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[[Category:New Reviews|Trivia]] __NOTOC__<!-- Remove --><!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Zoe Bramley1780724047|title= The Shakespeare TrailA Dictionary of Interesting and Important Dogs|author=Peter J Conradi|rating= 4|genre= TriviaPets|summary= It has been 400 years since William ShakespeareI struggle to resist a book about dogs, the man heralded as the greatest writer in the English language, and Englandbut I did wonder why this one was so ''thin'': given that I's national poet, died. Shakespeare has made ve never encountered a profound mark on our culture dog who wasn't interesting or important - and heritageprobably both, yet many aspects I was expecting a massive tome. But ''A Dictionary of his life remain in the shadows, Interesting and many places throughout England have forgotten their association with him. Here, Zoe Bramley takes the reader on Important Dogs'' is actually ''a journey through hundreds rich compendium of places associated with Shakespeare – many whose connections will come as the world's most significant and beloved dogs'' and it's certainly a surprise to mostrich treasure trove. Filled We begin with intriguing titbits of information about ShakespearePeter J Conradi's four collies: Cloudy, Elizabethan EnglandSky. Bradley and Max. They're consecutive rather than simultaneous dogs, but what comes over is Conradi's love for each and the places every one of them. I knew that she talks about, this is no mere travel guideI was in safe hands. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445646846</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Stephen HallidayDon Behrend|title=London (Amazing Copernicus! What Have You Done?: ...and Extraordinary Facts)Other Interesting Questions

|summary= What makes a city? Is it the materials, such as the very London Stone itself, of mythological repute, that has moved around several times, and now forms part of a WH SmithHello! Would this review be okay if I simply said ''s branch? (This has nothing, of course, on Temple Bar, which has also been known to walkI LOVED THIS GLORIOUS LITTLE BOOK AND SO WILL YOU.) Is it the people – the butchers [[Jack the Ripper: CSI: Whitechapel by John Bennett and Paul Begg|(Jack the Ripper)]], the bakers (or whoever set fire to the entire city from Pudding Lane) and the candlestick makers? Is it the infrastructure, from the Underground, whose one-time boss got a medal from Stalin for his success, to the London Bridge itself, that in its own wanderlust means itFIN''s highly unlikely the Thames will freeze again? However you define a city, London certainly has a lot going for it as regards weird and wonderful, and the trivial yet fascinating! Because I did. And, luckily for us, so has this bookyou will.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1910821020</amazonuk>1789016770

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stephen HallidayLloyd_1423|title=London Underground (Amazing 1,423 QI Facts to Bowl You Over|author=John Lloyd, James Harkin and Extraordinary Facts)Anne Miller|rating=45|genre=TravelTrivia|summary= From initial worries about smuttyYou may think me lazy, enclosed air with but there is an inherent satisfaction for book reviewers in hitting upon a pungent smell to decades of human hair book such as this – you know you will have very little bearing on its sales, and engine grease causing escalator fires; from what's more you hardly even need describe it – just dip in here and there for a few lines connecting London termini to major jaunts out into Metro-land for the suburbia-bound commuters; quotes, and sit back and from a few religious-minded if financially dodgy pioneer investment managers to Crossrail; the history of the world's most extensive underground system (even when a majority relax knowing your job is actually above ground) is fascinating to manydone. This book is a repository ''Only 1% of much that is entirely trivial, but is also pretty much thoroughly interesting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910821039</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Julian Holland|title=Railways (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts)|rating=3|genre=Travel|summary=How and when did Laurel and Hardy replace people who buy marmalade are under the Duke age of York (George VI)? 28. They reopened Treadmills were once the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway when peacetime resumed, at whose launch the latter had officiated before harshest form of punishment after the Wardeath penalty. WhatNaked mole-rats can survive for 18 minutes without oxygen by turning themselves into plants.'s the worst that can happen when you travel internationally and arrive on a London goods train with no further destination documents? Well, if you're an unidentifiable Peruvian mummy you can get buried as an unknown corpse before And the invoice turns up to prove you were wanted in Belgiumwhole of page 52. After so many miles and so much dramaThere, it's no surprise odd facts job done – and fun trivia derive from our country's trains. This the creators of this book is designed certainly have done their job to be an ideal source of quick articles and fun mini-essays for use in the smallest roomperfection.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910821004</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graeme DonaldBrightside_101|title=Words 101 Things to Take the Stress Out of a FeatherChristmas|author=Robin Snow

|genre=ReferenceTrivia|summary= Words For many years one of a Feather. The title alone suggests an engaging read about language, and my guiding principles has been that the C word should not be mentioned until the book certainly delivers. It pairs seemingly unrelated wordsbeginning of December but, digs up their etymological roots and reveals their common ancestry. The English language, of courseunfortunately, provides rich pickings indeed for a book of this type and it is fascinating C seems to see the hidden meaning behind common be coming earlier each year and not-so-common words. Some connections there are fairly obvious once you read them. For example, the link between ''grotto'' and ''grotesque'' is easy even shops where it never ceases to grasp: the word ''grotesque'' derives from unpleasant figures depicted in murals in Ancient Roman ''grottoes''. Other connections are just extraordinarybe imminent, like the so-crazy-you-couldn't-make-it-which ramps up connection between ''furnace'' and ''fornicate''. These two words date back to Ancient Rome when prostitutes took over the city's abandoned baking domesstress levels considerably. And some connections are more than a little tenuousSo, seemingly just a collection book which promises 101 things to take the stress out of words banded together, as is the case with the ''insult'' and ''salmon'' pairingC seemed like a good idea. One of my personal favourites: What’s it about? Tips like putting the Italian word ''schiavo'' for ''slave'' was used sprouts on to summon boil in November or dismiss joining a slave; this word became corrupted to ''ciao''religion which avoids the celebration altogether? Well, a word the more well-heeled among us use instead of ''goodbye''not quite.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178418814X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ruth BinneyBrightside_Worry|title=The English Countryside (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts)101 Things to do instead of worrying about the world|author=Felicity Brightside

|genre=Animals and WildlifeTrivia|summary=I live in don't think that I've ever been quite so worried about the state of the countryside world as I have been of late - and spend as much time I speak as someone who lived through the Cuban Missile Crisis and various other apocalyptic moments. It almost certainly comes down to a lack of confidence in the weather will allow exploring people who are supposedly in charge, whether it, so the chance to read Ruth Binney's ''The English Countryside'' was too good to be missedfrom a political point of view or of our stewardship of this planet we call home. But what can be done about it? We've met Ruth [[The Allotment Experience by Ruth Binney|before]] at Bookbag tried voting, arguing and demonstrating. Now we know that she writes well 're down to pulling up the drawbridge and interestingly, but just one thing was worrying me doing our best to think about this book. It's a hardback and beautifully presented but its the size of book that you slip into a pocket or handbagsomething else. Would it be rather superficial?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910821012</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin1342|title=1,234 342 QI Facts to To Leave You SpeechlessFlabbergasted|author=John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, James Harkin and Anne Miller

|summary=''No US President has ever died in MayI love the way the QI elves play games with us with [[:Category:John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin|these books]].'' That's not to say it'There are fewer women on corporate boards s a game of pulling the wool over our eyes, for every entrant in America than there are men named John.'' ''Dogs investigate bad smells this series has had the equivalent online version for the sources, so every page is replicated with the due links you need to search for proof of their right nostril and good smells with their leftstatements.'' ''Apollo 11's fuel consumption was seven inches to No, the gallongame is Six Degrees of Separation.'' And they''The first occupational disease ever recorded re so good at it, they can do most things in medical literature was 'chimney sweep's scrotum'three.'' ''The song 'YesSo in just three standalone, but thematically linked, phrases, We Have No Bananas' was written by Leon Trotsky's nephew.'' you can get from how to make the sound of an Orc army for ''In the 18th Century, King George I declared all pigeon droppings to be property Lord of the CrownRings''films to record-breaking nipple hair. I hardly think I need say any From illicit wartime barbers in Italy to American founding father bedroom arrangements, is only three steps – and the path carries on to reach that erstwhile novice stand-up, Ronald Reagan, in two more. Review overIt's only two jumps between Donald Trump and Charles Darwin, disconcertingly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571326684</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Fred BenensonLloyd_1411|title= How to Speak Emoji1,411 QI Facts To Knock You Sideways|author=John Lloyd, John Mitchinson and James Harkin|rating= 4.5|genre= Trivia|summary= Emojis are funHandsome is as handsome does. And you know what else benefits from being curt and succinct, and therealongside old housewives's so much more saws like that one? Trivia. I always thought the QI books such as this one to them than the smileys of days gone by ? They can be a language unto themselveshandsome things – perfectly presenting trivia, thoughfour (on rare occasion, and I've found that some members of three) statements to thepage, ahem, older generation can find themselves in a very nice little troubled by themcubical hardback. This bookNow they're being represented in paperback, then, sounds perfect for anyone who needs a little help with this 'languagebut you know what? They're still handsome things.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178503202X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Lloyd_1339|title=1,339 QI Facts To Make Your Jaw Drop|author=John Lloyd, John Mitchinson, and James Harkin and Andrew Hunter Murray|title=QI: The Third Book of General Ignorance

|summary=Well done, Hartlepool. You didnA spermologer ''t put on trial and kill is a shipwrecked monkey thinking it collector of trivia''. Just that sentence tells you a Napoleonic spy lot – any we're once more than in the realm of the several other places thusly accused ever did. Well donecurt, Italy, for making succinct approach to the ciabatta such a global phenomenon it seems like a traditional foodstuff, even if it was invented in 1982world's information and oddities. And well done to that famous ice hockey playerIt says more, Charles Darwin however – who was probably playing it, seeing as it was a British invention, long before beyond the weirdness of the word is the Canadians ever realised they might be good at it. Yes, obvious necessity for a book the word to exist – without people that spends a lot could be called collectors of its time saying 'this didn’t happentrivia you would not need the term. And rest assured,' 'hoojamaflip didn't do this,' and 'there are currently few people that was never thus', it's one that's incredibly easy to be most positive aboutstand as better spermologers than the chief QI elves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571308988</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Caroline TaggartMetcalf_Skedaddle|title=New From Skedaddle to Selfie: Words for Old: Recycling Our Language for of the Modern WorldGeneration|author=Allan Metcalf

|summary=I never declare myself off have to have go a 'kip'roundabout way to introduce this book, as I recall reading that it originally meant so bear with me. It stems partly from dictionaries and the etymology of the same amount language we use, but more so if anything from a different couple of books, and their ideas of generations. The authors of sleeping those posited the idea that all those archetypical generations – the Baby Boomers, the Millennials, and those before, in between and activity since – as happens have their own cyclical pattern, and the history of humanity has been and will be formed by the interplay of just four different kinds, running (with only one exception) in a whorehouseregular order. The word I don'cleave' can mean either to split apart, or to connect togethert really hold much store by that, and Icertainly didn'm sure theret know we's another word that has completely changed its meaning from d started one end of since the Millennials – who the heck decides such things to another although I can't remember which. , for one? Certainly, ''literallySomebody must have put out an order'' has tried its best to make a full switch through rampant misuse. Such is the nature , as someone here says of our language – fluid both in spelling until moderately recently, and definitely in meaningsomething else. This attempt at capturing a corner of the trivia/words/novelty market is interested But in such tales from the etymological world – the same way we have adapted old as generations get defined by collective persons unknown, so do words for our own, modern – and perhaps very different usages. Certainly, having browsed it over those words are certainly a weekclue to what was important, I can declare it a pretty strong attemptpredominant and of course spoken in each decade.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782434720</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Steve TribeHalliday_Cathedrals|title=The All New University Challenge Quiz Book: Questions, Answers, Cathedrals and Abbeys (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts, Figures and everything in between)|author=Stephen Halliday|rating=34.5|genre=EntertainmentTrivia|summary=[Cue theme music. Lights up on presenter, who waffles on about establishments providing contestants What makes a cathedral? It's not automatically the principal church of anywhere that is made a city – De Montfort UniversitySt Davids is a village of 2, local pub, family unit. Contestants don000 people and wasn'talways a city, for oncebut always had a cathedral, introduce themselves as itdid Chelmsford. It's probably not the seat of a given that they know each other. Contestants imbibe nervous sips of 'water'bishop – Glasgow has the building but not the person, and settle backhasn't had a bishop since 1690.] ''You all know the rules, so letIt's not waste time a minster – herethat's your first starter for ten.something completely different, and if you can understand the sign in the delightful Beverley Minster describing the difference, that I saw only the other month, you''  Yesre a better man I, Gunga Din. Luckily this book throws no punches doesn't touch on minsters much, and attempts to put you in we can understand abbeys, so it's only the spotlight of one vast majority of this book that is saddled with the nationdefinition problem. It's most superlative televisual institutions – but clearly not a real problem, and those it does it manage it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184949701X</amazonuk>have are by-passable, for this successfully defines a cathedral as somewhere of major importance, fine trivia and greatly worthy of our attention.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gabrielle Balkan and Sol LineroBramley_Shakespeare|title=The 50 States: Explore the U.S.A. with 50 fact-filled maps!|rating=2.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary= I've often shouted at people on UK quiz programmes for their ignorance of geography about their nation. People just don't seem to have learnt about or been to other areas of the place they call home. But while they get little sympathy from me when they lose the programme's cash prize, I can imagine that it would be much harder for them if they actually lived in a large country, such as the USA. 50 whole states of different size, all with a rich history of their own, their own famous places and their own noted people – the facts involved in absorbing all that's relevant would take a lot of research – or, paradoxically, this handy child-friendly book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847807119</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewShakespeare Trail|author=Rob Temple|title=Very British Problems AbroadZoe Bramley

|genre=HumourTrivia|summary=Meet, if you haven't alreadyIt has been 400 years since William Shakespeare, the phenomenon of man heralded as the Very British Problem. In this format they're greatest writer in pithy little comments (ofthe English language, oohand England's national poet, about 140 characters died. Shakespeare has made a profound mark on our culture and heritage, yet many aspects of his life remain in lengththe shadows, for some reason…) and detail many places throughout England have forgotten their association with him. Here, Zoe Bramley takes the minor things in life that we like nothing more than to inflate to reader on a major factor journey through hundreds of lifeplaces associated with Shakespeare – many whose connections will come as a surprise to most. They can involve mannersFilled with intriguing tidbits of information about Shakespeare, staring at things until they mend themselvesElizabethan England, hitting things ditto, or and the fact places that nobody apart from you and I know how to queue properly. And if the idea hits the world outside our shoresshe talks about, then – well, you certainly have a book full of content regarding our attitude and ineptitude abroadthis is no mere travel guide.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751558494</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kevin FludeHalliday_London|title=Divorced, Beheaded, Died...: The History of Britain's Kings London (Amazing and Queens in Bite-Sized ChunksExtraordinary Facts)|author=Stephen Halliday

|summary=I love spending time with Mitchell Symons books. What makes a city? If you don't know himIs it the materials, such as the very London Stone itself, he's written this bookof mythological repute, that bookhas moved around several times, and now forms part of a book actually called 'WH Smith's branch? (This Book'' and a book actually called ''That Book''. He knows his triviahas nothing, he gets a lot of info course, on Temple Bar, which has also been known to walk.) Is it the people – the butchers [[Jack the Ripper: CSI: Whitechapel by John Bennett and Paul Begg|(Jack the pageRipper)]], the bakers (or whoever set fire to the entire city from Pudding Lane) and can really come across at the best of times as candlestick makers? Is it the infrastructure, from the Underground, whose one-time boss got a convivial host. So pair himmedal from Stalin for his success, as has happened hereto the London Bridge itself, with that in its own wanderlust means it's highly unlikely the Thames will freeze again? However you define a city, London certainly has a lot going for it as regards weird and wonderful world of words , and only great things could be expectedthe trivial yet fascinating. UnfortunatelyAnd, thenluckily for us, only just above average things were expectedso has this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782432574</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Holland_Railways|title=An Unkindness of Ravens: A Book of Collective NounsRailways (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts)|author=Chloe RhodesJulian Holland|rating=53

|summary=We have all heard How and when did Laurel and Hardy replace the Duke of a ''Pride of Lions''York (George VI)? They reopened the Romney, a ''Herd of Cattle'' Hythe and a Dymchurch Railway when peacetime resumed, at whose launch the latter had officiated before the War. What''Flock of Birds'', but what about s the less common, long forgotten collective nouns, like: worst that can happen when you travel internationally and arrive on a ''Bloat of Hippopotami''London goods train with no further destination documents? Well, a ''Mutation of Thrushes'if you're an unidentifiable Peruvian mummy you can get buried as an unknown corpse before the invoice turns up to prove you were wanted in Belgium. After so many miles and so much drama, a it's no surprise odd facts and fun trivia derive from our country'Herd s trains. This book is designed to be an ideal source of Harlots'' or a ''Superfluity of Nuns''? If you are interested quick articles and fun mini-essays for use in the English language and the origin of words, then you will really enjoy browsing this booksmallest room.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782433082</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Donald_Words|title=Who Invented The Stepover? (And Other Crucial Football Conundrums)Words of a Feather|author=Paul Simpson and Uli HesseGraeme Donald

|genre=SportTrivia|summary=In 1982Words of a Feather. The title alone suggests an engaging read about language, and the book certainly delivers. It pairs seemingly unrelated words, digs up their etymological roots and reveals their common ancestry. The English language, of course, second division Charlton Athletic staged an unlikely transfer coup by signing former European Footballer provides rich pickings indeed for a book of this type and it is fascinating to see the hidden meaning behind common and not-so-common words. Some connections are fairly obvious once you read them. For example, the link between ''grotto'' and ''grotesque'' is easy to grasp: the Year Allan Simonsenword ''grotesque'' derives from unpleasant figures depicted in murals in Ancient Roman ''grottoes''. If Other connections are just extraordinary, like the thought so-crazy-you-couldn't-make-it-up link between ''furnace'' and ''fornicate''. These two words date back to Ancient Rome when prostitutes took over the city's abandoned baking domes. And some connections are more than a little tenuous, seemingly just a collection of words banded together, as is the Danish superstar forsaking case with the glamour ''insult'' and ''salmon'' pairing. One of Barcelona my personal favourites: the Italian word ''schiavo'' for south east London seemed unlikely then consider that Simonsen had previously faked his own death during ''slave'' was used to summon or dismiss a World Cup qualifierslave; this word became corrupted to ''ciao'', a word the more well-heeled among us use instead of ''goodbye''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250065</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Binney_English|title=Outraged of Tunbridge Wells: Original Complaints from Middle EnglandThe English Countryside (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts)|author=Nigel CawthorneRuth Binney

|summary=This book just had I live in the countryside and spend as much time as the weather will allow exploring it, so the chance to be called read Ruth Binney's ''The HorologiconEnglish Countryside''was too good to be missed. Originally it meant a daily diary of devotion for a priest or monkWe've met Ruth [[The Allotment Experience by Ruth Binney|before]] at Bookbag and we know that she writes well and interestingly, but just one thing was worrying me about this book. Our author knows it is It's a rare word these days hardback and gives it to his modern Book beautifully presented but its the size of Hours, which is book that you slip into a guide to similarly obsolete, charming pocket or unusually whimsical words set out, not as others do, as a dictionary, but in essays for every waking hour of the day, and the subject they're most likely to coverhandbag.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848314159</amazonuk> Would it be rather superficial?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Arthur PlotnikLloyd_1234|title=Better Than Great1,234 QI Facts to Leave You Speechless|rating=5|genre=Trivia|summaryauthor=Better Than Great is a bravura, ingeniously inventiveJohn Lloyd, roaringly intelligent thesaurus of praise John Mitchinson and acclaim - oh, momma! Where has this paean-worthy, distressingly excellent book, which certainly goes the whole hog, been all my life?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0285641336</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Joel Levy|title=Why?James Harkin

|summary=Why does ''No US President has ever died in May.'' ''There are fewer women on corporate boards in America than there are men named John.'' ''Dogs investigate bad smells with their right nostril and good smells with their left.'' ''Apollo 11's fuel consumption was seven inches to the Titanic float but a brick sink? And that water they’re sinking or floating gallon.'' ''The first occupational disease ever recorded inmedical literature was 'chimney sweep's scrotum'.'' ''The song 'Yes, why is it wet? And what colour is itWe Have No Bananas' was written by Leon Trotsky's nephew.'' ''In the 18th Century, ‘cos it ain’t clear? These questions and many King George I declared all pigeon droppings to be the property of the Crown''. I hardly think I need to say any more are answered in this book which may not be a new concept but which is executed extremely well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843179512</amazonuk> Review over.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=David AstleBerenson_How|title=PuzzledHow to Speak Emoji|author=Fred Benenson

|summary=Words Emojis are wonderful enough when they’re just telling you things straight upfun, but who can resist and there's so much more to them when they’re really being playful? Not David Astle, than the author smileys of this new title days gone by ;) They can be a language unto themselves, though, and I've found that blows some members of the lid on it all , ahem, older generation can find themselves a little troubled by them. This book, then, sounds perfect for anyone who needs a little help with what he calls this 'secrets and clues from a life in wordslanguage'.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685427</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joseph PiercyLloyd_3rd|title=QI: The Story Third Book of EnglishGeneral Ignorance|ratingauthor=3|genre=Trivia|summary=''The Story of English'' sets out to be a potted history of the influences that have shaped our languageJohn Lloyd, John Mitchinson, from the Lindisfarne Gospels to LOLcats.com. Starting with the pre-Roman Celts James Harkin and their Ogham alphabet, it goes crashing through fifteen hundred years of linguistic history at a terrific pace to end with an almost audible sigh of relief at the internet age.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843178834</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Phil Daoust (editor)|title=Write.Andrew Hunter Murray

|summary=Cliché is such an awful word with all its connotations of the triteWell done, the hackneyed Hartlepool. You didn't put on trial and kill a shipwrecked monkey thinking it a Napoleonic spy – any more than the overusedseveral other places thusly accused ever did. It's Well done, Italy, for making the ciabatta such a global phenomenon it seems like a word you'd hate to have associated with your writingtraditional foodstuff, even if you produce nothing more public than it was invented in 1982. And well done to that famous ice hockey player, Charles Darwin – who was probably playing it, seeing as it was a shopping list but British invention, long before the Canadians ever realised they might be good at it. Yes, for the benefit of the discerning reader Nigel Fountain has compiled a list in alphabetical order book that spends a lot of these dreaded phrases. I began readingits time saying 'this didn’t happen, confident that I couldn' 'hoojamaflip didn't be caught out do this,' and then blushed when I realised 'that Iwas never thus'd just pointed out to someone that avoiding clichés wasn, it't rocket science. They agreed s one that it isn't brain surgery eithers incredibly easy to be most positive about.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843174863</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alison MaloneyTaggart_New|title=Bright Young Things|rating=4|genre=History|summary=According to the summary I read of ''Bright Young Things'' before choosing the book to read, it 'takes a sweeping look at the changing world of the Jazz Age'. I was expecting it to be something of a narrative account of the Roaring Twenties – in actual fact, it's set out as a collection of trivia about the decade. Similarly, the 'first person accounts' mentioned on New Words for Old: Recycling Our Language for the inside front cover are limited to two or three sentence quotes.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0753540975</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewModern World|author=E Foley and B Coates|title=Homework for Grown UpsCaroline Taggart|rating=43.5

|summary=School days can sometimes seem like a very long time ago. You most likely spent 12 I never declare myself off to 14 years of early life learning in have a classroom'kip', but how much can you remember? Sure, you can count, and you know your alphabet, but all those other lessons you had, how much can you really remember as I recall reading that it originally meant the same amount of those? If you want or need to remember back to your school lessons (to help your own children with their homework, to win pub quizzes, whatever the reason) then this book can help. Covering ten subjects from English and Maths to Science, Home Ec sleeping – and History, it’s a crash course to refresh your knowledge activity – all those things you kinda know deep down, but at the same time have forgotten at least as happens in a little bitwhorehouse.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099540029</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mikael Krogerus and Roman Tschappeler|title= The Question Book|rating=4.5|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Most of us have probably made at least one of those end-of-the-year lists of the best books, albums and parties we have been word 'cleave' can mean either to in the previous twelve months. But can you, with some effort, locate the one you made in 1987? Have you ever constructed a graph of your ups and downs in a given period, and then decided split apart or to expand it by separating emotional, intellectualconnect together, sexual and financial aspects and colour coding them? Have you made a list of all your lovers, bosses or friends and then rated them I'm sure there's another word that has completely changed its meaning from 1 to 10 on several dimensions each? Do you have one end of the books that list ''100 things to do before you dieanother although I can't remember which. Certainly, '' or literally''500 books has tried its best to read make a full switch through rampant misuse. Such is the nature of our language – fluid both in your life'' (spelling until moderately recently, and ticked off the ones you have done)? Did you ever spend definitely in meaning. This attempt at capturing a whole evening and half corner of a night filling the trivia/words/novelty market is interested in dubious 'personality' questionnaires on such tales from the etymological world – the Internet? Have you ever doodled somethingway we have adapted old words for our own, decided that it beautifully expresses the deepest essence of your personality modern and then proceeded to draw such icons for all your friends? |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846685389</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Francesca Simon|title=Horrid Henry's A - Z of Everything Horrid|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Francesca Simon's Horrid Henry is a perhaps very popular little boy, although you might have a different opinion if you actually had to put up with his antics yourselfusages. A slightly modernised embodiment of 'slugs and snails and puppy dogs' tails' concept of boyhood Certainly, Henry is naughtiness personified, combining irreverence for authority with having browsed it over a huge dose of gross-out crude humour that really appeals to the target readership of early primary school children. Add a somewhat nostalgicweek, timeless feel, trademark alliterations, subtle (and not so subtle) digs at family dynamics, sibling rivalry and particularly at modern middle-class manners and sensibilities and you have I can declare it a winning character and a base for a very successful edutainment franchisepretty strong attempt.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444002260</amazonuk>