The End (Series of Unfortunate Events) By Lemony Snicket Egmont, £6.99

"DEAR Reader,

"You are presumably looking at the back of this book, or the end of the end. The end of the end is the best place to begin the end, because if you read the end from the beginning of the beginning of the end to the end of the end of the end, you will arrive at the end of the end of your rope.

"This book is the last in A Series of Unfortunate Events, and even if you braved the previous twelve volumes, you probably can't stand such unpleasantries as a fearsome storm, a suspicious beverage, a herd of wild sheep, an enormous bird cage, and a truly haunting secret about the Baudelaire parents."

So Lemony Snicket addresses his readers at the start of The End, as it were!

This is the 13th, and last book in the Lemony Snicket "Series of Unfortunate Events" series. Children, already captivated by the previous 12 volumes, will love it.