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|author= Jean-Yves FerriDavid Jester|title= Asterix and the Missing Scroll (Album 36)Forever After: a dark comedy|rating= 54|genre= For SharingParanormal|summary=Asterix Michael Holland is those rarest a cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the offer of book serieshis lifetime; one designed for kids which is actually even funnier when you are an adultimmortality. I used to love Asterix as We follow Michael, a grim reaper and his friends Chip (a child, but now that I reread them I can't help but wonder why, because they are so full of hilarious jokes that I definitely wouldn't have understood when I was younger. I laughed loud stoner tooth fairy) and hard to myself twice within Naff (a stoner in the first two pages of Asterix records department) as they grapple with their long lives and the Missing Scroll, so I'd definitely say that this was finding a hitclean surface to sit on in their flat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>15101004581510704361</amazonuk>

|author=Spadge WhittakerNina Stibbe|title=Braver Than Britain, OccasionallyAn Almost Perfect Christmas|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary=In which Spadge researches BritainChristmas – the time of traditional trauma. You only have to think about the turkey for that – once upon a time it was leaving it sat on the downstairs loo to defrost overnight, and if that failed the hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. Nowadays it's top ten fears all having to make sure it's suitably free-range and faces them all over the organic – but not too organic that you can go and visit it, and get too friendly with it to want to eat it. Christmas, though, is of course also a time of a yeargreat boons. We It're quite s cash in hand for a fearful societylot of plump people who can hire red suits and beards, it was always a godsend for postmen with all the thank-you letters to aunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you know. And the things we fear most are, write out in order: heights (acrophobia)long-hand as a child, snakes (ophidiophobia), public speaking (glossophobia), spiders (arachnophobia), small spaces (claustrophobia), mice (musophobia), needles (trypanophobia), flying (pteromerhanophobia)and as for the makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, crowds (agoraphobia) did they even try and clowns (coulrophobia).sell them any other time of the year?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>09934299040241309824</amazonuk>

|author= Mike BullenIan Doescher|title= TrustWilliam Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh|rating= 4.5|genre= General Science Fiction|summary= Greg A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, there was a man called William Shakespeare, who was able to create a series of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil and Amanda are happyrebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy. Unmarried You may or may not have noticed the cinematic version of his original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken'', but together thirteen years and here at last we get the actual script, complete with two young daughtersannoying-in-different-ways-to-before droids anew, they are very much returning heroes from elsewhere in love. Dan and Sarah aren't so fortunate. Their marriage is going through the motionshis oeuvre, and they're staying together for people keeping it in the sake of their troubled teenage sonfamily til it hurts. Following a business conference away from home, one bad decision sends a happy couple into turmoil And if you need further encouragement, and turns an unhappy couple into lovedon's young dream. As secrets and betrayals threaten to send both relationships out t forget his audience only demanded three parts of control, thereHenry VI – here the series is so popular we's only one thing that can keep everything from falling apart: Trustre on to part seven – surely making this over twice as good…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751559253159474985X</amazonuk>

|author=Dan RhodesJames Goss and Russell T Davies|title=When the Professor Got Stuck in the SnowDoctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who)

|genre=General FictionChildren's Rhymes and Verse |summary= Two people are on a train on their way Consider the Doctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have tohand out each year, were he to keep in touch with even half of all things, his companions? He would certainly need a WI meeting where the ladies few novelty gifts for some of All Bottoms will be lectured on the non-existence of God. One of the two people is Professor Richard Dawkinsthem, rampant atheistsay, hectoring scientist chappiefor example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of a Time Lord and all-round devotee that of some of ''Deal or No Deal''his friends and enemies. The other is SmeeAs luck would have it, his mono-named assistant, amanuensis or 'male secretary'. Smee will come to the fore when he has the weather sets space in and the train journey has his TARDIS to be abandoned some way short of its ultimate destination, Upper Bottom. Instead the pair fetch stock up at the isolated yet friendly community of Market Hortonin advance, and the only option for accommodation is taken so my advice to him – yessorry, the died-inher – would be to pop along to his local Earth-the-wool non-believer has to be housed by a retired vicar based book emporium and his wifeget himself ready. This clash of titanic opinionsAnd if you're working on a shorter timescale, peppered with social faux pas aplenty will provide for a particularly English kind of farcical comedyshorter lifespan, but and thinking perhaps just one with gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the legs to go as far as any other Good Books have reached in the past…same.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19107090181785942719</amazonuk>

|author=Rob TempleAnnie Ingram|title=Very British Problems AbroadConversations with Kammie

|genre=HumourPets|summary=Meet, if you haven't already, the phenomenon It was something of the Very British Problema relief when I encountered Annie Ingram and her cocker spaniel Kammie. In this format they're in pithy little comments (of, ooh, about 140 characters in lengthYou see, Annie knows something which has been self-evident to me for some reason…) a long time: dogs are perfectly capable of communicating with humans and detail the minor things in life that we like nothing more than to inflate to not just on a major factor level of life''food!'', ''walk!'' or ''play!''. They can involve mannersYou do require extensive training to become fluent, staring at things until they mend themselves, hitting things ditto, or the fact that nobody apart from but most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to teach you and I know how all you have to queue properlydo is listen. And if Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and the idea hits the world outside our shores, then – well, you certainly pair have a book full allowed us to share some of content regarding our attitude and ineptitude abroadtheir conversations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07515584941785451995</amazonuk>

|author=Fraser McAlpineCharles Harris|title=Stuff Brits LikeThe Breaking of Liam Glass|rating=43|genre=HumourCrime|summary= With over 100 chapters on different aspects of Britain and Britishness, this book is both fascinating and hilarious. Just looking A flawed but reasonably entertaining swipe at the list of subjects is enough to produce a sardonic twist of that stiff upper lip: the chapters cover topics that range from offal to curry, from pedantry to banter, from conkers to rugbymodern media. There may be many chapters but this is no academic tome - each chapter is just two 's plenty here to three pages longlike, each is written with endearing affection, each is easy and satisfying - plenty not to. But good structure and quirkily funny - scramjet pace keep this one flying to readthe final page.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18578863481908943823</amazonuk>

|author= John SamuelFred Van Lente|title= What I Tell You in the DarkTen Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery|rating= 3.54

|summary=A man called Will is fighting fiercely against corruption – desperate to expose his company's dodgy dealings Nine comedians are invited to a remote Caribbean island under the press. Overcome guise of working with doubt and fearDustin Walker, he goes to kill himselfa comedic legend. ButEach fits neatly into one of the archetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, at the exact moment he attaches washed-up has-been who has fallen far from his noose early days; Zoe, the rising female star with a new stand-up special coming soon; Dante, who went from being a kid on the streets to the back of hardest working road comic in the doorbusiness; Oliver, he is saved. By a curious housemate or a concerned girlfriend? No, by an Angel. Not the whitechild-feathered guardian Angel you may expect, but one like prop comic who wishes to help Will achieve can't get any respect from his endspeers; Janet, and so possess the body of insult comic who is past her prime; TJ, the hapless Will in order to finish what he started. It goes without saying that nightly variety show host with a reputation for harassing his female colleagues and guest acts; Ruby, the Angel is hoping things go better than they did ultra-feminist YouTuber and Blogger with a chip on her shoulder; and William, whose redneck character ''Billy the last guy he possessed – Contractor'' is a hapless young man far cry from Galilee called Jesus…his real personality as a posh millionaire. Of course, all nine agree because ''when God almighty walks down on a beam of light and asks for your help, what the hell else are you going to say?''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07156505051594749744</amazonuk>

|author= John NivenS Lynn Scott|title= The Sunshine Cruise Company|rating= 4Elizabeth, William.5|genre= Humour|summary= Susan Frobisher and Julie Wickham live in a small Dorset town. Friends since school, they live fairly uneventful lives – Susan has a lovely house and a lengthy marriage to accountant Barry, whereas Julie is doing slightly less well – living in a council flat and working in an old people'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 Susan'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 the nursing home longing for adventure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434023183</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Marie Phillips|title=The Table Of Less Valued KnightsMe

|genre=FantasyHumour|summary=Sir Humphrey has been demoted from King Arthur's Round Table to the Table of Lesser Valued Knights. The only way to get his comfier seat back Ally is to redeem himself via an ordinary woman with teenage children, a husband and a questjob. Therefore Then comes the day when damsel Elaine seeks help to find her kidnapped fiancé, Humphrey and his ward, ordinariness flies out of the teenage giant Conrad, eagerly set forthwindow. Meanwhile It's not a coincidence that it's the same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I in the kingdom pantry and the Bard of Tuft, new Queen Martha has run away after a disastrous wedding to… a… well… disastrous Prince EdwinAvon in her bath. She may not realise it yetWhat's she going to do? Well, but she too will Elizabeth and Will have a job for Humphreytheir own ideas about that!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00995558751788037006</amazonuk>

|author=Tim FlanneryE G Rodford|title=The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish2|rating=34|genre=Historical FictionCrime |summary=Meet Archie Meek. He's about to leave In the Venus Islandssecond instalment of this series, where he's lived for the last five years, and return Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a well-known local man to Sydneytrack down some missing valuables. Bill Galbraith, where he'll take his office in the museum and fill it with all the cultural artefacts hea world-famous surgeon at Cambridge's found and wildlife heAddenbrooke's plucked or pickled. That's not to ignore the fact he'll count as something quite alien himselfHospital who hosts a popular medical television programme, with has had his briefcase stolen by his filledlive-out framein domestic servant, nearly all-over suntan and totemic tattooAurora. According to Galbraith, in amongst other changes to his body. But what's this? When he gets back, he finds one briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of his at the main Venus Islands artefacts that caused him hospital. George agrees to go there in look into the first placetheft, assuming it will be a hugerelatively easy and straightforward case – little does he know, macabre ceremonial fetish mask, purloined as corporate artwork. And some of the curators he wishes to work alongside have vanished. Is the weird society of the museum he's returning about to, perchance, even weirder, stranger enter a world of deceit and more violent than the cannibalistic society he's waving farewell to?dysfunction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1922079308178565005X</amazonuk>

|author=Roman DirgeToni Jordan|title=The Cat with a Really Big HeadOur Tiny, Useless Hearts|rating=3.5|genre=Graphic NovelsWomen's Fiction|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 As predicted by Caroline and Janice'none – yets mother on Caroline and Henry's wedding day, scratch that last wordtheir marriage is over, albeit 15 years and two daughters further along than predicted. The title piece in Indeed, this collection is, by the authordefinitely not a good weekend for Janice to be babysitting at Caroline's house. There's own admission, his imagining of the Joseph Merrick (split and the 'Elephant Man') awkwardness of the feline world – who struggles to sneak up behind a mouse when girls' schoolteacher being the shadow of his head is other woman for a total giveaway, and who can hardly even eat with dignity as bending down to his bowl would break his neckstart. If thatThen there's too dark or oddball for you, try that mistaken identity moment involving the second major piece, which has a most revealing foreword – ''Dedicated to a certain girl… I hope your life neighbours. At least Janice is filled with wonderful accomplishments, love well adjusted and all the magic you desire… over her ex- But I hope your death is slow and horriblehusband Alec. She still dreams of him, yes, but it's so over! Just as well really… guess who's at the door?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17827628761760293814</amazonuk>

|author=Val HennessyColin Taylor|title=Not Far From DreamlandThe Life of a Scilly Sergeant

|genre=General FictionTravel|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 Meet the free television licence barrierIsles of Scilly. What Ronald ''has'' got is a roof that leaks (there's good reason why his home is I know they should be called 'that – the author provides a handy guide to the shack'etiquette of their name, their nature and location, etc.) For our more distant readers, a dog who is going bald (in patches) and money thatthey's re several chunks of granite rock out in very short supplythe Atlantic, where Cornwall is pointing, with just 2,200 permanent residents. On the plus side he has friendsThey're big on tourism, mostly platonic and usually big on growing flowers in much the same boat as Ronaldtropical climate the Gulf Stream bequeaths them – although the weather is bad enough to turn any car to a rust bucket within years. But are they downhearted? Well, they are occasionally, but mostly theyThey're generously optimistic so wee, and out to make the most of what they've gotso idyllic-seeming, especially at night, usually bought from charity shops and jumble salesyou can be mistaken for thinking there would be no need for a police presence. ''Not Far From Dreamland'' But there is the story – at least two working at any one time. And one of them in recent years has been Colin Taylor, who has done his official duty – alongside maintaining a year (2012) in well-known online existence, which has brought to life all the life whimsical comedy of Ronald Tonks, his friends and relativeswork.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0704373874178475515X</amazonuk>

|author=Harry HarrisonJosie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees|title=Bill, 'Twas the Galactic HeroFight Before Christmas: A Parody

|genre=Science FictionHumour|summary=Meet Bill. HeIt's a simple farmer – well, he ''is'' taking a correspondence course in being a Technical Fertiliser Operator – but fate Christmas Eve and Mum has something else in storearranged everything. And so does All she now has to do is await the arrival of the mechanised, technological, industrial military, which needs several billion grunts to fight relatives and the Chingers, in mankind's first inter-galactic warfood shopping delivery. Still, at least he gets medals just for signing up. After Little does Mum know that it's all downhill, and those two elements alone have the likes of Petty Chief Officer Deathwish Drang can only make that a straight line downpotential to ruin everything. Really, what hope is there?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>147320531X1472125118</amazonuk>

|author=Ian DoescherRyan North|title=William Shakespeare's The Phantom of MenaceRomeo and/or Juliet|rating=43.5

|summary= Join usFor all those who think tragedy plots are too restricted and prescribed, good gentlesread on. In these pages you too will see that Romeo had lots of options en route to hitting the bottle. Likewise, for a merry reimagining of `Star Wars Episode 1' as only Shakespeare she could have written itturned away from her predestined path at no end of junctures. 'Tis And to what result? Well, happy marriage and a true Shakespearean dramakid called Ben, filled with sword fights, soliloquies because the leads have just banged people's heads together and doomed romance…all in glorious iambic pentameter and coupled with gorgeous illustrations. Hold on to your midichlorians: The plays stopped the thingquarrelling, wherein you'll catch the rise of Anakin!or Death by Tybalt (him) or a long life running an establishment curing murderous women, such as a Lady M (her). |amazonuk=<amazonuk>15947480630356508536</amazonuk>

|author=AttaboyGervase Phinn|title=The Book of HugsVirgin Mary's Got Nits|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary=A hug's Christmas in our house is the time we tend to get on a hugplane and head to either sun or snow, OK? You either doanywhere that is far, far away from the madness at home, or you don't. Some people might be a little more enthusiastic about last minute dashes to the process whilst others shops on Christmas Eve, and food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are more elegant in shutting for a month, nor a mere 36 hours. But I do remember the execution feeling of the hugChristmas when I was younger, back when it was magical, but basically and back when you just get on knew exactly what the season would bring with carol concerts and school nativities and do it Christmas parties. This book is an anthology of those moments, and then forget about it, took me right?back to the wonder of Christmas as a child.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08671979781444779400</amazonuk>

|author= Christopher FowlerKieran Crowley|title= Bryant and May – The Burning ManShoot|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary= The Peculiar Crimes Unit (PCU) has I make something of a new set habit of overlordsbeing late to discover good writers, in this case getting to Crowley after he is no longer with us. For reasons The result is that were explored in what is billed as ''an F.X. Shepherd mystery'' with all the previous couple optimism of outings they have been transferred there being more to come has the City Of London Police. The Met are still the big players in the area. City poignancy of London Police only police the old citybeing, if not the square mile, the financial district in other words, that has very little in the way last of street crimea short line, because no-certainly one lives there anymore of a few. F.X. Shepherd – he doesn't like his first name and the people who work there areprefers just "Shepherd" is, technically, a columnist. He's been sacked by one New York newspaper and largeis writing a weekly column for another. I 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, either too rich you'll see what I mean) expects him to need to stealturn in some genuine journalism as well: front page, or too smart to have to do so on the streetsseat of your pants stuff.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08575220431783296518</amazonuk>

|author=Catharina Ingelman-SundbergGray Jolliffe|title=The Little Old Lady First Ever Christmas: And Who Struck Lucky Again! to Blame|rating=3.5

|summary=Following the success of If I tell you a secret, will you promise not to tell anyone? Well, I really don't like Christmas: it'The Little Old Lady Who Broke All s my least favourite time of year and whilst some people count down to the Rulesday itself, I look forward to that point when I can say that it's all over for another year. It's all too commercialised for me, the League with a coating of Pensioners are back – and this time, they’re in Vegas! faux religion. I haven’t read the first book but 've never found it was on my list when in the opportunity arose least funny - that is, until I found Gray Jolliffe's ''The First Ever Christmas: And Who's to review this oneBlame''. The idea of the League of Pensioners marching towards Amazingly, I'd never encountered Gray Jolliffe either, but I'm a fairer world through fun and frolics was hugely appealing convert to me and this is his skills as a stand alone novel so I thought I would dive straight in with cartoonist (if not to the idea of Christmas) after reading this onecollection of Christmas-themed cartoons from his archive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14472749031445663503</amazonuk>

|author=WinshlussJonathan Pugh|title=In God We TrustPugh's New Year's Resolutions

|genre=Graphic NovelsHumour|summary=To start withIf there's one thing that's for certain, a rhetorical testit's that the world is changing. How about God We're dating online, we're communicating in ways that make email seem redundant, and Adam playing badminton day in when we're shopping we just tell a website where and day outwhen it can be delivered, until one gets bored and decides how much leeway they have to create Eve? swap our wishes for whatever it is they do bring us. Or the defeater of Goliath and the saviour of the Israelites being one Conan the Barbarian? Or this as a test But those changes are also supposed to be affecting us – Jesus Himself failing we're supposed to have use a successful session of tequila slammers with Gabriel due smart watch to the holes through His hands? I barely need mention that in these pages God does battle with Supermantell us if we're moving or not, for you we have to have answered keep up with the test latest fads, and put yourself firmly in one of two camps for this book – one very much opposed we're supposed to buying it, prick our ears up and one very much in favourtake note when the proverbial 'they' change their minds about what we're supposed to eat.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08616623501780722885</amazonuk>

|author=David Walliams and Tony RossLuke Rhinehart|title=The Queen's Orang-UtanInvasion|rating=4.5|genre=For SharingHumour |summary=The Queen felt trapped in Super-intelligent 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 he and his family quickly come to love the palace with all those stuffed animals which she has been given on foreign toursplayful alien. There are mountains of them But 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 every night she would dream of escapinghis friends mean trouble. When her birthday drew near the As Billy and his family dutifully asked her what she would like as begin a present. The Prince was thinking roller coaster ride of fame and fortune, as well as a goldranking high on the FBI's most wanted list, diamond encrusted stairlift whilst the Duke was considering a great big bottle Government soon decides that these aliens are terrorists, and must be eliminated. Whilst the aliens are playing games they hope will help humans to see the insanity of brandy. The Royal Baby had some decorated thimbles in mindthe American political, economic and military systems, but they soon come to realise that the Queen became just a little snappish as she explained Powers that what she really wanted was 'One's own orang-utan'. And she didnBe don't mean a stuffed one, eitherplay games: they make war.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00081351341785651757</amazonuk>

|author=Jack SheffieldRod Green|title=Silent NightOnly Fools and Horses: The Peckham Archives|rating=3.54|genre=General FictionEntertainment |summary=We are in the world of one of the 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 BBC schedules than is really pukka, but very few people failed to succumb to its charms at one time or another. I read a couple 'm sure there have been books before now celebrating the stony-faced reception of Jack Sheffield’s books about five years ago''that'' drop through the open bar hatch, and enjoyed them very ''that'' chandelier scene, but this is muchmore meaty. They were written in a similar style Purporting to those popularised bybe the family archives, for instancefound dumped in Nelson Mandela House, James Herriot or [[:Category:Gervase Phinn|Gervase Phinn]]the documents here were passed from pillar to post, told mostly from one council worker in the first persona department with a clumsy acronym to another, describing from them to the author’s first couple of years as Headmaster at a small village primary school in Yorkshirepolice – and now here they are being published for their social history worth. The village Will enough readers find them of Ragley is fictionalworth, as are most of the characters, but the incidents and situations encountered are based on the author’s experience.series quietly celebrates its 35th birthday?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>05521670451849909245</amazonuk>

|author=J Robert LennonMara Wilson|title=See You In ParadiseWhere Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame|rating=35|genre=Short StoriesAutobiography|summary=Lennon writes with Mara Wilson has always felt a relaxed, easy style little young and his characters are instantly recognisable a little out of place: as people from everyday walks the only child on a film set full of lifeadults, without being the first daughter in any way stereotypical. Many a house full of boys, the people sole clinically depressed member of a cheerleading squad, a valley girl in these stories are dealing with normal frustrations, New York and Lennon is cleverly detached enough not to make them individuals that you're obviously supposed to root for (the only exception is the industrialist a neurotic in the eponymous taleCalifornia, who is and an archetypal capitalist fat cat)adult the world still remembers as a little girl. There are some very clever characterisations – in Tackling everything from how she first learned about sex on the set of ''Weber’s HeadMelrose Place,''to losing her mother at a young age, for exampleto getting her first kiss (or was it kisses?) on a celebrity canoe trip, the narrator is a flawed individual whose opinions of his housemate are gradually revealed to be unreliable and unfair. For menot being cute enough to make it in Hollywood, these essays tell the most unsettling story is ''No Life'of one young woman's journey from accidental fame to relative obscurity, because it portrays but also illuminate a decent couple at the mercy of people more powerful universal struggle: learning to accept yourself, and figuring out who you are and influential than them. There is no supernatural or bizarre element at work here, just ordinary characters at the mercy of social powerwhere you belong.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17812533580143128221</amazonuk>

|author=Lynne TrussTony Stuart|title=Cat out of HellWriting Lines|rating=34.5|genre=HorrorHumour|summary=Meet Alec CharlesworthGeorge Gordon Wentworth (1946-2011) lived a humdrum life. He's retired was a barely adequate teacher in a fairly world renowned independent school in Kent and decamped to an isolated coastal cottage with just kept a copious diary of his dog and loving memories quotidian existence. Most of his colleague wifewhat he recorded was dross. However, now that she has died before her time. But amongst all the fusty librarian cannot rest too long before engaging in exploring utterly uninteresting tailings of his life there were some unusual computer files that were pinged across by someone at nuggets and grains to catch the college he worked atattention. Author Tony Stuart has created these amusing anecdotes, just before he left. Bizarrely they show photographic and audio evidence panning them out over twenty six episodes which give us the best of a talking cat called Roger, replete with Vincent Price voice Wentworth – although they are also damaged by being included alongside some bad screenplay attempts about said catcomedy gold. Worryingly, we soon see what at From losing all the most only pupils in his charge on a few school trip to being arrested on suspicion of terrorism; from waking up in bed between the married couple the characters canmorning after their wedding, that this cat is being accompanied by unusual and unexpected death – much like Alecto destroying a ski run; from appearing full-frontal naked in a sheep-farmers's wife. It's only when Roger testifies gazette to having been pushed through triggering an air-sea rescue; Wentworth was, blinkered and befuddled, the ends subject – of endurance these and out the other side that we begin to doubt where the true evil in this story lies…so many more unlikely but highly amusing events.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00995853401524634441</amazonuk>

|author=Jimmy Hansen and Mychailo KazybirdGraham Fulbright|title=Wallace & Gromit Driving Mad: The Complete Newspaper Strips Collection Vol 2Maniacs, Morons and the Advanced Motorist's Club|rating=43.5

|summary=For me there are two important areas of the cover of this book where three letters are arranged I passed my driving test when John F Kennedy was in meaningful ways. The first is with the S-U-N in their obligatory red White House and white fontI've recently had to reapply for my driving licence having achieved a venerable age. No minor paper could hold Wallace and GromitWhen I started driving the roads were kinder, their adventures have to be in what is (unfortunately) the most widely read tabloid in the country. And elsewhere is C-Bmore forgiving places -Eor put another way, suggesting that even the storytellers at Aardman Animations who are not household names are feted idiots were fewer and revered as artistic expertsfurther between. I don't know how long Graham Fulbright has been driving, raising many laughs but he certainly knows his motoring morons and much money for the country courtesy in ''Driving Mad'' he brings us a fictional sample of their creative outputeccentricities. Together Well, I'm pretty certain that they're fictional - but these short collections of letters show just how much WaG are major creations, and if the proof was needed this much longer collection of their daily comic strips provides it in spadesdays you never know...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>17827608221783062584</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Dear Committee MembersMario Giordano|authortitle=Julie SchumacherAuntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions|rating=4.5|genre=General FictionCrime|summary=Jason Fitger (Jay) is 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 a Professor sea view was essential. Once there, new friends, family already resident on the island and the corpse of creative writing and literature at a small university in young man, his face blown off by a shotgun, whom she found on the American mid-westlocal beach, intervened to give her life some meaning. He is also For a frustrated novelist with while she was a colourful suspect, but that (and her wig) were no obstacle to her falling for Commissario Vito Montana who was assigned to investigate the case. Assisting him (or having him assist her) came naturally to Poldi and before long there was an investigative and personal history, much of which bleeds into his professional life, with interesting resultspartnership. At least so far as Poldi was concerned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>00075863451908524693</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Mapp and Lucia OmnibusGrady Hendrix|authortitle=E F BensonMy Best Friend's Exorcism|rating=3.5|genre=HumourHorror|summary=Miss Elizabeth Mapp rules the town of Tilling - she is the centre of the social life1988, and spends her days enjoying bridgeCharleston, polite conversation South Carolina. High school sophomores Abby and civilised paintingGretchen have been best friends since fourth grade. When Mrs Emmeline Lucas arrives in town (known But after an evening of skinny-dipping goes disatrously wrong, Gretchen begins to all as Lucia), Miss Mapp finds act...different. She's moody. She's irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever she's nearby. Abby's investigation leads her life truly shaken up, as to some startling discoveries - and by the culturedtime their story reaches its terrifying conclusion, fashionable and progressive Lucia makes her home in the town, fate of Abby and swiftly rises Gretchen will be determined by a single question: Is their friendship enough to beat the top of the ranks amongst the social scene in Tilling.devil?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>18499084781594748624</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Encyclopedia ParanoiacaKevin MacNeil|authortitle=Henry Beard The Brilliant and Christopher CerfForever|rating=43.5|genre=Popular ScienceHumour|summary=We're screwed. Wherever we look, whatever we think of doingYou know sometimes when someone tells a joke, there is a reason why we shouldn't be doing iteveryone else laughs, and people to back that reason up with scientific data. Take any aspect of your daily life – what you eat, how you work, how you rest even, 're sat there wondering 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 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…was so funny?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07156492131846973376</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=Diary of a Mad DivaChristopher Fowler|authortitle=Joan RiversBryant and May: Strange Tide|rating=3.5|genre=HumourCrime|summary=The late Joan Rivers was, without a doubt, a characterthirteenth outing for Bryant and May is looking very much like it will be their last. Actress Arthur Bryant is on compassionate leave whilst tests are continuing, comedian, writer, director, presenter, she was well known in the USA and beyond for her sharp tongue and no holds barred personawhich are likely to confirm that he is suffering from Alzheimer's. This was His condition is worsening almost by the last of the dozen books she publishedday, her final title before her death in September 2014memory lapses are morphing into full-scale hallucinations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>04252690270857523422</amazonuk>

|titleauthor=The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - The Nearly Definitive EditionKevin Smith|authortitle=Douglas AdamsThe Voyage of the Dolphin

|genre=General Historical Fiction|summary=There are few series that have garnered such Dublin 1916: Among the unrest and anti-British feeling worsened by the threat of conscription into a cult following war seen as 'The Hitchhikers Guide nothing to do with the Galaxy'. Whether the fans have come from the radio series, the (impossibly hard) computer game, or the (well intentioned but not particularly good) filmIrish, they are everywhereTrinity College faculty has other distractions. Ask They'd like a room of people what trophy; the meaning skeleton of life an Irish 'giant' to be precise. The only glitch isthat the main trophy contender, Bernard MacNeill's skeleton, is somewhere difficult to access and you can all seasoned explorers are otherwise engaged. There may be pretty sure hope though. They turn to Fitzmaurice, a student not good few will pipe up enough for anything else. Fitzmaurice agrees, picking his friends Crozier and Rafferty to go with him. So… '42' as Gentlemen, lace up your strongest boots and pack your warmest underwear – we're all off to the answerbloody Arctic!'' Whether battle cry or epitaph, three men and a dog… and an iguana… are going anyway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>04340233961910124826</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1910124826</amazonus>

|titleauthor=Quick Pint After WorkTony Hawks|authortitle=Luke LewisOnce Upon a Time in the West… Country|rating=43|genre=HumourTravel|summary=BuzzFeed is one of I have often complained in a jokey voice to my partner about life in the world’s best time suckssticks, and I’m regularly directed to the site by links way she moved me from Facebook and Twitter, an inner-city flat to slumming it in between browsing the app on my phone. According to the author bio on this booksuburbs with fewer busses, no takeaways within walking-and-keeping-food-hot distance, BuzzFeed is and no 'a social news and entertainment companyPolish', which is shops for a can of beer whenever you fancy way of describing lots of fun lists that speak to the readership (20 words that have a completely one. Things are different meaning in Manchesterwith Tony Hawks, 30 Things all ex-gymnasts know as here he has purposefully decided to up sticks from London to be trueSomewhere, 40 Very British problems, yadda yadda yadda). These list work well on line when you want Devon – a quick distraction, and they’re easy to flip through, looking at tiny village where the attached photos or video clips. The question thenpeople who built their own homes decades ago still live in them, is whether or not BuzzFeed where slugs are a lot more of a problem for the book will have the same appeal.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751557730</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Graeme Simsion|title=The Rosie Effect|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=Following inadvertent success with wannabe lettuce-grower than they are for the Wife Projectmetropolitan commuter, Professor Don Tillman and his new bride Rosie where village halls have moved from Australia the power to New York. Although Don's position on the autistic scale is subjective, he still operates turn you into both a Pol Pot dictator if you get on their committee and into a daily basis of structured proceduresquivering, lists and logic. Rosie can generally handle that but there are choppy waters ahead. With bruise-inducing wreck if you're 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 wrong gender at a friend whose wife has thrown him out for infidelity. What could possibly go wrong?Zumba class…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07181794711444794809</amazonuk>