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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|authorclass-"wikitable" cellpadding= David Jester"15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->|title= Forever After: a dark comedy|rating= 4<!-- Coulton -->|genre= Paranormal-|summarystyle= Michael Holland is a cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the offer of his lifetime"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center; immortality"|[[image:1473669588.jpg|link=http://www.amazon. 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The main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, is a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best betfriend Jackson, a work colleague, and is grappling with the increasingly eccentric behaviour of her mother. Nowadays itThis relationship is complicated by the fact that Frances's all having to make sure it's suitably freefather disappeared at sea when she was five years old. [[Falling Short by Lex Coulton|Full Review]] <!-- van LENTE -->|-range and organic – but not too organic that you can go and visit it, and get too friendly with it to want to eat it| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690346.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co. Christmas, though, is of course also a time of great boonsuk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star. It's cash in hand for jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Comic-Cons are a lot place of plump wonder and sanctuary for many people who can hire red suits , and beardswhen Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, it was always a godsend he's looking for postmen both that and sanctuary with all other fans and creators, plus the thank-you letters to aunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you write out in long-hand as a childchance of maybe, just maybe reuniting with his ex. However, when his rival is found dead, and as for Mike is forced to navigate every dark corner of the makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits con in order to clear his name – well, did they even try from cosplay flash mobs and sell them any other time of the year?intrusive fans to 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!-- Curran -->0241309824</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ian Doescher-|titlestyle=William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: Star Wars Part the Seventhcenter;"||rating=4[[image:1683690133.5jpg|genrelink=Science Fictionhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690133/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |summarystyle=A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, there was a man called William Shakespeare, who was able to create a series of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil "vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdyLarissa Zageris]]=== [[image:4star. jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] You may or may not have noticed are a lass of twenty eight. Plucky, penniless and in Regency era London the cinematic version of his original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken'', but here at last we get the actual script, complete with annoying-in-different-waysrace is on to find a suitable suitor -or else doom yourself to-before droids anew, returning heroes life as an eternal spinster. Along your journey you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from elsewhere in his oeuvrea life alone, and people keeping fired by a rogueish sense for adventure. When it in the family til it hurtscomes to suitors though, you'll have to make 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. And if you need further encouragementWith orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the way, donit's clear this isn't forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the series is so popular wegoing to be an easy decision... [[My Lady're on to part seven – surely making this over twice as good…s Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>159474985X</amazonuk!-- Jester -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=James Goss and Russell T Davies"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Jester_Forever.jpg|titleleft|link=Doctor Whohttps: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who)//www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1510704361?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1510704361]] |rating=4.5|genrestyle=Children's Rhymes and Verse "vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|summarylink=Consider the Doctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each yearCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], were he to keep in touch with even half [[:Category:Fantasy|Fasntasy]] Michael Holland is a cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the offer of his companions? He would certainly need lifetime; immortality. We follow Michael, a few novelty gifts for some of them, say, for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of grim reaper and his friends Chip (a Time Lord stoner tooth fairy) and that of some of his friends and enemies. As luck would have it, he has the space in his TARDIS Naff (a stoner in the records department) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a clean surface to stock up sit on in advance, so my advice to him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to his local Earththeir flat. [[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester|Full Review]] <!-- Stibbe -->|-based book emporium and get himself ready. And if you'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 same.|amazonuk| style=<amazonuk>1785942719<"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Stibbe_Xmas.jpg|left|link=https://amazonuk>www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0241309824?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0241309824]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe]]=Annie Ingram|title=Conversations with Kammie|rating=4|genre=Pets[[image:4.5star.jpg|summarylink=It was something of a relief when I encountered Annie Ingram and her cocker spaniel KammieCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Christmas – the time of traditional trauma. You see, Annie knows something which has been self-evident only have to me think about the turkey for that – once upon a long time: dogs are perfectly capable of communicating with humans and not just it was leaving it sat on a level of the downstairs loo to defrost overnight, and if that failed the hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. Nowadays it's all having to make sure it'food!'', ''walk!'' or ''play!''. You do require extensive training to become fluent, s suitably free-range and organic – but most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to teach not too organic that you can go and all you have visit it, and get too friendly with it to want to do eat it. Christmas, though, is listenof course also a time of great boons. Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and the pair have allowed us to share some It's cash in hand for a lot of their conversations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785451995</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Charles Harris|title= The Breaking of Liam Glass|rating= 3|genre=Crime|summary= A flawed but reasonably entertaining swipe at modern media. There's plenty here to likeplump people who can hire red suits and beards, it was always a godsend for postmen with all the thank-you letters to aunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you write out in long-hand as a child, and plenty not to. But good structure and scramjet pace keep this one flying to as for the final page.makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they even try and sell them any other time of the year? [[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908943823</amazonuk!-- Doescher -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle= Fred Van Lente|title= Ten Dead Comedians"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: A Murder Mysterycenter;"|rating= 4[[image:Doescher_Will.jpg|genre= Humourleft|summarylink= Nine comedians are invited to a remote Caribbean island under the guise of working with Dustin Walker, a comedic legendhttps://www.amazon.co. Each fits neatly into one of the archetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, the washeduk/gp/product/159474985X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-up has21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=159474985X]]  | style="vertical-been who has fallen far from his early daysalign: top; Zoe, the rising female star with a new standtext-up special coming soonalign: left; Dante, who went from being a kid on "|===[[William Shakespeare's the streets to Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the hardest working road comic in the business; Oliver, the child-like prop comic who can't get any respect from his peers; JanetSeventh by Ian Doescher]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], the insult comic who is past her prime; TJ[[:Category:Humour|Humour]] A long time ago, the nightly variety show host with in a reputation for harassing his female colleagues and guest acts; Rubygalaxy far away, the ultra-feminist YouTuber and Blogger with a chip on her shoulder; and there was a man called WilliamShakespeare, whose redneck character ''Billy the Contractor'' is who was able to create a far cry from his real personality as a posh millionaireseries of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy. Of course, all nine agree because You may or may not have noticed the cinematic version of his original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken''when God almighty walks down on a beam of light and asks for your help, what but here at last we get the hell else are you going to say?''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594749744</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=S Lynn Scott|title=Elizabethactual script, complete with annoying-in-different-ways-to-before droids anew, William... and Me|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary=Ally is an ordinary woman with teenage childrenreturning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, a husband and a jobpeople keeping it in the family til it hurts. Then comes the day when ordinariness flies out And if you need further encouragement, don't forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the window. Itseries is so popular we's not a coincidence that itre on to part seven – surely making this over twice as good… [[William Shakespeare's the same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I in Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the pantry and the Bard of Avon in her bath. What's she going to do? Well, Elizabeth and Will have their own ideas about thatSeventh by Ian Doescher|Full Review]] <!-- Goss -->|amazonuk-| style=<amazonuk>1788037006</amazonuk>}}{{newreview"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|author= E G Rodford|title= The Surgeon's Case[[image: George Kocharyan Mystery 2Goss_600.jpg|rating= 4left|genrelink= Crime https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785942719?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785942719]]  |summarystyle=In the second instalment of this series, Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a well"vertical-align: top; text-known local man to track down some missing valuables. Bill Galbraith, a world-famous surgeon at Cambridge's Addenbrooke's Hospital who hosts a popular medical television programme, has had his briefcase stolen align: left;"|===[[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by his live-in domestic servant, AuroraJames Goss and Russell T Davies]]=== [[image:4.5star. According to Galbraithjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verse|Children's Rhymes and Verse]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of his at [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Consider the hospitalDoctor. George agrees Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to look into the thefthand out each year, assuming it will be a relatively easy and straightforward case – little does he know, he's about to enter were he to keep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a world few novelty gifts for some of deceit and dysfunctionthem, say, for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of a Time Lord and that of some of his friends and enemies.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565005X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Toni Jordan|title=Our TinyAs luck would have it, he has the space in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, Useless Hearts|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=As predicted by Caroline so my advice to him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and Janiceget himself ready. And if you's mother re working on Caroline and Henry's wedding daya shorter timescale, their marriage is overwith a shorter lifespan, albeit 15 years and two daughters further along than predicted. Indeedthinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, this well my advice is definitely not a good weekend for Janice to be babysitting at Caroline's housepretty much the same. There's the split and the awkwardness [[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of the girls' schoolteacher being the other woman for a start. Then there's that mistaken identity moment involving the neighbours. At least Janice is well adjusted Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and over her exRussell T Davies|Full Review]] <!-- Ingram -->|-husband Alec. She still dreams of him, yes, but it's so over! Just as well really… guess who's at the door?|amazonukstyle=<amazonuk>1760293814</amazonuk>}}{{newreview"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|author=Colin Taylor[[image:Ingram_Kammie.jpg|title=The Life of a Scilly Sergeantleft|ratinglink=4https://www.amazon.co.5|genreuk/gp/product/1785451995?ie=TravelUTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785451995]]  |summarystyle=Meet the Isles of Scilly. (I know they should be called that – the author provides a handy guide to the etiquette of their name, their nature and location, etc"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram]]=== [[image:4star.) For our more distant readersjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Pets|Pets]], they're several chunks [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] It was something of granite rock out in the Atlantic, where Cornwall is pointinga 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: dogs are perfectly capable of communicating with humans and not just 2on a level of food!,200 permanent residentswalk! or play!. They're big on tourismYou do require extensive training to become fluent, but most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to teach you and big on growing flowers in the tropical climate the Gulf Stream bequeaths them – although the weather all you have to do is bad enough to turn any car to a rust bucket within yearslisten. They're so wee, and so idyllicAnnie 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 --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:Harris_Glass.jpg|link=http://www.amazon. But there is – at least two working at any one timeco. And one uk/dp/1908943823/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Breaking of them in recent years has been Colin TaylorLiam Glass by Charles Harris]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], 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.[[:Category:Humour|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178475515X</amazonuk>Humour]]}}{{newreview|author=Josie Lloyd Teenager Liam Glass is mugged and Emlyn Rees|title='Twas stabbed yards from his Camden flat. As the boy lies comatose, desperate journalist Jason Worthington scrabbles for the Fight Before Christmas: A Parody|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=It's Christmas Eve inside 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 Mum has arranged everything. All she now has to do is await gym-owner Royland simply finds himself in the arrival of wrong place at the relatives and the food shopping deliverywrong 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://or Juliet|rating=3www.amazon.co.5|genre=Humouruk/dp/1683690222/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |summarystyle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|=For all those who think tragedy plots are too restricted and prescribed, read on. In these pages you too will see that Romeo had lots of options en route to hitting the bottle==[[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star. Likewise, she could have turned away from her predestined path at no end of junctures. And jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Nine comedians are invited to what result? Well, happy marriage and a kid called Ben, because remote Caribbean island under the leads have just banged people's heads together and stopped the quarrellingguise of working with Dustin Walker, or Death by Tybalt (him) or a long life running an establishment curing murderous womencomedic legend. Each fits neatly into one of the archetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, the washed-up has-been who has fallen far from his early days; Zoe, such as the rising female star with a Lady M (her). |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356508536</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Gervase Phinn|title= The Virgin Mary's Got Nits|rating= 4.5|genre= Humour|summary= Christmas new stand-up special coming soon; Dante, who went from being a kid on the streets to the hardest working road comic in our house is the time we tend to get on a plane and head to either sun or snowbusiness; Oliver, the child-like prop comic who can't get any respect from his peers; Janet, anywhere that the insult comic who is farpast her prime; TJ, far away from the madness at homenightly variety show host with a reputation for harassing his female colleagues and guest acts; Ruby, last minute dashes to the shops ultra-feminist YouTuber and Blogger with a chip on Christmas Eveher shoulder; and William, and food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are shutting for whose redneck character ''Billy the Contractor'' is a month, nor far cry from his real personality as a mere 36 hoursposh millionaire. But I do remember the feeling Of course, all nine agree because ''when God almighty walks down on a beam of Christmas when I was youngerlight and asks for your help, back when it was magical, and back when you knew exactly what the season would bring with carol concerts and school nativities and Christmas parties. This book is an anthology of those moments, and it took me right back hell else are you going to the wonder of Christmas as a child.say?'' [[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444779400</amazonuk!-- Scott -->}}{{newreview|author= Kieran Crowley-|titlestyle= Shoot|rating= 4"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Scott_Eliz.jpg|genrelink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1788037006/ref= Crimenosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |summarystyle= I make something of a habit of being late to discover good writers"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Elizabeth, in this case getting to Crowley after he is no longer with usWilliam. 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. Then comes the day when ordinariness flies out of the window. I donIt't know much about journalism, but I'm guessing one column s not a week doesncoincidence that it't pay much as a rule…which explains why Shepherds the same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I in the pantry and the Bard of Avon in her bath. What's soap-washed-foul-mouthed editor (read the bookshe going to do? Well, you'll see what I mean) expects him to turn in some genuine journalism as well: front pageElizabeth and Will have their own ideas about that! [[Elizabeth, seat of your pants stuffWilliam... and Me by S Lynn Scott|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783296518</amazonuk!-- Rodford -->}}{{newreview|author=Gray Jolliffe-|titlestyle=The First Ever Christmas"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: And Who to Blamecenter;"|rating=5[[image:Rodford_Surgeon.jpg|genrelink=Humour|summary=If I tell you a secret, will you promise not to tell anyonehttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178565005X/ref=nosim? Well, I really don't like Christmastag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: itleft;"|===[[The Surgeon's my least favourite time of year and whilst some people count down to 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 meCase: George Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], with a coating [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] In the second instalment of faux religion. I've never found it in the least funny this series, Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a well- that isknown local man to track down some missing valuables. Bill Galbraith, until I found Gray Jolliffea world-famous 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 to his skills as a cartoonist (if not Aurora. According to the idea of Christmas) after reading Galbraith, this collection briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of Christmas-themed cartoons from his archiveat the hospital.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445663503</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jonathan Pugh|title=PughGeorge agrees to look into the theft, assuming it will be a relatively easy and straightforward case – little does he know, he's New Year's Resolutions|rating=4about to enter a world of deceit and dysfunction.5[[The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford|Full Review]] <!-- Jordan -->|genre=Humour-|summarystyle=If there's one thing that's for certain, it's that the world is changing"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Jordan_Tiny.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co. We're dating online, we're communicating in ways that make email seem redundantuk/dp/1760293814/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Our Tiny, and when we're shopping we just tell a website where and when it can be deliveredUseless Hearts by Toni Jordan]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] As predicted by Caroline and how much leeway they have to swap our wishes for whatever it is they do bring us. But those changes are also supposed to be affecting us – weJanice're supposed to use a smart watch to tell us if wes mother on Caroline and Henry're moving or nots wedding day, their marriage is over, we have to keep up with the latest fadsalbeit 15 years and two daughters further along than predicted. Indeed, and we're supposed this is definitely not a good weekend for Janice to prick our ears up be babysitting at Caroline's house. There's the split and take note when the proverbial awkwardness of the girls'theyschoolteacher being the other woman for a start. Then there' 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 they've come to earth to have fun. Alien Louie follows fisherman Billy Morton home one dayShe still dreams of him, and he and his family quickly come to love the playful alien. 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 trouble. As Billy and his family begin a roller coaster ride of fame and fortuneyes, but it's so over! Just as well as a ranking high on the FBIreally… guess who's most wanted list, at the Government soon decides that these aliens are terroristsdoor? [[Our Tiny, and must be eliminated. Whilst the aliens are playing games they hope will help humans to see the insanity of the American political, economic and military systems, they soon come to realise that the Powers that Be don't play games: they make war. Useless Hearts by Toni Jordan|amazonuk=Full Review]] <amazonuk>1785651757</amazonuk!-- Taylor -->}}{{newreview|author=Rod Green-|titlestyle=Only Fools and Horses"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: The Peckham Archivescenter;"|rating=4[[image:Taylor_Scilly.jpg|genrelink=Entertainment |summary=We are in the world of one of the country's most famous and wellhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178475515X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-loved sitcoms – even if it was sortalign: top; text-of killed off for Christmas 2003. 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 anotheralign: left;"|===[[The Life of a Scilly Sergeant by Colin Taylor]]=== [[image:4. I'm sure there have been books before now celebrating 5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Meet the stony-faced reception Isles of ''Scilly. (I know they should be called that'' drop through – the author provides a handy guide to the open bar hatchetiquette of their name, their nature and ''that'' chandelier scenelocation, but this is much etc.) For our more meaty. Purporting to be the family archivesdistant readers, found dumped they're several chunks of granite rock out in Nelson Mandela Housethe Atlantic, the documents here were passed from pillar to postwhere Cornwall is pointing, from one council worker in a department with a clumsy acronym to anotherjust 2,200 permanent residents. They're big on tourism, from them to the police – and now here they are being published for their social history worth. Will enough readers find big on growing flowers in the tropical climate the Gulf Stream bequeaths them of worth, as – although the series quietly celebrates its 35th birthday?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849909245</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Mara Wilson|title= Where Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame|rating= 5|genre= Autobiography|summary= Mara Wilson has always felt weather is bad enough to turn any car to a rust bucket within years. They're so wee, and so idyllic-seeming, especially at night, you can be mistaken for thinking there would be no need for a little young and a little out police presence. But there is – at least two working at any one time. And one of place: as the only child on a film set full of adults, the first daughter them in a house full of boysrecent years has been Colin Taylor, the sole clinically depressed member of who has done his official duty – alongside maintaining a cheerleading squadwell-known online existence, a valley girl in New York and a neurotic in California, and an adult which has brought to life all the world still remembers as a little girlwhimsical comedy of his work. Tackling everything from how she first learned about sex on the set of ''Melrose Place,'' to losing her mother at [[The Life of a young age, to getting her first kiss (or was it kisses?) on a celebrity canoe trip, to not being cute enough to make it in Hollywood, these essays tell the story of one young woman's journey from accidental fame to relative obscurity, but also illuminate a universal struggle: learning to accept yourself, and figuring out who you are and where you belong. 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However, amongst all All she now has to do is await the utterly uninteresting tailings arrival of his life there were some nuggets the relatives and grains to catch the attentionfood shopping delivery. Author Tony Stuart has created these amusing anecdotes, panning them out over twenty six episodes which give us Little does Mum know that those two elements alone have the best of Wentworth – comedy goldpotential to ruin everything. From losing all [['Twas the pupils 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 wedding, to destroying a ski run; from appearing fullFight Before Christmas: A Parody by Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees|Full Review]] <!-- Phinn -frontal naked in a sheep-farmers' gazette to triggering an air>|-sea rescue; Wentworth was, blinkered and befuddled, the subject – of these and so many more unlikely but highly amusing events.|amazonukstyle=<amazonuk>1524634441</amazonuk>}}{{newreview"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|author=Graham Fulbright|title=Driving Mad[[image: Maniacs, Morons and the Advanced Motorist's Club|rating=3Phinn_Virgin.5jpg|genre=Humourleft|summarylink=I passed my driving test when John F Kennedy was in the White House and I've recently had to reapply for my driving licence having achieved a venerable agehttp://www.amazon.co. 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Once there, new friends, family already resident on But I do remember the island and the corpse feeling of a young manChristmas when I was younger, his face blown off by a shotgun, whom she found on the local beach, intervened to give her life some meaning. For a while she back when it was a suspectmagical, but that (and her wig) were no obstacle to her falling for Commissario Vito Montana who was assigned to investigate back when you knew exactly what the case. Assisting him (or having him assist her) came naturally to Poldi season would bring with carol concerts and before long there was an investigative school nativities and personal partnershipChristmas parties. 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Well, happy marriage and by the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusiona kid called Ben, because the fate of Abby leads have just banged people's heads together and Gretchen will be determined stopped the quarrelling, or Death by Tybalt (him) or a single question: Is their friendship enough to beat the devil?long life running an establishment curing murderous women, such as a Lady M (her). [[Romeo and/or Juliet by Ryan North|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594748624</amazonuk>Full Review]]}}{{newreview<!-- Crowley -->|author= Kevin MacNeil-|titlestyle=The Brilliant and Forever"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Crowley_Shoot.jpg|ratinglink= 3http://www.amazon.co.5uk/dp/1783296518/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |genrestyle= Humour"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||summary= You know sometimes when someone tells a joke, everyone else laughs, and you're sat there wondering what was so funny?==[[Shoot by Kieran Crowley]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>1846973376</amazonuk>Category:{{{rating}}}{{newreviewStar Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|author= Christopher Fowler|title= Bryant and MayCrime]], [[:Category: Strange TideHumour|rating= 3.5Humour]]|genre= Crime|summary= The thirteenth outing for Bryant and May is looking very much like it will be their last. Arthur Bryant is on compassionate leave whilst tests are continuingI make something of a habit of being late to discover good writers, which are likely in this case getting to confirm that Crowley after he is suffering from Alzheimer'sno longer with us. His condition The result is worsening almost by that what is billed as ''an F.X. Shepherd mystery'' with all the optimism of there being more to come has the daypoignancy of being, memory lapses are morphing into full-scale hallucinations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857523422</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kevin Smith|title=The Voyage if not the last of a short line, certainly one of the Dolphina few. [[Shoot by Kieran Crowley|rating=5Full Review]]|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Dublin 1916: Among the unrest and anti<!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE --British feeling worsened by the threat of conscription into a war seen as nothing to do with the Irish, Trinity College faculty has other distractions. They'd like a trophy; the skeleton of an Irish 'giant' to be precise. The only glitch is that the main trophy contender, Bernard MacNeill's skeleton, 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 else. Fitzmaurice agrees, picking his friends Crozier and Rafferty to go with him. So… ''Gentlemen, lace up your strongest boots and pack your warmest underwear – we're all off to the bloody Arctic!'' Whether battle cry or epitaph, three men and a dog… and an iguana… are going anyway.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124826</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1910124826</amazonus>}}{{newreview|author=Tony Hawks|title=Once Upon a Time in the West… Country|rating=3|genre=Travel|summary=I have often complained 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-and-keeping-food-hot distance, and no 'Polish' shops for a can of beer whenever you fancy one. Things are different with Tony Hawks, as here he has purposefully decided to up sticks from London to Somewhere, Devon – a tiny village where the people who built their own homes decades ago still live in them, where slugs are a lot more of a problem for the wannabe lettuce-grower than they are for the metropolitan commuter, and where village halls have the power to turn you into both a Pol Pot dictator if you get on their committee and into a quivering, bruise-inducing wreck if you're the wrong gender at a Zumba class…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444794809</amazonuk>}}