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|author= Pop Up Projects
|summary=George R R Martin is undoubtedly the biggest name in modern day fantasy, and Gardner Dozois an American science fiction author of considerable renown. Here, the two collect twenty one stories by a list of well known and hugely loved authors.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297190</amazonuk>
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|title=While Wandering - A Walking Companion
|author=Duncan Minshull
|rating=5
|genre=Anthologies
|summary=''While Wandering - A Walking Companion'', was first published ten years ago as ''The Vintage Book of Walking''. Reprinted and retitled with a stunning new cover by James Jones and Finn Dean, and a foreword by Robert Macfarlane, the best writer on walking in recent years (in my humble opinion).
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009959336X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=A is Amazing!: Poems about Feelings
|author=Wendy Cooling and Piet Grobler
|rating=4.5
|genre=Children's Rhymes and Verse
|summary=How do you get young children interested in poetry? I guess you hope that you don't have to – you want them to be aware of clapping and skipping songs by nature, and of lyrics to music heard in school and at home. Surely it's a case of making sure a child never learns to hold verse in disfavour, and carries a natural eagerness for poetry through to adulthood. But just in case, there are books such as this wonderfully thought-through compilation, that will catch the eye and entertain those aged six or seven and up, and provide for many a read of many a different style of verse.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805132</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=A Broken World: Letters, diaries and memories of the Great War
|author=Sebastian Faulks and Hope Wolf
|rating=4.5
|genre=History
|summary=Sebastian Faulks and Dr Hope Wolf have expertly brought together this far-reaching collection of memories, diaries, letters and postcards written during and after the First World War. While Faulks is the author of novels such as ''Birdsong'' and ''Charlotte Gray'', Dr Hope Wolf is a research fellow in English at the University of Cambridge, whose doctoral research focused on archives at the Imperial War Museum. The combination of such a respected author, whose most famous (and arguably his best) novel is set in the First World War, and an academic whose expertise is the in the same area, means that this fascinating collection hits all the right notes. It's commemorative, poignant and very human.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0091954223</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Dead But Not Forgotten
|author=Charlaine Harris and Toni LP Kelner (Editors)
|rating=3.5
|genre=Anthologies
|summary=''Dead But Not Forgotten'' returns to Sookie Stackhouse's world, exploring the lives and misadventures of some of the more minor characters in the series. The collection features stories about Pam Ravenscroft, Adele Hale Stackhouse, Luna, Diantha, Bubba and many of the other colourful characters from Bon Temps and the wider universe of Sookie's story, written by authors such as Seanan McGuire, Rachel Caine, Nicole Peeler, Christopher Golden and many more.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00GBQXN6K</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Stories of World War One
|author=Tony Bradman
|rating=5
|genre=Teens
|summary=World War One, or the Great War as it was known at the time, was a cataclysmic war. Millions died and life was changed forever for the survivors - for the women of Britain, and for the working classes and ruling classes alike. 2014 is the centenary of its outbreak and the redoubtable Tony Bradman has gathered together a dozen of our best writers for young people to create an anthology of short stories to commemorate the anniversary.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408330350</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Daughters of Time
|author=Mary Hoffman (editor)
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=This is an anthology aimed at tweens and younger teens on the subject of ''some of history's most remarkable women''. It's an interesting idea, particularly as the usual suspects are perhaps avoided. No Elizabeth I, Mary Queen of Scots, Victoria, or Florence Nightingale. Instead we get Boudica, Mary Seacole, Aphra Behn and Julian of Norwich, amongst others. It doesn't altogether work for me but there are enough strong stories to make it well worth a look.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184877169X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=No Man's Land: Writings From A World At War
|author=Pete Ayrton (editor)
|rating=4
|genre=Anthologies
|summary=July 2014 marks the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War: a war that has become imprinted on the national consciousness of Britain (and plenty of modern nation-states), partly because of the large numbers of people (mostly men) writing about it. I don't mean journalists, who had been covering wars for the Victorian public, but artists: poets, authors, memoirists and painters. The poets especially have stamped World War One on collective memory, through countless poetry anthologies, recitals at memorials, and in school classrooms.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846689252</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Of Lions and Unicorns: A Lifetime of Tales from the Master Storyteller
|author=Michael Morpurgo
|rating=4
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=''Of Lions and Unicorns'' is a collection of short stories and extracts from Morpurgo’s most popular books. The book is split into five sections, which focus on recurring themes in his writing.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007395353</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Rags and Bones
|author=Melissa Marr and Tim Pratt (Editors)
|rating=4.5
|genre=Anthologies
|summary=Some of today's top authors have come together to retell classic tales - from fairy stories to Victorian-era fiction. As usual with this kind of anthology, it's a fairly hit-or-miss affair, but the hits here are so strong that they're well worth picking up the book for.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472210522</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Chris Moss
|title=Smoothly From Harrow: A Compendium for the London Commuter
|rating=4
|genre=Anthologies
|summary=If you want to get ''behind'' what commuting is really like - not in an academic or a political way, but from the perspective of having your hand through a strap and wishing that the man next to you wasn't ''quite'' so enamoured of Brut aftershave - then you need a travel journalist. Step forward (but mind the gap), Chris Moss, who writes regularly for the ''Daily Telegraph'' and has done the same for the ''Guardian'', ''Independent'' and various magazines. Most importantly, he's commuted from Camberwell, Camden, Hackney, Harrow, Herne Hill, Surbiton and Tooting. Personally, I think he deserves a medal.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905131623</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=The Time Traveller's Almanac
|author=Anne VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeer
|rating=4
|genre=Anthologies
|summary=From H.G Wells to ''Doctor Who'', there is something about a good time-travel story that has the power to ignite the imagination in a way unique to the genre. Perhaps it is due to the fact that when dealing with the subject of time travel, literally ''anything is possible''. Well, almost anything...apart from going back in time and killing your Grandfather, which we know would cause an almighty paradox and probably destroy the universe.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781853908</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|title=Stuff I've Been Reading
|author=Nick Hornby
|rating=4.5
|genre=Anthologies
|summary=I am lucky enough to be typing this while sitting on the fifth floor of the magnificent new Library of Birmingham. Coming in at a whopping £189 million the burghers of the second city certainly haven't skimped in trying to create a 21st century centre of learning. Amongst all the interactive learning zones, digital galleries and coffee shops there are of course books. Many, many books. Over one million in fact. And this in an era when some critics have said that the book in its current form is dead.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241003334</amazonuk>
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