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[[Category:New Reviews|Entertainment]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--> {{newreviewFrontpage|author= Sue PerkinsPatti Smith|title= SpectaclesYear of the Monkey|rating= 4|genre= AutobiographyBiography|summary= A dash On the coast of dramaSanta Cruz, a sprinkling Patti Smith enters the lunar year of gossip the monkey - one packed with mischief, sorrow, and unexpected moments. In a smattering stranger's words, ''Anything is possible: after all, it's the year of the monkey''. As Smith wanders the coast of laughSanta Cruz in solitude, she reflects on a year that brings huge shifts in her life -out-loud funny make for loss and ageing are faced head on, as it the best sort of memoirshifting political waters in America.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405918551</amazonuk>1526614758

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephanie MiltonWalton_Ask|title=Minecraft: The Survivors' Book of SecretsAsk For Blues|author=Malcolm Walton

|summary=Ready to take your Minecraft game to the next level? Then you just might need The news of the advice death of Sir Roger Moore in May 2017 came as a professionalgreat shock: he was one of those people you knew would go on forever. 'The Survivors' are an elite group There was just one small glimmer of gaming experts who are proficient light in survival skills. They are breaking their cover to share their most precious secrets with us; valuable insider knowledge on the best ways to survive and prosper in sadness - the news that a matter of days before his death he'd delivered the most inhospitable online environments. Minecraft proudly present their latest official finished manuscript of his book: , ''À bientôt…'The Survivors' Book of Secrets, to his publishers.Just a few months later a copy landed on my desk and I didn''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405283335</amazonuk>t even bother to look as though I could resist reading it straight away.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Coco Balderrama and Laura CoulmanMaslanka Sherlock|title=David Bowie: StarmanSherlock: A Colouring The Puzzle Book|author=Christopher Maslanka and Steve Tribe

|genre=CraftsEntertainment|summary=David BowieWho doesn's death in January 2016 came as t love a shock good puzzle, especially those really fiendish ones that get the brain working extra hard? There really is nothing to compare to me: that buzz we were much of an age get from the Aha! moment, when everything falls into place and he'd always seemed so ''vital''the solution reveals itself. But his final album, ''Blackstar'', seemed If puzzles are your thing then you may wish to put your grey cells to foretell his death and was a commercial success, coming in at number one in the UK Top 100 Albums Chart, and the test with ''David Bowie IsThe Sherlock Puzzle Book'' exhibition at , based on the Victoria and Albert Museum is the most successful exhibition ever staged by the V&Apopular TV series. But what of a more relaxing memory of the man who was part genius and part chameleon?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859655504</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stephen WittCorcoran_Dylan|title= How Music Got FreeDo You Mr Jones?: The Inventor, Bob Dylan with the Music Man, Poets and the ThiefProfessors|author=Neil Corcoran|rating= 4.5|genre= Business and FinanceEntertainment|summary= In Bob Dylan's award of the digital age, new technology made recorded music a free-Nobel Prize for-all. It was good news Literature in 2016 'for having created new poetic expressions within the consumer, but dealt a major blow to the beleaguered music industrygreat American song tradition' proved highly controversial. Where It inevitably led some people once amassed physical collections, they now had in the choice of file-sharing insteadliterary world to take stock and look at his work and reputation with a fresh eye. This book describes how everything changed from the mid-1990s onwards. It volume of essays was first published in 2002, and is however written more now reissued with the computer enthusiast or business student than the music lover in minda new foreword by Will Self. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445636786</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Justin RichardsKyncl_Stream|title=Doctor Who: 365 Days of Memorable Moments Stream Punks|author=Robert Kyncl and Impossible ThingsMaany Peyvan

|summary=Is it any wonder that The Doctor's use I watch quite a lot of YouTube. I play music videos when I want to listen to a diary is mentioned merely as a joke? Let alone the fact it would come particular song I don't already have in whatever time unit (if any) Time Lords actually my collection. I use, there's the problem of it not ever being chronologicalto find out how to do things, and with the fact he would never instruction videos they seem to have for pretty much anything. At the time to fill gym, I'll stick it in. O temporaon on my phone, o mores indeed. But if prop it up on the cross-trainer and watch some behind the scenes interviews with the human observer cast of my favourite shows. And sometimes I''Doctor Who'' would want ll treat it as if it is Netflix, to watch series with new episodes releasing every few days, exclusively on YouTube. Having a full year booknew smart TV adds an extra, completely filled easy way to watch without having to plug in my laptop or squint at a small phone screen. So yes, I like YouTube and annotated with everything they would want to I use YouTube. But I didn't know a whole lot about the Doctor in relation to the human calendar, then they have site it at last with until I read this lovely hardback. It's a brick of a book, of course, given the depth of the subject, but well worth the time taken to read it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785940260</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Johnny RoganJVDK_Swing|title= Ray DaviesWe Can Swing Together: A Complicated LifeThe Story of Lindisfarne|author=John Van der Kiste|rating= 4.5|genre= Entertainment|summary= Most It all began with a group of Britainyoungsters in North Shields. Rod Clements, Simon 'Si's most popular and successful songwriters of the last 150 yearsCowe, from Gilbert Ray 'Jacka' Jackson and Sullivan and Lennon and McCartneyRay Laidlaw formed ''The Downtown Faction'', soon changing the name to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice and Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb, have been partnerships''Brethren'' when they were joined by singer-songwriter Alan Hull. The only solo writer in As a US-based group had a similar name they opted to change the name again - and ''Lindisfarne'' (with the same league is Ray Davies, front man of The Kinks name taken from their formation in 1963 to their final performance in 1994an island off the Northumberland coast) was born. While this mighty tome is partly an account More than forty years on and with numerous changes of personnel the group's tortuous thirty-year history, it band is also first and foremost, as the title says, a biography of Davies himselfstill very much around. Through interviews with They might not be touring or producing much in the Davies brothersway of new material, Ray and his younger brother Davebut they still perform, with Rod Clements, the group's guitarist and only other constant member one of the line-up, other group original members, managers, friends and associates, Rogan has given us as complete a book of on his fourth stint with the man as we are ever likely to getgroup.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099554089</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marian KeyesJVDK_ELO|title=Making It Up As I Go AlongElectric Light Orchestra: Song by Song|author=John Van der Kiste

|summary=OhMy memories of pop music in the early sixties revolve around guitars and drums, how sometimes the book reviewing gods like to give, piano with only occasional excursions into strings and equally like to take awaybrass. Here before me is a brand, spanking new collection of journalism by the wonderful Marian Keyes – but Pop music rarely stands still and itwasn's a proof copy, so there's no photo of t long before the author. Even if over the years I have stopped reading her novelsbasic instruments were seen as constraints and The Beatles, I have always turned The Rolling Stones and The Beach Boys began to the author picture to remind myself such sights exist in this worldexperiment, with other groups following where they led. Himself is a lucky manAmongst these groups was The Move and their lead guitarist and songwriter, for sureRoy Wood. But beyond sounding like a letch, what can I say about this – Wood wanted to develop the beautygroup's third large dose of essays, web columns and other journalism? I can start with agreeing that I am not the target audience, sound by adding more instruments but it's easy enough to see was prevented from these pages exactly achieving what he wanted by cost limitations and because the target is. So much like that test you do – you know rest of the one, that formulates decisions about the age and commonality of all things in space to come up with how many billions of planets are likely to have alien life on – you can narrow things down quite readily here, and still come up with a huge numbergroup didn't really share his enthusiasm.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718182529</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David WillsWatkins_Lets|title=The Cinematic Legacy Let's Make Lots of Frank SinatraMoney: My Life as the Biggest Man in Pop|author=Tom Watkins

|summary=Oh, [[Celebrity: How Entertainers Took Over The World and Why We Need an Exit Strategy by Marina Hyde|Who on earth would be a manager in the modern celebrity]] – they don't make them like they used to. Anodynelarger than life, uniform in (lack here today gone tomorrow world of) thought and body shapepop? Anybody with an ego, and fara ruthless streak, far too prominent in an opportunity to embrace the lives of too many for too little. If they're ever expected to multi-task chances and accept that it will entail them being much acclaimed for doing one day job to a mediocre standard, as well as reading out someone's voice-over for a BBC3/Channel 4/Channel 5 clip show – oh, and if someone deems them really talented they get to mime not going to someone else's recordlast, in a lip dub smash or whatever the heck they're calling it. Followed by pantoevidently. It Tom Watkins is a shameful reflection on us, and on the real celebrities we used just one of several to have, such as Frank Sinatra. By walked the time he was starting in film he was well-known for a character fine line and singing talent that was making him a star already, even if, as this book proves, he had more or less the looks for part of a young Lee Evans. By the time he was finished he'd acted straight, comic, romantic, criminal, sung quite successfully. As his heart outmemoirs suggest, danced – even learnt part of the drums for one role. He had Golden Globes, an Oscar – and he directed one film as well as produced several otherstime was achievement enough. In an age when the world is up in arms at the passing of anyone remotely famous, what tribute can we give to a great such as he was?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445655772</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim ParksKendrick_Scrappy|title=Where I'm Reading From: The Changing World of BooksScrappy Little Nobody|author=Anna Kendrick

|summary=Books, eh? – who here doesnCelebrity autobiographies. It't just love them? (And if you don't, please exercise greater mouse control as you click away.) Some of us love books about books – and that includes s a lot genre long tainted by the examples of us here at the Bookbag. And people who better clearly didn't deserve to turn to regarding books than [[:Category:Tim Parks|Mr Tim Parks]]be a celebrity, who writes them, writes about them, educates about them, translates them, teaches the translation thereof, blogs professionally about them… He tells us he has let alone have a split personality in that different worldly territories know him for different things, whether that be essays, travel writing, seriously serioghost-comic fictionwriter create their book, or just for being 'that bloke and by those who never exactly set the world on fire did so little but does do managed to churn out five memoirs before they were even thirty. But more recently it's become a way of staking a definitely reliable turn every time Iclaim to importance for female comics. They've tried him'. Thisnot all written autobiographies, as Bridget Christie proved, being the pick of four years' web posts but enough have to provide for a rapidly-filling shelf at the bookstore. 2016 we had Amy Schumer winning a GoodReads award, Lena Dunham's been at it, and we'New York Review ve also got Anna Kendrick. Now she's not a strict comic – not all of her films are designed to make you laugh, and some of Booksthem that are just don'', is his clearest statement t – but this has to be in book form about books, and yes, it is yet again a pretty reliable turnthe same bracket.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784701793</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma MarriottRopek_Tragic|title=Tragic Magic: The World Life of PoldarkTraffic's Chris Wood|author=Dan Ropek|rating=4.5

|summary=Back in the seventies I watched ''Poldark'' on television: it Chris Wood was enjoyablea member of Traffic, but I'll confess that if I'd missed an episode it wouldn't have worried me too much. When the gentleman rebel reappeared group formed by Steve Winwood in 2015 I had no intention of watching1967 after he left The Spencer Davis Group. A gifted musician best known for his flute and saxophone work, but a friend saw the first episode and said how good it was. I caught up on iPlayerhe also played keyboards, almost for politeness - bass guitar and was hooked. It wasn't just the story - but perhaps I'm more contributed backing vocals as well as having a hand in tune with it now that I was forty years ago - it was the quality writing several of the production which kept me watching week after weeksongs and one or two instrumentals. When Emma Marriott's book landed on my desk This biography takes its title from the temptation to 'just have a quick look' proved far too much name of one of his compositions for metheir fifth album.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509813616</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alastair Fothergill and Huw CordeyDolby_Sound|title=The HuntSpeed of Sound|author=Thomas Dolby|rating=4.5|genre=Animals and Wildlife Entertainment|summary=My mother From struggling post-punk musician to pop star, from Silicon Valley innovator to university professor, Thomas Dolby has long complained that nature programmes too often concentrate on the death and violence, or how it's all about the capture and killing of one animal by another. She's long had a point, but [[Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us by David Neiwert|killer whales]] swanning by doing nothing, and lions sleeping off the heat without munching on a passing wildebeest's leg really don't cut it when it comes to providing popular TV content. I doubt she will be tuning in to the series this book accompanies, even remarkable if the volume very quickly testifies that it's not all about the capture – unique career, often reinventing himself on the chase can be just as thrilling, way. This memoir is based on his extensive notes and the result for the intended victim is favourablejournals.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849907226</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Justin Richards and Dan GreenMorris_Legion|title=Doctor WhoThe Legion of Regrettable Supervillains: The Dangerous Oddball Criminals from Comic Book of MonstersHistory|author=Jon Morris

|summary=WellAs much as I like comics – and I do, thankfully whether superhero ones or not – I have never had to sit through ''Jaws 19''. Of all the perks invented for the heady days of October 2015 by admit one thing, namely that the middle film villains in them are a bit pants. What is The Penguin but the world''Back to the Future'' trilogys worst Mafioso, that was one with a hobby of the least inviting. I've never actually seen that middle film, either – really liked the original and still waddling along like his pet birds? Where else do, had the middle one pass me you win an Oscar of all things by totallyplaying a two-bit killer who just fell in a vat of random chemicals and changed colour, then saw the third so often and got mardier as a cinema steward result (shows my age!although recently he's become a nanotech genius – but let's not go there) I was word perfect on ? And what is it with the gimp in the script. The threesome see-through plant pot because he is one of a most wholesome kind – the restoration embodiment of family values through grabbing hold cold? And that's just some of your own destiny by the hornsbetter-known enemies of ''Batman'', the application one of science to save the day over brawns and shooting people up, the habitually dung-filled comeuppance of better goodies. You can imagine how awful the baddies throughout time – it's no wonder that related to the trilogy is much lovedbad goodies can be. And as itif you can's the most pictorial and detailed guide to their creation on paper imaginablet, this volume will follow it into many heartsis the perfect primer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783299703</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Caroline TaggartFletcher_Midnight|title=New Words for OldIn the Midnight Hour: Recycling Our Language for the Modern World|rating=3.5|genre=Trivia|summary=I never declare myself off to have a 'kip', as I recall reading that it originally meant the same amount of sleeping – and activity – as happens in a whorehouse. The word 'cleave' can mean either to split apart, or to connect together, and I'm sure there's another word that has completely changed its meaning from one end of things to another although I can't remember which. Certainly, ''literally'' has tried its best to make a full switch through rampant misuse. Such is the nature of our language – fluid both in spelling until moderately recently, and definitely in meaning. This attempt at capturing a corner Life & Soul of the trivia/words/novelty market is interested in such tales from the etymological world – the way we have adapted old words for our own, modern and perhaps very different usages. Certainly, having browsed it over a week, I can declare it a pretty strong attempt.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434720</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewWilson Pickett|author= Spencer Leigh|title= Frank Sinatra: An Extraordinary LifeTony Fletcher|rating= 4|genre= Entertainment|summary= Frank Sinatra was undoubtedly a legend. In a notoriously precarious profession, he managed to stay at the top, or very close to it, for a remarkably long time. Despite a few half-hearted flirtations with other styles which may have strayed a little from his comfort zone, he remained true to his musical style, won the respect of younger generations, and never really went out of fashion.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857160869</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Steve Tribe|title=The All New University Challenge Quiz Book: Questions, Answers, Facts, Figures and everything in between|rating=3.5

|summary=[Cue theme Tamla Motown groups and singers apart, in the mid-sixties there were three major names in the soul musicfield who mattered above all. Lights up on presenter, James Brown was something of a cult name who waffles on rarely bothered about establishments providing contestants – De Montfort University, local pub, family unit. Contestants don't, for once, introduce themselves as it's probably a given that they know each other. Contestants imbibe nervous sips of 'water', and settle back.] ''You all know or troubled the rules, so let's not waste time – here's your first starter for ten.''  Yessingles charts, this book throws no punches and attempts to put you in Otis Redding was on the spotlight of one verge of shooting into the nation's most superlative televisual institutions – but does it manage it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184949701X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jody Revenson|title= Harry Potter: stratosphere when he died in an aeroplane crash. The Character Vault|rating= 4|genre= Entertainment|summary= Unlock new information about your favourite characters from the Harry Potter film series. This coffeetable book profiles other was the good, bad, and everything in between – man from Harry and Ron to Voldemort and Umbridge. Hugely detailed and filled with beautiful illustrationsAlabama, images, and never before seen glimpses into 'the design process – this book will answer your questions about character design in the Harry Potter serieswicked Pickett'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0062407449</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Van der KistePaling_Reading|title=Jeff LynneReading Allowed: The Electric Light Orchestra - Before True Stories and AfterCurious Incidents from a Provincial Library|author=Chris Paling

|genre=BiographyEntertainment|summary=Jeff Lynne grew up I once made a comical faux pas in a library when I was younger, but it certainly didn't put me off returning. I once declared in a Birmingham suburb right self-important way that I would start at the beginning of the 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. ''I hope not'', was the response – but little me was only aware of 1947: even as a child he was passionate about music need for large font for my fellow whippersnappers, and not for any other reason. Since then I've needed libraries, and was a much respected guitarist as a teenagergoing to them has been second nature. He On the dole I made sure 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 member Senior Library Assistant girl was worthy of various semi-professional groups - critical acclaim came when he fronted Idle Race in the late sixties her title, and popularity of course, it saved a fortune on books for study and a degree of commercial success arrived when he joined the popular group The Movefun. Whilst still playing with that group he co-founded, along with Roy Wood, I'm not alone in sharing the warmth of both their heating system and the groundbreaking Electric Light Orchestravery thing they were born to provide – books, but it there was with Wood's departure that Lynne turned what had been an occasionally uneasy fusion still a huge step up between my level of classical use and rock into a successful and popular actknowledge of them to actually working in one. Which is where Chris Paling comes in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781554927</amazonuk>

{{newreviewplainFrontpage|title=Thunderbirds are Go Official Guide|rating=4|genreisbn=Confident Readers|summary=It's time to admit that I am old. I remember the first series of ''Thunderbirds'' from Saturday morning kids' cinema – an episode of that, then a second-run film, both for a quid. They were only ten years old or so then, but at least that proved the franchise was durable. Nothing did that quite as much, however, as the news a couple of years ago that the Anderson estate was to allow a CG updating, bringing a new generation of people to the massed audience. Amid the usual worries about it losing everything that made it special, it actually did pretty well when it aired in 2015 – even with a breakfast time transmission slot. This small(ish) format hardback is, bar the annual, the very first chance to look at an official book concerning the series, and inasmuch as it inspired me to research the return, and certainly accept it as looking a worthy addition to the canon, it succeeds on all fronts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471124991</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Keith PartridgeSpringsteen_Born|title=The Adventure Game: A Cameraman's Tales from Films at the Edge|rating= 4.5|genre= Animals and Wildlife|summary=Keith Partridge has been one of the world’s leading adventure cameramen for over twenty years. The award winning Touching the Void, Beckoning Silence and Human Planet are just some of the films that have taken him all over the earth, from the caves of Papua New Guinea Born to the summit of Mount Everest. No location has been too dangerous, no environment too wild, and if you have ever seen a climber or explorer in some outrageous position, chances are that Keith Partridge was there with his camera. Here Keith discusses the challenges that have faced him in the daring adventures has taken part in, with personalities such as [[:Category:Steve Backshall|Steve Backshall]], [[:Category:Joe Simpson|Joe Simpson]] and Stephen Venables.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124311</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewRun|author=Jonathan Rigby|title=English Gothic: Classic Horror Cinema 1897-2015Bruce Springsteen

|summary=Wow. Every once in a while No, you come across haven't stumbled into a book such as thismusic review from the 1970s, which represents in two covers the complete sine qua non I'm talking about The Boss's autobiography. Lots of its subject books have been written about Springsteen by folk who knew him, worked with him and typeby others who have only read the cuttings. There is little vital to say Over the last seven years he has been going about this book except it is essential for anyone with any remote interest in British horror in motion picture form – yesnot putting the record straight, exactly – but telling it covers cinema to from his own perspective. As he puts it: ''Writing about yourself is a minute level but also regards TV in an addendum that will bring back equal memories to those who watch itfunny business''. A book as long and detailed as this – and boyBy his own admission, is it long and detailed – is immediately marked out as isn't the whole truth, discretion holds him back but ''in a sterling, five-star readproject like this, and yet the humble reviewer (like perhaps a victim of writer has made one of these gothic fictions) has an exhaustive and exhausting time ahead. Yespromise, we here at The Bookbag do read every word of to show the books we coverreader his mind.'' ''In these pages, even if the only verdict regarding them is blatantly evident from the first hourI's perusalve tried to do this.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957648162</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Antonia Fraser (editor)JVDK_Beatles|title=The Pleasure of ReadingA Beatles Miscellany: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books That Inspired Them|rating=4|genre=Entertainment|summary= There has been a trend for lists in recent years, with numerous websites and books cashing in on this craze for cataloguing must-see films, favourite foods, and things Everything You Always Wanted to do before you die. ‘’The Pleasure of Reading’’, edited by Antonia Fraser, may be, then, Know About the most sophisticated and erudite result of this fascination for listography, since its premise is straightforwardly based around the top ten books chosen by famous authors. Behind this book is the curiosity readers feel for each other or the question, as Fraser puts it, ‘What ‘’do’’ other people read?’ But these people are some of the greatest writers working in recent years, with contributions from Margaret Atwood, Doris Lessing, and Tom Stoppard and others. The book, however, returns us Beatles but Were Afraid to those early moments in their lives – before fame and prizes – when reading was a hobby like it is for so many people. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408859629</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewAsk|author=Stephanie Milton|title=Minecraft Beginners's Handbook: Updated EditionJohn Van der Kiste

|summary=If you haven't heard of ''MinecraftYou might have thought that just about everything which could be said about the Beatles had been said and certainly,there'' where on earth have you s been? This popular construction/survival game has captured the imagination of almost 30 million people worldwide and the craze shows no signs shortage of abating. Ifbooks about what went wrong, like me, you are curious as what happened to what all the fuss is about money and wonder why you can no longer get near the computer until after the kids have gone to bed, then this new series of books by Egmont are just even what you needwent right. In no time at But what I've never seen before is a 'miscellany' - all, you will be happily chatting about mobs, redstone, endermen those little facts which are so hard to track down and zombie pigmen as if you were this is where historian John Van der Kiste comes into his own: he's a man with an expert.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>1405276770</amazonuk>