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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|authorclass-"wikitable" cellpadding=Colin Taylor"15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->|title=The Life of a Scilly Sergeant<!-- van LENTE -->|rating=4.5-|genrestyle=Travel"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690346.jpg|summarylink=Meet the Isles of Scillyhttp://www.amazon.co. (I know they should be called that – the author provides a handy guide to the etiquette of their name, their nature and location, etcuk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star.) For our more distant readersjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], they're several chunks [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Comic-Cons are a place of granite rock out in the Atlanticwonder and sanctuary for many people, where Cornwall is pointingand when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, he's looking for both that and sanctuary with just 2other fans and creators,200 permanent residentsplus the chance of maybe, just maybe reuniting with his ex. They're big on tourismHowever, when his rival is found dead, and big on growing flowers Mike is forced to navigate every dark corner of the con in the tropical climate the Gulf Stream bequeaths them order to clear his name – although the weather is bad enough from cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans to turn any car to a rust bucket within years. They're so weezombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, and in doing so idyllic-seeming, especially at night, you can be mistaken for thinking there would be no need for may just unravel a dark secret behind a police presencelegendary industry creator. But there is – at least two working at any one time[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]]  <!-- Coulton -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473669588. And one of them in recent years has been Colin Taylor, who has done his official duty – alongside maintaining a well-known online existence, which has brought to life all the whimsical comedy of his work.|amazonukjpg|link=<amazonuk>178475515X<http://amazonuk>www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473669588/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton]]===Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees [[image:4star.jpg|titlelink='Twas the Fight Before ChristmasCategory: A Parody|{{{rating=3.5}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|genre=General Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|summary=ItHumour]], [[:Category:Women's Christmas Eve Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Lex Coulton's debut novel is a story about mistakes, failures, and Mum has arranged everythingrelationships. All she now The main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, is a sixth form English teacher who has to do is await the arrival of the relatives recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, a work colleague, and is grappling with the food shopping deliveryincreasingly eccentric behaviour of her mother. Little does Mum know This relationship is complicated by the fact that those two elements alone have the potential to ruin everythingFrances's father disappeared at sea when she was five years old.[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472125118</amazonuk!-- van LENTE -->}}{{newreview|author=Ryan North-|titlestyle=Romeo and/or Juliet"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690346.jpg|ratinglink=3http://www.amazon.co.5uk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |genrestyle=Humour"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||summary=For all those who think tragedy plots are too restricted and prescribed, read on==[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star. In these pages you too will see that Romeo had lots jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Comic-Cons are a place of options en route to hitting the bottle. Likewisewonder and sanctuary for many people, she could have turned away from her predestined path and when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at no end San Diego Comic-Con, he's looking for both that and sanctuary with other fans and creators, plus the chance of junctures. And to what result? Wellmaybe, happy marriage and a kid called Benjust maybe reuniting with his ex. However, when his rival is found dead, because Mike is forced to navigate every dark corner of the leads have just banged people's heads together con in order to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and stopped the quarrellingintrusive fans to zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, in doing so, or Death by Tybalt (him) or may just unravel a long life running an establishment curing murderous women, such as dark secret behind a Lady M (her)legendary industry creator. [[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|amazonuk=Full Review]] <amazonuk>0356508536</amazonuk!-- Curran -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle= Gervase Phinn"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690133.jpg|titlelink= The Virgin Mary's Got Nitshttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690133/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |ratingstyle= 4.5"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||genre= Humour|summary= Christmas in our house is the time we tend to get on a plane =[[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and head to either sun or snow, anywhere that is far, far away from the madness at homeLarissa Zageris]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] You are a lass of twenty eight. Plucky, last minute dashes to penniless and in Regency era London the shops race is on Christmas Eve, and food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are shutting for to find a month, nor suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Along your journey you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a mere 36 hoursfiesty noble eager to save you from a life alone, and fired by a rogueish sense for adventure. But I do remember the feeling of Christmas when I was younger, back when When it was magicalcomes to suitors though, and back when you knew exactly what 'll have to make the season would bring with carol concerts ultimate decision between witty, pretty and school nativities wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and Christmas parties. This book is an anthology of those momentscaring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the mad, bad and it took me right back terrifyingly 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 the wonder of Christmas as a childbe an easy decision...[[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444779400</amazonuk!-- Jester -->}}{{newreview|author= Kieran Crowley-|titlestyle= Shoot"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|rating= 4[[image:Jester_Forever.jpg|genre= Crimeleft|summarylink= I make something of a habit of being late to discover good writers, in this case getting to Crowley after he is no longer with ushttps://www. The result is that what is billed as ''an Famazon.Xco. Shepherd mystery'' with all the optimism of there being more to come has the poignancy of being, if not the last of a short line, certainly one of a few. F.X. Shepherd – he doesn't like his first name and prefers just uk/gp/product/1510704361?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1510704361]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"Shepherd" is, technically, |===[[Forever After: a columnist. He's been sacked dark comedy by one New York newspaper and David Jester]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fasntasy]] Michael Holland is writing a weekly column for anothercocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the offer of his lifetime; immortality. I don't know much about journalismWe follow Michael, but I'm guessing one column a week doesn't pay much as grim reaper and his friends Chip (a rule…which explains why Shepherd's soap-washed-foul-mouthed editor stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (read a stoner in the book, you'll see what I meanrecords department) expects him as they grapple with their long lives and finding a clean surface to turn sit on in some genuine journalism as welltheir flat. [[Forever After: front page, seat of your pants stuff. a dark comedy by David Jester|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783296518</amazonuk!-- Stibbe -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=Gray Jolliffe|title=The First Ever Christmas"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: And Who to Blamecenter;"|rating=5[[image:Stibbe_Xmas.jpg|genre=Humourleft|summarylink=If I tell you a secret, will you promise not to tell anyonehttps://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0241309824? Well, I really don't like Christmasie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0241309824]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: it's my least favourite time of year and whilst some people count down to the day itself, I look forward to that point when I can say left;"|===[[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Christmas – the time of traditional trauma. You only have to think about the turkey for that – once upon a time it'was leaving it sat on the downstairs loo to defrost overnight, and if that failed the hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. Nowadays it's all over for another year. Ithaving to make sure it's all suitably free-range and organic – but not too commercialised for me, organic that you can go and visit it, and get too friendly with it to want to eat it. Christmas, though, is of course also a coating time of faux religiongreat boons. IIt've never found it s cash in the least funny - that ishand for a lot of plump people who can hire red suits and beards, until I found Gray Jolliffe's ''The First Ever Christmas: And Who's it was always a godsend for postmen with all the thank-you letters to Blame''. Amazingly, I'd never encountered Gray Jolliffe eitheraunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you write out in long-hand as a child, but I'm a convert to his skills and as a cartoonist (if not to for the idea makers of Christmas) after reading this collection Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they even try and sell them any other time of the year? [[An Almost Perfect Christmas-themed cartoons from his archive.by Nina Stibbe|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445663503</amazonuk!-- Doescher -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=Jonathan Pugh"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Doescher_Will.jpg|titleleft|link=Pugh's New Year's Resolutionshttps://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/159474985X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=159474985X]]  |ratingstyle=4.5"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||genre=Humour|summary=If there=[[William Shakespeare's one thing that's for certain, it's that the world is changingForce Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher]]=== [[image:4.5star. We're dating online, we're communicating jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] A long time ago, in ways that make email seem redundanta galaxy far away, and when we're shopping we just tell there was a website where man called William Shakespeare, who was able to create a series of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil and when it can be delivered, rebellious heroes and how much leeway they have to swap our wishes for whatever it is they do bring usheroines most sturdy. But those changes are also supposed to be affecting us – weYou may or may not have noticed the cinematic version of his original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken're supposed to use a smart watch to tell us if we're moving or not, but here at last we have to keep up with get the latest fadsactual script, and we're supposed complete with annoying-in-different-ways-to prick our ears up -before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, and take note when people keeping it in the proverbial family til it hurts. And if you need further encouragement, don'they' change their minds about what t forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the series is so popular we're supposed on to eat.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=<amazonuk>1780722885</amazonuk!-- Goss -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle= Luke Rhinehart"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Goss_600.jpg|title= Invasionleft|ratinglink= 4https://www.amazon.co.5|genreuk/gp/product/1785942719?ie= Humour |summaryUTF8&tag=Superthebookbag-intelligent furry aliens suddenly appear from another universe. And they've come to earth to have fun. Alien Louie follows fisherman Billy Morton home one day, and he and his family quickly come to love the playful alien. But when Louie starts using their computer to hack into government 21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785942719]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and corporate networks, stealing millions from banks to give to others, they realise that Louie and his friends mean troubleRussell T Davies]]=== [[image:4. As Billy and his family begin a roller coaster ride of fame 5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and fortune, as well as a ranking high on the FBIVerse|Children's most wanted listRhymes and Verse]], the Government soon decides that these aliens are terrorists[[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Consider the Doctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must be eliminated. Whilst the aliens are playing games they hope will help humans he have to see the insanity of the American politicalhand out each year, economic and military systems, they soon come were he to realise that the Powers keep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of them, say, for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of a Time Lord and that Be don't play games: they make war. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785651757</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rod Green|title=Only Fools of some of his friends and Horses: The Peckham Archives|rating=4|genre=Entertainment |summary=We are enemies. As luck would have it, he has the space in his TARDIS to stock up in the world of one of the country's most famous and well-loved sitcoms advance, so my advice to him – even if it was sort-of killed off for Christmas 2003. Yessorry, there have been specials since, and more repeats her – would be to clog up the BBC schedules than is really pukka, but very few people failed pop along to succumb to its charms at one time or anotherhis local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. IAnd if you'm sure there have been books before now celebrating the stony-faced reception of ''that'' drop through the open bar hatchre working on a shorter timescale, with a shorter lifespan, and ''that'' chandelier scenethinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, but this well my advice is pretty much more meatythe same. 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 a department with a clumsy acronym to another, from them to the police – [[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and now here they are being published for their social history worth. Will enough readers find them of worth, as the series quietly celebrates its 35th birthday?Russell T Davies|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849909245</amazonuk!-- Ingram -->}}{{newreview|author= Mara Wilson-|titlestyle= Where Am I Now?"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Famecenter;"|rating= 5[[image:Ingram_Kammie.jpg|genre= Autobiographyleft|summarylink= Mara Wilson has always felt a little young and a little out of placehttps: as the only child on a film set full of adults, the first daughter in a house full of boys, the sole clinically depressed member of a cheerleading squad, a valley girl in New York and a neurotic in California, and an adult the world still remembers as a little girl//www.amazon.co. Tackling everything from how she first learned about sex on the set of ''Melrose Place,'' to losing her mother at a young age, to getting her first kiss (or was it kisses?) on a celebrity canoe tripuk/gp/product/1785451995?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785451995]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Pets|Pets]], to not being cute enough to make it in Hollywood, these essays tell the story [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] It was something of one young woman's journey from accidental fame to relative obscurity, but also illuminate a universal struggle: learning to accept yourself, relief when I encountered Annie Ingram and figuring out who you her cocker spaniel Kammie. You see, Annie knows something which has been self-evident to me for a long time: dogs are perfectly capable of communicating with humans and where you belongnot just on a level of food!, walk! or play!. |amazonuk=You do require extensive training to become fluent, but most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to teach you and all you have to do is listen. Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and the pair have allowed us to share some of their conversations. [[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram|Full Review]] <amazonuk>0143128221</amazonuk!-- Harris -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle= Tony Stuart"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title= Writing Lines[[image:Harris_Glass.jpg|ratinglink= 4http://www.amazon.5|genre=Humourco.uk/dp/1908943823/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |summarystyle= George Gordon Wentworth (1946"vertical-align: top; text-2011) lived a humdrum lifealign: left;"|===[[The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris]]=== [[image:3star. He was a barely adequate teacher in a fairly world renowned independent school in Kent jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Teenager Liam Glass is mugged and kept a copious diary of stabbed yards from his quotidian existenceCamden flat. Most of what he recorded was dross. HoweverAs the boy lies comatose, desperate journalist Jason Worthington scrabbles for the inside scoop, tired police officer Andy Rockham searches for a missing tape, harried politician Jamila Hasan fights for re-election, distraught mother Katrina Glass waits by her son, amongst all and gym-owner Royland simply finds himself in the utterly uninteresting tailings of his life there were some nuggets and grains to catch wrong place at the attentionwrong time. Author Tony Stuart has created these amusing anecdotesWe follow this host of ensemble characters in a bleak, panning them out over twenty six episodes which give us the best kaleidoscopic satire of Wentworth – comedy goldmodern media. From losing all the pupils in his charge on a school trip to being arrested on suspicion [[The Breaking of terrorism; from waking up in bed between the married couple the morning after their wedding, to destroying a ski run; from appearing fullLiam Glass by Charles Harris|Full Review]] <!-- LENTE -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.|amazonukstyle=<amazonuk>1524634441<"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Lente_10.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/amazonuk>}}dp/1683690222/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]{{newreview|author=Graham Fulbright|titlestyle=Driving Mad"vertical-align: Maniacs, Morons and the Advanced Motorist's Clubtop; text-align: left;"||rating=3==[[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star.5jpg|genrelink=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]]|summary=I passed my driving test when John F Kennedy was in Nine comedians are invited to a remote Caribbean island under the White House and I've recently had to reapply for my driving licence having achieved guise of working with Dustin Walker, a venerable agecomedic legend. When I started driving Each fits neatly into one of the roads were kinderarchetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, more forgiving places the washed-up has- or put another way, the idiots were fewer and further between. I don't know how long Graham Fulbright been who has been drivingfallen far from his early days; Zoe, but he certainly knows his motoring morons and in ''Driving Mad'' he brings us the rising female star with a fictional sample of their eccentricities. Wellnew stand-up special coming soon; Dante, who went from being a kid on the streets to the hardest working road comic in the business; Oliver, Ithe child-like prop comic who can'm pretty certain that they're fictional - but these days you never know...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783062584</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mario Giordano|title=Auntie Poldi and t get any respect from his peers; Janet, the Sicilian Lions|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Poldi had not long been widowed when she decided to move from Bavaria to Sicily insult comic who is past her prime; TJ, the nightly variety show host with a reputation for harassing his female colleagues and guest acts; Ruby, the intention of drinking herself to death. She couldultra-feminist YouTuber and Blogger with a chip on her shoulder; and William, of course, have done this in Germany, but she felt that whose redneck character ''Billy the Contractor'' is a far cry from his real personality as a sea view was essentialposh millionaire. Once thereOf course, new friends, family already resident all nine agree because ''when God almighty walks down on the island a beam of light and the corpse of a young manasks for your help, his face blown off by a shotgun, whom she found on what the local beach, intervened hell else are you going 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 case. Assisting him (or having him assist her) came naturally to Poldi and before long there was an investigative and personal partnership. At least so far as Poldi was concernedsay?'' 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It's nearby. Abbynot a coincidence that it's investigation leads her the same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I in the pantry and the Bard of Avon in her bath. What's she going to some startling discoveries - do? Well, Elizabeth and by the time Will have their story reaches its terrifying conclusionown ideas about that! [[Elizabeth, the fate of Abby William... and Gretchen will be determined Me by a single question: Is their friendship enough to beat the devil?S Lynn Scott|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594748624</amazonuk!-- Rodford -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle= Kevin MacNeil"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Rodford_Surgeon.jpg|titlelink=The Brilliant and Foreverhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178565005X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |ratingstyle= 3.5"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||genre= Humour|summary= You know sometimes when someone tells a joke, everyone else laughs, and you're sat there wondering what was so funny?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973376</amazonuk>[[The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford]]===}}{{newreview|author= Christopher Fowler[[image:4star.jpg|titlelink= Bryant and MayCategory: Strange Tide|{{{rating= 3.5}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|genre= Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]]|summary= The thirteenth outing for Bryant and May is looking very much like it will be their lastIn the second instalment of this series, Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a well-known local man to track down some missing valuables. Arthur Bryant is on compassionate leave whilst tests are continuingBill Galbraith, which are likely to confirm that he is suffering from Alzheimera world-famous surgeon at Cambridge's Addenbrooke's. His condition is worsening almost by the dayHospital who hosts a popular medical television programme, memory lapses are morphing into fullhas had his briefcase stolen by his live-scale hallucinationsin domestic servant, Aurora.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857523422</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kevin Smith|title=The Voyage According to Galbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of his at the Dolphin|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Dublin 1916: Among the unrest and anti-British feeling worsened by the threat of conscription hospital. George agrees to look into a war seen as nothing to do with the Irishtheft, Trinity College faculty has other distractions. They'd like assuming it will be a trophy; the skeleton of an Irish 'giantrelatively easy and straightforward case – little does he know, he' s about to be preciseenter a world of deceit and dysfunction. [[The only glitch is that the main trophy contender, Bernard MacNeillSurgeon's skeleton, is somewhere difficult to access and all seasoned explorers are otherwise engaged. There may be hope thoughCase: George Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford|Full Review]] <!-- Jordan -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Jordan_Tiny. They turn to Fitzmaurice, a student not good enough for anything elsejpg|link=http://www.amazon. Fitzmaurice agrees, picking his friends Crozier and Rafferty to go with him. So… ''Gentlemen, lace up your strongest boots and pack your warmest underwear – we're all off to the bloody Arctic!'' Whether battle cry or epitaph, three men and a dog… and an iguana… are going anywayco.uk/dp/1760293814/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |amazonukstyle=<amazonuk>1910124826</amazonuk>"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||amazonus=<amazonus>1910124826</amazonus>}}{{newreview|author=Tony Hawks|title=Once Upon a Time in the West… Country|rating[[Our Tiny, Useless Hearts by Toni Jordan]]===3|genre=Travel[[image:5star.jpg|summarylink=I have often complained in a jokey voice to my partner about life in the sticksCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] As predicted by Caroline and Janice's mother on Caroline and the way she moved me from an inner-city flat to slumming it in the suburbs with fewer bussesHenry's wedding day, their marriage is over, no takeaways within walking-albeit 15 years and-keeping-food-hot distancetwo daughters further along than predicted. Indeed, and no 'Polish' shops for this is definitely not a can of beer whenever you fancy onegood weekend for Janice to be babysitting at Caroline's house. Things are different with Tony Hawks, as here he has purposefully decided to up sticks from London to Somewhere, Devon – a tiny village where There's the split and the awkwardness of the people who built their own homes decades ago still live in them, where slugs are a lot more of a problem for girls' schoolteacher being the wannabe lettuce-grower than they are other woman for a start. Then there's that mistaken identity moment involving the metropolitan commuter, neighbours. At least Janice is well adjusted and where village halls have the power to turn you into both a Pol Pot dictator if you get on their committee and into a quiveringover her ex-husband Alec. She still dreams of him, yes, bruise-inducing wreck if youbut it's so over! Just as well really… guess who're s at the wrong gender at a Zumba class…door? [[Our Tiny, Useless Hearts by Toni Jordan|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444794809</amazonuk!-- Taylor -->}}{{newreview|author=Marian Keyes-|titlestyle=Making It Up As I Go Along"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Taylor_Scilly.jpg|ratinglink=4http://www.amazon.co.5uk/dp/178475515X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |genrestyle=Entertainment"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||summary=Oh, how the book reviewing gods like to give, and equally like to take away. Here before me is ==[[The Life of a brand, spanking new collection of journalism Scilly Sergeant by the wonderful Marian Keyes – but it's a proof copy, so there's no photo of the authorColin Taylor]]=== [[image:4.5star. Even if over the years I have stopped reading her novelsjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], I have always turned to [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Meet the author picture to remind myself such sights exist in this worldIsles of Scilly. Himself is a lucky man, for sure. But beyond sounding like a letch, what can (I say about this know they should be called that – the beauty's third large dose author provides a handy guide to the etiquette of essaystheir name, web columns their nature and other journalism? I can start with agreeing that I am not the target audiencelocation, etc.) For our more distant readers, but itthey's easy enough to see from these pages exactly what re several chunks of granite rock out in the target Atlantic, where Cornwall ispointing, with just 2,200 permanent residents. So much like that test you do – you know the oneThey're big on tourism, that formulates decisions about the age and commonality of all things big on growing flowers in space the tropical climate the Gulf Stream bequeaths them – although the weather is bad enough to come up with how many billions of planets are likely turn any car to have alien life on – you can narrow things down quite readily herea rust bucket within years. They're so wee, and still come up with a huge number.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718182529</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jean-Yves Ferri|title= Asterix and the Missing Scroll (Album 36)|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary=Asterix is those rarest of book series; so idyllic-seeming, especially at night, you can be mistaken for thinking there would be no need for a police presence. But there is – at least two working at any one designed for kids which is actually even funnier when you are an adulttime. I used to love Asterix as a childAnd one of them in recent years has been Colin Taylor, but now that I reread them I can't help but wonder whywho has done his official duty – alongside maintaining a well-known online existence, because they are so full of hilarious jokes that I definitely wouldn't have understood when I was younger. I laughed loud and hard which has brought to myself twice within life all the first two pages whimsical comedy of Asterix and the Missing Scroll, so I'd definitely say that this was a hithis work.[[The Life of a Scilly Sergeant by Colin Taylor|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510100458</amazonuk!-- Lloyd -->}}{{newreview|author=Spadge Whittaker-|titlestyle=Braver Than Britain, Occasionally|rating=4"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Lloyd_Twas.jpg|genrelink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472125118/ref=Humournosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |summarystyle=In which Spadge researches Britain's "vertical-align: top ten fears and faces them all over the course of a year. We; text-align: left;"|===[['re quite a fearful society, you know. And Twas the things we fear most are, in orderFight Before Christmas: heights (acrophobia), snakes (ophidiophobia), public speaking (glossophobia), spiders (arachnophobia), small spaces (claustrophobia), mice (musophobia), needles (trypanophobia), flying (pteromerhanophobia), crowds (agoraphobia) A Parody by Josie Lloyd and clowns (coulrophobia)Emlyn Rees]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>0993429904</amazonuk>Category:{{{rating}}}{{newreviewStar Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|author= Mike BullenHumour]]|title= Trust|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= Greg It's Christmas Eve and Amanda are happyMum has arranged everything. Unmarried, but together thirteen years and with two young daughters, they are very much in love. Dan and Sarah aren't so fortunate. Their marriage All she now has to do is going through await the arrival of the motions, relatives and they're staying together for the sake of their troubled teenage sonfood shopping delivery. Little does Mum know that those two elements alone have the potential to ruin everything. Following a business conference away from home, one bad decision sends a happy couple into turmoil, and turns an unhappy couple into love[['s young dream. 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One of jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Anthologies|Anthologies]] Christmas in our house is the two people is Professor Richard Dawkins, rampant atheist, hectoring scientist chappie, time we tend to get on a plane and all-round devotee of ''Deal head to either sun or No Deal''. The other snow, anywhere that is Smeefar, his mono-named assistantfar away from the madness at home, amanuensis or 'male secretary'. Smee will come last minute dashes to the fore when the weather sets in shops on Christmas Eve, and the train journey has to be abandoned some way short of its ultimate destinationfood cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are shutting for a month, Upper Bottomnor a mere 36 hours. Instead But I do remember the pair fetch up at the isolated yet friendly community feeling of Market HortonChristmas when I was younger, back when it was magical, and back when you knew exactly what the only option for accommodation season would bring with carol concerts and school nativities and Christmas parties. This book is taken – yesan anthology of those moments, and it took me right back to the diedwonder of Christmas as a child. [[The Virgin Mary's Got Nits by Gervase Phinn|Full Review]] <!-in-theNorth -wool non-believer has to be housed by a retired vicar and his wife. 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…>|-|amazonukstyle=<amazonuk>1910709018</amazonuk>}}{{newreview"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:North_Romeo.jpg|authorlink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0356508536/ref=nosim?tag=Rob Templethebookbag-21]] |title=Very British Problems Abroad|ratingstyle=4"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||genre=Humour==[[Romeo and/or Juliet by Ryan North]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|summarylink=Meet, if you haven't alreadyCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] For all those who think tragedy plots are too restricted and prescribed, the phenomenon of the Very British Problemread on. In this format they're in pithy little comments (these pages you too will see that Romeo had lots of, ooh, about 140 characters in length, for some reason…) and detail options en route to hitting the minor things in life that we like nothing more than to inflate to a major factor of lifebottle. They can involve mannersLikewise, staring at things until they mend themselves, hitting things ditto, or the fact that nobody apart she could have turned away from you and I know how to queue properlyher predestined path at no end of junctures. And if the idea hits the world outside our shoresto what result? Well, then – wellhappy marriage and a kid called Ben, you certainly because the leads have a book full of content regarding our attitude just banged people's heads together and stopped the quarrelling, or Death by Tybalt (him) or a long life running an establishment curing murderous women, such as a Lady M (her). [[Romeo and ineptitude abroad.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751558494</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewor Juliet by Ryan North|author=Fraser McAlpineFull Review]]|title=Stuff Brits Like|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary= With over 100 chapters on different aspects of Britain and Britishness, this book is both fascinating and hilarious. Just looking at the list of subjects is enough to produce a sardonic twist of that stiff upper lip: the chapters cover topics that range from offal to curry, from pedantry to banter, from conkers to rugby. There may be many chapters but this is no academic tome <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE - each chapter is just two to three pages long, each is written with endearing affection, each is easy and satisfying - and quirkily funny - to read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1857886348</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= John Samuel|title= What I Tell You in the Dark|rating= 3.5|genre= Humour|summary=A man called Will is fighting fiercely against corruption – desperate to expose his company's dodgy dealings to the press. Overcome with doubt and fear, he goes to kill himself. But, at the exact moment he attaches his noose to the back of the door, he is saved. By a curious housemate or a concerned girlfriend? No, by an Angel. Not the white-feathered guardian Angel you may expect, but one who wishes to help Will achieve his ends, and so possess the body of the hapless Will in order to finish what he started. It goes without saying that the Angel is hoping things go better than they did with the last guy he possessed – a hapless young man from Galilee called Jesus…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715650505</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= John Niven|title= The Sunshine Cruise Company|rating= 4.5|genre= Humour|summary= Susan Frobisher and Julie Wickham live in a small Dorset town. Friends since school, they live fairly uneventful lives – Susan has a lovely house and a lengthy marriage to accountant Barry, whereas Julie is doing slightly less well – living in a council flat and working in an old people's home. When Barry is found dead trussed up in a sex dungeon, it transpires that he has been leading a hidden life for years, and his expensive fetishes lead to the bank moving to take Susan's home. Struck by both desperation and a sense of injustice, Sue and Julie conspire to rob a bank, taking along their friend Jill – a devout Christian conflicted due to lack of money and a terminally ill grandson, and Ethel – a foul mouthed resident of the nursing home longing for adventure.>|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434023183</amazonuk>}}