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{{newreview*[[image:Jester_Forever.jpg|left|authorlink=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1510704361?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN= David Jester1510704361]] |title= ==[[Forever After: a dark comedyby David Jester]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating= 4}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|genre= Paranormal]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fasntasy]] |summary= Michael Holland is a cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the offer of his lifetime; immortality. We follow Michael, a grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a stoner in the records department) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a clean surface to sit on in their flat.[[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester|Full Review]]|amazonuk=<amazonukbr>1510704361 </amazonuk!-- Stibbe -->}}*[[image:Stibbe_Xmas.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0241309824?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0241309824]]{{newreview|author=Nina Stibbe|title==[[An Almost Perfect Christmasby Nina Stibbe]]===|rating=[[image:4.55star.jpg|genrelink=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour ]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] |summary=Christmas – 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 all having to make sure it's suitably free-range and 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 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-you letters to aunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you write out in long-hand as a child, and as for the makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they even try and sell them any other time of the year?[[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe|Full Review]]|amazonuk=<amazonukbr>0241309824 </amazonuk!-- Doescher -->}}*[[image:Doescher_Will.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/159474985X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=159474985X]]{{newreview|author=Ian Doescher|title==[[William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventhby Ian Doescher]]=== |rating=[[image:4.55star.jpg|genrelink=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] |summary=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 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-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, and people keeping it in the family til it hurts. And if you need further encouragement, don't forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the series is so popular we're on to part seven – surely making this over twice as good…[[William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher|Full Review]]|amazonuk=<amazonukbr>159474985X </amazonuk!-- Goss -->}}*[[image:Goss_600.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785942719?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785942719]]{{newreview|author=James Goss and Russell T Davies|title==[[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who)by James Goss and Russell T Davies]]=== |rating=[[image:4.55star.jpg|genrelink=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verse|Children's Rhymes and Verse ]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] |summary=Consider the Doctor. Just how many birthday and 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 few novelty gifts for some of them, say, for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of a Time Lord and that of some of his friends and enemies. As luck would have it, he has the space in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, so my advice to him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. And if you're working on a shorter timescale, with a shorter lifespan, and thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the same.[[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies|Full Review]]|amazonuk=<amazonukbr>1785942719 </amazonuk!-- Ingram -->}}*[[image:Ingram_Kammie.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785451995?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785451995]]{{newreview|author=Annie Ingram|title==[[Conversations with Kammieby Annie Ingram]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating=4}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Pets|genre=Pets]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] |summary=It was something of a relief when I encountered Annie Ingram and her cocker spaniel Kammie. You see, Annie knows something which has been self-evident to me for a long time: dogs are perfectly capable of communicating with humans and not just on a level of ''food!'', ''walk!'' or ''play!''. You do require extensive training to become fluent, but most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to teach you and all you have to do is listen. Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and the pair have allowed us to share some of their conversations.[[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram|Full Review]]|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785451995</amazonukbr>}}

{{newreview<!-- Phinn -->*[[image:Phinn_Virgin.jpg|left|authorlink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1444779400/ref= Gervase Phinnnosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] |title= ==[[The Virgin Mary's Got Nitsby Gervase Phinn]]=== |rating= [[image:4.55star.jpg|genrelink= Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Anthologies|Anthologies]] |summary= Christmas in our house is the time we tend to get on a plane and head to either sun or snow, anywhere that is far, far away from the madness at home, last minute dashes to the shops on Christmas Eve, and food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are shutting for a month, nor a mere 36 hours. But I do remember the feeling of Christmas when I was younger, back when it was magical, and back when you knew exactly what the season would bring with carol concerts and school nativities and Christmas parties. This book is an anthology of those moments, and it took me right back to the wonder of Christmas as a child.[[The Virgin Mary's Got Nits by Gervase Phinn|Full Review]]|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444779400</amazonukbr>}}