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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|author= John NivenDean Koontz|title= The Sunshine Cruise Company|rating= 4.5|genre= Humour|summary= Susan Frobisher and Julie Wickham live in a small Dorset town. Friends since school, they live fairly uneventful lives – Susan has a lovely house and a lengthy marriage to accountant Barry, whereas Julie is doing slightly less well – living in a council flat and working in an old people's home. When Barry is found dead trussed up in a sex dungeon, it transpires that he has been leading a hidden life for years, and his expensive fetishes lead to the bank moving to take Susan's home. Struck by both desperation and a sense of injustice, Sue and Julie conspire to rob a bank, taking along their friend Jill – a devout Christian conflicted due to lack of money and a terminally ill grandson, and Ethel – a foul mouthed resident of the nursing home longing for adventure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434023183</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Marie Phillips|title=The Table Of Less Valued KnightsBad Weather Friend
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|genre=FantasyParanormal|summary=Sir Humphrey Benny is having a terrifically bad day. He loses his job, he loses his fiancee, and his house gets trashed. Oh, and someone has been demoted from King Arthurdelivered a really weird, disturbing coffin-sized object to his home, and it's Round Table to possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the Table of Lesser Valued Knights. thing that has trashed his house! The only way thing is, Benny is the very last person to get his comfier seat back deserve all this bad luck. He is to redeem himself via a questnice person. A really nice person. Therefore when damsel Elaine seeks help So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to find her kidnapped fiancé, Humphrey and his wardhouse is a new friend, the teenage giant Conrada bad weather friend called Spike, eagerly set forth. Meanwhile in the kingdom of Tuft, new Queen Martha who has run away after been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a disastrous wedding to… a… well… disastrous Prince Edwingood person. She may not realise it yetSpike is going to take care of Benny, but she too and will have certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a job for Humphrey!waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099555875</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim Flannery1529153050|title=The Mystery of the Venus Island FetishBritain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson|rating=34|genre=Historical FictionHumour|summary=Meet Archie Meek. He's about Seeking some light relief from the current political turmoil which is coming to leave the Venus Islandsseem more and more like an adrenaline sport, where heI was nudged towards 's lived for the last five years, and return to Sydney, where he'll take his office in the museum and fill it with all the cultural artefacts heBritain's found and wildlife heBest Political Cartoons of 2022''s plucked or pickled. ThatSharp eyes will have noted that we's re not to ignore yet through the year: the fact he'll count as something quite alien himself, with his filled-out frame, nearly all-over suntan and totemic tattoo, in amongst other changes cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to his body31 August 2022. But Who can imagine what's this? When he gets back, he finds one of the main Venus Islands artefacts that caused him there will be to go there come in the first place, a huge, macabre ceremonial fetish mask, purloined as corporate artwork. And some of the curators he wishes to work alongside have vanished. Is the weird society of the museum he's returning to, perchance, even weirder, stranger and more violent than the cannibalistic society he's waving farewell to2023 edition?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1922079308</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Roman Dirge1785633074|title=The Cat with a Really Big Head|rating=3.5Staggering Hubris|genre=Graphic Novels|summary= How many picture books are there about cats? And how many do you know that you would really NOT prefer your children to see? If the answer to the second question is 'none – yet', scratch that last word. The title piece in this collection is, by the author's own admission, his imagining of the Joseph Merrick (the 'Elephant Man') of the feline world – who struggles to sneak up behind a mouse when the shadow of his head is a total giveaway, and who can hardly even eat with dignity as bending down to his bowl would break his neck. If that's too dark or oddball for you, try the second major piece, which has a most revealing foreword – ''Dedicated to a certain girl… I hope your life is filled with wonderful accomplishments, love and all the magic you desire… - But I hope your death is slow and horrible.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782762876</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Val Hennessy|title=Not Far From DreamlandJosh Berry
|rating=4.5
|genre=Humour
|summary=A hugMembers of Parliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'' (that's a hug, OK? You either do, or for those of you donwho are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is that the ''prime''tmovers are the special advisers - the SPADS - who are the driving force behind the government. Some people might be a little more enthusiastic about the process whilst others We are more elegant in the execution privileged position of having access to the hugmemoirs of Rafe Hubris, the man who was behind the skilful control of the Covid crisis which was completely contained by the end of 2020. You might not know the name now but basically you just get on and do it and then forget about it, right?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0867197978</amazonuk>he will certainly be the man to watch.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Christopher Fowler0571365884|title= Bryant and May – The Burning ManMy Mess is a Bit of Life: Adventures in Anxiety|author=Georgia Pritchett
|rating=4
|genre=CrimeAutobiography|summary= The Peculiar Crimes Unit (PCU) Georgia Pritchett has always been anxious, even as a new set of overlordschild. For reasons that She would worry about whether the monsters under the bed were explored in comfortable: it was the previous couple sort of outings they have been transferred life where if she had nothing to the City Of London Policeworry about she would become anxious but such occasions were few and far between. The Met are still the big players in the area. City of London Police only police the old cityOn a visit to a therapist, the square mile, the financial district in other wordsas an adult, when she was completely unable to speak about what was wrong with her it was suggested that has very little in the way of street crime, because no-one lives there anymore she should write it down and the people who work there are, by and large, either too rich to need to steal, or too smart to have to do so on the streets.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857522043</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg|title=The Little Old Lady Who Struck Lucky Again! |rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=Following the success of ''The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the RulesMy Mess is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety'', is the League of Pensioners result - or so we are back – and this time, they’re in Vegas! I haven’t read the first book but it was on my list when the opportunity arose given to review this onebelieve. The idea of the League of Pensioners marching towards a fairer world through fun and frolics was hugely appealing to me and this is a stand alone novel so I thought I would dive straight in with this one.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447274903</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Winshluss|title=In God We Trust|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=To start with, a rhetorical test. How about God and Adam playing badminton day in and day out, until one gets bored and decides to create Eve? Or the defeater of Goliath and the saviour of the Israelites being one Conan the Barbarian? Or this as a test – Jesus Himself failing to have a successful session of tequila slammers with Gabriel due to the holes through His hands? I barely need mention that in these pages God does battle with Superman, for you to have answered the test and put yourself firmly in one of two camps for this book – one very much opposed to buying it, and one very much in favour.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662350</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=David Walliams and Tony RossJohn Boyne|title=The Queen's Orang-UtanEcho Chamber
|rating=5
|genre=For SharingGeneral Fiction|summary=The Queen felt trapped in the palace with all those stuffed animals which she has been given on foreign toursMeet George Cleverley. There are mountains He is self-defined as "one of them and every night she would dream the few television personalities over the age of escapingfifty without a criminal record". When He starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him she's carrying his child, but then his author wife is getting her birthday drew near kicks with the family dutifully asked Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her what she would like as a presentwith. The Prince was thinking of They have three children, who are a goldsad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, diamond encrusted stairlift whilst the Duke was considering a great big bottle of brandy. The Royal Baby had some decorated thimbles in mindgirl who hangs around with a virtue-signalling, but keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save the Queen became just a little snappish as she explained that what she really wanted was 'Oneworld's own oranghomeless with out-of-utan'date food, and a fit young lad doing the gay hustle thing. And she didn't mean Add in a stuffed onefew other characters – therapists, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to his life, and you have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to the modern world. What suggests the farcical approach even more, however, eitheris the fact this is bloody funny.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0008135134</amazonuk>0857526219
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jack SheffieldStephen Clarke|title=Silent NightThe Spy Who Inspired Me|rating=3.54
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=I read This is a couple of Jack Sheffield’s books spoof spy story, that isn't about five years agoJames Bond. Or Ian Fleming. But it features a man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and 'likes the ladies' and enjoyed them very muchwho works for the secret service, but in the planning side of things more than the active service. They were written Lemming finds himself put on a mission with a female spy called Margaux, and the pair end up stranded in Normandy, with Margaux on a similar style desperate mission to those popularised byunearth traitors in the resistance network, for instanceand Lemming desperately trying to keep up with her!|isbn=2952163855}}{{Frontpage|author=Afonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=Kokoschka's Doll|rating=2.5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=Well, James Herriot or [[:Category:Gervase Phinn|Gervase Phinn]]this looked very much like a book I could love from the get-go, told mostly which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the first personmiddle on darker stock paper, describing a chapter whose number was in the author’s first couple of years 20,000s, letters used as Headmaster at narrative form, and so on. It intrigued with the subterranean voice a small village primary school man hears in Yorkshire. The village wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of Ragley is fictionalit mentioned, as are most of too. But you've seen the charactersstar rating that comes with this review, but the incidents and situations encountered are based can tell that if love was on the author’s experiencethese pages, it was not actually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0552167045</amazonuk>1529402697
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{{Frontpage
|isbn=B08KKQ85FN
|title=But Never For Lunch
|author=Sandra Aragona
|rating=4
|genre=Short Stories
|summary=''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 company of carrion crows or, more to the point, about to discover the real world of bus timetables and paying his own gas bills.''
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|Sorting the Priorities]] and we learned what it was like to be moved around countries like accompanying baggage by the Italian Government but the time has come for HE to retires and for Sandra Aragona to become The Wife of Former Ambassador... They have left The Career and settled in Rome. Well 'settled' rather overstates the situation and their dog, Beagle, has no intention of slowing down any time soon, despite being sixteen and deaf.}}{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08GFSK2WZ|title=The Karma Trap|author=J Robert LennonLisette Boyd|rating=4|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=George Jackson is thirty-three years old, absolutely gorgeous to look at - and single. She's not had sex for eight months and she's stuck in the karma trap: an awful lot of bad luck is being visited on her and 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 roof whilst she was in it and left her, stark naked, staring at the pervy postman. 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 office.}} {{Frontpage|author=David C Mason|title=See You In ParadisePandora's Gardener
|rating=3
|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=Lennon writes with John Cranston is a relaxedgardener, easy style and his characters are instantly recognisable as people from everyday walks of lifealthough what he did before he became a gardener, without being in any way stereotypical. Many of the people in these stories are dealing with normal frustrationshe claims, and Lennon is cleverly detached enough not to make them individuals that you're obviously supposed to root for (the only exception classified. That is the industrialist in the eponymous tale, who just as well because he is an archetypal capitalist fat cat). There are some very clever characterisations – in ''Weber’s Head'', for example, the narrator is a flawed individual whose opinions of his housemate are gradually revealed about to be unreliable and unfair. For me, the most unsettling story is ''No Life'', because it portrays caught up in a decent couple at the mercy of people more powerful and influential than them. There is no supernatural or bizarre element at work herecriminal / spy / terrorist plot, just ordinary characters at where only he can save the mercy of social powerday.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1781253358</amazonuk>0956180523
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Lynne TrussJester_Forever|title=Cat out of HellForever After: a dark comedy|author=David Jester|rating=34
|genre=Horror
|summary=Meet Alec Charlesworth. He's retired Michael Holland is a cocky and decamped to an isolated coastal cottage with just his dog brash young man who dies and loving memories gets made the offer of his colleague wife, now that she has died before her timelifetime; immortality. But the fusty librarian cannot rest too long before engaging in exploring some unusual computer files that were pinged across by someone at the college he worked atWe follow Michael, just before he left. Bizarrely they show photographic a grim reaper and audio evidence of a talking cat called Rogerhis friends, replete with Vincent Price voice – although they are also damaged by being included alongside some bad screenplay attempts about said cat. Worryingly, we soon see what at the most only Chip (a few of the characters can, that this cat is being accompanied by unusual stoner tooth fairy) and unexpected death – much like Alec's wife. It's only when Roger testifies to having been pushed through Naff (a stoner in the ends of endurance records department) as they grapple with their long lives and out the other side that we begin finding a clean surface to doubt where the true evil sit on in this story lies…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099585340</amazonuk>their flat.
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jimmy Hansen and Mychailo Kazybird1683691172|title=Wallace & Gromit : The Complete Newspaper Strips Collection Vol 2William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Mean Girls|author=Ian Doescher|rating=42.5
|genre=Humour
|summary=For me there are two important areas of A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, all the Star Wars films were crunched up against Shakespeare, and the cover of this book where three letters are arranged in meaningful waysmarriage seemed a perfectly suitable one. The first is with So much so – so easily did the S-U-N plots and characters converse in their obligatory red Shakespearean dialogue, and white font. No minor paper could hold Wallace and Gromitbehave with Shakespearean stage directions – that the producers tried again, their adventures have with [[William Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to be in what is (unfortunately) the most widely read tabloid in Future! by Ian Doescher|Back to the countryFuture]] no less. And elsewhere is C-B-E, suggesting that worked. But simultaneously they put a real test out. A film I can't even really remember seeing was transcribed into the original Elizabethan lingo. A cult following I had never followed whatsoever was given the storytellers at Aardman Animations who are not household names are feted and revered as artistic expertsbrand new, yet oh so ancient, raising many laughs and much money for dressing. Here was the country courtesy of their creative output. Together these short collections of letters show just how much WaG are major creationstrue challenge – would I manage to enjoy this, and if based on little foreknowledge? Oh damn those shiny gold stars for letting the proof was needed this much longer collection of their daily comic strips provides it in spades.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782760822</amazonuk>game away…
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=168369094X|title=Dear Committee MembersWilliam Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future!|author=Julie SchumacherIan Doescher
|rating=4.5
|genre=Humour
|summary=The late Joan Rivers wasA long time ago, without in a doubtpublishing 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 characterclever way they seemed perfectly suited. Actress, comedian, writer, director, presenter, she It was well known then duly repeated for all the other films in the USA main Star Wars cycle, and beyond clearly someone's buffing their quills ready for her sharp tongue and no holds barred personaEpisode Nine, the title of which became public knowledge the day before I write. This was In the hiatus, however, the last of effort has been made to see if the dozen books she publishedsame shtick works with other texts, her final title before her death and to riff on other seemingly unlikely source materials in September 2014iambs.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0425269027< And could we have anything more suitably unsuitable-seeming than Back to the Future, with its tales of time travel, bullying, and parent/amazonuk>child strife like no other?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1473669065|title=The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - The Nearly Definitive EditionQueenie Malone's Paradise Hotel|author=Douglas AdamsRuth Hogan
|rating=5
|genre=Humour
|summary=BuzzFeed is one of the world’s best time sucksTilda returns to Brighton, and I’m regularly directed to tidy away the site by links from Facebook and Twitterremains of her mother's life after her death. Whilst there, in between browsing the app on my phone. According she returns to the author bio on this bookParadise hotel, BuzzFeed is 'a social news haven for eccentrics and entertainment company'misfits. A place where people can be themselves, which is a fancy way and let go of describing lots of fun lists thoughts that speak to the readership (20 words torment them elsewhere. Little wonder that have Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a completely different meaning in Manchesterchild, 30 Things all ex-gymnasts know to be truefrom this place of wonder. With the help of Queenie Malone, 40 Very British problemscaring, yadda yadda yadda). These list work well on line when you want a quick distractionand gregarious, and they’re easy Tilda begins to flip through, looking at pick apart the attached photos or video clips. The question then, is whether or not BuzzFeed the book will have the same appealtricky and uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and distant mother.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751557730</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Graeme Simsion1683690346|title=The Rosie EffectCon Artist|author=Fred Van Lente
|rating=4
|genre=Humour
|summary=Following inadvertent success with the Wife ProjectComic-Cons are a place of wonder and sanctuary for many people, Professor Don Tillman and his new bride Rosie have moved from Australia to New York. Although Donwhen Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, he's position on looking for both that and sanctuary with other fans and creators, plus the autistic scale is subjective, he still operates on a daily basis chance of structured proceduresmaybe, lists and logicjust maybe reuniting with his ex. Rosie can generally handle that but there are choppy waters ahead. With the patter However, when his rival is found dead, Mike is forced to navigate every dark corner of tiny feet imminent logic goes out the window as she struggles with her PhD while Don struggles con in order to find clear his place in the baby production process. At least he has his drinking buddies name – from cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans to support him zombie obstacle courses – an aging rock drummer Mike must prove his innocence and a friend whose wife has thrown him out for infidelity. What could possibly go wrong?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718179471</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Burnt Tongues: An Anthology of Transgressive Short Stories|author=Chuck Palahniuk, Dennis Widmyer and Richard Thomas|rating=4|genre=Short Stories|summary=Saying certain things out loud just don’t sound right. Some things are in doing so disturbing or politically incorrect that you are best off leaving them inside your head, or better yet not thinking of them at all. When these words are spoken they could lead to the sensation of Burnt Tongue; an aftereffect of knowing what you said was wrongmay just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creator. Are you prepared to enter the world of Transgressive Fiction that aims to disturb, alienate, disgust and question?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178329552X</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Sammy Looker1473669588|title=Something Nasty in the SlushpileFalling Short|author=Lex Coulton
|rating=4
|genre=Humour
|summary=I couldnLex Coulton't resist the title - s debut novel is a neat play on [[Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons|Cold Comfort Farm]] story about mistakes, failures, and I'm sure that you'll understand that I was expecting some examples of the horrors to be found amongst the mountain of unsolicited manuscripts which every publisher accumulatesrelationships. I'll confess I was expecting to giggleThe main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, even to groan - unkindis a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, I know - a work colleague and I'd mentally shelved the book is grappling with the trivia, or (hopefully) the humourincreasingly eccentric behaviour of her mother. There This relationship is complicated by the fact that element to the book, but thereFrances's also something far more useful. If you're thinking about publishing a book this should be required reading ''before'' you even go near a publisherfather disappeared at sea when she was five years old.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472111028</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=The Queen1683690133|title=Still ReigningMy Lady's Choosing|author=Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris
|rating=4
|genre=Humour
|summary=Anyone who frequents Twitter will know that it's You are a mixed blessinglass of twenty-eight. It's Plucky, penniless and in Regency-era London the race is on to find a mine of wonderful information and supportive camaraderiesuitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. ItAlong your journey, you's also - unfortunately ll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - home to a lot of people who take great pleasure in causing pain fiesty noble eager to others. But in amongst all this are save you from a few gems life alone, and one of them is [https://twitterfired by a rogueish sense for adventure.com/Queen_UK @Queen_UK]When it comes to suitors though, a delightful satire on members of you'll have to make the royal familyultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, celebritiesrugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the political classes mad, bad and the state of Her Majesty's nationterrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. OrWith orphans, ''one's nation'' as Ma'am would say. ''Still Reigning'' is her second bookwerewolves, after ''Gin O'Clock'' long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artefacts along the way, it's the sort of parody which leaves you wondering if the writer might not be someone clear this isn''very'' close t going to the originalbe an easy decision...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649132</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Stibbe_Xmas|title=Last Days of the Bus ClubAn Almost Perfect Christmas|author=Chris StewartNina Stibbe|rating=4.5
|genre=Humour
|summary=I could well have been a near-neighbour Christmas – the time of Chris Stewarttraditional trauma. Not, of course, near his current primary occupancy, an ecological farmstead just beyond You only have to think about the turning off from turkey for that – once upon a time it was leaving it sat on the back end of nowhere in the most rural of corners of southern Spaindownstairs loo to defrost overnight, but back when he lived in and if that failed the southhair-east of England, being Genesisdryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. Nowadays it's all having to make sure it' first ever drummers suitably free-range and organic – but not too organic that you can go and visit it, and building bridges in the North Downsget too friendly with it to want to eat it. The fact I learnt the latter from this book shows up several Christmas, though, is of the features course also a time of this warm-hearted great boons. It'travelogue' – the fact that Stewart is never shy about portraying family details and history – given s cash in hand for a good map lot of plump people who can hire red suits and beards, it was always a prevailing wind one could find where he lives and descend on godsend for postmen with all the farmthank-you letters to aunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you write out in long-hand as a child, if one wished; and that while this might be on as for the travel shelvesmakers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, the narrative is so fragmented it actually moves a lot more than did they even try and sell them any other time of the characters do.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908745436</amazonuk>year?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Doescher_Will|title=Summer HalfWilliam Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh|author=Angela ThirkellIan Doescher|rating=4.5
|genre=Humour
|summary=If one didn’t know of Angela Thirkell’s distinguished background as A long time ago, in a granddaughter of Sir Edward Burne-Jones and daughter of galaxy far away, there was a classicistman called William Shakespeare, it would be tempting who was able to describe her as create a kind series of country cousin dramatic histories full of [[:Category:P G Wodehouse|Pmachinations most foul, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy.G. Wodehouse’s]]. An unaffected and intelligent one You may or may not have noticed the cinematic version of his original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken'', whose humour is less sophisticated but bubbles over here at last we get the actual script, complete with just as much glee. The middleannoying-in-different-ways-to-class world she has createdbefore droids anew, where young men come returning heroes from families that are comfortably wealthy rather than outrageously soelsewhere in his oeuvre, offers a counterpoint to and people keeping it in the Mitford or Wodehouse worlds with their aristocratic characters who travel family til it hurts. And if you need further encouragement, don't forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the world and mingle with more louche, bohemian ones.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184408969X</amazonuk>series is so popular we're on to part seven – surely making this over twice as good…
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