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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]]==Humour==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|author=P K MunroeJen Beagin|title=You Can Stick ItBig Swiss|rating=34.5|genre=Humour|summary=Literary merit? Absolutely none! PlotI found the premise of this book totally original and addictive. Greta possesses the power to know the population of Hudson, New York's darkest secrets, their intimate lives, characterisation their fetishes and all that other stuff you usually talk aboutfears. How? Nope – Her job is to transcribe their sex therapy sessions. Sure, there's none of a confidentiality agreement, as the sex coach who calls himself Om keeps reminding her, but thatjust makes it more exciting. Like we've all probably wished for at some point in life, eitherGreta can exist passively, placidly, as a fly on the wall. AhThat is, so ituntil Greta decides to unglue her fly-feet from the safety of the wall and buzz far too close to the sun. The sun in this analogy is the sex coach's non-fiction? Wellnewest patient, calling it who Greta dubs 'Big Swiss'fact'' would be stretching things a little too far, and who, like the sun, is bright, blonde and beautiful - and irresistible to Greta... SoSuddenly, the confidentiality agreement, the ethics of her professional position, her loyalties to Om, come on thenfly out of the window. What She''is'' it?s in too deep.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0007362188</amazonuk>0571378579

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Axel SchefflerDean Koontz|title=How to Keep a Pet SquirrelThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=HumourParanormal|summary=So, how do you keep Benny is having a pet squirrel? terrifically bad day. WellHe loses his job, he loses his fiancee, the simple answer is that you don'tand his house gets trashed. They're wild animals Oh, and not at all suitable for keeping in captivitysomeone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, but accepted thinking didnand it't always run s possible that waywhoever or whatever was inside is the thing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. It was whilst he was dipping into ''The Children's Encyclopaedia'' of 1910 So fortunately for Benny it turns out that Axel Scheffler came across the delivery to his house is a small but indispensible guide new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to obtaining and caring help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for your pet squirrelbeing a good person. His inventive mind came up with these beautiful illustrations Spike is going to accompany the text take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if youhe, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny're looking for an amusing gift for an animal-loving adult then this book could well be the answers wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0571255981</amazonuk>1662500491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=PJ Vanston1529153050|title=Crump|rating=3|genre=General Fiction|summary=ItBritain's Kevin Crump's first day as a lecturer at Thames Metropolitan University - an ex-polytechnic. It's the happiest day of his life, and he can't wait to see all that it holds, and make a difference to all his students. And then it hits him: the relentless pettiness of authority figures, the students who can't string two sentences together, the lowering of standards in search of higher test scores, so more money from foreign students, and political correctness gone (as I believe the saying goes) mad.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848762852</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Lennon|title=In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works|rating=3|genre=Humour|summary=During the height of Beatlemania, John Lennon used to doodle or write short poems or nonsense stories to pass the time (and there must have been a good deal of time to pass away on tour, if only waiting for screaming fans to leave them alone and go back home). Some of them were seen by Tom Maschler, literary editor at Jonathan Cape, who encouraged him to produce more. The results were published in two very successful short books in 1964 and 1965.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099530422</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBest Political Cartoons 2022|author=John Lindsay|title=Emails From An AssholeTim Benson

|summary=Some classified ads are crying out for trolling. John Lindsay replies Seeking some light relief from the current political turmoil which is coming to them, spins them a yarnseem more and more like an adrenaline sport, and strings them along for as long as possibleI was nudged towards ''Britain's Best Political Cartoons of 2022''. Sometimes Sharp eyes will have noted that we're not yet through the advert is fairly innocuous and he emails them anyway. These are emails year: the cartoons run from an asshole, after all4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1402778279</amazonuk> Who can imagine what there will be to come in the 2023 edition?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=L C Tyler1785633074|title=The Herring In The LibraryStaggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry

|summary=A J Jacobs has a reputation Members of Parliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'' (that's for setting himself onerous tasksthose of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is that the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the government. His first book We are in the privileged position of having access to the memoirs of Rafe Hubris, the man who was about reading behind the skilful control of the entire Encyclopedia Britannica; his second detailed a year spent according to Covid crisis which was completely contained by the Biblical preceptsend of 2020. In My Experimental Life, You might not know the name now but he recounts nine briefer episodes of living outside his comfort zonewill certainly be the man to watch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099547422</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Seth Grahame-Smith0571365884|title=Abraham Lincoln Vampire HunterMy Mess is a Bit of Life: Adventures in Anxiety|author=Georgia Pritchett|rating=3.54|genre=HumourAutobiography|summary='Give me your tiredGeorgia Pritchett has always been anxious, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shoreeven as a child.' That quote, on She would worry about whether the monsters under the Statue of Liberty, bed were comfortable: it was probably not designed with the inclusion sort of vampires in mindlife where if she had nothing to worry about she would become anxious but such occasions were few and far between. But by some means or another North America is rife with the things – hiding in plain sightOn a visit to a therapist, as the older ones can bear sunlightan adult, when she was completely unable to speak about what was wrong with the help of darkened glasses. It might just come her it was suggested that she should write it down to one eager young man to rid his new country and ''My Mess is a Bit of such things, on his way a Life: Adventures in Anxiety'' is the result - or so we are given to something he’s a bit more known forbelieve.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849014086</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith and Tony LeeJohn Boyne|title=Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Graphic NovelEcho Chamber|rating=35|genre=Graphic NovelsGeneral Fiction|summary=It Meet George Cleverley. He is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie story self-defined as "one of the few television personalities over the age of any renown will not remain simply fifty without a zombie storycriminal record". Before you can say 'He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him she's carrying his child, but then his author wife is getting her kicks with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. They have three children, who are a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save the risen undeadworld'' it will become a series s homeless with out-of books, inspiring others-date food, and/or lead to a fit young lad doing the same story being published gay hustle thing. Add in many different guises. Herea few other characters – therapists, thenlawyers, on its way random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to Hollywoodhis life, is Jane Austen’s story of Lizzie Bennet, the feisty young woman trying and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to ignore Mr Darcy while fighting off the ''manky unmentionables'' – at least she is until modern world. What suggests the hidden truths open up to herfarcical approach even more, however, just as is the soft soils of Hertfordshire do to yield their once-human remains. And fact this time it’s in graphic novel formis bloody funny.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848566948</amazonuk>0857526219

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carl McInerneyStephen Clarke|title=The Funniest Football Joke Book EverSpy Who Inspired Me|rating=3.54|genre=Confident ReadersGeneral Fiction|summary=Who scored the most goals in the Greek Mythology League? The centaur forwardThis is a spoof spy story, that isn't about James Bond. Badoom boom tshhhh Or Ian Fleming. It's But it features a football joke bookman called Ian Lemming, packed to who dresses well and 'likes the gills with all sorts of cheesiness ladies' and silliness. Funniest ever? Perhaps notwho works for the secret service, but it's not too bad.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849391114</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Paul Magrs|title=Hell's Belles|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=The idea behind this series in the planning side of novels is quite enchanting and amusingthings more than the active service. Frankenstein's daughter is living and sleuthing in Whitby, ably aided and abetted by her sidekick, the enigmatic Effie, and Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a growing menagerie of younger accomplicesfemale spy called Margaux, namely Michael and Penny. Whilst the original idea showed huge promise, I felt that the author has rather overdone it pair end up stranded in terms of outputNormandy, in his desire with Margaux on a desperate mission to capitalise on his original success. Book two unearth traitors in the series was quite disappointingresistance network, relying on sensationalism rather than adequate plot and character development. Book three was an improvement-and I'm delighted Lemming desperately trying to report that this, the fourth book in the series, shows him returning to form keep up with the promise we saw in the first of the series.her!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755346467</amazonuk>2952163855

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Valerie Thomas Afonso Cruz and Korky PaulRahul Bery (translator)|title=WinnieKokoschka's JokesDoll

|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Who turns off the lights at Halloween? The lights witch. What does an Australian witch ride on? A broomerang. YepWell, it's this looked very much like a joke book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192729063</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nick Wadley|title=Man + Dog|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary=Throughout my life I've lived with dogs or deeply regretted could love from the fact that I lacked a canine companion. Watching a dog – or better stillget-go, the interaction between dogs – which is infinitely better than anything on television and it's sheer joy to see how man and dog interacts and how, so often, they hold a mirror why I picked my review copy up to each other.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1564785521</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=The Harvard Lampoon|title=Nightlight: A Parody of Twilight |rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=Most people will have heard of the worldwide phenomenon that is [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]]. The books by Stephenie Meyer and the film have made a legend flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of the romance between vampire Edward Mullen (Robert Pattinson plays the movie role) and teenage schoolgirl Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart)it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849013330</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Steven Lowe and Alan McArthur |title=Is it Just Me or Has the Shit Hit the Fan?: Your Hilarious New Guide I found things to Unremitting Global Misery|rating=3|genre=Humour|summary=''The banks fell over like fat Labradors running over potentially delight me each time – a wet kitchen floor.'' Surely that is weird section in the wackiest, most inappropriate simile for the credit crunch and all it has done for the world. You won't get any such namby-pamby animal likenesses from these authorsmiddle on darker stock paper, instead with quite a potty mouth on them they will lambast chapter whose number was in the modern world20, the entire banking system000s, all those who failed to see it comingletters used as narrative form, and those millions just seemingly waiting for us all to revert to high-interest, high-risk, high-lending capitalism, so they can get back on the expenses train, and back up the rich lists.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443656</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Eoin Colfer|title=And Another Thing ... Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to It intrigued with the Galaxy: Part Six subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of Three (Hitchhikers Guide 6) |rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Of all the big books announced for this yearit mentioned, this one must have raised more eyebrows than manytoo. Why try and write a new HitchhikerBut you's Guide to ve seen the Galaxy book, when way before the end, its creator Douglas Adams was proving quite hopeless at such a task? And why approach an Irishman, Eoin Colfer, when the originals - tempered star rating that comes with their humour which could only be described as Monty Python doing a sci-fi Terry Pratchettthis review, and with their cups of tea and dressing gownscan tell that if love was on these pages, could only be described as very English? Well the answer is most evident - Colfer is a world-beater when it comes to knocking up a story.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718155149</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=The Vampire Miles Proctor|title=The New Vampire's Handbook|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=I shall start with a prediction. I will was not become a vampire, for this imminent Hallowe'en, any festive fancy dress parties, or indeed for life as the lifeless undeadactually caused by them. I will not need tips on filing my fangs, or how to divert attention from the fact I cannot eat human food at dinner parties. Me and my reflection in mirrors will remain intact. But for those of you reading this at night, somewhere, flameproof cape at hand, with your distaste of garlic, publicity and presumably the anaemic, this is the sterling how-to lifestyle guide.So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0224086464</amazonuk>1529402697

 {{newreview|author=David O'Doherty, Claudia O'Doherty and Mike Ahern|title=100 Facts About Pandas|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=Sometimes the title says it all - this is a book with 100 facts about pandas. Sometimes you need to note the author too - David O'Doherty won an Edinburgh Comedy Award, so this is a book of a 100 silly and untrue facts about pandas.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224086324</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Richard Horne B08KKQ85FN|title=A is for Armageddon|rating=2.5|genre=Humour|summary=The world is definitely going to hell in a handcart. We're only just preventing lethal global warming by having a credit crunch that has prevented a lot of big building, air travel, and consumerism. The population is getting so obese there is no room for any more of us - and add that to the exploding population statistics, and it's never going to look better. And don't get me started on where all the bees have gone...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224086197</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBut Never For Lunch|author=James May|title=Car Fever: Dispatches From Behind The WheelSandra Aragona

|genre=LifestyleShort Stories|summary=Now, way back when I was younger, and watched TV ''If a woman approaching the menopause can be likened to a lotRottweiler in lipstick, I am sure I remember Top Gear as being an Ambassador nearing retirement resembles a consumer programme. How times change. These days I am sure they destroy more cars than they review, and pampered peacock about to be released into the three main people from the show are approaching superstar statuscompany of carrion crows or, with their amenable personalities, awkward wardrobe choices and trenchant laddish charms. They've sprung their media entities from out of more to the studiopoint, into other TV programmes, and about to discover the real world of journalism, with chatty columns in the broadsheets allowing them free rein to witter to their heartbus timetables and paying his own gas bills.'s desire. And here, in one grandiloquent volume, and in time for Christmas, are many of James May's desires.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340994533</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Jane Austen You don't get many better opening sentences than that, do you? We first met His Excellency and The Ambassador's Wife in [[Sorting the Priorities: Ambassadress and Seth Grahame-Smith Beagle Survive Diplomacy by Sandra Aragona|title=Pride Sorting the Priorities]] and Prejudice we learned what it was like to be moved around countries like accompanying baggage by the Italian Government but the time has come for HE to retires and Zombies|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary=Ah, the benefits for Sandra Aragona to a good book become The Wife of a classic first lineFormer Ambassador.. 'Call me Ishmael.' 'It was a bright cold day They have left The Career and settled in April, and the clocks were striking thirteenRome.' Who can forget Iain BanksWell ' settled'It was rather overstates the day my grandmother exploded'? Or those timeless words by Jane Austensituation and their dog, Beagle, 'It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession has no intention of brains must be in want of more brainsslowing down any time soon, despite being sixteen and deaf.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594743347</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Harry HillB08GFSK2WZ|title=Tim The Tiny Horse At LargeKarma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd

|genre=HumourWomen's Fiction|summary=ItGeorge Jackson is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. She's been a while since Tim not had sex for eight months and Flyshe's [[Tim stuck in the Tiny Horse by Harry Hill|last adventures]], karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her and changes are afoot in Timshe has a real talent for attracting drama. Her life's tiny worldchaotic: Fly is getting married she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of the stairs to his girlfriendabsorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it and left her, stark naked, staring at the pervy postman. Tim She only has to take her mother's dog out for a little worried because they've only known each other walk for a week. The marriage goes ahead, her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and Tim finds himself kicking his heels, so he gets a pet. And so the brief episodes in photo being taken by someone who shares it around the life of a horse who lives in a matchbox continueoffice.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571244157</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Spike MilliganDavid C Mason|title=The Magical World of MilliganPandora's Gardener|rating=4.53|genre=Confident ReadersCrime|summary=Some people you just have to love. It's the law. Spike Milligan was always fantasticJohn Cranston is a gardener, and although what he did before he's much missed. He's got the perfect mix of nonsensebecame a gardener, hearthe claims, and surreal humouris classified. He speaks That is just as well because he is about to people of all agesbe caught up in a criminal / spy / terrorist plot, and where only he's just plain lovelycan save the day. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1905264844</amazonuk>0956180523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sam SavageJester_Forever|title=The Cry of the Sloth|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Meet Andrew Whittaker. In some untold time of recent American history, he is forced through a failed marriage and an artistic temperament at odds with so many other people, to let properties to tenants he does not like, for $120 a month. The lodgers might not like the state of the buildings - ceilings falling through and so on - but that's another matter. He would much prefer to be left alone in front of his little Olivetti typewriter and create art. He runs a literary journal, of Forever After: a kind, called "Soap", which no-one likes, no-one reads (and often, with dodgy, cheap printing, no-one could physically read it anyway), and which makes him poorer in time, money and spirit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297856499</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewdark comedy|author=Christopher Moore|title=You SuckDavid Jester

|genre=HumourHorror|summary=You know that old adage about books and covers? Well this Michael Holland is a case in pointcocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the offer of his lifetime; immortality. The title isn't greatWe follow Michael, but the cover design for the paperback imprint is, like, duh!a grim reaper and his friends, the pits. It is so uncool…so unrep-resent-ative of the book. This is not Chip (a cocktail thing. Not even stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a "Bloody Mary" thing.  Well, except for stoner in the tiny bit that is, but you'll discover that records department) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a clean surface to sit on in due coursetheir flat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498092</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Hugh Murr and Sid Nigtures 1683691172|title=Cyber Sign OffsWilliam Shakespeare's Much Ado About Mean Girls|author=Ian Doescher|rating=2.5

|summary=I admit I had the wrong end of the stick when it came to this bookA long time ago, before I opened it at least. I had assumed it was in a collection of real-life on-line signatures - we've all seen themgalaxy far away, those straplines people have on all their forum posts. The obvious response would have been along the lines of 'fair enoughStar Wars films were crunched up against Shakespeare, but why is this and the marriage seemed a book perfectly suitable one. So much so – so easily did the plots and characters converse in this day Shakespearean dialogue, and agebehave with Shakespearean stage directions – that the producers tried again, and not a website?with [[William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future! by Ian Doescher|Back to the Future]] no less. And that worked. But nosimultaneously they put a real test out. A film I can't even really remember seeing was transcribed into the original Elizabethan lingo. This is a collection of dialogues between two people - shall we call them Sue deNim and Allie ByeA cult following I had never followed whatsoever was given the brand new, yet oh so ancient, who have a line or two dressing. Here was the true challenge – would I manage to say to each otherenjoy this, and a made-up name (sorry, make that May Dupp-Name) with which to sign it off. Much jolly nonsense ensues.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312497</amazonuk>based on little foreknowledge? Oh damn those shiny gold stars for letting the game away…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim Fitzhigham 168369094X|title=All at Sea: One Man. One Bathtub. One Very Bad Idea: Conquering William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Channel in a Piece of PlumbingFuture!|author=Ian Doescher

|summary=There can be few people who have written eighty books without me even having picked up one A long time ago, in a publishing house far away, [[:Category:Ian Doescher|someone]] thought it wonderfully wacky to rewrite the story of themStar Wars in Shakespearean pentameter, colliding two entirely different genres and styles in such a clever way they seemed perfectly suited. At leastIt was then duly repeated for all the other films in the main Star Wars cycle, and at lastclearly someone's buffing their quills ready for Episode Nine, the title of which became public knowledge the day before I have redressed that fault in write. In the hiatus, however, the effort has been made to see if the case of Simon Brettsame shtick works with other texts, and have come to the conclusion there are 79 more that will be worth investigatingriff on other seemingly unlikely source materials in iambs. Here And could we meet for have anything more suitably unsuitable-seeming than Back to the first Future, with its tales of time Blotto (posh idiotic son of a dowager duchess) and Twinks (posh brilliant genius sister to Blotto)travel, their family, their surroundingsbullying, and the corpse inconveniently disturbing a dinner party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845299353<parent/amazonuk>child strife like no other?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karl Pilkington1473669065|title=Karlology|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=The Radio Five film critic Mark Kermode has a rule when reviewing comedies. If he laughs more than five times then the film deserves its billing as a comedy. If that rule was applied to Karl Pilkington's new book Karlology then it would easily fit into the category for there are laugh aplenty in this strange, amusing and charming little book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140533746X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Joe Stretch|title=Wildlife|rating=3|genre=Humour|summary=The word ''Twitter'' doesn't occur in Joe Stretch's vocabulary, but thatQueenie Malone's what his book is about. Life in the blogosphere, massively exaggerated, where people don't leave their desks but nevertheless come together (but never literally) in satisfying their deepest, darkest desires. If I've made it sound even faintly exciting, believe me, Joe Stretch is a fantasist with realist tendencies. What he is after is laughter; what he produces is a virtual simulacrum. Sniggery-pokery, jiggery-jokery, he tinkers with the twilight zone of a future-scenario where, for reasons beyond all understanding, some robotic and literal Dickhead (i.e. a man with a dick fixed to his forehead – I kid you not) decides to target a few selected humans for a make-over in his own image. Given that virtual worlds exist to pull in punters who don't like themselves in the real one, and their main purpose is to make money, one's only question must be: why?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099532077</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewParadise Hotel|author=Michael Marr|title=Three JumpersRuth Hogan

|summary=Copper was one Tilda returns to Brighton, to tidy away the remains of a litter of dogs born her mother's life after her death. Whilst there, she returns to the Paradise hotel, a stray bitch haven for eccentrics and who was 'adopted' by Lady Annabel Goldsmith - or might it misfits. A place where people can be the other way round?. Here he tells his story in his own words as transcribed for him by his owner. He's got his own priorities – themselves, and obedience is not one let go of thoughts that torment them – along with a roving spiritelsewhere. It's perhaps fortunate Little wonder that he's Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a dog as child, from this allows you place of wonder. With the help of Queenie Malone, caring, and gregarious, Tilda begins to call him 'cheeky' pick apart the tricky and 'charming'. If he was a human being 'randy' uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and 'arrogant' would be two of the first words which came to minddistant mother.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751538205</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim Moore1683690346|title=I Believe in Yesterday: My Adventures in Living HistoryThe Con Artist|author=Fred Van Lente

|summary=Common opinion has it that the television programme ''Time Team'' did Comic-Cons are a lot place of wonder and sanctuary for the public image of archaeologists – bringing them out of their holes in the groundmany people, and making them seem like excitingwhen Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, interesting people he's looking for both that and sanctuary with a good way other fans and creators, plus the chance of putting their knowledge acrossmaybe, just maybe reuniting with his ex. However it was clearly a much harder task , when it came his rival is found dead, Mike is forced to navigate every dark corner of the con in order to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans to those background artistes they have sometimeszombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, walking up and down in Roman centurion geardoing so, or living the historical lifestyle as may just unravel a dark secret behind a re-enactmentlegendary industry creator.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224077813</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=L Vaughan Spencer1473669588|title=Don't Be Needy Be SucceedyFalling Short|author=Lex Coulton

|summary=Are you underperforming in your business and personal lives? Do you underestimate the importance of good hair Lex Coulton's debut novel is a story about mistakes, failures, and moisturised skin in achieving your life goals? Are you stumbling through life in a Fast-Moving Business Environment (FMBE) without a motivational mantra to guide you? Then you need this bookrelationships. As ''The A to Zee of Motivitality''main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, this is a dictionary of achievement from a man sixth form English teacher who can teach you how to succeed like has recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, a toothless budgiework colleague and is grappling with the increasingly eccentric behaviour of her mother. This relationship is complicated by the fact that Frances's father disappeared at sea when she was five years old.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846681634</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Crick 1683690133|title=SartreMy Lady's Sink: The Great Writers' Complete Book of DIYChoosing|author=Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris

|summary=''Sartre's Sink'' comprises fourteen short story parodies of some of the world's best known writers – the twist being that the stories You are all about undertaking some mundane DIY task such as tiling a bathroom (Dostoevsky) or reglazing a window (Milan Kundera)lass of twenty-eight. So far it sounds Plucky, penniless and in Regency-era London the race is on to find a bit like some pretentious Oxbridge student twaddle. You can just imagine how the idea came up over an oversuitable suitor -ripe Brie and or else doom yourself to life as an underrated bottle of 1963 Taylor's porteternal spinster. It also rather smacks of that Radio 4 programme which I detest with an absolute passion - I can't even stand writing its nameAlong your journey, ugh - ''Quote Unquoteyou'', in which parodies do feature, read out ll be accompanied by smug selfLady Evangeline Youngblood -congratulatory writer darlings (a fiesty noble eager to save you can tell I don't like from a life alone, and fired by a rogueish sense for adventure. When itcomes to suitors though, canyou't you?)ll have to make the ultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the mad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. HoweverWith orphans, dear readerswerewolves, this book is rather enjoyable long lost lovers and I speak as someone who is rather less versed in ancient Egyptian artefacts along the writings of way, it's clear this famous lot than I care isn't going to admitbe an easy decision...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847080472</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eric NakagawaStibbe_Xmas|title=I Can Has Cheezburger |rating=4|genre=Pets|summary=''I Can Has Cheezburger'', is a clever and witty anthology of some of the best pictures and captions from the fantastic [http://icanhascheezburger.com/ lolcats website] of the same name. The site has been growing in popularity in recent months, and so it was inevitable that a book would soon hit the shelves. Choosing which pics to include in the book could not have been an easy task, and some of the old favourites are there, alongside some less well known ones.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340977574</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewAn Almost Perfect Christmas|author=Ian Crofton|title=History Without the Boring Bits|rating=5|genre=History|summary=I was never one for history, and in fact left the dregs of a history teacher in tatters when I scraped through with a D. Still, history is an odd thing – written by the winners of course, and annoyingly biased in my mind towards the plain. There's no real reason to remember the order of Henry VIII's six wives, but we can only relish the one credited with polydactylism, a third nipple and whatnot (the second one, in fact – whoever that was).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847243746</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jim Holt|title=Stop Me If You've Heard This|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=As far as I can remember, my first time in print was when I submitted some jokes to a charity's themed joke collection. Before then, some of my first actions as a child might have been laughing, and what is cuter in a baby than that? But why was that infant laughing – he didn't have a joke he could get, surely?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668109X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=P G Wodehouse |title=Joy in the MorningNina Stibbe

|summary=''Joy in Christmas – the Morning'' is another novel from Ptime of traditional trauma.G. Wodehouse's wonderful series of books You only have to think about Bertram Wooster and Jeeves. Bertie is the turkey for that – once upon a young gentleman of inherited means time it was leaving it sat on the downstairs loo to defrost overnight, and no present occupation. He is a good humoured and wellif that failed the hair-meant chap, however clearly not the smartest tool in the sheddryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. Bertie seems Nowadays it's all having to have a talent of getting himself into trouble make sure it's suitably free-range and organic – but not too organic that is where Jeevesyou can go and visit it, his loyal, educated and painfully clever butler comes get too friendly with it to his rescue. Jeeves is irreplaceable when want to eat it comes to saving Bertie from whatever creative, complicated and incredibly funny situations Wodehouse puts his characters through.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099513765</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=P G Wodehouse|title=Thank YouChristmas, Jeeves|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Bertie Wooster was once engaged to Pauline Stoker. It didn't last very long – about forty eight hoursthough, most is of which Bertie spent in bed with course also a bad cold, if his memory serves him correctlytime of great boons. It's still embarrassing when he meets Pauline cash in hand for a lot of plump people who can hire red suits and her fatherbeards, particularly as it was the father who was responsible always a godsend for breaking off postmen with all the engagement. Rather than eat at the Savoy Grill where he spotted the Stokers, he goes home thank-you letters to his only consolation. Bertie plays the banjo. Unfortunately, he doesn't play it very well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099513730</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tom Holt |title=The Better Mousetrap|rating=4 |genre=Humour|summary=I approached this book with aunties you saw twice a fair degree of trepidation, decade that your parents made you write out in long-hand as I had never heard of the authora child, and wondered if, when reading as for the synopsis, I was about to embark on a Terry Pratchett type novel (and I have to say, much though I admire his achievements, I'm not a fan makers of Discworld!) HoweverMeltis Newberry Fruits – well, my fears were unfounded, and from page one I found myself drawn into this clever and erudite novel. Not having read the preceding novels in the series did put me at a slight disadvantage, but didn't detract from my enjoyment, they even try and has certainly ensured that I'll read sell them any other time of the others in the near future. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841495034</amazonuk>year?

 {{newreview|author=Philip Moore |title=Utterly Ridiculous|rating=3 |genre=Humour|summary=If I learned nothing else from this book, I now know of a new profession: aircraft cleaner. For that is the trade of Dave, the hero of ''Utterly Ridiculous''. With little but a van and his torpid terrier Biggles, Dave roves the airstrips of southern England, titivating light aircraft.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906221685</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Mole Doescher_Will|title=I Was a Potato Oligarch: Travels and Travails in the New Russia|rating=1 |genre=Travel|summary=I remember getting this book in post, reading the title and thinking no, even though I am Russian, I will try to be unbiased and judge it like I would judge any other book about a foreign country experience. I now have to regretfully admit I failed. In my defence, John MoleWilliam Shakespeare's focus on mocking the nation and country made that all too easy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1857885090</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Clive Gifford|title=Teenage KicksForce Doth Awaken: 101 Things to Do Before You're 16|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=Kids. They're bored all Star Wars Part the time, aren't they? Nothing you buy seems to have any longevity. I think they live in alternative dimension in which time passes much more slowly that it does for harassed parents. It's the only explanation. I think Clive Gifford must sympathise, because his latest book, Teenage Kicks, has a whopping 101 ideas to alleviate boredom and a clever challenge too - your bored child has to complete them all before they reach 16. At a measly £5.99, this book could represent the most wonderful value for money any parent could ever wish for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340950617</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSeventh|author=Jon Canter |title=A Short Gentleman|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=The narrator of this spoof biography is a civil law barrister. Robert Purcell has been educated at Winchester and Oxford. He has modelled himself on his polite and restrained father, a High Court judge and, as a child, Robert maps out the components his own expected adult life – wife, two children, career – and the respect which he will gain from this, together with his undoubted intellectual superiority. At the age of eight, he writes a future Who's Who entry for himself, with all the academic and professional accolades he expects to garner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224077740</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=George Saunders |title=The Brain-dead MegaphoneIan Doescher

|summary=American author George Saunders is known for his short stories and fictionA long time ago, in a galaxy far away, there was a man called William Shakespeare, but he is also who was able to create a journalist series of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy. You may or may not have noticed the cinematic version of his original stage play for publications such as ''The GuardianForce Doth Awaken'', ''The New Yorker Magazine'' but here at last we get the actual script, complete with annoying-in-different-ways-to-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, and ''GQ''people keeping it in the family til it hurts. And if you need further encouragement, don''The Brain-Dead Megaphone'' is t forget his first collection audience only demanded three parts of essays and itHenry VI – here the series is so popular we's an interesting proposition: sixteen pieces ranging from travel writing, literary appreciation, political essays, re on to surrealist short fiction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747594260</amazonuk>part seven – surely making this over twice as good…

 {{newreview |title=Tim the Tiny Horse|author=Harry Hill|genre=Humour|rating=4|summary=After doing even tiny bit of research I realised that I must be the only person out there who ever read Tim the Tiny Horse having never heard of the author. Thus, I have Move on to take another reviewer's word that it's "typical Harry Hill" and will make an attempt at reviewing Tim as a stand-alone. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571229565</amazonuk>}}[[Newest LGBT Fiction Reviews]]