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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--> <!-- Coulton -->|author= E G Rodford-|titlestyle= The Surgeon's Case"width: George Kocharyan Mystery 210%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473669588.jpg|ratinglink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473669588/ref=nosim?tag= 4thebookbag-21]] |genre= Crime |summarystyle=In the second instalment of this series, Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired "vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Falling Short by a well-known local man to track down some missing valuablesLex Coulton]]=== [[image:4star. Bill Galbraithjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], a world-famous surgeon at Cambridge[[:Category:Women's AddenbrookeFiction|Women's Hospital who hosts Fiction]] Lex Coulton's debut novel is a popular medical television programmestory about mistakes, has had his briefcase stolen by his live-in domestic servantfailures, Auroraand relationships. According to GalbraithThe main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient is a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, a work colleague, and is grappling with the increasingly eccentric behaviour of his at the hospitalher mother. George agrees to look into This relationship is complicated by the theft, assuming it will be a relatively easy and straightforward case – little does he know, hefact that Frances's about to enter a world of deceit and dysfunctionfather disappeared at sea when she was five years old.[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk!-- van LENTE -->178565005X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Toni Jordan-|titlestyle=Our Tiny, Useless Hearts"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|rating=5[[image:1683690346.jpg|genrelink=Women's Fictionhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |summarystyle=As predicted "vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Con Artist by Caroline and Janice's mother on Caroline Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Comic-Cons are a place of wonder and Henry's wedding daysanctuary for many people, their marriage is over, albeit 15 years and two daughters further along than predicted. Indeedwhen Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, this is definitely not a good weekend for Janice to be babysitting at Carolinehe's house. There's the split looking for both that and sanctuary with other fans and creators, plus the awkwardness chance of maybe, just maybe reuniting with his ex. However, when his rival is found dead, Mike is forced to navigate every dark corner of the girls' schoolteacher being the other woman for a start. Then there's that mistaken identity moment involving the neighbours. At least Janice is well adjusted con in order to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans to zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and over her ex-husband Alec, in doing so, may just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creator. She still dreams of him, yes, but it's so over[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]] <! Just as well really… guess who's at the door?-- Curran -->|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760293814</amazonuk>}}{{newreview-|authorstyle=Colin Taylor"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690133.jpg|titlelink=The Life of a Scilly Sergeanthttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690133/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |ratingstyle=4.5"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||genre=Travel|summary=Meet the Isles of Scilly. (I know they should be called that – the author provides a handy guide to the etiquette of their name, their nature =[[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and location, etcLarissa Zageris]]=== [[image:4star.) For our more distant readersjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], they're several chunks [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] You are a lass of granite rock out twenty eight. Plucky, penniless and in Regency era London the Atlantic, where Cornwall race is pointing, with just 2,200 permanent residentson to find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. TheyAlong your journey you're big on tourismll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a life alone, and big on growing flowers in the tropical climate the Gulf Stream bequeaths them – although the weather is bad enough to turn any car to fired by a rust bucket within yearsrogueish sense for adventure. TheyWhen it comes to suitors though, you're so weell have to make the ultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and so idyllic-seemingcaring Captain Angus MacTaggart, especially at nightor the mad, you can be mistaken for thinking there would bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the way, it's clear this isn't going to be no need for a police presencean easy decision.. But there is – 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 well[[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|Full Review]] <!-- Jester --known online existence, which has brought to life all the whimsical comedy of his work.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178475515X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees-|titlestyle='Twas the Fight Before Christmas"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: A Parodycenter;"|[[image:Jester_Forever.jpg|left|ratinglink=3https://www.amazon.co.5uk/gp/product/1510704361?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1510704361]] |genre=Humour|summarystyle=It's Christmas Eve and Mum has arranged everything"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester]]=== [[image:4star. All she now has to do jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fasntasy]] Michael Holland is await a cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the arrival offer of the relatives his lifetime; immortality. We follow Michael, a grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a stoner in the food shopping delivery. Little does Mum know that those two elements alone have the potential records department) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a clean surface to ruin everythingsit on in their flat.[[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472125118</amazonuk!-- Stibbe -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=Ryan North"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Stibbe_Xmas.jpg|titleleft|link=Romeo andhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/or Juliet0241309824?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0241309824]]  |ratingstyle=3.5"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||genre=Humour|summary=For all those who think tragedy plots are too restricted and prescribed, read on=[[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe]]=== [[image:4.5star. In these pages you too will see that Romeo had lots jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Christmas – the time of options en route traditional trauma. You only have to hitting think about the bottle. Likewise, she could have turned away from her predestined path at no end of junctures. And turkey for that – once upon a time it was leaving it sat on the downstairs loo to what result? Welldefrost overnight, happy marriage and a kid called Ben, because if that failed the leads have just banged peoplehair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. Nowadays it's all having to make sure it's heads together suitably free-range and organic – but not too organic that you can go and stopped the quarrellingvisit it, or Death by Tybalt (him) or a long life running an establishment curing murderous womenand get too friendly with it to want to eat it. Christmas, though, such as is of course also a Lady M (her)time of great boons. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356508536</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Gervase Phinn|title= The Virgin MaryIt's Got Nits|rating= 4.5|genre= Humour|summary= Christmas in our house is 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 time we tend thank-you letters to get on aunties you saw twice a plane and head to either sun or snowdecade that your parents made you write out in long-hand as a child, anywhere that is far, far away from and as for the madness at homemakers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, last minute dashes to did they even try and sell them any other time of 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 year? [[An Almost Perfect 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 partiesby Nina Stibbe|Full Review]] <!-- Doescher -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Doescher_Will. This book is an anthology of those moments, and it took me right back to the wonder of Christmas as a child.jpg|left|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>1444779400<https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/amazonuk>159474985X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=159474985X]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle= Kieran Crowley"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|title= Shoot|rating= 4|genre= Crime=[[William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|summarylink= I make something of a habit of being late to discover good writersCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] A long time ago, in this case getting a galaxy far away, there was a man called William Shakespeare, who was able to Crowley after he is no longer with uscreate a series of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy. The result is that what is billed as You may or may not have noticed the cinematic version of his original stage play for ''an F.X. Shepherd mysteryThe Force Doth Awaken'' with all the optimism of there being more , but here at last we get the actual script, complete with annoying-in-different-ways-to come has the poignancy of being-before droids anew, if not the last of a short linereturning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, certainly one of a fewand people keeping it in the family til it hurts. F.X. Shepherd – he doesnAnd if you need further encouragement, don't like forget his first name and prefers just "Shepherd" audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the series is, technically, a columnist. Heso popular we's been sacked by one New York newspaper and is 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 re on to part seven – surely making this over twice as a rule…which explains why Shepherdgood… [[William Shakespeare's soapthe Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher|Full Review]] <!-- Goss -washed-foul>|-mouthed editor (read the book, you'll see what I mean) expects him to turn in some genuine journalism as well: front page, seat of your pants stuff. |amazonukstyle=<amazonuk>1783296518</amazonuk>}}{{newreview"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|author=Gray Jolliffe|title=The First Ever Christmas[[image: And Who to BlameGoss_600.jpg|rating=5left|genrelink=Humourhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785942719?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785942719]]  |summarystyle=If I tell you a secret, will you promise not to tell anyone? Well, I really don't like Christmas"vertical-align: it's my least favourite time top; text-align: left;"|===[[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of year Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and whilst some people count down to the day itself, I look forward to that point when I can say that itRussell T Davies]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's all over for another year. ItRhymes and Verse|Children's all too commercialised for meRhymes and Verse]], with a coating of faux religion. I've never found it in the least funny - that is[[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], until I found Gray Jolliffe's ''The First Ever Christmas[[:Category: And Who's to Blame''Humour|Humour]] Consider the Doctor. AmazinglyJust how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each year, I'd never encountered Gray Jolliffe either, but I'm a convert were he to keep in touch with even half of his skills as companions? He would certainly need a cartoonist (if not to few novelty gifts for some of them, say, for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the idea life of a Time Lord and that of Christmas) after reading this collection some of Christmas-themed cartoons from his archivefriends and enemies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445663503</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jonathan Pugh|title=Pugh's New Year's Resolutions|rating=4As 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.5|genre=Humour|summary=If thereAnd if you's re working on a shorter timescale, with a shorter lifespan, and thinking perhaps just one thing that's for certaingift season ahead, it's that well my advice is pretty much the world is changingsame. [[Doctor Who: Now We're dating online, we're communicating in ways that make email seem redundant, Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and when we're shopping we just tell a website where and when it can be delivered, and how much leeway they have to swap our wishes for whatever it is they do bring usRussell T Davies|Full Review]] <!-- Ingram -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Ingram_Kammie.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co. But those changes are also supposed to be affecting us – we're supposed to use a smart watch to tell us if we're moving or not, we have to keep up uk/gp/product/1785451995?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785451995]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Conversations with the latest fads, and 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.|amazonukKammie by Annie Ingram]]==<amazonuk>1780722885</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Luke Rhinehart|title= Invasion[[image:4star.jpg|ratinglink= 4.5Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Pets|Pets]], [[:Category:Humour|genre= Humour ]]|summary=Super-intelligent furry aliens suddenly appear from another universeIt was something of a relief when I encountered Annie Ingram and her cocker spaniel Kammie. And they've come You see, Annie knows something which has been self-evident to earth 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 have fun. Alien Louie follows fisherman Billy Morton home one daybecome fluent, and he and his family quickly come but most dogs will be perfectly willing to love the playful alien. But when Louie starts using give their computer time to hack into government teach you and corporate networks, stealing millions from banks all you have to give to others, they realise that Louie and his friends mean troubledo is listen. As Billy Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and his family begin a roller coaster ride the pair have allowed us to share some of fame and fortune, as well as a ranking high on the FBI's most wanted list, the Government soon decides that these aliens are terrorists, and must be eliminatedtheir conversations. Whilst the aliens are playing games they hope will help humans to see the insanity of the American political, economic and military systems, they soon come to realise that the Powers that Be don't play games: they make war. |amazonuk=[[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram|Full Review]] <amazonuk>1785651757</amazonuk!-- Harris -->}}{{newreview|author=Rod Green-|titlestyle=Only Fools and Horses"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: The Peckham Archivescenter;"|[[image:Harris_Glass.jpg|ratinglink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1908943823/ref=nosim?tag=4thebookbag-21]] |genre=Entertainment |summarystyle=We are in the world of one of the country's most famous and well-loved sitcoms – even if it was sort"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Breaking of killed off for Christmas 2003Liam Glass by Charles Harris]]=== [[image:3star. Yes, there have been specials sincejpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Teenager Liam Glass is mugged and more repeats to clog up stabbed yards from his Camden flat. As the boy lies comatose, desperate journalist Jason Worthington scrabbles for the BBC schedules than is really pukkainside scoop, but very few people failed to succumb to its charms tired police officer Andy Rockham searches for a missing tape, harried politician Jamila Hasan fights for re-election, distraught mother Katrina Glass waits by her son, and gym-owner Royland simply finds himself in the wrong place at one the wrong time or another. I'm sure there have been books before now celebrating the stony-faced reception We follow this host of ''that'' drop through the open bar hatch, and ''that'' chandelier scene, but this is much more meaty. Purporting to be the family archives, found dumped in Nelson Mandela House, the documents here were passed from pillar to post, from one council worker ensemble characters in a department with a clumsy acronym to anotherbleak, from them to the police – and now here they are being published for their social history worthkaleidoscopic satire of modern media. Will enough readers find them [[The Breaking of worth, as the series quietly celebrates its 35th birthday?Liam Glass by Charles Harris|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849909245</amazonuk!-- LENTE -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle= Mara Wilson"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Lente_10.jpg|titlelink= Where Am I Nowhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690222/ref=nosim?: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame|ratingtag= 5thebookbag-21]]  |genrestyle= Autobiography"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|summarylink= Mara Wilson has always felt a little young and a little out of placeCategory: as the only child on {{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Nine comedians are invited to a film set full remote Caribbean island under the guise of adultsworking with Dustin Walker, the first daughter in a house full comedic legend. Each fits neatly into one of boys, the sole clinically depressed member of a cheerleading squad, a valley girl in New York and a neurotic in Californiaarchetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, and an adult the world still remembers as washed-up has-been who has fallen far from his early days; Zoe, the rising female star with a little girl. Tackling everything new stand-up special coming soon; Dante, who went from how she first learned about sex being a kid on the set of ''Melrose Place,'' streets to losing her mother at a young age, to getting her first kiss (or was it kisses?) on a celebrity canoe trip, to not being cute enough to make it the hardest working road comic in Hollywoodthe business; Oliver, these essays tell the story of one young womanchild-like prop comic who can's journey t get any respect from accidental fame to relative obscurityhis peers; Janet, the insult comic who is past her prime; TJ, but also illuminate the nightly variety show host with a universal struggle: learning to accept yourselfreputation for harassing his female colleagues and guest acts; Ruby, the ultra-feminist YouTuber and figuring out who you are Blogger with a chip on her shoulder; and where you belongWilliam, whose redneck character ''Billy the Contractor'' is a far cry from his real personality as a posh millionaire. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0143128221</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewOf 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?'' [[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente|author= Tony StuartFull Review]]|title= Writing Lines|rating= 4.5<!-- Scott -->|genre=Humour-|summarystyle= George Gordon Wentworth (1946"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-2011) lived a humdrum lifealign: center;"|[[image:Scott_Eliz.jpg|link=http://www. He was a barely adequate teacher in a fairly world renowned independent school in Kent and kept a copious diary of his quotidian existenceamazon. Most of what he recorded was drossco. Howeveruk/dp/1788037006/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Elizabeth, amongst all the utterly uninteresting tailings of his life there were some nuggets William... and grains to catch the attention. Author Tony Stuart has created these amusing anecdotes, panning them out over twenty six episodes which give us the best of Wentworth – comedy goldMe by S Lynn Scott]]=== [[image:4.5star. From losing all the pupils in his charge on jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Ally is an ordinary woman with teenage children, a school trip to being arrested on suspicion husband and a job. Then comes the day when ordinariness flies out of terrorism; from waking up in bed between the married couple window. It's not a coincidence that it's the morning after their wedding, to destroying a ski run; from appearing full-frontal naked same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I in the pantry and the Bard of Avon in a sheep-farmersher bath. What' gazette s she going to triggering an air-sea rescue; Wentworth wasdo? Well, blinkered Elizabeth and befuddledWill have their own ideas about that! [[Elizabeth, the subject – of these William... and so many more unlikely but highly amusing events.Me by S Lynn Scott|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524634441</amazonuk!-- Rodford -->}}{{newreview|author=Graham Fulbright-|titlestyle=Driving Mad"width: Maniacs, Morons and the Advanced Motorist's Club10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Rodford_Surgeon.jpg|ratinglink=3http://www.amazon.co.5uk/dp/178565005X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |genrestyle=Humour"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||summary=I passed my driving test when John F Kennedy was in the White House and I==[[The Surgeon've recently had to reapply for my driving licence having achieved a venerable ages Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford]]=== [[image:4star. When I started driving the roads were kinderjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], more forgiving places - or put another way[[:Category:Humour|Humour]] In the second instalment of this series, the idiots were fewer and further between. I don't know how long Graham Fulbright has Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been drivinghired by a well-known local man to track down some missing valuables. Bill Galbraith, but he certainly knows his motoring morons and in a world-famous surgeon at Cambridge's Addenbrooke'Driving Mad'' he brings us s Hospital who hosts a fictional sample of their eccentricities. Wellpopular medical television programme, I'm pretty certain that they're fictional has had his briefcase stolen by his live- but these days you never knowin domestic servant, Aurora. According to Galbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of his at the hospital...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783062584</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mario Giordano|title=Auntie Poldi George agrees to look into the theft, assuming it will be a relatively easy and the Sicilian Lions|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Poldi had not long been widowed when she decided to move from Bavaria to Sicily with the intention straightforward case – little does he know, he's about to enter a world of drinking herself to deathdeceit and dysfunction. She could, of course, have done this in Germany, but she felt that a sea view was essential. Once there, new friends, family already resident on the island and the corpse of a young man, his face blown off by a shotgun, whom she found on the local beach, intervened to give her life some meaning[[The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford|Full Review]] <!-- Jordan -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Jordan_Tiny. For a while she was a suspect, but that (and her wig) were no obstacle to her falling for Commissario Vito Montana who was assigned to investigate the casejpg|link=http://www.amazon. Assisting him (or having him assist her) came naturally to Poldi and before long there was an investigative and personal partnershipco. At least so far as Poldi was concerned.|amazonukuk/dp/1760293814/ref=nosim?tag=<amazonuk>1908524693</amazonuk>thebookbag-21]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle= Grady Hendrix"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|title= My Best Friend's Exorcism|rating= 5==[[Our Tiny, Useless Hearts by Toni Jordan]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|genrelink= HorrorCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|summary=1988Women's Fiction]], Charleston, South Carolina. High school sophomores Abby [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] As predicted by Caroline and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth grade. But after an evening of skinny-dipping goes disatrously wrong, Gretchen begins to act...different. SheJanice's moody. Shemother on Caroline and Henry's irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever shewedding day, their marriage is over, albeit 15 years and two daughters further along than predicted. Indeed, this is definitely not a good weekend for Janice to be babysitting at Caroline's nearbyhouse. AbbyThere's investigation leads her to some startling discoveries - the split and by the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusion, awkwardness of the girls' schoolteacher being the fate of Abby and Gretchen will be determined by other woman for a single question: Is their friendship enough to beat start. Then there's that mistaken identity moment involving the devil?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594748624</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kevin MacNeil|title=The Brilliant neighbours. At least Janice is well adjusted and Forever|rating= 3over her ex-husband Alec.5|genre= Humour|summary= You know sometimes when someone tells a jokeShe still dreams of him, everyone else laughsyes, and youbut it're sat there wondering what was s so funnyover! Just as well really… guess who's at the door?[[Our Tiny, Useless Hearts by Toni Jordan|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973376</amazonuk!-- Taylor -->}}{{newreview|author= Christopher Fowler-|titlestyle= Bryant and May"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: Strange Tidecenter;"|[[image:Taylor_Scilly.jpg|ratinglink= 3http://www.amazon.co.5uk/dp/178475515X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |genrestyle= Crime"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||summary= ==[[The thirteenth outing for Bryant and May is looking very much like it will be their lastLife of a Scilly Sergeant by Colin Taylor]]=== [[image:4. Arthur Bryant is on compassionate leave whilst tests are continuing, which are likely to confirm that he is suffering from Alzheimer's5star. His condition is worsening almost by the day, memory lapses are morphing into full-scale hallucinations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857523422</amazonuk>jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}}{{newreviewStar Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:Humour|author=Kevin SmithHumour]]|title=The Voyage of the Dolphin|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Dublin 1916: Among Meet the unrest and anti-British feeling worsened by Isles of Scilly. (I know they should be called that – the threat of conscription into author provides a war seen as nothing handy guide to do with the Irish, Trinity College faculty has other distractionsetiquette of their name, their nature and location, etc. They) For our more distant readers, they'd like a trophy; the skeleton re several chunks of an Irish 'giant' to be precise. The only glitch granite rock out in the Atlantic, where Cornwall is that the main trophy contenderpointing, Bernard MacNeill's skeletonwith just 2, is somewhere difficult to access and all seasoned explorers are otherwise engaged. There may be hope though200 permanent residents. They turn to Fitzmaurice're big on tourism, a student not good and big on growing flowers in the tropical climate the Gulf Stream bequeaths them – although the weather is bad enough for anything elseto turn any car to a rust bucket within years. Fitzmaurice agreesThey're so wee, picking his friends Crozier and Rafferty to go with him. So… ''Gentlemenso idyllic-seeming, lace up your strongest boots and pack your warmest underwear – we're all off to the bloody Arctic!'' Whether battle cry or epitaphespecially at night, three men and a dog… and an iguana… are going anywayyou can be mistaken for thinking there would be no need for a police presence. But there is – at least two working at any one time.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124826</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1910124826</amazonus>}}{{newreview|author=Tony Hawks|title=Once Upon a Time in the West… Country|rating=3|genre=Travel|summary=I have often complained And one of them in recent years has been Colin Taylor, who has done his official duty – alongside maintaining a jokey voice well-known online existence, which has brought to my partner about life in all the sticks, and the way she moved me from an inner-city flat to slumming it in the suburbs with fewer busses, no takeaways within walkingwhimsical comedy of his work. [[The Life of a Scilly Sergeant by Colin Taylor|Full Review]] <!--andLloyd -keeping-food>|-hot distance, and no 'Polish' shops for a can of beer whenever you fancy one| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Lloyd_Twas.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co. 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