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|author=Marie PhillipsIan Doescher|title=The Table Of Less Valued KnightsWilliam Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh

|genre=FantasyScience Fiction|summary=Sir Humphrey has been demoted from King Arthur's Round Table A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, there was a man called William Shakespeare, who was able to the Table create a series of dramatic histories full of Lesser Valued Knightsmachinations most foul, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy. You may or may not have noticed the cinematic version of his original stage play for ''The only way to Force Doth Awaken'', but here at last we get his comfier seat back is the actual script, complete with annoying-in-different-ways-to redeem himself via a quest. Therefore when damsel Elaine seeks help to find her kidnapped fiancé-before droids anew, Humphrey and returning heroes from elsewhere in his wardoeuvre, the teenage giant Conrad, eagerly set forth. Meanwhile and people keeping it in the kingdom of Tuft, new Queen Martha has run away after a disastrous wedding to… a… well… disastrous Prince Edwinfamily til it hurts. She may not realise it yetAnd if you need further encouragement, but she too will have a job for Humphrey!don't forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the series is so popular we're on to part seven – surely making this over twice as good…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099555875159474985X</amazonuk>

|author=Tim FlanneryJames Goss and Russell T Davies|title=The Mystery Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of the Venus Island FetishTime Lord Verse (Dr Who)|rating=34.5|genre=Historical FictionChildren's Rhymes and Verse |summary=Meet Archie MeekConsider the Doctor. He's about Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to leave the Venus Islandshand out each year, where were he's lived for the last five years, and return to Sydney, where he'll take his office keep in the museum and fill it touch with all the cultural artefacts he's found and wildlife he's plucked or pickled. even half of his companions? That's not to ignore the fact he'll count as something quite alien himselfHe would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of them, say, with his filled-out framefor example, nearly all-over suntan whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of a Time Lord and totemic tattoo, in amongst other changes to that of some of his bodyfriends and enemies. But what's this? When he gets backAs luck would have it, he finds one of has the main Venus Islands artefacts that caused him space in his TARDIS to go there stock up in the first placeadvance, a hugeso my advice to him – sorry, macabre ceremonial fetish mask, purloined as corporate artworkher – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. And some of the curators he wishes to work alongside have vanished. Is the weird society of the museum heif you's returning tore working on a shorter timescale, perchancewith a shorter lifespan, even weirderand thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, stranger and more violent than well my advice is pretty much the cannibalistic society he's waving farewell to?same.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19220793081785942719</amazonuk>

|author=Roman DirgeAnnie Ingram|title=The Cat Conversations with a Really Big HeadKammie|rating=3.54|genre=Graphic NovelsPets|summary= How many picture books are there about cats? It was something of a relief when I encountered Annie Ingram and her cocker spaniel Kammie. And how many do you know that you would really NOT prefer your children to You see? If the answer , Annie knows something which has been self-evident to the second question is me for a long time: dogs are perfectly capable of communicating with humans and not just on a level of ''food!'none – yet', scratch that last word. The title piece in this collection is, by the author's own admission, his imagining of the Joseph Merrick (the 'Elephant Manwalk!') of the feline world – who struggles to sneak up behind a mouse when the shadow of his head is a total giveaway, and who can hardly even eat with dignity as bending down to his bowl would break his neck. If that's too dark or oddball for you, try the second major piece, which has a most revealing foreword – ''Dedicated play!''. You do require extensive training to a certain girl… I hope your life is filled with wonderful accomplishmentsbecome fluent, love but most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to teach you and all the magic you desire… - But I hope your death have to do is slow listen. Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and horriblethe pair have allowed us to share some of their conversations.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17827628761785451995</amazonuk>

|author=Val HennessyCharles Harris|title=Not Far From DreamlandThe Breaking of Liam Glass|rating=4.53|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Ronald Tonks has reached that stage in life which I call upper middle age: you've qualified for your pension A flawed but not yet got to the free television licence barrierreasonably entertaining swipe at modern media. What Ronald ''has'' got is a roof that leaks (thereThere's good reason why his home is called 'the shack')plenty here to like, a dog who is going bald (in patches) and money that's in very short supply. On the plus side he has friends, mostly platonic and usually in much the same boat as Ronaldplenty not to. But are they downhearted? Well, they are occasionally, but mostly they're generously optimistic good structure and out scramjet pace keep this one flying to make the most of what they've got, usually bought from charity shops and jumble sales. ''Not Far From Dreamland'' is the story of a year (2012) in the life of Ronald Tonks, his friends and relativesfinal page.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07043738741908943823</amazonuk>

|author=Harry HarrisonFred Van Lente|title=Bill, the Galactic HeroTen Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery|rating=3.54|genre=Science FictionHumour|summary=Meet Bill. He's Nine comedians are invited to a simple farmer – wellremote Caribbean island under the guise of working with Dustin Walker, he ''is'' taking a correspondence course in being a Technical Fertiliser Operator – but fate has something else in storecomedic legend. And so does Each fits neatly into one of the mechanisedarchetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, technologicalthe washed-up has-been who has fallen far from his early days; Zoe, industrial militarythe rising female star with a new stand-up special coming soon; Dante, which needs several billion grunts who went from being a kid on the streets to fight the Chingershardest working road comic in the business; Oliver, in mankindthe child-like prop comic who can's first inter-galactic war. t get any respect from his peers; Janet, the insult comic who is past her prime; StillTJ, at least he gets medals just the nightly variety show host with a reputation for signing up. After that it's all downhillharassing his female colleagues and guest acts; Ruby, the ultra-feminist YouTuber and Blogger with a chip on her shoulder; and William, whose redneck character ''Billy the likes of Petty Chief Officer Deathwish Drang can only make that Contractor'' is a far cry from his real personality as a straight line posh millionaire. Of course, all nine agree because ''when God almighty walks down. Reallyon a beam of light and asks for your help, what hope is therethe hell else are you going to say?''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147320531X1594749744</amazonuk>

|author=Ian DoescherS Lynn Scott|title=Elizabeth, William Shakespeare's The Phantom of Menace... and Me

|summary= Join usAlly is an ordinary woman with teenage children, good gentles, for a merry reimagining husband and a job. Then comes the day when ordinariness flies out of `Star Wars Episode 1the window. It' as only Shakespeare could have written s not a coincidence that it. 'Tis a true Shakespearean drama, filled with sword fights, soliloquies s the same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I in the pantry and doomed romance…all the Bard of Avon in glorious iambic pentameter and coupled with gorgeous illustrationsher bath. Hold on What's she going to your midichlorians: The plays the thingdo? Well, wherein you'll catch the rise of AnakinElizabeth and Will have their own ideas about that!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>15947480631788037006</amazonuk>

|author=AttaboyE G Rodford|title=The Book of HugsSurgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2|rating=4|genre=HumourCrime |summary=A hugIn the second instalment of this series, Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a well-known local man to track down some missing valuables. Bill Galbraith, a world-famous surgeon at Cambridge's Addenbrooke's Hospital who hosts a hugpopular medical television programme, OK? You either dohas had his briefcase stolen by his live-in domestic servant, or you don'tAurora. According to Galbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of his at the hospital. Some people might George agrees to look into the theft, assuming it will be a relatively easy and straightforward case – little more enthusiastic does he know, he's about the process whilst others are more elegant in the execution to enter a world of the hug, but basically you just get on deceit and do it and then forget about it, right?dysfunction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0867197978178565005X</amazonuk>

|author= Christopher FowlerToni Jordan|title= Bryant and May – The Burning ManOur Tiny, Useless Hearts|rating=45|genre=CrimeWomen's Fiction|summary= The Peculiar Crimes Unit (PCU) has a new set of overlordsAs predicted by Caroline and Janice's mother on Caroline and Henry's wedding day, their marriage is over, albeit 15 years and two daughters further along than predicted. For reasons that were explored in the previous couple of outings they have been transferred Indeed, this is definitely not a good weekend for Janice to the City Of London Policebe babysitting at Caroline's house. The Met are still There's the big players in split and the area. City awkwardness of London Police only police the old city, the square mile, girls' schoolteacher being the financial district in other words, woman for a start. Then there's that has very little in mistaken identity moment involving the way of street crime, because no-one lives there anymore neighbours. At least Janice is well adjusted and the people who work there are, by and large, either too rich to need to steal, or too smart to have to do so on the streets.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857522043</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Catharina Ingelmanover her ex-Sundberg|title=The Little Old Lady Who Struck Lucky Again! |rating=3husband Alec.5|genre=Humour|summary=Following the success She still dreams of ''The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules''him, the League of Pensioners are back – and this timeyes, they’re in Vegas! I haven’t read the first book but it was on my list when 's so over! Just as well really… guess who's at the opportunity arose to review this one. The idea of the League of Pensioners marching towards a fairer world through fun and frolics was hugely appealing to me and this is a stand alone novel so I thought I would dive straight in with this one.door?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14472749031760293814</amazonuk>

|author=WinshlussColin Taylor|title=In God We TrustThe Life of a Scilly Sergeant

|genre=Graphic NovelsTravel|summary=To start withMeet the Isles of Scilly. (I know they should be called that – the author provides a handy guide to the etiquette of their name, their nature and location, a rhetorical testetc. ) How about God and Adam playing badminton day For our more distant readers, they're several chunks of granite rock out in and day outthe Atlantic, where Cornwall is pointing, with just 2, until one gets bored and decides to create Eve? 200 permanent residents. Or the defeater of Goliath They're big on tourism, and big on growing flowers in the saviour of tropical climate the Israelites being one Conan Gulf Stream bequeaths them – although the Barbarian? Or this as a test – Jesus Himself failing weather is bad enough to turn any car to have a successful session of tequila slammers with Gabriel due to the holes through His hands? rust bucket within years. I barely need mention that in these pages God does battle with SupermanThey're so wee, and so idyllic-seeming, especially at night, you can be mistaken for you to have answered the test and put yourself firmly in one of two camps thinking there would be no need for this book a police presence. But there is – at least two working at any one very much opposed to buying it, and time. And one very much of them in favourrecent years has been Colin Taylor, who has done his official duty – alongside maintaining a well-known online existence, which has brought to life all the whimsical comedy of his work.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0861662350178475515X</amazonuk>

|author=David Walliams Josie Lloyd and Tony RossEmlyn Rees|title=The Queen's Orang-UtanTwas the Fight Before Christmas: A Parody|rating=3.5|genre=For SharingHumour|summary=The Queen felt trapped in the palace with all those stuffed animals which she It's Christmas Eve and Mum has been given on foreign toursarranged everything. There are mountains of them and every night All she would dream now has to do is await the arrival of escaping. When her birthday drew near the family dutifully asked her what she would like as a present. The Prince was thinking of a gold, diamond encrusted stairlift whilst relatives and the Duke was considering a great big bottle of brandyfood shopping delivery. The Royal Baby had some decorated thimbles in mind, but Little does Mum know that those two elements alone have the Queen became just a little snappish as she explained that what she really wanted was 'One's own orang-utan'. And she didn't mean a stuffed one, eitherpotential to ruin everything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00081351341472125118</amazonuk>

|author=Jack SheffieldRyan North|title=Silent NightRomeo and/or Juliet

|genre=General FictionHumour|summary=I For all those who think tragedy plots are too restricted and prescribed, read a couple on. In these pages you too will see that Romeo had lots of Jack Sheffield’s books about five years agooptions en route to hitting the bottle. Likewise, and enjoyed them very muchshe could have turned away from her predestined path at no end of junctures. They were written in a similar style And to those popularised bywhat result? Well, for instancehappy marriage and a kid called Ben, James Herriot or [[:Category:Gervase Phinn|Gervase Phinn]], told mostly in because the leads have just banged people's heads together and stopped the first personquarrelling, describing the author’s first couple of years as Headmaster at or Death by Tybalt (him) or a small village primary school in Yorkshire. The village of Ragley is fictionallong life running an establishment curing murderous women, such as are most of the characters, but the incidents and situations encountered are based on the author’s experiencea Lady M (her).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>05521670450356508536</amazonuk>

|author=J Robert LennonGervase Phinn|title=See You In ParadiseThe Virgin Mary's Got Nits|rating=34.5|genre=Short StoriesHumour|summary=Lennon writes with a relaxed, easy style and his characters are instantly recognisable as people from everyday walks of life, without being Christmas in any way stereotypical. Many of our house is the people in these stories are dealing with normal frustrations, time we tend to get on a plane and Lennon is cleverly detached enough not head to make them individuals either sun or snow, anywhere that you're obviously supposed to root for (the only exception is far, far away from the industrialist in madness at home, last minute dashes to the eponymous taleshops on Christmas Eve, who is an archetypal capitalist fat cat). There and food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are some very clever characterisations – in ''Weber’s Head'', shutting for examplea month, the narrator is nor a flawed individual whose opinions of his housemate are gradually revealed to be unreliable and unfairmere 36 hours. For me, But I do remember the most unsettling story is ''No Life''feeling of Christmas when I was younger, because back when it portrays a decent couple at was magical, and back when you knew exactly what the mercy of people more powerful season would bring with carol concerts and school nativities and influential than themChristmas parties. There This book is no supernatural or bizarre element at work herean anthology of those moments, just ordinary characters at and it took me right back to the mercy wonder of social powerChristmas as a child.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17812533581444779400</amazonuk>

|author=Lynne TrussKieran Crowley|title=Cat out of HellShoot|rating=34|genre=HorrorCrime|summary=Meet Alec CharlesworthI make something of a habit of being late to discover good writers, in this case getting to Crowley after he is no longer with us. HeThe result is that what is billed as ''s retired and decamped to an isolated coastal cottage F.X. Shepherd mystery'' with just his dog and loving memories all the optimism of his colleague wife, now that she there being more to come has died before her time. But the fusty librarian cannot rest too long before engaging in exploring some unusual computer files that were pinged across by someone at poignancy of being, if not the college he worked atlast of a short line, just before he leftcertainly one of a few. Bizarrely they show photographic F.X. Shepherd – he doesn't like his first name and audio evidence of prefers just "Shepherd" is, technically, a talking cat called Roger, replete with Vincent Price voice – although they are also damaged by being included alongside some bad screenplay attempts about said catcolumnist. Worryingly, we soon see what at the most only a few of the characters can, that this cat is being accompanied He's been sacked by unusual one New York newspaper and unexpected death – is writing a weekly column for another. I don't know much like Alecabout journalism, but I'm guessing one column a week doesn's wife. Itt pay much as a rule…which explains why Shepherd's only when Roger testifies to having been pushed through soap-washed-foul-mouthed editor (read the ends of endurance and out the other side that we begin book, you'll see what I mean) expects him to doubt where the true evil turn in this story lies…some genuine journalism as well: front page, seat of your pants stuff. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>00995853401783296518</amazonuk>

|author=Jimmy Hansen and Mychailo KazybirdGray Jolliffe|title=Wallace & Gromit The First Ever Christmas: The Complete Newspaper Strips Collection Vol 2And Who to Blame|rating=45

|summary=For me there are two important areas If I tell you a secret, will you promise not to tell anyone? Well, I really don't like Christmas: it's my least favourite time of year and whilst some people count down to the cover of this book where three letters are arranged in meaningful waysday itself, I look forward to that point when I can say that it's all over for another year. The first is It's all too commercialised for me, with the S-U-N in their obligatory red and white fonta coating of faux religion. No minor paper could hold Wallace and Gromit, their adventures have to be I've never found it in what is (unfortunately) the most widely read tabloid in the country. And elsewhere is C-Bleast funny -E, suggesting that even the storytellers at Aardman Animations who are not household names are feted and revered as artistic expertsis, raising many laughs and much money for the country courtesy of their creative outputuntil I found Gray Jolliffe's ''The First Ever Christmas: And Who's to Blame''. Together these short collections of letters show just how much WaG are major creationsAmazingly, I'd never encountered Gray Jolliffe either, and but I'm a convert to his skills as a cartoonist (if not to the proof was needed idea of Christmas) after reading this much longer collection of their daily comic strips provides it in spadesChristmas-themed cartoons from his archive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17827608221445663503</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Dear Committee MembersJonathan Pugh|authortitle=Julie SchumacherPugh's New Year's Resolutions

|genre=General FictionHumour|summary=Jason Fitger (Jay) If there's one thing that's for certain, it's that the world is changing. We're dating online, we're communicating in ways that make email seem redundant, and when we're shopping we just tell a Professor of creative writing website where and when it can be delivered, and literature at a small university in the American mid-westhow much leeway they have to swap our wishes for whatever it is they do bring us. He is But those changes are also supposed to be affecting us – we're supposed to use a frustrated novelist smart watch to tell us if we're moving or not, we have to keep up with a colourful personal historythe latest fads, much of which bleeds into his professional life, with interesting resultsand we're supposed to prick our ears up and take note when the proverbial 'they' change their minds about what we're supposed to eat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00075863451780722885</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Mapp and Lucia OmnibusLuke Rhinehart|authortitle=E F BensonInvasion|rating=34.5|genre=Humour|summary=Miss Elizabeth Mapp rules the town of Tilling Super- she is the centre of the social lifeintelligent furry aliens suddenly appear from another universe. And they've come to earth to have fun. Alien Louie follows fisherman Billy Morton home one day, and spends her days enjoying bridge, polite conversation he and civilised paintinghis family quickly come to love the playful alien. When Mrs Emmeline Lucas arrives in town (known But when Louie starts using their computer to hack into government and corporate networks, stealing millions from banks to all as Lucia)give to others, Miss Mapp finds her life truly shaken upthey realise that Louie and his friends mean trouble. As Billy and his family begin a roller coaster ride of fame and fortune, as well as a ranking high on the culturedFBI's most wanted list, fashionable and progressive Lucia makes her home in the townGovernment soon decides that these aliens are terrorists, and swiftly rises must be eliminated. Whilst the aliens are playing games they hope will help humans to see the top insanity of the ranks amongst American political, economic and military systems, they soon come to realise that the social scene in TillingPowers that Be don't play games: they make war.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18499084781785651757</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Encyclopedia ParanoiacaRod Green|authortitle=Henry Beard Only Fools and Christopher CerfHorses: The Peckham Archives

|genre=Popular ScienceEntertainment |summary=Weare in the world of one of the country're screweds most famous and well-loved sitcoms – even if it was sort-of killed off for Christmas 2003. Wherever we lookYes, whatever we think of doingthere have been specials since, there and more repeats to clog up the BBC schedules than is a reason why we shouldn't be doing itreally pukka, and but very few people failed to succumb to back that reason up with scientific dataits charms at one time or another. Take any aspect I'm sure there have been books before now celebrating the stony-faced reception of your daily life – what you eat''that'' drop through the open bar hatch, how you workand ''that'' chandelier scene, how you rest even, what you touch – all have problems that could provoke a serious illness or worsebut this is much more meaty. And outside that daily sphere there are economic disastersPurporting to be the family archives, found dumped in Nelson Mandela House, the documents here were passed from pillar to post, nuclear meltdownsfrom one council worker in a department with a clumsy acronym to another, errant AI scientists from them to the police – and passing comets that could turn our world upside down at the blink of an eyenow here they are being published for their social history worth. Perhaps then you better read this book first – for it may well turn out to be your last…Will enough readers find them of worth, as the series quietly celebrates its 35th birthday?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07156492131849909245</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Diary of a Mad DivaMara Wilson|authortitle=Joan RiversWhere Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame|rating=3.5|genre=HumourAutobiography|summary=The late Joan Rivers wasMara Wilson has always felt a little young and a little out of place: as the only child on a film set full of adults, without the first daughter in a doubthouse full of boys, the sole clinically depressed member of a character. Actresscheerleading squad, comedian, writer, director, presenter, she was well known a valley girl in the USA New York and beyond for her sharp tongue a neurotic in California, and no holds barred personaan adult the world still remembers as a little girl. This was Tackling everything from how she first learned about sex on the last set of the dozen books she published''Melrose Place, '' to losing her final title before mother at a young age, to getting her death first kiss (or was it kisses?) on a celebrity canoe trip, to not being cute enough to make it in September 2014Hollywood, these essays tell the story of one young woman's journey from accidental fame to relative obscurity, but also illuminate a universal struggle: learning to accept yourself, and figuring out who you are and where you belong.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>04252690270143128221</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - The Nearly Definitive EditionTony Stuart|authortitle=Douglas AdamsWriting Lines|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionHumour|summary=There are few series that have garnered such George Gordon Wentworth (1946-2011) lived a humdrum life. He was a barely adequate teacher in a fairly world renowned independent school in Kent and kept a cult following as 'The Hitchhikers Guide copious diary of his quotidian existence. Most of what he recorded was dross. However, amongst all the utterly uninteresting tailings of his life there were some nuggets and grains to catch the Galaxy'attention. Whether the fans have come from the radio seriesAuthor Tony Stuart has created these amusing anecdotes, panning them out over twenty six episodes which give us the (impossibly hard) computer game, or best of Wentworth – comedy gold. From losing all the (well intentioned but not particularly good) film, they are everywhere. Ask pupils in his charge on a room school trip to being arrested on suspicion of people what terrorism; from waking up in bed between the married couple the meaning of life ismorning after their wedding, and you can be pretty sure to destroying a ski run; from appearing full-frontal naked in a good few will pipe up with sheep-farmers'42' as gazette to triggering an air-sea rescue; Wentworth was, blinkered and befuddled, the answersubject – of these and so many more unlikely but highly amusing events.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>04340233961524634441</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Quick Pint After WorkGraham Fulbright|authortitle=Luke LewisDriving Mad: Maniacs, Morons and the Advanced Motorist's Club|rating=43.5

|summary=BuzzFeed is one of I passed my driving test when John F Kennedy was in the world’s best time sucks, White House and I’m regularly directed I've recently had to reapply for my driving licence having achieved a venerable age. When I started driving the roads were kinder, more forgiving places - or put another way, the site by links from Facebook idiots were fewer and Twitter, in further between browsing the app on my phone. According to the author bio on this book I don't know how long Graham Fulbright has been driving, BuzzFeed is but he certainly knows his motoring morons and in ''Driving Mad'a social news and entertainment company', which is he brings us a fancy way fictional sample of describing lots of fun lists their eccentricities. Well, I'm pretty certain that speak to the readership (20 words that have a completely different meaning in Manchester, 30 Things all exthey're fictional -gymnasts but these days you never know to be true, 40 Very British problems, yadda yadda yadda). These list work well on line when you want a quick distraction, and they’re easy 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07515577301783062584</amazonuk>

|author=Graeme SimsionMario Giordano|title=The Rosie EffectAuntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions

|genre=HumourCrime|summary=Following inadvertent success Poldi had not long been widowed when she decided to move from Bavaria to Sicily with the Wife Project, Professor Don Tillman and his new bride Rosie have moved from Australia intention of drinking herself to New Yorkdeath. Although Don's position on the autistic scale is subjectiveShe could, he still operates on a daily basis of structured procedurescourse, have done this in Germany, lists and logicbut she felt that a sea view was essential. Rosie can generally handle that but Once there are choppy waters ahead. With , new friends, family already resident on the island and the patter corpse of tiny feet imminent logic goes out a young man, his face blown off by a shotgun, whom she found on the window as local beach, intervened to give her life some meaning. For a while she struggles with was a suspect, but that (and her wig) were no obstacle to her PhD while Don struggles falling for Commissario Vito Montana who was assigned to find his place in investigate the baby production processcase. At least he has his drinking buddies Assisting him (or having him assist her) came naturally to support him – Poldi and before long there was an aging rock drummer investigative and a friend whose wife has thrown him out for infidelitypersonal partnership. What could possibly go wrong?At least so far as Poldi was concerned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07181794711908524693</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Burnt Tongues: An Anthology of Transgressive Short StoriesGrady Hendrix|authortitle=Chuck Palahniuk, Dennis Widmyer and Richard ThomasMy Best Friend's Exorcism|rating=45|genre=Short StoriesHorror|summary=Saying certain things out loud just don’t sound right1988, Charleston, South Carolina. Some things are so disturbing or politically incorrect that you are High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best off leaving them inside your head, or better yet not thinking of them at allfriends since fourth grade. When these words are spoken they could lead to the sensation of Burnt Tongue; But after an aftereffect evening of knowing what you said was skinny-dipping goes disatrously wrong, Gretchen begins to act...different. She's moody. She's irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever she's nearby. Are you prepared Abby's investigation leads her to enter some startling discoveries - and by the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusion, the world fate of Transgressive Fiction that aims to disturb, alienate, disgust Abby and Gretchen will be determined by a single question: Is their friendship enough to beat the devil?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178329552X1594748624</amazonuk>

|author=Sammy LookerKevin MacNeil|title=Something Nasty in the SlushpileThe Brilliant and Forever|rating=43.5|genre=Humour|summary=I couldn't resist the title - You know sometimes when someone tells a neat play on [[Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons|Cold Comfort Farm]] and I'm sure that you'll understand that I was expecting some examples of the horrors to be found amongst the mountain of unsolicited manuscripts which every publisher accumulates. I'll confess I was expecting to gigglejoke, even to groan - unkindeveryone else laughs, I know - and I'd mentally shelved the book with the trivia, or (hopefully) the humour. There is that element to the book, but there's also something far more useful. If you're thinking about publishing a book this should be required reading ''before'' you even go near a publisher.sat there wondering what was so funny?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14721110281846973376</amazonuk>

|author=The QueenChristopher Fowler|title=Still ReigningBryant and May: Strange Tide|rating=43.5|genre=HumourCrime|summary=Anyone who frequents Twitter The thirteenth outing for Bryant and May is looking very much like it will know that it's a mixed blessing. It's a mine of wonderful information and supportive camaraderiebe their last. It's also - unfortunately - home to a lot of people who take great pleasure in causing pain to others. But in amongst all this are a few gems and one of them Arthur Bryant is [https://twitter.com/Queen_UK @Queen_UK], a delightful satire on members of the royal familycompassionate leave whilst tests are continuing, celebrities, the political classes and the state of Her Majesty's nation. Or, ''onewhich are likely to confirm that he is suffering from Alzheimer's nation'' as Ma'am would say. ''Still Reigning'' His condition is her second bookworsening almost by the day, 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 the originalmemory lapses are morphing into full-scale hallucinations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07156491320857523422</amazonuk>

|author=Kevin Smith|title=Last Days The Voyage of the Bus Club|author=Chris StewartDolphin|rating=45|genre=HumourHistorical Fiction|summary=I could well have been a nearDublin 1916: Among the unrest and anti-neighbour of Chris Stewart. Not, of course, near his current primary occupancy, an ecological farmstead just beyond the turning off from British feeling worsened by the back end threat of nowhere in conscription into a war seen as nothing to do with the most rural of corners of southern SpainIrish, but back when he lived in Trinity College faculty has other distractions. They'd like a trophy; the south-east skeleton of England, being Genesisan Irish 'giant' first ever drummer, and building bridges in the North Downsto be precise. The fact I learnt only glitch is that the latter from this book shows up several of the features of this warm-hearted main trophy contender, Bernard MacNeill'travelogue' – the fact that Stewart s skeleton, is never shy about portraying family details somewhere difficult to access and history – given all seasoned explorers are otherwise engaged. There may be hope though. They turn to Fitzmaurice, a student not good map enough for anything else. Fitzmaurice agrees, picking his friends Crozier and a prevailing wind one could find where he lives Rafferty to go with him. So… ''Gentlemen, lace up your strongest boots and descend on pack your warmest underwear – we're all off to the farmbloody Arctic!'' Whether battle cry or epitaph, if one wished; three men 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 dodog… and an iguana… are going anyway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19087454361910124826</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1910124826</amazonus>

|titleauthor=Summer HalfTony Hawks|authortitle=Angela ThirkellOnce Upon a Time in the West… Country|rating=43|genre=HumourTravel|summary=If one didn’t know of Angela Thirkell’s distinguished background as I have often complained in a granddaughter of Sir Edward Burnejokey voice to my partner about life in the sticks, and the way she moved me from an inner-city flat to slumming it in the suburbs with fewer busses, no takeaways within walking-Jones and daughter of a classicist-keeping-food-hot distance, it would be tempting to describe her as and no 'Polish' shops for a kind can of country cousin of [[:Category:P G Wodehouse|Pbeer whenever you fancy one.G. Wodehouse’s]]. An unaffected and intelligent one Things are different with Tony Hawks, whose humour is less sophisticated but bubbles over with just as much glee. The middle-class world she here he has createdpurposefully decided to up sticks from London to Somewhere, Devon – a tiny village where the people who built their own homes decades ago still live in them, where young men come from families that slugs are comfortably wealthy rather a lot more of a problem for the wannabe lettuce-grower than outrageously sothey are for the metropolitan commuter, offers and where village halls have the power to turn you into both a counterpoint to the Mitford or Wodehouse worlds with Pol Pot dictator if you get on their aristocratic characters who travel the world committee and mingle with more loucheinto a quivering, bohemian ones.bruise-inducing wreck if you're the wrong gender at a Zumba class…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184408969X1444794809</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=The Bojeffries SagaMarian Keyes|authortitle=Alan Moore and Steve ParkhouseMaking It Up As I Go Along|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic NovelsEntertainment|summary=A very truncated history Oh, how the book reviewing gods like to give, and equally like to take away. Here before me is a brand, spanking new collection of comics will start with journalism by the idea that they should be funny strips wonderful Marian Keyes – one jape then youbut it're out; then that they should have more – perhaps s a superhero; then that you can have proof copy, so much more than just a superhero – witness there's no photo of the works of [[:Category:Alan Moore|Alan Moore]]author. But you mustn't be too surprised Even if over the years I have stopped reading her novels, I have always turned to see the whole thing come around author picture to remind myself such sights exist in this world. Himself is a full cyclelucky man, for sure. Because Alan Moore hasBut beyond sounding like a letch, with what can I say about this volume, concluded his own funny strip japery– the beauty's third large dose of essays, web columns and whatever history or greater opinions about other journalism? I can start with agreeing that I am not the canon of comix might saytarget audience, but it's just easy enough to see from these pages exactly what the target is. So much like that test you do – you know the one, that formulates decisions about his best ever bookthe age and commonality of all things in space to come up with how many billions of planets are likely to have alien life on – you can narrow things down quite readily here, and still come up with a huge number.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08616623180718182529</amazonuk>

|author=Reverend Adam SmallboneJean-Yves Ferri|title=The Rev DiariesAsterix and the Missing Scroll (Album 36)|rating=4.5|genre=HumourFor Sharing|summary=Adam Smallbone wasn’t always a vicarAsterix is those rarest of book series; one designed for kids which is actually even funnier when you are an adult. He I used to work for the Bristol Housing Departmentlove Asterix as a child, enabling his father-in-law to tell everyone he worked but now that I reread them I can'in propertyt help but wonder why, because they are so full of hilarious jokes that I definitely wouldn'. From there, his initial calling t have understood when I was to a rural church in Suffolk which did nothing to prepare him for this, his current London inner city parishyounger. Indeed, he's not prepared for Adoha (the Nigerian parishioner with 19 grandchildren I laughed loud and 'hard to myself twice within the bottom first two pages of God') or Colin, Asterix and 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 allMissing Scroll, she didnso I't actually marry d definitely say that this was a vicarhit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07181783941510100458</amazonuk>