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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=Kevin SmithCharles Harris|title=The Voyage Breaking of the DolphinLiam Glass|rating=53|genre=Historical FictionCrime|summary=Dublin 1916: Among the unrest and anti-British feeling worsened by the threat of conscription into a war seen as nothing to do with the Irish, Trinity College faculty has other distractionsA flawed but reasonably entertaining swipe at modern media. TheyThere'd s plenty here to like a trophy; the skeleton of an Irish 'giant' to be precise. The only glitch is that the main trophy contender, Bernard MacNeill's skeleton, is somewhere difficult to access and all seasoned explorers are otherwise engaged. There may be hope though. They turn to Fitzmaurice, a student plenty not good enough for anything else. Fitzmaurice agrees, picking his friends Crozier and Rafferty to go with him. So… ''Gentlemen, lace up your strongest boots But good structure and pack your warmest underwear – we're all off scramjet pace keep this one flying to the bloody Arctic!'' Whether battle cry or epitaph, three men and a dog… and an iguana… are going anywayfinal page.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>19101248261908943823</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1910124826</amazonus>

|author=Tony HawksFred Van Lente|title=Once Upon a Time in the West… CountryTen Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery|rating=34|genre=TravelHumour|summary=I have often complained in Nine comedians are invited to a remote Caribbean island under the guise of working with Dustin Walker, a jokey voice to my partner about life in comedic legend. Each fits neatly into one of the sticksarchetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, and the way she moved me washed-up has-been who has fallen far from an innerhis early days; Zoe, the rising female star with a new stand-city flat up special coming soon; Dante, who went from being a kid on the streets to slumming it the hardest working road comic in the suburbs with fewer bussesbusiness; Oliver, no takeaways within walkingthe child-and-keeping-food-hot distance, and no like prop comic who can'Polish' shops for a can of beer whenever you fancy one. Things are different with Tony Hawks, as here he has purposefully decided to up sticks t get any respect from London to Somewherehis peers; Janet, Devon – a tiny village where the people insult comic who built their own homes decades ago still live in themis past her prime; TJ, where slugs are a lot more of the nightly variety show host with a problem reputation for harassing his female colleagues and guest acts; Ruby, the wannabe lettuceultra-grower than they are for the metropolitan commuterfeminist YouTuber and Blogger with a chip on her shoulder; and William, and where village halls have whose redneck character ''Billy the power to turn you into both Contractor'' is a far cry from his real personality as a Pol Pot dictator if you get posh millionaire. Of course, all nine agree because ''when God almighty walks down on their committee a beam of light and into a quiveringasks for your help, bruise-inducing wreck if what the hell else are yougoing to say?''re the wrong gender at a Zumba class…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>14447948091594749744</amazonuk>

|author=Marian KeyesS Lynn Scott|title=Making It Up As I Go AlongElizabeth, William... and Me

|summary=In which Spadge researches Britain's top ten fears Ally is an ordinary woman with teenage children, a husband and faces them all over a job. Then comes the course day when ordinariness flies out of a yearthe window. We It're quite s not a fearful society, you know. And coincidence that it's the same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I in the pantry and the things we fear most are, Bard of Avon in order: heights (acrophobia)her bath. What's she going to do? Well, snakes (ophidiophobia), public speaking (glossophobia), spiders (arachnophobia), small spaces (claustrophobia), mice (musophobia), needles (trypanophobia), flying (pteromerhanophobia), crowds (agoraphobia) Elizabeth and clowns (coulrophobia).Will have their own ideas about that!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>09934299041788037006</amazonuk>

|author= Mike BullenE G Rodford|title= TrustThe Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2

|genre= General FictionCrime |summary= Greg and Amanda are happyIn the second instalment of this series, Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a well-known local man to track down some missing valuables. UnmarriedBill Galbraith, but together thirteen years and with two young daughtersa world-famous surgeon at Cambridge's Addenbrooke's Hospital who hosts a popular medical television programme, they are very much has had his briefcase stolen by his live-in lovedomestic servant, Aurora. Dan and Sarah aren't so fortunate. Their marriage is going through the motionsAccording to Galbraith, and they're staying together for this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of his at the sake of their troubled teenage sonhospital. Following a business conference away from homeGeorge agrees to look into the theft, one bad decision sends assuming it will be a happy couple into turmoilrelatively easy and straightforward case – little does he know, and turns an unhappy couple into lovehe's young dream. As secrets and betrayals threaten about to send both relationships out enter a world of control, there's only one thing that can keep everything from falling apart: Trustdeceit and dysfunction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751559253178565005X</amazonuk>

|author=Dan RhodesToni Jordan|title=When the Professor Got Stuck in the SnowOur Tiny, Useless Hearts|rating=4.5|genre=General Women's Fiction|summary= Two people are on a train As predicted by Caroline and Janice's mother on Caroline and Henry's wedding day, their way to, of all things, a WI meeting where the ladies of All Bottoms will be lectured on the non-existence of God. One of the two people marriage is Professor Richard Dawkins, rampant atheist, hectoring scientist chappieover, albeit 15 years and all-round devotee of ''Deal or No Deal''two daughters further along than predicted. The other Indeed, this is Smee, his mono-named assistant, amanuensis or 'male secretarydefinitely not a good weekend for Janice to be babysitting at Caroline's house. Smee will come to There's the fore when the weather sets in split and the train journey has to be abandoned some way short awkwardness of its ultimate destination, Upper Bottom. Instead the pair fetch up at girls' schoolteacher being the isolated yet friendly community of Market Horton, and the only option other woman for accommodation is taken – yes, the died-in-the-wool non-believer has to be housed by a retired vicar and his wifestart. This clash of titanic opinions, peppered with social faux pas aplenty will provide for a particularly English kind of farcical comedy, but one with the legs to go as far as any other Good Books have reached in the past…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910709018</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rob Temple|title=Very British Problems Abroad|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=Meet, if you havenThen there't already, the phenomenon of s that mistaken identity moment involving the Very British Problemneighbours. In this format they're in pithy little comments (of, ooh, about 140 characters in length, for some reason…) At least Janice is well adjusted and detail the minor things in life that we like nothing more than to inflate to a major factor of lifeover her ex-husband Alec. They can involve mannersShe still dreams of him, staring at things until they mend themselvesyes, hitting things ditto, or the fact that nobody apart from you and I know how to queue properly. but it's so over! And if Just as well really… guess who's at the idea hits the world outside our shores, then – well, you certainly have a book full of content regarding our attitude and ineptitude abroad.door?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>07515584941760293814</amazonuk>

|author=Fraser McAlpine|title=Stuff Brits Like|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary= With over 100 chapters on different aspects of Britain and Britishness, this book is both fascinating and hilarious. Just looking 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 rugby. There may be many chapters but this is no academic tome - each chapter is just two to three pages long, each is written with endearing affection, each is easy and satisfying - and quirkily funny - to read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1857886348</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= John Samuel|title= What I Tell You in the Dark|rating= 3.5|genre= Humour|summary=A man called Will is fighting fiercely against corruption – desperate to expose his company's dodgy dealings to the press. Overcome with doubt and fear, he goes to kill himself. But, at the exact moment he attaches his noose to the back of the door, he is saved. By a curious housemate or a concerned girlfriend? No, by an Angel. Not the white-feathered guardian Angel you may expect, but one who wishes to help Will achieve his ends, and so possess 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…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0715650505</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|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 Life 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 KnightsScilly Sergeant

|genre=FantasyTravel|summary=Sir Humphrey has been demoted from King Arthur's Round Table to Meet the Table Isles of Lesser Valued KnightsScilly. The only way to get his comfier seat back is to redeem himself via (I know they should be called that – the author provides a quest. Therefore when damsel Elaine seeks help handy guide to find her kidnapped fiancéthe etiquette of their name, Humphrey their nature and his wardlocation, the teenage giant Conrad, eagerly set forthetc. ) Meanwhile For our more distant readers, they're several chunks of granite rock out in the kingdom of TuftAtlantic, where Cornwall is pointing, new Queen Martha has run away after a disastrous wedding to… a… well… disastrous Prince Edwin. She may not realise it yetwith just 2, but she too will have a job for Humphrey!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099555875</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Tim Flannery|title=The Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish|rating=3|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Meet Archie Meek200 permanent residents. HeThey's about to leave the Venus Islands, where he's lived for the last five yearsre big on tourism, and return to Sydney, where he'll take his office big on growing flowers in the museum and fill it with all tropical climate the Gulf Stream bequeaths them – although the cultural artefacts he's found and wildlife he's plucked or pickledweather is bad enough to turn any car to a rust bucket within years. ThatThey's not to ignore the fact he'll count as something quite alien himselfre so wee, with his filledand so idyllic-out frameseeming, nearly all-over suntan and totemic tattooespecially at night, in amongst other changes to his bodyyou can be mistaken for thinking there would be no need for a police presence. But what's this? there is – at least two working at any one time. When he gets back, he finds And one of the main Venus Islands artefacts that caused him to go there them in the first placerecent years has been Colin Taylor, who has done his official duty – alongside maintaining a hugewell-known online existence, macabre ceremonial fetish mask, purloined as corporate artwork. And some which has brought to life all the whimsical comedy of the curators he wishes to his 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>1922079308178475515X</amazonuk>

|author=Roman DirgeJosie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees|title=The Cat with a Really Big Head'Twas the Fight Before Christmas: A 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 first kiss (or was it kisses?) on a celebrity canoe trip, to not being cute enough to make it in September 2014Hollywood, these essays tell the story of one young woman's journey from accidental fame to relative obscurity, but also illuminate a universal struggle: learning to accept yourself, and figuring out who you are and where you belong.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>04252690270143128221</amazonuk>