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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= E G RodfordDean Koontz|title= The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2|rating= 4|genre= Crime |summary=In 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. Bill Galbraith, a world-famous surgeon at Cambridge's Addenbrooke's Hospital who hosts a popular medical television programme, has had his briefcase stolen by his live-in domestic servant, Aurora. According to Galbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of his at the hospital. George agrees to look into the theft, assuming it will be a relatively easy and straightforward case – little does he know, he's about to enter a world of deceit and dysfunction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565005X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Toni Jordan|title=Our Tiny, Useless Hearts|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=As predicted by Caroline and Janice's mother on Caroline and Henry's wedding day, their marriage is over, albeit 15 years and two daughters further along than predicted. Indeed, this is definitely not a good weekend for Janice to be babysitting at Caroline's house. There's the split and the awkwardness of the girls' schoolteacher being the other woman for a start. Then there's that mistaken identity moment involving the neighbours. At least Janice is well adjusted and over her ex-husband Alec. She still dreams of him, yes, but it's so over! Just as well really… guess who's at the door?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760293814</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Colin Taylor|title=The Life of a Scilly SergeantBad Weather Friend

|genre=TravelParanormal|summary=Meet the Isles of ScillyBenny is having a terrifically bad day. (I know they should be called that – the author provides a handy guide to the etiquette of their nameHe loses his job, he loses his fiancee, their nature and location, etchis house gets trashed.) For our more distant readersOh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, theyand it're several chunks of granite rock out in s possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the Atlanticthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, where Cornwall Benny is pointing, with just 2,200 permanent residentsthe very last person to deserve all this bad luck. They're big on tourism, and big on growing flowers in the tropical climate the Gulf Stream bequeaths them – although the weather He is bad enough to turn any car to a rust bucket within yearsnice person. They're so weeA really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, and so idyllic-seeminga bad weather friend called Spike, especially at night, you can be mistaken for thinking there would be no need who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a police presencegood person. But there Spike is – at least two working at any one time. And one going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of them in recent years has been Colin TaylorBenny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who has done his official duty – alongside maintaining a well-known online existence, which has brought to life all the whimsical comedy of his workfinds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>178475515X</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees1529153050|title=Britain'Twas the Fight Before Christmas: A Parodys Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson|rating=3.54

|summary=ItSeeking some light relief from the current political turmoil which is coming to seem more and more like an adrenaline sport, I was nudged towards ''Britain's Christmas Eve and Mum has arranged everythingBest Political Cartoons of 2022''. All she now has to do is await Sharp eyes will have noted that we're not yet through the arrival of year: the relatives and the food shopping deliverycartoons run from 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022. Little does Mum know that those two elements alone have Who can imagine what there will be to come in the potential to ruin everything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472125118</amazonuk>2023 edition?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Ryan North1785633074|title=Romeo and/or JulietStaggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry|rating=34.5

|summary=For all 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 those of you who think tragedy plots are too restricted Eton and prescribed, read onOxbridge educated) but the reality is that the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the government. In these pages you too will see that Romeo had lots We are in the privileged position of options en route having access to hitting the bottle. Likewisememoirs of Rafe Hubris, she could have turned away from her predestined path at no the man who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of junctures2020. And to what result? Well, happy marriage and a kid called Ben, because You might not know the leads have just banged people's heads together and stopped name now but he will certainly be the quarrelling, or Death by Tybalt (him) or a long life running an establishment curing murderous women, such as a Lady M (her)man to watch. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356508536</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Gervase Phinn0571365884|title= The Virgin Mary's Got NitsMy Mess is a Bit of Life: Adventures in Anxiety|author=Georgia Pritchett|rating= 4.5|genre= HumourAutobiography|summary= Christmas in our house is Georgia Pritchett has always been anxious, even as a child. She would worry about whether the monsters under the bed were comfortable: it was the time we tend sort of life where if she had nothing to get on a plane worry about she would become anxious but such occasions were few and head to either sun or snow, anywhere that is far, far away from the madness at home, last minute dashes between. On a visit to the shops on Christmas Eve, and food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are shutting for a monththerapist, nor a mere 36 hours. But I do remember the feeling of Christmas when I was youngeras an adult, back when it she was magical, and back when you knew exactly completely unable to speak about what the season would bring was wrong with carol concerts her it was suggested that she should write it down and school nativities and Christmas parties. This book ''My Mess is an anthology a Bit of those moments, and it took me right back a Life: Adventures in Anxiety'' is the result - or so we are given to the wonder of Christmas as a childbelieve.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444779400</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Kieran Crowley|title= Shoot|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= 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 us. The result is that what is billed as ''an F.X. 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 "Shepherd" is, technically, a columnist. He's been sacked by one New York newspaper and is writing a weekly column for another. I don't know much about journalism, but I'm guessing one column a week doesn't pay much as a rule…which explains why Shepherd's soap-washed-foul-mouthed editor (read the book, you'll see what I mean) expects him to turn in some genuine journalism as well: front page, seat of your pants stuff. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783296518</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Gray JolliffeJohn Boyne|title=The First Ever Christmas: And Who to BlameEcho Chamber

|genre=HumourGeneral Fiction|summary=If I tell you a secret, will you promise not to tell anyone? Well, I really don't like Christmas: it's my least favourite time Meet George Cleverley. He is self-defined as "one of year and whilst some people count down to the day itself, I look forward to that point few television personalities over the age of fifty without a criminal record". He starts this book a bit worried when I can say that ithis mistress tells him she's all over for another yearcarrying his child, but then his author wife is getting her kicks with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. It's all too commercialised for meThey have three children, who are a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, a girl who hangs around with a coating of faux religion. I've never found it in the least funny virtue- that issignalling, until I found Gray Jolliffekeyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save the world's ''The First Ever Christmas: And Who's to Blame''homeless with out-of-date food, and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thing. AmazinglyAdd in a few other characters – therapists, I'd never encountered Gray Jolliffe eitherlawyers, but I'm a convert random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to his skills as a cartoonist (if not life, and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to the idea of Christmas) after reading modern world. What suggests the farcical approach even more, however, is the fact this collection of Christmas-themed cartoons from his archiveis bloody funny.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1445663503</amazonuk>0857526219

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jonathan PughStephen Clarke|title=Pugh's New Year's ResolutionsThe Spy Who Inspired Me|rating=4.5|genre=HumourGeneral Fiction|summary=If there's one thing This is a spoof spy story, thatisn's for certain, it's that the world is changingt about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. We're dating onlineBut it features a man called Ian Lemming, wewho dresses well and 're communicating in ways that make email seem redundant, and when welikes the ladies're shopping we just tell a website where and when it can be deliveredwho works for the secret service, and how much leeway they have to swap our wishes for whatever it is they do bring usbut in the planning side of things more than the active service. But those changes are also supposed to be affecting us – we're supposed to use Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a smart watch to tell us if we're moving or notfemale spy called Margaux, we have to keep and the pair end up stranded in Normandy, with Margaux on a desperate mission to unearth traitors in the latest fadsresistance network, and we're supposed Lemming desperately trying to prick our ears keep up and take note when the proverbial 'they' change their minds about what we're supposed to eat.with her!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1780722885</amazonuk>2952163855

{{newreviewFrontpage|author= Luke RhinehartAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title= InvasionKokoschka's Doll|rating= 42.5|genre= Humour Literary Fiction|summary=Super-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 dayWell, and he and his family quickly come to this looked very much like a book I could love from the playful alien. But when Louie starts using their computer to hack into government and corporate networks, stealing millions from banks to give to othersget-go, they realise that Louie which is why I picked my review copy up and his friends mean troubleflipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. As Billy and his family begin I found things to potentially delight me each time – a roller coaster ride of fame and fortuneweird section in the middle on darker stock paper, as well as a ranking high on chapter whose number was in the FBI's most wanted list20,000s, the Government soon decides that these aliens are terroristsletters used as narrative form, and must be eliminatedso on. Whilst It intrigued with the aliens are playing games they hope will help humans to see the insanity subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, too. But you've seen the American politicalstar rating that comes with this review, economic and military systemscan tell that if love was on these pages, they soon come to realise that the Powers that Be don't play games: they make warit was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1785651757</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rod GreenB08KKQ85FN|title=Only Fools and Horses: The Peckham ArchivesBut Never For Lunch|author=Sandra Aragona

|genre=Entertainment Short Stories|summary=We are ''If a woman approaching the menopause can be likened to a Rottweiler in lipstick, an Ambassador nearing retirement resembles a pampered peacock about to be released into the world company of one of the country's most famous and well-loved sitcoms – even if it was sort-of killed off for Christmas 2003. Yes, there have been specials sincecarrion crows or, and more repeats to clog up the BBC schedules than is really pukkapoint, but very few people failed about to succumb to its charms at one time or anotherdiscover the real world of bus timetables and paying his own gas bills. I'm sure there have been books before now celebrating the stony-faced reception of ' You don't get many better opening sentences than that'' drop through the open bar hatch, do you? We first met His Excellency and The Ambassador''that'' chandelier scene, 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 s Wife in a department with a clumsy acronym to another, from them to [[Sorting the police – 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?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849909245</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Mara Wilson|title= Where Am I Now?Priorities: True Stories of Girlhood Ambassadress and Accidental FameBeagle Survive Diplomacy by Sandra Aragona|rating= 5|genre= Autobiography|summary= Mara Wilson has always felt a little young and a little out of place: as Sorting 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 Priorities]] and a neurotic in California, and an adult the world still remembers as a little girl. Tackling everything from how she first we learned about sex on the set of ''Melrose Place,'' to losing her mother at a young age, to getting her first kiss (or what it was it kisses?) on a celebrity canoe trip, like to not being cute enough to make it in Hollywood, these essays tell be moved around countries like accompanying baggage by the story of one young woman's journey from accidental fame to relative obscurity, Italian Government but also illuminate a universal struggle: learning the time has come for HE to accept yourself, retires and figuring out who you are and where you belongfor Sandra Aragona to become The Wife of Former Ambassador. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0143128221</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Tony Stuart|title= Writing Lines|rating= 4.5|genre=Humour|summary= George Gordon Wentworth (1946-2011) lived a humdrum life. He was a barely adequate teacher in a fairly world renowned independent school They have left The Career and settled in Kent and kept a copious diary of his quotidian existenceRome. Most of what he recorded was dross. However, amongst all Well 'settled' rather overstates the utterly uninteresting tailings of his life there were some nuggets situation and grains to catch the attention. Author Tony Stuart has created these amusing anecdotes, panning them out over twenty six episodes which give us the best of Wentworth – comedy gold. From losing all the pupils in his charge on a school trip to being arrested on suspicion of terrorism; from waking up in bed between the married couple the morning after their wedding, to destroying a ski run; from appearing full-frontal naked in a sheep-farmers' gazette to triggering an air-sea rescue; Wentworth wasdog, blinkered and befuddledBeagle, the subject – has no intention of these slowing down any time soon, despite being sixteen and so many more unlikely but highly amusing eventsdeaf.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524634441</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graham FulbrightB08GFSK2WZ|title=Driving Mad: Maniacs, Morons and the Advanced Motorist's Club|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=I passed my driving test when John F Kennedy was in the White House and I've recently had to reapply for my driving licence having achieved a venerable age. When I started driving the roads were kinder, more forgiving places - or put another way, the idiots were fewer and further between. I don't know how long Graham Fulbright has been driving, but he certainly knows his motoring morons and in ''Driving Mad'' he brings us a fictional sample of their eccentricities. Well, I'm pretty certain that they're fictional - but these days you never know...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783062584</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewThe Karma Trap|author=Mario Giordano|title=Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian LionsLisette Boyd

|summary=Poldi had not long been widowed when she decided to move from Bavaria to Sicily with the intention of drinking herself to death. She could, of course, have done this in Germany, but she felt that John Cranston is a sea view was essential. Once theregardener, new friends, family already resident on the island and the corpse of a young man, his face blown off by although what he did before he became a shotgungardener, whom she found on the local beachhe claims, intervened to give her life some meaningis classified. For That is just as well because he is about to be caught up in a while she was a suspectcriminal / spy / terrorist plot, but that (and her wig) were no obstacle to her falling for Commissario Vito Montana who was assigned to investigate where only he can save 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 concernedday.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1908524693</amazonuk>0956180523

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Grady HendrixJester_Forever|title= My Best Friend's ExorcismForever After: a dark comedy|author=David Jester|rating= 54|genre= Horror|summary=1988Michael Holland is a cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the offer of his lifetime; immortality. We follow Michael, Charleston, South Carolina. High school sophomores Abby a grim reaper and Gretchen have been best his friends since fourth grade. But after an evening of skinny-dipping goes disatrously wrong, Gretchen begins to act...different. She's moody. She's irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever she's nearby. Abby's investigation leads her to some startling discoveries - Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and by Naff (a stoner in the time records department) as they grapple with their story reaches its terrifying conclusion, the fate of Abby long lives and Gretchen will be determined by finding a single question: Is clean surface to sit on in their friendship enough to beat the devil?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594748624</amazonuk>flat.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Kevin MacNeil1683691172|title=The Brilliant and ForeverWilliam Shakespeare's Much Ado About Mean Girls|author=Ian Doescher|rating= 32.5|genre= Humour|summary= You know sometimes when someone tells A long time ago, in a jokegalaxy far away, all the Star Wars films were crunched up against Shakespeare, everyone else laughsand the marriage seemed a perfectly suitable one. So much so – so easily did the plots and characters converse in Shakespearean dialogue, and youbehave with Shakespearean stage directions – that the producers tried again, with [[William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future! by Ian Doescher|Back to the Future]] no less. And that worked. But simultaneously they put a real test out. A film I can're sat there wondering what t even really remember seeing was transcribed into the original Elizabethan lingo. A cult following I had never followed whatsoever was given the brand new, yet oh so funnyancient, dressing. Here was the true challenge – would I manage to enjoy this, based on little foreknowledge?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973376</amazonuk>Oh damn those shiny gold stars for letting the game away…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Christopher Fowler168369094X|title= Bryant and May: Strange TideWilliam Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future!|author=Ian Doescher|rating= 34.5|genre= CrimeHumour|summary= The thirteenth outing A long time ago, in a publishing house far away, [[:Category:Ian Doescher|someone]] thought it wonderfully wacky to rewrite the story of Star Wars in Shakespearean pentameter, colliding two entirely different genres and styles in such a clever way they seemed perfectly suited. It was then duly repeated for Bryant all the other films in the main Star Wars cycle, and May is looking very much like it will be clearly someone's buffing their lastquills ready for Episode Nine, the title of which became public knowledge the day before I write. Arthur Bryant is on compassionate leave whilst tests are continuingIn the hiatus, however, the effort has been made to see if the same shtick works with other texts, which are likely and to confirm that he is suffering from Alzheimer'sriff on other seemingly unlikely source materials in iambs. His condition is worsening almost by And could we have anything more suitably unsuitable-seeming than Back to the dayFuture, with its tales of time travel, bullying, memory lapses are morphing into full-scale hallucinations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857523422<and parent/amazonuk>child strife like no other?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Kevin Smith1473669065|title=The Voyage of the DolphinQueenie Malone's Paradise Hotel|author=Ruth Hogan

|genre=Historical FictionHumour|summary=Dublin 1916: Among the unrest and anti-British feeling worsened by the threat of conscription into a war seen as nothing Tilda returns to do with the IrishBrighton, Trinity College faculty has other distractions. They'd like a trophy; to tidy away the skeleton remains of an Irish her mother'giant' to be precises life after her death. The only glitch is that the main trophy contenderWhilst there, Bernard MacNeill's skeleton, is somewhere difficult she returns to access and all seasoned explorers are otherwise engaged. There may be hope though. They turn to Fitzmauricethe Paradise hotel, a student not good enough haven for anything elseeccentrics and misfits. Fitzmaurice agreesA place where people can be themselves, picking his friends Crozier and Rafferty to let go with himof thoughts that torment them elsewhere. Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a child, from this place of wonder. So… ''GentlemenWith the help of Queenie Malone, caring, lace up your strongest boots and pack your warmest underwear – we're all off gregarious, Tilda begins to pick apart the bloody Arctic!'' Whether battle cry or epitaph, three men tricky and a dog… uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and an iguana… are going anywaydistant mother.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124826</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1910124826</amazonus>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tony Hawks1683690346|title=Once Upon a Time in the West… CountryThe Con Artist|author=Fred Van Lente|rating=34|genre=TravelHumour|summary=I have often complained in Comic-Cons are a jokey voice to my partner about life in the sticks, place of wonder and the way she moved me from an inner-city flat to slumming it in the suburbs with fewer bussessanctuary for many people, no takeaways within walking-andwhen Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-keeping-food-hot distanceCon, and no he'Polish' shops s looking for a can both that and sanctuary with other fans and creators, plus the chance of beer whenever you fancy onemaybe, just maybe reuniting with his ex. Things are different with Tony HawksHowever, when his rival is found dead, as here he has purposefully decided Mike is forced to navigate every dark corner of the con in order to up sticks clear his name – from London cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans to Somewherezombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, Devon – a tiny village where the people who built their own homes decades ago still live in themdoing so, where slugs are may just unravel a lot more of dark secret behind a problem for the wannabe lettuce-grower than they are for the metropolitan commuter, 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 quivering, bruise-inducing wreck if you're the wrong gender at a Zumba class…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444794809</amazonuk>legendary industry creator.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Marian Keyes1473669588|title=Making It Up As I Go AlongFalling Short|author=Lex Coulton|rating=4.5|genre=EntertainmentHumour|summary=OhLex Coulton's debut novel is a story about mistakes, how the book reviewing gods like to givefailures, and equally like to take awayrelationships. Here before me The main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, is a brandsixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, spanking new collection of journalism by a work colleague and is grappling with the wonderful Marian Keyes – but it's a proof copy, so there's no photo increasingly eccentric behaviour of the author. Even if over the years I have stopped reading her novels, I have always turned to the author picture to remind myself such sights exist in this worldmother. Himself This relationship is a lucky man, for sure. But beyond sounding like a letch, what can I say about this – complicated by the beauty's third large dose of essays, web columns and other journalism? I can start with agreeing fact that I am not the target audience, but itFrances's easy enough to see from these pages exactly what the target isfather disappeared at sea when she was five years old. So much like that test you do – you know the one, that formulates decisions about the age and commonality 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718182529</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Jean-Yves Ferri1683690133|title= Asterix and the Missing Scroll (Album 36)|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary=Asterix is those rarest of book series; one designed for kids which is actually even funnier when you are an adult. I used to love Asterix as a child, but now that I reread them I canMy Lady't help but wonder why, 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 the Missing Scroll, so I'd definitely say that this was a hit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510100458</amazonuk>}}{{newreviews Choosing|author=Spadge Whittaker|title=Braver Than Britain, OccasionallyKitty Curran and Larissa Zageris

|summary=In which Spadge researches Britain's top ten fears You are a lass of twenty-eight. Plucky, penniless and faces them all over in Regency-era London the course of race is on to find a yearsuitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. WeAlong your journey, you're quite ll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fearful societyfiesty noble eager to save you from a life alone, and fired by a rogueish sense for adventure. When it comes to suitors though, you know. And 'll have to make the things we fear most areultimate decision between witty, in order: heights (acrophobia)pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, snakes (ophidiophobia)wholesome, public speaking (glossophobia)rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, spiders (arachnophobia)or the mad, small spaces (claustrophobia)bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. With orphans, mice (musophobia)werewolves, needles (trypanophobia)long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artefacts along the way, flying (pteromerhanophobia), crowds (agoraphobia) and clowns (coulrophobia)it's clear this isn't going to be an easy decision...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993429904</amazonuk>

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Mike BullenStibbe_Xmas|title= Trust|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= Greg and Amanda are happy. 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 is going through the motions, and they're staying together for the sake of their troubled teenage son. 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. As secrets and betrayals threaten to send both relationships out of control, there's only one thing that can keep everything from falling apart: Trust|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751559253</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewAn Almost Perfect Christmas|author=Dan Rhodes|title=When the Professor Got Stuck in the SnowNina Stibbe

|summary=Meet, if you haven't already, Christmas – the phenomenon time of the Very British Problemtraditional trauma. In this format they're in pithy little comments (of, ooh, You only have to think about 140 characters in lengththe turkey for that – once upon a time it was leaving it sat on the downstairs loo to defrost overnight, for some reason…) and detail if that failed the minor things in life hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. Nowadays it's all having to make sure it's suitably free-range and organic – but not too organic that we like nothing more than you can go and visit it, and get too friendly with it to inflate want to eat it. Christmas, though, is of course also a major factor time of lifegreat boons. They It's cash in hand for a lot of plump people who can involve mannershire red suits and beards, staring at things until they mend themselves, hitting things ditto, or it was always a godsend for postmen with all the fact thank-you letters to aunties you saw twice a decade that nobody apart from your parents made you write out in long-hand as a child, and I know how to queue properly. And if as for the idea hits the world outside our shores, then makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, you certainly have a book full did they even try and sell them any other time of content regarding our attitude and ineptitude abroad.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751558494</amazonuk>the year?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Fraser McAlpineDoescher_Will|title=Stuff Brits LikeWilliam Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh|author=Ian Doescher|rating=4.5

|summary= With over 100 chapters on different aspects A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, there was a man called William Shakespeare, who was able to create a series of dramatic histories full of Britain machinations most foul, rulers most evil and Britishness, this book is both fascinating rebellious heroes and hilariousheroines most sturdy. Just looking at You may or may not have noticed the list cinematic version of subjects is enough to produce a sardonic twist of that stiff upper lip: his original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken'', but here at last we get the chapters cover topics that range from offal actual script, complete with annoying-in-different-ways-to curry-before droids anew, returning heroes from pedantry to banterelsewhere in his oeuvre, from conkers to rugbyand people keeping it in the family til it hurts. There may be many chapters but this is no academic tome - each chapter is just two to And if you need further encouragement, don't forget his audience only demanded three pages long, each parts of Henry VI – here the series is written with endearing affection, each is easy and satisfying - and quirkily funny - so popular we're on to read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1857886348</amazonuk>part seven – surely making this over twice as good…