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[[Category:New Reviews|Entertainment]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--> {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Bruno VincentPatti Smith|title=Danger Mouse: DeclassifiedYear of the Monkey

|summary= Orson WellesOn the coast of Santa Cruz, Patti Smith enters the lunar year of the noted actormonkey - one packed with mischief, sorrow, director and producerunexpected moments. In a stranger's words, ''Anything is possible: after all, was one it's the year of those larger than life characters whose impact on the world of stage and screen during his lifetime was inestimablemonkey''. Simon Callow has found As Smith wanders the task coast of condensing his story into Santa Cruz in solitude, she reflects on a single volume is impossibleyear that brings huge shifts in her life - loss and ageing are faced head on, and this is as it the third of three solid instalmentsshifting political waters in America.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099502836</amazonuk>1526614758

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter DoggettWalton_Ask|title= Electric Shock: From the Gramophone to the iPhone - 125 Years of Pop|rating=5|genre=Entertainment|summary= Ask For many of us, it must be difficult to imagine a life without recorded music. Millions of us must have grown up with, even to, a very varied soundtrack consisting of one genre after another. In this book, Peter Doggett takes a marvellous broad sweep through the history of popular music from the end of the nineteenth century to the present day, from wax cylinders to streaming services. A rather maudlin ditty 'After The Ball', by Charles K. Harris, is regarded as the first modern popular song (well, it was modern in 1891) – the first of millions.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184792218X</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewBlues|author= John Lydon|title= Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No DogsMalcolm Walton

|genre=EntertainmentAutobiography|summary= Picking up this Malcolm Walton's book immediately makes you wonder what exactly you make is clearly a memoir about his introduction to the Trad Jazz scene of John Lydon, the man who became notorious in the late 1970s as 'Johnny Rotten' of the Sex Pistols. Was 1950s and early 1960s, but he the iconoclast who if some of the tabloids were has chosen to be believed was about to destroy western civilization almost single-handed? Had he really come to destroy, or merely to use write it in the showbusiness system and end up becoming part form of what he had set out to fight, or both – or what?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0859653412</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Nev Schulman|title= In Real Life: Lovea novel, Lies & Identity claiming in his prologue that this would give the Digital Age|rating= 4|genre= Reference|summary= Nev (it's pronounced Neev) is book a man who knows about different approach to the darker side of online datingmusic memoir. Known for his documentary His protagonist 'Martin'Catfishtakes on Malcolm'' – a film which showed an online flirtation going sour, Nev then began making a tv show s mantle and begins with his first discovery of the same name, travelling America to offer advice to those in online relationships, and possibly being catfished (which means being lured Salvation Army band with his grandfather. This catapults him into a relationship by someone adopting a fictional online persona). Now the go-to expert in online relationships for millenialslove of music, a generation who have never known a world without Facebook, Twitter, Instagraminitially taking piano lessons, and other online places where interactions can form. Here, he takes his investigation to the page – exploring relationships in the era of social media, later delving deeply into the complexities of dating in a digital age, and continuing the dialogue his show has begun about how we interact with each other online true love – as well as sharing insights from his own storythe trumpet. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1473608066</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John HowlettMoore Bientot|title= James Dean: Rebel LifeA Bientot...|author=Roger Moore

|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

|genre=Confident ReadersEntertainment|summary=It's imperative you keep up with The DoctorAs much as I like comics – and I do, in both senses whether superhero ones or not – meaning I have to admit one thing, namely that the villains in case them are a bit pants. What is The Penguin but the first thing he tells world's worst Mafioso, with a hobby of waddling along like his pet birds? Where else do you to do is ''Run!'' and win an Oscar of all things by playing a two-bit killer who just fell in the sense a vat of following all his various adventures random chemicals and changed colour, and maintaining knowledge of whatgot mardier as a result (although recently he's what and who hebecome a nanotech genius – but let's faced, enemynot go there)? And what is it with the gimp in the see-wise. One great way to be enemy wise is to peruse this book, which really through plant pot because he is a great present for the young fan – and embodiment of cold? And that's just some of course a life-saving manual for when you yourself find sharks in the fog, gasbetter-mask wearing boys known enemies of ''sansBatman'' their mothers or indeed gigantic Cyberking dreadnought spacecraft, one of the better goodies. You can imagine how awful the baddies related to the bad goodies can be. HonestlyAnd if you can't, why this is classed as a fiction title I have no idea…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405920033</amazonuk>the perfect primer.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Klastorin and Randal AtamaniukFletcher_Midnight|title=Back to In the FutureMidnight Hour: The Ultimate Visual HistoryLife & Soul of Wilson Pickett|author=Tony Fletcher|rating=4.5

|summary=WellTamla Motown groups and singers apart, thankfully I have never had to sit through ''Jaws 19''. Of all in the perks invented for the heady days of October 2015 by the middle film mid-sixties there were three major names in the ''Back to the Future'' trilogy, that soul music field who mattered above all. James Brown was one something of a cult name who rarely bothered about or troubled the least inviting. I've never actually seen that middle filmsingles charts, either – really liked the original and still do, had the middle one pass me by totally, then saw the third so often as a cinema steward (shows my age!) I Otis Redding was word perfect on the scriptverge of shooting into the stratosphere when he died in an aeroplane crash. The threesome is one of a most wholesome kind – the restoration of family values through grabbing hold of your own destiny by the horns, the application of science to save other was the day over brawns and shooting people upman from Alabama, the habitually dung-filled comeuppance of the baddies throughout time – it's no wonder that the trilogy is much loved. And as itwicked Pickett's the most pictorial and detailed guide to their creation on paper imaginable, this volume will follow it into many hearts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783299703</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Caroline TaggartPaling_Reading|title=New Words for OldReading Allowed: Recycling Our Language for the Modern WorldTrue Stories and Curious Incidents from a Provincial Library|author=Chris Paling|rating=34.5|genre=TriviaEntertainment|summary=I never declare myself off to have once made a comical faux pas in a library when I was younger, but it certainly didn'kip', as t put me off returning. I recall reading once declared in a self-important way that it originally meant I would start at the same amount beginning of sleeping – the books for young children and activity not stop til the end, then do the same for those for the older children – as happens in a whorehouse. The word 'cleave' can mean either to split apart, or to connect together, and Ithen do it all over again with them'm sure there's another word that has completely changed its meaning from one end of things to another although , I can't remember whichsaid, pointing at the large-print shelves. Certainly, ''literallyI hope not'' has tried its best to make , was the response – but little me was only aware of a full switch through rampant misuseneed for large font for my fellow whippersnappers, and not for any other reason. Such is the nature of our language – fluid both in spelling until moderately recentlySince then I've needed libraries, and definitely in meaninggoing to them has been second nature. This attempt at capturing a corner of On the trivia/words/novelty market is interested in such tales from dole I made sure I could use the etymological world – the way we have adapted old words free Internet they provided to pay me back for our ownmy council tax; later I was intent on finding out if a Senior Library Assistant girl was worthy of her title, modern and perhaps very different usages. Certainlyof course, having browsed it over saved a weekfortune 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, I can declare it but there was still a pretty strong attempthuge step up between my level of use and knowledge of them to actually working in one. Which is where Chris Paling comes in.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434720</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Spencer LeighSpringsteen_Born|title= Frank Sinatra: An Extraordinary LifeBorn to Run|author=Bruce Springsteen|rating= 45|genre= Entertainment|summary= Frank Sinatra was undoubtedly No, you haven't stumbled into a legendmusic review from the 1970s, I'm talking about The Boss's autobiography. In a notoriously precarious professionLots of books have been written about Springsteen by folk who knew him, worked with him and by others who have only read the cuttings. Over the last seven years he managed to stay at has been going about – not putting the toprecord straight, or very close to exactly – but telling it from his own perspective. As he puts it, for : ''Writing about yourself is a remarkably long timefunny business''. Despite By his own admission, it isn't the whole truth, discretion holds him back but ''in a few half-hearted flirtations with other styles which may have strayed a little from his comfort zoneproject like this, the writer has made one promise, he remained true to show the reader his musical stylemind.'' ''In these pages, won the respect of younger generations, and never really went out of fashionI've tried to do this.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857160869</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve TribeJVDK_Beatles|title=The All New University Challenge Quiz BookA Beatles Miscellany: Questions, Answers, Facts, Figures and everything in betweenEverything You Always Wanted to Know About the Beatles but Were Afraid to Ask|author=John Van der Kiste|rating=3.5

|summary=[Cue theme music. Lights up on presenter, who waffles on You might have thought that just about everything which could be said about establishments providing contestants – De Montfort Universitythe Beatles had been said and certainly, local pub, family unit. Contestants don't, for once, introduce themselves as itthere's probably a given that they know each other. Contestants imbibe nervous sips been no shortage of 'water'books about what went wrong, what happened to the money and settle backeven what went right.] But what I've never seen before is a 'miscellany'You - all know the rules, those little facts which are so lethard to track down and this is where historian John Van der Kiste comes into his own: he's not waste time – here's your first starter a man with an eye for ten.''  Yes, this book throws no punches detail and attempts the ability to put you in the spotlight of one of the nationbring everything together into a very readable whole. It's most superlative televisual institutions – but does it manage it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184949701X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jody Revenson|title= Harry Potter: 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 the good, bad, and everything in between – from Harry and Ron to Voldemort and Umbridge. Hugely detailed and filled with beautiful illustrations, images, and never before seen glimpses into the design process – this book will answer your questions about character design in a wonderful collection of the Harry Potter seriessmall facts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0062407449</amazonuk>