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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|authorclass-"wikitable" cellpadding= Charles Harris"15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->|title= The Breaking of Liam Glass|rating= 3<!-- Coulton -->|genre=Crime-|summarystyle= A flawed but reasonably entertaining swipe at modern media"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473669588. There's plenty here to like, and plenty not to. But good structure and scramjet pace keep this one flying to the final page.jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>1908943823<http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473669588/amazonuk>ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle= Fred Van Lente"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title= Ten Dead Comedians==[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton]]=== [[image: A Murder Mystery4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating= 4}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|genre= General Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|summary= Nine comedians are invited to Humour]], [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Lex Coulton's debut novel is a remote Caribbean island under the guise of working with Dustin Walkerstory about mistakes, failures, a comedic legendand relationships. Each fits neatly into one of the archetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, the washed-up has-been The main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, is a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen far from his early days; Zoeout with her best friend Jackson, a work colleague, the rising female star and is grappling with a new stand-up special coming soon; Dante, who went from being a kid on the streets to increasingly eccentric behaviour of her mother. This relationship is complicated by the hardest working road comic in the businessfact that Frances's father disappeared at sea when she was five years old. [[Falling Short by Lex Coulton|Full Review]] <!-- van LENTE -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; Oliver, the childtext-like prop comic who can't get any respect from his peersalign: center;"|[[image:1683690346.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left; 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 Con Artist by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], the ultra[[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Comic-feminist YouTuber Cons are a place of wonder and Blogger with a chip on her shoulder; sanctuary for many people, and Williamwhen Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, whose redneck character he''Billy s looking for both that and sanctuary with other fans and creators, plus the Contractor'' is a far cry from chance of maybe, just maybe reuniting with his real personality as a posh millionaireex. Of courseHowever, all nine agree because ''when God almighty walks down on a beam his rival is found dead, Mike is forced to navigate every dark corner of light and asks for your help, what the hell else are you going con in order to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans to say?''zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, in doing so, may just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creator. [[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594749744</amazonuk!-- Curran -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=S Lynn Scott"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690133.jpg|titlelink=Elizabeth, Williamhttp://www.amazon.co. and Meuk/dp/1683690133/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |ratingstyle=4.5"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||genre=Humour==[[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|summarylink=Ally is an ordinary woman with teenage childrenCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] You are a husband lass of twenty eight. Plucky, penniless and in Regency era London the race is on to find a job. Then comes the day when ordinariness flies out of the windowsuitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. ItAlong your journey you's not ll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a coincidence that it's the same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I in the pantry life alone, and the Bard of Avon in her bathfired by a rogueish sense for adventure. WhatWhen it comes to suitors though, you's she going ll have to do? Wellmake the ultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the mad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. With orphans, werewolves, Elizabeth long lost lovers and Will have their own ideas about that!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788037006</amazonuk>ancient Egyptian artifcats along the way, it's clear this isn't going to be an easy decision... [[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|Full Review]]}}{{newreview<!-- Jester -->|author= E G Rodford-|titlestyle= The Surgeon's Case"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: George Kocharyan Mystery 2center;"|rating= 4[[image:Jester_Forever.jpg|genre= Crime left|summarylink=In the second instalment of this series, Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a wellhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1510704361?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1510704361]]  | style="vertical-known local man to track down some missing valuables. Bill Galbraith, a worldalign: top; text-famous surgeon at Cambridge's Addenbrooke's Hospital who hosts align: left;"|===[[Forever After: a popular medical television programme, has had his briefcase stolen dark comedy by his live-in domestic servantDavid Jester]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], Aurora. According to Galbraith[[:Category:Horror|Horror]], this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient [[:Category:Fantasy|Fasntasy]] Michael Holland is a cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the offer of his at the hospitallifetime; immortality. George agrees to look into the theftWe follow Michael, assuming it will be a relatively easy grim reaper and straightforward case – little does he know, he's about to enter his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a world of deceit stoner in the records department) as they grapple with their long lives and dysfunctionfinding a clean surface to sit on in their flat.[[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565005X</amazonuk!-- Stibbe -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=Toni Jordan"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title=Our Tiny, Useless Hearts[[image:Stibbe_Xmas.jpg|rating=5left|genrelink=Women's Fictionhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0241309824?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0241309824]]  |summarystyle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===As predicted [[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Caroline and Janice's mother on Caroline and Henry's wedding day, their marriage is over, albeit 15 years and two daughters further along than predictedNina Stibbe]]=== [[image:4.5star. Indeedjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], this is definitely not a good weekend [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Christmas – the time of traditional trauma. You only have to think about the turkey for Janice that – once upon a time it was leaving it sat on the downstairs loo to be babysitting at Carolinedefrost overnight, and if that failed the hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. Nowadays it's house. Thereall having to make sure it's the split suitably free-range and the awkwardness 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 the girls' schoolteacher being the other woman for course also a starttime of great boons. Then thereIt's that mistaken identity moment involving 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 neighbours. At least Janice is well adjusted and over her exthank-husband Alec. She still dreams of himyou letters to aunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you write out in long-hand as a child, yes, but it's so over! Just and as for the makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well really… guess who's at , did they even try and sell them any other time of the dooryear?[[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760293814</amazonuk!-- Doescher -->}}{{newreview|author=Colin Taylor-|titlestyle=The Life of a Scilly Sergeant"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Doescher_Will.jpg|ratingleft|link=4https://www.amazon.co.5uk/gp/product/159474985X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=159474985X]]  |genrestyle=Travel"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||summary=Meet ==[[William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Isles of ScillySeventh by Ian Doescher]]=== [[image:4.5star. (I know they should be called that – the author provides a handy guide to the etiquette of their namejpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] A long time ago, their nature and locationin a galaxy far away, etc.) For our more distant readersthere was a man called William Shakespeare, they're several chunks who was able to create a series of dramatic histories full of granite rock out in the Atlanticmachinations most foul, where Cornwall is pointing, with just 2,200 permanent residentsrulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy. TheyYou may or may not have noticed the cinematic version of his original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken''re big on tourism, and big on growing flowers but here at last we get the actual script, complete with annoying-in the tropical climate the Gulf Stream bequeaths them – although the weather is bad enough -different-ways-to turn any car to a rust bucket within years-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, and people keeping it in the family til it hurts. TheyAnd if you need further encouragement, don're t forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the series is so wee, and so idyllicpopular 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]] <!-- Goss --seeming, especially at night, you can be mistaken for thinking there would be no need for a police presence>|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Goss_600.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon. But there is – at least two working at any one timeco. And one of them in recent years has been Colin Taylor, who has done his official duty – alongside maintaining a welluk/gp/product/1785942719?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-known online existence, which has brought to life all the whimsical comedy of his work.|amazonuk21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=<amazonuk>178475515X</amazonuk>1785942719]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle=Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees|title"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|='Twas the Fight Before Christmas==[[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Parody|ratingCollection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies]]===3.5|genre=Humour[[image:4.5star.jpg|summarylink=ItCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Christmas Eve Rhymes and Mum has arranged everything. All she now has to do is await the arrival of the relatives Verse|Children's Rhymes and Verse]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Consider the food shopping deliveryDoctor. Little does Mum know that those two elements alone Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have the potential to ruin everything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472125118</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ryan North|title=Romeo 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/or Juliet|rating=3enemies.5|genre=Humour|summary=For all those who think tragedy plots are too restricted 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 prescribed, read onget himself ready. In these pages And if you too will see that Romeo had lots of options en route to hitting '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 bottlesame. Likewise, she could have turned away from her predestined path at no end [[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of junctures. And to what result? Well, happy marriage Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss 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)Russell T Davies|Full Review]] <!-- Ingram -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Ingram_Kammie. jpg|left|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>0356508536<https://amazonuk>www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785451995?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785451995]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle= Gervase Phinn"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|title= The Virgin Mary's Got Nits|rating= 4==[[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram]]=== [[image:4star.5jpg|genrelink= Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Pets|Pets]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]]|summary= Christmas in our house is the 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 we tend to get : dogs are perfectly capable of communicating with humans and not just on a plane and head to either sun level of food!, walk! or snowplay!. You do require extensive training to become fluent, anywhere that is far, far away from the madness at home, last minute dashes but most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to the shops on Christmas Eve, teach you and all you have to do is listen. Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are shutting for a month, nor a mere 36 hours. But I do remember the feeling pair have allowed us to share some of Christmas when I was younger, back when it was magical, and back when you knew exactly what the season would bring their conversations. [[Conversations with carol concerts and school nativities and Christmas parties. This book is an anthology of those moments, and it took me right back to the wonder of Christmas as a child.Kammie by Annie Ingram|Full Review]] <!-- Harris -->|-|amazonukstyle=<amazonuk>1444779400</amazonuk>}}{{newreview"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Harris_Glass.jpg|authorlink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1908943823/ref=nosim?tag= Kieran Crowleythebookbag-21]] |title= Shoot|ratingstyle= 4"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||genre= Crime==[[The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|summarylink= I make something of a habit of being late to discover good writersCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], in this case getting to Crowley after he [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Teenager Liam Glass is no longer with usmugged and stabbed yards from his Camden flat. The result is that what is billed as ''an F.X. Shepherd mystery'' with all As the optimism of there being more to come has boy lies comatose, desperate journalist Jason Worthington scrabbles for the poignancy of beinginside scoop, if not the last of tired police officer Andy Rockham searches for a short linemissing tape, harried politician Jamila Hasan fights for re-election, distraught mother Katrina Glass waits by her son, certainly one and gym-owner Royland simply finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. We follow this host of ensemble characters in a fewbleak, kaleidoscopic satire of modern media. F[[The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris|Full Review]] <!-- LENTE -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Lente_10.Xjpg|link=http://www. Shepherd – he doesn't like his first name and prefers just "Shepherd" is, technically, a columnistamazon. He's been sacked by one New York newspaper and is writing a weekly column for anotherco. I don't know much about journalism, but I'm guessing one column a week doesn't pay much as a rule…which explains why Shepherd's soapuk/dp/1683690222/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-washedalign: top; text-foul-mouthed editor (read the book, you'll see what I mean) expects him to turn in some genuine journalism as wellalign: left;"|===[[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image: front page, seat of your pants stuff4star. jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>1783296518</amazonuk>Category:{{{rating}}}{{newreview|author=Gray Jolliffe|title=The First Ever ChristmasStar Reviews]] [[:Category: And Who to BlameHumour|rating=5Humour]]|genre=Humour|summary=If I tell you Nine comedians are invited to a secretremote Caribbean island under the guise of working with Dustin Walker, will you promise not to tell anyone? Wella comedic legend. Each fits neatly into one of the archetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, I really don't like Christmas: it's my least favourite time of year and whilst some people count down to the day itselfwashed-up has-been who has fallen far from his early days; Zoe, I look forward to that point when I can say that it's all over for another year. It's all too commercialised for methe rising female star with a new stand-up special coming soon; Dante, with who went from being a coating of faux religion. I've never found it kid on the streets to the hardest working road comic in the least funny business; Oliver, the child- that islike prop comic who can't get any respect from his peers; Janet, until I found Gray Jolliffe's ''The First Ever Christmas: And Who's to Blame''. the insult comic who is past her prime; AmazinglyTJ, I'd never encountered Gray Jolliffe either, but I'm the nightly variety show host with a convert to reputation for harassing his skills as a cartoonist (if not to female colleagues and guest acts; Ruby, the idea of Christmas) after reading this collection of Christmasultra-themed cartoons from his archive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445663503</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jonathan Pugh|title=Pughfeminist YouTuber and Blogger with a chip on her shoulder; and William, whose redneck character 's New Year's Resolutions|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary=If thereBilly the Contractor's one thing that's for certainis a far cry from his real personality as a posh millionaire. Of course, itall nine agree because '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 God almighty walks down on a website where beam of light and when it can be deliveredasks for your help, and how much leeway they have what the hell else are you going to swap our wishes for whatever it is they do bring us. But those changes are also supposed to be affecting us – wesay?''re supposed to use a smart watch to tell us if we're moving or not, 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.[[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722885</amazonuk!-- Scott -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle= Luke Rhinehart"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title= Invasion[[image:Scott_Eliz.jpg|ratinglink= 4http://www.amazon.co.5uk/dp/1788037006/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |genrestyle= Humour "vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||summary=Super-intelligent furry aliens suddenly appear from another universe==[[Elizabeth, William.. 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 to love the playful alienMe by S Lynn Scott]]=== [[image:4. But when Louie starts using their computer to hack into government and corporate networks, stealing millions from banks to give to others, they realise that Louie and his friends mean trouble5star. As Billy and his family begin a roller coaster ride of fame jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Ally is an ordinary woman with teenage children, a husband and fortune, as well as a ranking high on job. Then comes the day when ordinariness flies out of the FBIwindow. It's most wanted list, the Government soon decides not a coincidence that these aliens are terrorists, and must be eliminated. Whilst it's the aliens are playing games they hope will help humans to see same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I in the insanity of the American political, economic pantry and military systems, they soon come to realise that the Powers Bard of Avon in her bath. What's she going to do? Well, Elizabeth and Will have their own ideas about that Be don't play games: they make war! [[Elizabeth, William... |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785651757and Me by S Lynn Scott|Full Review]] </amazonuk!-- Rodford -->}}{{newreview|author=Rod Green-|titlestyle=Only Fools and Horses"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: The Peckham Archivescenter;"|[[image:Rodford_Surgeon.jpg|ratinglink=4http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178565005X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |genrestyle=Entertainment "vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||summary=We are in the world of one of the country==[[The Surgeon's most famous and well-loved sitcoms – even if it was sort-of killed off for Christmas 2003Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford]]=== [[image:4star. Yes, there have been specials sincejpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], and more repeats to clog up [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] In the BBC schedules than is really pukkasecond instalment of this series, but very few people failed to succumb to its charms at one time or anotherPrivate Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a well-known local man to track down some missing valuables. I'm sure there have been books before now celebrating the stonyBill Galbraith, a world-faced reception of famous surgeon at Cambridge's Addenbrooke'that'' drop through the open bar hatchs Hospital who hosts a popular medical television programme, and ''that'' chandelier scenehas had his briefcase stolen by his live-in domestic servant, but this is much more meatyAurora. Purporting According to be Galbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of his at the family archives, found dumped in Nelson Mandela House, hospital. George agrees to look into the documents here were passed from pillar to posttheft, from one council worker in assuming it will be a department with a clumsy acronym to anotherrelatively easy and straightforward case – little does he know, from them he's about to the police – enter a world of deceit and now here they are being published for their social history worthdysfunction. Will enough readers find them of worth, as the series quietly celebrates its 35th birthday?[[The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk!-- Jordan -->1849909245</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Mara Wilson-|titlestyle= Where Am I Now?"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Famecenter;"|[[image:Jordan_Tiny.jpg|ratinglink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1760293814/ref=nosim?tag= 5thebookbag-21]] |genre= Autobiography|summarystyle= Mara Wilson has always felt a little young and a little out of place"vertical-align: top; text-align: as the only child on a film set full of adultsleft;"|===[[Our Tiny, the first daughter in a house full of boys, the sole clinically depressed member of a cheerleading squad, a valley girl in New York and a neurotic in California, and an adult the world still remembers as a little girlUseless Hearts by Toni Jordan]]=== [[image:5star. Tackling everything from how she first learned about sex on the set of jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women''Melrose Places Fiction]],[[:Category:Humour|Humour]] As predicted by Caroline and Janice's mother on Caroline and Henry' to losing her mother at a young ages wedding day, to getting her first kiss (or was it kisses?) on a celebrity canoe triptheir marriage is over, albeit 15 years and two daughters further along than predicted. Indeed, to this is definitely not being cute enough a good weekend for Janice to make it in Hollywood, these essays tell be babysitting at Caroline's house. There's the split and the story awkwardness of one young the girls' schoolteacher being the other womanfor a start. Then there's journey from accidental fame to relative obscurity, but also illuminate a universal struggle: learning to accept yourself, that mistaken identity moment involving the neighbours. At least Janice is well adjusted and figuring out who you are and where you belongover her ex-husband Alec. She still dreams of him, yes, but it's so over! Just as well really… guess who's at the door? [[Our Tiny, Useless Hearts by Toni Jordan|Full Review]]|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0143128221</amazonuk>}}{{newreview<!-- Taylor -->|author= Tony Stuart-|titlestyle= Writing Lines"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Taylor_Scilly.jpg|ratinglink= 4http://www.amazon.co.5uk/dp/178475515X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] |genre=Humour|summarystyle= George Gordon Wentworth (1946"vertical-align: top; text-2011) lived align: left;"|===[[The Life of a humdrum lifeScilly Sergeant by Colin Taylor]]=== [[image:4.5star. He was a barely adequate teacher in a fairly world renowned independent school in Kent and kept a copious diary of his quotidian existence. Most of what he recorded was dross. Howeverjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], amongst all [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Meet the utterly uninteresting tailings Isles of his life there were some nuggets and grains Scilly. (I know they should be called that – the author provides a handy guide to catch the attentionetiquette of their name, their nature and location, etc. Author Tony Stuart has created these amusing anecdotes) For our more distant readers, panning them out over twenty six episodes which give us the best they're several chunks of Wentworth – comedy gold. From losing all the pupils granite rock out in his charge on a school trip to being arrested on suspicion of terrorism; from waking up in bed between the married couple the morning after their weddingAtlantic, to destroying a ski run; from appearing full-frontal naked in a sheep-farmerswhere Cornwall is pointing, with just 2,200 permanent residents. They' gazette to triggering an air-sea rescue; Wentworth wasre big on tourism, blinkered and befuddled, big on growing flowers in the tropical climate the subject – of these 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 many more unlikely but highly amusing events.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524634441</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Graham Fulbright|title=Driving Mad: Maniacsidyllic-seeming, especially at night, Morons and the Advanced Motorist's Club|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=I passed my driving test when John F Kennedy was in the White House and I've recently had to reapply you can be mistaken for thinking there would be no need for my driving licence having achieved a venerable agepolice presence. When I started driving the roads were kinder, more forgiving places - or put another way, the idiots were fewer and further betweenBut there is – at least two working at any one time. I don't know how long Graham Fulbright And one of them in recent years has been drivingColin Taylor, but he certainly knows who has done his motoring morons and in ''Driving Mad'' he brings us official duty – alongside maintaining a fictional sample well-known online existence, which has brought to life all the whimsical comedy of their eccentricities. Well, I'm pretty certain that they're fictional - but these days you never know..his work.[[The Life of a Scilly Sergeant by Colin Taylor|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783062584</amazonuk!-- Lloyd -->}}{{newreview|author=Mario Giordano-|titlestyle=Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|rating=4[[image:Lloyd_Twas.jpg|genrelink=Crimehttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472125118/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |summarystyle=Poldi had not long been widowed when she decided to move from Bavaria to Sicily with "vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[['Twas the intention of drinking herself to deathFight Before Christmas: A Parody by Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees]]=== [[image:3.5star. She could, of course, have done this in Germany, but she felt that a sea view was essentialjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] It's Christmas Eve and Mum has arranged everything. Once there, new friends, family already resident on All she now has to do is await the arrival of the island relatives and the corpse of a young man, his face blown off by a shotgun, whom she found on food shopping delivery. Little does Mum know that those two elements alone have the local beach, intervened potential to give her life some meaningruin everything. For a while she was a suspect, but that ([['Twas the Fight Before Christmas: A Parody by Josie Lloyd and her wig) were no obstacle to her falling for Commissario Vito Montana who was assigned to investigate the case. Assisting him (or having him assist her) came naturally to Poldi and before long there was an investigative and personal partnership. 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