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{{Frontpage<!-- Hainsworth -->|author=Edel Rodriguez*[[image:Hainsworth_Gina.jpg|left|linktitle=httpsWorm://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1908434988?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1908434988]]A Cuban American Odyssey|rating===[[Talking to Gina by Ottilie Hainsworth]]===4[[image:4.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]]summary=We're in childhood, [[:Category:Pets|Pets]] and we''This is what happenedre in Cuba.'' An artist decided she needed The revolution has happened, and Castro, first thought of as a dog – so drove the length saviour of the country, Brighton to Grimsbyhas proven himself a Communist, 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 done nearly enough to create a mess, so it's not a great start, but then begin the tribulations of training, status and behaviour level playing field for all humans must go through with their dogs. And thenWell, the life with Gina begins to feel like too much – ''I felt weird about you, because you those hours-long speeches of his were always therekind of taking his time away. My thoughts were taken over by you, and I felt sick, as if I was in love.Our narrator's family weren' Slowlyt in the happiest of places here, however, everyone – our artist/author, her husband, two children and two cats – gets an uncle refusing to form be the family they and Gina all good soldier the country demanded (especially as he would have wanted. [[Talking probably be shipped off to Gina by Ottilie Hainsworth|Full Review]]<br> <!some minor pro-- Colfer -->*[[image:Colfer_Illegal.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1444934007?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1444934007]] ===[[Illegal by Eoin Colfer Communism skirmish, such as Angola) and the father being watched and Andrew Donkin]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]]watched, [[:Category:Confident Readers|Confident Readers]] Ebo is twelve years old and all alone. His sister left not liked for Europe months ago and now he doesn't know where his brother is either but knows that he has probably done the same thingsuccessful photography business, success being frowned upon. So Ebo has to attempt The mother gets the same dangerous journey himself. He must cross couple jobs with the Sahara Desert, get himself party to Tripoli, one ease some of the most dangerous cities heat, but in this sultry island country, it remains the world, and then try to cross kind of heat forcing you out of the Mediterranean Sea. By himself. At twelve. And, even if he makes it, how will he find his sister? [[Illegal by Eoin Colfer and Andrew Donkinkitchen…|Full Review]]isbn=1474616720<br>}}{{Frontpage<!-- Miller -->*[[image:Miller_Batman.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1401265138?ie=UTF8&tagauthor=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1401265138]]Kia Ahankoob ==|title=[[Batman: Dark Knight III: The Master Race by Frank Miller Gold Lion and Brian Azzarello]]the Tournament of Sentinels|rating===4[[image:3.5star.jpg|linkgenre=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] Batman is not playing ball. He's been videoed duffing up Gotham policemen, and not the baddies summary= When Myriad created Duniva he usually biffs. But then he's not Batman – he's a she, and she finally comes up with the news that Batman died in her hands. Elsewhere, Lara, the daughter of Superman and Wonder Woman, is encouraging Ray Palmer/The Atom to turn endowed his technologies concerned children with shrinking and expanding life to the miniaturised city of Kandordifferent powers, the last vestige of Kryptonian existence not to fly about in visible blue pants. What each with Superman sitting idle in an exposed Fortress of Solitude having gone into a sulk, its own strength and Batman deadweakeness, there would appear to be little in the way of help for the world should anything nasty happen – but thenhope they would complement each other and collaborate, of course, something nasty does happen… [[Batman: Dark Knight III: The Master Race by Frank Miller creating a dynamic and Brian Azzarello|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Weeks -->*[[image:Weeks_Grittermanprosperous society.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/184614955X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=184614955X]] ===[[The Gritterman by Orlando Weeks]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Graphic Novels|Graphic Novels]] There's Each power is contained within a man who has an ice cream van. In summer, what there is magical ring belonging to one of summer, he uses it to sell ice creams, Thateight countries led by Myriad's not his vocation though, but it does keep him going whilst he waits for winter, when the van becomes a Gritting Van children and our narrator becomes a Grittermantheir descendants. The fibreglass 99s on the roof light up and rotate, playing a tune, whether the van's gritting or selling ice creams. Tonight - Christmas Eve - will be the van's last trip. The council has sent the letter about his services no longer being required. Global warming. Dying profession, they say. There's even a tarmac now that can de-ice itself, but the Gritterman isnBut it didn't sure quite work out like that he wants to live in a world where the B2116 doesn't need gritting. [[The Gritterman by Orlando Weeks|Full Review]]<br> <!-- Moore -->[[image:Moore BuddhaRivalries developed.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/9381182299?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=9381182299]] ===[[Buddha: An Enlightened Life (Campfire Graphic Novels) by Kieron Moore Enmities grew out of them and Rajesh Nagulakonda]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=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 the eight countries went to this comic bookwar. For oneHaving fought themselves into an endless and ruinous stalemate and finding the cost of war too high, the whole Buddhist faith a solution is still a little unknown to me, and this was certainly going to be educationalproposed. Yes, I knew some Each of the terms it ends up usingeight countries will send their greatest warriors, but not others, such known as bhikshusentinels, and had never really come across the man's life storyto a single combat tournament. Yes, I knew he found enlightenment and taught a very pacifist kind The winner will take possession of faith, but where did he come from? What failings did he have on his path, all the rings and who were become the ones that joined him along the way? [[Buddha: An Enlightened Life (Campfire Graphic Novels) by Kieron Moore and Rajesh Nagulakondasupreme ruler of Duniva.|Full Review]]<br>isbn=B09MMQJFPV}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Mathieu Reynes, Valerie Vernay and Jeremy Melloul (translator)Pat Grant|title=Water MemoryThe Grot: The Story of the Swamp City Grifters|rating=4.5

|summary=Despite Everything in this world runs on pedal-power, and that includes the title, it seems punk bands. There are three pedallers at first the memories here are much more earthyfront of the Heath Robinson contraption taking our lead characters to the ferry across the swamp to Falter City, for Caroline has brought where a mother and her young daughter two sons aim to the place she herself left as set up a toddleryoghurt factory. The move has been caused by You could say that yoghurt would be the only culture around, for this is a breakreally rough-up, and it's just the two -ready dump of them a place, but everyone is interested in small things that grow. For the only money to be had – the family unitonly fortunes to be found in Falter City – come from algae, gunk and other crud that – well, making a fresh start (with the help use of a kindly old neighbour) in an old house on a promontory of the Brittany coastit is never really made clear. Young Marion soon discovers Once there, the clifftops are peppered two brothers set themselves each up with strange standing stonesa guide – Lippy, with even stranger figuresthe more forward-thinking, initials and dates carved on to them. She also soon works out there is a way to get across a causeway at low tide to industrious of the local lighthousetwo, manned as it is by with a gruffbesuited gent, surly old man. But while Caroline's beginning anew starts Penn with a nice local job, things are slowly getting more creepyballsy young teenaged girl with bright red hair. Large sea creatures are beaching themselves, But which of the stones' imagery is found in even stranger places - and two will come off the lighthousekeeper seems to hold darker secrets. What memory could possibly be worse as they make their own way in this stormdystopian, semi-drenched landApocalyptic hellhole?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1941302432</amazonuk>1603094660

{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Renaud DilliesLun Zhang, Adrien Gombeaud, Ameziane and Edward Gauvin (translator)|title=The Lyrical Comics of Dillies SetTiananmen 1989: Including Abelard, Bubbles & Gondola, Betty BluesOur Shattered Hopes

|summary=A young duck who plays horn in a jazz band is so rapt in his music he doesn't see his girlfriend leaving I never really followed the bar events of Tiananmen Square with another man, which compels him to throw his instrument away and seek a change of scene much attention when it was playing out – without realising what that might entail. A young mouse writer finds himself someone in the company second half of solitudetheir teens has other priorities, whether he likes it or notyou know. And a young bird with I certainly didn't know of the weeks of protests and hunger strikes from the students before the massacre and the birth of the Tank Man image, I didn't know how the area had long been a happy life still itches to learn what is over the horizonvenue for political protest, and partly inspired by I didn't know more than a crush spit about the people involved on a girl he knows, seeks an entirely new life in America to attain the sparkly things that might be what turns her headeither side. Yes, these graphic novels are entirely peopled by animals – sometimes unspecified species, too – but they have This book is practically flawless in giving a very mature look at the world, and itgeneral browser's not a world where everything comes up roses…context for the whole season of protests back in 1989.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1681121069</amazonuk>1684056993

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Maggie ThrashLeigh Bardugo, Louise Simonson and Kit Seaton|title=Honor GirlWonder Woman: Warbringer: The Graphic Novel|rating=4.53|genre=Teens |summary=''It's camp. It's supposed to be fun.''<br>''Well excuse me for not having Diana, being unique on her island, is the time victim of a lot of my life.'' That simple piece taunts, and claims of dialogue is the key to this autobiographical graphic novelnepotism. Why is Maggie not happy at camp? Forget the way sheIt's isolated by only her unique status, and her mother being a sleep-walkerQueen, and ignore the fact she's from a different state to every other girl aroundthat has her with any standing at all, and practically only there to obey her mother's family tradition naysayers declare – even though she's all of has clearly fought to be a sudden become an ace shot on strong young woman. Perhaps too strong for the rifle rangeisland, and can boss the Backstreet Boys-themed talent performance. But those aren't enough however – for Maggie to feel settled and like she's enjoying every Wonder Woman origin story has her summerquickly leaving home for the World of Men, and anyway they do come with their own problemsthis Diana is the heroine of yet another Wonder Woman origin story. NoA shipwreck disturbs her leading performance in a running race, but the bigger problem is something else – the fact that survivor she seems to be falling in love with one of drags from the counsellor campers, there waters is only going to look after the welfare of the younger inmates – being potentially disturb a lesbian is a shock to our narratorlot more... |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0763687553</amazonuk>1401282555

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Duncan Watson and Brian Bicknell1401286208|title=Ratchwood DilemmaBlack Canary: Ignite|author=Meg Cabot and Cara McGee

|summary=WellMeet Dinah Lance. Frustrated that her policeman father will not allow her to try and follow in his footsteps, this is a singular book and make no mistake. The first part of the trilogy led us in quite bewildered steps from seemingly lumbered with being a hive mind crash-landing cheerleader at Roswell and infecting a scientistschool, through she is desperate to find her voice. But it's actually more a religious espouser being shot live on TV and the death case of Judasher voice finding her, right up to some kind of godhead having to as when she gets frustrated or plain dissed at school her vocal outcry can shatter glass better the existence of what, you know, the more commonly perceived God, had left us withthan any opera singer. I think. Here we start with an A&E case where one of You could almost call it a pair of twins is left in near-vegetative stateweapon, but one advisor suggests that before the crash or whatever that caused the problem a power. But in the first place order for her to call herself a superhero, there might have only been one person. We see has to be a man with the ability whole path of steps for her to snatch people out take – one of space/time – in a world where that can happen who knows how stable anyone or anything or anywhen might which will be? And what might any slight imbalance in the universes mean?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524666513</amazonuk>into her past…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Burne Hogarth and Rob Thompson1401280048|title=Tarzan - And the Lost Tribes (Vol. 4) (Batman: Nightwalker: The Complete Burne Hogarth Comic Strip Library)Graphic Novel|author=Marie Lu, Stuart Moore and Chris Wildgoose|rating=4.5

|summary=Normally I turn against the most popular. If there's The young man called Bruce Wayne is a book series that I know is, say, seven volumes long, I shrug and let very noticeable one – he can hardly go anywhere without people enjoy it. I've been bitten too often by series you think are complete being extended– bystanders, for onepaparazzi, and the originatorsuchlike – reminding him he's death too often never puts a billionaire at the full stop you'd expect on thingsage of eighteen. But some franchises are much longerFeeling rather stuck with the legacy he's inherited from his murdered parents, but too important he wants to ignoredo charitable deeds. TakeBut one night, when he speeds off in his posh new car in pursuit of a criminal, for examplehe goes too far as far as the authorities are concerned, and gets given the series (most unlikely stretch of series) surrounding Tarzancommunity service instead – cleaning in the home for violent criminals that is Arkham Asylum. Unless fully in There he learns of some other people who also allege charitable intent – the knowNightwalkers, a gang who steal any ten-figure bank account contents they can, you will be surprised at just how many films there were back in and murder the dayowner. I'm not going Can he get close to count up one of them and get the number truth of official books he was in. He was also in comic stripstheir schemes, as you might expect, but or will the manipulative Madeleine be a step too far for my sins they've never crossed my path until here. But boy isn't this just a wonderful way to see what I was missing…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1781163200</amazonuk>the young do-gooder?

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Mark Zuehlke and Claude St Aubin1401283292|title=The Loxleys Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass|author=Mariko Tamaki and ConfederationSteve Pugh

|summary=There Harleen Quinzel is a huge hole new in my history knowledge where North America is concernedtown. SlowlyShe always, from an opening of sheer ignoranceto me, having never studied it whatsoever at schoolseems new in town, Ieven if she've got s been around a small grip on things like the Civil Warlong time, for she always has a very fresh attitude, the foundations and seems to look out of the USA and a few other thingsthose large eyes at everything anew each time. But that means nothing as far as this book here she is concernednew in town, for that huge hole and the town is CanadaGotham City. NoExpecting a year-long furlough from life with her mother, I didn't have an inkling about how it was trying she finds her gran dead and herself with no option but to unify, just as the American Civil War was in full pelt just across the borderstay with a bunch of drag queens. I didn't know what was there before Canada, if you see what I mean. The story does have some things in common with that of their southern neighbours – European occupancy being slowly turned into She also finds school is a list of states as we know them nowdrag, slowly spreading into she also finds the heart of the continent with the help of the railways etc; native 'Indians' whole neighbourhood is being 'in the way'; past trading agreements to either maintain or try to improve on; redeveloped by a large and so on uncaring corporation – but of course it she also had the British vs French issuefinds two characters that will have a big impact on her life. But did you know how an American President getting shot One is a civil-minded lass called Ivy, the other someone she only meets at the theatre had night – a lad with a singular graffiti tag and a bearing on the story? Or the Irish? Like I saidmind for violence and chaos, a huge hole…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0992150892</amazonuk>who calls himself The Joker…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Peter O'Donnell and Enric Badia Romero140128339X|title=Children of LuciferMera: Modesty BlaiseTidebreaker|author=Danielle Paige and Stephen Byrne|rating=34.5|genre=Graphic Novels |summary=Out Meet Mera. She's the latest in a line of ninety-five diverse comic strip storiesyoung women intent on fighting against their intended destiny for one only they can see for themselves. Her father, the publication king of this book leaves just Xebel, sees some cotton wool and a hunky man in an arranged marriage as her future – after all, Mera's mother, the territory's warrior queen, is long dead. Mera doesn't fancy the cosseting or the last three yet fella involved at all and is, in fact, trying to be presented in these fabulous large format paperbacksget Xebel out from under the cosh of Atlantean power, for Xebel's royalty are merely puppets of Atlantean masters. So if you haven’t yet met with the sassy brunette with when she overhears her curves and father request that her great crimeintended go to the world of us air-solving mindbreathing humans, and of course with her Williekill the Atlantis heir, this is she rushes off to get the quest (and the last-but-one chance promised throne) all for you to do soherself. And if you have any interest in quick little action talesBut of course, or even dated kitschshe has no idea what kind of person she will meet, for both apply here, then you should eagerly and how hard it will be on board…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178329860X</amazonuk>to get the job done…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jon Morris1401286399|title=Super Sons: The Legion of Regrettable Supervillains: Oddball Criminals from Comic Book HistoryPolarShield Project|author=Ridley Pearson and Ile Gonzalez|rating=54|genre=Graphic Novels |summary=As much as I like comics It's the near future, and every coastal city – and I do, whether superhero ones or not including Metropolis – I have to admit one thing, namely that the villains is in them are need of a bit pantshuge flood barrier, built on its coast by Wayne Enterprises. What is The Penguin but But the worldrising sea levels have put even those constructions under threat, forcing many people to relocate in America's worst Mafiosobiggest exodus for decades. Superman is helping out, 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 colourcourse – first, he was patching up the dams, and got mardier as a result (although recently but now he's become mining the asteroid belt for a nanotech genius – but letrare dust that's not go there)? And what is it with perfect for blocking the gimp solar energy from making further polar ice melt. Inland, in Wyndermere, the refugees from the see-through plant pot because he coast are suffering bigotry and intolerance for being newcomers, but something else is the embodiment of cold? And that's just some much worse. A major bout of food poisoning is hitting the better-known enemies of city. But it can''Batman'', one t possibly have anything to do with what looks like sabotage of the better goodies. You can imagine how awful flood barriers and the baddies related efforts to correct the bad goodies climate, can be. And if you can't, this is the perfect primer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594749329</amazonuk>it? Four young children begin to piece together clues that it can…

{{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn= Siobhan Dowd and Emma Shoard168369015X|title= The Pavee and Manfried the Buffer Girl|rating= 5|genre= Man: A Graphic NovelsNovel|summaryauthor=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 and when Jim and his cousins turn up on their first day, it's to stares and muttered insults from the pupils Caitlin Major 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>