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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]]==Humour==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steven Lowe and Alan McArthur Dean Koontz|title=Is it Just Me or Has the Shit Hit the Fan?: Your Hilarious New Guide to Unremitting Global MiseryThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=34.5|genre=HumourParanormal|summary=''The banks fell over like fat Labradors running over Benny is having a wet kitchen floorterrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has delivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it'' Surely s possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the wackiestthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, most inappropriate simile for Benny is the credit crunch and very last person to deserve all it has done for the worldthis bad luck. You won't get any such namby-pamby animal likenesses from these authors, instead with quite He is a potty mouth on them they will lambast nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the modern worlddelivery to his house is a new friend, the entire banking systema bad weather friend called Spike, all those who failed has been sent to see it coming, and those millions just seemingly waiting help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for us all being a good person. Spike is going to revert to high-interesttake care of Benny, high-riskand will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, high-lending capitalismif he, so they can get back on the expenses trainBenny, and back up the rich listsHarper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847443656</amazonuk>1662500491

{{newreview|author=Eoin Colfer|title=And Another Thing ... Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Part Six of Three (Hitchhikers Guide 6) |rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Of all the big books announced for this year, this one must have raised more eyebrows than many. Why try and write a new Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy book, when way before the end, its creator Douglas Adams was proving quite hopeless at such a task? And why approach an Irishman, Eoin Colfer, when the originals - tempered with their humour which could only be described as Monty Python doing a sci-fi Terry Pratchett, and with their cups of tea and dressing gowns, could only be described as very English? Well the answer is most evident - Colfer is a world-beater when it comes to knocking up a story.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718155149</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=The Vampire Miles Proctor1529153050|title=The New VampireBritain's Handbook|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|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 the lifeless undead. I will not need tips on filing my fangs, or how to divert attention from the fact I cannot eat human food at dinner parties. Me and my reflection in mirrors will remain intact. But for those of you reading this at night, somewhere, flameproof cape at hand, with your distaste of garlic, publicity and presumably the anaemic, this is the sterling how-to lifestyle guide.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224086464</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewBest Political Cartoons 2022|author=David O'Doherty, Claudia O'Doherty and Mike Ahern|title=100 Facts About PandasTim Benson|rating=3.54

|summary=Sometimes Seeking some light relief from the title says it all - this current political turmoil which is a book with 100 facts about pandas. Sometimes you need coming to note the author too - David O'Doherty won seem more and more like an Edinburgh Comedy Awardadrenaline sport, so this is a book I was nudged towards ''Britain's Best Political Cartoons of a 100 silly and untrue facts about pandas2022''. Sharp eyes will have noted that we're not yet through the year: the cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224086324</amazonuk> Who can imagine what there will be to come in the 2023 edition?

 {{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. We're only just preventing lethal global warming by having a credit crunch that has prevented a lot of big building, air travel, and consumerism. The population is getting so obese there is no room for any more of us - and add that to the exploding population statistics, and it's never going to look better. And don't get me started on where all the bees have gone...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224086197</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James May1785633074|title=Car Fever: 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 from the show are approaching superstar status, with their amenable personalities, awkward wardrobe choices and trenchant laddish charms. They've sprung their media entities from out of the studio, into other TV programmes, and the world of journalism, with chatty columns 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>}} {{newreviewStaggering Hubris|author=Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith |title=Pride and Prejudice and ZombiesJosh 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 HistoryThe Con Artist|author=Fred Van Lente

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

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

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

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

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

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

|summary=''Joy in Christmas – the Morning'' is another novel from Ptime of traditional trauma.GYou 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. WodehouseNowadays it's all having to make sure it's wonderful series of books about Bertram Wooster suitably free-range and organic – but not too organic that you can go and visit it, and Jeevesget too friendly with it to want to eat it. Bertie Christmas, though, is of course also a young gentleman time of inherited means and no present occupationgreat boons. He is It's cash in hand for a good humoured lot of plump people who can hire red suits and well-meant chapbeards, however clearly not it was always a godsend for postmen with all the smartest tool in the shed. Bertie seems thank-you letters to have aunties you saw twice a talent of getting himself into trouble but decade that is where Jeevesyour parents made you write out in long-hand as a child, his loyal, educated and painfully clever butler comes to his rescue. Jeeves is irreplaceable when it comes to saving Bertie from whatever creativeas for the makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, complicated did they even try and incredibly funny situations Wodehouse puts his characters through.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099513765</amazonuk>sell them any other time of the year?

 {{newreview|author=P G Wodehouse|title=Thank You, Jeeves|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Bertie Wooster was once engaged to Pauline Stoker. It didn'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. It's still embarrassing when he meets Pauline and her father, particularly as it was the father who was responsible for breaking off the engagement. Rather than 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 trepidation, 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 a fan of Discworld!) However, my fears were unfounded, and from page one I found myself drawn into this clever and erudite novel. Not having read the preceding novels in the series did put me at a slight disadvantage, but didn't detract from my enjoyment, and has certainly ensured that I'll read the others 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 a new profession: aircraft cleaner. For that is the trade of Dave, the hero of ''Utterly Ridiculous''. With little but a van and his torpid terrier Biggles, Dave roves the airstrips of southern England, titivating light aircraft.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906221685</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=John Mole Doescher_Will|title=I Was a Potato Oligarch: Travels and Travails in the New Russia|rating=1 |genre=Travel|summary=I remember getting this book in post, reading the title and thinking no, even though I am Russian, I will try to be unbiased and judge it like I would judge any other book about a foreign country experience. I now have to regretfully admit I failed. In my defence, John MoleWilliam Shakespeare's focus on mocking the nation and country made that all too easy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1857885090</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Clive Gifford|title=Teenage KicksForce Doth Awaken: 101 Things to Do Before You're 16|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=Kids. They're bored all the time, aren't they? Nothing you buy seems to have any longevity. I think they live in alternative dimension in which time passes much more slowly that it does for harassed parents. It's the only explanation. I think Clive Gifford must sympathise, because his latest book, Teenage Kicks, has a whopping 101 ideas to alleviate boredom and a clever challenge too - your bored child has to complete them all before they reach 16. At a measly £5.99, this book could represent the most wonderful value for money any parent could ever wish for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340950617</amazonuk>}} {{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 the components his own expected adult life – wife, two children, career – and the respect which he will gain from this, together with his undoubted intellectual superiority. At the age of eight, he writes a future Who's Who entry for himself, with all Star Wars Part the academic and professional accolades he expects to garner.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224077740</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewSeventh|author=George Saunders |title=The Brain-dead MegaphoneIan Doescher

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

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