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[[Category:Reference|*]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dan Waddell1394159544|title=Who Do You Think You Are?: The Genealogy HandbookRecycling for Dummies|author=Sarah Winkler|rating=4.5|genre=ReferenceLifestyle|summary=The celebrity genealogy programme ''Who Do You Think You Are?'' celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. The makers, Wall to Wall Media, were fortunate enough to ride the ripple Recycling one ton of family tree fascination, helping plastic can save up to turn it into the hobbyist tidal wave that remains today16. For those not familiar with the format, each episode allows us to accompany a household name as they discover secrets, scandals and surprises about an ancestor or two3 barrels of oil. Thus we aren't only entertained; we're encouraged to delve into our own pasts, BBC TV publications acting as tutor and motivator via this handy little reference guide.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849908249</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Michael Fogden, Marianne Taylor and Sheri L Williamson|title=Hummingbirds: A Life-Size Guide to Every Species|rating=4.5|genre=Reference|summary=I've always been fascinated by hummingbirds - delicate, colourful, beautifully and brilliantly adapted to extract nectar 'Recycling one ton of paper can save 17 trees from flowersbeing cut down. Perhaps most of all for me it's their acrobatic flight - the ability to hover and manoeuvre which has me hooked: I could watch them for hours, amazed that birds whose weight can only meaningfully be given in ounces can do so much. I was drawn to this book as soon as I saw it, for a number of reasons.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400893</amazonuk>}}'

{{newreview|title=Top 10 of Everything 2015|author=Paul Terry|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Non-Fiction|summary=The Top 10 of Everything 2015 isIf you send an apple core to landfill, as the title implies, a compilation of 'top ten' lists covering a wide variety of topics including the natural world, pop culture, sport it will take between 6 months and technology2 years to decompose. The style of the book A glass bottle will appeal take up to its target audience of pre-teens with its use of bright colours, vibrant images, fun facts, puzzles and quizzes1 million years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0600628868</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Stanley Gibbons|title=Great Britain Concise Stamp Catalogue 2014|rating=5|genre=Reference|summary=When As a just-post-WWII baby, I began collecting GB stamps back in the early seventies faced a dilemma: reducing, reusing and recycling is part of my DNA. NEVER throw away anything that might ''Collect British Stampspossibly'' was my bible and I eagerly awaited each new editioncome in handy now or in the future. After a while I came to realise NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something that I needed a little would serve the purpose. Almost everything can be used one more depth, but not to time and any purchase must pass the level provided by test of 'Is this absolutely essential?' On the [[Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue 2013other hand, I suspected I was guilty of wishcycling: Commonwealth and Empire Stamps 1840 assuming that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - 1970 by Hugh Jefferies|Specialised Catalogue Series]] not least because I was still 'm looking at the stage of spending the money on stamps rather than books about them. There is something to fill the gap though you) and that's dropping it in the Great Britain Concise cataloguekerbside bin. It's designed to meet Yes, I could go searching on the needs of the dedicated amateur rather than the specialist or the casual collector internet - and treads get conflicting advice - but what I needed was a very fine line between providing too much detail and too little information with elegancerecycling bible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852599145</amazonuk>s

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Sutherland1913750353|title=How to be Well Read: A guide to 500 great novels Britannica's Word of the Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and a handful of literary curiositiesSue Macy

|genre=ReferenceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=Being well read is rather like having good manners: it's something that we all aspire to but there'Britannica's always a nagging doubt that thereWord of the Day's something lacking in what we've achieved. That is, of course, why has a book with the sub-title : ''How 366 Elevating Utterances to be Well ReadStretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' pulled me in so successfully with its promise of being a guide to five hundred great novels and a handful of literary curiosities. Was I going to find that ultimate list of books which I would have to read to ensure probably tells you all that I could think of myself as well read? No - I was going you need to find something far more useful and interestingknow about this brilliant book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946402</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=A Sting in the Tale|author=Dave Goulson|rating=5|genre=Reference|summary= It seems that Dave Goulson, founder of the incredibly successful Bumblebee Conservation Truststarts on January 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', did not always have natural aptitude for helping wildlife if his early recollections are anything tells you how to go by. Despite boundless enthusiasm and a passion for the natural worldpronounce it (''raz-muh-TAZ''), his childhood efforts to give nature gives you a helping hand quite frequently ended in some sort of gory aftermath. For example, there was the incident with definition and then includes the drowned bumblebees, word in which a young Goulson unwisely decided to dry the bedraggled victims out on the hotplate of the electric cookersentence so that you know how it should be used. Then there was the time he accidentally dropped a live electrical heater into his aquarium, frying the poor fish instantly You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration too. I could go on to mention the beheading of the footless quail, the snake wrapped in sticky tape and don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the countless taxidermy experiments, but alas, time does not permit. Suffice to say that despite this unpromising start in life, things did eventually improve...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099575124</amazonuk>letter Z four times before!

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Colorstrologysuppl_stafl|authortitle=Michele Bernhardt|rating=4|genre=Reference|summary=First impressions of this book left me slightly worried that I would have little to go Supply Chain 20/20: A Clear View on to write any kind of helpful review; it was basically a little book of colour swatches, resembling something of a home décor paint guide. Flicking through, I saw that each page represented a day, allowing the reader to refer to their birthday to gain information relating to their character, rather like a horoscope. So all I had to go on was, effectively, a painting guide to star signs. With this is mind (and with fairly low expectations) I began reading from the beginning, refraining from jumping straight in to analyse my birthday characteristics.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594746915</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Autistic Brain Local Multiplier Effect for Book Lovers|author=Temple Grandin and Richard PanekKim Staflund

|summary=Temple Grandin is a lady of many labels: professor of animal science, bestselling author, consultantSo, activist, engineer, public speaker you've finished writing your book and subject of an award-winning biopic. She also happens you think the hard work is all done? You're convinced that all you need to be autistic, a label she earned at a very early age back in the days before the majority of people knew what autism was. She describes the timing of her diagnosis as fortuitous; only a few years later do now is get it published and the accepted ‘treatment’ for autistic children was removal from their parents and life money will start rolling in an institution.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846044499</amazonuk>}}?

{{newreview|author=Neil Davey|title=The Bluffer's Guide Wrong and wrong again. You presumably wrote the book because you wanted to Chocolate (Bluffer's Guides)|rating=4|genre=Cookery|summary=I've always been - and you had a little bit nervous about talent for delivering the written word. You knew your subject back to front. Now you''Bluffer'' seriesre going to have to get to grips with the book supply chain, on which even parts of the basis that I would publishing industry believe to be sure wrong but it's too difficult to come out with a clever-sounding phrase, only change and no one wants to be found out when someone asked the follow-up questionfirst to try. BetterThen, I thought to stay silent and appear ignorant than to open my mouth and prove myself a fool. But then when you ''finally''The Blufferhave a copy of the book in your hands, you's Guide re going to have to work out how to Chocolatesell it - because it '' came my way and I couldnis't resist - any more than I've ever been able going to be down to resist chocolateyou.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909937045</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Fun Stuff and Other EssaysFrederic Gros|authortitle=James WoodA Philosophy of Walking|rating=4.5|genre=ReferencePolitics and Society|summary=The ''Fun Stuff and Other Essays'' provides, as I confess I picked this one up from the title suggests, a panoramic sampling library in my pre-lockdown forage of James Wood’s critical writingrandom stuff. A popular Now I have to go out an buy my own copy so that I can turn down the pages I have marked and oft-quoted writerreturn to its varying wisdom when I need to. Some books draw you in slowly. This one had me in the first two pages, the essays collected here offer stimulating insights into Wood’s chosen subjectswherein Gros explains why ''walking is not a sport''.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224097113</amazonuk>1781688370

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=Winter1788037812|authortitle=Adam Gopnik|rating=4|genre=Reference|summary=In this collection The Fraternity of five essays, each one offering a unique and fascinating perspective on the season of winter, Adam Gopnik takes the reader on a captivating journey, exploring history, art and society, through ''Romantic Winter'', ''Radical Winter'', ''Recuperative Winter'', ''Recreational Winter'' and ''Remembering Winter''. In each essay, Gopnik focuses on one or two central themes, whilst also touching on surrounding ideas. For example, in Romantic Winter his central topics are art and poetry, however, issues such as changing society, technology, sex and culture are also explored, in relation to these pivotal notions. He also includes two sections featuring collections of artwork to illustrate his viewpoints, which add a charming, individual touch to this book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780874472</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Alannah Moore|title=Estranged: The Creative Person's Website Builder|rating=4|genre=Reference|summary=Creating a website is not difficult. Although some technical knowledge is a help - as is familiarity with your computer - you would be surprised at the speed with which you can have your own website and the sense of achievement which this will give you. If you're running a big business then you might want to go to a web designer but it is possible to have a site Fight for very little Homosexual Rights in the way of expenditure. I know England, 1891- we've done it and we've grown our little baby into a business. I was lucky to have the expertise of our first tech guy when we built Bookbag, but Alanah Moore has produced a book which could give you a reasonable start and a great deal of inspiration.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781571066</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Telling Lies for Fun and Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers1908|author=Lawrence BlockBrian Anderson

|genre=ReferenceBiography|summary=If I was going to write a list of authors I admire - wellOriginally passed in 1885, I wouldn't begin it now. There are so many the law that I'd still be doing it at the end of Novemberhad made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. But if I did take it upon myself to write a listduring this time, Lawrence Block would probably be restrictions on top of itsame-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Hugely prolific and vastly varied when it comes to thrillers Between 1891 and crime stories1908, he's someone who seems able to turn his hand to so many different types three books on the nature of novel or short story with excellent results every timehomosexuality appeared. He's created my They were written by two favourite crime-solvers, alcoholic ex-cop Matt Scudder homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and gentleman burglar Bernie RhodenbarrJohn Addington Symonds, and as well as the contrast between heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the grittiness margins of society and studying homosexuality was common on the former series and European Continent, but barely talked about in the cosiness of UK, so the latter would place him high on my list publications of favourites even without his other work. Throw in these men were hugely significant – contributing to the comic capers scientific understanding of Evan Tannerhomosexuality, whose sleep-centre was destroyed by shrapnel and now works beginning the struggle for a mysterious department going across the world recognition and stirring up troubleequality, and stamp-collecting assassin Keller, and you've got four excellent series of novels. Then there's leading to the short stories, which feature all milestone legalisation of these characters and many others, often rivalling Roald Dahl for darkness and clever plot twistssame-sex relationships in 1967.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0688132286</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stanley Gibbons1912242052|title=Great Britain Concise Stamp Catalogue 2013O Joy for me!|author=Keir Davidson|rating=53|genre=ReferenceArt|summary=When I began collecting GB stamps ''Collect British StampsOh Joy for me!'' was my bible and I eagerly awaited each new edition. After a while I came gives Coleridge credit for being ''the first person to realise that I needed a little more depthwalk the mountains alone, but not because he had to the level provided by the [[Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue 2013: Commonwealth and Empire Stamps 1840 for work, as a miner, quarryman, shepherd or pack- 1970 by Hugh Jefferies|Specialised Catalogue Series]] not least horse driver, but because I was still at the stage of spending the money on stamps rather than books about them. There is something he wanted to fill the gap though for pleasure and that's the Great Britain Concise catalogueadventure. It's designed to meet the needs His rapturous encounters with their natural beauty, and its literary consequences, changed our view of the dedicated amateur rather than the specialist or the casual collectorworld''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852598998</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1072549271|title=Sea Monsters: The Lore and Legacy Simple Act of Olaus Magnus's Marine MapSelf-Publishing With Amazon: A Simple Step by Step Guide|author=Joseph NiggGeorgianne Landy-Kordis

|genre=Popular ScienceBusiness and Finance|summary=A confessionI frequently meet authors who are struggling to be published by the traditional houses, but when I suggest self-publishing they explain that they don't have the big bucks required to go down that road with Author Solutions or Matador or their like. When reading hardbacks I take then ask if they've considered Kindle and the paper cover, if there answer is one, offinevitably, that they wouldn't know where to keep it pristinestart. I can empathise with that. Sometimes there's Despite having used a second benefitcomputer for about thirty years, with [[Longbourn by Jo Baker]] as an example running most of having an embossed illustration underneathmy life ''and'' a website online, or suchlikeI'm still nervous when it comes to starting something new. But with this book I won't be alone, like someone to hold my hand as I go through it for the cover folds out into an amazing artwork, such as has only two extant original copiesfirst time. ItThat was why I was very interested when 's a coloured replica of a large map of the northern seas and Scandinavia, dating from 1539, and is in a category 'The Simple Act of three major artful scientific papers from where the whole Self Publishing With Amazon'here be dragons' cliché about maps comes fromcame across my desk.. Its creator, Olaus Magnus, followed it up years later with a commentary of all the sea creatures he drew on it, but Magnus has waited centuries for this delicious volume to commentate on both together, in such a lovely fashion.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400435</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter Roberts and Shelley EvansHigashida_Fall|title=The Book of FungiFall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species Young Man's Voice From Around The Worldthe Silence of Autism|author=Naoki Higashida and David Mitchell|rating=45|genre=Popular ScienceHome and Family|summary=Fungi are Naoki Higashida was only 13 years old when he wrote the fifth order international best-seller ''The Reason I Jump''. The book was popular because it gave a rare glimpse into the workings of the natural kingdom and it’s estimated that there are approximately one and autistic mind, as told from the unique perspective of a half million speciesteenager with non-verbal autism. Naoki communicates by using an alphabet grid, found throughout or by tracing letters on the worldpalm of a transcriber. ‘’The Book of Fungi’’ looks at six hundred of the known fungi Despite this slow and each is pictured at its actual size in full colour and there’s a scientific explanation laborious method of its distributionwriting, habitat, form, spore colour he has published several books in his native Japan and edibility. The tone of the book is academic but don’t let this put you off - before I began reading my knowledge was broadly restricted manages to knowing that it was better give public presentations to discover fungus growing outside your house than attached raise awareness of his condition. Fall Down 7 Times Get up 8 reintroduces us to the structure inside - Naoki as a young adult in his 20s and I found it interesting, entertaining (which I didn’t expect) and accessibleexplains how his perspectives on life have changed since writing his first book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908005858</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Naoki Higashida and David MitchellJenkins_100|title=The Reason I Jump: One BoyBritain's Voice from the Silence of Autism100 Best Railway Stations|author=Simon Jenkins

|genre=ReferenceArt|summary=Imagine if you willIn the mid-twentieth century, a world where the normal laws of physics have been slightly changed. You swirl around almost weightlessly, railway was something which harked back to the Victorian age with no control over your limbs. Sounds seem either deafeningly loud or hopelessly muffled. Sensory input floods your systemtrains being supplanted by cars and planes, overwhelming you with bright coloursbut steam was being replaced by oil, patterns even then and odours that attack you from every side, without warning. Communication in the twenty-first-century oil is almost impossiblegiving way to electricity. You open your mouth It's cleaner, more environmentally friendly and the wrong words come out. People talk down stations which we'd all rushed through as quickly as possible, keen to you as if you escape their grime, were a childrestored and became places to be admired, possibly even lingered in. Welcome to Naoki’s worldSimon Jenkins has chosen his hundred best railway stations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444776754</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard MabeyTaylor_Owls|title=The Ash and the BeechOwls: A Guide to Every Species|author=Marianne Taylor

|genre=ReferenceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=''The Ash and The Beech'' is an updated version I feel like I am being watched. A huge pair of Mabey’s popular ''Beechcombings''piercing orange eyes are staring right at me, which has been given a new foreword and afterword by locking me into their gaze. In contrast with the author in light hardness of the recent issues concerning ash diedeep-backamber eyes, soft grey feathers fan out into the surrounding area, intricate, detailed and beautiful. An enigma; harsh and gentle at the same time, which currently threatens Britain’s ash populationthe owl is beckoning the reader to turn the pages and take a closer look inside... Mabey expands on this topic }}{{Frontpage|isbn=JVDK_ELO|title=Electric Light Orchestra: Song by examining Song|author=John Van der Kiste|rating=4.5|genre=Entertainment|summary=My memories of pop music in the history of British treesearly sixties revolve around guitars and drums, particularly sometimes the Beech piano with only occasional excursions into strings and brass. Pop music rarely stands still and how it has managed to survive wasn't long before the basic instruments were seen as constraints and adapt over the centuries despite threats from warThe Beatles, fellingThe Rolling Stones and The Beach Boys began to experiment, disease and stormswith other groups following where they led. He raises some important Amongst these groups was The Move and thought-provoking ideas their lead guitarist and questions whether our constant intervention in such cases serves songwriter, Roy Wood. Wood wanted to do develop the group's sound by adding more harm than goodinstruments but was prevented from achieving what he wanted by cost limitations and because the rest of the group didn't really share his enthusiasm.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587238</amazonuk>

{{newreviewRead the synapse-shattering story summaries!<br>|author=Gavin MortimerSee the horrific hand-painted cover imagery!<br>|title=A History of Cricket in 100 Objects|rating=4|genre=Sport|summary=[[A History of Football in 100 Objects by Gavin Mortimer|A History of Football in 100 Objects]] was a brave attempt, but was slightly let down by being a little too clinical. Being a game imbued with passion, And learn the book lacked this which took some true-life tales of the edge off it. Cricketwriters, whilst inspiring passion amongst devoteesartists, has a slightly more laid back following; and publishers who gleefully violated every literary law but one that may work better in this format– never be boring. That said, being a game that has been played for five centuries, narrowing it down to just 100 objects is no less an undertaking than for football.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846689406</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Polly MorlandBrowne_Many|title=The Society Many Faces of Timid Souls: Or, How to be BraveCoincidence|author=Laurence Browne

|genre=ReferencePopular Science|summary='I see no reason why the shy and timid in any community couldn’t get together and help each other.' The above words were uttered in 1943 by Browne does not mislead with this choice of title; he does without a gentleman called Bernard Gabriel. Mr Gabriel was a piano player who founded a unique club, ''The Society of Timid Souls'' that encouraged timid performers and fear-wracked musicians to come in out of doubt explore the cold 'to play, to criticise and be criticised in order to conquer that old bogey many faces of stage frightcoincidence.' The method evidently worked, as many a timid soul claimed to be cured by these unorthodox methods and club membership grew considerably in the years that followed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251908</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Beard1903385679|title=Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and InnovationsThe 100 Best Novels in Translation|author=Boyd Tonkin|rating=43.5

|summary=For a lot of usConsider, if you will, the idea of learning Classics conjures up images translated fiction. Some say it's impossible – or memories – of rows of (usually public) schoolboys endlessly repeating different conjugations of Latin verbsthat if a book was so good in one tongue it could never survive being put into another. Samuel Beckett must have laboured over ever syllable and ''Breath''Amo, amasbut he could translate his own works, amat...' and so onother equally complex pieces can cross borders. It's an idea imprinted on a market that has actually doubled in sales volume between 2000 and 2016 (thanks, ''Millennium Trilogy''). Novels, in particular, in translation, are – as the popular imagination introduction here so smartly puts it – ''a privileged means of passing border posts, a sort of universal passport issued by countless booksthat Utopian state, films the Republic of Letters''. We here at the 'Bag regularly try and TV showsgive equal credit to the translator, and indeed by anecdotal memory. Iwithout whom we wouldn'm pretty sure my dad would t be reading what we have been in our hands. But all that said, do we really need one of those schoolboys in list books about the subject? I got given a book the 1960sother year detailing 1001 places to go to before I die, and I might even then have missed out a zero. It would take as long as a fortnight's holiday to wade through, and even though this is not as long as your typical Bolano housebrick, it's not a short thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250480</amazonuk>Should it take our time?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stanley GibbonsFry_Mythos|title=Stamps Mythos: A Retelling of the World 2013Myths of Ancient Greece|author=Stephen Fry

|summary=Philatelists have long come to rely on The Greek Myths are, arguably, the annual publication of Stanley Gibbons’ Stamps of the World simplified cataloguegreatest stories ever told. For years it has had an unrivalled reputation for accuracy So old and influential they cast a shadow over western tales and usability for both dealers traditions, yet remain relatable and collectorsreadable millennia later. Commemoratives, definitivesHere comedian, airmail stampsactor, postage duestelevision presenter, official stamps actor and miniature sheets are all listed (both mint author Stephen Fry brings his considerable talent to these special stories and used)recreates them with a wit, using warmth and humanity that brings them into the modern age whilst still giving the internationally recognised Stanley Gibbons catalogue number honour and set out according to date of issue respect that such ancient and by country. Indeed, it’s difficult to imagine that any serious dealer or collector could be without the six volume set but many must wonder if it’s entirely necessary to make what is a substantial investment on an annual basisinfluential stories deserve.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852598610</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A L KennedyMahnke_Lore|title=On WritingThe World of Lore, Volume 1: Monstrous Creatures|author=Aaron Mahnke|rating=4.5

|summary=How do you even begin to write Every country, every town, every village has a review of folktale – a book which expresses trenchant, no-holds-barred opinions story passed down through generations that often focuses on reviewers the dark and unexplained. No matter how the process of being reviewed? But the task is theremodern world moves on, so there's nothing for it but a still a part of everyone that is vulnerable to a good tale. From ghosts to roll up your sleeveswerewolves, gather your courage by way of wendigos and mutter elves, author Aaron Mahnke delivers the word with which A L Kennedy regularly signs off reader legends from her blog: Onwardsall over the world, whilst examining how they've become part of our collective imaginations, still striking fear into the hearts of many of us today.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224096974</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hugh JefferiesFowler_Forgotten|title=Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue 2013: Commonwealth and Empire Stamps 1840 - 1970The Book of Forgotten Authors|author=Christopher Fowler

|summary=You might think that as all ''Absence doesn't make the stamps in this catalogue have been in existence for at least forty years there can be little more to be said about them but this 115th edition is acknowledged to be the most significant in many yearsheart grow fonder''. Most exciting (but probably more so to sellers than buyers) is the fact that in a time of economic downturn there are thousands of price increases and evidence of a very lively market. Demand for good stamps is greater than it has been at any time in the last thirty years according to editor Hugh Jefferies, although he does add that prices are rising faster in some areas than others. Itmakes people think you's difficult to see how a serious collector - or seller - can be without an up-to-date copy of the catalogue for this reason alonere dead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852598513</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Kindle Direct Publishing|title=Publish on Amazon Kindle with Kindle Direct Publishing|rating=2|genre=Reference|summary=If There's truth in that statement, you're thinking of going down the road of self-publishing your book know, but are unwilling or unable to fund the services offered by some of the leaders in the field then publishing on Kindle is the obvious place to look first. Itthere's a big step though and you want to get conundrum when it right - not least because what you publish could be out there 's applied to haunt you for a very long timeauthors. This book comesShakespeare is dead: Dickens is dead, as but we haven't buried what they've written: that lives on until... when? Is it until fashion decrees that they should be no more? Or is it were, from as in the horsecase of some children's mouth authors that they are on life support through licensing deals and I was expecting explanationsastute marketing? Christopher Fowler has unearthed (exhumed?) ninety-nine authors who were once hugely popular, guidance, advice andbut whose works have disappeared, well, something which would leave me with the feeling that I ''could'' do this successfullysometimes quite literally. How did it square up?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B004LX069M</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Theodore Dalrymple|title=The Pleasure of Thinking: A Journey Through the Sideways Leaps of Ideas|rating=4Frontpage|genreisbn=ReferenceAngell_Triang|summary=Having recently read [[Pieces of Light: the New Science of Memory by Charles Fernyhough]], I expected something similar, judging only from the title of Theodore Dalrymple's ''The Pleasure of Thinking: a Journey Through the Sideways Leaps of Ideas''. Instead of being a book about how people think laterally, as I thought it might be, it turned out to be something rather different, but ultimately equally interesting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>190809608X</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewTri-ang Collectables|author=IBPA Contributors|title=The Book Publishers Toolkit: 10 Practical Pointers for Independent and Self Publishers Vol. 1Dave Angell

|summary=Ten articles originally published in the Independent Book Publishers Association magazine have been gathered together to provide useful advice A guide to the small independent publisher or anyone looking to self-publish. The authors of trains produced by the articles Tri- Kate Bandos, Kimberley Edwards, Joel Friedlander, Steve Gillen, Abigail Goben, Tanya Hall, Brian Jud, Stacey Miller, Kathleen Welton, and David Wogahn are all acknowledged experts in their own fields and whilst much of it is more relevant in ang company from its inception until the USA it's all thought-provoking and worth considerationcompany became Hornby. Each piece is short, snappy and A very personal guide to the point and reading the entire book took me less than an hourcollecting of model trains.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00AAY8M7O</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Daniel J BarrettChase_Orchids|title=MediaWiki (Wikipedia The Book of Orchids: A life-size guide to six hundred species from around the world|author=Mark Chase, Maarten Christenhusz and Beyond)Tom Mirenda

|summary=I don't usually open reviews by explaining how I came to read a particular book, but One in seven flowering plants on this occasion it will help you to judge whether or not this book earth is suitable for you if you know where I'm coming froman orchid: there are 26,000 species in 749 genera. Back They flourish in 2006 three people got together remarkable habitats such as deserts and between them they built a site - letthe Arctic circle, in fact, all areas but the most inhospitable. There's call it [httpa wide range of colours, shapes and scents://www.thebookbag.co.uk The Bookbag]. In they're dramatic, delicate and ingenious in the early days Bookbag was for fun: it was rather like Everestways that they've developed not just to survive but to thrive. We did it because it Tom Mirenda describes them as ''masters of manipulation''couldand '' be there famous for lying and we wanted cheating their way to their many evolutionary successes'', yet his love of them is as obvious as his respect for the insight they give us into the processes which shaped our world. He hopes that understanding how that has come about will inspire us to see if conserve what we (loosely) had in mind could be done. It was a simple HTML site and I had no problems in mastering the technicalities. I'd built the site under instruction and I knew it inside outhave.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0596519796</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mikael Krogerus and Roman TschappelerEdwards_Story|title=The Change Book: Fifty models to explain how things happenStory of Classic Crime in 100 Books (British Library Crime Classics)|author=Martin Edwards|rating=3.5

|summary=It's easy to be confused by the various 'ages' of crime writing: if you have an interest in the genre you'The Change Bookll almost certainly have heard of the Golden Age of Crime, generally acknowledged as being the period between the first and second world wars. 'Classic Crime' is a pocket-sized publication with lofty ambitionson the other hand extends the time frame at either end and covers books published in the first half of the twentieth century. Small enough to slip into a handbagThroughout my adult life, there's been just one genre of books which has fascinated me, and a mere 167 pages longthat's crime, so I could hardly resist the chance of reading ''The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books'' particularly as the author, it makes Martin Edwards is an accomplished author within the following claim:|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178125009X</amazonuk>crime genre and an acknowledged expert on the subject.

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marina WarnerDK_Childrens|title=Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian NightsChildren's Illustrated Thesaurus|author=DK

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