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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->*[[image:Jester_Forever.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1510704361?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1510704361]] ===[[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fasntasy]] 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]]<br> <!-- 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]] ===[[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] 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]]<br> <!-- 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]] ===[[William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] 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]]<br> <!-- 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]] ===[[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verse|Children's Rhymes and Verse]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] 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]]<br> <!-- 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]] ===[[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Pets|Pets]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] 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]]<br> 

|author=Tony HawksCharles Harris|title=Once Upon a Time in the West… CountryThe Breaking of Liam Glass|rating=3|genre=TravelCrime|summary=I have often complained in a jokey voice A flawed but reasonably entertaining swipe at modern media. There's plenty here to my partner about life in the stickslike, and the way she moved me from an inner-city flat plenty not to slumming it in the suburbs with fewer busses, no takeaways within walking-. But good structure and-keeping-food-hot distance, and no 'Polish' shops for a can of beer whenever you fancy scramjet pace keep this one. Things are different with Tony Hawks, as here he has purposefully decided flying to up sticks from London to Somewhere, Devon – a tiny village where the people who built their own homes decades ago still live in them, where slugs are a lot more of a problem for the wannabe lettuce-grower than they are for the metropolitan commuter, and where village halls have the power to turn you into both a Pol Pot dictator if you get on their committee and into a quivering, bruise-inducing wreck if you're the wrong gender at a Zumba class…final page.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14447948091908943823</amazonuk>

|author=Marian KeyesFred Van Lente|title=Making It Up As I Go Along|rating=4.5|genre=Entertainment|summary=Oh, how the book reviewing gods like to give, and equally like to take away. Here before me is a brand, spanking new collection of journalism by the wonderful Marian Keyes – but it's a proof copy, so there's no photo of the author. Even if over the years I have stopped reading her novels, I have always turned to the author picture to remind myself such sights exist in this world. Himself is a lucky man, for sure. But beyond sounding like a letch, what can I say about this – the beauty's third large dose of essays, web columns and other journalism? I can start with agreeing that I am not the target audience, but it's easy enough to see from these pages exactly what the target is. So much like that test you do – you know the one, that formulates decisions about the age and commonality of all things in space to come up with how many billions of planets are likely to have alien life on – you can narrow things down quite readily here, and still come up with a huge number.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718182529</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jean-Yves Ferri|title= Asterix and the Missing Scroll (Album 36)|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary=Asterix is those rarest of book series; one designed for kids which is actually even funnier when you are an adult. I used to love Asterix as 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 and hard to myself twice within the first two pages of Asterix and the Missing Scroll, so I'd definitely say that this was a hit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510100458</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Spadge Whittaker|title=Braver Than Britain, Occasionally|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=In which Spadge researches Britain's top ten fears and faces them all over the course of a year. We're quite a fearful society, you know. And the things we fear most are, in orderTen Dead Comedians: heights (acrophobia), snakes (ophidiophobia), public speaking (glossophobia), spiders (arachnophobia), small spaces (claustrophobia), mice (musophobia), needles (trypanophobia), flying (pteromerhanophobia), crowds (agoraphobia) and clowns (coulrophobia).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993429904</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Mike Bullen|title= TrustA Murder Mystery

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

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

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

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

|author= John SamuelToni Jordan|title= What I Tell You in the DarkOur Tiny, Useless Hearts|rating= 3.5|genre= HumourWomen's Fiction|summary=A man called Will is fighting fiercely against corruption – desperate to expose his companyAs predicted by Caroline and Janice's dodgy dealings to the press. Overcome with doubt mother on Caroline and fearHenry's wedding day, he goes to kill himselftheir marriage is over, albeit 15 years and two daughters further along than predicted. But Indeed, this is definitely not a good weekend for Janice to be babysitting at Caroline's house. There's the exact moment he attaches his noose to split and the back awkwardness of the door, he is saved. By a curious housemate or girls' schoolteacher being the other woman for a concerned girlfriend? No, by an Angelstart. Not Then there's that mistaken identity moment involving the whiteneighbours. At least Janice is well adjusted and over her ex-feathered guardian Angel you may expecthusband Alec. She still dreams of him, yes, but one it's so over! Just as well really… guess who wishes to help Will achieve his ends, and so possess 's at the body of the hapless Will in order 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 – a hapless young man from Galilee called Jesus…door?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07156505051760293814</amazonuk>

|author= John NivenColin Taylor|title= The Sunshine Cruise Company|rating= 4.5|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 Life 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 KnightsScilly Sergeant

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

|author=Tim Flannery|title=The Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish|rating=3|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Meet Archie Meek. He's about to leave the Venus Islands, where he's lived for the last five years, Josie Lloyd and return to Sydney, where he'll take his office in the museum and fill it with all the cultural artefacts he's found and wildlife he's plucked or pickled. That's 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 this? When he gets back, he finds one of the main Venus Islands artefacts that caused him 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 vanished. 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>1922079308</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Roman DirgeEmlyn Rees|title=The Cat with a Really Big Head|rating=3.5|genre=Graphic Novels|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 word. The title piece in this collection is, by the author's own admission, his imagining of the Joseph Merrick (the 'Elephant Man') of the feline world – who struggles to sneak up behind a mouse when the shadow of his head is a total giveaway, and who can hardly even eat with dignity as bending down to his bowl would break his neck. If that's too dark or oddball for you, try Twas the second major piece, which has a most revealing foreword – ''Dedicated to a certain girl… I hope your life is filled with wonderful accomplishments, love and all the magic you desire… - But I hope your death is slow and horrible.''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782762876</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Val Hennessy|title=Not Far From Dreamland|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Ronald Tonks has reached that stage in life which I call upper middle ageFight Before Christmas: you've qualified for your pension but not yet got to the free television licence barrier. What Ronald ''has'' got is a roof that leaks (there's good reason why his home is called 'the shack'), a dog who is going bald (in patches) and money that's in very short supply. On the plus side he has friends, mostly platonic and usually in much the same boat as Ronald. But are they downhearted? Well, they are occasionally, but mostly they're generously optimistic 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0704373874</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Harry Harrison|title=Bill, the Galactic HeroA Parody

|summary= Join us, good gentles, for a merry reimagining of `Star Wars Episode 1' as only Shakespeare could have written it. It'Tis a true Shakespearean drama, filled with sword fights, soliloquies and doomed romance…all in glorious iambic pentameter s Christmas Eve and coupled with gorgeous illustrationsMum has arranged everything. Hold on All she now has to your midichlorians: The plays do is await the arrival of the thing, wherein you'll catch relatives and the food shopping delivery. Little does Mum know that those two elements alone have the rise of Anakin!potential to ruin everything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>15947480631472125118</amazonuk>

|author=AttaboyRyan North|title=The Book of Hugs|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=A hug's a hug, OK? You either do, or you don't. Some people might be a little more enthusiastic about the process whilst others are more elegant in the execution of the hug, but basically you just get on Romeo and do it and then forget about it, right?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0867197978</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Christopher Fowler|title= Bryant 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=WinshlussKieran Crowley|title=In God We TrustShoot|rating=4.5|genre=Graphic NovelsCrime|summary=To start withI make something of a habit of being late to discover good writers, a rhetorical test. How about God and Adam playing badminton day in and day out, until one gets bored and decides this case getting to create Eve? Crowley after he is no longer with us. Or The result is that what is billed as ''an F.X. Shepherd mystery'' with all the defeater optimism of Goliath and there being more to come has the saviour poignancy of the Israelites being one Conan , if not the Barbarian? Or this as last of a test – Jesus Himself failing to have short line, certainly one of a successful session of tequila slammers with Gabriel due to the holes through His hands? few. I barely need mention that in these pages God does battle with SupermanF.X. Shepherd – he doesn't like his first name and prefers just "Shepherd" is, technically, for you to have answered the test a columnist. He's been sacked by one New York newspaper and put yourself firmly in one of two camps is writing a weekly column for this book – one very another. I don't know much opposed to buying itabout journalism, and but I'm guessing one very column a week doesn't pay much as a rule…which explains why Shepherd's soap-washed-foul-mouthed editor (read the book, you'll see what I mean) expects him to turn in favoursome genuine journalism as well: front page, seat of your pants stuff.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>08616623501783296518</amazonuk>

|author=David Walliams and Tony RossGray Jolliffe|title=The Queen's Orang-UtanFirst Ever Christmas: And Who to Blame

|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>

|titleauthor=Diary of a Mad DivaMara Wilson|authortitle=Joan RiversWhere Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame|rating=3.5|genre=HumourAutobiography|summary=The late Joan Rivers wasMara Wilson has always felt a little young and a little out of place: as the only child on a film set full of adults, without the first daughter in a doubthouse full of boys, the sole clinically depressed member of a character. Actresscheerleading squad, comedian, writer, director, presenter, she was well known a valley girl in the USA New York and beyond for her sharp tongue a neurotic in California, and no holds barred personaan adult the world still remembers as a little girl. This was Tackling everything from how she first learned about sex on the last set of the dozen books she published''Melrose Place, '' to losing her final title before mother at a young age, to getting her death in September 2014.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0425269027</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|title=The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy - The Nearly Definitive Edition|author=Douglas Adams|rating=5|genre=General Fiction|summary=There are few series that have garnered such first kiss (or was it kisses?) on a cult following as 'The Hitchhikers Guide celebrity canoe trip, to not being cute enough to make it in Hollywood, these essays tell the Galaxystory of one young woman'. Whether the fans have come s journey from the radio series, the (impossibly hard) computer gameaccidental fame to relative obscurity, or the (well intentioned but not particularly good) filmalso illuminate a universal struggle: learning to accept yourself, they and figuring out who you are everywhere. Ask a room of people what the meaning of life is, and where you can be pretty sure a good few will pipe up with '42' as the answerbelong.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>04340233960143128221</amazonuk>