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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--> <!-- Coulton -->|author=Ian Doescher-|titlestyle=William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken"width: Star Wars Part the Seventh10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473669588.jpg|ratinglink=4http://www.amazon.co.5uk/dp/1473669588/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] |genre=Science Fiction|summarystyle=A long time ago"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], in a galaxy far away[[:Category:Humour|Humour]], there was [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Lex Coulton's debut novel is a man called William Shakespearestory about mistakes, failures, and relationships. The main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, is a sixth form English teacher who was able to create a series of dramatic histories full of machinations most foulhas recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, a work colleague, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdyis grappling with the increasingly eccentric behaviour of her mother. You may or may not have noticed This relationship is complicated by the cinematic version of his original stage play for fact that Frances''The Force Doth Awaken'', but here s father disappeared at last we get the actual script, complete with annoyingsea when she was five years old. [[Falling Short by Lex Coulton|Full Review]] <!-- van LENTE -in-different>|-ways| style="width: 10%; vertical-toalign: top; text-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, and people keeping it in the family til it hurtsalign: center;"|[[image:1683690346.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co. 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…uk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||amazonuk=<amazonuk>159474985X</amazonuk>==[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente]]===}}[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{newreviewrating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|author=James Goss and Russell T Davies|title=Doctor WhoCrime]], [[:Category: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who)Humour|Humour]]|rating=4.5|genre=Children's Rhymes Comic-Cons are a place of wonder and Verse |summary=Consider the Doctor. Just how sanctuary for many birthday people, and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each yearwhen Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, were he to keep in touch 's looking for both that and sanctuary with even half other fans and creators, plus the chance of his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of themmaybe, just maybe reuniting with his ex. However, saywhen his rival is found dead, for example, whimsical books Mike is forced to navigate every dark corner of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of a Time Lord con in order to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and that of some of intrusive fans to zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his friends innocence and enemies. As luck would have it, he has the space in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, doing so my advice to him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. And if you're working on may just unravel a shorter timescale, with dark secret behind a shorter lifespan, and thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the same.legendary industry creator. [[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785942719</amazonuk!-- Curran -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=Annie Ingram"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690133.jpg|titlelink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690133/ref=nosim?tag=Conversations with Kammiethebookbag-21]]|rating=4|genre=Pets|summarystyle=It was something of a relief when I encountered Annie Ingram "vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and her cocker spaniel KammieLarissa Zageris]]=== [[image:4star. You see, Annie knows something which has been self-evident to me for a long timejpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category: dogs Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] You are perfectly capable a lass of communicating with humans twenty eight. Plucky, penniless and not just in Regency era London the race is on to find a level of ''food!'', ''walk!'' suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Along your journey you''play!''. You do require extensive training to become fluent, but most dogs will ll be perfectly willing accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to give their time to teach save you from a life alone, and all you have fired by a rogueish sense for adventure. When it comes to do is listen. Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and the pair suitors though, you'll have allowed us to share some of their conversationsmake 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, long lost lovers and 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]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785451995</amazonuk!-- Jester -->}}{{newreview|author= Charles Harris-|titlestyle= The Breaking of Liam Glass"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|rating= 3[[image:Jester_Forever.jpg|genre=Crimeleft|summarylink= A flawed but reasonably entertaining swipe at modern mediahttps://www. There's plenty here to like, and plenty not toamazon. But good structure and scramjet pace keep this one flying to the final pageco.uk/gp/product/1510704361?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1510704361]]  |amazonukstyle=<amazonuk>1908943823</amazonuk>"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|}}{{newreview|author= Fred Van Lente|title= Ten Dead Comedians=[[Forever After: A Murder Mysterya dark comedy by David Jester]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|ratinglink= 4Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fasntasy]]|genre= Humour|summary= Nine comedians are invited to Michael Holland is a remote Caribbean island under cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the guise offer of working with Dustin Walkerhis lifetime; immortality. We follow Michael, a comedic legend. Each fits neatly into one of grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a stoner in the archetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, the washedrecords department) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a clean surface to sit on in their flat. [[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester|Full Review]] <!-- Stibbe --up has>|-been who has fallen far from his early days| style="width: 10%; Zoe, the rising female star with a new standvertical-up special coming soonalign: top; Dante, who went from being a kid on the streets to the hardest working road comic in the businesstext-align: center; Oliver, the child"|[[image:Stibbe_Xmas.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0241309824?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0241309824]]  | style="vertical-like prop comic who can't get any respect from his peersalign: top; Janet, the insult comic who is past her primetext-align: left; TJ, the nightly variety show host with a reputation for harassing his female colleagues and guest acts; Ruby"|===[[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Christmas – the ultra-feminist YouTuber and Blogger with time of traditional trauma. You only have to think about the turkey for that – once upon a chip time it was leaving it sat on her shoulder; the downstairs loo to defrost overnight, and William, whose redneck character ''Billy if that failed the Contractor'hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. Nowadays it' is a far cry from his real personality as a posh millionaire. Of course, s all nine agree because having to make sure it''when God almighty walks down on a beam of light s suitably free-range and asks for your helporganic – but not too organic that you can go and visit it, what the hell else are you going and get too friendly with it to want to say?''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594749744</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=S Lynn Scott|title=Elizabeth, William..eat it. Christmas, though, is of course also a time of great boons. It's cash in hand for a lot of plump people who can hire red suits and Me|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary=Ally is an ordinary woman with teenage childrenbeards, it was always a husband and godsend for postmen with all the thank-you letters to aunties you saw twice a job. Then comes the day when ordinariness flies decade that your parents made you write out of the window. It's not in long-hand as a coincidence that it's the same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I in the pantry child, and as for the Bard makers of Avon in her bath. What's she going to do? WellMeltis Newberry Fruits – well, Elizabeth did they even try and Will have their own ideas about that!sell them any other time of the year? [[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788037006</amazonuk!-- Doescher -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle= E G Rodford"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Doescher_Will.jpg|titleleft|link= The Surgeon's Casehttps: George Kocharyan Mystery 2//www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/159474985X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=159474985X]]  |ratingstyle= 4"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||genre= Crime |summary=In the second instalment of this series, Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a well-known local man to track down some missing valuables. Bill Galbraith, a world-famous surgeon at Cambridge=[[William Shakespeare's Addenbrooke's Hospital who hosts a popular medical television programme, has had his briefcase stolen the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by his live-in domestic servant, AuroraIan Doescher]]=== [[image:4.5star. According to Galbraithjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of his at the hospital. George agrees to look into the theft[[:Category:Humour|Humour]] A long time ago, assuming it will be in a relatively easy and straightforward case – little does he knowgalaxy far away, he's about to enter there was a world of deceit man called William Shakespeare, who was able to create a series of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and dysfunctionheroines most sturdy.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565005X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Toni Jordan|title=Our Tiny You may or may not have noticed the cinematic version of his original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken'', Useless Hearts|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=As predicted by Caroline and Janice's mother on Caroline and Henry's wedding daybut here at last we get the actual script, their marriage is overcomplete with annoying-in-different-ways-to-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, albeit 15 years and two daughters further along than predictedpeople keeping it in the family til it hurts. IndeedAnd if you need further encouragement, this don't forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the series is definitely not a good weekend for Janice to be babysitting at Carolineso popular we's house. Therere on to part seven – surely making this over twice as good… [[William Shakespeare's the split and Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the awkwardness of the girls' schoolteacher being the other woman for a startSeventh by Ian Doescher|Full Review]] <!-- Goss -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Goss_600. Then there's that mistaken identity moment involving the neighboursjpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co. At least Janice is well adjusted and over her exuk/gp/product/1785942719?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-husband Alec. She still dreams of him, yes, but it's so over! Just as well really… guess who's at the door?|amazonuk21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=<amazonuk>1760293814</amazonuk>1785942719]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle=Colin Taylor|title=The Life of a Scilly Sergeant"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||rating=4.5|genre=Travel|summary=Meet the Isles [[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Scilly. Time Lord Verse (I know they should be called that – the author provides a handy guide to the etiquette of their name, their nature Dr Who) by James Goss and location, etcRussell T Davies]]=== [[image:4.5star.) For our more distant readers, theyjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verse|Children're several chunks of granite rock out in the Atlantics Rhymes and Verse]], where Cornwall is pointing[[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], with just 2,200 permanent residents[[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Consider the Doctor. They're big on tourism, Just how many birthday and big on growing flowers in the tropical climate the Gulf Stream bequeaths them – although the weather is bad enough Christmas gifts must he have to turn any car hand out each year, were he to a rust bucket within years. They're so weekeep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of them, and so idyllic-seeming, especially at nightsay, you can be mistaken for thinking there would be no need for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of a police presenceTime Lord and that of some of his friends and enemies. But there is – at least two working at any one time. And one of them in recent years has been Colin TaylorAs luck would have it, who he has done the space in his official duty TARDIS to stock up in advance, so my advice to him – alongside maintaining a well-known online existencesorry, which has brought her – would be to pop along to life all the whimsical comedy of his worklocal Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178475515X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Josie Lloyd And if you're working on a shorter timescale, with a shorter lifespan, and Emlyn Rees|title='Twas thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the Fight Before Christmassame. [[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A ParodyCollection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies|Full Review]] |rating=3.5<!-- Ingram -->|-|genrestyle=Humour"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Ingram_Kammie.jpg|summaryleft|link=It's Christmas Eve and Mum has arranged everythinghttps://www. All she now has to do is await the arrival of the relatives and the food shopping deliveryamazon. Little does Mum know that those two elements alone have the potential to ruin everythingco.|amazonukuk/gp/product/1785451995?ie=<amazonuk>1472125118</amazonuk>UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785451995]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle=Ryan North"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title=Romeo and/or Juliet|rating=3.5|genre=Humour[[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|summarylink=For all those who think tragedy plots are too restricted and prescribedCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Pets|Pets]], read on[[:Category:Humour|Humour]] It was something of a relief when I encountered Annie Ingram and her cocker spaniel Kammie. In these pages you too will You see that Romeo had lots of options en route , Annie knows something which has been self-evident to hitting the bottle. Likewiseme for a long time: dogs are perfectly capable of communicating with humans and not just on a level of food!, she could have turned away from her predestined path at no end of junctureswalk! or play!. And You do require extensive training to what result? Wellbecome fluent, happy marriage but most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to teach you and a kid called Ben, because the leads all you have just banged people's heads together to do is listen. Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and stopped the quarrelling, or Death pair have allowed us to share some of their conversations. [[Conversations with Kammie by Tybalt (him) or a long life running an establishment curing murderous women, such as a Lady M (her). Annie Ingram|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356508536</amazonuk!-- Harris -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle= Gervase Phinn"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title= The Virgin Mary's Got Nits|rating= 4[[image:Harris_Glass.5jpg|genrelink= Humourhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1908943823/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |summarystyle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|= Christmas in our house is the time we tend to get on a plane and head to either sun or snow==[[The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], anywhere that [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Teenager Liam Glass is far, far away mugged and stabbed yards from his Camden flat. As the madness at homeboy lies comatose, last minute dashes to desperate journalist Jason Worthington scrabbles for the shops on Christmas Eveinside scoop, and food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are shutting tired police officer Andy Rockham searches for a monthmissing tape, nor a mere 36 hours. But I do remember the feeling of Christmas when I was youngerharried politician Jamila Hasan fights for re-election, back when it was magicaldistraught mother Katrina Glass waits by her son, and back when you knew exactly what gym-owner Royland simply finds himself in the season would bring with carol concerts and school nativities and Christmas partieswrong place at the wrong time. This book is an anthology We follow this host of those momentsensemble characters in a bleak, and it took me right back to the wonder kaleidoscopic satire of Christmas as a childmodern media.[[The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444779400</amazonuk!-- LENTE -->}}{{newreview|author= Kieran Crowley-|titlestyle= Shoot|rating= 4"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Lente_10.jpg|genrelink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690222/ref=nosim?tag= Crimethebookbag-21]]  |summarystyle= I make something of a habit of being late to discover good writers, in this case getting to Crowley after he is no longer with us"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star. The result is that what is billed as ''an F.X. Shepherd mystery'' with all the optimism of there being more jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Nine comedians are invited to come has a remote Caribbean island under the poignancy guise of beingworking with Dustin Walker, if not the last of a short line, certainly comedic legend. Each fits neatly into one of a few. F.X. Shepherd – he doesn't like his first name and prefers just "Shepherd" isthe archetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, technically, a columnist. He's the washed-up has-been sacked by one New York newspaper and is writing a weekly column for another. I don't know much about journalismwho has fallen far from his early days; Zoe, but I'm guessing one column the rising female star with a week doesn't pay much as a rule…which explains why Shepherd's soapnew stand-washed-foul-mouthed editor (read up special coming soon; Dante, who went from being a kid on the book, you'll see what I mean) expects him streets to turn the hardest working road comic in some genuine journalism as well: front pagethe business; Oliver, seat of your pants stuff. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783296518</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Gray Jolliffe|title=The First Ever Christmas: And Who to Blame|rating=5|genre=Humour|summary=If I tell you a secret, will you promise not to tell anyone? the child-like prop comic who can't get any respect from his peers; Janet, the insult comic who is past her prime; WellTJ, I really don't like Christmas: it's my least favourite time of year the nightly variety show host with a reputation for harassing his female colleagues and whilst some people count down to guest acts; Ruby, the day itself, I look forward to that point when I can say that it's all over for another year. It's all too commercialised for me, ultra-feminist YouTuber and Blogger with a coating of faux religion. Ichip on her shoulder; and William, whose redneck character ''ve never found it in Billy the least funny - that is, until I found Gray JolliffeContractor's ''The First Ever Christmas: And Who's to Blame''. Amazingly, I'd never encountered Gray Jolliffe either, but I'm is a convert to far cry from his skills real personality as a cartoonist (if not to the idea posh millionaire. Of course, all nine agree because ''when God almighty walks down on a beam of Christmas) after reading this collection of Christmas-themed cartoons from his archive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445663503</amazonuk>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|Full Review]]}}{{newreview|author=Jonathan Pugh|title=Pugh's New Year's Resolutions<!-- Scott -->|rating=4.5-|genrestyle=Humour"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Scott_Eliz.jpg|summarylink=If there's one thing that's for certainhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1788037006/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Elizabeth, it's that the world is changingWilliam... We're dating online, we're communicating in ways that make email seem redundant, and when we're shopping we just tell a website where and when it can be deliveredMe by S Lynn Scott]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Ally is an ordinary woman with teenage children, a husband and how much leeway they have to swap our wishes for whatever it is they do bring usa job. Then comes the day when ordinariness flies out of the window. But those changes are also supposed to be affecting us – weIt're supposed to use s not a smart watch to tell us if wecoincidence that it're moving or not, we have to keep up with s the same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I in the latest fads, pantry and wethe Bard of Avon in her bath. What're supposed s she going to prick our ears up do? Well, Elizabeth and take note when the proverbial 'they' change their minds Will have their own ideas about what we're supposed to eatthat! [[Elizabeth, William...and Me by S Lynn Scott|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722885</amazonuk!-- Rodford -->}}|-{{newreview|author| style= Luke Rhinehart"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title= Invasion[[image:Rodford_Surgeon.jpg|ratinglink= 4http://www.amazon.co.5uk/dp/178565005X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] |genre= Humour |summarystyle=Super"vertical-intelligent furry aliens suddenly appear from another universe. And theyalign: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Surgeon've come to earth to have funs Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford]]=== [[image:4star. Alien Louie follows fisherman Billy Morton home one dayjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], and he and his family quickly come to love [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] In the playful alien. But when Louie starts using their computer to hack into government and corporate networkssecond instalment of this series, stealing millions from banks Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a well-known local man to give to others, they realise that Louie and his friends mean troubletrack down some missing valuables. As Billy and his family begin a roller coaster ride of fame and fortuneBill Galbraith, as well as a ranking high on the FBIworld-famous surgeon at Cambridge's Addenbrooke's most wanted listHospital who hosts a popular medical television programme, the Government soon decides that these aliens are terroristshas had his briefcase stolen by his live-in domestic servant, and must be eliminatedAurora. Whilst the aliens are playing games they hope will help humans to see the insanity According to Galbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of his at the American political, economic and military systems, they soon come hospital. George agrees to realise that look into the Powers that Be dontheft, assuming it will be a relatively easy and straightforward case – little does he know, he's about to enter a world of deceit and dysfunction. [[The Surgeon't play gamess Case: they make war. George Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford|amazonuk=Full Review]] <amazonuk>1785651757</amazonuk!-- Jordan -->}}{{newreview|author=Rod Green-|titlestyle=Only Fools and Horses"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: The Peckham Archivescenter;"|rating=4[[image:Jordan_Tiny.jpg|genrelink=Entertainment |summaryhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1760293814/ref=We are in the world of one of the country's most famous and wellnosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-loved sitcoms – even if it was sortalign: top; text-of killed off for Christmas 2003align: left;"|===[[Our Tiny, Useless Hearts by Toni Jordan]]=== [[image:5star. Yes, there have been specials since, and more repeats to clog up the BBC schedules than is really pukka, but very few people failed to succumb to its charms at one time or another. Ijpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women'm sure there have been books before now celebrating the stony-faced reception of s Fiction|Women''that'' drop through the open bar hatchs Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] As predicted by Caroline and Janice's mother on Caroline and Henry'that'' chandelier scenes wedding day, but this their marriage is much more meaty. Purporting to be the family archivesover, found dumped in Nelson Mandela Housealbeit 15 years and two daughters further along than predicted. Indeed, the documents here were passed from pillar to post, from one council worker in this is definitely not a department with a clumsy acronym good weekend for Janice to another, from them to the police – and now here they are be babysitting at Caroline's house. There's the split and the awkwardness of the girls' schoolteacher being published the other woman for their social history wortha start. Will enough readers find them of worth, as the series quietly celebrates its 35th birthday?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849909245</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Mara Wilson|title= Where Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood Then there's that mistaken identity moment involving the neighbours. At least Janice is well adjusted and Accidental Fame|rating= 5|genre= Autobiography|summary= Mara Wilson has always felt a little young and a little out over her ex-husband Alec. She still dreams of place: as the only child on a film set full of adults, the first daughter in a house full of boyshim, yes, but it's so over! Just as well really… guess who's at the sole clinically depressed member of a cheerleading squaddoor? [[Our Tiny, 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|Full Review]] <!-- Taylor -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Taylor_Scilly. Tackling everything from how she first learned about sex on the set of ''Melrose Place,'' to losing her mother at a young age, to getting her first kiss (or was it kissesjpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178475515X/ref=nosim?) on a celebrity canoe trip, to not being cute enough to make it in Hollywood, these essays tell the story tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Life of one young woman's journey from accidental fame to relative obscurity, but also illuminate a universal struggle: learning to accept yourself, and figuring out who you are and where you belong. |amazonukScilly Sergeant by Colin Taylor]]==<amazonuk>0143128221</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Tony Stuart|title= Writing Lines|rating= [[image:4.55star.jpg|genrelink=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]]|summary= George Gordon Wentworth Meet the Isles of Scilly. (1946-2011) lived I know they should be called that – the author provides a humdrum life. He was a barely adequate teacher in a fairly world renowned independent school in Kent and kept a copious diary handy guide to the etiquette of his quotidian existence. Most of what he recorded was dross. Howevertheir name, amongst all the utterly uninteresting tailings of his life there were some nuggets their nature and grains to catch the attention. Author Tony Stuart has created these amusing anecdoteslocation, etc.) For our more distant readers, panning them they're several chunks of granite rock out over twenty six episodes which give us in the best of Wentworth – comedy gold. From losing all the pupils in his charge Atlantic, where Cornwall is pointing, with just 2,200 permanent residents. They're big on a school trip to being arrested tourism, and big on suspicion of terrorism; from waking up growing flowers in bed between the married couple tropical climate the morning after their wedding, to destroying a ski run; from appearing full-frontal naked in Gulf Stream bequeaths them – although the weather is bad enough to turn any car to a sheep-farmersrust bucket within years. They' gazette to triggering an air-sea rescue; Wentworth wasre so wee, blinkered and befuddledso idyllic-seeming, the subject – of these and so many more unlikely but highly amusing eventsespecially at night, you can be mistaken for thinking there would be no need for a police presence.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524634441</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Graham Fulbright|title=Driving Mad: Maniacs, Morons and the Advanced Motorist's Club|rating=3But there is – at least two working at any one time.5|genre=Humour|summary=I passed my driving test when John F Kennedy was And one of them in the White House and I've recently had to reapply for my driving licence having achieved recent years has been Colin Taylor, who has done his official duty – alongside maintaining a venerable age. When I started driving the roads were kinder, more forgiving places well- or put another wayknown online existence, which has brought to life all the idiots were fewer and further betweenwhimsical comedy of his work. 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 [[The Life of a fictional sample of their eccentricities. Well, I'm pretty certain that they're fictional - but these days you never know...Scilly Sergeant by Colin Taylor|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783062584</amazonuk!-- Lloyd -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=Mario Giordano"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Lloyd_Twas.jpg|titlelink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472125118/ref=nosim?tag=Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lionsthebookbag-21]]|rating=4|genre=Crime|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 essential. 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Abby's investigation leads her to some startling discoveries align: top; text- and by the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusion, the fate of Abby and Gretchen will be determined by a single questionalign: Is their friendship enough to beat the devil?left;"||amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594748624</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kevin MacNeil|title=The Brilliant and Forever|rating[[The Virgin Mary's Got Nits by Gervase Phinn]]=== 3.5|genre= Humour[[image:4.5star.jpg|summarylink= You know sometimes when someone tells a jokeCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], everyone else laughs, and you're sat there wondering what was so funny?[[:Category:Anthologies|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973376</amazonuk>Anthologies]]}}{{newreview|author= Christopher Fowler|title= Bryant and May: Strange Tide|rating= 3.5|genre= Crime|summary= The thirteenth outing for Bryant and May is looking very much like it will be their last. Arthur Bryant Christmas in our house is the time we tend to get on compassionate leave whilst tests are continuinga plane and head to either sun or snow, which are likely to confirm anywhere that he is suffering far, far away from Alzheimer's. His condition is worsening almost by the daymadness at home, last minute dashes to the shops on Christmas Eve, memory lapses are morphing into full-scale hallucinations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857523422</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kevin Smith|title=The Voyage of the Dolphin|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Dublin 1916: Among the unrest and anti-British feeling worsened by the threat of conscription into food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are shutting for a war seen as nothing to do with the Irishmonth, Trinity College faculty has other distractionsnor a mere 36 hours. They'd like a trophy; But I do remember the skeleton feeling of an Irish 'giant' to be precise. The only glitch is that the main trophy contenderChristmas when I was younger, Bernard MacNeill's skeletonback when it was magical, is somewhere difficult to access and all seasoned explorers are otherwise engaged. There may be hope though. They turn to Fitzmaurice, a student not good enough for anything elseback when you knew exactly what the season would bring with carol concerts and school nativities and Christmas parties. Fitzmaurice agreesThis book is an anthology of those moments, picking his friends Crozier and Rafferty it took me right back to go with himthe wonder of Christmas as a child. So… [[The Virgin Mary''Gentlemen, lace up your strongest boots and pack your warmest underwear – we're all off to the bloody Arctics Got Nits by Gervase Phinn|Full Review]] <!'' Whether battle cry or epitaph, three men and a dog… and an iguana… are going anyway.-- North -->|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124826</amazonuk>-|amazonusstyle=<amazonus>1910124826</amazonus>}}{{newreview"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:North_Romeo.jpg|authorlink=Tony Hawkshttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0356508536/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |titlestyle=Once Upon a Time in the West… Country"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||rating=3|genre=Travel|summary=I have often complained in a jokey voice to my partner about life in 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 walking-[[Romeo and/or Juliet by Ryan North]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] For all those who think tragedy plots are too restricted and-keeping-food-hot distanceprescribed, and no 'Polish' shops for a can read on. In these pages you too will see that Romeo had lots of beer whenever you fancy oneoptions en route to hitting the bottle. Things are different with Tony HawksLikewise, as here he has purposefully decided to up sticks she could have turned away from London to Somewhereher predestined path at no end of junctures. And to what result? Well, Devon – happy marriage and a tiny village where kid called Ben, because the leads have just banged people who built their own homes decades ago still live in them, where slugs are a lot more of a problem for 's heads together and stopped the wannabe lettuce-grower than they are for the metropolitan commuterquarrelling, and where village halls have the power to turn you into both or Death by Tybalt (him) or a Pol Pot dictator if you get on their committee and into a quiveringlong life running an establishment curing murderous women, bruise-inducing wreck if you're the wrong gender at such as a Zumba class…Lady M (her). [[Romeo and/or Juliet by Ryan North|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444794809</amazonuk>Full Review]]}}{{newreview<!-- Crowley -->|author=Marian Keyes-|titlestyle=Making It Up As I Go Along"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Crowley_Shoot.jpg|ratinglink=4http://www.amazon.co.5|genreuk/dp/1783296518/ref=nosim?tag=Entertainmentthebookbag-21]]  |summarystyle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Shoot by Kieran Crowley]]==Oh, how the book reviewing gods like to give, and equally like to take away= [[image:4star. Here before me is a brandjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], spanking new collection [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] I make something of journalism by the wonderful Marian Keyes – but it's a proof copy, so there's no photo habit of the author. Even if over the years I have stopped reading her novelsbeing late to discover good writers, I have always turned to the author picture to remind myself such sights exist in this worldcase getting to Crowley after he is no longer with us. Himself The result is a lucky man, for surethat what is billed as ''an F.X. But beyond sounding like a letch, what can I say about this – Shepherd mystery'' with all the beauty's third large dose optimism of essays, web columns and other journalism? I can start with agreeing that I am there being more to come has the poignancy of being, if not the target audiencelast of a short line, but it's easy enough to see from these pages exactly what the target is. So much like that test you do – you know the one, that formulates decisions about the age and commonality of all things in space to come up with how many billions of planets are likely to have alien life on – you can narrow things down quite readily here, and still come up with a huge number.|amazonuk=certainly one of a few. [[Shoot by Kieran Crowley|Full Review]] <amazonuk>0718182529</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jean!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -Yves Ferri|title= Asterix and the Missing Scroll (Album 36)|rating= 5|genre= For Sharing|summary=Asterix is those rarest of book series; one designed for kids which is actually even funnier when you are an adult. I used to love Asterix as a child, but now that I reread them I can't help but wonder why, because they are so full of hilarious jokes that I definitely wouldn't have understood when I was younger. I laughed loud and hard to myself twice within the first two pages of Asterix and the Missing Scroll, so I'd definitely say that this was a hit.->|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510100458</amazonuk>}}