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[[Category:New Reviews|Entertainment]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--> {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Justin Richards and Dan GreenPatti Smith|title=Doctor Who: The Dangerous Book Year of Monstersthe Monkey|rating=54|genre=Confident ReadersBiography|summary=ItOn the coast of Santa Cruz, Patti Smith enters the lunar year of the monkey - one packed with mischief, sorrow, and unexpected moments. In a stranger's imperative you keep up with The Doctorwords, in both senses – meaning in case the first thing he tells you to do ''Anything is possible: after all, it's the year of the monkey'Run!'' and in . As Smith wanders the sense coast of following all his various adventures Santa Cruz in solitude, she reflects on a year that brings huge shifts in her life - loss and maintaining knowledge of what's what and who he's ageing are facedhead on, enemy-wiseas it the shifting political waters in America. |isbn=1526614758}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Walton_Ask|title=Ask For Blues|author=Malcolm Walton|rating=3. One great way to be enemy wise is to peruse this 5|genre=Autobiography|summary=Malcolm Walton's book, which really is clearly a great present for memoir about his introduction to the young fan – Trad Jazz scene of the late 1950s and early 1960s, but he has chosen to write it in the form of course a life-saving manual for when you yourself find sharks novel, claiming in his prologue that this would give the book a different approach to the fog, gas-mask wearing boys music memoir. His protagonist 'Martin'sanstakes on Malcolm'' their mothers or indeed gigantic Cyberking dreadnought spacecrafts mantle and begins with his first discovery of the Salvation Army band with his grandfather. HonestlyThis catapults him into a love of music, why this is classed as a fiction title I have no idea…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405920033</amazonuk>initially taking piano lessons, and later delving into his true love – the trumpet.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Klastorin and Randal AtamaniukMoore Bientot|title=Back to the Future: The Ultimate Visual HistoryA Bientot...|author=Roger Moore

|summary=Well, thankfully I have never had to sit through ''Jaws 19''. Of all the perks invented for The news of the heady days death of October 2015 by the middle film Sir Roger Moore in the ''Back to the Future'' trilogy, that May 2017 came as a great shock: he was one of the least invitingthose people you knew would go on forever. I've never actually seen that middle film, either – really liked the original and still do, had the middle There was just one pass me by totally, then saw small glimmer of light in the third so often as a cinema steward (shows my age!) I was word perfect on sadness - the script. The threesome is one of news that a most wholesome kind – the restoration matter of family values through grabbing hold of your own destiny by the horns, days before his death he'd delivered the application finished manuscript of science to save the day over brawns and shooting people uphis book, the habitually dung-filled comeuppance of the baddies throughout time – it's no wonder that the trilogy is much loved'À bientôt…'', to his publishers. And as itJust a few months later a copy landed on my desk and I didn's the most pictorial and detailed guide t even bother to their creation on paper imaginable, this volume will follow look as though I could resist reading it into many heartsstraight away.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783299703</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Caroline TaggartMaslanka Sherlock|title=New Words for OldSherlock: Recycling Our Language for the Modern WorldThe Puzzle Book|author=Christopher Maslanka and Steve Tribe|rating=3.54|genre=TriviaEntertainment|summary=I never declare myself off to have Who doesn't love a 'kip'good puzzle, as I recall reading especially those really fiendish ones that it originally meant get the same amount of sleeping – and activity – as happens in a whorehouse. The word 'cleave' can mean either brain working extra hard? There really is nothing to split apart, or compare to connect togetherthat buzz we get from the Aha! moment, when everything falls into place and I'm sure there's another word that has completely changed its meaning from one end of things the solution reveals itself. If puzzles are your thing then you may wish to put your grey cells to another although I can't remember which. Certainly, the test with ''literallyThe Sherlock Puzzle Book'' 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 of based on 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 usagespopular TV series. Certainly, having browsed it over a week, I can declare it a pretty strong attempt.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434720</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Spencer LeighCorcoran_Dylan|title= Frank SinatraDo You Mr Jones?: An Extraordinary LifeBob Dylan with the Poets and Professors|author=Neil Corcoran|rating= 4.5|genre= Entertainment|summary= Frank Sinatra was undoubtedly a legendBob Dylan's award of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016 'for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition' proved highly controversial. In a notoriously precarious profession, he managed It inevitably led some people in the literary world to stay take stock and look at the top, or very close to it, for his work and reputation with a remarkably long timefresh eye. 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 This volume of younger generationsessays was first published in 2002, and never really went out of fashionis now reissued with a new foreword by Will Self.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857160869</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve TribeKyncl_Stream|title=The All New University Challenge Quiz Book: Questions, Answers, Facts, Figures Stream Punks|author=Robert Kyncl and everything in betweenMaany Peyvan|rating=34.5

|summary=[Cue theme I watch quite a lot of YouTube. I play musicvideos when I want to listen to a particular song I don't already have in my collection. Lights up I use it to find out how to do things, with the instruction videos they seem to have for pretty much anything. At the gym, I'll stick it on on presentermy phone, who waffles prop it up on about establishments providing contestants – De Montfort Universitythe cross-trainer and watch some behind the scenes interviews with the cast of my favourite shows. And sometimes I'll treat it as if it is Netflix, local pubto watch series with new episodes releasing every few days, family unitexclusively on YouTube. Contestants don'tHaving a new smart TV adds an extra, for once, introduce themselves as it's probably easy way to watch without having to plug in my laptop or squint at a given that they know each othersmall phone screen. Contestants imbibe nervous sips of 'water'So yes, I like YouTube and settle backI use YouTube.] But I didn''You all t know a whole lot about the rules, so let's not waste time – here's your first starter for ten.''  Yes, site it until I read this book throws no punches and attempts to put you in the spotlight of one of the nation's most superlative televisual institutions – but does it manage it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184949701X</amazonuk>.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jody RevensonJVDK_Swing|title= Harry PotterWe Can Swing Together: The Character VaultStory of Lindisfarne|author=John Van der Kiste|rating= 4.5|genre= Entertainment|summary= Unlock new information about your favourite characters from the Harry Potter film seriesIt all began with a group of youngsters in North Shields. This coffeetable book profiles the good Rod Clements, badSimon 'Si' Cowe, Ray 'Jacka' Jackson and everything in between – from Harry and Ron Ray Laidlaw formed ''The Downtown Faction'', soon changing the name to ''Brethren'' when they were joined by singer-songwriter Alan Hull. As a US-based group had a similar name they opted to Voldemort change the name again - and Umbridge''Lindisfarne'' (with the name taken from an island off the Northumberland coast) was born. Hugely detailed More than forty years on and filled with beautiful illustrationsnumerous changes of personnel the band is still very much around. They might not be touring or producing much in the way of new material, imagesbut they still perform, and never before seen glimpses into with Rod Clements, one of the design process – this book will answer your questions about character design in original members on his fourth stint with the Harry Potter seriesgroup.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0062407449</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=JVDK_ELO|title=Electric Light Orchestra: Song by Song

|genre=BiographyEntertainment|summary=Jeff Lynne grew up in a Birmingham suburb right at the end My memories of 1947: even as a child he was passionate about pop music and was a much respected guitarist as a teenager. He was a member of various semi-professional groups - critical acclaim came when he fronted Idle Race in the late early sixties revolve around guitars and popularity drums, sometimes the piano with only occasional excursions into strings and a degree of commercial success arrived when he joined brass. Pop music rarely stands still and it wasn't long before the popular group 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. Whilst still playing with that group he co-foundedand their lead guitarist and songwriter, along with Roy Wood, . Wood wanted to develop the groundbreaking Electric Light Orchestra, group's sound by adding more instruments but it was with Wood's departure that Lynne turned prevented from achieving what had been an occasionally uneasy fusion he wanted by cost limitations and because the rest of classical and rock into a successful and popular actthe group didn't really share his enthusiasm.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781554927</amazonuk>

{{newreviewplainFrontpage|isbn=Watkins_Lets|title=Thunderbirds are Go Official GuideLet's Make Lots of Money: My Life as the Biggest Man in Pop|author=Tom Watkins

|genre=Confident ReadersEntertainment|summary=It's time to admit that I am old. I remember Who on earth would be a manager in the first series larger than life, here today gone tomorrow world of ''Thunderbirds'' from Saturday morning kids' cinema – pop? Anybody with an episode of thatego, then a second-run filmruthless streak, 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 an opportunity to embrace the massed audience. Amid the usual worries about it losing everything chances and accept that made it special's not going to last, it actually did pretty well when it aired in 2015 – even with a breakfast time transmission slotevidently. This small(ish) format hardback Tom Watkins is, bar just one of several to have walked the annualfine line and, for part of the very first chance to look at an official book concerning the seriestime, and inasmuch as it inspired me to research the returnquite successfully. As his memoirs suggest, and certainly accept it as looking a worthy addition to part of the canon, it succeeds on all frontstime was achievement enough.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471124991</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Keith PartridgeKendrick_Scrappy|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 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>}}{{newreviewScrappy Little Nobody|author=Jonathan Rigby|title=English Gothic: Classic Horror Cinema 1897-2015Anna Kendrick|rating=3.5

|summary=WowCelebrity autobiographies. Every once in It's a genre long tainted by the examples of people who clearly didn't deserve to be a while you come across celebrity, let alone have a ghost-writer create their book such as this, which represents in two covers the complete sine qua non of its subject and type. There is by those who did so little vital but managed to say about this book except churn out five memoirs before they were even thirty. But more recently it is essential 's become a way of staking a claim to importance for anyone with any remote interest in British horror in motion picture form – yesfemale comics. They've not all written autobiographies, as Bridget Christie proved, it covers cinema but enough have to provide for a minute level but also regards TV in an addendum that will bring back equal memories to those who watch itrapidly-filling shelf at the bookstore. A book as long and detailed as this – and boy2016 we had Amy Schumer winning a GoodReads award, is Lena Dunham's been at it long and detailed – is immediately marked out as a sterling, five-star read, and yet the humble reviewer (like perhaps we've also got Anna Kendrick. Now she's not a victim strict comic – not all of one of these gothic fictions) has an exhaustive her films are designed to make you laugh, and exhausting time ahead. Yes, we here at The Bookbag do read every word some of the books we cover, even if the only verdict regarding them is blatantly evident from that are just don't – but this has to be in the first hour's perusalsame bracket.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957648162</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Antonia Fraser (editor)Ropek_Tragic|title=Tragic Magic: The Pleasure Life of Reading: 43 Writers on the Discovery of Reading and the Books That Inspired ThemTraffic's Chris Wood|author=Dan Ropek|rating=4.5

|summary= There has been Chris Wood was a trend for lists in recent yearsmember of Traffic, with numerous websites and books cashing the group formed by Steve Winwood in on this craze 1967 after he left The Spencer Davis Group. A gifted musician best known for cataloguing must-see filmshis flute and saxophone work, favourite foodshe also played keyboards, bass guitar and things to do before you die. ‘’The Pleasure contributed backing vocals as well as having a hand in writing several of Reading’’, edited by Antonia Fraser, may be, then, the most sophisticated songs and erudite result of this fascination for listography, since one or two instrumentals. This biography takes its premise is straightforwardly based around title from the top ten books chosen by famous authors. Behind this book is the curiosity readers feel name of one of his compositions 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 to those early moments in their lives – before fame and prizes – when reading was a hobby like it is for so many peoplefifth album. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408859629</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stephanie MiltonDolby_Sound|title=Minecraft Beginners's Handbook: Updated EditionThe Speed of Sound|author=Thomas Dolby|rating=4.5

|summary=If you haven't heard of ''MinecraftFrom struggling post-punk musician to pop star, from Silicon Valley innovator to university professor,'' where Thomas Dolby has had a remarkable if not unique career, often reinventing himself on earth have you been? This popular construction/survival game has captured the imagination of almost 30 million people worldwide and the craze shows no signs of abatingway. If, like me, you are curious as to what all the fuss This memoir is about 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 what you need. In no time at all, you will be happily chatting about mobs, redstone, endermen based on his extensive notes and zombie pigmen as if you were an expert..journals.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405276770</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Martin EdwardsMorris_Legion|title=The Golden Age Legion of MurderRegrettable Supervillains: Oddball Criminals from Comic Book History|author=Jon Morris

|summary=Martin Edwards has had such As much as I like comics – and I do, whether superhero ones or not – I have to admit one thing, namely that the villains in them are a good idea for this bookbit pants. He takes What is The Penguin but the foundation world's worst Mafioso, with a hobby of waddling along like his pet birds? Where else do you win an Oscar of all things by playing a two-bit killer who just fell in a vat of random chemicals and changed colour, and got mardier as a result (although recently he's become a nanotech genius – but let's not go there)? And what is it with the Detection Club gimp in the late 1920s and follows see-through into plant pot because he is the postwar period, ending his account sometime in embodiment of cold? And that's just some of the midbetter-1950sknown enemies of ''Batman'', perhaps with one of the death of Dorothy L Sayers in 1957better goodies. I may sound tentative here because there is no entirely precise end dateYou can imagine how awful the baddies related to the bad goodies can be. The Detection Club itself still lives onAnd if you can't, hosting three dinners a year for elected members. Edwards this is its current archivist – yet there are no archives, unless you count the hundreds of books produced by its members, which of course he does. And he also explores their livesperfect primer. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0008105960</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter AckroydFletcher_Midnight|title=Charlie Chaplin|rating=4.5|genre=Biography|summary=Charlie Chaplin dominated In the formative years Midnight Hour: The Life & Soul of the cinema, as actor and director, like no other. As we are told in an early chapter of this book, on his first visit to America in 1910, he is alleged to have shouted, ‘I am coming to conquer you. Every man woman and child shall have my name on their lips!’ Within a few years he had indeed conquered the entire movie-going world|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099287560</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewWilson Pickett|author=Charles Solomon|title=A Wish Your Heart Makes : From the Grimm Brothers' Aschenputtel to Disney's CinderellaTony Fletcher

|summary=It's not a useful thingTamla Motown groups and singers apart, to have sniffy presumptions, when you're a humble book reviewer. The same applies of course in the world mid-sixties there were three major names in the soul music field who mattered above all. James Brown was something of cinema, and a lot else besides, but I do have to admit to be really quite dubious cult name who rarely bothered about or troubled the thought of a live action remake of Cinderellasingles charts, even before seeing, reading or hearing anything and Otis Redding was on which to form a proper judgement. Did the world need it, I wondered – verge of shooting into the original was great enough, and surely so much a sine qua non stratosphere when he died in animation historyan aeroplane crash. What would some new young cast members, and Kenneth BranaghThe other was the man from Alabama, add to – or possibly would they overlay – decades of cinema audiences' joint memory? Surely it would be a pig's ear. Well, if this luscious first book regarding the new film is any indication, itwicked Pickett's actually going to be pretty good. The format of film tie-in guides itself doesn't always engender much hope in the likewise prejudiced – but I confirm this, too, is an item well worth bearing in mind.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1484713265</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sean SmithPaling_Reading|title=Tom Jones - The LifeReading Allowed: True Stories and Curious Incidents from a Provincial Library|author=Chris Paling

|summary=The week before I reviewed this book once made a comical faux pas in a library when I saw was younger, but it certainly didn't put me off returning. I once declared in a newspaper article 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 that so, pointing at the large-called brain-training apps are print shelves. ''I hope not'', was the response – but little me was only aware of a waste of timeneed for large font for my fellow whippersnappers, and not for any other reason. Since then I've needed libraries, that and going to them has been second nature. On the dole I made sure I could use the free Internet they merely replace what we should be doing anyway provided to keep our grey cells active (multi-taskingpay me back for my council tax; later I was intent on finding out if a Senior Library Assistant girl was worthy of her title, observingand of course, REAL LIFE etc)it saved a fortune on books for study and fun. This is I'm not alone in sharing the puzzle book version warmth of a brain training app, both their heating system and so with all those electronic titles on the market it already had oppositionvery thing they were born to provide – books, even before that news came but there was still a huge step up between my level of use and knowledge of them to actually working in one. Which is where Chris Paling comes in. But let's face it – who on earth would risk the science being wrong on this occasion? Surely this kind of book should be an inherently essential purchase?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782433953</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter A DavidSpringsteen_Born|title=The Avengers Vault|rating=3|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=It's not just because the third richest take of any movie is about to get a sequel that we have this pictorial background guide. There have been decades of action featuring the main characters of The Avengers, and they themselves are fifty years old as a collective entity, so this book has a lot of ground to cover. To its benefit there are hardly any mentions of the global behemoth that are Marvel films these days, beyond a couple of references where relevant. Instead we're looking back, with bright and eager eyes, Born to see what we can find, what the beginner may need to know, and what the fan will have fond memories of.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781313989</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewRun|author=Gareth Murphy|title=Cowboys and Indies: The Epic History of the Record IndustryBruce Springsteen

|summary=It’s not difficult to find No, you haven't stumbled into a history of popular or recorded musicreview from the 1970s, I'm talking about The Boss's autobiography. Lots of books have been written around about Springsteen by folk who knew him, worked with him and by others who have only read the musical names who made cuttings. Over the last seven years he has been going about – not putting the record straight, exactly – but telling it happenfrom his own perspective. As he puts it: ''Cowboys and IndiesWriting about yourself is a funny business'' takes a different approach. While there is plenty By his own admission, it isn't the whole truth, discretion holds him back but ''in these pages about several of the most important starsa project like this, there is just as much again if not sometimes more about the movers and shakerswriter has made one promise, to show the inventorsreader his mind.'' ''In these pages, managers, impresarios, and record label founders without whom there would not have been a record industryI've tried to do this.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781254524</amazonuk>''

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma Tennant, Hilary Bailey and David ElliottJVDK_Beatles|title=Did We Meet on Grub Street?|rating=3.5|genre=Entertainment|summary=Essentially, the three authors (all of whom have long careers in the book industry) revel in the idea of being whining old curmudgeons who miss the good old days of publishing. This unashamed nostalgia provides the focus of the book and allows the writers to recount numerous anecdotes from their days in the publishing business. Whilst the primary audience for this book may well be students of creative writing and media studies, it also serves as an interesting exploration of an aspect of modern historyA Beatles Miscellany: how a once-burgeoning industry is now a shell of its former self, much like a lot of manufacturing. Because of this, I was disappointed that no space was given Everything You Always Wanted to a consideration of how the rise of the e-book and Kindle has directly damaged both the sale of books and the potential for new books to be written (fewer real books sold = fewer financial advances paid to writers = fewer books written). Also, given the clear love of books as treasured artifacts, Know About the dismissal of the Harry Potter phenomenon seems truculent, given the impetus the series gave Beatles but Were Afraid to reading amongst both the young and adults.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0704372983</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=David Lodge|title=Lives in Writing|rating=4|genre=Entertainment|summary=David Lodge Lives in Writing. So blares the cover of my edition, and it's not far wrong. When he's not entertaining us with his [[:Category:David Lodge|writing career]] (now in its third, more erudite and to me more serious stage, after the first third of comic light touches, before he found his metier – and fame with TV adaptations– with comedies about the social and sexual lives of academe) he's teaching about and around writing. When I was younger I also read around writing – literature books, in other words – and Lodge's were among those I turned to. So this book and its contents are a welcome step back down a very familiar road.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587769</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewAsk|author=Steve Tribe|title=Sherlock: ChroniclesJohn Van der Kiste

|summary=I still remember sitting down You might have thought that just about everything which could be said about the Beatles had been said and certainly, there's been no shortage of books about what went wrong, what happened to watch the first episode of money and even what went right. But what I've never seen before is a 'Sherlockmiscellany''. I was looking forward - all those little facts which are so hard to it, certainly, but within minutes I realised track down and this was going to become far more than just is where historian John Van der Kiste comes into his own: he's a television series. It also struck me that, of all the television man with an eye for detail and film versions I had seen, this felt like the most authentic interpretation of the original stories - but trying ability to work out exactly why would definitely be bring everything together into a three patch problemvery readable whole. Happily, this book provides all It's a wonderful collection of the explanationssmall facts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849907625</amazonuk>