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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|authorclass-"wikitable" cellpadding=S Lynn Scott"15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--> <!-- Coulton -->|title=Elizabeth, William... and Me-|ratingstyle=4"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473669588.5jpg|genrelink=Humourhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473669588/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |summarystyle=Ally is an ordinary woman with teenage children, a husband and a job"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton]]=== [[image:4star. Then comes the day when ordinariness flies out of the window. Itjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Women's not a coincidence that itFiction|Women's the same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I in the pantry and the Bard of Avon in her bath. WhatFiction]] Lex Coulton's she going to do? Welldebut novel is a story about mistakes, failures, Elizabeth and Will have their own ideas about relationships. The main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, 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 her mother. This relationship is complicated by the fact that!|amazonuk=Frances's father disappeared at sea when she was five years old. [[Falling Short by Lex Coulton|Full Review]] <amazonuk>1788037006</amazonuk!-- van LENTE -->}}{{newreview|author= E G Rodford-|titlestyle= The Surgeon's Case"width: 10%; vertical-align: George Kocharyan Mystery 2top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690346.jpg|ratinglink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag= 4thebookbag-21]]  |genrestyle= Crime "vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||summary=In the second instalment of this series, Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired ==[[The Con Artist by a well-known local man to track down some missing valuablesFred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star. Bill Galbraith, jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Comic-Cons are a worldplace of wonder and sanctuary for many people, and when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-famous surgeon at CambridgeCon, he's Addenbrooke's Hospital who hosts a popular medical television programmelooking for both that and sanctuary with other fans and creators, plus the chance of maybe, has had just maybe reuniting with his briefcase stolen by ex. However, when his live-in domestic servantrival is found dead, Aurora. According Mike is forced to Galbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient navigate every dark corner of his at the hospital. George agrees con in order to look into the theft, assuming it will be a relatively easy clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and straightforward case intrusive fans to zombie obstacle courses – little does he knowMike must prove his innocence and, in doing so, he's about to enter may just unravel a dark secret behind a world of deceit and dysfunctionlegendary industry creator.[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565005X</amazonuk!-- Curran -->}}{{newreview|author=Toni Jordan-|titlestyle=Our Tiny, Useless Hearts"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|rating=5[[image:1683690133.jpg|genrelink=Women's Fictionhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690133/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |summarystyle=As predicted by Caroline and Janice"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[My Lady's mother on Caroline Choosing by Kitty Curran and Henry's wedding day, their marriage is overLarissa Zageris]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], albeit 15 years and two daughters further along than predicted. Indeed[[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] You are a lass of twenty eight. Plucky, this penniless and in Regency era London the race is definitely not on to find a good weekend for Janice suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to be babysitting at Caroline's houselife as an eternal spinster. ThereAlong your journey you's the split ll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a life alone, and the awkwardness of the girls' schoolteacher being the other woman fired by a rogueish sense for a startadventure. Then thereWhen it comes to suitors though, you's that mistaken identity moment involving ll have to make the neighbours. At least Janice is well adjusted ultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and over her ex-husband Aleccaring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the mad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. She still dreams of himWith orphans, werewolves, yeslong lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the way, but it's so over! Just as well really… guess whoclear this isn's at the door?t going to be an easy decision... [[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760293814</amazonuk!-- Jester -->}}{{newreview|author=Colin Taylor-|titlestyle=The Life of a Scilly Sergeant"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Jester_Forever.jpg|left|ratinglink=4https://www.amazon.co.5uk/gp/product/1510704361?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1510704361]] |genre=Travel|summarystyle=Meet the Isles of Scilly"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester]]=== [[image:4star. (I know they should be called that – the author provides jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fasntasy]] Michael Holland is a handy guide to cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the etiquette offer of their namehis lifetime; immortality. We follow Michael, their nature a grim reaper and location, etc.his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) For our more distant readers, they're several chunks of granite rock out and Naff (a stoner in the Atlantic, where Cornwall is pointing, records department) as they grapple with just 2,200 permanent residents. They're big on tourism, their long lives and big finding a clean surface to sit on growing flowers in the tropical climate the Gulf Stream bequeaths them – although the weather is bad enough to turn any car to a rust bucket within years. They're so wee, and so idyllictheir flat. 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And one of them in recent years has been Colin Taylor, who has done his official duty – alongside maintaining a well-known online existence, which has brought to life all the whimsical comedy of his workjpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0241309824?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0241309824]]  |amazonukstyle=<amazonuk>178475515X</amazonuk>"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|}}{{newreview|author=Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees|title='Twas the Fight Before =[[An Almost Perfect Christmasby Nina Stibbe]]=== [[image: A Parody|rating=34.5star.5jpg|genrelink=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] |summary=It's Christmas Eve and Mum has arranged everything– the time of traditional trauma. All she now has You only have to do is await think about the arrival of turkey for that – once upon a time it was leaving it sat on the relatives downstairs loo to defrost overnight, and if that failed the food shopping deliveryhair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. Little does Mum know that those two elements alone have the potential 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 ruin everythingeat it.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472125118</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ryan North|title=Romeo 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/or Juliet|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=For beards, it was always a godsend for postmen with all those who think tragedy plots are too restricted and prescribed, read on. In these pages the thank-you letters to aunties you too will see saw twice a decade that Romeo had lots your parents made you write out in long-hand as a child, and as for the makers of options en route to hitting the bottle. Likewise, she could have turned away from her predestined path at no end Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they even try and sell them any other time of junctures. And to what resultthe year? Well, happy marriage and a kid called Ben, because the leads have just banged people's heads together and stopped the quarrelling, or Death by Tybalt (him) or a long life running an establishment curing murderous women, such as a Lady M (her)[[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe|Full Review]] <!-- Doescher -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Doescher_Will. jpg|left|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>0356508536<https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/amazonuk>159474985X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=159474985X]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle= Gervase Phinn"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title= The Virgin Mary==[[William Shakespeare's Got Nitsthe Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher]]=== |rating= [[image:4.55star.jpg|genrelink= Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]]|summary= Christmas in our house is the A long time we tend to get on ago, in a plane and head to either sun or snow, anywhere that is far, galaxy far away from the madness at home, last minute dashes to the shops on Christmas Evethere was a man called William Shakespeare, and food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are shutting for who was able to create a monthseries of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, nor a mere 36 hoursrulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy. But I do remember You may or may not have noticed the feeling cinematic version of Christmas when I was youngerhis original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken'', back when it was magicalbut here at last we get the actual script, and back when you knew exactly what the season would bring with carol concerts and school nativities and Christmas parties. This book is an anthology of those momentscomplete with annoying-in-different-ways-to-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, and people keeping it took me right back 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 wonder of Christmas as a child.Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444779400</amazonuk!-- Goss -->}}{{newreview|author= Kieran Crowley-|titlestyle= Shoot|rating= 4"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Goss_600.jpg|genreleft|link= Crimehttps://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785942719?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785942719]]  |summarystyle= I make something of a habit "vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of being late to discover good writers, in this case getting to Crowley after he is no longer with usTime Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies]]=== [[image:4. The result is that what is billed as ''an F5star.X. Shepherd mysteryjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verse|Children' with all s Rhymes and Verse]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Consider the optimism of there being more Doctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to come has the poignancy of beinghand out each year, if not the last were he to keep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a short linefew novelty gifts for some of them, say, for example, certainly one whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of a few. FTime Lord and that of some of his friends and enemies.X. Shepherd – As luck would have it, he doesn't like has the space in his first name and prefers just "Shepherd" isTARDIS to stock up in advance, technicallyso my advice to him – sorry, a columnisther – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. HeAnd if you's been sacked by one New York newspaper and is writing re working on a weekly column for another. I don't know much about journalismshorter timescale, but I'm guessing one column with a week doesn't pay shorter lifespan, and thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much as a rule…which explains why Shepherd's soapthe 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]] <!--washedIngram -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. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783296518</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Gray Jolliffe-|titlestyle=The First Ever Christmas"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: And Who to Blamecenter;"|[[image:Ingram_Kammie.jpg|ratingleft|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785451995?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=51785451995]] |genre=Humour|summarystyle=If I tell you a secret, will you promise not to tell anyone? Well, I really don't like Christmas"vertical-align: top; text-align: it's my least favourite time of year and whilst some people count down to the day itselfleft;"|===[[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 look forward encountered Annie Ingram and her cocker spaniel Kammie. You see, Annie knows something which has been self-evident to that point when I can say that it's all over for another year. It's all too commercialised me for me, with a coating of faux religionlong time: dogs are perfectly capable of communicating with humans and not just on a level of food!, walk! or play!. I've never found it in the least funny - that isYou do require extensive training to become fluent, until I found Gray Jolliffe's ''The First Ever Christmasbut 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: And Who's Kammie has trained her well and the pair have allowed us to Blame''share some of their conversations. Amazingly, I'd never encountered Gray Jolliffe either, but I'm a convert to his skills as a cartoonist (if not to the idea of Christmas) after reading this collection of Christmas[[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram|Full Review]] <!-- Harris -->|-themed cartoons from his archive.|amazonukstyle=<amazonuk>1445663503<"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Harris_Glass.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1908943823/amazonuk>ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris]]=Jonathan Pugh|title=Pugh's New Year's Resolutions|rating=4.5|genre=Humour[[image:3star.jpg|summarylink=If there's one thing that's for certainCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], it's that the world [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Teenager Liam Glass is changingmugged and stabbed yards from his Camden flat. We're dating onlineAs the boy lies comatose, desperate journalist Jason Worthington scrabbles for the inside scoop, we're communicating in ways that make email seem redundanttired police officer Andy Rockham searches for a missing tape, and when we'harried politician Jamila Hasan fights for re shopping we just tell a website where and when it can be delivered-election, distraught mother Katrina Glass waits by her son, and how much leeway they have to swap our wishes for whatever it is they do bring usgym-owner Royland simply finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. But those changes are also supposed to be affecting us – we're supposed to use We follow this host of ensemble characters in a smart watch to tell us if we're moving or notbleak, we have to keep up 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.kaleidoscopic satire of modern media. [[The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722885</amazonuk!-- LENTE -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle= Luke Rhinehart"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title= Invasion[[image:Lente_10.jpg|ratinglink= 4http://www.amazon.co.5uk/dp/1683690222/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |genrestyle= Humour "vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|summarylink=Super-intelligent furry aliens suddenly appear from another universe. And they've come to earth to have fun. Alien Louie follows fisherman Billy Morton home one day, and he and his family quickly come Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Nine comedians are invited to love a remote Caribbean island under the playful alienguise of working with Dustin Walker, a comedic legend. But when Louie starts using their computer to hack Each fits neatly into government and corporate networksone of the archetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, stealing millions from banks to give to othersthe washed-up has-been who has fallen far from his early days; Zoe, they realise that Louie and his friends mean trouble. As Billy and his family begin the rising female star with a roller coaster ride of fame and fortunenew stand-up special coming soon; Dante, as well as who went from being a ranking high kid on the FBI's most wanted list, the Government soon decides that these aliens are terrorists, and must be eliminated. Whilst the aliens are playing games they hope will help humans streets to see the insanity of hardest working road comic in the American politicalbusiness; Oliver, economic and military systems, they soon come to realise that the Powers that Be donchild-like prop comic who can't play games: they make war. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785651757</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rod Green|title=Only Fools get any respect from his peers; Janet, the insult comic who is past her prime; TJ, the nightly 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 Horses: The Peckham Archives|rating=4|genre=Entertainment |summary=We are in William, whose redneck character ''Billy the world of one of the countryContractor''s most famous is a far cry from his real personality as a posh millionaire. Of course, all nine agree because ''when God almighty walks down on a beam of light and well-loved sitcoms – even if it was sort-of killed off asks for Christmas 2003. Yesyour help, there have been specials since, and more repeats to clog up what the BBC schedules than is really pukka, but very few people failed hell else are you going to succumb to its charms at one time or another. I'm sure there have been books before now celebrating the stony-faced reception of say?''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 in a department with a clumsy acronym to another, from them to the police – and now here they are being published for their social history worth. Will enough readers find them of worth, as the series quietly celebrates its 35th birthday[[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]] <!-- Scott -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Scott_Eliz.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1788037006/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |amazonukstyle=<amazonuk>1849909245</amazonuk>}}{{newreview"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|author= Mara Wilson|title= Where Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame|rating= 5|genre= Autobiography|summary[[Elizabeth, William... and Me by S Lynn Scott]]= Mara Wilson has always felt a little young and a little out of place== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category: as the only child on a film set full of adults, the first daughter in a house full of boys{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Ally is an ordinary woman with teenage children, the sole clinically depressed member of a cheerleading squad, a valley girl in New York husband and a neurotic in California, and an adult job. Then comes the world still remembers as a little girlday when ordinariness flies out of the window. Tackling everything from how It's not a coincidence that it's the same day she first learned about sex on finds Queen Elizabeth I in the pantry and the set Bard of Avon in her bath. What''Melrose Place,'' s she going to losing her mother at a young age, to getting her first kiss (or was it kissesdo?) on a celebrity canoe tripWell, to not being cute enough to make it in Hollywood, 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 yourselfElizabeth and Will have their own ideas about that! [[Elizabeth, William... and figuring out who you are and where you belong. Me by S Lynn Scott|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0143128221</amazonuk!-- Rodford -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle= Tony Stuart"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title= Writing Lines|rating= 4[[image:Rodford_Surgeon.5jpg|genrelink=Humourhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178565005X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |summarystyle= George Gordon Wentworth (1946"vertical-align: top; text-2011) lived a humdrum life. He was a barely adequate teacher in a fairly world renowned independent school in Kent and kept a copious diary of his quotidian existencealign: left;"|===[[The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford]]=== [[image:4star. Most of what he recorded was dross. However, amongst all jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] In the utterly uninteresting tailings second instalment of his life there were some nuggets and grains to catch the attention. Author Tony Stuart has created these amusing anecdotesthis series, panning them out over twenty six episodes which give us the best of Wentworth – comedy gold. From losing all the pupils in his charge on Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a school trip well-known local man to being arrested on suspicion of terrorism; from waking up in bed between the married couple the morning after their wedding, to destroying track down some missing valuables. Bill Galbraith, a ski run; from appearing fullworld-frontal naked in famous surgeon at Cambridge's Addenbrooke's Hospital who hosts a sheep-farmers' gazette to triggering an air-sea rescue; Wentworth waspopular medical television programme, blinkered and befuddledhas had his briefcase stolen by his live-in domestic servant, Aurora. According to Galbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of his at the subject – of these and so many more unlikely but highly amusing eventshospital.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524634441</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Graham Fulbright|title=Driving Mad: ManiacsGeorge agrees to look into the theft, Morons assuming it will be a relatively easy and the Advanced Motoriststraightforward case – little does he know, he's Clubabout to enter a world of deceit and dysfunction. [[The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford|rating=3.5Full Review]] <!-- Jordan -->|genre=Humour-|summarystyle=I passed my driving test when John F Kennedy was in the White House and I've recently had to reapply for my driving licence having achieved a venerable age"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Jordan_Tiny. When I started driving the roads were kinder, more forgiving places - or put another way, the idiots were fewer and further betweenjpg|link=http://www.amazon. I don't know how long Graham Fulbright has been driving, but he certainly knows his motoring morons and in ''Driving Mad'' he brings us a fictional sample of their eccentricitiesco. Well, I'm pretty certain that they're fictional uk/dp/1760293814/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag- but these days you never know...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783062584</amazonuk>}}21]]{{newreview|author=Mario Giordano|titlestyle=Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||rating=4==[[Our Tiny, Useless Hearts by Toni Jordan]]===|genre=Crime[[image:5star.jpg|summarylink=Poldi had not long been widowed when she decided to move from Bavaria to Sicily with the intention of drinking herself to death. She couldCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]], of course, have done this in Germany, but she felt that a sea view was essential. Once there, new friends, family already resident [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] As predicted by Caroline and Janice's mother on the island Caroline and the corpse of a young manHenry's wedding day, their marriage is over, his face blown off by albeit 15 years and two daughters further along than predicted. Indeed, this is definitely not a shotgun, whom she found on the local beach, intervened good weekend for Janice to give her life some meaningbe babysitting at Caroline's house. For a while she was a suspect, but that (There's the split and her wig) were no obstacle to her falling the awkwardness of the girls' schoolteacher being the other woman for Commissario Vito Montana who was assigned to investigate the casea start. Assisting him (or having him assist her) came naturally to Poldi and before long Then there was an investigative and personal partnership's that mistaken identity moment involving the neighbours. At least so far as Poldi was concernedJanice is well adjusted and over her ex-husband Alec.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524693</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Grady Hendrix|title= My Best FriendShe still dreams of him, yes, but it's Exorcism|rating= 5so over! Just as well really… guess who's at the door? [[Our Tiny, Useless Hearts by Toni Jordan|Full Review]] <!-- Taylor -->|genre= Horror-|summarystyle=1988, Charleston, South Carolina. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth grade. But after an evening of skinny"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-dipping goes disatrously wrong, Gretchen begins to actalign: center;"|[[image:Taylor_Scilly.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.differentco. She's moody. She's irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever she's nearby. Abby's investigation leads her to some startling discoveries - and by the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusion, the fate of Abby and Gretchen will be determined by a single question: Is their friendship enough to beat the devil?uk/dp/178475515X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |amazonukstyle=<amazonuk>1594748624</amazonuk>"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|}}{{newreview|author= Kevin MacNeil|title==[[The Brilliant and Forever|ratingLife of a Scilly Sergeant by Colin Taylor]]=== 3.5|genre= Humour[[image:4.5star.jpg|summarylink= You know sometimes when someone tells a joke, everyone else laughs, and you're sat there wondering what was so funny?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973376</amazonuk>Category:{{{rating}}}{{newreview|author= Christopher Fowler|title= Bryant and MayStar Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category: Strange TideHumour|rating= 3.5Humour]]|genre= Crime|summary= The thirteenth outing for Bryant and May is looking very much like it will be their lastMeet the Isles of Scilly. Arthur Bryant is on compassionate leave whilst tests are continuing, which are likely (I know they should be called that – the author provides a handy guide to confirm that he is suffering from Alzheimer's. His condition is worsening almost by the dayetiquette of their name, memory lapses are morphing into full-scale hallucinationstheir nature and location, etc.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857523422</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kevin Smith|title=The Voyage ) For our more distant readers, they're several chunks of granite rock out in the Dolphin|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Dublin 1916: Among the unrest and anti-British feeling worsened by the threat of conscription into a war seen as nothing to do Atlantic, where Cornwall is pointing, with the Irishjust 2, Trinity College faculty has other distractions200 permanent residents. They'd like a trophy; re big on tourism, and big on growing flowers in the skeleton of an Irish 'giant' to be precise. The only glitch is that tropical climate the main trophy contender, Bernard MacNeill's skeleton, Gulf Stream bequeaths them – although the weather is somewhere difficult bad enough to access and all seasoned explorers are otherwise engaged. There may be hope though. They turn any car to Fitzmaurice, a student not good enough for anything elserust 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. 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This clash jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] I make something of titanic opinions, peppered with social faux pas aplenty will provide for a particularly English kind habit of farcical comedybeing late to discover good writers, but one in this case getting to Crowley after he is no longer with us. The result is that what is billed as ''an F.X. Shepherd mystery'' with all the legs optimism of there being more to go as far as any other Good Books have reached in come has the poignancy of being, if not the past…last of a short line, certainly one of a few. [[Shoot by Kieran Crowley|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->1910709018</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rob Temple|title=Very British Problems Abroad|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=Meet, if you haven't already, the phenomenon of the Very British Problem. In this format they're in pithy little comments (of, ooh, about 140 characters in length, for some reason…) and detail the minor things in life that we like nothing more than to inflate to a major factor of life. 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 to queue properly. And if the idea hits the world outside our shores, then – well, you certainly have a book full of content regarding our attitude and ineptitude abroad.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751558494</amazonuk>}}