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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]]==Humour==__NOTOC__ {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Eoin ColferDean Koontz|title=And Another Thing ... Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Part Six of Three (Hitchhikers Guide 6) The Bad Weather Friend|rating=34.5|genre=Science FictionParanormal|summary=Of all the big books announced for this yearBenny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, this one must have raised more eyebrows than manyand his house gets trashed. Why try Oh, and write someone has delivered a new Hitchhikerreally weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's Guide to possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the Galaxy bookthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, when way before Benny is the end, its creator Douglas Adams was proving quite hopeless at such very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a task? nice person. A really nice person. And why approach an IrishmanSo fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, Eoin Colfera bad weather friend called Spike, when the originals - tempered with their humour which could only be described as Monty Python doing who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a sci-fi Terry Pratchettgood person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and with their cups will certainly take care of tea Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and dressing gowns, could only be described as very English? Well the answer is most evident - Colfer is Harper (a world-beater when it comes to knocking up a storywaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718155149</amazonuk>1662500491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=The Vampire Miles Proctor1529153050|title=The New VampireBritain's HandbookBest Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson|rating=3.54

|summary=I shall start with a prediction. I will not become a vampire, for this imminent Hallowe'en, any festive fancy dress parties, or indeed for life as Seeking some light relief from the lifeless undead. I will not need tips on filing my fangs, or how current political turmoil which is coming to divert attention from the fact I cannot eat human food at dinner parties. Me seem more and my reflection in mirrors will remain intact. But for those of you reading this at nightmore like an adrenaline sport, somewhere, flameproof cape at hand, with your distaste of garlic, publicity and presumably the anaemic, this is the sterling how-to lifestyle guide.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224086464</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David OI was nudged towards 'Doherty, Claudia O'Doherty and Mike Ahern|title=100 Facts About Pandas|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=Sometimes the title says it all - this is a book with 100 facts about pandas. Sometimes you need to note the author too - David OBritain'Doherty won an Edinburgh Comedy Award, so this is a book s Best Political Cartoons of a 100 silly and untrue facts about pandas.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224086324</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Richard Horne |title=A is for Armageddon|rating=2.5|genre=Humour|summary=The world is definitely going to hell in a handcart. We2022''re only just preventing lethal global warming by having a credit crunch that has prevented a lot of big building, air travel, and consumerism. The population is getting so obese there is no room for any more of us - and add Sharp eyes will have noted that to the exploding population statistics, and itwe's never going to look better. And don't get me started on where all re not yet through the bees have gone...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224086197</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=James May|title=Car Feveryear: Dispatches From Behind The Wheel|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Now, way back when I was younger, and watched TV a lot, I am sure I remember Top Gear as being a consumer programme. How times change. These days I am sure they destroy more cars than they review, and the three main people cartoons run from the show are approaching superstar status, with their amenable personalities, awkward wardrobe choices and trenchant laddish charms4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022. They've sprung their media entities from out of the studio, into other TV programmes, and the world of journalism, with chatty columns Who can imagine what there will be to come in the broadsheets allowing them free rein to witter to their heart's desire. And here, in one grandiloquent volume, and in time for Christmas, are many of James May's desires.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340994533</amazonuk>2023 edition?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith 1785633074|title=Pride and Prejudice and ZombiesStaggering Hubris|author=Josh Berry

|summary=AhMembers of Parliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the benefits to a good book of a classic first line. 'Call me Ishmael.' primus inter pares'' (that'It was a bright cold day in April, s for those of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the clocks were striking thirteen.reality is that the '' Who can forget Iain Banksprime' 'It movers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the government. We are in the privileged position of having access to the memoirs of Rafe Hubris, the man who was behind the skilful control of the day my grandmother exploded'? Or those timeless words Covid crisis which was completely contained by Jane Austen, 'It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession the end of brains must 2020. You might not know the name now but he will certainly be in want of more brainsthe man to watch.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594743347</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Harry Hill0571365884|title=Tim The Tiny Horse At LargeMy Mess is a Bit of Life: Adventures in Anxiety|author=Georgia Pritchett

|genre=HumourAutobiography|summary=It's Georgia Pritchett has always been anxious, even as a while since Tim and Fly's [[Tim child. She would worry about whether the monsters under the Tiny Horse by Harry Hill|last adventures]], and changes are afoot in Tim's tiny worldbed were comfortable: Fly is getting married it was the sort of life where if she had nothing to his girlfriendworry about she would become anxious but such occasions were few and far between. Tim's On a little worried because they've only known each other for visit to a week. The marriage goes aheadtherapist, as an adult, when she was completely unable to speak about what was wrong with her it was suggested that she should write it down and Tim finds himself kicking his heels, so he gets ''My Mess is a pet. And so the brief episodes in the life Bit of a horse who lives Life: Adventures in a matchbox continueAnxiety'' is the result - or so we are given to believe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571244157</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Spike Milligan|title=The Magical World of Milligan|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Some people you just have to love. It's the law. Spike Milligan was always fantastic, and he's much missed. He's got the perfect mix of nonsense, heart, and surreal humour. He speaks to people of all ages, and he's just plain lovely. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905264844</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sam SavageJohn Boyne|title=The Cry of the SlothEcho Chamber|rating=3.5

|summary=Meet Andrew WhittakerGeorge Cleverley. In some untold time He is self-defined as "one of recent American history, he is forced through a failed marriage and an artistic temperament at odds with so many other people, to let properties to tenants he does not like, for $120 a month. The lodgers might not like the state of few television personalities over the buildings - ceilings falling through and so on - but that's another matter. He would much prefer to be left alone in front age of his little Olivetti typewriter and create artfifty without a criminal record". He runs starts this book a literary journalbit worried when his mistress tells him she's carrying his child, of a kind, called but then his author wife is getting her kicks with the Ukrainian partner "SoapStrictly Come Dancing"paired her with. They have three children, which who are a sad-sack with absolutely no-one likessocial skills whatsoever, noa girl who hangs around with a virtue-one reads (and oftensignalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save the world's homeless with dodgy, cheap printing, noout-of-one could physically read it anyway)date food, and which makes him poorer a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thing. Add in timea few other characters – therapists, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to his life, money and spirityou have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to the modern world. What suggests the farcical approach even more, however, is the fact this is bloody funny.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297856499</amazonuk>0857526219

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Christopher MooreStephen Clarke|title=You SuckThe Spy Who Inspired Me

|genre=HumourGeneral Fiction|summary=You know This is a spoof spy story, that old adage isn't about books and covers? James Bond. Well this is a case in pointOr Ian Fleming. The title isnBut it features a man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and 't great, but likes the cover design ladies' and who works for the paperback imprint is, like, duh!secret service, but in the pits. It is so uncool…so unrep-resent-ative planning side of things more than the bookactive service. This is not Lemming finds himself put on a cocktail thing. Not even mission with a "Bloody Mary" thing.  Wellfemale spy called Margaux, except for and the tiny bit that ispair end up stranded in Normandy, but you'll discover that with Margaux on a desperate mission to unearth traitors in due course.the resistance network, and Lemming desperately trying to keep up with her!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1841498092</amazonuk>2952163855

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Hugh Murr Afonso Cruz and Sid Nigtures Rahul Bery (translator)|title=Cyber Sign OffsKokoschka's Doll|rating=2.5|genre=HumourLiterary Fiction|summary=Well, this looked very much like a book I admit I had could love from the wrong end of the stick when it came to this bookget-go, which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before I opened actually reading any of it at least. I had assumed it was found things to potentially delight me each time – a collection of real-life weird section in the middle on-line signatures - we've all seen themdarker stock paper, a chapter whose number was in the 20,000s, letters used as narrative form, those straplines people have and so on all their forum posts. The obvious response would have been along It intrigued with the lines of 'fair enough, but why is this subterranean voice a book man hears in this day and agewartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, and not a website?'too. But no. This is a collection of dialogues between two people - shall we call them Sue deNim and Allie Bye, who have a line or two to say to each otheryou've seen the star rating that comes with this review, and a made-up name (sorrycan tell that if love was on these pages, make that May Dupp-Name) with which to sign it offwas not actually caused by them. Much jolly nonsense ensues.So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1904312497</amazonuk>1529402697

{{newreview|author=Tim Fitzhigham You don't get many better opening sentences than that, do you? We first met His Excellency and The Ambassador's Wife in [[Sorting the Priorities: Ambassadress and Beagle Survive Diplomacy by Sandra Aragona|title=All at Sea: One Man. One Bathtub. One Very Bad Idea: Conquering Sorting the Channel in a Piece of Plumbing|rating=4.5|genre=Travel|summary=Once more my life is made easy by saying this book does just Priorities]] and we learned what it claims on was like to be moved around countries like accompanying baggage by the cover - takes a narrator of zesty, wacky humour, throws him into an unlikely situation (a bath) Italian Government but the time has come for HE to retires and gets him for Sandra Aragona to do something unusual (row it across the Channel - become The Wife of Former Ambassador... They have left The Career and then beyond)settled in Rome. This Well 'settled' rather overstates the situation and their dog, Beagle, has no intention of slowing down any time soon, despite the fact he was the world's worst sculler at Universitybeing sixteen and deaf.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848090269</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Simon BrettB08GFSK2WZ|title=Blotto, Twinks and the Ex-King's DaughterThe Karma Trap|author=Lisette Boyd

|genre=HumourWomen's Fiction|summary=There can be few people who have written eighty books without me even having picked up one of themGeorge Jackson is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. At least, She's not had sex for eight months and at last, I have redressed that fault she's stuck in the case karma trap: an awful lot of Simon Brett, bad luck is being visited on her and have come she has a real talent for attracting drama. Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of the stairs to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the conclusion there are 79 more that will be worth investigatingroof whilst she was in it and left her, stark naked, staring at the pervy postman. Here we meet She only has to take her mother's dog out for a walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - and a photo being taken by someone who shares it around the first time Blotto (posh idiotic son of office.}} {{Frontpage|author=David C Mason|title=Pandora's Gardener|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary= John Cranston is a dowager duchess) and Twinks (posh brilliant genius sister to Blotto)gardener, their familyalthough what he did before he became a gardener, their surroundingshe claims, and is classified. That is just as well because he is about to be caught up in a criminal / spy / terrorist plot, where only he can save the corpse inconveniently disturbing a dinner partyday.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1845299353</amazonuk>0956180523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karl PilkingtonJester_Forever|title=KarlologyForever After: a dark comedy|author=David Jester

|summary=The Radio Five film critic Mark Kermode has A long time ago, in a rule when reviewing comedies. If he laughs more than five times then galaxy far away, all the Star Wars films were crunched up against Shakespeare, and the film deserves its billing as marriage seemed a comedyperfectly suitable one. If So much so – so easily did the plots and characters converse in Shakespearean dialogue, and behave with Shakespearean stage directions – that rule was applied the producers tried again, with [[William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future! by Ian Doescher|Back to Karl Pilkingtonthe Future]] no less. And that worked. But simultaneously they put a real test out. A film I can's 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 book Karlology then it , yet oh so ancient, dressing. Here was the true challenge – would easily fit into the category for there are laugh aplenty in I manage to enjoy this strange, amusing and charming based on little book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140533746X</amazonuk>foreknowledge? Oh damn those shiny gold stars for letting the game away…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Joe Stretch168369094X|title=WildlifeWilliam Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future!|author=Ian Doescher|rating=34.5

|summary=The word ''Twitter'' doesn't occur 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 Joe Stretch's vocabularyShakespearean pentameter, but that's what his book is aboutcolliding two entirely different genres and styles in such a clever way they seemed perfectly suited. Life It was then duly repeated for all the other films in the blogospheremain Star Wars cycle, massively exaggerated, where people donand clearly someone't leave s buffing their desks but nevertheless come together (but never literally) in satisfying their deepestquills ready for Episode Nine, darkest desires. If the title of which became public knowledge the day before I've made it sound even faintly exciting, believe me, Joe Stretch is a fantasist with realist tendencieswrite. What he is after is laughter; what he produces is a virtual simulacrum. Sniggery-pokery In the hiatus, jiggery-jokeryhowever, he tinkers the effort has been made to see if the same shtick works with the twilight zone of a future-scenario whereother texts, for reasons beyond all understanding, some robotic and literal Dickhead (i.e. a man with a dick fixed to his forehead – I kid you not) decides to target a few selected humans for a make-over riff on other seemingly unlikely source materials in his own imageiambs. Given that virtual worlds exist And could we have anything more suitably unsuitable-seeming than Back to pull in punters who don't like themselves in the real oneFuture, with its tales of time travel, bullying, and their main purpose is to make money, one's only question must be: whyparent/child strife like no other?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099532077</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Michael Marr1473669065|title=Three JumpersQueenie Malone's Paradise Hotel|author=Ruth Hogan

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

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim Moore1683690346|title=I Believe in Yesterday: My Adventures in Living History|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=Common opinion has it that the television programme ''Time Team'' did a lot for the public image of archaeologists – bringing them out of their holes in the ground, and making them seem like exciting, interesting people with a good way of putting their knowledge across. However it was clearly a much harder task when it came to those background artistes they have sometimes, walking up and down in Roman centurion gear, or living the historical lifestyle as a re-enactment.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224077813</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewThe Con Artist|author=L Vaughan Spencer|title=Don't Be Needy Be SucceedyFred Van Lente

|summary=Are you underperforming in your business Comic-Cons are a place of wonder and personal lives? Do you underestimate the importance of good hair sanctuary for many people, and moisturised skin in achieving your life goals? Are you stumbling through life in a Fastwhen Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Moving Business Environment (FMBE) without a motivational mantra to guide you? Then you need this book. As Con, he''The A to Zee s looking for both that and sanctuary with other fans and creators, plus the chance of Motivitality''maybe, just maybe reuniting with his ex. However, when his rival is found dead, this Mike is a dictionary forced to navigate every dark corner of achievement the con in order to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans to zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, in doing so, may just unravel a man who can teach you how to succeed like dark secret behind a toothless budgielegendary industry creator.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846681634</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Crick 1473669588|title=Sartre's Sink: The Great Writers' Complete Book of DIYFalling Short|author=Lex Coulton

|summary=''SartreLex Coulton's Sink'' comprises fourteen short debut novel is a story parodies of some of the world's best known writers – the twist being that the stories are all about undertaking some mundane DIY task such as tiling a bathroom (Dostoevsky) or reglazing a window (Milan Kundera). So far it sounds a bit like some pretentious Oxbridge student twaddle. You can just imagine how the idea came up over an over-ripe Brie mistakes, failures, and an underrated bottle of 1963 Taylor's portrelationships. It also rather smacks of that Radio 4 programme which I detest with an absolute passion - I can't even stand writing its nameThe main protagonist, ugh - ''Quote Unquote''Frances Pilgrim, in which parodies do feature, read is a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out by smug self-congratulatory writer darlings (you can tell I don't like itwith her best friend Jackson, can't you?). However, dear readers, this book is rather enjoyable a work colleague and I speak as someone who is rather less versed in grappling with the writings increasingly eccentric behaviour of this famous lot than I care to admither mother. This relationship is complicated by the fact that Frances's father disappeared at sea when she was five years old.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847080472</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Eric Nakagawa1683690133|title=I Can Has Cheezburger |rating=4|genre=Pets|summary=My Lady''I Can Has Cheezburger'', is a clever and witty anthology of some of the best pictures and captions from the fantastic [http://icanhascheezburger.com/ lolcats website] of the same name. The site has been growing in popularity in recent months, and so it was inevitable that a book would soon hit the shelves. s Choosing which pics to include in the book could not have been an easy task, and some of the old favourites are there, alongside some less well known ones.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340977574</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Ian Crofton|title=History Without the Boring Bits|rating=5|genre=History|summary=I was never one for history, and in fact left the dregs of a history teacher in tatters when I scraped through with a D. Still, history is an odd thing – written by the winners of course, and annoyingly biased in my mind towards the plain. There's no real reason to remember the order of Henry VIII's six wives, but we can only relish the one credited with polydactylism, a third nipple Kitty Curran and whatnot (the second one, in fact – whoever that was).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847243746</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jim Holt|title=Stop Me If You've Heard ThisLarissa Zageris

|summary=As far as I can rememberYou are a lass of twenty-eight. Plucky, my first time penniless and in print was when I submitted some jokes Regency-era London the race is on to find a charity's themed joke collectionsuitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Before thenAlong your journey, some of my first actions as you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a child might have been laughinglife alone, and what is cuter in fired by a baby than that? But why was that infant laughing – he didnrogueish sense for adventure. When it comes to suitors though, you't ll have a joke he could getto make the ultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the mad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artefacts along the way, surely?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668109X</amazonuk>it's clear this isn't going to be an easy decision...

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=P G Wodehouse Stibbe_Xmas|title=Joy in the MorningAn Almost Perfect Christmas|author=Nina Stibbe

|summary=''Joy in Christmas – the Morning'' is another novel from Ptime of traditional trauma.G. Wodehouse's wonderful series of books You only have to think about Bertram Wooster and Jeeves. Bertie is the turkey for that – once upon a young gentleman of inherited means and no present occupation. He is a good humoured and well-meant chap, however clearly not time it was leaving it sat on the smartest tool in the shed. Bertie seems downstairs loo to have a talent of getting himself into trouble but that is where Jeevesdefrost overnight, his loyal, educated and painfully clever butler comes to his rescue. Jeeves is irreplaceable when if that failed the hair-dryer shoved inside it comes to saving Bertie from whatever creative, complicated and incredibly funny situations Wodehouse puts his characters through.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099513765</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=P G Wodehouse|title=Thank You, Jeeves|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Bertie Wooster treatment was once engaged to Pauline Stokeryour next best bet. It didnNowadays it't last very long – about forty eight hours, most of which Bertie spent in bed with a bad cold, if his memory serves him correctly. Its all having to make sure it's still embarrassing when he meets Pauline suitably free-range and her fatherorganic – but not too organic that you can go and visit it, particularly as and get too friendly with it was the father who was responsible for breaking off the engagement. Rather than to want to eat at the Savoy Grill where he spotted the Stokers, he goes home to his only consolation. Bertie plays the banjo. Unfortunately, he doesn't play it very well.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099513730</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tom Holt |title=The Better Mousetrap|rating=4 |genre=Humour|summary=I approached this book with a fair degree of trepidationChristmas, as I had never heard of the author, and wondered if, when reading the synopsis, I was about to embark on a Terry Pratchett type novel (and I have to say, much though I admire his achievements, I'm not is of course also a fan time of Discworld!) However, my fears were unfounded, and from page one I found myself drawn into this clever and erudite novelgreat boons. Not having read the preceding novels in the series did put me at a slight disadvantage, but didnIt't detract from my enjoyment, and has certainly ensured that I'll read the others s cash in the near future. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841495034</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Philip Moore |title=Utterly Ridiculous|rating=3 |genre=Humour|summary=If I learned nothing else from this book, I now know of hand for a new profession: aircraft cleaner. For that is the trade lot of Dave, the hero of ''Utterly Ridiculous''. With little but a van and his torpid terrier Biggles, Dave roves the airstrips of southern England, titivating light aircraft.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906221685</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Mole |title=I Was a Potato Oligarch: Travels plump people who can hire red suits and Travails in the New Russia|rating=1 |genre=Travel|summary=I remember getting this book in postbeards, reading the title and thinking no, even though I am Russian, I will try to be unbiased and judge it like I would judge any other book about was always a foreign country experience. I now have to regretfully admit I failed. In my defence, John Mole's focus on mocking the nation and country made that all too easy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1857885090</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Clive Gifford|title=Teenage Kicks: 101 Things to Do Before You're 16|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=Kids. They're bored godsend for postmen with all the time, aren't they? Nothing thank-you buy seems letters to have any longevity. I think they live in alternative dimension in which time passes much more slowly aunties you saw twice a decade that it does for harassed your parents. It's the only explanation. I think Clive Gifford must sympathise, because his latest book, Teenage Kicks, has a whopping 101 ideas to alleviate boredom and made you write out in long-hand as a clever challenge too - your bored child has to complete them all before they reach 16. At a measly £5.99, this book could represent the most wonderful value for money any parent could ever wish for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340950617</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jon Canter |title=A Short Gentleman|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=The narrator of this spoof biography is a civil law barrister. Robert Purcell has been educated at Winchester and Oxford. He has modelled himself on his polite and restrained father, a High Court judge and, as a child, Robert maps out for the components his own expected adult life makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – wifewell, two children, career – did they even try and the respect which he will gain from this, together with his undoubted intellectual superiority. At the age sell them any other time of eight, he writes a future Who's Who entry for himself, with all the academic and professional accolades he expects to garner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224077740</amazonuk>year?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=George Saunders Doescher_Will|title=The Brain-dead MegaphoneWilliam Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh|author=Ian Doescher

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

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