particularly as the author, what happened to Martin Edwards is an accomplished author within the money crime genre and even what went rightan acknowledged expert on the subject.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=DK_Childrens|title=Children's Illustrated Thesaurus|author=DK|rating=4.5|genre=Reference|summary=One of the most valuable literary skills which children can learn is how to use reference books. But what As a child every question which Ibegan with 've never seen before is a 'miscellanyhow do you spell...?' - all those little facts which are so hard to track down and this is where historian John Van der Kiste comes into his own: he's a man would be answered with an eye for detail and ''EXACTLY as it says in the ability to bring everything together into a very readable wholedictionary''. ItThis was fine, but the family's Collins Little Gem Dictionary didn't encourage exploration, not least because the font was small and difficult to read. Fortunately, those times have now changed and reference book for children are now much more inviting. Not every book comes with a wonderful collection set of instructions but it's worth studying the small facts''How to...'' section, not least because similar systems are used in other reference books.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781555826</amazonuk>
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