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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Stephen Fry1394159544|title= Mythos: A Retelling of the Myths of Ancient GreeceRecycling for Dummies|author=Sarah Winkler|rating= 5|genre= ReferenceLifestyle|summary= The Greek Myths are, arguably, the greatest stories ever told''Recycling one ton of plastic can save up to 16.3 barrels of oil.'' ''Recycling one ton of paper can save 17 trees from being cut down. So old and influential they cast a shadow over western tales and traditions'' If you send an apple core to landfill, yet remain relatable it will take between 6 months and readable millennia later2 years to decompose. Here comedian, actor, television presenter A glass bottle will take up to 1 million years. As a just-post-WWII baby, actor and author Stephen Fry brings his considerable talent to these special stories and recreates them with I faced a witdilemma: reducing, warmth reusing and humanity recycling is part of my DNA. NEVER throw away anything that brings them into might ''possibly'' come in handy now or in the modern age whilst still giving future. NEVER buy anything if you can cobble together something that would serve the honour purpose. Almost everything can be used one more time and respect any purchase must pass the test of 'Is this absolutely essential?' On the other hand, I suspected I was guilty of wishcycling: assuming that such ancient something must be recyclable (toothpaste tubes - I'm looking at you) and influential stories deservedropping it in the kerbside bin. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718188721</amazonuk> Yes, I could go searching on the internet - and get conflicting advice - but what I needed was a recycling bible.s

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Aaron Mahnke1913750353|title= The World Britannica's Word of Lorethe Day|author=Patrick Kelly, Volume 1: Monstrous CreaturesRenee Kelly and Sue Macy|rating= 4.5|genre= ReferenceChildren's Non-Fiction|summary= Every country, every town, every village ''Britannica's Word of the Day'' has a folktale – a story passed down through generations sub-title: ''366 Elevating Utterances to Stretch Your Cranium and Tickle Your Humerus'' which probably tells you all that often focuses on the dark and unexplainedyou need to know about this brilliant book. No matter how the modern world moves It starts onJanuary 1st with ''Razzmatazz'', theretells you how to pronounce it ('s 'raz-muh-TAZ''), gives you a still definition and then includes the word in a part of everyone sentence so that is vulnerable to a good taleyou know how it should be used. From ghosts to werewolves, by way of wendigos You also get an engaging and elves, author Aaron Mahnke delivers the reader legends from all over the world, whilst examining how theyfrequently amusing illustration too. I don't think I've become part of our collective imaginations, still striking fear into ever encountered a word which uses the hearts of many of us today. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472251652</amazonuk>letter Z four times before!

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Christopher Fowlersuppl_stafl|title=The Supply Chain 20/20: A Clear View on the Local Multiplier Effect for Book of Forgotten AuthorsLovers|author=Kim Staflund|rating=4.5

|summary=So, you''Absence doesn't make ve finished writing your book and you think the heart grow fonder. hard work is all done? It makes people think youYou're dead.'' convinced that all you need to do now is get it published and the money will start rolling in?

ThereWrong and wrong again. You presumably wrote the book because you wanted to - and you had a talent for delivering the written word. You knew your subject back to front. Now you's truth in that statement, you knowre going to have to get to grips with the book supply chain, which even parts of the publishing industry believe to be wrong but there's a conundrum when it's applied too difficult to change and no one wants to authorsbe the first to try. Shakespeare is dead: Dickens is deadThen, but we havenwhen you ''finally''t buried what theyhave a copy of the book in your hands, you've written: that lives on until... when? Is re going to have to work out how to sell it - because it until fashion decrees that they should be no more? Or ''is it, as in the case of some children's authors that they are on life support through licensing deals and astute marketing? Christopher Fowler has unearthed (exhumed?) ninety nine authors who were once hugely popular, but whose works have disappeared, sometimes quite literally' going to be down to you.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1786484897</amazonuk>

Read {{Frontpage|author=Frederic Gros|title=A Philosophy of Walking|rating=5|genre= Politics and Society|summary= I confess I picked this one up from the synapselibrary in my pre-shattering story summaries!<br>lockdown forage of random stuff. Now I have to go out an buy my own copy so that I can turn down the pages I have marked and return to its varying wisdom when I need to. Some books draw you in slowly. This one had me in the first two pages, wherein Gros explains why ''walking is not a sport''.|isbn=1781688370}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1788037812See |title=The Fraternity of the horrific handEstranged: The Fight for Homosexual Rights in England, 1891-painted cover imagery!<br>1908|author=Brian Anderson|rating=5|genre=BiographyAnd learn |summary=Originally passed in 1885, the truelaw that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, restrictions on same-life tales sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, three books on the nature of homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual men: Edward Carpenter and John Addington Symonds, as well as the heterosexual Havelock Ellis. Exploring the margins of society and studying homosexuality was common on the writersEuropean Continent, artistsbut barely talked about in the UK, so the publications of these men were hugely significant – contributing to the scientific understanding of homosexuality, and publishers who gleefully violated every beginning the struggle for recognition and equality, leading to the milestone legalisation of same-sex relationships in 1967.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1912242052|title=O Joy for me!|author=Keir Davidson|rating=3|genre=Art|summary='' Oh Joy for me!'' gives Coleridge credit for being ''the first person to walk the mountains alone, not because he had to for work, as a miner, quarryman, shepherd or pack-horse driver, but because he wanted to for pleasure and adventure. His rapturous encounters with their natural beauty, and its literary law but one – never be boringconsequences, changed our view of the world''.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1072549271|title=The Simple Act of Self-Publishing With Amazon: A Simple Step by Step Guide|author=Georgianne Landy-Kordis|rating=4.5|genre=Business and Finance|amazonuksummary=<amazonuk>1594749817</amazonuk>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, inevitably, that they wouldn't know where to start. I can empathise with that. Despite having used a computer for about thirty years, running most of my life ''and'' a 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 first time. That was why I was very interested when ''The Simple Act of Self Publishing With Amazon'' came across my desk...

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Laurence BrowneHigashida_Fall|title= The Many Faces Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A Young Man's Voice From the Silence of CoincidenceAutism|author=Naoki Higashida and David Mitchell|rating= 3.5|genre= Popular ScienceHome and Family|summary= Browne does not mislead Naoki Higashida was only 13 years old when he wrote the international best-seller ''The Reason I Jump''. The book was popular because it gave a rare glimpse into the workings of the autistic mind, as told from the unique perspective of a teenager with non-verbal autism. Naoki communicates by using an alphabet grid, or by tracing letters on the palm of a transcriber. Despite this choice slow and laborious method of title; writing, he does without has published several books in his native Japan and manages to give public presentations to raise awareness of his condition. Fall Down 7 Times Get up 8 reintroduces us to Naoki as a doubt explore the many faces of coincidenceyoung adult in his 20s and explains how his perspectives on life have changed since writing his first book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845409159</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Jenkins_100|title=Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations

|genre=ReferenceArt|summary=In the mid -twentieth century , the railway was something which harked back to the Victorian age with trains being supplanted by cars and planes, but steam was being replaced by oil, even then and in the twenty-first -century oil is giving way to electricity. It's cleaner, more environmentally friendly and the stations which we'd all rushed through as quickly as possible, keen to escape their grime, were restored and became places to be admired, possibly even lingered in. Simon Jenkins has chosen his hundred best railway stations.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Taylor_Owls|title=Owls: A Guide to Every Species|author=Marianne Taylor|amazonukrating=<amazonuk>024197898X</amazonuk>5|genre=Animals and Wildlife|summary=I feel like I am being watched. A huge pair of piercing orange eyes are staring right at me, locking me into their gaze. In contrast with the hardness of the deep-amber eyes, soft grey feathers fan out into the surrounding area, intricate, detailed and beautiful. An enigma; harsh and gentle at the same time, the owl is beckoning the reader to turn the pages and take a closer look inside...

{{Frontpage<!-- Taylor -->[[image:Taylor Owls.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/178240404X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=178240404X]] ===[[Owls: A Guide to Every Species by Marianne Taylor]]==isbn=JVDK_ELO [[image:5star.jpg|linktitle=CategoryElectric Light Orchestra:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Reference|Reference]], [[:Category:Animals and Wildlife|Animals and Wildlife]] I feel like I am being watched. A huge pair of piercing orange eyes are staring right at me, locking me into their gaze. In contrast with the hardness of the deep-amber eyes, soft grey feathers fan out into the surrounding area, intricate, detailed and beautiful. An enigma; harsh and gentle at the same time, the owl is beckoning the reader to turn the pages and take a closer look inside... [[Owls: A Guide to Every Species Song by Marianne Taylor|Full Review]]<br> {{newreviewSong

|genre=ReferenceEntertainment|summary=My memories of pop music in the early sixties revolve around guitars and drums, sometimes the piano with only occasional excursions into strings and brass. Pop music rarely stands still and it wasn't long before the basic instruments were seens seen as constraints and The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Beach Boys began to experiment, with other groups following where they led. Amongst these groups was The Move and their lead guitarist and songwriter, Roy Wood. Wood wanted to develop the group's sound by adding more instruments 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>1781556008</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Dave AngellHendrix_PBHell|title= Tri-ang CollectablesPaperbacks from Hell: A History of Horror Fiction from the '70s and '80s|author=Grady Hendrix|rating= 34.5|genre=ReferenceHorror|summary= A guide 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 his sanity (not to mention the trains produced by the Tri-ang company from its inception until the company became Hornby. A very personal guide reader's!) to relate the collecting true, untold story of model trainsa fascinating and often forgotten era in publishing.|amazonuk=Read the synapse-shattering story summaries!<amazonukbr>1445664577See the horrific hand-painted cover imagery!</amazonukbr>And learn the true-life tales of the writers, artists, and publishers who gleefully violated every literary law but one – never be boring.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Naoki Higashida and David MitchellBrowne_Many|title=Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight: A Young Man's Voice From the Silence The Many Faces of AutismCoincidence|author=Laurence Browne|rating= 3.5|genre= ReferencePopular Science|summary=Naoki Higashida was only 13 years old when he wrote the international best-seller ''The Reason I Jump.'' The book was popular because it gave a rare glimpse into the workings of the autistic mind, as told from the unique perspective of a teenager Browne does not mislead with non-verbal autism. Naoki communicates by using an alphabet grid, or by tracing letters on the palm of a transcriber. Despite this slow and laborious method choice of writing, title; he has published several books in his native Japan, and manages to give public presentations to raise awareness does without a doubt explore the many faces of his condition. ''Fall Down 7 Times Get up 8'' reintroduces us to Naoki as a young adult in his 20s and explains how his perspectives on life have changed since writing his first bookcoincidence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444799088</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Chase, Maarten Christenhusz and Tom Mirenda1903385679|title=The Book of Orchids: A life-size guide to six hundred species from around the world100 Best Novels in Translation|author=Boyd Tonkin|rating=3.5

|summary=One in seven flowering plants on earth is an orchid: there are 26Consider, if you will,000 species translated fiction. Some say it's impossible – that if a book was so good in 749 generaone tongue it could never survive being put into another. They flourish in remarkable habitats such as deserts Samuel Beckett must have laboured over ever syllable and the Arctic circle''Breath'', in fact all areas but the most inhospitablehe could translate his own works, and other equally complex pieces can cross borders. ThereIt's a wide range of coloursmarket that has actually doubled in sales volume between 2000 and 2016 (thanks, shapes and scents: they're dramatic'Millennium Trilogy''). Novels, in particular, delicate and ingenious in translation, are – as the ways that they've developed not just to survive but to thrive. Tom Mirenda describes them as introduction here so smartly puts it – ''masters a privileged means of manipulationpassing border posts, a sort of universal passport issued by that Utopian state, the Republic of Letters'' and '. We here at the 'famous for lying Bag regularly try and cheating their way give equal credit to their many evolutionary successes'the translator, without whom we wouldn't be reading what we have in our hands. But all that said, yet his love do we really need one of those list books about the subject? I got given a book the other 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 obvious long as his respect for the insight they give us into the processes which shaped your typical Bolano housebrick, it's not a short thing. Should it take our world. He hopes that understanding how that has come about will inspire us to conserve what we have.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782404031</amazonuk>time?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Martin EdwardsFry_Mythos|title=The Story Mythos: A Retelling of Classic Crime in 100 Books (British Library Crime Classics)the Myths of Ancient Greece|author=Stephen Fry

|summary=It's easy to be confused by The Greek Myths are, arguably, the various 'ages' of crime writing: if you've an interest in the genre you'll almost certainly have heard of the Golden Age of Crimegreatest stories ever told. So old and influential they cast a shadow over western tales and traditions, generally acknowledged as being the period between the first yet remain relatable and second world warsreadable millennia later. 'Classic Crime' on the other hand extends the time frame at either end Here comedian, actor, television presenter, actor and author Stephen Fry brings his considerable talent to these special stories and covers books published in the first half of the twentieth century. Throughout my adult life there's been just one genre of books which has fascinated merecreates them with a wit, warmth and humanity that's crime, so I could hardly resist brings them into the chance of reading ''The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books'' particularly as modern age whilst still giving the author, Martin Edwards is an accomplished author within the crime genre ''honour and respect that such ancient and'' an acknowledged expert on the subjectinfluential stories deserve.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0712356967</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=DKMahnke_Lore|title=Children's Illustrated ThesaurusThe World of Lore, Volume 1: Monstrous Creatures|author=Aaron Mahnke

|genre=Children's Non-FictionReference|summary=One of Every country, every town, every village has a folktale – a story passed down through generations that often focuses on the most valuable literary skills which children can learn is how to use reference booksdark and unexplained. As a child every question which I began with ''No matter how do you spell...?'' would be answered with ''EXACTLY as it says in the dictionary''. This was finemodern world moves on, but the familythere's Collins Little Gem Dictionary didn't encourage exploration, not least because the font was small and difficult a still a part of everyone that is vulnerable to reada good tale. Fortunately those times have now changed From ghosts to werewolves, by way of wendigos and reference book for children are now much more inviting. Not every book comes with a set of instructions but it's worth studying elves, author Aaron Mahnke delivers the reader legends from all over the world, whilst examining how they''How to...'' sectionve become part of our collective imaginations, not least because similar systems are used in other reference booksstill striking fear into the hearts of many of us today.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241286972</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dorling KindersleyFowler_Forgotten|title=First Science EncyclopediaThe Book of Forgotten Authors|author=Christopher Fowler

|genre=Children's Non-FictionReference|summary=I wasn''Absence doesn't introduced to make the heart grow fonder''science. It makes people think you' until I was eleven and went on to senior school: I wasnre dead. There't alone s truth in thisthat statement, you know, but there's a conundrum when it really was too late. Thankfully, times have changed and children at primary school are getting 's applied to grips with plants and animals, atoms and molecules and even outer space from a very young ageauthors. What's needed Shakespeare is dead: Dickens is a gooddead, basic reference book which will introduce all the subjects and give a good groundingbut we haven't buried what they've written: that lives on until... It needs to when? Is it until fashion decrees that they should be something which would sit proudly no more? Or is it, as in the classroom library and comfortably on a childcase of some children's bookshelfauthors that they are on life support through licensing deals and astute marketing? Christopher Fowler has unearthed (exhumed?) ninety-nine authors who were once hugely popular, but whose works have disappeared, sometimes quite literally. The ''First Science Encyclopedia'' would do both well}}{{Frontpage|isbn=Angell_Triang|title=Tri-ang Collectables|author=Dave Angell|rating=3.5|amazonukgenre=<amazonuk>024118875X</amazonuk>Reference|summary=A guide to the trains produced by the Tri-ang company from its inception until the company became Hornby. A very personal guide to the collecting of model trains.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Deirdre Osborne (Editor)Chase_Orchids|title=The Cambridge Companion Book of Orchids: A life-size guide to British Black six hundred species from around the world|author=Mark Chase, Maarten Christenhusz and Asian Literature (1945–2010)Tom Mirenda

|summary=This literary companion offers fifteen essays addressing the contribution of black and Asian authors to the British literary canon since 1945. It covers not just fictionOne in seven flowering plants on earth is an orchid: there are 26, but also poetry, plays and performance works000 species in 749 genera. It sits They flourish in remarkable habitats such as a kind of joyful cuckoo in deserts and the nestArctic circle, interrupting the usual narratives of literary waves and movements in Britain that take little notice of any perspective other than fact, all areas but the dominant white - and posh! - direction of travelmost inhospitable. It There's a disparate, varied collection wide range of essayscolours, covering spoken word performance poetry, black British urban fiction, LGBTQ writingshapes and scents: they're dramatic, liberationist writing delicate and much moreingenious in the ways that they've developed not just to survive but to thrive. I was really happy Tom Mirenda describes them as ''masters of manipulation'' and ''famous for lying and cheating their way to see childrentheir many evolutionary successes''s authors such , yet his love of them is as obvious as Malorie Blackman, Jamila Gavin and Catherine Johnson discussed and respectedhis 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 conserve what we have.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1316504808</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dr Sunil C GebalanageEdwards_Story|title=Beginner's Project Management Handbook: Art The Story of Project DeliveryClassic Crime in 100 Books (British Library Crime Classics)|author=Martin Edwards|rating=45

|summary=In It's easy to be confused by the last fifteen years Ivarious 'ages've project managed of crime writing: if you have an interest in the construction genre you'll almost certainly have heard of an office and the extension Golden Age of a buildingCrime, generally acknowledged as being the period between the first and second world wars. On both occasions I looked for a resource which would give me a framework within which to proceed, but whilst I could find several volumes which dealt with individual parts 'Classic Crime' on the other hand extends the time frame at either end and covers books published in the first half of the project I couldn't find any literature which put it all togethertwentieth century. An additional problem was that what literature Throughout my adult life, there was out there was written with specific professionals in mind and didn't accommodate the generalist. It was with relief for those following s been just one genre of books which has fascinated me , and that 's crime, so I discovered could hardly resist the chance of reading ''Beginner's Project Management Handbook: Art The Story of Project DeliveryClassic Crime in 100 Books''particularly as the author, Martin Edwards is an accomplished author within the crime genre and an acknowledged expert on the subject.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524665568</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=DK_Childrens|title=Children's Illustrated Thesaurus

|summary=I dread One of the most valuable literary skills which children can learn is how to think how old the atlas we used when I was use reference books. As a child was, but at least we had one, and every question which I didnbegan with 't need to go to school or a library to check up on whatever bit of trivia I was seeking. I'm so old a lot of things about it now would be most redundant, but if how do you choose to risk your arm and buy an atlas for the family shelves that all generations will benefit from, as opposed to relying on electronic and updateable sources of information, then this is the one to havespell.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241228379</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Helen Hollick|title= Pirates: Truth and Tale|rating= 4|genre= History|summary=The eighteenth century lived in terror of the tramps of the seas – pirates. Pirates have fascinated people ever since. It was a harsh life for those who went ?''on the accountwould be answered with ', constantly overshadowed by the threat of death – through violence, illness, shipwreck, or the hangman's noose. The lure of gold, the excitement of the chase and the freedom that life aboard a pirate ship offered were judged by some to be worth the risk. Helen Hollick explores both the fiction and fact of the Golden Age of piracy, and there are some surprises EXACTLY as it says in store for those who think they know their Barbary Corsair from their boucanier. Everyone has heard of Captain Morgan, but who recognises the name of the aristocratic Frenchman Daniel Montbars? He killed so many Spaniards he was known as dictionary'The Exterminator'. The fictional world of pirates This was fine, represented in novels and movies, is different from reality. What draws readers and viewers to these notorious hyenas of but the high seas? What are the facts behind the fantasy?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445652153</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= D J Taylor|title= The Prose Factory|rating= 5|genre= Reference|summary= D J Taylorfamily's Collins Little Gem Dictionary didn't encourage exploration of writing, reading, publishing not least because the font was small and critical reviews spans a century of literary history, discussing everything from Eliot-era modernists and Georgian traditionalists, difficult to the impact of politics, creative writing degrees, reviewers and criticsread. It is a deep and thorough exploration of the multi-complex influences on English literary life over the past century and the way these Fortunately, those times have shaped readers' preferences now changed and reading habitsreference book for children are now much more inviting. But don't be put off by thinking that this is Not every book comes with a dusty, encyclopaedic tome – it is a large book at around 500 pages – set of instructions but it is accessible and thoroughly readable. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099556073</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=John Van der Kiste|title=A Beatles Miscellany: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Beatles but Were Afraid to Ask|rating=5|genre=Reference|summary=You might have thought that just about everything which could be said about the Beatles had been said and certainly there's been no shortage of books about what went wrong, what happened to worth studying the money and even what went right. But what I've never seen before is a 'miscellany' - all those little facts which are so hard How to track down and this is where historian John Van der Kiste comes into his own: he...'s a man with an eye for detail and the ability to bring everything together into a very readable whole. It's a wonderful collection of the small factssection, not least because similar systems are used in other reference books.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781555826</amazonuk>