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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Mapp and Lucia OmnibusJen Beagin|authortitle=E F BensonBig Swiss|rating=34.5|genre=Humour|summary=Miss Elizabeth Mapp rules I found the town premise of Tilling - she is this book totally original and addictive. Greta possesses the power to know the centre population of the social lifeHudson, New York's darkest secrets, and spends her days enjoying bridgetheir intimate lives, polite conversation their fetishes and civilised paintingfears. When Mrs Emmeline Lucas arrives in town (known How? Her job is to all transcribe their sex therapy sessions. Sure, there's a confidentiality agreement, as Lucia)the sex coach who calls himself Om keeps reminding her, Miss Mapp finds her but that just makes it more exciting. Like we've all probably wished for at some point in life truly shaken up, Greta can exist passively, placidly, as a fly on the culturedwall. That is, fashionable until Greta decides to unglue her fly-feet from the safety of the wall and progressive Lucia makes her home buzz far too close to the sun. The sun in this analogy is the sex coach's newest patient, who Greta dubs 'Big Swiss', and who, like the townsun, is bright, blonde and beautiful - and swiftly rises irresistible to Greta. Suddenly, the top confidentiality agreement, the ethics of her professional position, her loyalties to Om, fly out of the ranks amongst window. She's in too deep.|isbn=0571378579}}{{Frontpage|author=Dean Koontz|title=The Bad Weather Friend|rating=4.5|genre=Paranormal|summary=Benny is having a terrifically 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's possible that whoever or whatever was inside is the social scene in Tillingthing that has trashed his house! The thing is, Benny is the very last person to deserve all this bad luck. He is a nice person. A really nice person. So fortunately for Benny it turns out that the delivery to his house is a new friend, a bad weather friend called Spike, who has been sent to help him since Benny is clearly under attack from nefarious forces for being a good person. Spike is going to take care of Benny, and will certainly take care of Benny's enemies, if he, Benny, and Harper (a waitress slash Private Investigator who finds herself roped into Benny's wild adventure) can figure out who exactly they are.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849908478</amazonuk>1662500491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1529153050|title=Encyclopedia ParanoiacaBritain's Best Political Cartoons 2022|author=Henry Beard and Christopher CerfTim Benson

|genre=Popular ScienceHumour|summary=WeSeeking some light relief from the current political turmoil which is coming to seem more and more like an adrenaline sport, I was nudged towards ''Britain's Best Political Cartoons of 2022''re screwed. Wherever Sharp eyes will have noted that we look, whatever we think of doing, there is a reason why we shouldn't be doing it, and people re not yet through the year: the cartoons run from 4 September 2021 to back that reason up with scientific data31 August 2022. Take any aspect of your daily life – Who can imagine what you eat, how you work, how you rest even, what you touch – all have problems that could provoke a serious illness or worse. And outside that daily sphere there are economic disasters, nuclear meltdowns, errant AI scientists and passing comets that could turn our world upside down at will be to come in the blink of an eye. Perhaps then you better read this book first – for it may well turn out to be your last…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649213</amazonuk>2023 edition?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1785633074|title=Diary of a Mad DivaStaggering Hubris|author=Joan RiversJosh Berry|rating=34.5

|summary=The late Joan Rivers Members of Parliament like us to believe that the country is run by politicians, headed by the Prime minister - the ''primus inter pares'' (that's for those of you who are Eton and Oxbridge educated) but the reality is that the ''prime'' 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 Covid crisis which was, without completely contained by the end of 2020. You might not know the name now but he will certainly be the man to watch.}}{{Frontpage|isbn=0571365884|title=My Mess is a doubtBit of Life: Adventures in Anxiety|author=Georgia Pritchett|rating=4|genre=Autobiography|summary=Georgia Pritchett has always been anxious, even as a characterchild. Actress, comedian, writer, director She would worry about whether the monsters under the bed were comfortable: it was the sort of life where if she had nothing to worry about she would become anxious but such occasions were few and far between. On a visit to a therapist, presenteras an adult, when she was well known in the USA and beyond for completely unable to speak about what was wrong with her sharp tongue it was suggested that she should write it down and no holds barred persona. This was the last ''My Mess is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety'' is the dozen books she published, her final title before her death in September 2014result - or so we are given to believe.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0425269027</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - The Nearly Definitive EditionJohn Boyne|authortitle=Douglas AdamsThe Echo Chamber

|summary=There are Meet George Cleverley. He is self-defined as "one of the few series that have garnered such television personalities over the age of fifty without a criminal record". He starts this book a cult following as bit worried when his mistress tells him she'The Hitchhikers Guide to s carrying his child, but then his author wife is getting her kicks with the Galaxy'Ukrainian partner "Strictly Come Dancing" paired her with. Whether the fans They have come from the radio seriesthree children, who are a sad-sack with absolutely no social skills whatsoever, a girl who hangs around with a virtue-signalling, keyboard warrior "wokester" who wants to save the (impossibly hard) computer gameworld's homeless with out-of-date food, or and a fit young lad doing the (well intentioned but not particularly good) film, they are everywheregay hustle thing. Ask Add in a room of people what the meaning of few other characters – therapists, lawyers, random transgender types – that all have two very different connections to his life is, and you can be pretty sure a good few will pipe up with '42' as have something that suggests an almost farcical approach to the modern world. What suggests the farcical approach even more, however, is the answerfact this is bloody funny.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0434023396</amazonuk>0857526219

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleauthor=Quick Pint After WorkStephen Clarke|authortitle=Luke LewisThe Spy Who Inspired Me

|genre=HumourGeneral Fiction|summary=BuzzFeed This is one of the world’s best time sucksa spoof spy story, that isn't about James Bond. Or Ian Fleming. But it features a man called Ian Lemming, who dresses well and I’m regularly directed to 'likes the site by links from Facebook ladies' and Twitterwho works for the secret service, but in between browsing the app on my phoneplanning side of things more than the active service. According to the author bio Lemming finds himself put on this booka mission with a female spy called Margaux, BuzzFeed is 'a social news and entertainment company', which is a fancy way of describing lots of fun lists that speak to the readership (20 words that have a completely different meaning pair end up stranded in Manchester, 30 Things all ex-gymnasts know to be trueNormandy, 40 Very British problems, yadda yadda yadda). These list work well with Margaux on line when you want a quick distractiondesperate mission to unearth traitors in the resistance network, and they’re easy Lemming desperately trying to flip through, looking at the attached photos or video clips. The question then, is whether or not BuzzFeed the book will have the same appeal.keep up with her!|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0751557730</amazonuk>2952163855

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Graeme SimsionAfonso Cruz and Rahul Bery (translator)|title=The Rosie EffectKokoschka's Doll|rating=42.5|genre=HumourLiterary Fiction|summary=Following inadvertent success with Well, this looked very much like a book I could love from the Wife Projectget-go, Professor Don Tillman which is why I picked my review copy up and his new bride Rosie have moved from Australia to New Yorkflipped pages over several times before actually reading any of it. Although Don's position I found things to potentially delight me each time – a weird section in the middle on darker stock paper, a chapter whose number was in the autistic scale is subjective20,000s, he still operates on a daily basis of structured proceduresletters used as narrative form, lists and logicso on. Rosie can generally handle It intrigued with the subterranean voice a man hears in wartorn Dresden that but there are choppy waters aheadwhat little I knew of it mentioned, too. With But you've seen the patter of tiny feet imminent logic goes out the window as she struggles star rating that comes with her PhD while Don struggles to find his place in the baby production process. At least he has his drinking buddies to support him – an aging rock drummer this review, and a friend whose wife has thrown him out for infidelitycan tell that if love was on these pages, it was not actually caused by them. What could possibly go wrongSo what happened?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0718179471</amazonuk>1529402697

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08KKQ85FN|title=Burnt Tongues: An Anthology of Transgressive Short StoriesBut Never For Lunch|author=Chuck Palahniuk, Dennis Widmyer and Richard ThomasSandra Aragona

|summary=Saying certain things out loud just don’t sound right. Some things are so disturbing ''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 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 more to the sensation of Burnt Tongue; an aftereffect of knowing what you said was wrong. Are you prepared point, about to enter discover the real world of Transgressive Fiction that aims to disturb, alienate, disgust bus timetables and question?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178329552X</amazonuk>}}paying his own gas bills.''

{{newreview|author=Sammy Looker|title=Something Nasty in the Slushpile|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=I couldnYou don't resist the title - a neat play on get many better opening sentences than that, do you? We first met His Excellency and The Ambassador's Wife in [[Cold Comfort Farm Sorting the Priorities: Ambassadress and Beagle Survive Diplomacy by Stella GibbonsSandra Aragona|Cold Comfort FarmSorting the Priorities]] and I'm sure that you'll understand that I we learned what it was expecting some examples of the horrors like to be found amongst moved around countries like accompanying baggage by the mountain Italian Government but the time has come for HE to retires and for Sandra Aragona to become The Wife of unsolicited manuscripts which every publisher accumulatesFormer Ambassador... IThey have left The Career and settled in Rome. Well 'll confess I was expecting to giggle, even to groan - unkind, I know - and Isettled'd mentally shelved rather overstates the book with the triviasituation and their dog, Beagle, or (hopefully) the humour. There is that element to the bookhas no intention of slowing down any time soon, but there's also something far more usefuldespite being sixteen and deaf. If you're thinking about publishing a book this should be required reading ''before'' you even go near a publisher.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472111028</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=B08GFSK2WZ|authortitle=The QueenKarma Trap|titleauthor=Still ReigningLisette Boyd

|genre=HumourWomen's Fiction|summary=Anyone who frequents Twitter will know that itGeorge 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 mixed blessingreal talent for attracting drama. ItHer life's a mine chaotic: she dealt with the leak from the shower by putting something down at the bottom of wonderful information the stairs to absorb the water - then the shower fell through the roof whilst she was in it and supportive camaraderieleft her, stark naked, staring at the pervy postman. ItShe only has to take her mother's also dog out for a walk for her to end up with dog poo spattered across her face - unfortunately - home to and a lot of people photo being taken by someone who take great pleasure in causing pain to othersshares it around the office. But in amongst all this are }} {{Frontpage|author=David C Mason|title=Pandora's Gardener|rating=3|genre=Crime|summary= John Cranston is a few gems and one of them is [https://twitter.com/Queen_UK @Queen_UK]gardener, although what he did before he became a delightful satire on members of the royal familygardener, celebritieshe claims, the political classes and the state of Her Majesty's nationis classified. Or, ''one's nation'' That is just as Ma'am would say. ''Still Reigning'' well because he is her second bookabout to be caught up in a criminal / spy / terrorist plot, after ''Gin O'Clock'' and it's the sort of parody which leaves you wondering if the writer might not be someone ''very'' close to where only he can save the originalday.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0715649132</amazonuk>0956180523

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Jester_Forever|title=Last Days of the Bus ClubForever After: a dark comedy|author=Chris StewartDavid Jester

|genre=HumourHorror|summary=I could well have been Michael Holland is a near-neighbour cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the offer of Chris Stewarthis lifetime; immortality. NotWe follow Michael, of course, near a grim reaper and his current primary occupancy, an ecological farmstead just beyond the turning off from the back end of nowhere in the most rural of corners of southern Spain, but back when he lived in the south-east of England, being Genesis' first ever drummerfriends, Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and building bridges Naff (a stoner in the North Downs. The fact I learnt the latter from this book shows up several of the features of this warm-hearted 'travelogue' – the fact that Stewart is never shy about portraying family details records department) as they grapple with their long lives and history – given finding a good map and a prevailing wind one could find where he lives and descend clean surface to sit on the farm, if one wished; and that while this might be on the travel shelves, the narrative is so fragmented it actually moves a lot more than any of the characters doin their flat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908745436</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1683691172|title=Summer HalfWilliam Shakespeare's Much Ado About Mean Girls|author=Angela ThirkellIan Doescher|rating=42.5

|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 galaxy far away, all the Star Wars films were crunched up against Shakespeare, and daughter of the marriage seemed a classicistperfectly suitable one. So much so – so easily did the plots and characters converse in Shakespearean dialogue, it would be tempting to describe her as a kind of country cousin of and behave with Shakespearean stage directions – that the producers tried again, with [[:Category:P G WodehouseWilliam Shakespeare's Get Thee Back to the Future! by Ian Doescher|P.G. Wodehouse’sBack to the Future]]. An unaffected and intelligent one, whose humour is no less sophisticated but bubbles over with just as much glee. The middle-class world she has created, where young men come from families And that are comfortably wealthy rather than outrageously so, offers worked. But simultaneously they put a counterpoint to real test out. A film I can't even really remember seeing was transcribed into the Mitford or Wodehouse worlds with their aristocratic characters who travel original Elizabethan lingo. A cult following I had never followed whatsoever was given the world and mingle with more louchebrand new, yet oh so ancient, bohemian onesdressing.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184408969X</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…

 {{newreviewFrontpage|titleisbn=The Bojeffries Saga168369094X|authortitle=Alan Moore and Steve Parkhouse|rating=5|genre=Graphic Novels|summary=A very truncated history of comics will start with the idea that they should be funny strips – one jape then youWilliam Shakespeare're out; then that they should have more – perhaps a superhero; then that you can have so much more than just a superhero – witness the works of [[:Category:Alan Moore|Alan Moore]]. But you mustn't be too surprised s Get Thee Back to see the whole thing come around in a full cycle. Because Alan Moore has, with this volume, concluded his own funny strip japery, and whatever history or greater opinions about the canon of comix might say, it's just about his best ever book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662318</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFuture!|author=Reverend Adam Smallbone|title=The Rev DiariesIan Doescher

|summary=Adam Smallbone wasn’t always A long time ago, in a vicar. He used publishing house far away, [[:Category:Ian Doescher|someone]] thought it wonderfully wacky to work for rewrite the Bristol Housing Departmentstory of Star Wars in Shakespearean pentameter, enabling his father-colliding two entirely different genres and styles in-law to tell everyone he worked 'in property'such a clever way they seemed perfectly suited. From there, his initial calling It was to a rural church in Suffolk which did nothing to prepare him then duly repeated for this, his current London inner city parish. Indeed, he's not prepared for Adoha (all the Nigerian parishioner with 19 grandchildren and 'other films in the bottom of God') or Colinmain Star Wars cycle, the homeless alcoholic who has adopted Adam and his wife Alex (Mrs Vicarage to Colin). But then Alex also has a lot to get used to; after all, she didn't actually marry a vicar.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718178394</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=Look Whoclearly someone's Back|author=Timur Vermes|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=''Hitler Youth Ronaldo! Which way to the street?'' With these words a very misguided Nazi Fuhrer asks buffing their quills ready for his first directions in Episode Nine, the Berlin title of 2011. Mistakenly believing which became public knowledge the lad to be a party junior member with his own name on his football shirt, he also thinks for a while it is still 1945day before I write. He's soon informed of In the truthhiatus, but still makes some unfortunate conclusions – that the street kiosks selling Turkish language newspapers are a sign of a Soviet-beating alliance between the two countrieshowever, that people eat granola bars because the war still leads effort has been made to a bread shortage, and that people making an ironic speech bubble with their fingers in see if the air is all that is left of the Hitler salute. But yes, after a long hiatus neither he nor our author is particularly concerned same shtick works with explainingother texts, ''that man'' is back – and if he has his way he's going to be just as popular this time round…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857052926</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Adam Ruck|title=The Bluffer's Guide to Golf (Bluffer's Guides)|rating=4.5|genre=Sport|summary=The fly leaf suggests that this Bluffer's Guide is the way to instantly acquire all the knowledge which you need to pass as an expert riff on other seemingly unlikely source materials in the ''arcane and labyrinthine'' world of golfiambs. There's quite a bit there that I'd agree on And could we have anything more suitably unsuitable- the rules (and seeming than Back to an unfortunate extent the ''attitudes'') are arcane and they seem to take a lifetime to masterFuture, but there's a surprising amount of information tucked away inside this little book. What I might quibble with is whether or not you would ''pass as an expert'' (which suggests that you're something of a con man): there's enough detail here to give you a solid grounding without needing to bluff.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1909365327</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|title=The Collected Works its tales of A J Fikry|author=Gabrielle Zevin|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=A J Fikry is not having a good time. He's lost his wife to a car crash, and he's not making that much money. The book store he runs, stuck out on a limb on a quiet island communitytravel, is too remote to turn a profit year-roundbullying, and he has just dismissed the latest publisher's rep to turn up at his door, partly because her previous counterpart, an inconsequential part of A J's life when all is said and done, had died and he didn't know about it. But his bad time is about to get a lot worse, as the one thing he owns worth the most – a rare book, more valuable than his house, his business, anything – is about to vanish. Which bizarrely will cause several major changes to his one-person household…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408704617<parent/amazonuk>child strife like no other?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=William Hanson1473669065|title=The BlufferQueenie Malone's Guide to Etiquette (Bluffer's Guides)Paradise Hotel|author=Ruth Hogan

|summary=It is easy Tilda returns to see why Horrid Henry Brighton, to tidy away the remains such an enduring of her mother's life after her death. Whilst there, she returns to the Paradise hotel, a haven for eccentrics and well-liked children’s charactermisfits. The adventures of this cheekyA place where people can be themselves, irreverent schoolboy and let go of thoughts that torment them elsewhere. Little wonder that Tilda cannot forgive her mother for banishing her as a cast of extreme characters including Miss Battle Axechild, The Demon Dinner Lady, Rabid Rebecca and arch-nemesis Moody Margaret are incredibly funny and a perfect way to encourage reluctant young readers to cultivate a love from this place of readingwonder. It is no surprise then, that With the series has spawned a set help of three spin-off joke booksQueenie Malone, which have now been combined caring, and gregarious, Tilda begins to create a single volume: ''Horrid Henry’s Biggest pick apart the tricky and uncertain relationship she had with her sometimes cruel and Best Ever Joke Book''distant mother.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>144401174X</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1683690346|title=Let Me Off at the Top!: My Classy Life and Other MusingsThe Con Artist|author=Ron BurgundyFred Van Lente

|summary=''This book is a testament to my giant balls.'' But it's also Comic-Cons are a lot more. The story we've never been able to discern from either place of the ''Anchorman'' films is one of surprising hardshipwonder and sanctuary for many people, unsurprising hardnessand when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, and great hair. Ithe's a rags-to-riches talelooking for both that and sanctuary with other fans and creators, as Ron Burgundy comes from a Hicksville town in plus the middle chance of the outskirts maybe, just maybe reuniting with his ex. However, when his rival is found dead, Mike is forced to navigate every dark corner of somewhere the arse end of nowhere (a town perpetually on fire due con in order to the accidents in the mines underneath) clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and struggles against all the odds intrusive fans to zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and many of the evens , in the shape of women's legs – to get where he is todaydoing so, thrusting himself and his news at us nightlymay just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creator.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780892241</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=1473669588|title=Outraged of Tunbridge Wells: Original Complaints from Middle EnglandFalling Short|author=Nigel CawthorneLex Coulton

|summary=It was ever thus… cyclists go too fastLex Coulton's debut novel is a story about mistakes, without using a hooter or lights; there are hoodlums everywhere one looksfailures, and no public conveniences; people pretend to have qualifications and degrees they haven't rightfully earned; buses are too busy with shopping women who should be indoors alreadyrelationships. The main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, cooking for their working menfolk… It's a very clever idea to show exactly what is behind the 'disgusted of Tunbridge Wells' tag, and as a book to be shelved alongside those sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with the wackier letters sent to the ''Daily Telegraph''her best friend Jackson, these selections from the Royal town's press itself make a great eye-opener to the complaints work colleague and complainants of Kent.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908096918</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Charlie Hill|title=Books|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary=Neurology professor Lauren Furrows witnesses is grappling with the sudden untimelydeath increasingly eccentric behaviour of two tourists in a bar while on holidayher mother. Birmingham bookshop ownerRichard Anger happens to be in This relationship is complicated by the same bar so together our single holidaymakers decide to team up as an investigatory force to be reckoned with.(Well, Lauren teams up for fact that. RichardFrances's reasons are more physical thanintellectual to begin with.) The murders seem to emanate from author GarySayles, a legend in his own mind and, apparently, fatal to read. Elsewherehippy exhibitionists (in an over-18 way) Zeke and Pippa, are planning theart installation to end all art installations and, are determined to makeGary the centrepiece, whether he realises it or notfather disappeared at sea when she was five years old.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781251630</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|title=The Facebook Diet: 50 Funny Signs of Facebook Addiction and Ways to Unplug With a Digital Detox|author=Gemini Adams|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=Everywhere you look and question this book, it is a success – more or less. Does it do what it purports to – show evidence of a Facebook addiction and provide a dietary way out? Yes, more or less. Does it engage with its combination of cartoon images and captions? Yes, more or less. Does it have some cult Internet pedigree to make it a hit gift book for the techie? Yes, more or less – it might not have been borne from a webpage somewhere online, but the Kindle version was launched several months before the paperback. Is it then a worthwhile addition to your comedy book shelves? Yes – more or less.Frontpage|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>095546563X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview1683690133|title=Sad MonstersMy Lady's Choosing|author=Frank LesserKitty Curran and Larissa Zageris

|summary=If you thought you had it bad… Here You are a lass of twenty-eight. Plucky, penniless and in Regency-era London the race is the chupacabra writing on to the newspapers for better press – notices that don't universally mention his goat-sucking habits before his chessfind a suitable suitor -playing, dancing or debating recordelse doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Here is Along your journey, you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a banshee struggling with high school lifealone, knowing the end of everyone that and fired by a rogueish sense for adventure. When it comes across her path. Here is King Kongto suitors though, being defended in court by a lawyer with a revelation you'll have to make the jury about his bipolarity ultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the mad, bad and how wrong terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artefacts along the way, it was 's clear this isn't going to get his hopes up with a Broadway show in a strange citybe an easy decision... Did you honestly think Godzilla enjoyed the way his life ended up?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0285642324</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Michael Cameron|title=The BrinkmeyersFrontpage|ratingisbn=5|genre=Humour|summary=Hymie Brinkmeyer, New Yorker transplanted in the UK is 50 years old ''on a good day''. He lives with his wife Maggie and teenage children Kevin and Karrie. Hymie thinks Kevin is great, while given that, if he gets picked up for drug possession once more, Hymie will have to admit that Kevin may have a problem. Karrie, a burgeoning poet, is also wonderful in her dad's eyes and is about to give birth to her second child outside a relationship. It's her body so she has the right... hasn't she? Everything is fine and life is great. Ok, Kevin's plotting to kill his mother and Hymie's leather-clad secretary seems to have a crush on her boss and Hymie seems to have a lump somewhere delicately crucial but everything's just fine.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0957319134</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewStibbe_Xmas|title=Dedicated to...: The Forgotten Friendships, Hidden Stories and Lost Loves found in Second-hand BooksAn Almost Perfect Christmas|author=W B GooderhamNina Stibbe

|summary=One man 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 his dog never had such a famous theme tuneif that failed the hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. Nowadays it's all having to make sure it'One Man s suitably free-range and His Dog'' had a piddly little melody, organic – but the triumphalnot too organic that you can go and visit it, old-fashioned and charming parp of the theme tune get too friendly with it to want to Wallace and Gromit has resounded out for decades noweat it. While Aardman moved away from the near-silent classic animations the series first gave usChristmas, the plasticine creations mutated into incredibly popular charactersthough, which included is of course also a daily strip in the nationtime of great boons. It's biggest-selling tabloid. Here is the first lump cash in hand for a lot of themplump people who can hire red suits and beards, 312 daily doses of tomfoolery, collected it was always a godsend for everyone postmen with all the thank-you letters to enjoy. Even if aunties you thought the franchise had travelled its course saw twice a 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 ago…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782760326</amazonuk>of the year?

 {{newreviewFrontpage|isbn=Doescher_Will|title=Demon DentistWilliam Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh|author=David WalliamsIan Doescher

|summary=''Deaf at Spiral Park'' is A long time ago, in a bizarre take on the philosophy of what it is to be humangalaxy far away, attempted through the portrayal of there was a bear man called William Shakespeare, who shaves of his fur was able to appear as create a human. The story combines philosophy with comedy using a range series of dramatic histories full of stock characters including a clown machinations most foul, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and a farmer to show heroines most sturdy. You may or may not have noticed the world cinematic version of his original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken'', but here at last we get the bear actual script, complete with annoying-in-different-ways-to-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, and to consider how people keeping it in the family til it hurts. And if you need further encouragement, don't forget his humanity may be more than that audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the humans themselves.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1907773169</amazonuk>series is so popular we're on to part seven – surely making this over twice as good…

{{newreview|title=Very British Problems: Making Life Awkward for Ourselves, One Rainy Day at a Time|author=Rob Temple|rating=3|genre=Humour|summary=Are you compelled to apologise multiple times a day – even when you are not at fault, or even to inanimate objects? Would you subject yourself to great inconvenience rather than confront someone who is sitting in your reserved seat Move on a train? Have you been known to commit desperate acts in the search for your next cup of tea? If so, you may be suffering from Very British Problems.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751552593</amazonuk>}}[[Newest LGBT Fiction Reviews]]