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|genre=ReferenceLifestyle|summary=I doubt that there ''Recycling one ton of plastic can be anything more unnerving than reviewing a book written by someone who is an expert in written English. I've even worried about that first sentencesave up to 16. But at school I loved English Grammar and a good deal 3 barrels of it has stuckoil. I'm conscious ' ''Recycling one ton of paper can save 17 trees from being pedantic about mistakes other people make - but increasingly aware that there are gaps in my own knowledge which should be pluggedcut down. This book seemed like the ideal opportunity, but I'll confess that the subtitle 'Stuff You Forgot From School' made me nervous I was going to be back to reading a school textbook.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782432566</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Chris Waring|title=I Used to Know That: Maths|rating=4.5|genre=Reference|summary=Maths teacher Chris Waring starts this book with the basics and gradually works his (and our) way through If you send an apple core to about the level of GCSE. It's only 192 pageslandfill, so you can't expect it to be exhaustive but the great thing is that it isn't ''exhausting''. Waring explains concepts clearly and with humour but most importantly he shows why the subject is important will take between 6 months and how it can be applied 2 years to life, covering such subjects as winning - or failing to win - the lottery and the chances of being dealt a royal flush at pokerdecompose. It's not just the examples which are new - it's a major improvement on the 'you A glass bottle will learn this because I'm telling you that you have take up to' approach which blighted the subject for so many of us1 million years.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782432558</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Orin Hargraves|title=It's Been Said BeforeAs a just-post-WWII baby, I faced a dilemma: A Guide to the Use reducing, reusing and Abuse recycling is part of Cliches|rating=4|genre=Reference|summary=I donmy DNA. NEVER throw away anything that might 't usually start a review by telling you what a book 'possibly'isn't'', but come in handy now or in this case it's importantthe future. This isn't a light-hearted look at the subject, such as we found in [[Cliches: Avoid Them Like NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something that would serve the Plague by Nigel Fountain]] and which - laughing and blushing in equal measure - we shelved under 'trivia'purpose. This book will Almost everything can be shelved under used one more time and any purchase must pass the test of 'referenceIs this absolutely essential?' On the other hand, I suspected I was guilty of wishcycling: itassuming that something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I's a rigorous look m looking at the problem with the clichés divided not by subject matter, but grammatically you) and with an introduction to each section which gives all dropping it in the information you need to help in making judgements about your own writingkerbside bin. This isn't a book to ''amuse'' youYes, I could go searching on the internet - and get conflicting advice - but to help you to improve your use of wordswhat I needed was a recycling bible.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0199315736</amazonuk>s

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=William Poundstone1913750353|title=How to Predict Britannica's Word of the Unpredictable: The Art of Outsmarting Almost EveryoneDay|author=Patrick Kelly, Renee Kelly and Sue Macy|rating=45|genre=ReferenceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary=William Poundstone believes that we are all in ''Britannica's Word of the business of predicting, whether it be something as minor as playing rock, paper, scissors to pay Day'' has a bar bill though sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to anticipating how the housing or stock markets are going Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that you need to moveknow about this brilliant book. Now, I It starts on January 1st with 'm not particularly competitive - if whatever it is means 'Razzmatazz'that', tells you how to pronounce it (' much to someone else then I'd rather let them have it raz-muh- so this book didnTAZ''t appeal to me on ), gives you a definition and then includes the basis of doing better than someone else, but I was interested word in a sentence so that you know how it might should be possible to predict what is going to happenused. You also get an engaging and frequently amusing illustration too. So, care to predict how it stacked up?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780744072</amazonuk>I don't think I've ever encountered a word which uses the letter Z four times before!

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=The Economistsuppl_stafl|title=Pocket World in Figures 2015Supply Chain 20/20: A Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book Lovers|author=Kim Staflund

|summary=There are people who donSo, you't understand ve finished writing your book and you think the hard work is all done? You're convinced that all you need to do now is get it published and the joy of raw data: no accompanying analysis (or spin) money will start rolling in? Wrong and wrong again. You presumably wrote the book because you wanted to - just and you had a collection of figures relevant talent for delivering the written word. You knew your subject back to a particular circumstancefront. If Now you're one of those people then this going to have to get to grips with the book will mean little to yousupply chain, but if you want a pocket (well, certainly handbag or briefcase) work which even parts of reference then this book will the publishing industry believe to be a treasure. I once gave a copy wrong but it's too difficult to a diplomat change and he kept his wife awake until no one wants to be the early hours as he came across another gem which she had first to know without delaytry. The 2015 edition is Then, when you ''finally'' have a copy of the twenty fourth book in the series your hands, you're going to have to work out how to sell it - and diplomatic (and similar) spouses everywhere should prepare themselves for the onslaughtbecause it ''is'' going to be down to you.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781252734</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Bee: A Natural History Frederic Gros|authortitle=Noah Wilson-RichA Philosophy of Walking

|genre=Animals Politics and WildlifeSociety|summary=Bees I confess I picked this one up from the library in my pre-lockdown forage of random stuff. Now I have been making a bit of a media splash of late, due to heightened concern about their declining numbers go out an buy my own copy so that I can turn down the pages I have marked and general welfare. Governments have been urged return to do more its varying wisdom when I need to protect these important creatures. Some books draw you in slowly. This one had me in the first two pages, with a recent EU ban on neonicotinoid pesticides hailed as a wherein Gros explains why 'victory for bees'. There walking is no doubt that these prolific pollinators are not a vital part of our ecosystem, and the human fascination with bees goes back to our ancient historysport''. But just why do we find these hardworking insects so fascinating?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1782401075</amazonuk>1781688370

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alannah Moore1788037812|title=Create Your Own Online Store (using WordPress) The Fraternity of the Estranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in a WeekendEngland, 1891-1908|author=Brian Anderson|rating=4.5|genre=Business and FinanceBiography|summary=I've run Originally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a website crime remained in place for over eight 82 years now but I've always shied away from any inclusion of e. But during this time, restrictions on same-commerce sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, three books on the sitenature of homosexuality appeared. It seemed like too large a subjectThey were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, too much complexity and choice and as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the possibility margins of problems which could go disastrously wrong. I first encountered Alannah Moore when I read [[The Creative Person's Website Builder by Alannah Moore|The Creative Person's Website Builder]] society and studying homosexuality was impressed by common on the way that she approached her subjectEuropean Continent, so when I had but barely talked about in the opportunity to see how to create an online store in a weekendUK, I jumped at so the chance.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781571430</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Dan Waddell|title=Who Do You Think You Are?: The Genealogy Handbook|rating=4.5|genre=Reference|summary=The celebrity genealogy programme ''Who Do You Think You Are?'' celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. The makers, Wall to Wall Media, publications of these men were fortunate enough hugely significant – contributing to ride the ripple scientific understanding of family tree fascinationhomosexuality, helping to turn it into and beginning the hobbyist tidal wave that remains today. For those not familiar with the formatstruggle for recognition and equality, each episode allows us leading to accompany a household name as they discover secrets, scandals and surprises about an ancestor or twothe milestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in 1967. 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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Fogden, Marianne Taylor and Sheri L Williamson1912242052|title=Hummingbirds: A Life-Size Guide to Every SpeciesO Joy for me!|author=Keir Davidson|rating=4.53|genre=ReferenceArt|summary=I've always been fascinated by hummingbirds - delicate, colourful, beautifully and brilliantly adapted to extract nectar from flowers. Perhaps most of all ' Oh Joy for me it!'' gives Coleridge credit for being 's their acrobatic flight - 'the first person to walk the ability mountains alone, not because he had to hover and manoeuvre which has me hooked: I could watch them for hourswork, as a miner, quarryman, shepherd or pack-horse driver, amazed that birds whose weight can only meaningfully be given in ounces can do so muchbut because he wanted to for pleasure and adventure. I was drawn to this book as soon as I saw itHis rapturous encounters with their natural beauty, and its literary consequences, for a number changed our view of reasonsthe world''.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782400893</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1072549271|title=Top 10 The Simple Act of Everything 2015Self-Publishing With Amazon: A Simple Step by Step Guide|author=Paul TerryGeorgianne Landy-Kordis

|genre=Children's Non-FictionBusiness and Finance|summary=The Top 10 of Everything 2015 I 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. I then ask if they've considered Kindle and the answer is, as the title impliesinevitably, that they wouldn't know where to start. I can empathise with that. Despite having used a compilation computer for about thirty years, running most of my life ''and'top ten' lists covering a wide variety of topics including website online, I'm still nervous when it comes to starting something new. I like someone to hold my hand as I go through it for the natural world, pop culture, sport and technologyfirst time. That was why I was very interested when ''The style Simple Act of the book will appeal to its target audience of pre-teens with its use of bright colours, vibrant images, fun facts, puzzles and quizzesSelf Publishing With Amazon'' came across my desk...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0600628868</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stanley GibbonsHigashida_Fall|title=Great Britain Concise Stamp Catalogue 2014Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A Young Man's Voice From the Silence of Autism|author=Naoki Higashida and David Mitchell

|genre=ReferenceHome and Family|summary=When I began collecting GB stamps back in Naoki Higashida was only 13 years old when he wrote the early seventies international best-seller ''Collect British StampsThe Reason I Jump'' . The book was my bible and I eagerly awaited each new edition. After popular because it gave a while I came to realise that I needed rare glimpse into the workings of the autistic mind, as told from the unique perspective of a little more depthteenager with non-verbal autism. Naoki communicates by using an alphabet grid, but not to the level provided or by tracing letters on the [[Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue 2013: Commonwealth palm of a transcriber. Despite this slow and Empire Stamps 1840 - 1970 by Hugh Jefferies|Specialised Catalogue Series]] not least because I was still at the stage laborious method of spending the money on stamps rather than writing, he has published several books about them. There is something in his native Japan and manages to give public presentations to fill the gap though and that's the Great Britain Concise catalogueraise awareness of his condition. It's designed Fall Down 7 Times Get up 8 reintroduces us to meet the needs of the dedicated amateur rather than the specialist or the casual collector and treads Naoki as a very fine line between providing too much detail young adult in his 20s and too little information with eleganceexplains how his perspectives on life have changed since writing his first book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852599145</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John SutherlandJenkins_100|title=How to be Well Read: A guide to 500 great novels and a handful of literary curiositiesBritain's 100 Best Railway Stations|author=Simon Jenkins

|genre=ReferenceArt|summary=Being well read is rather like having good manners: it's In the mid-twentieth century, the railway was something that we all aspire which harked back to the Victorian age with trains being supplanted by cars and planes, but theresteam was being replaced by oil, even then and in the twenty-first-century oil is giving way to electricity. It's always a nagging doubt that there's something lacking in what cleaner, more environmentally friendly and the stations which we've achieved. That isd all rushed through as quickly as possible, of coursekeen to escape their grime, why a book with the title ''How were restored and became places to be Well Read'' pulled me admired, possibly even lingered in so successfully with its promise of being a guide to five . Simon Jenkins has chosen his hundred great novels and a handful of literary curiositiesbest railway stations. Was I going to find that ultimate list of books which I would have to read to ensure that I could think of myself as well read? No - I was going to find something far more useful and interesting.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847946402</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Taylor_Owls|title=Owls: A Sting in the TaleGuide to Every Species|author=Dave GoulsonMarianne Taylor

|genre=ReferenceAnimals and Wildlife|summary=It seems that Dave Goulson, founder I feel like I am being watched. A huge pair of the incredibly successful Bumblebee Conservation Trustpiercing orange eyes are staring right at me, did not always have natural aptitude for helping wildlife if his early recollections are anything to go bylocking me into their gaze. Despite boundless enthusiasm and a passion for In contrast with the natural world, his childhood efforts to give nature a helping hand quite frequently ended in some sort hardness of gory aftermath. For example, there was the incident with the drowned bumblebeesdeep-amber eyes, in which a young Goulson unwisely decided to dry the bedraggled victims soft grey feathers fan out on into the hotplate of the electric cooker. Then there was the time he accidentally dropped a live electrical heater into his aquariumsurrounding area, intricate, frying the poor fish instantlydetailed and beautiful. I could go on to mention the beheading of the footless quail, the snake wrapped in sticky tape An enigma; harsh and gentle at the countless taxidermy experiments, but alas, same time does not permit. Suffice to say that despite this unpromising start in life, things did eventually improve...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099575124</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Colorstrology|author=Michele Bernhardt|rating=4|genre=Reference|summary=First impressions of this book left me slightly worried that I would have little to go 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 owl is beckoning the reader to refer to their birthday to gain information relating to their character, rather like turn the pages and take a horoscopecloser look inside. 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>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=JVDK_ELO|title=The Autistic Brain Electric Light Orchestra: Song by Song|author=Temple Grandin and Richard PanekJohn Van der Kiste

|genre=ReferenceEntertainment|summary=Temple Grandin is a lady My memories of many labels: professor of animal sciencepop music in the early sixties revolve around guitars and drums, bestselling author, consultant, activist, engineer, public speaker sometimes the piano with only occasional excursions into strings and subject of an award-winning biopicbrass. She also happens to be autistic, a label she earned at a very early age back in the days Pop music rarely stands still and it wasn't long before the majority of people knew what autism was. She describes the timing of her diagnosis basic instruments were seen as fortuitous; only a few years later constraints and the accepted ‘treatment’ for autistic children was removal from their parents The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and life in an institution.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846044499</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Neil Davey|title=The Bluffer's Guide Beach Boys began to Chocolate (Bluffer's Guides)|rating=4|genre=Cookery|summary=I've always been a little bit nervous about the ''Bluffer'' seriesexperiment, on the basis that I would be sure to come out with a clever-sounding phrase, only to be found out when someone asked the follow-up questionother groups following where they led. Better, I thought to stay silent Amongst these groups was The Move and appear ignorant than to open my mouth their lead guitarist and prove myself a foolsongwriter, Roy Wood. But then ''The BlufferWood wanted to develop the group's Guide to Chocolate'' came my way sound by adding more instruments but was prevented from achieving what he wanted by cost limitations and I couldnbecause the rest of the group didn't resist - any more than I've ever been able to resist chocolatereally share his enthusiasm.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909937045</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Hendrix_PBHell|title=The Fun Stuff Paperbacks from Hell: A History of Horror Fiction from the '70s and Other Essays'80s|author=James WoodGrady Hendrix

|genre=ReferenceHorror|summary=The ''Fun Stuff Demonic possession, murderous babies, man-eating moths… for these books, no plot was too ludicrous, no cover art too appalling, no evil too despicable. Now horror author Grady Hendrix risks his soul and Other Essays'his sanity (not to mention the reader' provides, as s!) to relate the title suggeststrue, untold story of a panoramic sampling of James Wood’s critical writing. A popular fascinating and oft-quoted writer, the essays collected here offer stimulating insights into Wood’s chosen subjectsoften forgotten era in publishing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224097113</amazonuk>}}

{{newreviewRead the synapse-shattering story summaries!<br>|title=WinterSee the horrific hand-painted cover imagery!<br>|author=Adam Gopnik|rating=4|genre=Reference|summary=In this collection of five essays, each one offering a unique and fascinating perspective on And learn the season true-life tales of winter, Adam Gopnik takes the reader on a captivating journey, exploring history, art and societywriters, through ''Romantic Winter''artists, ''Radical Winter'', ''Recuperative Winter'', ''Recreational Winter'' and ''Remembering Winter''. In each essay, Gopnik focuses on publishers who gleefully violated every literary law but 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– never be boring.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780874472</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Alannah MooreBrowne_Many|title=The Creative Person's Website BuilderMany Faces of Coincidence|author=Laurence Browne|rating=43.5|genre=ReferencePopular Science|summary=Creating a website is Browne does not difficult. Although some technical knowledge is a help - as is familiarity mislead 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 for very little in the way choice of expenditure. I know - we've done it and we've grown our little baby into title; he does without a business. I was lucky to have doubt explore the expertise many faces 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 inspirationcoincidence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781571066</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1903385679|title=Telling Lies for Fun and Profit: A Manual for Fiction WritersThe 100 Best Novels in Translation|author=Lawrence BlockBoyd Tonkin|rating=3.5

|summary=If I was going to write a list of authors I admire - wellConsider, if you will, I wouldntranslated fiction. Some say it't begin it now. There are so many s impossible – that I'd still be doing it at the end of November. But if I did take it upon myself to write a list, Lawrence Block would probably be on top of book was so good in one tongue itcould never survive being put into another. Hugely prolific Samuel Beckett must have laboured over ever syllable and vastly varied when it comes to thrillers and crime stories''Breath'', but he's someone who seems able to turn could translate his hand to so many different types of novel or short story with excellent results every timeown works, and other equally complex pieces can cross borders. HeIt's created my two favourite crime-solversa market that has actually doubled in sales volume between 2000 and 2016 (thanks, alcoholic ex-cop Matt Scudder and gentleman burglar Bernie Rhodenbarr''Millennium Trilogy''). Novels, in particular, in translation, and are – as the contrast between introduction here so smartly puts it – ''a privileged means of passing border posts, a sort of universal passport issued by that Utopian state, the grittiness Republic of Letters''. We here at the former series 'Bag regularly try and give equal credit to the cosiness translator, without whom we wouldn't be reading what we have in our hands. But all that said, do we really need one of the latter would place him high on my those list of favourites even without his other work. Throw in books about the comic capers of Evan Tanner, whose sleep-centre was destroyed by shrapnel and now works for subject? I got given a mysterious department going across book the world and stirring up troubleother year detailing 1001 places to go to before I die, and stamp-collecting assassin Keller, and you've got four excellent series of novelsI might even then have missed out a zero. Then thereIt would take as long as a fortnight's the short storiesholiday to wade through, which feature all of these characters and many otherseven though this is not as long as your typical Bolano housebrick, often rivalling Roald Dahl for darkness and clever plot twistsit's not a short thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0688132286</amazonuk>Should it take our time?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stanley GibbonsFry_Mythos|title=Great Britain Concise Stamp Catalogue 2013Mythos: A Retelling of the Myths of Ancient Greece|author=Stephen Fry

|summary=When I began collecting GB stamps ''Collect British Stamps'' was my bible The Greek Myths are, arguably, the greatest stories ever told. So old and I eagerly awaited each new editioninfluential they cast a shadow over western tales and traditions, yet remain relatable and readable millennia later. After a while I came Here comedian, actor, television presenter, actor and author Stephen Fry brings his considerable talent to realise that I needed these special stories and recreates them with a little more depthwit, but not to warmth and humanity that brings them into the level provided by the [[Stanley Gibbons Stamp Catalogue 2013: Commonwealth and Empire Stamps 1840 - 1970 by Hugh Jefferies|Specialised Catalogue Series]] not least because I was modern age whilst still at giving the stage of spending the money on stamps rather than books about them. There is something to fill the gap though honour and respect that's the Great Britain Concise catalogue. It's designed to meet the needs of the dedicated amateur rather than the specialist or the casual collectorsuch ancient and influential stories deserve.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852598998</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Mahnke_Lore|title=Sea Monsters: The World of Lore and Legacy of Olaus Magnus's Marine Map, Volume 1: Monstrous Creatures|author=Joseph NiggAaron Mahnke

|summary=Imagine if you willEvery country, every town, every village has a folktale – a world where story passed down through generations that often focuses on the normal laws of physics have been slightly changeddark and unexplained. You swirl around almost weightlesslyNo matter how the modern world moves on, with no control over your limbs. Sounds seem either deafeningly loud or hopelessly muffled. Sensory input floods your system, overwhelming you with bright colours, patterns and odours there's a still a part of everyone that attack you from every side, without warning. Communication is almost impossible. You open your mouth and the wrong words come out. People talk down vulnerable to you as if you were a childgood tale. Welcome From ghosts to Naoki’s werewolves, by way of wendigos and elves, author Aaron Mahnke delivers the reader legends from all 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>1444776754</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard MabeyFowler_Forgotten|title=The Ash and the BeechBook of Forgotten Authors|author=Christopher Fowler

|summary=''The Ash and The BeechAbsence doesn't make the heart grow fonder' is an updated version of Mabey’s popular ''Beechcombings'. It makes people think you', which has been given a new foreword and afterword by the author in light of the recent issues concerning ash die-back, which currently threatens Britain’s ash population. Mabey expands on this topic by examining the history of British trees, particularly the Beech and how it has managed to survive and adapt over the centuries despite threats from war, felling, disease and storms. He raises some important and thought-provoking ideas and questions whether our constant intervention in such cases serves to do more harm than goodre dead.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099587238</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Gavin Mortimer|title=A History of Cricket There's truth 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 attemptthat statement, you know, but was slightly let down by being there's a little too clinical. Being a game imbued with passion, the book lacked this which took some of the edge off conundrum when it's applied to authors. CricketShakespeare is dead: Dickens is dead, whilst inspiring passion amongst devotees, has a slightly more laid back following; one but we haven't buried what they've written: that may work better in this formatlives on until... That saidwhen? Is it until fashion decrees that they should be no more? Or is it, being a game as in the case of some children's authors that they are on life support through licensing deals and astute marketing? Christopher Fowler has been played for five centuriesunearthed (exhumed?) ninety-nine authors who were once hugely popular, but whose works have disappeared, narrowing it down to just 100 objects is no less an undertaking than for footballsometimes quite literally.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846689406</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Polly MorlandAngell_Triang|title=The Society of Timid Souls: Or, How to be BraveTri-ang Collectables|author=Dave Angell

|summary='I see no reason why A guide to the shy and timid in any community couldn’t get together and help each other.' The above words were uttered in 1943 trains produced by 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 fearthe Tri-wracked musicians to come in out of ang company from its inception until the cold 'to play, to criticise and be criticised in order to conquer that old bogey of stage frightcompany became Hornby.' The method evidently worked, as many a timid soul claimed A very personal guide to be cured by these unorthodox methods and club membership grew considerably in the years that followedcollecting of model trains.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251908</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary BeardChase_Orchids|title=Confronting The Book of Orchids: A life-size guide to six hundred species from around the Classics: Traditionsworld|author=Mark Chase, Adventures Maarten Christenhusz and InnovationsTom Mirenda|rating=45

|summary=For a lot of usOne in seven flowering plants on earth is an orchid: there are 26, 000 species in 749 genera. They flourish in remarkable habitats such as deserts and the idea of learning Classics conjures up images – or memories – of rows of (usually public) schoolboys endlessly repeating different conjugations of Latin verbs. 'AmoArctic circle, amasin fact, amat..all areas but the most inhospitable.' and so on. It There's an idea imprinted on the popular imagination by countless booksa wide range of colours, films shapes and TV showsscents: they're dramatic, delicate and indeed by anecdotal memoryingenious in the ways that they've developed not just to survive but to thrive. I Tom Mirenda describes them as 'm pretty sure my dad would have been one 'masters of manipulation'' and ''famous for lying and cheating their way to their many evolutionary successes'', yet his love of those schoolboys in them is as obvious as his respect for the insight they give us into the 1960sprocesses which shaped our world. He hopes that understanding how that has come about will inspire us to conserve what we have.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781250480</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Stanley GibbonsEdwards_Story|title=Stamps The Story of the World 2013Classic Crime in 100 Books (British Library Crime Classics)|author=Martin Edwards

|summary=Philatelists It's easy to be confused by the various 'ages' of crime writing: if you have long come to rely on an interest in the annual publication genre you'll almost certainly have heard of Stanley Gibbons’ Stamps the Golden Age of Crime, generally acknowledged as being the World simplified catalogueperiod between the first and second world wars. For years it has had an unrivalled reputation for accuracy 'Classic Crime' on the other hand extends the time frame at either end and usability for both dealers and collectorscovers books published in the first half of the twentieth century. CommemorativesThroughout my adult life, definitives, airmail stamps, postage duesthere's been just one genre of books which has fascinated me, official stamps and miniature sheets are all listed (both mint and used)that's crime, using so I could hardly resist the internationally recognised Stanley Gibbons catalogue number and set out according to date chance of reading ''The Story of issue and by country. IndeedClassic Crime in 100 Books'' particularly as the author, it’s difficult to imagine that any serious dealer or collector could be without Martin Edwards is an accomplished author within the six volume set but many must wonder if it’s entirely necessary to make what is a substantial investment crime genre and an acknowledged expert on an annual basisthe subject.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0852598610</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=A L KennedyDK_Childrens|title=On WritingChildren's Illustrated Thesaurus|author=DK|rating=4.5

|summary=How do you even begin One of the most valuable literary skills which children can learn is how to write use reference books. As a review of a book child every question which expresses trenchant, no-holds-barred opinions on reviewers and the process of being reviewedI began with ''how do you spell...? But '' would be answered with ''EXACTLY as it says in the task is theredictionary''. This was fine, so therebut the family's nothing Collins Little Gem Dictionary didn't encourage exploration, not least because the font was small and difficult to read. Fortunately, those times have now changed and reference book for children are now much more inviting. Not every book comes with a set of instructions but it but 's worth studying the ''How to roll up your sleeves...'' section, gather your courage and mutter the word with which A L Kennedy regularly signs off from her blog: Onwardsnot least because similar systems are used in other reference books.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224096974</amazonuk>