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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]]==Humour==__NOTOC__{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Alain MabanckouDean Koontz|title=Memoirs of a PorcupineThe Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Literary FictionParanormal|summary=The protagonist of this novel Benny is an ordinary Congolese porcupine until Papa Kibandi performs an ancient ritual involving having a hallucinogenic cocktail called ''mayamvumbi'', and transforms him into his son's harmful doubleterrifically bad day. The insecure younger Kibandi becomes more and more embittered as He loses his life goes onjob, and sends he loses his porcupine to 'eat' anybody he feels the least bit threatened by, a process whereby that person's life essence is sucked outfiancee, killing them instantly. Over one hundred victims later and following his master's death at the hands of a vengeful baby, our narrator retires to the hollow of a baobab tree where he writes this confessionalhouse gets trashed.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846687675</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tom Holt|title=Life Oh, Liberty and the Pursuit of Sausages|rating=5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Imagine someone has delivered a world where pigs can do quantum mechanicsreally weird, and where female solicitors turn into chickens. Add a dry cleaner that moves (literally, from the roof tiles disturbing coffin-sized object to the basement) from town to town every forty-eight hours, a couple of medieval knights who've fought every day for centurieshis home, and a magical ring (or pencil sharpener, depending on the mood it's in). Stir in a bit of property developing, a thaumaturgical detective and an old man who lives in a cloud. Result? You haven't even begun to probe possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the depths of this crazy, absurd, complex and hilarious book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841495077</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Steve Hely|title=How I Became a Famous Novelist|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=With an uncompromising title like 'How I Became a Famous Novelist', this clearly isn't intended to be a subtle book. So I can hardly complain when a cynical look at the writing industry swings raw punches in every direction. It just isn't my sort of humour, but equally, if you rave about 'thing that has trashed his house! The Office' you will likely enjoy this book far more than I have done.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849015724</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Charles Lamb|title=Great Food: A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig and Other Essays|rating=4|genre=Cookery|summary=''A Dissertation Upon Roast Pig'' thing is a collection of food-related essays from the early 19th century, with a humorous bent. They're but a few pages each - a light read to bring a smile to your face, then on to Benny is the next little foodie treat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0241951003</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=ClientsFromHell.net|title=Clients From Hell|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=Everyone who's worked as a freelancer has a story of a client from hell - that very last person who asked for something that was impossible, wanted it done yesterday for a fraction of the usual price, or is just plain angry about the work producedto deserve all this bad luck. The website [http://www.clientsfromhell.net ClientsFromHell.net] has collated a number of such stories over the years, and has now published them as a book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0982473931</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Manu Joseph|title=Serious Men|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Ayyan Mani He is a Dalit, an untouchable, stuck in a flat in Mumbai's slums but hoping, somehow, for a better future for his sonnice person. Working at the Insitute of Theory and Research he uses all his cunning and wiles to stay ahead of the game amongst the Brahmin scientistsA really nice person. Does he have So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the intelligence, and nerves, delivery to convince everyone that his son, against all odds, house is a genius?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848543085</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Saunders|title=The Vernham Chronicles|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=Set amidst the rolling British countryside around Vernbury Vale is the little village of Vernham. Anyone who lives in new friend, a village will recognise it immediatelybad weather friend called Spike, with its cobbled streets and Tudor buildings. There was some damage during the war (which might, or might not have who has been down sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a lighthouse folly constructed by a local landowner on his lake) but the gaps have been filled with some beautiful, er, mock Tudor buildingsgood person. Almost unique and nearly beautiful as the village Spike isgoing to take care of Benny, it's not the star of The Vernham Chronicles. The stars are the people who live in Vernham.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907499598</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Martin Millar|title=The Good Fairies and will certainly take care of New York|rating=4|genre=Fantasy|summary=In this fairytale of New York, the Cornish fairy KingBenny's children are living in exileenemies, hiding in Central Park from a nasty industrial revolution back home. They have friends from Ireland with themif he, and all have the ability to startle the local squirrels. Elsewhere two innocent scallywag fairies fleeing Scotland have arrivedBenny, and adopted Harper (a human each. Heather has joined up with Dinnie, the citywaitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's worst busker, a fat, alcoholic and lonely fan of TV ads for phone sex, while Morag befriends Kerry, a dying kleptomaniac beauty, just as alone for different reasonswild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0749954205</amazonuk>1662500491
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Gervase Phinn1529153050|title=Twinkle, Twinkle, Little StarsBritain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Tim Benson
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|summary=Seeking some light relief from the current political turmoil which is coming to seem more and more like an adrenaline sport, I spent many of my teenage years reading James Herriotwas nudged towards ''Britain's books, and I found that this collection Best Political Cartoons of anecdotes and poems by Gervase Phinn had a real flavour of Herriot about it2022''. Perhaps it was just the setting, for Phinn was a school inspector in the Dales for many years, but I think he also has Sharp eyes will have noted that knack of capturing a situation, and a character, and bringing out we're not yet through the humour without making year: the person appear ridiculouscartoons run from 4 September 2021 to 31 August 2022. Here he collates stories from his other books, some Christmassy and others not, and he relates them with several of his own poems interspersed between.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141036435</amazonuk>Who can imagine what there will be to come in the 2023 edition?
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|summary=A quality typeface is a bit Members of Parliament like a good referee at a football match in us to believe that you only really notice them if something has gone wrong. A referee the country is there to facilitate the players on the pitchrun by politicians, not to be headed by the star of Prime minister - the show ''primus inter pares'' (though watching Match that's for those of the Day these past few weeks you'd often beg to differwho are Eton and Oxbridge educated). So it but the reality is with typefaces. A good type helps that the ''prime'' movers are the special advisers - the reader, enhances SPADS - who are the flow and makes driving force behind the viewing experience easy and simplegovernment. Well sort We are in the privileged position of.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683017</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bob Servant and Neil Forsyth|title=Bob Servant: Hero of Dundee|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=After [[Delete This at Your Peril: One Man's Fearless Exchanges with the Internet Spammers by Bob Servant|bursting into public consciousness]] as having access to the scourge memoirs of email spammersRafe Hubris, Broughty Ferry's resident polymath Bob Servant has returned. This time, he expands upon the colourful life only hinted at in his previous oeuvre, Delete this at Your Peril. And what a life it has been. He steers us from his humble beginnings, his broken family and traumatic schooldays, through man who was behind the rise and fall skilful control of his window cleaning empire, and his role in Dundee's brutal cheeseburger wars. Along the way, we witness his struggles with, respectively, women ('skirt'), his simpleton sidekick Frank, and Covid crisis which was completely contained by the demon drink.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841589209</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=P K Munroe|title=You Can Stick It|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=Literary merit? Absolutely none! Plot, characterisation and all that other stuff you usually talk about? Nope – there's none end of that, either2020. Ah, so it's non-fiction? Well, calling it ''fact'' would You might not know the name now but he will certainly be stretching things a little too far..the man to watch. So, come on then. What ''is'' it?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007362188</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Axel Scheffler0571365884|title=How to Keep My Mess is a Pet SquirrelBit of Life: Adventures in Anxiety|author=Georgia Pritchett
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|genre=HumourAutobiography|summary=SoGeorgia Pritchett has always been anxious, how do you keep even as a pet squirrel? child. Well, She would worry about whether the monsters under the bed were comfortable: it was the simple answer is that you don'tsort of life where if she had nothing to worry about she would become anxious but such occasions were few and far between. They're wild animals and not at all suitable for keeping in captivityOn a visit to a therapist, as an adult, but accepted thinking didn't always run that way. It when she was whilst he completely unable to speak about what was dipping into wrong with her it was suggested that she should write it down and ''The ChildrenMy Mess is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety's Encyclopaedia'' of 1910 that Axel Scheffler came across a small but indispensible guide to obtaining and caring for your pet squirrel. His inventive mind came up with these beautiful illustrations to accompany is the text and if you're looking for an amusing gift for an animalresult -loving adult then this book could well be the answeror so we are given to believe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571255981</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=PJ VanstonJohn Boyne|title=CrumpThe Echo Chamber|rating=35
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|summary=It's Kevin Crump's first day Meet George Cleverley. He is self-defined as "one of the few television personalities over the age of fifty without a lecturer at Thames Metropolitan University - an ex-polytechniccriminal record". ItHe starts this book a bit worried when his mistress tells him she's the happiest day of carrying his lifechild, and he can't wait to see all that it holdsbut then his author wife is getting her kicks with the Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. They have three children, and make who are a difference to all his students. And then it hits him: the relentless pettiness of authority figuressad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, the students a girl who can't string two sentences togetherhangs around with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save the lowering world's homeless with out-of standards in search of higher test scores, so more money from foreign students-date food, and political correctness gone (as I believe a fit young lad doing the saying goes) madgay hustle thing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848762852</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=John Lennon|title=In His Own Write and A Spaniard Add in the Works|rating=3|genre=Humour|summary=During the height of Beatlemaniaa few other characters – therapists, lawyers, John Lennon used random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to doodle or write short poems or nonsense stories to pass the time (his life, and there must you have been a good deal of time something that suggests an almost farcical approach to pass away on tour, if only waiting for screaming fans to leave them alone and go back home)the modern world. Some of them were seen by Tom MaschlerWhat suggests the farcical approach even more, literary editor at Jonathan Capehowever, who encouraged him to produce more. The results were published in two very successful short books in 1964 and 1965is the fact this is bloody funny.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0099530422</amazonuk>0857526219
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{{newreviewFrontpage|author=John LindsayStephen Clarke|title=Emails From An AssholeThe Spy Who Inspired Me
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|genre=HumourGeneral Fiction|summary=Some classified ads are crying out for trolling. John Lindsay replies to them, spins them This is a yarnspoof spy story, and strings them along for as long as possiblethat isn't about James Bond. Sometimes the advert is fairly innocuous and he emails them anyway Or Ian Fleming. These are emails from an asshole, after all.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1402778279</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=L C Tyler|title=The Herring In The Library|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary=Tall, elegant Ethelred is But it features a gentlemanman called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and a third-rate author. Elsie, his literary agent, is short and dumpy, and not afraid to speak her mind. It is Elsie, in fact, who constantly assures her client he only occasionally aspires to the giddy heights of being second-rate. This could be 'likes the business partnership from hell, but not only do these two seem to get along, they even manage to solve crimes together. In this, the third outing for L C Tylerladies's eccentric sleuths, we are provided with a locked room mystery, a cast of possible villains of the most stereotypical type, and a fresh, funny tale which will make you laugh so much you'll get a stitch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230714684</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=A J Jacobs|title=My Experimental Life|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=A J Jacobs has a reputation who works for setting himself onerous tasks. His first book was about reading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica; his second detailed a year spent according to the Biblical precepts. In My Experimental Lifesecret service, he recounts nine briefer episodes of living outside his comfort zone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099547422</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Seth Grahame-Smith|title=Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary='Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.' That quote, on the Statue of Liberty, was probably not designed with but in the inclusion planning side of vampires in mind. But by some means or another North America is rife with the things – hiding in plain sight, as more than the older ones can bear sunlight, with the help of darkened glassesactive service. It might just come down to one eager young man to rid his new country of such things, Lemming finds himself put on his way to something he’s a bit more known for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849014086</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith and Tony Lee|title=Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Graphic Novel|rating=3|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=It is a truth universally acknowledged that mission with a zombie story of any renown will not remain simply a zombie story. Before you can say ''the risen undead'' it will become a series of books, inspiring othersfemale spy called Margaux, and/or lead to the same story being published pair end up stranded in many different guises. Here, thenNormandy, with Margaux on its way a desperate mission to Hollywoodunearth traitors in the resistance network, is Jane Austen’s story of Lizzie Bennet, the feisty young woman and Lemming desperately trying to ignore Mr Darcy while fighting off the ''manky unmentionables'' – at least she is until the hidden truths open keep up to with her, just as the soft soils of Hertfordshire do to yield their once-human remains. And this time it’s in graphic novel form.!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1848566948</amazonuk>2952163855
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|genre=Confident ReadersLiterary Fiction|summary=Who turns off Well, this looked very much like a book I could love from the lights at Halloween? The lights witchget-go, which is why I picked my review copy up and flipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. What does an Australian witch ride I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the middle on? A broomerangdarker stock paper, a chapter whose number was in the 20,000s, letters used as narrative form, and so on. It intrigued with the subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that what little I knew of it mentioned, too. Yep But you've seen the star rating that comes with this review, and can tell that if love was on these pages, it's a joke bookwas not actually caused by them. So what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0192729063</amazonuk>1529402697
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|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.''
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{{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08GFSK2WZ|authortitle=The Harvard LampoonKarma Trap|titleauthor=Nightlight: A Parody of Twilight Lisette Boyd|rating=3.54|genre=HumourWomen's Fiction|summary=Most people will have heard 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 the worldwide phenomenon that bad luck is [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]]being visited on her and she has a real talent for attracting drama. The books Her life's chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by Stephenie Meyer and putting something down at the film have made a legend bottom of the romance between vampire Edward Mullen (Robert Pattinson plays stairs to absorb the water - then the movie role) shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it and teenage schoolgirl Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart)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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849013330</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Steven Lowe and Alan McArthur David C Mason|title=Is it Just Me or Has the Shit Hit the Fan?: Your Hilarious New Guide to Unremitting Global MiseryPandora's Gardener
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|genre=HumourCrime|summary=''The banks fell over like fat Labradors running over John Cranston is a wet kitchen floor.'' Surely that is the wackiestgardener, most inappropriate simile for the credit crunch and all it has done for the world. You won't get any such namby-pamby animal likenesses from these authors, instead with quite although what he did before he became a potty mouth on them they will lambast the modern worldgardener, the entire banking systemhe claims, all those who failed to see it coming, and those millions is classified. That is just seemingly waiting for us all as well because he is about to revert to high-interest, high-risk, high-lending capitalismbe caught up in a criminal / spy / terrorist plot, so they where only he can get back on save the expenses train, and back up the rich listsday.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847443656</amazonuk>0956180523
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=The Vampire Miles Proctor1683691172|title=The New VampireWilliam Shakespeare'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>}} {{newreview|author=David O'Doherty, Claudia O'Doherty and Mike Ahern|title=100 Facts Much Ado About Pandas|rating=3.5|genre=HumourMean Girls|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 O'Doherty won an Edinburgh Comedy Award, so this is a book of a 100 silly and untrue facts about pandas.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224086324</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Richard Horne |title=A is for ArmageddonIan Doescher
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|summary=The world is definitely going to hell A long time ago, in a handcart. We're only just preventing lethal global warming by having a credit crunch that has prevented a lot of big buildinggalaxy far away, air travelall the Star Wars films were crunched up against Shakespeare, and consumerismthe marriage seemed a perfectly suitable one. The population is getting So much so – so obese there is no room for any more of us - easily did the plots and characters converse in Shakespearean dialogue, and add behave with Shakespearean stage directions – that to the exploding population statisticsproducers tried again, and itwith [[William Shakespeare's never going Get Thee Back to the Future! by Ian Doescher|Back to look betterthe Future]] no less. And donthat worked. But simultaneously they put a real test out. A film I can't get me started on where all even really remember seeing was transcribed into the bees have goneoriginal Elizabethan lingo.A cult following I had never followed whatsoever was given the brand new, yet oh so ancient, dressing..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224086197</amazonuk>Here was the true challenge – would I manage to enjoy this, based on little foreknowledge? Oh damn those shiny gold stars for letting the game away…
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=James May168369094X|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. TheyWilliam Shakespeare've sprung their media entities from out of the studio, into other TV programmes, and the world of journalism, with chatty columns in s Get Thee Back to 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>}} {{newreviewFuture!|author=Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith |title=Pride and Prejudice and ZombiesIan Doescher
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|summary=AhA long time ago, in a publishing house far away, [[:Category:Ian Doescher|someone]] thought it wonderfully wacky to rewrite the benefits to a good book story of Star Wars in Shakespearean pentameter, colliding two entirely different genres and styles in such a classic first line. 'Call me Ishmaelclever way they seemed perfectly suited.' 'It was a bright cold day then duly repeated for all the other films in Aprilthe main Star Wars cycle, and clearly someone's buffing their quills ready for Episode Nine, the title of which became public knowledge the clocks were striking thirteenday before I write.' Who can forget Iain Banks' 'It was In the hiatus, however, the effort has been made to see if the day my grandmother exploded'? same shtick works with other texts, and to riff on other seemingly unlikely source materials in iambs. Or those timeless words by Jane AustenAnd could we have anything more suitably unsuitable-seeming than Back to the Future, 'It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession with its tales of brains must be in want of more brains.'|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594743347<time travel, bullying, and parent/amazonuk>child strife like no other?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Harry Hill1473669065|title=Tim The Tiny Horse At Large|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=It's been a while since Tim and Fly's [[Tim the Tiny Horse by Harry Hill|last adventures]], and changes are afoot in Tim's tiny world: Fly is getting married to his girlfriend. TimQueenie Malone's a little worried because they've only known each other for a week. The marriage goes ahead, and Tim finds himself kicking his heels, so he gets a pet. And so the brief episodes in the life of a horse who lives in a matchbox continue.|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>}} {{newreview|author=Sam Savage|title=The Cry of the Sloth|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Meet Andrew Whittaker. In some untold time 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 the buildings - ceilings falling through and so on - but that's another matter. He would much prefer to be left alone in front of his little Olivetti typewriter and create art. He runs a literary journal, of a kind, called "Soap", which no-one likes, no-one reads (and often, with dodgy, cheap printing, no-one could physically read it anyway), and which makes him poorer in time, money and spirit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297856499</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Christopher Moore|title=You Suck|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=You know that old adage about books and covers? Well this is a case in point. The title isn't great, but the cover design for the paperback imprint is, like, duh!, the pits. It is so uncool…so unrep-resent-ative of the book. This is not a cocktail thing. Not even a "Bloody Mary" thing. Well, except for the tiny bit that is, but you'll discover that in due course.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498092</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewParadise Hotel|author=Hugh Murr and Sid Nigtures |title=Cyber Sign OffsRuth Hogan|rating=2|genre=Humour|summary=I admit I had the wrong end of the stick when it came to this book, before I opened it at least. I had assumed it was a collection of real-life on-line signatures - we've all seen them, those straplines people have on all their forum posts. The obvious response would have been along the lines of 'fair enough, but why is this a book in this day and age, and not a website?'. 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 other, and a made-up name (sorry, make that May Dupp-Name) with which to sign it off. Much jolly nonsense ensues.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312497</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Tim Fitzhigham |title=All at Sea: One Man. One Bathtub. One Very Bad Idea: Conquering 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 what it claims on the cover - takes a narrator of zesty, wacky humour, throws him into an unlikely situation (a bath) and gets him to do something unusual (row it across the Channel - and then beyond). This despite the fact he was the world's worst sculler at University.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848090269</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Simon Brett|title=Blotto, Twinks and the Ex-King's Daughter|rating=4
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|summary=There can be few people who have written eighty books without me even having picked up one Tilda returns to Brighton, to tidy away the remains of themher mother's life after her death. At leastWhilst there, she returns to the Paradise hotel, a haven for eccentrics and at lastmisfits. A place where people can be themselves, I have redressed that fault in the case and let go of Simon Brett, and have come to the conclusion there are 79 more thoughts that will be worth investigatingtorment them elsewhere. Here we meet Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a child, from this place of wonder. With the first time Blotto (posh idiotic son help of a dowager duchess) and Twinks (posh brilliant genius sister to Blotto)Queenie Malone, their familycaring, their surroundingsand gregarious, Tilda begins to pick apart the tricky and the corpse inconveniently disturbing a dinner partyuncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and distant mother.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845299353</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Karl Pilkington1683690346|title=KarlologyThe Con Artist|author=Fred Van Lente
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|summary=The Radio Five film critic Mark Kermode has Comic-Cons are a rule place of wonder and sanctuary for many people, and when reviewing comedies. If Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, he laughs more than five times then the film deserves its billing as a comedy. If that rule was applied to Karl Pilkington's new book Karlology then it would easily fit into the category looking for there are laugh aplenty in this strange, amusing both that and sanctuary with other fans and charming little book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140533746X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Joe Stretch|title=Wildlife|rating=3|genre=Humour|summary=The word ''Twitter'' doesn't occur in Joe Stretch's vocabularycreators, but that's what his book is about. Life in plus the blogospherechance of maybe, massively exaggerated, where people don't leave their desks but nevertheless come together (but never literally) in satisfying their deepest, darkest desiresjust maybe reuniting with his ex. If I've made it sound even faintly excitingHowever, believe mewhen his rival is found dead, Joe Stretch Mike is a fantasist with realist tendencies. What he is after is laughter; what he produces is a virtual simulacrum. Sniggery-pokery, jiggery-jokery, he tinkers with forced to navigate every dark corner of the twilight zone of a future-scenario where, for reasons beyond all understanding, some robotic and literal Dickhead (i.e. a man with a dick fixed con in order to clear his forehead name – I kid you not) decides from cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans to target a few selected humans for a make-over in zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his own image. Given that virtual worlds exist to pull in punters who don't like themselves in the real one, innocence and their main purpose is to make money, one's only question must be: why?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099532077</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Michael Marr|title=Three Jumpers|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=When Bardolph Middle placed an ad in the paper proclaiming he was a writerdoing so, he thought he might get the odd request to write may just unravel a speech or two. Maybe, if he was very lucky, dark secret behind a company might ask him to conceive an entire marketing plan and advertising campaignlegendary industry creator. What he never expected was this job offer…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906558485</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Rosy Barnes1473669588|title=Sadomasochism for Accountants|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Humour's very personal, isn't it? If you dig films like ''Shaun of the Dead'' and ''Hot Fuzz'', I predict you'll love this chick lit parody. It's anarchic and very British comedy tradition. If you're into the conventions of good writing, you may find it a little painful. Nevertheless, I enjoyed plenty of moments in Rosy Barnes' first novel.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0714531812</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFalling Short|author=Lady Annabel Goldsmith|title=Copper: A Dog's LifeLex Coulton
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|summary=Copper was one of Lex Coulton's debut novel is a litter of dogs born to story about mistakes, failures, and relationships. The main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, is a stray bitch and sixth form English teacher who was 'adopted' by Lady Annabel Goldsmith - or might it 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 – has recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, a work colleague and obedience is not one grappling with the increasingly eccentric behaviour of them – along with a roving spirither mother. It's perhaps fortunate This relationship is complicated by the fact that heFrances's a dog as this allows you to call him 'cheeky' and 'charming'. If he father disappeared at sea when she was a human being 'randy' and 'arrogant' would be two of the first words which came to mindfive years old.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751538205</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Tim Moore1683690133|title=I Believe in Yesterday: My Adventures in Living HistoryLady's Choosing|author=Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris
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|summary=Common opinion has it that the television programme ''Time Team'' did You are a lot for the public image lass of archaeologists – bringing them out of their holes twenty-eight. Plucky, penniless and in Regency-era London the groundrace is on to find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Along your journey, you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a life alone, and making them seem like exciting, interesting people with fired by a good way of putting their knowledge acrossrogueish sense for adventure. However it was clearly a much harder task when When it came comes to those background artistes they suitors though, you'll have sometimesto make the ultimate decision between witty, walking up pretty and down in Roman centurion gearwealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or living the historical lifestyle as a re-enactmentmad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artefacts along the way, it's clear this isn't going to be an easy decision...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224077813</amazonuk>
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=L Vaughan SpencerStibbe_Xmas|title=Don't Be Needy Be SucceedyAn Almost Perfect Christmas|author=Nina Stibbe|rating=4.5
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|summary=Are you underperforming in your business Christmas – the time of traditional trauma. You only have to think about the turkey for that – once upon a time it was leaving it sat on the downstairs loo to defrost overnight, and personal lives? Do you underestimate if that failed the importance of good hair and moisturised skin in achieving -dryer shoved inside it treatment was 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 booknext best bet. As Nowadays it's all having to make sure it'The A s suitably free-range and organic – but not too organic that you can go and visit it, and get too friendly with it to Zee of Motivitality''want to eat it. Christmas, though, this is of course also a dictionary time of achievement from great boons. It's cash in hand for a man lot of plump people who can teach hire red suits and beards, it was always a godsend for postmen with all the thank-you how letters to succeed like aunties you saw twice a toothless budgie.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846681634</amazonuk>decade that your parents made you write out in long-hand as a child, and as for the makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they even try and sell them any other time of the year?
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{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Crick Doescher_Will|title=SartreWilliam Shakespeare's Sinkthe Force Doth Awaken: The Great Writers' Complete Book of DIYStar Wars Part the Seventh|author=Ian Doescher|rating=4.5
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|summary=''Sartre's Sink'' comprises fourteen short 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 long time ago, in a bathroom (Dostoevsky) or reglazing galaxy far away, there was a window (Milan Kundera). So far it sounds man called William Shakespeare, who was able to create a bit like some pretentious Oxbridge student twaddleseries of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy. You can just imagine how may or may not have noticed the idea came up over an over-ripe Brie and an underrated bottle cinematic version of 1963 Taylorhis original stage play for 's port. It also rather smacks of that Radio 4 programme which I detest 'The Force Doth Awaken'', but here at last we get the actual script, complete with an absolute passion annoying-in-different-ways- I can't even stand writing its name, ugh to- ''Quote Unquote''before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in which parodies do featurehis oeuvre, read out by smug self-congratulatory writer darlings (and people keeping it in the family til it hurts. And if you can tell I need further encouragement, don't like it, canforget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the series is so popular we't you?). However, dear readers, re on to part seven – surely making this book is rather enjoyable and I speak over twice as someone who is rather less versed in the writings of this famous lot than I care to admit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847080472</amazonuk>good…
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