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|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 from flowers. 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>
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{{newreview
|title=Top 10 of Everything 2015
|summary=Language changes and evolves all the time, but since the dawn of the internet that change seems to have accelerated. Not only that, the pervasion of the web into nearly every aspect of our daily lives means the written word has more power and relevance than perhaps at any other time in human history. Given its influence over us, it seems only prudent that we should try to understand something of how this new vernacular of the internet works. In ''Microstyle: The Art of Writing Little'' naming and verbal branding expert Christopher Johnson seeks to do just that, presenting us with 'a field guide to everyday verbal ingenuity'.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>039334181X</amazonuk>
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{{newreview
|author=Scarlett Thomas
|title=Monkeys with Typewriters: How to Write Fiction and Unlock the Secret Power of Stories
|rating=4
|genre=Reference
|summary=I really wasn't expecting a book about how to write fiction to change my TV viewing habits. Alter my reading? Possibly. Improve my writing? Hopefully. But watching Grand Designs in a completely different light?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857863789</amazonuk>
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