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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|authorclass-"wikitable" cellpadding=Jonathan Pugh"15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->|title=Pugh's New Year's Resolutions<!-- van LENTE -->|rating=4.5-|genrestyle=Humour|summary"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690346.jpg|link=If there's one thing that's for certain, it's that the world is changinghttp://www.amazon.co. We're dating online, we're communicating in ways that make email seem redundant, and when we're shopping we just tell a website where and when it can be delivered, and how much leeway they have to swap our wishes for whatever it is they do bring usuk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star. But those changes jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Comic-Cons are also supposed to be affecting us – we're supposed to use a smart watch to tell us if we're moving or notplace of wonder and sanctuary for many people, we have to keep up with the latest fadsand when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, he's looking for both that and we're supposed to prick our ears up sanctuary with other fans and take note when creators, plus the proverbial 'they' change their minds about what we're supposed chance of maybe, just maybe reuniting with his ex. However, when 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 eat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722885</amazonuk>}}zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, in doing so, may just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creator. [[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]]{{newreview|author= Luke Rhinehart|title= Invasion<!-- Coulton -->|rating= 4.5-|genrestyle= Humour "width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473669588.jpg|summarylink=Super-intelligent furry aliens suddenly appear from another universehttp://www. And they've come to earth to have funamazon. Alien Louie follows fisherman Billy Morton home one day, and he and his family quickly come to love the playful alienco. But when Louie starts using their computer to hack into government and corporate networks, stealing millions from banks to give to others, they realise that Louie and his friends mean trouble. As Billy and his family begin a roller coaster ride of fame and fortune, as well as a ranking high on the FBI's most wanted listuk/dp/1473669588/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], the Government soon decides that these aliens are terrorists[[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Lex Coulton's debut novel is a story about mistakes, failures, and must be eliminatedrelationships. Whilst the aliens are playing games they hope will help humans to see The main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, is a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, a work colleague, and is grappling with the insanity increasingly eccentric behaviour of her mother. This relationship is complicated by the American political, economic and military systems, they soon come to realise fact that the Powers that Be don't play games: they make warFrances's father disappeared at sea when she was five years old. [[Falling Short by Lex Coulton|amazonuk=Full Review]] <amazonuk!-- van LENTE -->1785651757</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rod Green-|titlestyle=Only Fools and Horses"width: The Peckham Archives10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690346.jpg|ratinglink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag=4thebookbag-21]]  |genrestyle=Entertainment "vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||summary=We ==[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Comic-Cons are in the world a place of one of the country's most famous wonder and well-loved sitcoms – even if it was sort-of killed off sanctuary for Christmas 2003. Yesmany people, there have been specials sinceand when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, he's looking for both that and more repeats to clog up sanctuary with other fans and creators, plus the BBC schedules than chance of maybe, just maybe reuniting with his ex. However, when his rival is really pukkafound dead, but very few people failed Mike is forced to navigate every dark corner of the con in order to succumb clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans to its charms at one time or another. I'm sure there have been books before now celebrating the stony-faced reception of ''that'' drop through the open bar hatchzombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, and ''that'' chandelier scenein doing so, but this is much more meaty. Purporting to be the family archives, found dumped in Nelson Mandela House, the documents here were passed from pillar to post, from one council worker in may just unravel a department with dark secret behind a clumsy acronym to another, from them to the police – and now here they are being published for their social history worthlegendary industry creator. Will enough readers find them of worth, as the series quietly celebrates its 35th birthday?[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849909245</amazonuk!-- Curran -->}}{{newreview|author= Mara Wilson-|titlestyle= Where Am I Now?"width: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690133.jpg|ratinglink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690133/ref=nosim?tag= 5thebookbag-21]]  |genrestyle= Autobiography"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||summary= Mara Wilson has always felt a little young ==[[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and a little out of placeLarissa Zageris]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category: as the only child on a film set full of adults, the first daughter in {{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] You are a house full lass of boys, the sole clinically depressed member of a cheerleading squadtwenty eight. Plucky, a valley girl in New York penniless and a neurotic in California, and an adult Regency era London the world still remembers as race is on to find a little girlsuitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Tackling everything from how she first learned about sex on the set of ''Melrose Place,'Along your journey you' ll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to losing her mother at save you from a young agelife alone, and fired by a rogueish sense for adventure. When it comes to getting her first kiss (or was it kisses?) on a celebrity canoe tripsuitors though, to not being cute enough you'll have to make it in Hollywoodthe ultimate decision between witty, these essays tell the story of one young woman's journey from accidental fame to relative obscuritypretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, but also illuminate a universal struggle: learning to accept yourselfwholesome, rugged and figuring out who you are caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the mad, bad and where you belongterrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the way, it's clear this isn't going to be an easy decision... [[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|Full Review]]|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0143128221</amazonuk>}}{{newreview<!-- Jester -->|author= Tony Stewart-|titlestyle= Writing Lines"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Jester_Forever.jpg|ratingleft|link= 4https://www.amazon.co.5uk/gp/product/1510704361?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1510704361]] |genre=Humour|summarystyle= George Gordon Wentworth (1946"vertical-2011) lived align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Forever After: a humdrum lifedark comedy by David Jester]]=== [[image:4star. He was a barely adequate teacher in a fairly world renowned independent school in Kent jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fasntasy]] Michael Holland is a cocky and kept a copious diary brash young man who dies and gets made the offer of his quotidian existencelifetime; immortality. Most of what he recorded was dross. HoweverWe follow Michael, amongst all the utterly uninteresting tailings of a grim reaper and his life there were some nuggets friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a stoner in the records department) as they grapple with their long lives and grains finding a clean surface to catch the attentionsit on in their flat. Author Tony Stuart has created these amusing anecdotes, panning them out over twenty six episodes which give us the best of Wentworth – comedy gold[[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester|Full Review]] <!-- Stibbe -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Stibbe_Xmas. From losing all the pupils in his charge on a school trip to being arrested on suspicion of terrorismjpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0241309824?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0241309824]]  | style="vertical-align: top; from waking up in bed between the married couple the morning after their wedding, to destroying a ski runtext-align: left; from appearing full-frontal naked in a sheep-farmers' gazette to triggering an air-sea rescue; Wentworth was, blinkered and befuddled, the subject – of these and so many more unlikely but highly amusing events."||amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524634441</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Graham Fulbright|title=Driving Mad: Maniacs, Morons and the Advanced Motorist's Club|rating[[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe]]===3.5|genre=Humour[[image:4.5star.jpg|summarylink=I passed my driving test when John F Kennedy was in Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Christmas – the White House and I've recently had time of traditional trauma. You only have to reapply think about the turkey for my driving licence having achieved that – once upon a venerable age. When I started driving time it was leaving it sat on the roads were kinderdownstairs loo to defrost overnight, more forgiving places and if that failed the hair- or put another way, the idiots were fewer and further betweendryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. I donNowadays it't know how long Graham Fulbright has been drivings all having to make sure it's suitably free-range and organic – but not too organic that you can go and visit it, but he certainly knows his motoring morons and in ''Driving Mad'' he brings us a fictional sample get too friendly with it to want to eat it. Christmas, though, is of course also a time of their eccentricitiesgreat boons. Well, IIt'm pretty certain that they're fictional - but these days you never know...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783062584</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mario Giordano|title=Auntie Poldi s cash in hand for a lot of plump people who can hire red suits and beards, it was always a godsend for postmen with all the Sicilian Lions|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Poldi had not thank-you letters to aunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you write out in long been widowed when she decided to move from Bavaria to Sicily with -hand as a child, and as for the intention makers of drinking herself to death. She couldMeltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they even try and sell them any other time of course, have done this in Germany, but she felt that a sea view was essential. Once there, new friends, family already resident on the island and the corpse of a young man, his face blown off year? [[An Almost Perfect Christmas by a shotgun, whom she found on the local beach, intervened to give her life some meaning. For a while she was a suspect, but that (and her wig) were no obstacle to her falling for Commissario Vito Montana who was assigned to investigate the caseNina Stibbe|Full Review]] <!-- Doescher -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Doescher_Will. Assisting him (or having him assist her) came naturally to Poldi and before long there was an investigative and personal partnershipjpg|left|link=https://www.amazon. At least so far as Poldi was concernedco.uk/gp/product/159474985X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=159474985X]]  |amazonukstyle=<amazonuk>1908524693</amazonuk>"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|}}{{newreview|author= Grady Hendrix|title= My Best Friend=[[William Shakespeare's Exorcism|ratingthe Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher]]=== 5|genre= Horror|summary[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=1988Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], Charleston[[:Category:Humour|Humour]] A long time ago, South Carolina. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth grade. But after an evening in a galaxy far away, there was a man called William Shakespeare, who was able to create a series of dramatic histories full of skinny-dipping goes disatrously wrongmachinations most foul, Gretchen begins to actrulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy...different. She You may or may not have noticed the cinematic version of his original stage play for 's moody. She's irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever sheThe Force Doth Awaken's nearby. Abby's investigation leads her to some startling discoveries - and by , but here at last we get the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusionactual script, complete with annoying-in-different-ways-to-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, the fate of Abby and Gretchen will be determined by a single question: Is their friendship enough to beat people keeping it in the devil?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594748624</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kevin MacNeil|title=The Brilliant and Forever|rating= 3.5|genre= Humour|summary= You know sometimes when someone tells a jokefamily til it hurts. And if you need further encouragement, everyone else laughs, and youdon't forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the series is so popular we're sat there wondering what was so funny?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973376on to part seven – surely making this over twice as good… [[William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher|Full Review]] </amazonuk!-- Goss -->}}{{newreview|author= Christopher Fowler-|titlestyle= Bryant and May"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: Strange Tidecenter;"|[[image:Goss_600.jpg|ratingleft|link= 3https://www.amazon.co.5uk/gp/product/1785942719?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785942719]]  |genrestyle= Crime"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||summary= The thirteenth outing for Bryant and May is looking very much like it will be their last==[[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies]]=== [[image:4. Arthur Bryant is on compassionate leave whilst tests are continuing, which are likely to confirm that he is suffering from Alzheimer's5star. His condition is worsening almost by the day, memory lapses are morphing into full-scale hallucinations.|amazonukjpg|link=<amazonuk>0857523422</amazonuk>Category:{{{rating}}}{{newreviewStar Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verse|author=Kevin Smith|title=The Voyage of the DolphinChildren's Rhymes and Verse]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|rating=5Humour]]|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Dublin 1916: Among Consider the unrest Doctor. Just how many birthday and anti-British feeling worsened by the threat of conscription into a war seen as nothing Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each year, were he to do keep in touch with the Irish, Trinity College faculty has other distractions. They'd like even half of his companions? He would certainly need a trophy; the skeleton few novelty gifts for some of an Irish 'giant' to be precise. The only glitch is them, say, for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the main trophy contender, Bernard MacNeill's skeleton, is somewhere difficult to access life of a Time Lord and that of some of his friends and all seasoned explorers are otherwise engagedenemies. There may be hope though. They turn As luck would have it, he has the space in his TARDIS to Fitzmauricestock up in advance, a student not good enough for anything else. Fitzmaurice agrees, picking his friends Crozier and Rafferty so my advice to go with him. So… ''Gentlemen– sorry, lace up your strongest boots her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and pack your warmest underwear – weget himself ready. And if you're all off to the bloody Arctic!'' Whether battle cry or epitaphworking on a shorter timescale, three men and with a dog… shorter lifespan, and an iguana… are going anywaythinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the same.[[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124826</amazonuk!-- Ingram -->|amazonus-| style=<amazonus>1910124826<"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Ingram_Kammie.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/amazonus>1785451995?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785451995]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle=Tony Hawks"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title=Once Upon a Time in the West… Country|rating=3=[[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram]]===|genre=Travel[[image:4star.jpg|summarylink=I have often complained in a jokey voice to my partner about life in the sticksCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Pets|Pets]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] It was something of a relief when I encountered Annie Ingram and the way she moved her cocker spaniel Kammie. You see, Annie knows something which has been self-evident to me from an inner-city flat to slumming it in the suburbs for a long time: dogs are perfectly capable of communicating with fewer busses, no takeaways within walking-humans and-keeping-not just on a level of food-hot distance!, and no 'Polish' shops for a can of beer whenever you fancy onewalk! or play!. Things are different with Tony HawksYou do require extensive training to become fluent, as here he has purposefully decided but most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to up sticks from London teach you and all you have to Somewhere, Devon – a tiny village where the people who built their own homes decades ago still live in them, where slugs are a lot more of a problem for do is listen. Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and the wannabe lettuce-grower than they are for the metropolitan commuter, and where village halls pair have the power allowed us to turn you into both a Pol Pot dictator if you get on share some of their committee and into a quivering, bruise-inducing wreck if you're the wrong gender at a Zumba class…conversations. [[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444794809</amazonuk!-- Harris -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=Marian Keyes"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title=Making It Up As I Go Along[[image:Harris_Glass.jpg|ratinglink=4http://www.amazon.co.5uk/dp/1908943823/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] |genre=Entertainment|summarystyle=Oh, how the book reviewing gods like to give, and equally like to take away. Here before me is a brand, spanking new collection "vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Breaking of journalism Liam Glass by the wonderful Marian Keyes – but it's a proof copy, so there's no photo of the authorCharles Harris]]=== [[image:3star. Even if over the years I have stopped reading her novelsjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], I have always turned to [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Teenager Liam Glass is mugged and stabbed yards from his Camden flat. As the boy lies comatose, desperate journalist Jason Worthington scrabbles for the author picture to remind myself such sights exist in this world. Himself is a lucky maninside scoop, tired police officer Andy Rockham searches for sure. But beyond sounding like a letchmissing tape, what can I say about this – the beauty's third large dose of essaysharried politician Jamila Hasan fights for re-election, distraught mother Katrina Glass waits by her son, web columns and other journalism? I can start with agreeing that I am not gym-owner Royland simply finds himself in the wrong place at the target audiencewrong time. We follow this host of ensemble characters in a bleak, but it's easy enough to see from these pages exactly what the target iskaleidoscopic satire of modern media. So much like that test you do – you know the one, that formulates decisions about the age and commonality [[The Breaking of all things in space to come up with how many billions of planets are likely to have alien life on – you can narrow things down quite readily here, and still come up with a huge number.Liam Glass by Charles Harris|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718182529</amazonuk!-- LENTE -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle= Jean"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-Yves Ferrialign: center;"|[[image:Lente_10.jpg|titlelink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690222/ref= Asterix and the Missing Scroll (Album 36)nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] |rating= 5|genrestyle= For Sharing"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|summarylink=Asterix is those rarest of book series; one designed for kids which is actually even funnier when you Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Nine comedians are an adult. I used invited to love Asterix as a childremote Caribbean island under the guise of working with Dustin Walker, but now that I reread them I can't help but wonder whya comedic legend. Each fits neatly into one of the archetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, because they are so full of hilarious jokes that I definitely wouldn't have understood when I was younger. I laughed loud and hard to myself twice within the first two pages of Asterix and washed-up has-been who has fallen far from his early days; Zoe, the Missing Scrollrising female star with a new stand-up special coming soon; Dante, so I'd definitely say that this was who went from being a hit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510100458</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Spadge Whittaker|title=Braver Than Britainkid on the streets to the hardest working road comic in the business; Oliver, the child-like prop comic who can't get any respect from his peers; Janet, Occasionally|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=In which Spadge researches Britain's top ten fears the insult comic who is past her prime; TJ, the nightly variety show host with a reputation for harassing his female colleagues and faces them all over guest acts; Ruby, the course of ultra-feminist YouTuber and Blogger with a year. Wechip on her shoulder; and William, whose redneck character ''Billy the Contractor''re quite is a fearful societyfar cry from his real personality as a posh millionaire. Of course, all nine agree because ''when God almighty walks down on a beam of light and asks for your help, you know. And what the things we fear most hell else are, in order: heights (acrophobia), snakes (ophidiophobia), public speaking (glossophobia), spiders (arachnophobia), small spaces (claustrophobia), mice (musophobia), needles (trypanophobia), flying (pteromerhanophobia), crowds (agoraphobia) and clowns (coulrophobia).you going to say?'' [[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk!-- Scott -->0993429904</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Mike Bullen-|titlestyle= Trust"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|rating= 4[[image:Scott_Eliz.jpg|genrelink= General Fictionhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1788037006/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|summary=== Greg and Amanda are happy[[Elizabeth, William... Unmarried, but together thirteen years and with two young daughters, they are very much in loveMe by S Lynn Scott]]=== [[image:4. Dan and Sarah aren't so fortunate5star. Their marriage jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Ally is going through the motionsan ordinary woman with teenage children, a husband and they're staying together for a job. Then comes the sake day when ordinariness flies out of their troubled teenage sonthe window. Following It's not a business conference away from home, one bad decision sends a happy couple into turmoil, and turns an unhappy couple into lovecoincidence that it's young dream. As secrets the same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I in the pantry and betrayals threaten to send both relationships out the Bard of control, thereAvon in her bath. What's only one thing she going to do? Well, Elizabeth and Will have their own ideas about that can keep everything from falling apart: Trust! [[Elizabeth, William... and Me by S Lynn Scott|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk!-- Rodford -->0751559253</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Dan Rhodes-|titlestyle=When the Professor Got Stuck in the Snow"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Rodford_Surgeon.jpg|ratinglink=4http://www.amazon.co.5uk/dp/178565005X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |genrestyle=General Fiction"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||summary= Two people are on a train on their way to, of all things, a WI meeting where the ladies of All Bottoms will be lectured on the non-existence of God==[[The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford]]=== [[image:4star. One jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] In the second instalment of the two people is Professor Richard Dawkinsthis series, rampant atheist, hectoring scientist chappie, and allPrivate Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a well-round devotee of known local man to track down some missing valuables. Bill Galbraith, a world-famous surgeon at Cambridge's Addenbrooke'Deal or No Deal''. The other is Smees Hospital who hosts a popular medical television programme, has had his briefcase stolen by his monolive-named assistantin domestic servant, amanuensis or 'male secretary'Aurora. Smee will come According to Galbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of his at the fore when the weather sets in and the train journey has hospital. George agrees to be abandoned some way short of its ultimate destination, Upper Bottom. Instead the pair fetch up at look into the isolated yet friendly community of Market Hortontheft, assuming it will be a relatively easy and the only option for accommodation is taken straightforward case – yeslittle does he know, the died-in-the-wool non-believer has he's about to be housed by enter a retired vicar world of deceit and his wifedysfunction. This clash of titanic opinions, peppered with social faux pas aplenty will provide for a particularly English kind of farcical comedy, but one with the legs to go as far as any other Good Books have reached in the past…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910709018</amazonuk[[The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford|Full Review]] <!-- Jordan -->}}{{newreview|author=Rob Temple-|titlestyle=Very British Problems Abroad"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Jordan_Tiny.jpg|ratinglink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1760293814/ref=nosim?tag=4thebookbag-21]]  |genrestyle=Humour"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||summary=Meet==[[Our Tiny, if you havenUseless Hearts by Toni Jordan]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women't alreadys Fiction]], the phenomenon of the Very British Problem. In this format they[[:Category:Humour|Humour]] As predicted by Caroline and Janice's mother on Caroline and Henry're in pithy little comments (ofs wedding day, oohtheir marriage is over, about 140 characters in length, for some reason…) albeit 15 years and detail the minor things in life that we like nothing more two daughters further along than to inflate to a major factor of lifepredicted. They can involve mannersIndeed, staring this is definitely not a good weekend for Janice to be babysitting at things until they mend themselves, hitting things ditto, or Caroline's house. There's the fact that nobody apart from you split and I know how to queue properly. And if the idea hits awkwardness of the girls' schoolteacher being the world outside our shores, then – well, you certainly have other woman for a book full of content regarding our attitude and ineptitude abroadstart. Then there's that mistaken identity moment involving the neighbours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751558494</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Fraser McAlpine|title=Stuff Brits Like|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary= With At least Janice is well adjusted and over 100 chapters on different aspects her ex-husband Alec. She still dreams of Britain and Britishnesshim, yes, this book is both fascinating and hilarious. but it's so over! Just looking as well really… guess who's at the list of subjects is enough to produce a sardonic twist of that stiff upper lipdoor? [[Our Tiny, Useless Hearts by Toni Jordan|Full Review]] <!-- Taylor -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: the chapters cover topics that range from offal to curry, from pedantry to banter, from conkers to rugby. 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(I know they should be called that – the author provides a handy guide to the back etiquette of the doortheir name, their nature and location, he is savedetc. By a curious housemate or a concerned girlfriend? No) For our more distant readers, by an Angel. Not they're several chunks of granite rock out in the white-feathered guardian Angel you may expectAtlantic, where Cornwall is pointing, with just 2, but one who wishes to help Will achieve his ends200 permanent residents. They're big on tourism, and so possess big on growing flowers in the body of tropical climate the hapless Will in order to finish what he started. 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When Barry is found dead trussed up And one of them in a sex dungeon, it transpires that he recent years has been leading a hidden life for yearsColin Taylor, and who has done his expensive fetishes lead to the bank moving to take Susan's home. Struck by both desperation and official duty – alongside maintaining a sense of injusticewell-known online existence, Sue and Julie conspire which has brought to rob a bank, taking along their friend Jill – a devout Christian conflicted due to lack life all the whimsical comedy of his work. 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Therefore when damsel Elaine seeks help to find her kidnapped fiancé, Humphrey jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] It's Christmas Eve and his ward, the teenage giant Conrad, eagerly set forthMum has arranged everything. Meanwhile in All she now has to do is await the kingdom arrival of Tuft, new Queen Martha has run away after a disastrous wedding to… a… well… disastrous Prince Edwinthe relatives and the food shopping delivery. She may not realise it yet, but she too will Little does Mum know that those two elements alone have a job for Humphreythe potential to ruin everything. [['Twas the Fight Before Christmas: A Parody by Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees|Full Review]] <!-- Phinn -->|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099555875</amazonuk>}}{{newreview-|authorstyle=Tim Flannery"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title=The Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish[[image:Phinn_Virgin.jpg|rating=3left|genrelink=Historical Fictionhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1444779400/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] |summarystyle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|=Meet Archie Meek. He==[[The Virgin Mary's about to leave the Venus Islands, where he's lived for the last five yearsGot Nits by Gervase Phinn]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], and return to Sydney, where he'll take his office [[:Category:Anthologies|Anthologies]] Christmas in our house is the museum time we tend to get on a plane and fill it with all the cultural artefacts he's found and wildlife he's plucked head to either sun or pickled. That's not to ignore snow, anywhere that is far, far away from the fact he'll count as something quite alien himselfmadness at home, with his filled-out framelast minute dashes to the shops on Christmas Eve, nearly all-over suntan and totemic tattoofood cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are shutting for a month, in amongst other changes to his bodynor a mere 36 hours. But what's this? When he gets I do remember the feeling of Christmas when I was younger, backwhen it was magical, he finds one of and back when you knew exactly what the main Venus Islands artefacts that caused him to go there in the first place, a huge, macabre ceremonial fetish mask, purloined as corporate artworkseason would bring with carol concerts and school nativities and Christmas parties. And some This book is an anthology of the curators he wishes those moments, and it took me right back to work alongside have vanished. Is the weird society wonder of the museum heChristmas as a child. [[The Virgin Mary's returning to, perchance, even weirder, stranger and more violent than the cannibalistic society he's waving farewell to?Got Nits by Gervase Phinn|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk!-- North -->1922079308</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Roman Dirge-|titlestyle=The Cat with a Really Big Head"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:North_Romeo.jpg|ratinglink=3http://www.amazon.co.5uk/dp/0356508536/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |genrestyle=Graphic Novels"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||summary= How many picture books ==[[Romeo and/or Juliet by Ryan North]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] For all those who think tragedy plots are there about cats? And how many do too restricted and prescribed, read on. In these pages you know too will see that you would really NOT prefer your children Romeo had lots of options en route to see? If hitting the answer to the second question is 'none – yet'bottle. Likewise, scratch that last wordshe could have turned away from her predestined path at no end of junctures. The title piece in this collection isAnd to what result? Well, happy marriage and a kid called Ben, by because the authorleads have just banged people's own admissionheads together and stopped the quarrelling, his imagining of the Joseph Merrick or Death by Tybalt (the 'Elephant Man'him) of the feline world – who struggles to sneak up behind or a mouse when the shadow of his head is long life running an establishment curing murderous women, such as a total giveaway, Lady M (her). [[Romeo and who can hardly even eat with dignity as bending down to his bowl would break his neck. 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Well, they are occasionally, but mostly they're generously optimistic and out to make the most of what they've got, usually bought from charity shops and jumble sales. ''Not Far From Dreamland'' is the story of a year (2012) in the life of Ronald Tonks, his friends and relatives.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0704373874</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Harry Harrison|title=Bill, the Galactic Hero|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Meet Bill. He's a simple farmer – well, he ''is'' taking a correspondence course in being a Technical Fertiliser Operator – but fate has something else in store. And so does the mechanised, technological, industrial military, which needs several billion grunts to fight the Chingers, in mankind's first inter-galactic war. Still, at least he gets medals just for signing up. After that it's all downhill, and the likes of Petty Chief Officer Deathwish Drang can only make that a straight line down. Really, what hope is there?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147320531X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ian Doescher|title=William Shakespeare's The Phantom of Menace|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary= Join us, good gentles, for a merry reimagining of `Star Wars Episode 1' as only Shakespeare could have written it. 'Tis a true Shakespearean drama, filled with sword fights, soliloquies and doomed romance…all in glorious iambic pentameter and coupled with gorgeous illustrations. Hold on to your midichlorians: The plays the thing, wherein you'll catch the rise of Anakin!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594748063</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Attaboy|title=The Book of Hugs|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=A hug's a hug, OK? You either do, or you don't. Some people might be a little more enthusiastic about the process whilst others are more elegant in the execution of the hug, but basically you just get on and do it and then forget about it, right?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0867197978</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Christopher Fowler|title= Bryant and May – The Burning Man|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= The Peculiar Crimes Unit (PCU) has a new set of overlords. For reasons that were explored in the previous couple of outings they have been transferred to the City Of London Police. The Met are still the big players in the area. City of London Police only police the old city, the square mile, the financial district in other words, that has very little in the way of street crime, because no-one lives there anymore and the people who work there are, by and large, either too rich to need to steal, or too smart to have to do so on the streets.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857522043</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg|title=The Little Old Lady Who Struck Lucky Again! |rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=Following the success of ''The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules'', the League of Pensioners are back – and this time, they’re in Vegas! I haven’t read the first book but it was on my list when the opportunity arose to review this one. The idea of the League of Pensioners marching towards a fairer world through fun and frolics was hugely appealing to me and this is a stand alone novel so I thought I would dive straight in with this one.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447274903</amazonuk>}}