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|summary= Robert Louis Stevenson was Sometimes, you deserve a very versatile writer; he delved deep into the human psyche when he wrote ''The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll treat and Mr Hyde'' but he did not restrict himself to representations of the gothic and the persecuted. He also wrote brilliant childrenmine was Jolly Walker Bittick's adventure stories such as ''Treasure IslandBag O'' and ''KidnappedGoodies''. I first encountered his writing about a year ago, when I read his [[Cape Henry House by Jolly Walker Bittick|Cape Henry House]], buta rollicking tale of what happens when five young men find a base for their partying. Right now, againI didn't want a full-length novel, he did not restrict himself so I turned to prose this anthology of verse and short stories. Bittick's writing because here he demonstrates has matured - and so have his ability to write poetrycharacters. Well...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910959103</amazonuk>most of them!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Allie Esiri140638853X|title= A Poem for Every Day of the Year Somebody Give This Heart a Pen|author=Sophia Thakur|rating= 45|genre= Anthologies|summary= For those who do not read much poetrySophia Thakur's debut anthology is a collection of poems that are all unique, for those who do not know where whether in relation to starttheir style, this length or theme. The collection is split into four sections, titled 'grow', 'wait','break' and 'grow again', guiding you through a fun and easy commitment to take process which is one of the foundations that the anthology is built on. Reading Each section begins with a foregrounded title page containing various small pieces of writing, ranging from a poem quote by a day does not take long, mere minutesNigerian playwright, to African proverbs. This provides a nice introduction to the section before you are immersed in the beautifully written and with over three-hundred eloquent poems in here there's bound to be a poem that speaks to each reader directlyThakur has clearly put her heart and soul into. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1509860541</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Gavin Herbertson 1789016789|title= William and Dorothy WordsworthYou're the Froth On My Soy Cappuccino: A MiscellanyPoems for the Present|author=Don Behrend|rating= 54|genre= Anthologies|summary= William Wordsworth was a defining member of ''You're the romantic literary era. He was part of the first wave, and his poetry helped to shape a large part of it. Nature is the keyFroth On My Soy Cappuccino'' begins with ''A Modern Love Story'': existing in nature, finding one ''s own true nature and becoming natural in You’re the process were froth on my soy cappuccino''<br>''You’re the driving forces behind it. spread on my paleo toast''<br>|amazonuk=''You’re the nose of my GM-free Pinot''<amazonukbr>1903385598''You’re organic, my love. You’re the most!''</amazonukbr>}}{{newreview|author= Sabrina Mahfouz|title= The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write|rating= 5|genre= Anthologies|summary= What does it mean to be British and Muslim? This is a question these writers tackle with stunning clarity. Modern day British society has a varied sense of cultural heritage; it is a society that is changing and moving forward as it adds more and more voices to the population, but is also one that has an undercurrent of anxiety and fear towards those that are minorities. So Ha! How can you not laugh at this collection displays how all that fear is received; it comes gently mocking take on love in the form of stereotypical labels and racial prejudice, which are themes eloquently reproduced here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0863561462</amazonuk>hipster world?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Barry HollandPUP_Rising|title=View from the Cheap SeatsRising Stars: New Young Voices in Poetry|author=Pop Up Projects

|summary=A little bit about Barry Holland: he was born This collection brings together five emerging voices in Newport, South Wales, to working class parentspoetry. He loves rugby and his son - his son is his favourite rugby playerAnd despite what the publisher says, which is just as it should be. He is a qualified engineer but is unable to work because of mental ill health. All of these things feed into 'I wouldn'View from t personally impose an age restriction on the Cheap Seats'', which is a collection of poems and imaginings as vivid and immediate and striking as you could hope forwriting here. Barry sounds like a thoroughly nice bloke and his book was a pleasure Each poet uses words that will appeal to readmany readers.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524633127</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Sybil Marshall and John Lawrence|title= The Book of English Folk Tales|rating= 4|genre= Anthologies|summary= From ghosts to witches, to giants and fairies, ''The Book of English Folk Tales'' is a fascinating collection of stories retold by social historian and folklorist Sybil Marshall. Out of print for over three decades, I found this beautiful new clothbound edition is complete particularly so with wood engraved illustrations by John Lawrence and is sure to capture the attention of a new generation of lovers of folkloreJay Hulme's poetry.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1468313177</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Felicity Trotman (editor)Stevenson_Garden|title=Winter: A Book for the SeasonChild's Garden of Verses|author=Robert Louis Stevenson|rating=3.52

|summary=This seasonal anthology contains Robert Louis Stevenson was a nice mixture of poetry, nature and travel pieces, and excerpts from longer works of fiction. Felicity Trotman, a freelance editor and member of very versatile writer; he delved deep into the English Civil War Society, has arranged the material into three sections: human psyche when he wrote ''The Old Year', 'Christmas, Sacred Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and SecularMr Hyde', and 'The New Year'. This creates an appropriate sense of chronological progression, and also serves but he did not restrict himself to make Christmas the heart representations of the book. Black-gothic and-white illustrations – maps, photographs and engravings – are interspersed throughout, and each author gets a short paragraph of biography and backgroundthe persecuted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445664747</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Abi Elphinstone (Editor)|title=Winter Magic|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=With everything from dragons to mysterious crimes, voice-stealing witches to time travel, and magical worlds to first performances of world-famous ballets, this is a collection of short stories that delights from start to finish. Anthologies of short stories can sometimes fall flat, with one or two good ones and then a bunch of mediocre fillers, but this collection has no weak links...all the stories are good, and most of them are He also wrote brilliant. I felt entirely caught up in each individual world as I read, loving the varied and extremely likeable heroines throughout.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1471159809</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Gervase Phinn|title= The Virgin Marychildren's Got Nits|rating= 4.5|genre= Humour|summary= Christmas in our house is the time we tend to get on a plane and head to either sun or snow, anywhere that is far, far away from the madness at home, last minute dashes to the shops on Christmas Eve, and food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are shutting for a month, nor a mere 36 hours. But I do remember the feeling of Christmas when I was younger, back when it was magical, and back when you knew exactly what the season would bring with carol concerts and school nativities and Christmas parties. This book is an anthology of those moments, and it took me right back to the wonder of Christmas adventure stories such as a child.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444779400</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Pete Ayrton (editor) |title= No Pasaran: Writings from the Spanish Civil War|rating= 4|genre= Anthologies|summary= In ''¡No Pasarán!: Writings from the Spanish Civil WarTreasure Island'' and ''Kidnapped', Pete Ayrton has chosen a majority of texts by Spanish writers, arguing that the conflict has long been written about from the point of view of the international brigades.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668997X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Martin Edwards (editor)|title=Murder at the Manor: Country House Mysteries (British Library Crime Classics)|rating=4.5|genre=Crime (Historical)|summary=I'm not big on short stories, but two factors nudged me towards this book. Firstly, it's broadly golden age crime, one of my weaknesses and secondly, the editor is [[:Category:Martin Edwards|Martin Edwards]]again, a man whose knowledge of golden age crime is probably unsurpassed and he's done us proud, did not only with his selection, but with the half-page biographies of the writers, which precede each story. There's just enough there restrict himself to allow you to place the author and to direct you to other works if you're tempted. It's an elegant selection, from the well known and the less well known, all set in and around the country house.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712309934</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Eoin Colfer (editor)|title=Once Upon a Place|rating=3.5|genre=Confident Readers |summary=You know the bit of the blurb on every ''Artemis Fowl'' book, where Eoin Colfer had it said about how you pronounce prose writing because here he demonstrates his name? That wasn't the intention of an up-and-coming author ability to be recognisable; rather, it was pride. Pride in the difference of it, of the Irishness of it. Ireland, it seems to me, is more full than usual of people, things and ideas, and places that are different by dint of their singular nationality – and so many deserve to have pride attached to them. The places might not be the famous ones, but they can be the source of pride, and of stories, which is where this compilation of short works for the young comes in, with the authors invited to select their chosen place and write about itpoetry.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>191041137X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ann Cleeves (editor)Esiri Poem|title=The Starlings and Other StoriesA Poem for Every Day of the Year|author=Allie Esiri

|genre=CrimeAnthologies|summary=Six authorsFor those who do not read much poetry, known collectively as 'The Murder Squad'for those who do not know where to start, this is a fun and their six accomplices were given twelve photographs of the remote landscape of Pembrokeshire by acclaimed photographer David Wilson and asked easy commitment to come up with take on. Reading a poem a short story inspired by what they saw. Some of the stories will be more to your taste than othersday does not take long, as is only to be expected in such a varied anthologymere minutes, but none are weak and if you enjoy crime short stories then this book could with over three-hundred poems in here there's bound to be a real treatpoem that speaks to each reader directly.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909823740</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Herbertson_Wordsworth|title=William and Dorothy Wordsworth: A A MilneMiscellany|titleauthor=Love From Pooh (Winnie the Pooh)Gavin Herbertson

|summary=For William Wordsworth was a small book, a small review – this is a quite delightful little thing, about which not a lot can be saiddefining member of the romantic literary era. It is a gift book pure and simple, much in He was part of the way that Pooh Bear was a little simple at times (''Pooh… thought how wonderful it would be to have a Real Brain which could tell you things''). With it comes a simple blurbfirst wave, and almost instructions that it is for giving, and there is his poetry helped to shape a space for a loving dedication at the beginning, which is again only apt, as large part of it is all about love. Love of honey, love Nature was the key: existing in friendship, love of all various kindsnature, but just love. It canfinding one't help but make you most warm-hearteds own true nature and becoming natural in the process were the driving forces behind it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1405276150</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jo WaltonMahfouz_Muslim|title=What Makes This Book So GreatThe Things I Would Tell You: Re-Reading The Classics Of Science Fiction And FantasyBritish Muslim Women Write|author=Sabrina Mahfouz

|summary=Jo Walton has published over ten books, several of which have been award winningWhat does it mean to be British and Muslim? This is a question these writers tackle with stunning clarity. On top of that, she Modern-day British society has a voracious appetite for books - both as varied sense of cultural heritage; it is a well respected writer of original fiction, but society that is changing and moving forward as a well respected reviewer too. Not only does she have time it adds more and more voices to do all thatthe population, but she it is also writes a regular column for Torone that has an undercurrent of anxiety and fear towards those who are minorities.com, on Science Fiction So this collection displays how all that fear is received; it comes in the form of stereotypical labels and Fantasy booksracial prejudice, and it is these columns that a selection of which are collected themes eloquently reproduced here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472111613</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Emma Tennant, Hilary Bailey and David ElliottHolland Cheap|title=Did We Meet on Grub Street?View from the Cheap Seats|author=Barry Holland|rating=3.54|genre=EntertainmentAnthologies|summary=EssentiallyA little bit about Barry Holland: he was born in Newport, South Wales, the three authors (all of whom have long careers in the book industry) revel in the idea of being whining old curmudgeons who miss the good old days of publishing. This unashamed nostalgia provides the focus of the book and allows the writers to recount numerous anecdotes from their days in the publishing businessworking-class parents. Whilst the primary audience for this book may well be students of creative writing He loves rugby and media studieshis son - his son is his favourite rugby player, which is just as it also serves as an interesting exploration of an aspect of modern history: how should be. He is a once-burgeoning industry qualified engineer but is now a shell unable to work because of its former self, much like a lot of manufacturingmental ill-health. Because All of thisthese things feed into ''View from the Cheap Seats'', I was disappointed that no space was given to which is a consideration collection of how the rise of the e-book poems and imaginings as vivid and Kindle has directly damaged both the sale of books immediate and the potential striking as you could hope for new books to be written (fewer real books sold = fewer financial advances paid to writers = fewer books written). Also, given the clear love of books as treasured artifacts, the dismissal of the Harry Potter phenomenon seems truculent, given the impetus the series gave Barry sounds like a thoroughly nice bloke and his book was a pleasure to reading amongst both the young and adultsread.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0704372983</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Otto Penzler (editor)Marshall EFT|title=The Big Book of Christmas MysteriesEnglish Folk Tales|author=Sybil Marshall and John Lawrence|rating=54|genre=CrimeAnthologies|summary=Nostalgia is a big part of the Christmas experienceFrom ghosts to witches, to giants and thatfairies, ''The Book of English Folk Tales's provided in sack-loads by this hefty tome ' is a fascinating collection of short storiesretold by social historian and folklorist Sybil Marshall. Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot and Brother Cadfael jostle Morse, Rumpole and Vic Warshawski Out of print for space on these tightly packed pagesover three decades, while lesser known and long since forgotten writers furnish this beautiful new clothbound edition is complete with wood-engraved illustrations by John Lawrence and unexpected pleasures for even is sure to capture the most well-read attention of a new generation of lovers of book wormsfolklore.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1784082252</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Trotman_Winter|title=Burnt TonguesWinter: An Anthology of Transgressive Short StoriesA Book for the Season|author=Chuck Palahniuk, Dennis Widmyer and Richard ThomasFelicity Trotman (editor)

|genre=Short StoriesAnthologies|summary=Saying certain things out loud just don’t sound rightThis seasonal anthology contains a nice mixture of poetry, nature and travel pieces, and excerpts from longer works of fiction. Some things are so disturbing or politically incorrect that you are best off leaving them inside your headFelicity Trotman, or better yet not thinking a freelance editor and member of them at allthe English Civil War Society, has arranged the material into three sections: 'The Old Year', 'Christmas, Sacred and Secular', and 'The New Year'. When these words are spoken they could lead to the sensation of Burnt Tongue; This creates an aftereffect appropriate sense of knowing what you said was wrong. Are you prepared chronological progression and also serves to enter make Christmas the world heart of Transgressive Fiction that aims to disturbthe book. Black-and-white illustrations – maps, alienatephotographs and engravings – are interspersed throughout, disgust and question?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178329552X</amazonuk>each author gets a short paragraph of biography and background.

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Elphinstone_Winter|title=RoguesWinter Magic|author=George R R Martin and Gardner Dozois Abi Elphinstone (EditorsEditor)

|summary=George R R Martin is undoubtedly the biggest name in modern day fantasyWith everything from dragons to mysterious crimes, voice-stealing witches to time travel, and Gardner Dozois an American science fiction author magical worlds to first performances of considerable renown. Hereworld-famous ballets, the two collect twenty one stories by this is a list collection of well known and hugely loved authorsshort stories that delights from start to finish.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783297190</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=While Wandering - A Walking Companion|author=Duncan Minshull|rating=5|genre=Anthologies|summary=''While Wandering - A Walking Companion''of short stories can sometimes fall flat, 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, one or two good ones and then a foreword by Robert Macfarlanebunch of mediocre fillers, the best writer on walking in recent years (in my humble opinion)but this collection has no weak links..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>009959336X</amazonuk>}}{{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 natureall the stories are good, and most of lyrics to music heard in school and at homethem are brilliant. Surely it's a case of making sure a child never learns to hold verse I felt entirely caught up in disfavour, and carries a natural eagerness for poetry through to adulthood. But just in case, there are books such each individual world as this wonderfully thought-through compilationI read, that will catch loving the eye and entertain those aged six or seven varied and up, and provide for many a read of many a different style of verseextremely likeable heroines throughout.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847805132</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Phinn_Virgin|title=A Broken World: Letters, diaries and memories of the Great WarThe Virgin Mary's Got Nits|author=Sebastian Faulks and Hope WolfGervase Phinn

|summary=''Dead But Not Forgotten'' returns Christmas in our house is the time we tend to Sookie Stackhouse's world, exploring the lives get on a plane and misadventures of some of the more minor characters in the series. The collection features stories about Pam Ravenscrofthead to either sun or snow, Adele Hale Stackhouseanywhere that is far, Lunafar away from the madness at home, Diantha, Bubba and many of last-minute dashes to the other colourful characters from Bon Temps shops on Christmas Eve and the wider universe of Sookie's storyfood cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are shutting for a month, written by authors such as Seanan McGuire, Rachel Caine, Nicole Peeler, Christopher Golden and many morenor a mere 36 hours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>B00GBQXN6K</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Stories But I do remember the feeling of World War One|author=Tony Bradman|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=World War OneChristmas when I was younger, or the Great War as back when it was known at the time, was a cataclysmic war. Millions died and life was changed forever for the survivors - for the women of Britainmagical, and for back when you knew exactly what the working classes season would bring with carol concerts and ruling classes alike. 2014 is the centenary of its outbreak school nativities 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 anniversaryChristmas parties.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408330350</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Daughters of Time|author=Mary Hoffman (editor)|rating=4|genre=Confident Readers|summary=This book is an anthology aimed at tweens and younger teens on the subject of ''some of history's most remarkable women''. It's an interesting ideathose moments, 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 it took me but there are enough strong stories right back to make it well worth the wonder of Christmas as a lookchild.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184877169X</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Ayrton_Pasaran|title=No Man's LandPasaran: Writings From A World At from the Spanish Civil War

|summary=July 2014 marks In ''¡No Pasarán!: Writings from the centenary of the outbreak of the Great Spanish Civil War: '', Pete Ayrton has chosen a war majority of texts by Spanish writers, arguing that the conflict has become imprinted on long been written about from the national consciousness point of Britain (and plenty of modern nation-states), partly because view 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 classroomsinternational brigades.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846689252</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Edwards_Manor|title=Of Lions and UnicornsMurder at the Manor: A Lifetime of Tales from the Master StorytellerCountry House Mysteries (British Library Crime Classics)|author=Michael MorpurgoMartin Edwards (editor)|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersAnthologies|summary=I'm not big on short stories, but two factors nudged me towards this book. Firstly, it'Of Lions s broadly golden age crime, one of my weaknesses and Unicorns'' secondly, the editor is [[:Category:Martin Edwards|Martin Edwards]], a collection man whose knowledge of golden age crime is probably unsurpassed and he's done us proud, not only with his selection but with the half-page biographies of short stories the writers, which precede each story. There's just enough there to allow you to place the author and extracts to direct you to other works if you're tempted. It's an elegant selection, from Morpurgo’s most popular books. The book is split into five sectionsthe well known and the less well known, which focus on recurring themes all set in his writingand around the country house.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007395353</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Colfer_Place|title=Rags and BonesOnce Upon a Place|author=Melissa Marr and Tim Pratt Eoin Colfer (Editorseditor)|rating=43.5

|summary=Some You know the bit of todaythe blurb on every 's top authors have come together to retell classic tales 'Artemis Fowl'' book, where Eoin Colfer had it said about how you pronounce his name? That wasn't the intention of an up-and- from fairy stories coming author to Victorian-era fictionbe recognisable; rather, it was pride. Pride in the difference of it, of the Irishness of it. As Ireland, it seems to me, is more full than usual with this kind of anthologypeople, it's a fairly hit-or-miss affairthings and ideas, but the hits here and places that are different by dint of their singular nationality – and so strong that many deserve to have pride attached to them. The places might not be the famous ones, but they're well worth picking up can be the book source of pride, and of stories, which is where this compilation of short works forthe young comes in, with the authors invited to select their chosen place and write about it. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472210522</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Chris MossCleeves_Murder|title=Smoothly From Harrow: A Compendium for the London CommuterThe Starlings and Other Stories|author=Ann Cleeves (editor)

|summary=If you want to get ''behindSix authors, known collectively as 'Murder Squad' what commuting is really like - not in an academic or a political way, but from and their six accomplices were each given photographs of the perspective remote landscape of having your hand through a strap Pembrokeshire by acclaimed photographer David Wilson and wishing that the man next asked to you wasn't ''quite'' so enamoured of Brut aftershave - then you need come up with a travel journalistshort story inspired by what they saw. Step forward (but mind Some of the gap)stories will be more to your taste than others, Chris Mossas is only to be expected in such a varied anthology, who writes regularly for the ''Daily Telegraph'' but none are weak 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 if you enjoy crime short stories then this book could be a medalreal treat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905131623</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Milne_Love|title=The Time Traveller's AlmanacLove From Pooh (Winnie the Pooh)|author=Anne VanderMeer and Jeff VanderMeerA A Milne|rating=45

|summary=From HFor a small book, a small review – this is a quite delightful little thing, about which not a lot can be said.G Wells to It is a gift book pure and simple, much in the way that Pooh Bear was a little simple at times (''Doctor WhoPooh… thought how wonderful it would be to have a Real Brain which could tell you things''). With it comes a simple blurb, and almost instructions that it is for giving, and there is something about a good time-travel story that has the power to ignite the imagination in space for a way unique to loving dedication at the genre. Perhaps it beginning, which is due to the fact that when dealing with the subject of time travelagain only apt, literally ''anything as it is possible''all about love. Well Love of honey, almost anything...apart from going back love in time and killing your Grandfatherfriendship, love of all various kinds, which we know would cause an almighty paradox and probably destroy the universebut just love. It can't help but make you most warm-hearted.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781853908</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Walton_Scifi|title=Stuff I've Been What Makes This Book So Great: Re-ReadingThe Classics Of Science Fiction And Fantasy|author=Nick HornbyJo Walton|rating=4.5

|summary=I am lucky enough to be typing this while sitting on the fifth floor Jo Walton has published over ten books, several of the magnificent new Library which have been award-winning. On top of Birmingham. Coming in at that, she has a voracious appetite for books - both as a whopping £189 million the burghers well-respected writer of the second city certainly haven't skimped in trying original fiction, but as a well-respected reviewer too. Not only does she have time to create do all that, but she also writes a 21st century centre of learningregular column for Tor. Amongst all the interactive learning zonescom, digital galleries on Science Fiction and coffee shops there are of course Fantasy books. Many, many books. Over one million in fact. And this in an era when some critics have said and it is these columns that the book in its current form is deada selection of which are collected here.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241003334</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Tennant_Grub|title=Beyond Rue Morgue: Further Tales of Edgar Allan Poe's 1st DetectiveDid We Meet on Grub Street?|author=Paul Kane Emma Tennant, Hilary Bailey and Charles Prepolec (Editors)David Elliott

|summary=C. Auguste Dupin is often regarded as Essentially, the three authors (all of whom have long careers in the first fictional detective and at book industry) revel in the very least Edgar Allan Poe’s character was idea of being whining old curmudgeons who miss the blueprint for many sleuths to come, most notably Sherlock Holmesgood old days of publishing. Dupin is an eccentric genius from Paris whose use This unashamed nostalgia provides the focus of logic the book and deduction aid allows the police on writers to recount numerous anecdotes from their most baffling cases. The characters literary debut was days in the short story ''The Murders in publishing business. Whilst the Rue Morgue'' in 1841 primary audience for this book may well be students of creative writing and between 1842 and 1844 Poe wrote two more short stories about Dupin and his exploitsmedia studies, it also serves as an interesting exploration of an aspect of modern history: how a once-burgeoning industry is now a shell of its former self, much like a lot of manufacturing. ''Beyond Rue Morgue'' contains nine stories (in addition Because of this, I was disappointed that no space was given to a consideration of how the rise of the original Poe tale) by various authors e-book and gives many different takes on Kindle has directly damaged both the same character or influenced by him. From samurai assassins sale of books and the apocalypse potential for new books to an agoraphobic distant relative of Dupin attempting be written (fewer real books sold = fewer financial advances paid to solve a murder without even leaving her home; the different writers all take = fewer books written). Also, given the intriguing character to places we wouldn’t expect and clear love of books as treasured artefacts, the creativity dismissal of all keeps the character fresh from story Harry Potter phenomenon seems truculent, given the impetus the series gave to storyreading amongst both the young and adults.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Penzler_Big|title=The Big Book of Christmas Mysteries|amazonukauthor=<amazonuk>1781161755</amazonuk>Otto Penzler (editor)|rating=5|genre=Anthologies|summary=Nostalgia is a big part of the Christmas experience, and that's provided in sack-loads by this hefty tome of short stories. Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot and Brother Cadfael jostle Morse, Rumpole and Vic Warshawski for space on these tightly packed pages, while lesser-known and long since forgotten writers furnish new and unexpected pleasures for even the most well-read of book worms.