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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|authorclass-"wikitable" cellpadding=Nina Stibbe"15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->|title=An Almost Perfect Christmas|rating=4.5<!-- Coulton -->|genre=Humour -|summarystyle=Christmas – the time of traditional trauma"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473669588.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co. You only have to think about the turkey for that – once upon a time it was leaving it sat on the downstairs loo to defrost overnight, and if that failed the hairuk/dp/1473669588/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best betalign: left;"|===[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton]]=== [[image:4star. 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 itjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], and get too friendly with it to want to eat it. Christmas, though[[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Lex Coulton's debut novel is of course also a time of great boonsstory about mistakes, failures, and relationships. It's cash in hand for The main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, is a lot of plump people sixth form English teacher who can hire red suits and beardshas recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, it was always a godsend for postmen work colleague, and is grappling with all the thank-you letters to aunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you write out in longincreasingly eccentric behaviour of her mother. This relationship is complicated by the fact that Frances's father disappeared at sea when she was five years old. [[Falling Short by Lex Coulton|Full Review]] <!-- van LENTE -->|-hand as a child, and as for the makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they even try and sell them any other time of the year?|amazonukstyle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690346.jpg|link=<amazonuk>0241309824<http://amazonuk>www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente]]===Ian Doescher [[image:4star.jpg|titlelink=William Shakespeare's the Force Doth AwakenCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category: Star Wars Part the SeventhHumour|rating=4.5Humour]]|genre=Science Fiction|summary=A long time ago, in Comic-Cons are a galaxy far away, there was a man called William Shakespeare, who was able to create a series place of dramatic histories full of machinations most foulwonder and sanctuary for many people, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, he's looking for both that and sanctuary with other fans and heroines most sturdy. You may or may not have noticed creators, plus the cinematic version chance of maybe, just maybe reuniting with his original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken''ex. However, when his rival is found dead, but here at last we get Mike is forced to navigate every dark corner of the actual script, complete with annoying-con in-different-ways-order to-before droids anew, returning heroes clear his name – from elsewhere in cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans to zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his oeuvreinnocence and, and people keeping it in the family til it hurtsdoing so, may just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creator. 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…[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>159474985X</amazonuk!-- Curran -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=James Goss and Russell T Davies"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690133.jpg|titlelink=Doctor Whohttp: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who)//www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690133/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |ratingstyle=4.5"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||genre=Children==[[My Lady's Rhymes Choosing by Kitty Curran and Verse Larissa Zageris]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|summarylink=Consider the DoctorCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] You are a lass of twenty eight. Just how many birthday Plucky, penniless and Christmas gifts must he have in Regency era London the race is on to hand out each year, were he find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to keep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need life as an eternal spinster. Along your journey you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a life alone, and fired by a few novelty gifts rogueish sense for some of themadventure. When it comes to suitors though, you'll have to make the ultimate decision between witty, saypretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, for examplewholesome, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the life of a Time mad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord and that of some of his friends and enemiesGarraway Craven. As luck would have itWith orphans, werewolves, he has long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the space in his TARDIS to stock up in advanceway, so my advice it's clear this isn't going to him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself readyan easy decision... And if you[[My Lady're working on a shorter timescale, with a shorter lifespan, s Choosing by Kitty Curran and thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the same.Larissa Zageris|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785942719</amazonuk!-- Jester -->}}{{newreview|author=Annie Ingram-|titlestyle=Conversations with Kammie"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|rating=4[[image:Jester_Forever.jpg|genre=Petsleft|summarylink=It was something of a relief when I encountered Annie Ingram and her cocker spaniel Kammiehttps://www.amazon.co. You see, Annie knows something which has been selfuk/gp/product/1510704361?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-evident to me for a long time21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1510704361]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Forever After: dogs are perfectly capable of communicating with humans and not just on a level of ''food!'', ''walk!'' or ''play!''dark comedy by David Jester]]=== [[image:4star. You do require extensive training to become fluentjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], but most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to teach you [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fasntasy]] Michael Holland is a cocky and brash young man who dies and all you have to do is listengets made the offer of his lifetime; immortality. Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well We follow Michael, a grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a stoner in the pair have allowed us records department) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a clean surface to share some of sit on in their conversationsflat.[[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785451995</amazonuk!-- Stibbe -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle= Charles Harris"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Stibbe_Xmas.jpg|titleleft|link= The Breaking of Liam Glasshttps://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0241309824?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0241309824]]  |ratingstyle= 3"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||genre=Crime|summary= A flawed but reasonably entertaining swipe at modern media=[[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe]]=== [[image:4. There's plenty here to like, and plenty not to5star. But good structure and scramjet pace keep this one flying to the final page.jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>1908943823</amazonuk>}}Category:{{newreview{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|author= Fred Van Lente|title= Ten Dead ComediansHumour]], [[:Category: A Murder MysteryShort Stories|rating= 4Short Stories]]|genre= Humour|summary= Nine comedians are invited Christmas – the time of traditional trauma. You only have to think about the turkey for that – once upon a remote Caribbean island under time it was leaving it sat on the guise of working with Dustin Walkerdownstairs loo to defrost overnight, a comedic legend. Each fits neatly into one of and if that failed the archetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, the washedhair-up has-been who has fallen far from his early days; Zoedryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. Nowadays it's all having to make sure it's suitably free-range and organic – but not too organic that you can go and visit it, the rising female star and get too friendly with a new stand-up special coming soon; Danteit to want to eat it. Christmas, though, who went from being is of course also a kid on the streets to the hardest working road comic time of great boons. It's cash in the business; Oliverhand for a lot of plump people who can hire red suits and beards, it was always a godsend for postmen with all the childthank-like prop comic who can't get any respect from his peers; Janetyou letters to aunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you write out in long-hand as a child, and as for the insult comic who is past her prime; TJmakers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, the nightly variety show host with a reputation for harassing his female colleagues did they even try and guest acts; Ruby, sell them any other time of the ultra-feminist YouTuber and Blogger with a chip on her shoulderyear? [[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe|Full Review]] <!-- Doescher -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center; and William, whose redneck character ''Billy the Contractor'' is a far cry from his real personality as a posh millionaire"|[[image:Doescher_Will.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co. Of course, all nine agree because ''when God almighty walks down on a beam of light and asks for your help, what the hell else are you going to sayuk/gp/product/159474985X?''ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=159474985X]]  |amazonukstyle=<amazonuk>1594749744</amazonuk>}}{{newreview"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|author=S Lynn Scott|title=Elizabeth, William... and Me|rating=4.5|genre=Humour[[William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|summarylink=Ally is an ordinary woman with teenage childrenCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] A long time ago, in a husband and galaxy far away, there was a man called William Shakespeare, who was able to create a job. Then comes the day when ordinariness flies out series of dramatic histories full of the windowmachinations most foul, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy. It's You may or may not a coincidence that it's have noticed the same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I in cinematic version of his original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken'', but here at last we get the pantry and the Bard of Avon actual script, complete with annoying-in her bath. What's she going -different-ways-to do? Well-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, Elizabeth and Will have their own ideas about that!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788037006</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= E G Rodford|title= The Surgeonpeople keeping it in the family til it hurts. And if you need further encouragement, don's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2|rating= 4|genre= Crime |summary=In t forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the second instalment of this series, Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a well-known local man is so popular we're on to track down some missing valuables. Bill Galbraith, a world-famous surgeon at Cambridgepart seven – surely making this over twice as good… [[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 liveIan Doescher|Full Review]] <!-- Goss --in domestic servant, Aurora. According to Galbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of his at the hospital>|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Goss_600. George agrees to look into the theft, assuming it will be a relatively easy and straightforward case – little does he know, he's about to enter a world of deceit and dysfunctionjpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.|amazonukuk/gp/product/1785942719?ie=<amazonuk>178565005X</amazonuk>UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785942719]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle=Toni Jordan"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title=Our Tiny, Useless Hearts|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction[[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|summarylink=As predicted by Caroline and JaniceCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's mother on Caroline Rhymes and HenryVerse|Children's wedding dayRhymes and Verse]], their marriage is over[[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], albeit 15 years and two daughters further along than predicted[[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Consider the Doctor. IndeedJust how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each year, this is definitely not a good weekend for Janice were he to be babysitting at Caroline's house. There's the split and the awkwardness keep in touch with even half of the girls' schoolteacher being the other woman his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for a start. Then there's some of them, say, for example, whimsical books of verse that mistaken identity moment involving pithily encapsulate the neighbours. At least Janice is well adjusted life of a Time Lord and over her ex-husband Alecthat of some of his friends and enemies. She still dreams of himAs luck would have it, yeshe has the space in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, but it's so over! Just as well really… guess whomy advice to him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. And if you's at the door?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760293814</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Colin Taylor|title=The Life of re working on a shorter timescale, with a Scilly Sergeant|rating=4shorter lifespan, and thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the same.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, etc.) For our more distant readers, they're several chunks of granite rock out in the Atlantic, where Cornwall is pointing, with just 2,200 permanent residentsRussell T Davies|Full Review]] <!-- Ingram -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Ingram_Kammie.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co. They're big on tourism, and big on growing flowers in the tropical climate the Gulf Stream bequeaths them – although the weather is bad enough to turn any car to a rust bucket within yearsuk/gp/product/1785451995?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785451995]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram]]=== [[image:4star. They're so weejpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Pets|Pets]], and so idyllic-seeming, especially at night, you can be mistaken for thinking there would be no need for [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] It was something of a police presencerelief when I encountered Annie Ingram and her cocker spaniel Kammie. But there is – at least two working at any one time. And one of them in recent years You see, Annie knows something which has been Colin Taylor, who has done his official duty – alongside maintaining a wellself-known online existenceevident to me for a long time: dogs are perfectly capable of communicating with humans and not just on a level of food!, which has brought walk! or play!. You do require extensive training to life all the whimsical comedy of his workbecome fluent, but most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to teach you and all you have to do is listen.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178475515X</amazonukAnnie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and the pair have allowed us to share some of their conversations. [[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram|Full Review]] <!-- Harris -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Harris_Glass.jpg|titlelink='Twas the Fight Before Christmashttp: A Parody//www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1908943823/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] |rating=3.5|genrestyle=Humour"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|summarylink=It's Christmas Eve and Mum has arranged everything. All she now has to do Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Teenager Liam Glass is await mugged and stabbed yards from his Camden flat. As the arrival of boy lies comatose, desperate journalist Jason Worthington scrabbles for the relatives and the food shopping deliveryinside scoop, tired police officer Andy Rockham searches for a missing tape, harried politician Jamila Hasan fights for re-election, distraught mother Katrina Glass waits by her son, and gym-owner Royland simply finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. Little does Mum know that those two elements alone have the potential to ruin everythingWe follow this host of ensemble characters in a bleak, kaleidoscopic satire of modern media.[[The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472125118</amazonuk!-- LENTE -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=Ryan North"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Lente_10.jpg|titlelink=Romeo andhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690222/or Julietref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summarystyle=For all those who think tragedy plots are too restricted and prescribed, read on"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star. In these pages you too will see that Romeo had lots of options en route jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Nine comedians are invited to hitting a remote Caribbean island under the bottleguise of working with Dustin Walker, a comedic legend. LikewiseEach fits neatly into one of the archetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, she could have turned away the washed-up has-been who has fallen far from her predestined path at no end of junctures. And to what result? Wellhis early days; Zoe, happy marriage and the rising female star with a kid called Bennew stand-up special coming soon; Dante, because who went from being a kid on the streets to the leads have just banged people's heads together and stopped hardest working road comic in the quarrellingbusiness; Oliver, or Death by Tybalt (him) or a long life running an establishment curing murderous womenthe child-like prop comic who can't get any respect from his peers; Janet, such as a Lady M (the insult comic who is past her). |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356508536</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Gervase Phinn|title= The Virgin Maryprime; 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 William, whose redneck character ''s Got Nits|rating= 4.5|genre= Humour|summary= Christmas in our house is Billy the time we tend to get on Contractor'' is a plane and head to either sun or snow, anywhere that is far, far away cry from the madness at homehis real personality as a posh millionaire. Of course, last minute dashes to the shops all nine agree because ''when God almighty walks down on Christmas Eve, a beam of light and food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are shutting asks for a monthyour help, nor a mere 36 hours. But I do remember what the feeling of Christmas when I was younger, back when it was magical, and back when hell else are you knew exactly what the season would bring 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.going to say?'' [[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444779400</amazonuk!-- Scott -->}}{{newreview|author= Kieran Crowley-|titlestyle= Shoot"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|rating= 4[[image:Scott_Eliz.jpg|genrelink= Crime|summary= 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 ushttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1788037006/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Elizabeth, William. The result is that what is billed as ''an F.X. Shepherd mystery'' with all the optimism of there being more to come has the poignancy of being, if not the last of a short line, certainly one of a fewand Me by S Lynn Scott]]=== [[image:4. F5star.X. Shepherd – he doesn't like his first name and prefers just "Shepherd" jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Ally is, technicallyan ordinary woman with teenage children, a columnist. He's been sacked by one New York newspaper husband and is writing a weekly column for anotherjob. I donThen comes the day when ordinariness flies out of the window. It't know much about journalism, but I'm guessing one column s not a week doesn't pay much as a rule…which explains why Shepherdcoincidence that it's soap-washed-foul-mouthed editor (read the book, you'll see what same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I mean) expects him to turn in some genuine journalism as well: front page, seat the pantry and the Bard of your pants stuffAvon in her bath. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783296518What's she going to do? Well, Elizabeth and Will have their own ideas about that! [[Elizabeth, William... and Me by S Lynn Scott|Full Review]] </amazonuk!-- Rodford -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=Gray Jolliffe"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Rodford_Surgeon.jpg|titlelink=The First Ever Christmashttp: And Who to Blame//www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178565005X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]|rating=5|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: itleft;"|===[[The Surgeon's my least favourite time of year and whilst some people count down to the day itselfCase: George Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], 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[[:Category:Humour|Humour]] In the second instalment of this series, with Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a coating of faux religion. I've never found it in the least funny well-known local man to track down some missing valuables. Bill Galbraith, a world- that is, until I found Gray Jolliffefamous surgeon at Cambridge's ''The First Ever Christmas: And WhoAddenbrooke's to Blame''. AmazinglyHospital who hosts a popular medical television programme, I'd never encountered Gray Jolliffe eitherhas had his briefcase stolen by his live-in domestic servant, but I'm a convert Aurora. According to Galbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of his skills as at the hospital. George agrees to look into the theft, assuming it will be a cartoonist (if not relatively easy and straightforward case – little does he know, he's about to the idea enter a world of Christmas) after reading this collection of Christmas-themed cartoons from his archivedeceit and dysfunction.[[The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk!-- Jordan -->1445663503</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jonathan Pugh-|titlestyle=Pugh's New Year's Resolutions"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Jordan_Tiny.jpg|ratinglink=4http://www.amazon.co.5uk/dp/1760293814/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] |genre=Humour|summarystyle=If there's one thing that's for certain"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Our Tiny, itUseless Hearts by Toni Jordan]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's that the world is changing. WeFiction|Women're dating onlines Fiction]], we[[:Category:Humour|Humour]] As predicted by Caroline and Janice're communicating in ways that make email seem redundant, s mother on Caroline and when weHenry're shopping we just tell a website where s wedding day, their marriage is over, albeit 15 years and when it can be deliveredtwo daughters further along than predicted. Indeed, and how much leeway they have to swap our wishes for whatever it this is they do bring us. But those changes are also supposed definitely not a good weekend for Janice to be affecting us – webabysitting at Caroline're supposed to use a smart watch to tell us if wes house. There're moving or not, we have to keep up with s the latest fads, split and wethe awkwardness of the girls're supposed to prick our ears up and take note when schoolteacher being the proverbial other woman for a start. Then there'they' change their minds about what we're supposed to eats that mistaken identity moment involving the neighbours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722885</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Luke Rhinehart|title= Invasion|rating= 4At least Janice is well adjusted and over her ex-husband Alec.5|genre= Humour |summary=Super-intelligent furry aliens suddenly appear from another universe. And theyShe still dreams of him, yes, but it's so over! Just as well really… guess who've come to earth to have fun. Alien Louie follows fisherman Billy Morton home one days at the door? [[Our Tiny, and he and his family quickly come to love the playful alienUseless Hearts by Toni Jordan|Full Review]] <!-- Taylor -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Taylor_Scilly. 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 troublejpg|link=http://www.amazon.co. As Billy and his family begin a roller coaster ride of fame and fortune, as well as uk/dp/178475515X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Life of a ranking high on the FBI's most wanted list, the Government soon decides that these aliens are terrorists, and must be eliminatedScilly Sergeant by Colin Taylor]]=== [[image:4. Whilst the aliens are playing games they hope will help humans to see the insanity of the American political, economic and military systems, they soon come to realise that the Powers that Be don't play games: they make war5star. jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>1785651757</amazonuk>}}Category:{{newreview{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|author=Rod Green|title=Only Fools and HorsesTravel]], [[:Category: The Peckham ArchivesHumour|rating=4Humour]]|genre=Entertainment |summary=We are in Meet the world Isles of one of the country's most famous and well-loved sitcoms Scilly. (I know they should be called that – even if it was sort-the author provides a handy guide to the etiquette of killed off for Christmas 2003. Yestheir name, there have been specials sincetheir nature and location, and more repeats to clog up etc.) For our more distant readers, they're several chunks of granite rock out in the BBC schedules than Atlantic, where Cornwall is really pukkapointing, but very few people failed to succumb to its charms at one time or anotherwith just 2,200 permanent residents. IThey'm sure there have been books before now celebrating the stony-faced reception of ''that'' drop through the open bar hatchre big on tourism, and ''that'' chandelier scene, but this is much more meaty. Purporting to be big on growing flowers in the family archives, found dumped in Nelson Mandela House, tropical climate the Gulf Stream bequeaths them – although the documents here were passed from pillar weather is bad enough to turn any car to post, from one council worker in a department with a clumsy acronym to anotherrust bucket within years. They're so wee, from them to the police – and now here they are being published so idyllic-seeming, especially at night, you can be mistaken for thinking there would be no need for their social history wortha police presence. Will enough readers find But there is – at least two working at any one time. And one of them of worthin recent years has been Colin Taylor, as the series quietly celebrates its 35th birthday?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849909245</amazonuk>who has done his official duty – alongside maintaining a well-known online existence, which has brought to life all the whimsical comedy of his work. 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She Likewise, she could, have turned away from her predestined path at no end of coursejunctures. And to what result? Well, have done this in Germany, but she felt that happy marriage and a sea view was essential. Once therekid called Ben, new friends, family already resident on because the island leads have just banged people's heads together and stopped the corpse of a young manquarrelling, his face blown off or Death by Tybalt (him) or a shotgunlong life running an establishment curing murderous women, whom she found on the local beach, intervened to give her life some meaning. For such as a while she was a suspect, but that Lady M (and her wig) were no obstacle to her falling for Commissario Vito Montana who was assigned to investigate the case. Assisting him (. [[Romeo and/or having him assist her) came naturally to Poldi and before long there was an investigative and personal partnership. 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