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|author=Fraser McAlpineDavid Jester|title=Stuff Brits LikeForever After: a dark comedy|rating=4|genre=HumourParanormal|summary= With over 100 chapters on different aspects of Britain Michael Holland is a cocky and Britishness, this book is both fascinating brash young man who dies and hilarious. Just looking at gets made the list offer of subjects is enough to produce his lifetime; immortality. We follow Michael, a grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a sardonic twist of that stiff upper lip: stoner in the chapters cover topics that range from offal to curry, from pedantry to banter, from conkers to rugby. There may be many chapters but this is no academic tome - each chapter is just two to three pages records department) as they grapple with their long, each is written with endearing affection, each is easy lives and satisfying - and quirkily funny - finding a clean surface to readsit on in their flat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18578863481510704361</amazonuk>

|author= John SamuelNina Stibbe|title= What I Tell You in the DarkAn Almost Perfect Christmas|rating= 34.5|genre= Humour|summary=A man called Will is fighting fiercely against corruption Christmas – the time of traditional trauma. You only have to think about the turkey for that – desperate once upon a time it was leaving it sat on the downstairs loo to expose his companydefrost overnight, and if that failed the hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. Nowadays it's dodgy dealings all having to the press. Overcome with doubt make sure it's suitably free-range and organic – but not too organic that you can go and fearvisit it, he goes and get too friendly with it to kill himselfwant to eat it. But Christmas, at the exact moment he attaches his noose to the back of the doorthough, he is savedof course also a time of great boons. By It's cash in hand for a curious housemate or lot of plump people who can hire red suits and beards, it was always a concerned girlfriend? No, by an Angel. Not godsend for postmen with all the whitethank-feathered guardian Angel you may expect, but one who wishes letters to help Will achieve his endsaunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you write out in long-hand as a child, and so possess as for the body makers of the hapless Will in order to finish what he started. It goes without saying that the Angel is hoping things go better than Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they did with even try and sell them any other time of the last guy he possessed – a hapless young man from Galilee called Jesus…year?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07156505050241309824</amazonuk>

|author= John NivenIan Doescher|title= The Sunshine Cruise CompanyWilliam Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh|rating= 4.5|genre= HumourScience Fiction|summary= Susan Frobisher and Julie Wickham live A long time ago, in a small Dorset town. Friends since schoolgalaxy far away, there was a man called William Shakespeare, they live fairly uneventful lives – Susan has who was able to create a lovely house series of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil and a lengthy marriage rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy. You may or may not have noticed the cinematic version of his original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken'', but here at last we get the actual script, complete with annoying-in-different-ways-to accountant Barry-before droids anew, whereas Julie is doing slightly less well – living returning heroes from elsewhere in a council flat his oeuvre, and working in an old people's home. When Barry is found dead trussed up keeping it in a sex dungeon, the family til it transpires that he has been leading a hidden life for yearshurts. And if you need further encouragement, and don't forget his expensive fetishes lead to audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the bank moving to take Susanseries is so popular we's home. Struck by both desperation and a sense of injustice, Sue and Julie conspire re on to rob a bank, taking along their friend Jill part seven – a devout Christian conflicted due to lack of money and a terminally ill grandson, and Ethel – a foul mouthed resident of the nursing home longing for adventure.surely making this over twice as good…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434023183159474985X</amazonuk>

|author=Marie PhillipsJames Goss and Russell T Davies|title=The Table Of Less Valued KnightsDoctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who)

|genre=FantasyChildren's Rhymes and Verse |summary=Sir Humphrey has been demoted from King Arthur's Round Table to Consider the Table of Lesser Valued KnightsDoctor. The only way Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to get hand out each year, were he to keep in touch with even half of his comfier seat back is to redeem himself via companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of them, say, for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of a questTime Lord and that of some of his friends and enemies. Therefore when damsel Elaine seeks help to find her kidnapped fiancéAs luck would have it, Humphrey and he has the space in his wardTARDIS to stock up in advance, the teenage giant Conradso my advice to him – sorry, eagerly set forthher – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. Meanwhile in the kingdom of TuftAnd if you're working on a shorter timescale, new Queen Martha has run away after with a disastrous wedding to… a… well… disastrous Prince Edwinshorter lifespan, and thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the same. She may not realise it yet, but she too will have a job for Humphrey!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00995558751785942719</amazonuk>

|author=Tim FlanneryAnnie Ingram|title=The Mystery of the Venus Island FetishConversations with Kammie|rating=34|genre=Historical FictionPets|summary=Meet Archie MeekIt was something of a relief when I encountered Annie Ingram and her cocker spaniel Kammie. He's about You see, Annie knows something which has been self-evident to leave the Venus Islands, where he's lived me for the last five years, a long time: dogs are perfectly capable of communicating with humans and return to Sydneynot just on a level of ''food!'', where he'll take his office in the museum and fill it with all the cultural artefacts he's found and wildlife hewalk!''s plucked or pickled''play!''. That's not You do require extensive training to ignore the fact he'll count as something quite alien himselfbecome fluent, with his filled-out frame, nearly but most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to teach you and all-over suntan and totemic tattoo, in amongst other changes you have to his bodydo is listen. But what's this? When he gets back, he finds one of Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and the main Venus Islands artefacts that caused him pair have allowed us to go there in the first place, a huge, macabre ceremonial fetish mask, purloined as corporate artwork. And share some of the curators he wishes to work alongside have vanishedtheir conversations. 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>19220793081785451995</amazonuk>

|author=Roman DirgeCharles Harris|title=The Cat with a Really Big HeadBreaking of Liam Glass|rating=3.5|genre=Graphic NovelsCrime|summary= How many picture books are there about cats? And how many do you know that you would really NOT prefer your children to see? If the answer to the second question is 'none – yet', scratch that last wordA flawed but reasonably entertaining swipe at modern media. The title piece in this collection is, by the authorThere's own admission, his imagining of the Joseph Merrick (the 'Elephant Man') of the feline world – who struggles plenty here to sneak up behind a mouse when the shadow of his head is a total giveawaylike, and who can hardly even eat with dignity as bending down plenty not 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 But good structure and scramjet pace keep this one flying 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 horriblefinal page.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17827628761908943823</amazonuk>

|author=Val HennessyFred Van Lente|title=Not Far From DreamlandTen Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionHumour|summary=Ronald Tonks has reached that stage in life which I call upper middle age: you've qualified for your pension but not yet got Nine comedians are invited to a remote Caribbean island under the free television licence barrierguise of working with Dustin Walker, a comedic legend. What Ronald ''Each fits neatly into one of the archetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, the washed-up has-been who has'' got is a roof that leaks (there's good reason why fallen far from his home is called 'early days; Zoe, the shack')rising female star with a new stand-up special coming soon; Dante, who went from being a dog who is going bald (in patches) and money that's in very short supply. On kid on the streets to the plus side he has friends, mostly platonic and usually hardest working road comic in much the same boat as Ronald. But are they downhearted? Wellbusiness; Oliver, they are occasionally, but mostly they're generously optimistic and out to make the most of what theychild-like prop comic who can've gott get any respect from his peers; Janet, usually bought from charity shops and jumble sales. the insult comic who is past her prime; ''Not Far From Dreamland'' is TJ, the story of nightly variety show host with a year (2012) in the life of Ronald Tonks, reputation for harassing his friends female colleagues and relatives.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0704373874</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Harry Harrison|title=Billguest acts; Ruby, the Galactic Hero|rating=3.5|genre=Science Fiction|summary=Meet Bill. He's ultra-feminist YouTuber and Blogger with a simple farmer – wellchip on her shoulder; and William, he whose redneck character ''isBilly the Contractor'' taking is a correspondence course in being far cry from his real personality as a Technical Fertiliser Operator – but fate has something else in storeposh millionaire. And so does the mechanisedOf course, technological, industrial military, which needs several billion grunts to fight the Chingers, in mankindall nine agree because 's first inter-galactic war. Still, at least he gets medals just for signing up. After that it's all downhill, when God almighty walks down on a beam of light and the likes of Petty Chief Officer Deathwish Drang can only make that a straight line down. Reallyasks 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 neighbours. At least Janice is well adjusted and over her ex-husband Alec. She still dreams of street crimehim, because no-one lives there anymore and the people who work there are, by and largeyes, either too rich to need to steal, or too smart to have to do but it's so on over! Just as well really… guess who's at the streets.door?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08575220431760293814</amazonuk>

|author=Catharina Ingelman-SundbergColin Taylor|title=The Little Old Lady Who Struck Lucky Again! |rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=Following the success of ''The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules'', the League Life of Pensioners are back – and this time, they’re in Vegas! I haven’t read the first book but it was on my list when 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1447274903</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Winshluss|title=In God We TrustScilly 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>

|author= Mara Wilson|title=Diary Where Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame|rating= 5|genre= Autobiography|summary= Mara Wilson has always felt a little young and a little out of place: as the only child on a Mad Divafilm set full of adults, the first daughter in a house full of boys, the sole clinically depressed member of a cheerleading squad, a valley girl in New York and a neurotic in California, and an adult the world still remembers as a little girl. Tackling everything from how she first learned about sex on the set of ''Melrose Place,'' to losing her mother at a young age, to getting her first kiss (or was it kisses?) on a celebrity canoe trip, to not being cute enough to make it in Hollywood, 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>0143128221</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Joan RiversTony Stuart|title= Writing Lines|rating=34.5

|summary=The late Joan Rivers George Gordon Wentworth (1946-2011) lived a humdrum life. He was, without a doubt, barely adequate teacher in a fairly world renowned independent school in Kent and kept a charactercopious diary of his quotidian existence. Most of what he recorded was dross. ActressHowever, comedianamongst all the utterly uninteresting tailings of his life there were some nuggets and grains to catch the attention. Author Tony Stuart has created these amusing anecdotes, writer, director, presenter, she was well known in panning them out over twenty six episodes which give us the USA and beyond for her sharp tongue and no holds barred personabest of Wentworth – comedy gold. This was From losing all the last pupils in his charge on a school trip to being arrested on suspicion of terrorism; from waking up in bed between the dozen books she publishedmarried couple the morning after their wedding, her final title before her death to destroying a ski run; from appearing full-frontal naked in September 2014a sheep-farmers' gazette to triggering an air-sea rescue; Wentworth was, blinkered and befuddled, the subject – of these and so many more unlikely but highly amusing events.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>04252690271524634441</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - The Nearly Definitive EditionGraham Fulbright|authortitle=Douglas AdamsDriving Mad: Maniacs, Morons and the Advanced Motorist's Club|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionHumour|summary=There are few series that have garnered such a cult following as I passed my driving test when John F Kennedy was in the White House and I'The Hitchhikers Guide ve recently had to the Galaxy'reapply for my driving licence having achieved a venerable age. Whether When I started driving the fans have come from the radio seriesroads were kinder, the (impossibly hard) computer gamemore forgiving places - or put another way, or the (well intentioned but not particularly good) film, they are everywhereidiots were fewer and further between. Ask I don't know how long Graham Fulbright has been driving, but he certainly knows his motoring morons and in ''Driving Mad'' he brings us a room fictional sample of people what the meaning of life istheir eccentricities. Well, and you can be I'm pretty sure a good few will pipe up with certain that they'42' as the answerre fictional - but these days you never know...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>04340233961783062584</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Quick Pint After WorkMario Giordano|authortitle=Luke LewisAuntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions

|genre=HumourCrime|summary=BuzzFeed is one of the world’s best time sucks, and I’m regularly directed Poldi had not long been widowed when she decided to the site by links move from Facebook and Twitter, in between browsing Bavaria to Sicily with the app on my phoneintention of drinking herself to death. According to the author bio on She could, of course, have done this bookin Germany, BuzzFeed is 'but she felt that a social news sea view was essential. Once there, new friends, family already resident on the island and entertainment company'the corpse of a young man, which is his face blown off by a fancy way of describing lots of fun lists that speak to shotgun, whom she found on the readership (20 words that have a completely different meaning in Manchesterlocal beach, 30 Things all ex-gymnasts know intervened to be true, 40 Very British problems, yadda yadda yadda)give her life some meaning. These list work well on line when you want For a while she was a quick distractionsuspect, but that (and they’re easy her wig) were no obstacle to flip through, looking at her falling for Commissario Vito Montana who was assigned to investigate the attached photos case. Assisting him (or video clipshaving him assist her) came naturally to Poldi and before long there was an investigative and personal partnership. The question then, is whether or not BuzzFeed the book will have the same appeal At least so far as Poldi was concerned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07515577301908524693</amazonuk>

|author=Graeme SimsionGrady Hendrix|title=The Rosie EffectMy Best Friend's Exorcism|rating=45|genre=HumourHorror|summary=Following inadvertent success with the Wife Project1988, Charleston, Professor Don Tillman South Carolina. High school sophomores Abby and his new bride Rosie Gretchen have moved from Australia been best friends since fourth grade. But after an evening of skinny-dipping goes disatrously wrong, Gretchen begins to New Yorkact. Although Don..different. She's position on the autistic scale is subjective, he still operates on a daily basis of structured procedures, lists and logicmoody. Rosie can generally handle that but there are choppy waters aheadShe's irritable. With the patter of tiny feet imminent logic goes out the window as And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever she struggles with 's nearby. Abby's investigation leads her PhD while Don struggles to find his place in some startling discoveries - and by the baby production process. At least he has his drinking buddies to support him – an aging rock drummer time their story reaches its terrifying conclusion, the fate of Abby and Gretchen will be determined by a friend whose wife has thrown him out for infidelity. What could possibly go wrongsingle question: Is their friendship enough to beat the devil?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07181794711594748624</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Burnt Tongues: An Anthology of Transgressive Short StoriesKevin MacNeil|authortitle=Chuck Palahniuk, Dennis Widmyer The Brilliant and Richard ThomasForever|rating=43.5|genre=Short StoriesHumour|summary=Saying certain things out loud just don’t sound right. Some things are so disturbing or politically incorrect that You know sometimes when someone tells a joke, everyone else laughs, and you are best off leaving them inside your head, or better yet not thinking of them at all. When these words are spoken they could lead to the sensation of Burnt Tongue; an aftereffect of knowing 're sat there wondering what you said was wrong. Are you prepared to enter the world of Transgressive Fiction that aims to disturb, alienate, disgust and questionso funny?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178329552X1846973376</amazonuk>

|author=Sammy LookerChristopher Fowler|title=Something Nasty in the SlushpileBryant and May: Strange Tide|rating=43.5|genre=HumourCrime|summary=I couldn't resist the title - a neat play on [[Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons|Cold Comfort Farm]] The thirteenth outing for Bryant and I'm sure that you'll understand that I was expecting some examples of the horrors to May is looking very much like it will be found amongst the mountain of unsolicited manuscripts which every publisher accumulatestheir last. I'll confess I was expecting to giggleArthur Bryant is on compassionate leave whilst tests are continuing, even which are likely to groan - unkind, I know - and Iconfirm that he is suffering from Alzheimer'd mentally shelved the book with the trivia, or (hopefully) the humours. There His condition is that element to worsening almost by the bookday, 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 publishermemory lapses are morphing into full-scale hallucinations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14721110280857523422</amazonuk>

|author=The QueenKevin Smith|title=Still ReigningThe Voyage of the Dolphin|rating=45|genre=HumourHistorical Fiction|summary=Anyone who frequents Twitter will know that it's Dublin 1916: Among the unrest and anti-British feeling worsened by the threat of conscription into a mixed blessingwar seen as nothing to do with the Irish, Trinity College faculty has other distractions. ItThey's d like a mine trophy; the skeleton of wonderful information and supportive camaraderiean Irish 'giant' to be precise. ItThe only glitch is that the main trophy contender, Bernard MacNeill's also - unfortunately - home skeleton, is somewhere difficult to a lot of people who take great pleasure in causing pain to others. But in amongst access and all this seasoned explorers are a few gems and one of them is [https://twitterotherwise engaged. There may be hope though.com/Queen_UK @Queen_UK] They turn to Fitzmaurice, a delightful satire on members of the royal family, celebrities, the political classes and the state of Her Majesty's nationstudent not good enough for anything else. OrFitzmaurice agrees, ''one's nation'' as Ma'am would saypicking his friends Crozier and Rafferty to go with him. So… ''Still Reigning'' is her second bookGentlemen, after ''Gin O'Clock'' lace up your strongest boots and itpack your warmest underwear – we's re all off to the sort of parody which leaves you wondering if the writer might not be someone bloody Arctic!''very'' close to the original Whether battle cry or epitaph, three men and a dog… and an iguana… are going anyway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07156491321910124826</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1910124826</amazonus>

|titleauthor=Last Days of the Bus ClubTony Hawks|authortitle=Chris StewartOnce Upon a Time in the West… Country|rating=43|genre=HumourTravel|summary=I could well have been often complained in a near-neighbour of Chris Stewart. Notjokey voice to my partner about life in the sticks, of course, near his current primary occupancy, an ecological farmstead just beyond and the turning off way she moved me from the back end of nowhere an inner-city flat to slumming it in the most rural of corners of southern Spainsuburbs with fewer busses, but back when he lived in the southno takeaways within walking-and-keeping-food-east of Englandhot distance, being Genesisand no ' first ever drummer, and building bridges in the North DownsPolish' shops for a can of beer whenever you fancy one. The fact I learnt Things are different with Tony Hawks, as here he has purposefully decided to up sticks from London to Somewhere, Devon – a tiny village where the latter from this book shows up several people who built their own homes decades ago still live in them, where slugs are a lot more of a problem for the features of this warmwannabe lettuce-hearted 'travelogue' – grower than they are for the fact that Stewart is never shy about portraying family details metropolitan commuter, and history – given where village halls have the power to turn you into both a good map Pol Pot dictator if you get on their committee and into a prevailing wind one could find where he lives and descend on the farmquivering, bruise-inducing wreck if one wished; and that while this might be on the travel shelves, you're the narrative is so fragmented it actually moves wrong gender at a lot more than any of the characters do.Zumba class…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19087454361444794809</amazonuk>