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|author=Rob TempleDavid Jester|title=Very British Problems AbroadForever After: a dark comedy|rating=4|genre=HumourParanormal|summary=Meet, if you haven't already, Michael Holland is a cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the phenomenon offer of the Very British Problemhis lifetime; immortality. In this format they're in pithy little comments We follow Michael, a grim reaper and his friends Chip (of, ooh, about 140 characters in length, for some reason…a stoner tooth fairy) and detail Naff (a stoner in the minor things in life that we like nothing more than to inflate to a major factor of life. They can involve manners, staring at things until records department) as they mend themselves, hitting things ditto, or the fact that nobody apart from you grapple with their long lives and I know how finding a clean surface to queue properly. And if the idea hits the world outside our shores, then – well, you certainly have a book full of content regarding our attitude and ineptitude abroadsit on in their flat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07515584941510704361</amazonuk>

|author=Fraser McAlpineNina Stibbe|title=Stuff Brits LikeAn Almost Perfect Christmas|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary= With over 100 chapters on different aspects Christmas – the time of Britain and Britishness, this book is both fascinating and hilarioustraditional trauma. Just looking at You only have to think about the list of subjects is enough turkey for that – once upon a time it was leaving it sat on the downstairs loo to produce a sardonic twist of defrost overnight, and if that stiff upper lip: failed the chapters cover topics hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. Nowadays it's all having to make sure it's suitably free-range and organic – but not too organic that range from offal to curryyou can go and visit it, from pedantry and get too friendly with it to banter, from conkers want to rugbyeat it. There may be many chapters but this Christmas, though, is no academic tome of course also a time of great boons. It's cash in hand for a lot of plump people who can hire red suits and beards, it was always a godsend for postmen with all the thank- each chapter is just two you letters to three pages aunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you write out in long-hand as a child, each is written with endearing affectionand as for the makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, each is easy did they even try and satisfying - and quirkily funny - to read.sell them any other time of the year?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18578863480241309824</amazonuk>

|author= John SamuelIan Doescher|title= What I Tell You in William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the DarkSeventh|rating= 34.5|genre= HumourScience Fiction|summary=A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, there was a man called Will is fighting fiercely against corruption – desperate to expose his company's dodgy dealings to the press. Overcome with doubt and fearWilliam Shakespeare, he goes who was able to kill himself. But, at the exact moment he attaches his noose to the back create a series of dramatic histories full of the doormachinations most foul, he is savedrulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy. By a curious housemate You may or a concerned girlfriend? Nomay not have noticed the cinematic version of his original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken'', by an Angel. Not but here at last we get the whiteactual script, complete with annoying-in-different-ways-to-feathered guardian Angel you may expectbefore droids anew, but one who wishes to help Will achieve returning heroes from elsewhere in his endsoeuvre, and so possess people keeping it in the body family til it hurts. And if you need further encouragement, don't forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the hapless Will in order series is so popular we're on to finish what he started. It goes without saying that the Angel is hoping things go better than they did with the last guy he possessed part seven – a hapless young man from Galilee called Jesus…surely making this over twice as good…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715650505159474985X</amazonuk>

|author= John NivenJames Goss and Russell T Davies|title= The Sunshine Cruise CompanyDoctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who)|rating= 4.5|genre= HumourChildren's Rhymes and Verse |summary= Susan Frobisher Consider the Doctor. Just how many birthday and Julie Wickham live Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each year, were he to keep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a small Dorset town. Friends since schoolfew novelty gifts for some of them, say, for example, they live fairly uneventful lives – Susan has whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of a lovely house Time Lord and a lengthy marriage to accountant Barry, whereas Julie is doing slightly less well – living in a council flat that of some of his friends and working in an old people's homeenemies. When Barry is found dead trussed up in a sex dungeon As luck would have it, it transpires that he has been leading a hidden life for years, and the space in his expensive fetishes lead TARDIS to the bank moving stock up in advance, so my advice to take Susan's home. Struck by both desperation and a sense of injusticehim – sorry, Sue and Julie conspire her – would be to rob a bank, taking pop along their friend Jill – a devout Christian conflicted due to lack of money his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. And if you're working on a shorter timescale, with a terminally ill grandsonshorter lifespan, and Ethel – a foul mouthed resident of thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the nursing home longing for adventuresame.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>04340231831785942719</amazonuk>

|author=Marie PhillipsAnnie Ingram|title=The Table Of Less Valued KnightsConversations with Kammie|rating=4.5|genre=FantasyPets|summary=Sir Humphrey It was something of a relief when I encountered Annie Ingram and her cocker spaniel Kammie. You see, Annie knows something which has been demoted from King Arthur's Round Table self-evident to the Table me for a long time: dogs are perfectly capable of communicating with humans and not just on a level of Lesser Valued Knights''food!'', ''walk!'' or ''play!''. The only way You do require extensive training to get his comfier seat back become fluent, but most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to teach you and all you have to do is to redeem himself via a questlisten. Therefore when damsel Elaine seeks help to find Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her kidnapped fiancé, Humphrey well and his ward, the teenage giant Conrad, eagerly set forth. Meanwhile in the kingdom pair have allowed us to share some of Tuft, new Queen Martha has run away after a disastrous wedding to… a… well… disastrous Prince Edwintheir conversations. She may not realise it yet, but she too will have a job for Humphrey!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00995558751785451995</amazonuk>

|author=Tim FlanneryCharles Harris|title=The Mystery Breaking of the Venus Island FetishLiam Glass|rating=3|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Meet Archie MeekA flawed but reasonably entertaining swipe at modern media. HeThere's about to leave the Venus Islands, where he's lived for the last five years, and return plenty here to Sydneylike, 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 pickled. That's plenty not to ignore 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 good structure and scramjet pace keep this? When he gets back, he finds one of the main Venus Islands artefacts that caused him flying to go there in the first place, a huge, macabre ceremonial fetish mask, purloined as corporate artwork. And some of the curators he wishes to work alongside have vanishedfinal page. 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>19220793081908943823</amazonuk>

|author=Roman DirgeFred Van Lente|title=The Cat with a Really Big HeadTen Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery|rating=3.54|genre=Graphic NovelsHumour|summary= How many picture books Nine comedians are there about cats? And how many do you know that you would really NOT prefer your children invited to see? If a remote Caribbean island under the answer to the second question is 'none – yet'guise of working with Dustin Walker, scratch that last worda comedic legend. The title piece in this collection isEach fits neatly into one of the archetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, by the author's own admissionwashed-up has-been who has fallen far from his early days; Zoe, his imagining of the Joseph Merrick (rising female star with a new stand-up special coming soon; Dante, who went from being a kid on the 'Elephant Man') of streets to the feline world – who struggles to sneak up behind a mouse when hardest working road comic in the shadow of his head is a total giveawaybusiness; Oliver, and the child-like prop comic who can hardly even eat with dignity as bending down to 't get any respect from his bowl would break his neck. peers; Janet, the insult comic who is past her prime; If that's too dark or oddball TJ, the nightly variety show host with a reputation for youharassing his female colleagues and guest acts; Ruby, try the second major pieceultra-feminist YouTuber and Blogger with a chip on her shoulder; and William, which has whose redneck character ''Billy the Contractor'' is a far cry from his real personality as a most revealing foreword – posh millionaire. Of course, all nine agree because ''Dedicated to when God almighty walks down on a certain girl… I hope beam of light and asks for your life is filled with wonderful accomplishmentshelp, love and all what the magic hell else are you desire… - But I hope your death is slow and horrible.going to say?''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17827628761594749744</amazonuk>

|author=Val HennessyS Lynn Scott|title=Not Far From DreamlandElizabeth, William... and Me

|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 to Ally is an ordinary woman with teenage children, a husband and a job. Then comes the day when ordinariness flies out of the free television licence barrierwindow. What Ronald It''has'' got is s not a roof coincidence that leaks (thereit's good reason why his home is called 'the shack'), a dog who is going bald (same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I in patches) the pantry and money that's in very short supply. On the plus side he has friends, mostly platonic and usually Bard of Avon in much the same boat as Ronaldher bath. But are they downheartedWhat's she going to do? Well, they are occasionally, but mostly they're generously optimistic Elizabeth and out 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 relatives.Will have their own ideas about that!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07043738741788037006</amazonuk>

|author=Harry HarrisonE G Rodford|title=Bill, the Galactic HeroThe Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2|rating=3.54|genre=Science FictionCrime |summary=Meet Bill. He's In the second instalment of this series, Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a simple farmer – well-known local man to track down some missing valuables. Bill Galbraith, he a world-famous surgeon at Cambridge's Addenbrooke'is'' taking s Hospital who hosts a correspondence course in being a Technical Fertiliser Operator – but fate popular medical television programme, has something else had his briefcase stolen by his live-in storedomestic servant, Aurora. According to Galbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of his at the hospital. And so does George agrees to look into the mechanisedtheft, technologicalassuming it will be a relatively easy and straightforward case – little does he know, industrial military, which needs several billion grunts he's about to fight the Chingersenter a world of deceit and dysfunction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565005X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Toni Jordan|title=Our Tiny, in mankindUseless Hearts|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=As predicted by Caroline and Janice's mother on Caroline and Henry's first inter-galactic warwedding day, their marriage is over, albeit 15 years and two daughters further along than predicted. StillIndeed, this is definitely not a good weekend for Janice to be babysitting at least he gets medals just for signing upCaroline's house. After that itThere's all downhill, the split and the likes awkwardness of Petty Chief Officer Deathwish Drang can only make the girls' schoolteacher being the other woman for a start. Then there's that a straight line downmistaken identity moment involving the neighbours. At least Janice is well adjusted and over her ex-husband Alec. ReallyShe still dreams of him, yes, what hope is therebut it's so over! Just as well really… guess who's at the door?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147320531X1760293814</amazonuk>

|author=Ian DoescherColin Taylor|title=William Shakespeare's The Phantom Life of Menacea Scilly Sergeant

|genre=HumourTravel|summary= Join usMeet the Isles of Scilly. (I know they should be called that – the author provides a handy guide to the etiquette of their name, good gentlestheir nature and location, for a merry reimagining of `Star Wars Episode 1' as only Shakespeare could have written itetc. ) For our more distant readers, they'Tis a true Shakespearean dramare several chunks of granite rock out in the Atlantic, where Cornwall is pointing, filled with sword fightsjust 2,200 permanent residents. They're big on tourism, soliloquies and doomed romance…all big on growing flowers in glorious iambic pentameter the tropical climate the Gulf Stream bequeaths them – although the weather is bad enough to turn any car to a rust bucket within years. They're so wee, and coupled with gorgeous illustrationsso idyllic-seeming, especially at night, you can be mistaken for thinking there would be no need for a police presence. But there is – at least two working at any one time. Hold on And one of them in recent years has been Colin Taylor, who has done his official duty – alongside maintaining a well-known online existence, which has brought to your midichlorians: The plays the thing, wherein you'll catch life all the rise whimsical comedy of Anakin!his work.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594748063178475515X</amazonuk>

|author=AttaboyJosie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees|title=The Book of Hugs'Twas the Fight Before Christmas: A Parody|rating=43.5

|summary=A hugIt's a hug, OK? Christmas Eve and Mum has arranged everything. You either All she now has to do, or you don't. Some people might be a little more enthusiastic about is await the process whilst others are more elegant in the execution arrival of the hug, but basically you just get on relatives and do it and then forget about it, right?the food shopping delivery. Little does Mum know that those two elements alone have the potential to ruin everything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08671979781472125118</amazonuk>

|author= Christopher FowlerRyan North|title= Bryant Romeo and May – The Burning Man|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= The Peculiar Crimes Unit (PCU) has a new set of overlords. For reasons that were explored in the previous couple of outings they have been transferred to the City Of London Police. The Met are still the big players in the area. City of London Police only police the old city, the square mile, the financial district in other words, that has very little in the way of street crime, because no-one lives there anymore 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 Ingelman-Sundberg|title=The Little Old Lady Who Struck Lucky Again! Juliet

|summary=Following the success of ''The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules'', the League of Pensioners For all those who think tragedy plots are back – too restricted and this timeprescribed, 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 In these pages you too will see that Romeo had lots of options en route to hitting the League bottle. Likewise, she could have turned away from her predestined path at no end of Pensioners marching towards junctures. And to what result? Well, happy marriage and a fairer world through fun kid called Ben, because the leads have just banged people's heads together and frolics was hugely appealing to me and this is stopped the quarrelling, or Death by Tybalt (him) or a long life running an establishment curing murderous women, such as a stand alone novel so I thought I would dive straight in with this oneLady M (her).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14472749030356508536</amazonuk>

|author=WinshlussGervase Phinn|title=In God We TrustThe Virgin Mary's Got Nits|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic NovelsHumour|summary=To start with, Christmas in our house is the time we tend to get on a rhetorical test. How about God plane and Adam playing badminton day in and day outhead to either sun or snow, anywhere that is far, far away from the madness at home, until one gets bored and decides last minute dashes to create the shops on Christmas Eve? Or the defeater of Goliath , and the saviour of the Israelites being one Conan the Barbarian? Or this as food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are shutting for a test – Jesus Himself failing to have month, nor a successful session mere 36 hours. But I do remember the feeling of tequila slammers with Gabriel due to the holes through His hands? Christmas when I barely need mention that in these pages God does battle with Supermanwas younger, back when it was magical, for and back when you to have answered knew exactly what the test season would bring with carol concerts and school nativities and put yourself firmly in one Christmas parties. This book is an anthology of two camps for this book – one very much opposed to buying itthose moments, and one very much in favourit took me right back to the wonder of Christmas as a child.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08616623501444779400</amazonuk>

|author=David Walliams and Tony RossKieran Crowley|title=The Queen's Orang-UtanShoot|rating=54|genre=For SharingCrime|summary=The Queen felt trapped I make something of a habit of being late to discover good writers, in the palace this case getting to Crowley after he is no longer with all those stuffed animals which she has been given on foreign toursus. There are mountains The result is that what is billed as ''an F.X. Shepherd mystery'' with all the optimism of them and every night she would dream there being more to come has the poignancy of escaping. When her birthday drew near being, if not the family dutifully asked her what she would like as last of a short line, certainly one of a presentfew. The Prince was thinking of F.X. Shepherd – he doesn't like his first name and prefers just "Shepherd" is, technically, a gold, diamond encrusted stairlift whilst the Duke was considering columnist. He's been sacked by one New York newspaper and is writing a great big bottle of brandyweekly column for another. The Royal Baby had some decorated thimbles in mindI don't know much about journalism, but the Queen became just I'm guessing one column a little snappish week doesn't pay much as she explained that what she really wanted was 'Onea rule…which explains why Shepherd's own orangsoap-utanwashed-foul-mouthed editor (read the book, you'. And she didn't ll see what I mean a stuffed one) expects him to turn in some genuine journalism as well: front page, eitherseat of your pants stuff.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00081351341783296518</amazonuk>

|author=Jack SheffieldGray Jolliffe|title=Silent NightThe First Ever Christmas: And Who to Blame|rating=3.5|genre=General FictionHumour|summary=If I read tell you a couple secret, will you promise not to tell anyone? Well, I really don't like Christmas: it's my least favourite time of Jack Sheffield’s books about five years ago, year and enjoyed them very much. They were written in a similar style whilst some people count down to those popularised bythe day itself, I look forward to that point when I can say that it's all over for instanceanother year. It's all too commercialised for me, James Herriot or [[:Category:Gervase Phinn|Gervase Phinn]], told mostly with a coating of faux religion. I've never found it in the first personleast funny - that is, describing the author’s first couple of years as Headmaster at a small village primary school in Yorkshireuntil I found Gray Jolliffe's ''The First Ever Christmas: And Who's to Blame''. The village of Ragley is fictional Amazingly, as are most of the charactersI'd never encountered Gray Jolliffe either, but I'm a convert to his skills as a cartoonist (if not to the incidents and situations encountered are based on the author’s experienceidea of Christmas) after reading this collection of Christmas-themed cartoons from his archive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>05521670451445663503</amazonuk>

|author=J Robert LennonJonathan Pugh|title=See You In ParadisePugh's New Year's Resolutions|rating=34.5|genre=Short StoriesHumour|summary=Lennon writes with a relaxedIf there's one thing that's for certain, easy style and his characters are instantly recognisable as people from everyday walks of lifeit's that the world is changing. We're dating online, without being we're communicating in any way stereotypical. Many of the people in these stories are dealing with normal frustrationsways that make email seem redundant, and Lennon is cleverly detached enough not to make them individuals that youwhen we're obviously supposed shopping we just tell a website where and when it can be delivered, and how much leeway they have to root swap our wishes for (the only exception whatever it is the industrialist in the eponymous tale, who is an archetypal capitalist fat cat)they do bring us. There But those changes are some very clever characterisations also supposed to be affecting us – in ''Weber’s Headwe're supposed to use a smart watch to tell us if we're moving or not, for examplewe have to keep up with the latest fads, the narrator is a flawed individual whose opinions of his housemate are gradually revealed and we're supposed to be unreliable prick our ears up and unfair. For me, take note when the most unsettling story is proverbial 'they'No Lifechange their minds about what we'', because it portrays a decent couple at the mercy of people more powerful and influential than them. There is no supernatural or bizarre element at work here, just ordinary characters at the mercy of social powerre supposed to eat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17812533581780722885</amazonuk>

|author=Lynne TrussLuke Rhinehart|title=Cat out of HellInvasion|rating=34.5|genre=HorrorHumour |summary=Meet Alec CharlesworthSuper-intelligent furry aliens suddenly appear from another universe. HeAnd they's retired ve come to earth to have fun. Alien Louie follows fisherman Billy Morton home one day, and decamped to an isolated coastal cottage with just his dog he and loving memories of his colleague wife, now that she has died before her timefamily quickly come to love the playful alien. But the fusty librarian cannot rest too long before engaging in exploring some unusual when Louie starts using their computer files to hack into government and corporate networks, stealing millions from banks to give to others, they realise that were pinged across by someone at the college he worked at, just before he leftLouie and his friends mean trouble. Bizarrely they show photographic As Billy and audio evidence his family begin a roller coaster ride of fame and fortune, as well as a talking cat called Rogerranking high on the FBI's most wanted list, replete with Vincent Price voice – although they the Government soon decides that these aliens are also damaged by being included alongside some bad screenplay attempts about said catterrorists, and must be eliminated. Worryingly, we soon Whilst the aliens are playing games they hope will help humans to see what at the most only a few insanity of the characters canAmerican political, that this cat is being accompanied by unusual economic and unexpected death – much like Alec's wife. It's only when Roger testifies military systems, they soon come to having been pushed through realise that the ends of endurance and out the other side Powers that we begin to doubt where the true evil in this story lies…Be don't play games: they make war. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>00995853401785651757</amazonuk>

|author=Jimmy Hansen and Mychailo KazybirdRod Green|title=Wallace & Gromit Only Fools and Horses: The Complete Newspaper Strips Collection Vol 2Peckham Archives

|genre=HumourEntertainment |summary=For me there We are two important areas in the world of one of the cover country's most famous and well-loved sitcoms – even if it was sort-of this book where three letters are arranged in meaningful wayskilled off for Christmas 2003. The first Yes, there have been specials since, and more repeats to clog up the BBC schedules than is with really pukka, but very few people failed to succumb to its charms at one time or another. I'm sure there have been books before now celebrating the Sstony-U-N in their obligatory red faced reception of ''that'' drop through the open bar hatch, and white font''that'' chandelier scene, but this is much more meaty. No minor paper could hold Wallace and Gromit, their adventures have Purporting to be the family archives, found dumped in what is (unfortunately) Nelson Mandela House, the most widely read tabloid documents here were passed from pillar to post, from one council worker in the country. And elsewhere is C-B-Ea department with a clumsy acronym to another, suggesting that even from them to the storytellers at Aardman Animations who police – and now here they are not household names are feted and revered as artistic experts, raising many laughs and much money being published for the country courtesy of their creative outputsocial history worth. Together these short collections Will enough readers find them of letters show just how much WaG are major creationsworth, and if as the proof was needed this much longer collection of their daily comic strips provides it in spades.series quietly celebrates its 35th birthday?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17827608221849909245</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Dear Committee MembersMara Wilson|authortitle=Julie SchumacherWhere Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionAutobiography|summary=Jason Fitger (Jay) is Mara Wilson has always felt a little young and a little out of place: as the only child on a film set full of adults, the first daughter in a Professor house full of creative writing boys, the sole clinically depressed member of a cheerleading squad, a valley girl in New York and literature at a small university neurotic in California, and an adult the American mid-westworld still remembers as a little girl. He is also Tackling everything from how she first learned about sex on the set of ''Melrose Place,'' to losing her mother at a frustrated novelist with young age, to getting her first kiss (or was it kisses?) on a colourful personal historycelebrity canoe trip, to not being cute enough to make it in Hollywood, much these essays tell the story of which bleeds into his professional lifeone young woman's journey from accidental fame to relative obscurity, with interesting resultsbut also illuminate a universal struggle: learning to accept yourself, and figuring out who you are and where you belong.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00075863450143128221</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Mapp and Lucia OmnibusTony Stuart|authortitle=E F BensonWriting Lines|rating=34.5

|summary=Miss Elizabeth Mapp rules the town 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 Tilling - she is what he recorded was dross. However, amongst all the centre utterly uninteresting tailings of the social his life, there were some nuggets and spends her days enjoying bridgegrains to catch the attention. Author Tony Stuart has created these amusing anecdotes, polite conversation and civilised paintingpanning them out over twenty six episodes which give us the best of Wentworth – comedy gold. When Mrs Emmeline Lucas arrives From losing all the pupils in town (known his charge on a school trip to all as Lucia), Miss Mapp finds her life truly shaken being arrested on suspicion of terrorism; from waking up, as in bed between the married couple the culturedmorning after their wedding, fashionable and progressive Lucia makes her home to destroying a ski run; from appearing full-frontal naked in the towna sheep-farmers' gazette to triggering an air-sea rescue; Wentworth was, blinkered and swiftly rises to befuddled, the top subject – of the ranks amongst the social scene in Tillingthese and so many more unlikely but highly amusing events.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18499084781524634441</amazonuk>

|title=Encyclopedia Paranoiaca|author=Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf|rating=4Graham Fulbright|genretitle=Popular Science|summary=We're screwed. Wherever we look, whatever we think of doing, there is a reason why we shouldn't be doing it, and people to back that reason up with scientific data. Take any aspect of your daily life – what you eat, how you workDriving Mad: Maniacs, how you rest even, what you touch – all have problems that could provoke a serious illness or worse. And outside that daily sphere there are economic disasters, nuclear meltdowns, errant AI scientists Morons and passing comets that could turn our world upside down at the blink of an eye. Perhaps then you better read this book first – for it may well turn out to be your last…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715649213</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=Diary of a Mad Diva|author=Joan RiversAdvanced Motorist's Club

|summary=The late Joan Rivers I passed my driving test when John F Kennedy was, without in the White House and I've recently had to reapply for my driving licence having achieved a doubt, a charactervenerable age. Actress, comedian, writer, director When I started driving the roads were kinder, presentermore forgiving places - or put another way, she was well known in the USA idiots were fewer and beyond for her sharp tongue further between. I don't know how long Graham Fulbright has been driving, but he certainly knows his motoring morons and no holds barred personain ''Driving Mad'' he brings us a fictional sample of their eccentricities. This was the last of the dozen books she published Well, her final title before her death in September 2014I'm pretty certain that they're fictional - but these days you never know...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>04252690271783062584</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - The Nearly Definitive EditionMario Giordano|authortitle=Douglas AdamsAuntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions|rating=54|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=There are few series Poldi had not long been widowed when she decided to move from Bavaria to Sicily with the intention of drinking herself to death. She could, of course, have done this in Germany, but she felt that have garnered such a cult following as 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy'sea view was essential. Whether Once there, new friends, family already resident on the fans have come from island and the radio seriescorpse of a young man, his face blown off by a shotgun, whom she found on the local beach, intervened to give her life some meaning. For a while she was a suspect, but that (impossibly hardand her wig) computer game, or were no obstacle to her falling for Commissario Vito Montana who was assigned to investigate the case. Assisting him (well intentioned but not particularly goodor having him assist her) film, they are everywherecame naturally to Poldi and before long there was an investigative and personal partnership. Ask a room of people what the meaning of life is, and you can be pretty sure a good few will pipe up with '42' At least so far as the answerPoldi was concerned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>04340233961908524693</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Quick Pint After WorkGrady Hendrix|authortitle=Luke LewisMy Best Friend's Exorcism|rating=45|genre=HumourHorror|summary=BuzzFeed is one 1988, Charleston, South Carolina. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth grade. But after an evening of the world’s best time sucksskinny-dipping goes disatrously wrong, and I’m regularly directed Gretchen begins to the site by links from Facebook and Twitter, in between browsing the app on my phoneact...different. She's moody. She's irritable. According to the author bio on this book, BuzzFeed is And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever she'a social news and entertainment companys nearby. Abby', which is a fancy way of describing lots of fun lists that speak s investigation leads her to the readership (20 words that have a completely different meaning in Manchester, 30 Things all exsome startling discoveries -gymnasts 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 by the attached photos or video clips. The question thentime their story reaches its terrifying conclusion, is whether or not BuzzFeed the book fate of Abby and Gretchen will have be determined by a single question: Is their friendship enough to beat the same appeal.devil?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07515577301594748624</amazonuk>

|author=Graeme SimsionKevin MacNeil|title=The Rosie EffectBrilliant and Forever|rating=43.5|genre=Humour|summary=Following inadvertent success with the Wife ProjectYou know sometimes when someone tells a joke, everyone else laughs, Professor Don Tillman and his new bride Rosie have moved from Australia to New York. Although Donyou's position on the autistic scale is subjective, he still operates on a daily basis of structured procedures, lists and logic. Rosie can generally handle that but re sat there are choppy waters ahead. With the patter of tiny feet imminent logic goes out the window as she struggles with her PhD while Don struggles to find his place in the baby production process. At least he has his drinking buddies to support him – an aging rock drummer and a friend whose wife has thrown him out for infidelity. What could possibly go wrongwondering what was so funny?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07181794711846973376</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Burnt Tongues: An Anthology of Transgressive Short StoriesChristopher Fowler|authortitle=Chuck Palahniuk, Dennis Widmyer Bryant and Richard ThomasMay: Strange Tide|rating=43.5|genre=Short StoriesCrime|summary=Saying certain things out loud just don’t sound rightThe thirteenth outing for Bryant and May is looking very much like it will be their last. Some things are so disturbing or politically incorrect that you Arthur Bryant is on compassionate leave whilst tests are best off leaving them inside your headcontinuing, or better yet not thinking of them at all. When these words which are spoken they could lead likely to the sensation of Burnt Tongue; an aftereffect of knowing what you said was wrongconfirm that he is suffering from Alzheimer's. Are you prepared to enter His condition is worsening almost by the world of Transgressive Fiction that aims to disturbday, alienate, disgust and question?memory lapses are morphing into full-scale hallucinations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178329552X0857523422</amazonuk>

|author=Sammy LookerKevin Smith|title=Something Nasty in The Voyage of the SlushpileDolphin|rating=45|genre=HumourHistorical Fiction|summary=I couldn't resist Dublin 1916: Among the title unrest and anti- a neat play on [[Cold Comfort Farm British feeling worsened by Stella Gibbons|Cold Comfort Farm]] and I'm sure that you'll understand that I was expecting some examples the threat of the horrors conscription into a war seen as nothing to be found amongst do with the mountain of unsolicited manuscripts which every publisher accumulatesIrish, Trinity College faculty has other distractions. I'll confess I was expecting to giggle, even to groan - unkind, I know - and IThey'd mentally shelved like a trophy; the book with the trivia, or (hopefully) the humourskeleton of an Irish 'giant' to be precise. There The only glitch is that element to the bookmain trophy contender, but thereBernard MacNeill's also something far more usefulskeleton, is somewhere difficult to access and all seasoned explorers are otherwise engaged. There may be hope though. They turn to Fitzmaurice, a student not good enough for anything else. Fitzmaurice agrees, picking his friends Crozier and Rafferty to go with him. If youSo… 're thinking about publishing a book this should be required reading 'Gentlemen, lace up your strongest boots and pack your warmest underwear – we'beforere all off to the bloody Arctic!'' you even go near Whether battle cry or epitaph, three men and a publisherdog… and an iguana… are going anyway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14721110281910124826</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1910124826</amazonus>

|author=The QueenTony Hawks|title=Still ReigningOnce Upon a Time in the West… Country|rating=43|genre=HumourTravel|summary=Anyone who frequents Twitter will know that I have often complained in a jokey voice to my partner about life in the sticks, and the way she moved me from an inner-city flat to slumming itin the suburbs with fewer busses, no takeaways within walking-and-keeping-food-hot distance, and no 's a mixed blessing. ItPolish's shops for a mine can of wonderful information and supportive camaraderiebeer whenever you fancy one. It's also - unfortunately - home Things are different with Tony Hawks, as here he has purposefully decided to up sticks from London to Somewhere, Devon – a lot of tiny village where the people who take great pleasure built their own homes decades ago still live in causing pain to others. But in amongst all this them, where slugs are a few gems and one lot more of them is [https://twitter.com/Queen_UK @Queen_UK], a delightful satire on members of problem for the royal family, celebrities, wannabe lettuce-grower than they are for the political classes and the state of Her Majesty's nation. Or, ''one's nation'' as Ma'am would say. ''Still Reigning'' is her second bookmetropolitan commuter, after ''Gin O'Clock'' and it's where village halls have the sort of parody which leaves power to turn you into both a Pol Pot dictator if you wondering get on their committee and into a quivering, bruise-inducing wreck if the writer might not be someone you''very'' close to re the original.wrong gender at a Zumba class…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07156491321444794809</amazonuk>