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{{newreviewFrontpage<!-- Hainsworth -->*[[image:Hainsworth_Gina.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1908434988?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASINauthor=1908434988]]Edel Rodriguez===[[Talking to Gina by Ottilie Hainsworth]]=== [[image:Xstar.jpg|linktitle=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]], [[Worm:Category:Pets|Pets]] ''This is what happened.'' An artist decided she needed a dog – so drove the length of the country, Brighton to Grimsby, to pick up an Eastern European immigrant street dog with some mange and one working eye. Why not? The first night at home, Gina – the dog – eats something she shouldn't and causes a mess, so it's not a great start, but then begin the tribulations of training, status and behaviour all humans must go through with their dogs. And then, the life with Gina begins to feel like too much – ''I felt weird about you, because you were always there. My thoughts were taken over by you, and I felt sick, as if I was in love.'' Slowly, however, everyone – our artist/author, her husband, two children and two cats – gets to form the family they and Gina all would have wanted. [[Talking to Gina by Ottilie Hainsworth|Full Review]]<br> {{newreview|title=Illegal|author=Eoin Colfer and Andrew DonkinA Cuban American Odyssey|rating=54

|summary=Ebo is twelve years old We're in childhood, and we're in Cuba. The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a saviour of the country, has proven himself a Communist, and not done nearly enough to create a level playing field for all alone. His sister left for Europe months ago and now he doesn Well, those hours-long speeches of his were kind of taking his time away. Our narrator's family weren't know where his brother is either but knows that he has probably done in the same thing. So Ebo has happiest of places here, an uncle refusing to attempt be the same dangerous journey himself. He must cross good soldier the Sahara Desert, get himself country demanded (especially as he would probably be shipped off to Tripolisome minor pro-Communism skirmish, one of such as Angola) and the most dangerous cities in the worldfather being watched and watched, and then try not liked for his successful photography business, success being frowned upon. The mother gets the couple jobs with the party to cross ease some of the Mediterranean Sea. By himself. At twelve. Andheat, but in this sultry island country, even if he makes it, how will he find his sister?remains the kind of heat forcing you out of the kitchen…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1444934007</amazonuk>1474616720

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Frank Miller and Brian AzzarelloKia Ahankoob|title=Batman: Dark Knight III: The Master RaceGold Lion and the Tournament of Sentinels|rating=3.54

|summary=Batman When Myriad created Duniva he endowed his children with different powers, each with its own strength and weakeness, in the hope they would complement each other and collaborate, creating a dynamic and prosperous society. Each power is not playing ball. Hecontained within a magical ring belonging to one of eight countries led by Myriad's been videoed duffing up Gotham policemen, children and not the baddies he usually biffstheir descendants. But then heit didn's not Batman – he's a she, and she finally comes up with the news t quite work out like that Batman died in her hands. Elsewhere, Lara, the daughter Rivalries developed. Enmities grew out of Superman them and Wonder Woman, is encouraging Ray Palmer/The Atom the eight countries went to turn his technologies concerned with shrinking war. Having fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and expanding life to finding the miniaturised city cost of Kandorwar too high, the last vestige of Kryptonian existence not to fly about in visible blue pantsa solution is proposed. What with Superman sitting idle in an exposed Fortress Each of Solitude having gone into a sulkthe eight countries will send their greatest warriors, and Batman deadknown as sentinels, there would appear to be little in a single combat tournament. The winner will take possession of all the way of help for rings and become the world should anything nasty happen – but then, supreme ruler of course, something nasty does happen…Duniva.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1401265138</amazonuk>B09MMQJFPV

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Orlando WeeksPat Grant|title=The GrittermanGrot: The Story of the Swamp City Grifters|rating=54

|summary=There's a man who has an ice cream vanEverything in this world runs on pedal-power, and that includes the punk bands. In summer, what there is There are three pedallers at the front of summer, he uses it the Heath Robinson contraption taking our lead characters to the ferry across the swamp to sell ice creamsFalter City, That's not his vocation though, but it does keep him going whilst he waits for winter, when the van becomes where a Gritting Van mother and our narrator becomes her two sons aim to set up a Grittermanyoghurt factory. The fibreglass 99s on You could say that yoghurt would be the roof light up only culture around, for this is a really rough-and rotate, playing -ready dump of a tuneplace, whether the van's gritting or selling ice creamsbut everyone is interested in small things that grow. Tonight - Christmas Eve - will For the only money to be had – the van's last trip. The council has sent only fortunes to be found in Falter City – come from algae, gunk and other crud that – well, the letter about his services no longer being requireduse of it is never really made clear. Global warming. Dying professionOnce there, they say. There's even the two brothers set themselves each up with a tarmac now that can deguide – Lippy, the more forward-ice itselfthinking, but industrious of the Gritterman isn't sure that he wants to live in two, with a besuited gent, Penn with a world where ballsy young teenaged girl with bright red hair. But which of the two will come off the B2116 doesn't need gritting.worse as they make their own way in this dystopian, semi-Apocalyptic hellhole?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>184614955X</amazonuk>1603094660

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mathieu ReynesLun Zhang, Valerie Vernay Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Jeremy Melloul Edward Gauvin (translator)|title=Water MemoryTiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes

|summary=Despite I never really followed the title, events of Tiananmen Square with much attention when it seems at first was playing out – someone in the memories here are much more earthysecond half of their teens has other priorities, for Caroline has brought her young daughter to the place she herself left as a toddleryou know. The move has been caused by a break-up, and itI certainly didn's just t know of the two weeks of them in protests and hunger strikes from the students before the family unit, making a fresh start (with massacre and the help of a kindly old neighbour) in an old house on a promontory birth of the Brittany coast. Young Marion soon discovers Tank Man image, I didn't know how the clifftops are peppered with strange standing stones, with even stranger figuresarea had long been a venue for political protest, initials and dates carved I didn't know more than a spit about the people involved on to themeither side. She also soon works out there This book is practically flawless in giving a way to get across a causeway at low tide to the local lighthouse, manned as it is by a gruff, surly old man. But while Carolinegeneral browser's beginning anew starts with a nice local job, things are slowly getting more creepy. Large sea creatures are beaching themselves, context for the stones' imagery is found whole season of protests back in even stranger places - and the lighthousekeeper seems to hold darker secrets1989. What memory could possibly be in this storm-drenched land?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1941302432</amazonuk>1684056993

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Renaud DilliesLeigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kit Seaton|title=Wonder Woman: Warbringer: The Lyrical Comics Graphic Novel|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Diana, being unique on her island, is the victim of a lot of taunts, and claims of nepotism. It's only her unique status, and her mother being Queen, that has her with any standing at all, her naysayers declare – even though she has clearly fought to be a strong young woman. Perhaps too strong for the island, however – for every Wonder Woman origin story has her quickly leaving home for the World of Dillies Set: Including AbelardMen, Bubbles & Gondolaand this Diana is the heroine of yet another Wonder Woman origin story. A shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a running race, Betty Bluesbut the survivor she drags from the waters is only going to disturb a lot more...|isbn=1401282555}}{{Frontpage|isbn=1401286208|title=Black Canary: Ignite|author=Meg Cabot and Cara McGee|rating=43.5

|summary=A young duck who plays horn in a jazz band is so rapt Meet Dinah Lance. Frustrated that her policeman father will not allow her to try and follow in his music he doesn't see his girlfriend leaving the bar footsteps, and seemingly lumbered with another manbeing a cheerleader at school, which compels him she is desperate to throw his instrument away and seek find her voice. But it's actually more a change case of scene – without realising what that might entail. A young mouse writer finds himself in the company of solitudeher voice finding her, whether he likes it as when she gets frustrated or notplain dissed at school her vocal outcry can shatter glass better than any opera singer. And You could almost call it a young bird with weapon, or a happy life still itches power. But in order for her to learn what is over the horizon, and partly inspired by a crush on call herself a girl he knowssuperhero, seeks an entirely new life in America there has to attain the sparkly things that might be what turns a whole path of steps for her head. Yes, these graphic novels are entirely peopled by animals to take – sometimes unspecified species, too – but they have a very mature look at the world, and it's not a world where everything comes up roses…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1681121069</amazonuk>one of which will be into her past…

{{Frontpage<!-- Moore -->|isbn=1401280048[[image:Moore Buddha.jpg|left|linktitle=httpsBatman://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/9381182299?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=9381182299]] ===[[BuddhaNightwalker: An Enlightened Life (Campfire The Graphic Novels) by Kieron Moore and Rajesh Nagulakonda]]===Novel [[image:4star.jpg|linkauthor=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]], [[:Category:Biography|Biography]] I don't do religion, but still there was something that drew me to this comic book. For one, the whole Buddhist faith is still a little unknown to me, and this was certainly going to be educational. Yes, I knew some of the terms it ends up using, but not others, such as bhikshu, and had never really come across the man's life story. YesMarie Lu, I knew he found enlightenment and taught a very pacifist kind of faith, but where did he come from? What failings did he have on his path, and who were the ones that joined him along the way? [[Buddha: An Enlightened Life (Campfire Graphic Novels) by Kieron Stuart Moore and Rajesh Nagulakonda|Full Review]]<br> {{newreview|author=Maggie Thrash|title=Honor GirlChris Wildgoose|rating=4.5|genre=Teens Graphic Novels|summary=''ItThe young man called Bruce Wayne is a very noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without people – bystanders, paparazzi, and suchlike – reminding him he's camp. It's supposed to be fun.''<br>''Well excuse me for not having a billionaire at the time age of my lifeeighteen.'' That simple piece of dialogue is Feeling rather stuck with the key legacy he's inherited from his murdered parents, he wants to this autobiographical graphic noveldo charitable deeds. Why is Maggie not happy at camp? Forget the way she's isolated by being But one night, when he speeds off in his posh new car in pursuit of a sleep-walkercriminal, and ignore he goes too far as far as the fact she's from a different state to every other girl aroundauthorities are concerned, and practically only there to obey her mother's family tradition gets given the most unlikely stretch of community service instead – she's all cleaning in the home for violent criminals that is Arkham Asylum. There he learns of a sudden become an ace shot on some other people who also allege charitable intent – the rifle rangeNightwalkers, and a gang who steal any ten-figure bank account contents they can boss the Backstreet Boys-themed talent performance. But those aren't enough for Maggie to feel settled and like she's enjoying her summer, and anyway they do come with their own problemsmurder the owner. No, the bigger problem is something else – the fact that she seems Can he get close to be falling in love with one of them and get the counsellor camperstruth of their schemes, there to look after or will the welfare of manipulative Madeleine be a step too far for the younger inmates – being potentially a lesbian is a shock to our narrator. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0763687553</amazonuk>young do-gooder?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Duncan Watson and Brian Bicknell1401283292|title=Ratchwood DilemmaHarley Quinn: Breaking Glass|author=Mariko Tamaki and Steve Pugh

|summary=Well, this Harleen Quinzel is a singular book and make no mistakenew in town. The first part of the trilogy led us She always, to me, seems new in quite bewildered steps from town, even if she's been around a hive mind crash-landing at Roswell and infecting long time, for she always has a scientistvery fresh attitude, through a religious espouser being shot live on TV and the death of Judas, right up seems to some kind look out of godhead having to better the existence of what, you knowthose large eyes at everything anew each time. But here she is new in town, and the more commonly perceived Godtown is Gotham City. Expecting a year-long furlough from life with her mother, had left us she finds her gran dead and herself with. I think. Here we start no option but to stay with an A&E case where one of a pair bunch of twins drag queens. She also finds school is left in near-vegetative statea drag, she also finds the whole neighbourhood is being redeveloped by a large and uncaring corporation – but one advisor suggests that before the crash or whatever she also finds two characters that caused the problem in the first place there might will have only been one persona big impact on her life. We see One is a man with civil-minded lass called Ivy, the ability to snatch people out of space/time other someone she only meets at night – in a world where that can happen lad with a singular graffiti tag and a mind for violence and chaos, who knows how stable anyone or anything or anywhen might be? And what might any slight imbalance in the universes mean?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524666513</amazonuk>calls himself The Joker…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Burne Hogarth and Rob Thompson140128339X|title=Tarzan - And the Lost Tribes (Vol. 4) (The Complete Burne Hogarth Comic Strip Library)Mera: Tidebreaker|author=Danielle Paige and Stephen Byrne

|summary=Normally I turn against the most popularMeet Mera. If thereShe's the latest in a book series that I know is, say, seven volumes long, I shrug and let people enjoy itline of young women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for themselves. I've been bitten too often by series you think are complete being extendedHer father, for onethe king of Xebel, sees some cotton wool and the originatora hunky man in an arranged marriage as her future – after all, Mera's death too often never puts mother, the full stop youterritory'd expect on things. But some franchises are much longers warrior queen, but too important to ignoreis long dead. TakeMera doesn't fancy the cosseting or the fella involved at all and is, for examplein fact, trying to get Xebel out from under the series (cosh of series) surrounding Tarzan. Unless fully in the knowAtlantean power, you will be surprised at just how many films there were back in the dayfor Xebel's royalty are merely puppets of Atlantean masters. I'm not going So when she overhears her father request that her intended go to count up the number world of official books he was in. He was also in comic stripsus air-breathing humans, as you might expectand kill the Atlantis heir, but she rushes off to get the quest (and the promised throne) all for my sins they've never crossed my path until hereherself. But boy isn't this just a wonderful way of course, she has no idea what kind of person she will meet, and how hard it will be to see what I was missing…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781163200</amazonuk>get the job done…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Zuehlke and Claude St Aubin1401286399|title=Super Sons: The Loxleys PolarShield Project|author=Ridley Pearson and ConfederationIle Gonzalez|rating=3.54

|summary=There It's the near future, and every coastal city – including Metropolis – is in need of a huge hole flood barrier, built on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. But the rising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, forcing many people to relocate in my history knowledge where North America 's biggest exodus for decades. Superman is concerned. Slowlyhelping out, from an opening of sheer ignorancecourse – first, having never studied it whatsoever at schoolhe was patching up the dams, Ibut now he've got s mining the asteroid belt for a small grip on things like rare dust that's perfect for blocking the Civil Warsolar energy from making further polar ice melt. Inland, in Wyndermere, the foundations of refugees from the USA coast are suffering bigotry and a few other things. But that means nothing as far as this book is concernedintolerance for being newcomers, for that huge hole but something else is Canadamuch worse. No, I didn't have an inkling about how it was trying to unify, just as the American Civil War was in full pelt just across A major bout of food poisoning is hitting the bordercity. I didnBut it can't know what was there before Canada, if you see what I mean. The story does possibly have some things in common anything to do with that of their southern neighbours – European occupancy being slowly turned into a list what looks like sabotage of states as we know them now, slowly spreading into the heart of flood barriers and the continent with efforts to correct the help of the railways etc; native 'Indians' being 'in the way'; past trading agreements climate, can it? Four young children begin to either maintain or try to improve on; and so on – but of course piece together clues that it also had the British vs French issue. But did you know how an American President getting shot at the theatre had a bearing on the story? Or the Irish? Like I said, a huge hole…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992150892</amazonuk>can…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter O'Donnell and Enric Badia Romero168369015X|title=Children of Lucifer: Modesty Blaise|rating=3.5|genre=Graphic Novels |summary=Out of ninety-five diverse comic strip stories, the publication of this book leaves just the last three yet to be presented in these fabulous large format paperbacks. So if you haven’t yet met with Manfried the sassy brunette with her curves and her great crime-solving mind, and of course with her Willie, this is the last-but-one chance for you to do so. And if you have any interest in quick little action tales, or even dated kitsch, for both apply here, then you should eagerly be on board…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178329860X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jon Morris|title=The Legion of Regrettable SupervillainsMan: Oddball Criminals from Comic Book History|rating=5|genre=A Graphic Novels |summary=As much as I like comics – and I do, whether superhero ones or not – I have to admit one thing, namely that the villains in them are a bit pants. What is The Penguin but the world's worst Mafioso, with a hobby of waddling along like his pet birds? Where else do you win an Oscar of all things by playing a two-bit killer who just fell in a vat of random chemicals and changed colour, and got mardier as a result (although recently he's become a nanotech genius – but let's not go there)? And what is it with the gimp in the see-through plant pot because he is the embodiment of cold? And that's just some of the better-known enemies of ''Batman'', one of the better goodies. You can imagine how awful the baddies related to the bad goodies can be. And if you can't, this is the perfect primer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594749329</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewNovel|author= Siobhan Dowd and Emma Shoard|title= The Pavee and the Buffer Girl|rating= 5|genre= Graphic Novels|summary=When Jim's family halt at Dundray, his heart grows heavy. A new Buffer school for this Pavee boy to attend. Jim doesn't like school. He doesn't like Buffers. And you know, you couldn't really blame him because the distrust and suspicion is mutual. Prejudice against the Traveller community is strong Caitlin Major and when Jim and his cousins turn up on their first day, it's to stares and muttered insults from the pupils and condescension from the teachers. Within days, Moss Cunningham and his gang have accused Jim of stealing a CD - he did no such thing - and have begun a campaign of threats, bullying and worse.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911370049</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Nathan Hale|title=One Trick PonyKelly Bastow

|genre=Graphic Novels |summary=Forget the moon being made of cheeseIn a world where cats stand on two feet, go to work at call centres and have diminutive human beings for pets, here the Earth looks like itis Manfried. He's a huge dollop of the finest Swiss stuff. Horrid, giant insectoid alien things have taken overtypical frisky but shy pet – forever getting into scrapes, and they have zapped anything technological they demanding more food than he can find – pumping a blob of something over itsuitably eat, and turning whatever turns up in but at the same time being the resulting spheres into sandperfect companion for his owner, or carting it off to larger shipsSteve Catson. Our heroes belong to a travelling caravan of a villageTo such an extent that Steve, who is getting known for his man-oriented thinking, keeping intact as much human knowledge as they can (think a digital version of those readers in is actually having nightmares about becoming the neighbourhood ''Fahrenheit 451crazy man cat''), but they've left their compatriots behind to go exploring. They'll never expect to find But when a magicalwindow gets left open by mistake, wondrousand Manfried goes missing, robotic horse, though – which the only thing for it is where their problems begin…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1419721283</amazonuk>a massive and energised man-hunt…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bobby Joseph and Joseph SamuelsHainsworth_Gina|title=Scotland YardieTalking to Gina|author=Ottilie Hainsworth

|summary=Things are grim in London''This is what happened. 'People of colour' can no longer stand at An artist decided she needed a bus stop or cross dog – so drove the length of the road without white cops shooting them downcountry, Brighton to Grimsby, to pick up an Eastern European immigrant street dog with some mange and planting drugs and guns on themone working eye. Heaven help them if their satnav leads them past certain corrupt coppers. Why not? But obviously one of The first night at home, Gina – the problems there is that there are no black policedog – eats something she shouldn't and causes a mess, so to encourage their growth Boris has built Jamaica it's not a prisongreat start, but then begin the tribulations of training, status and borrowed behaviour all humans must go through with their finest – Scotland Yardie, a dreadlocked and heavily-armed skunkhead rastadogs. ItAnd then, the life with Gina begins to feel like too much – ''s purely thought of as a PR exercise, but Yardie knows differentI felt weird about you because you were always there. When My thoughts were taken over by you add on a mystery regarding a new chain of chicken shops, and the nasty copsI felt sick, he has his work cut outas if I was in love. '' Seen?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662512<Slowly, however, everyone – our artist/amazonuk>author, her husband, two children and two cats – gets to form the family they and Gina all would have wanted.

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mary Telford and Louise VerityColfer_Illegal|title=SinsIllegal|author=Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkin|rating=45|genre=Short StoriesGraphic Novels|summary=Is there enough new to say about the seven deadly sins? We've seen them Ebo is twelve years old and all shown to us, from school age alone. His sister left for Europe months ago and up to the movie ''Se7en'', which we sincerely hope was NOT shown to anyone at school age. We can each recount them all, having been long familiar with them, even if we probably cannow he doesn't pin down when they were actually set in stone without help. Similarly, know where his brother is there anything new in either but knows that he has probably done the world of fairy tale? We know same thing. So Ebo has to attempt the tropes - characters identified by their status or gender (same dangerous journey himself. He must cross the womanSahara Desert, the husband)get himself to Tripoli, a clear set one of rules to obeythe most dangerous cities in the world, and a moral as strong as, if not stronger than, then try to cross the formulae involvedMediterranean Sea. WellBy himself. At twelve. And, this volume demands we decide the answer to those questions as being positive ones, and even if he makes it's not always definitive in the writing here that there is something new, rest assured there how will be something in the imagery that will definitely strike one as fresh...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1843516624</amazonuk>he find his sister?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Bessora, Barroux and Sarah Ardizzone (translator)Miller_Batman|title=AlphaBatman: Dark Knight III: The Master Race|author=Frank Miller and Brian Azzarello|rating=43.5

|summary=Batman is not playing ball. He''It felt like there was boiling water inside my heads been videoed duffing up Gotham policemen, and not the baddies he usually biffs. To cool it down, I had to leave…But then he's not Batman – he' Those words aren't spoken by Alphas a she, and she finally comes up with the narrator of this graphic novelnews that Batman died in her hands. Elsewhere, but they might have been. Living in AbidjanLara, on the south coast daughter of Cote d'Ivoire in AfricaSuperman and Wonder Woman, he is determined encouraging Ray Palmer/The Atom to get out turn his technologies concerned with shrinking and expanding life to go to Paristhe miniaturised city of Kandor, and a relative's hair salon and a much better life. It's the last vestige of Kryptonian existence not just the boiling water that is causing him to jump out the frying pan fly about in visible blue pants. What with Superman sitting idle in an exposed Fortress of Solitude having gone into the unknown firea sulk, but the fact that his wife and son went alreadyBatman dead, and he's trying there would appear to follow be little in their footsteps. ''Your feet become your head. Your body obeys them'' he observes at one point during the ordeal way of help for the world should anything nasty happen – but there are people smugglers galorethen, of course, and blind chance to also obey along the way…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1911370014</amazonuk>something nasty does happen… s

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= HurkWeeks_Gritterman|title= Ready for PopThe Gritterman|author=Orlando Weeks|rating= 4.5|genre= Graphic Novels|summary=London, The mid-sixtiesThere's a man who has an ice cream van. In summer, what appears there is of summer, he uses it to have been a murder attemptsell ice creams, BritainThat's greatest pop sensation 'Vic Vox' has been left not his vocation though, but it does keep him going whilst he waits for winter when the van becomes a foot tall – the effects of Gritting Van and our narrator becomes a 'shrink drug' administered by assailants unknownGritterman. As Detective Chief Inspector Ladyshoe The fibreglass 99s on the roof light up and his team at Scotland Yard try to find who did it and whyrotate, comedian Tubs Cochran prepares himself for his big come-back show. Can he keep his old fashioned comedy instincts relevant enough to entertain playing a new generation? Will Vic Voxtune, whether the van's big rivals, 'The Small Pocks' gritting or selling ice creams. Tonight - Christmas Eve - will be given a boost in Vic Voxthe van's absence? And will June Scurvy get her hit (or maybe not) new single featured on last trip. The council has sent the show letter about his services no longer being required. Global warming. Dying profession, theysay. There're all waiting for…''Ready for Pop''!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662504</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Nick Bantock|title=Griffin and Sabine 25th Anniversary Edition: An Extraordinary Correspondence|rating=4|genre=General Fiction |summary=Oh Griffin and Sabines even a tarmac now that can de-ice itself, where have you been all my life? Ibut the Gritterman isn've loved epistolary novels and ones t sure that take the narrative two-and-fro of letters and bring us closer he wants to the sender than any omniscient narrator can hope to do. I've still got the childlike love of picking at an envelope stuck live in a book to pull out a sheet of something else – not only is there world where the wonder at the handmade construction of something so bluntly and undeservedly called 'a bookB2116 doesn', but there is the frisson of being the first person to see this artefact evert need gritting. So how have I never seen this book before, and its cycle of sequels, concerning the correspondence between two completely different people?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>145215595X</amazonuk>