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|author=Marian KeyesIan Doescher|title=Making It Up As I Go AlongWilliam Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh

|genre=EntertainmentScience Fiction|summary=OhA long time ago, how the book reviewing gods like to give, and equally like to take in a galaxy far away. Here before me is a brand, spanking new collection of journalism by the wonderful Marian Keyes – but it's a proof copy, so there's no photo of the author. Even if over the years I have stopped reading her novels, I have always turned to the author picture to remind myself such sights exist in this world. Himself is was a lucky mancalled William Shakespeare, for sure. But beyond sounding like who was able to create a letch, what can I say about this – the beauty's third large dose series of dramatic histories full of essaysmachinations most foul, web columns rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and other journalism? heroines most sturdy. I can start with agreeing that I am You may or may not have noticed the target audiencecinematic version of his original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken'', but it's easy enough here at last we get the actual script, complete with annoying-in-different-ways-to see -before droids anew, returning heroes from these pages exactly what elsewhere in his oeuvre, and people keeping it in the target isfamily til it hurts. So much like that test And if you do need further encouragement, don't forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – you know here the one, that formulates decisions about the age and commonality of all things in space to come up with how many billions of planets are likely series is so popular we're on to have alien life on part seven – you can narrow things down quite readily here, and still come up with a huge number.surely making this over twice as good…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718182529159474985X</amazonuk>

|author= Jean-Yves FerriJames Goss and Russell T Davies|title= Asterix and the Missing Scroll Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Album 36Dr Who)|rating= 4.5|genre= For SharingChildren's Rhymes and Verse |summary=Asterix is those rarest of book series; one designed for kids which is actually even funnier when you are an adultConsider the Doctor. I used Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each year, were he to love Asterix as keep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a childfew novelty gifts for some of them, say, but now that I reread them I can't help but wonder whyfor example, because they are so full whimsical books of hilarious jokes verse that I definitely wouldn't have understood when I was younger. I laughed loud pithily encapsulate the life of a Time Lord and hard to myself twice within the first two pages that of some of Asterix his friends and enemies. As luck would have it, he has the Missing Scrollspace in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, so Imy advice to him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. And if you'd definitely say that this was re working on a shorter timescale, with a hitshorter lifespan, and thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the same.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>15101004581785942719</amazonuk>

|author=Spadge WhittakerAnnie Ingram|title=Braver Than Britain, OccasionallyConversations with Kammie

|genre=HumourPets|summary=In It was something of a relief when I encountered Annie Ingram and her cocker spaniel Kammie. You see, Annie knows something which Spadge researches Britainhas been self-evident to me for a long time: dogs are perfectly capable of communicating with humans and not just on a level of ''food!'', ''walk!'' or ''play!''s top ten fears . You do require extensive training to become fluent, but most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to teach you and faces them all over you have to do is listen. Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and the course pair have allowed us to share some of their conversations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785451995</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Charles Harris|title= The Breaking of a yearLiam Glass|rating= 3|genre=Crime|summary= A flawed but reasonably entertaining swipe at modern media. WeThere're quite a fearful societys plenty here to like, you knowand plenty not to. And But good structure and scramjet pace keep this one flying to the things we fear most are, in order: heights (acrophobia), snakes (ophidiophobia), public speaking (glossophobia), spiders (arachnophobia), small spaces (claustrophobia), mice (musophobia), needles (trypanophobia), flying (pteromerhanophobia), crowds (agoraphobia) and clowns (coulrophobia)final page.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>09934299041908943823</amazonuk>

|author= Mike BullenFred Van Lente|title= TrustTen Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery

|genre= General FictionHumour|summary= Greg and Amanda Nine comedians are happyinvited to a remote Caribbean island under the guise of working with Dustin Walker, a comedic legend. UnmarriedEach fits neatly into one of the archetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, the washed-up has-been who has fallen far from his early days; Zoe, but together thirteen years and the rising female star with two young daughtersa new stand-up special coming soon; Dante, they are very much who went from being a kid on the streets to the hardest working road comic in love. Dan and Sarah arenthe business; Oliver, the child-like prop comic who can't so fortunate. Their marriage get any respect from his peers; Janet, the insult comic who is going through past her prime; TJ, the motionsnightly variety show host with a reputation for harassing his female colleagues and guest acts; Ruby, the ultra-feminist YouTuber and Blogger with a chip on her shoulder; and theyWilliam, whose redneck character 're staying together for 'Billy the sake of their troubled teenage son. Following Contractor'' is a business conference away far cry from home, one bad decision sends his real personality as a happy couple into turmoilposh millionaire. Of course, and turns an unhappy couple into loveall nine agree because ''s young dream. As secrets when God almighty walks down on a beam of light and betrayals threaten asks for your help, what the hell else are you going to send both relationships out of control, theresay?''s only one thing that can keep everything from falling apart: Trust|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07515592531594749744</amazonuk>

|author=Dan RhodesS Lynn Scott|title=When the Professor Got Stuck in the SnowElizabeth, William... and Me

|summary=Meet, if you haven't alreadyAlly is an ordinary woman with teenage children, a husband and a job. Then comes the phenomenon day when ordinariness flies out of the Very British Problemwindow. In this format theyIt're s not a coincidence that it's the same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I in pithy little comments (of, ooh, about 140 characters in length, for some reason…) the pantry and detail the minor things Bard of Avon in life that we like nothing more than to inflate to a major factor of lifeher bath. They can involve manners, staring at things until they mend themselves, hitting things ditto, or the fact that nobody apart from you and I know how What's she going to queue properly. do? And if the idea hits the world outside our shoresWell, then – well, you certainly Elizabeth and Will have a book full of content regarding our attitude and ineptitude abroad.their own ideas about that!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07515584941788037006</amazonuk>

|author=Fraser McAlpineE G Rodford|title=Stuff Brits LikeThe Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2|rating=4|genre=HumourCrime |summary= With over 100 chapters on different aspects In the second instalment of Britain and Britishnessthis series, this book is both fascinating and hilariousPrivate Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a well-known local man to track down some missing valuables. Just looking Bill Galbraith, a world-famous surgeon at the list of subjects is enough to produce Cambridge's Addenbrooke's Hospital who hosts a sardonic twist of that stiff upper lip: the chapters cover topics that range from offal to currypopular medical television programme, has had his briefcase stolen by his live-in domestic servant, from pedantry Aurora. According to banterGalbraith, from conkers to rugbythis briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of his at the hospital. There may be many chapters but this is no academic tome - each chapter is just two George agrees to three pages longlook into the theft, each is written with endearing affection, each is assuming it will be a relatively easy and satisfying - straightforward case – little does he know, he's about to enter a world of deceit and quirkily funny - to readdysfunction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1857886348178565005X</amazonuk>

|author= John SamuelToni Jordan|title= What I Tell You in the DarkOur Tiny, Useless Hearts|rating= 3.5|genre= HumourWomen's Fiction|summary=A man called Will is fighting fiercely against corruption – desperate to expose his companyAs predicted by Caroline and Janice's dodgy dealings to the press. Overcome with doubt mother on Caroline and fearHenry's wedding day, their marriage is over, he goes to kill himselfalbeit 15 years and two daughters further along than predicted. But Indeed, at the exact moment he attaches his noose to the back of the door, he this is saved. By definitely not a curious housemate or a concerned girlfriend? No, by an Angelgood weekend for Janice to be babysitting at Caroline's house. Not There's the white-feathered guardian Angel you may expect, but one who wishes to help Will achieve his ends, split and so possess the body awkwardness of the hapless Will in order to finish what he startedgirls' schoolteacher being the other woman for a start. It goes without saying Then there's that mistaken identity moment involving the Angel neighbours. At least Janice is hoping things go better than they did with the last guy he possessed – a hapless young man from Galilee called Jesus…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715650505</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= John Niven|title= The Sunshine Cruise Company|rating= 4.5|genre= Humour|summary= Susan Frobisher well adjusted and Julie Wickham live in a small Dorset townover her ex-husband Alec. Friends since school She still dreams of him, they live fairly uneventful lives – Susan has a lovely house and a lengthy marriage to accountant Barryyes, whereas Julie is doing slightly less well – living in a council flat and working in an old peoplebut it's home. When Barry is found dead trussed up in a sex dungeon, it transpires that he has been leading a hidden life for years, and his expensive fetishes lead to the bank moving to take Susanso over! Just as well really… guess who's home. Struck by both desperation and a sense of injustice, Sue and Julie conspire to rob a bank, taking along their friend Jill – a devout Christian conflicted due to lack of money and a terminally ill grandson, and Ethel – a foul mouthed resident of at the nursing home longing for adventure.door?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>04340231831760293814</amazonuk>

|author=Marie PhillipsColin Taylor|title=The Table Of Less Valued KnightsLife of a Scilly Sergeant

|genre=FantasyTravel|summary=Sir Humphrey has been demoted from King Arthur's Round Table Meet the Isles of Scilly. (I know they should be called that – the author provides a handy guide to the Table etiquette of their name, their nature and location, etc.) For our more distant readers, they're several chunks of Lesser Valued Knightsgranite rock out in the Atlantic, where Cornwall is pointing, with just 2,200 permanent residents. The only way They're big on tourism, and big on growing flowers in the tropical climate the Gulf Stream bequeaths them – although the weather is bad enough to get his comfier seat back is turn any car to redeem himself via a questrust bucket within years. Therefore when damsel Elaine seeks help to find her kidnapped fiancéThey're so wee, Humphrey and his wardso idyllic-seeming, the teenage giant Conradespecially at night, eagerly set forthyou can be mistaken for thinking there would be no need for a police presence. Meanwhile But there is – at least two working at any one time. And one of them in the kingdom of Tuftrecent years has been Colin Taylor, new Queen Martha who has run away after done his official duty – alongside maintaining a disastrous wedding to… a… well… disastrous Prince Edwinwell-known online existence, which has brought to life all the whimsical comedy of his work. She may not realise it yet, but she too will have a job for Humphrey!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099555875178475515X</amazonuk>

|author=Tim FlanneryJosie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees|title=The Mystery of 'Twas the Venus Island FetishFight Before Christmas: A Parody|rating=3.5|genre=Historical FictionHumour|summary=Meet Archie Meek. HeIt's about to leave the Venus Islands, where he's lived for the last five years, Christmas Eve and return to Sydney, where he'll take his office in the museum and fill it with all the cultural artefacts he's found and wildlife he's plucked or pickledMum has arranged everything. That's not All she now has to ignore do is await the fact he'll count as something quite alien himself, with his filled-out frame, nearly all-over suntan and totemic tattoo, in amongst other changes to his body. But what's this? When he gets back, he finds one arrival of the main Venus Islands artefacts that caused him to go there in relatives and the first place, a huge, macabre ceremonial fetish mask, purloined as corporate artworkfood shopping delivery. And some of Little does Mum know that those two elements alone have the curators he wishes potential to work alongside have vanishedruin everything. Is the weird society of the museum he's returning to, perchance, even weirder, stranger and more violent than the cannibalistic society he's waving farewell to?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19220793081472125118</amazonuk>

|author=Roman DirgeRyan North|title=The Cat with a Really Big HeadRomeo and/or Juliet

|genre=Graphic NovelsHumour|summary= How many picture books For all those who think tragedy plots are there about cats? too restricted and prescribed, read on. And how many do In these pages you know too will see that you would really NOT prefer your children Romeo had lots of options en route to see? hitting the bottle. If the answer to the second question is 'none – yet'Likewise, scratch that last wordshe could have turned away from her predestined path at no end of junctures. The title piece in this collection isAnd to what result? Well, by happy marriage and a kid called Ben, because the authorleads have just banged people's own admissionheads together and stopped the quarrelling, his imagining of the Joseph Merrick or Death by Tybalt (the 'Elephant Man'him) of the feline world – who struggles to sneak up behind or a mouse when the shadow of his head is a total giveawaylong life running an establishment curing murderous women, and who can hardly even eat with dignity such 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 to a certain girl… I hope your life is filled with wonderful accomplishments, love and all the magic you desire… - But I hope your death is slow and horribleLady M (her).''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17827628760356508536</amazonuk>

|author=Val HennessyGervase Phinn|title=Not Far From DreamlandThe Virgin Mary's Got Nits|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionHumour|summary=Ronald Tonks has reached that stage Christmas in life which I call upper middle age: you've qualified for your pension but not yet got our house is the time we tend to the free television licence barrier. What Ronald ''has'' got is get on a roof plane and head to either sun or snow, anywhere that leaks (there's good reason why his is far, far away from the madness at home is called ', last minute dashes to the shack')shops on Christmas Eve, a dog who is going bald (in patches) and money food cupboard stockpiles that's in very short supply. On the plus side he has friendswould imply supermarkets are shutting for a month, mostly platonic and usually in much the same boat as Ronaldnor a mere 36 hours. But are they downhearted? WellI do remember the feeling of Christmas when I was younger, they are occasionallyback when it was magical, but mostly they're generously optimistic and out to make back when you knew exactly what the most season would bring with carol concerts and school nativities and Christmas parties. This book is an anthology of what they've gotthose moments, usually bought from charity shops and jumble sales. ''Not Far From Dreamland'' is it took me right back to the story wonder of Christmas as a year (2012) in the life of Ronald Tonks, his friends and relativeschild.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07043738741444779400</amazonuk>

|author=Harry HarrisonKieran Crowley|title=Bill, the Galactic HeroShoot|rating=3.54|genre=Science FictionCrime|summary=Meet Bill. He's I make something of a simple farmer – wellhabit of being late to discover good writers, in this case getting to Crowley after he is no longer with us. The result is that what is billed as ''isan F.X. Shepherd mystery'' taking a correspondence course in with all the optimism of there being a Technical Fertiliser Operator – but fate more to come has something else in store. And so does the mechanisedpoignancy of being, technological, industrial military, which needs several billion grunts to fight if not the Chingerslast of a short line, in mankind's first inter-galactic warcertainly one of a few. Still, at least F.X. Shepherd – he gets medals doesn't like his first name and prefers just for signing up"Shepherd" is, technically, a columnist. After that it He's all downhill, been sacked by one New York newspaper and the likes of Petty Chief Officer Deathwish Drang can only make that is writing a straight line downweekly column for another. ReallyI don't know much about journalism, but I'm guessing one column a week doesn't pay much as a rule…which explains why Shepherd's soap-washed-foul-mouthed editor (read the book, you'll see what hope is there?I mean) expects him to turn in some genuine journalism as well: front page, seat of your pants stuff. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>147320531X1783296518</amazonuk>

|author=Ian DoescherGray Jolliffe|title=William Shakespeare's The Phantom of MenaceFirst Ever Christmas: And Who to Blame|rating=4.5

|summary= Join usIf I tell you a secret, good gentleswill you promise not to tell anyone? Well, for a merry reimagining I really don't like Christmas: it's my least favourite time of `Star Wars Episode 1year and whilst some people count down to the day itself, I look forward to that point when I can say that it' as only Shakespeare could have written its all over for another year. It'Tis a true Shakespearean dramas all too commercialised for me, filled with sword fightsa coating of faux religion. I've never found it in the least funny - that is, soliloquies and doomed romance…all in glorious iambic pentameter and coupled with gorgeous illustrationsuntil I found Gray Jolliffe's ''The First Ever Christmas: And Who's to Blame''. Hold on to your midichlorians: The plays the thing Amazingly, I'd never encountered Gray Jolliffe either, wherein youbut I'll catch m a convert to his skills as a cartoonist (if not to the rise idea of Anakin!Christmas) after reading this collection of Christmas-themed cartoons from his archive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>15947480631445663503</amazonuk>

|author=AttaboyJonathan Pugh|title=The Book of HugsPugh's New Year's Resolutions|rating=4.5

|summary=A hugIf there's a hugone thing that's for certain, OK? it's that the world is changing. You either doWe're dating online, we're communicating in ways that make email seem redundant, or you donand when we'tre shopping we just tell a website where and when it can be delivered, and how much leeway they have to swap our wishes for whatever it is they do bring us. Some people might But those changes are also supposed to be affecting us – we're supposed to use a little more enthusiastic about the process whilst others are more elegant in the execution of smart watch to tell us if we're moving or not, we have to keep up with the huglatest fads, but basically you just get on and do it we're supposed to prick our ears up and then forget take note when the proverbial 'they' change their minds about it, right?what we're supposed to eat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08671979781780722885</amazonuk>

|author= Christopher FowlerLuke Rhinehart|title= Bryant and May – The Burning ManInvasion|rating=4.5|genre=CrimeHumour |summary= The Peculiar Crimes Unit (PCU) has a new set of overlordsSuper-intelligent furry aliens suddenly appear from another universe. For reasons that were explored in the previous couple of outings And they 've come to earth to have been transferred fun. Alien Louie follows fisherman Billy Morton home one day, and he and his family quickly come to love the City Of London Policeplayful alien. The Met are still the big players in the areaBut when Louie starts using their computer to hack into government and corporate networks, stealing millions from banks to give to others, they realise that Louie and his friends mean trouble. City As Billy and his family begin a roller coaster ride of London Police only police the old cityfame and fortune, as well as a ranking high on the square mileFBI's most wanted list, the financial district in other words, Government soon decides that has very little in the way of street crimethese aliens are terrorists, because no-one lives there anymore and must be eliminated. Whilst the people who work there aliens areplaying games they hope will help humans to see the insanity of the American political, by economic and largemilitary systems, either too rich they soon come to need to steal, or too smart to have to do so on realise that the streetsPowers that Be don't play games: they make war.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08575220431785651757</amazonuk>

|author=Catharina Ingelman-SundbergRod Green|title=Only Fools and Horses: The Little Old Lady Who Struck Lucky Again! Peckham Archives|rating=3.54|genre=HumourEntertainment |summary=Following We are in the success world of one of ''The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules'country's most famous and well-loved sitcoms – even if it was sort-of killed off for Christmas 2003. Yes, there have been specials since, and more repeats to clog up the League of Pensioners are back – and this timeBBC schedules than is really pukka, they’re in Vegas! I haven’t read the first book but it was on my list when the opportunity arose very few people failed to succumb to review this its charms at onetime or another. The idea of I'm sure there have been books before now celebrating the League stony-faced reception of Pensioners marching towards a fairer world ''that'' drop through fun and frolics was hugely appealing to me the open bar hatch, and ''that'' chandelier scene, but this is much more meaty. Purporting to be the family archives, found dumped in Nelson Mandela House, the documents here were passed from pillar to post, from one council worker in a stand alone novel so I thought I would dive straight in department with this onea clumsy acronym to another, from them to the police – and now here they are being published for their social history worth. Will enough readers find them of worth, as the series quietly celebrates its 35th birthday?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14472749031849909245</amazonuk>

|author=WinshlussMara Wilson|title=In God We TrustWhere Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic NovelsAutobiography|summary=To start with, Mara Wilson has always felt a rhetorical test. How about God little young and Adam playing badminton day in and day a little outof place: as the only child on a film set full of adults, until one gets bored and decides to create Eve? Or the defeater first daughter in a house full of Goliath and boys, the saviour sole clinically depressed member of a cheerleading squad, a valley girl in New York and a neurotic in California, and an adult the Israelites being one Conan the Barbarian? Or this world still remembers as a test – Jesus Himself failing little girl. Tackling everything from how she first learned about sex on the set of ''Melrose Place,'' to have losing her mother at a successful session of tequila slammers with Gabriel due young age, to the holes through His handsgetting her first kiss (or was it kisses? I barely need mention that ) on a celebrity canoe trip, to not being cute enough to make it in Hollywood, these pages God does battle with Superman, for you to have answered essays tell the test and put yourself firmly in one story of two camps for this book – one very much opposed young woman's journey from accidental fame to relative obscurity, but also illuminate a universal struggle: learning to buying itaccept yourself, and one very much in favourfiguring out who you are and where you belong.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08616623500143128221</amazonuk>

|author=David Walliams and Tony RossStuart|title=The Queen's Orang-UtanWriting Lines|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingHumour|summary=The Queen felt trapped 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 copious diary of his quotidian existence. Most of what he recorded was dross. However, amongst all the palace with all those stuffed animals which she has been given on foreign tours. There are mountains utterly uninteresting tailings of them his life there were some nuggets and every night she would dream of escapinggrains to catch the attention. When her birthday drew near Author Tony Stuart has created these amusing anecdotes, panning them out over twenty six episodes which give us the family dutifully asked her what she would like as a present. The Prince was thinking best of a Wentworth – comedy gold, diamond encrusted stairlift whilst . From losing all the Duke was considering pupils in his charge on a great big bottle school trip to being arrested on suspicion of brandy. The Royal Baby had some decorated thimbles terrorism; from waking up in mindbed between the married couple the morning after their wedding, but the Queen became just to destroying a ski run; from appearing full-frontal naked in a little snappish as she explained that what she really wanted was sheep-farmers'One's own oranggazette to triggering an air-utan'. And she didn't mean a stuffed onesea rescue; Wentworth was, blinkered and befuddled, eitherthe subject – of these and so many more unlikely but highly amusing events.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00081351341524634441</amazonuk>

|author=Jack SheffieldGraham Fulbright|title=Silent NightDriving Mad: Maniacs, Morons and the Advanced Motorist's Club

|genre=General FictionHumour|summary=I read passed my driving test when John F Kennedy was in the White House and I've recently had to reapply for my driving licence having achieved a couple of Jack Sheffield’s books about five years ago, and enjoyed them very muchvenerable age. They When I started driving the roads were written in a similar style to those popularised by, for instancekinder, James Herriot more forgiving places - or [[:Category:Gervase Phinn|Gervase Phinn]]put another way, told mostly in the first personidiots were fewer and further between. I don't know how long Graham Fulbright has been driving, describing the author’s first couple of years as Headmaster at but he certainly knows his motoring morons and in ''Driving Mad'' he brings us a small village primary school in Yorkshire. The village of Ragley is fictional, as are most sample of the characterstheir eccentricities. Well, I'm pretty certain that they're fictional - but the incidents and situations encountered are based on the author’s experiencethese days you never know...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>05521670451783062584</amazonuk>

|author=J Robert LennonMario Giordano|title=See You In ParadiseAuntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions|rating=34|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=Lennon writes Poldi had not long been widowed when she decided to move from Bavaria to Sicily with a relaxedthe intention of drinking herself to death. She could, easy style and his characters are instantly recognisable as people from everyday walks of lifecourse, without being in any way stereotypical. Many of the people have done this in these stories are dealing with normal frustrationsGermany, and Lennon is cleverly detached enough not to make them individuals but she felt that you're obviously supposed to root for (the only exception is the industrialist in the eponymous tale, who is an archetypal capitalist fat cat)a sea view was essential. There are some very clever characterisations – in ''Weber’s Head'' Once there, for examplenew friends, family already resident on the narrator is island and the corpse of a flawed individual whose opinions of young man, his housemate are gradually revealed face blown off by a shotgun, whom she found on the local beach, intervened to be unreliable and unfairgive her life some meaning. For mea while she was a suspect, but that (and her wig) were no obstacle to her falling for Commissario Vito Montana who was assigned to investigate the most unsettling story is ''No Life'', because it portrays a decent couple at the mercy of people more powerful case. Assisting him (or having him assist her) came naturally to Poldi and before long there was an investigative and influential than thempersonal partnership. There is no supernatural or bizarre element at work here, just ordinary characters at the mercy of social power At least so far as Poldi was concerned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17812533581908524693</amazonuk>

|author=Lynne TrussGrady Hendrix|title=Cat out of HellMy Best Friend's Exorcism|rating=35|genre=Horror|summary=Meet Alec Charlesworth1988, Charleston, South Carolina. He's retired High school sophomores Abby and decamped to Gretchen have been best friends since fourth grade. But after an isolated coastal cottage with just his dog and loving memories evening of his colleague wifeskinny-dipping goes disatrously wrong, now that she has died before her timeGretchen begins to act...different. But the fusty librarian cannot rest too long before engaging in exploring some unusual computer files that were pinged across by someone at the college he worked at, just before he leftShe's moody. Bizarrely they show photographic and audio evidence of 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 catShe's irritable. Worryingly, we soon see what at the most only a few of the characters can, that this cat is being accompanied by unusual and unexpected death – much like AlecAnd bizarre incidents keep happening whenever she's wifenearby. ItAbby's only when Roger testifies investigation leads her to having been pushed through some startling discoveries - and by the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusion, the ends fate of endurance Abby and out the other side that we begin Gretchen will be determined by a single question: Is their friendship enough to doubt where beat the true evil in this story lies…devil?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00995853401594748624</amazonuk>

|author=Jimmy Hansen and Mychailo KazybirdKevin MacNeil|title=Wallace & Gromit : The Complete Newspaper Strips Collection Vol 2Brilliant and Forever|rating=43.5|genre=Humour|summary=For me there are two important areas of the cover of this book where three letters are arranged in meaningful ways. The first is with the S-U-N in their obligatory red and white font. No minor paper could hold Wallace and GromitYou know sometimes when someone tells a joke, their adventures have to be in what is (unfortunately) the most widely read tabloid in the country. And elsewhere is C-B-E, suggesting that even the storytellers at Aardman Animations who are not household names are feted and revered as artistic experts, raising many everyone else laughs and much money for the country courtesy of their creative output. Together these short collections of letters show just how much WaG are major creations, and if the proof you're sat there wondering what was needed this much longer collection of their daily comic strips provides it in spades.so funny?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17827608221846973376</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Dear Committee MembersChristopher Fowler|authortitle=Julie SchumacherBryant and May: Strange Tide|rating=43.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Jason Fitger (Jay) The thirteenth outing for Bryant and May is a Professor of creative writing and literature at a small university in the American mid-westlooking very much like it will be their last. He Arthur Bryant is also a frustrated novelist with a colourful personal historyon compassionate leave whilst tests are continuing, much of which bleeds are likely to confirm that he is suffering from Alzheimer's. His condition is worsening almost by the day, memory lapses are morphing into his professional life, with interesting resultsfull-scale hallucinations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00075863450857523422</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Mapp and Lucia OmnibusKevin Smith|authortitle=E F BensonThe Voyage of the Dolphin|rating=3.5|genre=HumourHistorical Fiction|summary=Miss Elizabeth Mapp rules Dublin 1916: Among the unrest and anti-British feeling worsened by the town threat of Tilling - she is conscription into a war seen as nothing to do with the Irish, Trinity College faculty has other distractions. They'd like a trophy; the centre skeleton of an Irish 'giant' to be precise. The only glitch is that the social lifemain trophy contender, and spends her days enjoying bridgeBernard MacNeill's skeleton, polite conversation is somewhere difficult to access and civilised paintingall seasoned explorers are otherwise engaged. There may be hope though. When Mrs Emmeline Lucas arrives in town (known They turn to all as Lucia)Fitzmaurice, Miss Mapp finds her life truly shaken upa student not good enough for anything else. Fitzmaurice agrees, as the culturedpicking his friends Crozier and Rafferty to go with him. So… ''Gentlemen, fashionable lace up your strongest boots and progressive Lucia makes her home in pack your warmest underwear – we're all off to the townbloody Arctic!'' Whether battle cry or epitaph, three men and a dog… and swiftly rises to the top of the ranks amongst the social scene in Tillingan iguana… are going anyway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18499084781910124826</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1910124826</amazonus>

|titleauthor=Encyclopedia ParanoiacaTony Hawks|authortitle=Henry Beard and Christopher CerfOnce Upon a Time in the West… Country|rating=43|genre=Popular ScienceTravel|summary=We're screwed. Wherever we look, whatever we think of doing, there is I have often complained in a reason why we shouldn't be doing itjokey voice to my partner about life in the sticks, and people the way she moved me from an inner-city flat to back that reason up slumming it in the suburbs with scientific data. Take any aspect of your daily life – what you eatfewer busses, how you workno takeaways within walking-and-keeping-food-hot distance, how and no 'Polish' shops for a can of beer whenever you rest even, what you touch – all have problems that could provoke a serious illness or worsefancy one. And outside that daily sphere there Things are economic disastersdifferent with Tony Hawks, nuclear meltdownsas here he has purposefully decided to up sticks from London to Somewhere, errant AI scientists and passing comets that could turn our world upside down at Devon – a tiny village where the blink people who built their own homes decades ago still live in them, where slugs are a lot more of an eye. Perhaps then you better read this book first – a problem for the wannabe lettuce-grower than they are for it may well the metropolitan commuter, and where village halls have the power to turn out to be your last…you into both a Pol Pot dictator if you get on their committee and into a quivering, bruise-inducing wreck if you're the wrong gender at a Zumba class…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07156492131444794809</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Diary of a Mad DivaMarian Keyes|authortitle=Joan RiversMaking It Up As I Go Along|rating=34.5|genre=HumourEntertainment|summary=The late Joan Rivers wasOh, how the book reviewing gods like to give, without and equally like to take away. Here before me is a doubtbrand, spanking new collection of journalism by the wonderful Marian Keyes – but it's a characterproof copy, so there's no photo of the author. Actress Even if over the years I have stopped reading her novels, comedianI have always turned to the author picture to remind myself such sights exist in this world. Himself is a lucky man, writerfor sure. But beyond sounding like a letch, directorwhat can I say about this – the beauty's third large dose of essays, presenterweb columns and other journalism? I can start with agreeing that I am not the target audience, she was well known in but it's easy enough to see from these pages exactly what the USA and beyond for her sharp tongue and no holds barred personatarget is. This was So much like that test you do – you know the one, that formulates decisions about the last age and commonality of the dozen books she publishedall 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, her final title before her death in September 2014and still come up with a huge number.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>04252690270718182529</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy Jean- The Nearly Definitive EditionYves Ferri|authortitle=Douglas AdamsAsterix and the Missing Scroll (Album 36)|rating=5|genre=General FictionFor Sharing|summary=There Asterix is those rarest of book series; one designed for kids which is actually even funnier when you are few series an adult. I used to love Asterix as a child, but now that have garnered such a cult following as I reread them I can'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy'. Whether the fans have come from the radio series, the (impossibly hard) computer game, or the (well intentioned t help but not particularly good) filmwonder why, because they are everywhere. Ask a room so full of people what the meaning of life is, and you can be pretty sure a good few will pipe up with hilarious jokes that I definitely wouldn'42' as the answert have understood when I was younger.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434023396</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Quick Pint After Work|author=Luke Lewis|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=BuzzFeed is one of the world’s best time sucks, I laughed loud and I’m regularly directed hard to myself twice within the site by links from Facebook first two pages of Asterix and Twitter, in between browsing the app on my phone. According to the author bio on this bookMissing Scroll, BuzzFeed is 'a social news and entertainment companyso I', which is a fancy way of describing lots of fun lists d definitely say that speak to the readership (20 words that have a completely different meaning in Manchester, 30 Things all ex-gymnasts know to be true, 40 Very British problems, yadda yadda yadda). These list work well on line when you want this was 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 appealhit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07515577301510100458</amazonuk>