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{{newreview|authorclass-"wikitable" cellpadding= David Jester"15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--> |title= Forever After: a dark comedy<!-- Coulton -->|rating= 4-|genrestyle= Paranormal"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473669588.jpg|summarylink= Michael Holland is a cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the offer of his lifetime; immortalityhttp://www.amazon.co. We follow Michael, a grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a stoner in the records department) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a clean surface to sit on in their flatuk/dp/1473669588/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>1510704361</amazonuk>}}Category:{{{newreview|author=Nina Stibbe|title=An Almost Perfect Christmas|rating=4.5}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|genre=General Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour |Humour]], [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] |summary=Christmas – the time of traditional traumaLex Coulton's debut novel is a story about mistakes, failures, and relationships. You only have to think about the turkey for that – once upon The main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, is a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, a time it was leaving it sat on the downstairs loo to defrost overnightwork colleague, and if that failed is grappling with the hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best betincreasingly 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 -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-range and organic – but not too organic that you can go and visit it, and get too friendly with it to want to eat italign: center;"|[[image:1683690346.jpg|link=http://www.amazon. Christmas, though, is of course also a time of great boonsco. It's cash in hand for a lot of plump people who can hire red suits and beards, it was always a godsend for postmen with all the thankuk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-you letters to aunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you write out in long21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-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?align: left;"|===[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>0241309824</amazonuk>}}Category:{{newreview{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|author=Ian Doescher|title=William Shakespeare's the Force Doth AwakenCrime]], [[:Category: Star Wars Part the SeventhHumour|rating=4.5Humour]]|genre=Science Fiction|summary=A long time ago, in Comic-Cons are a galaxy far awayplace of wonder and sanctuary for many people, there was a man called William Shakespeareand when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, who was able to create a series of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil he's looking for both that and rebellious heroes 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 ex. However, when his original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken''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 clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans to-before droids anewzombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvredoing so, and people keeping it in the family til it hurtsmay 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]] <!-- Curran -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690133.jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>159474985X<http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690133/amazonuk>ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle=James Goss and Russell T Davies"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title=Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who)|rating=4.5|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 yearfind a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to 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, were he and fired by a rogueish sense for adventure. When it comes to keep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of themsuitors 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 advance, so my advice way, 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|-|authorstyle=Annie Ingram"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Jester_Forever.jpg|left|titlelink=Conversations with Kammiehttps://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1510704361?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1510704361]]  |ratingstyle=4"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||genre=Pets|summary=It was something of =[[Forever After: a relief when I encountered Annie Ingram and her cocker spaniel Kammiedark comedy by David Jester]]=== [[image:4star. You see, Annie knows something which has been self-evident to me for a long timejpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: dogs are perfectly capable of communicating with humans and not just on a level of ''food!''Paranormal|Paranormal]], ''walk!'' or ''play!''. You do require extensive training to become fluent[[:Category:Horror|Horror]], but most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to teach you [[:Category:Fantasy|Fasntasy]] Michael Holland is a cocky and all you have to do is listen. Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well brash young man who dies and gets made the pair have allowed us to share some of their conversationsoffer of his lifetime; immortality.We follow Michael, a grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a stoner in the records 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 -->|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785451995</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Charles Harris|title= The Breaking of Liam Glass|rating= 3|genre=Crime-|summarystyle= A flawed but reasonably entertaining swipe at modern media"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Stibbe_Xmas. There's plenty here to like, and plenty not to. But good structure and scramjet pace keep this one flying to the final page.jpg|left|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>1908943823<https:/amazonuk>/www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0241309824?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0241309824]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle= Fred Van Lente"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title= Ten Dead Comedians==[[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe]]=== [[image: A Murder Mystery|rating= 4.5star.jpg|genrelink= Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|summary= Nine comedians are invited to a remote Caribbean island under Humour]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Christmas – the guise time of working with Dustin Walker, a comedic legendtraditional trauma. Each fits neatly into one of You only have to think about the turkey for that – once upon a time it was leaving it sat on the archetypal comic stereotypes: Stevedownstairs loo to defrost overnight, and if that failed the washedhair-up has-been who has fallen far from his early days; Zoe, the rising female star with a new standdryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. Nowadays it's all having to make sure it's suitably free-up special coming soon; Danterange and organic – but not too organic that you can go and visit it, who went from being a kid on the streets and get too friendly with it to want to the hardest working road comic in the business; Olivereat it. Christmas, the child-like prop comic who can't get any respect from his peers; Janetthough, the insult comic who is past her prime; TJ, the nightly variety show host with of course also a reputation time of great boons. It's cash in hand for harassing his female colleagues a lot of plump people who can hire red suits and guest acts; Ruby, beards, it was always a godsend for postmen with all the ultrathank-feminist YouTuber and Blogger with you letters to aunties you saw twice a chip on her shoulder; and William, whose redneck character ''Billy the Contractor'' is a far cry from his real personality decade that your parents made you write out in long-hand as a posh millionaire. Of coursechild, all nine agree because ''when God almighty walks down on a beam and as for the makers of light Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they even try and asks for your help, what sell them any other time of the hell else are you going to say?''year? [[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594749744</amazonuk!-- Doescher -->}}{{newreview|author=S Lynn Scott-|titlestyle=Elizabeth, William"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Doescher_Will.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co. and Me|ratinguk/gp/product/159474985X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=4.5|genreas2&camp=Humour|summary1634&creative=Ally is an ordinary woman with teenage children, a husband and a job. Then comes the day when ordinariness flies out of the window. It's not a coincidence that it6738&creativeASIN=159474985X]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[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 bathSeventh by Ian Doescher]]=== [[image:4.5star. What's she going to do? Well, Elizabeth and Will have their own ideas about that!jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>1788037006</amazonuk>Category:{{{rating}}}Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]]{{newreview|author= E G Rodford|title= The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2|rating= 4|genre= Crime |summary=In the second instalment of this seriesA long time ago, Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by in a galaxy far away, there was a well-known local man to track down some missing valuables. Bill Galbraithcalled William Shakespeare, a world-famous surgeon at Cambridge's Addenbrooke's Hospital who hosts was able to create a popular medical television programmeseries of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, has had his briefcase stolen by his live-in domestic servant, Aurorarulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy. According to Galbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient You may or may not have noticed the cinematic version of his original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken'', but here at last we get the hospital. George agrees actual script, complete with annoying-in-different-ways-to look into the theft-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, assuming and people keeping it will be a relatively easy and straightforward case – little does he knowin the family til it hurts. And if you need further encouragement, hedon's about to enter a world t forget his audience only demanded three parts of deceit and dysfunction.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565005X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Toni JordanHenry VI – here the series is so popular we're on to part seven – surely making this over twice as good… [[William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher|title=Our Tiny, Useless HeartsFull Review]]|rating=5|genre=Women's Fiction<!-- Goss -->|-|summarystyle=As predicted by Caroline and Janice's mother on Caroline and Henry's wedding day, their marriage is over, albeit 15 years and two daughters further along than predicted"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Goss_600.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co. Indeed, this is definitely not a good weekend for Janice to be babysitting at Caroline's house. There's the split and the awkwardness uk/gp/product/1785942719?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785942719]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of the girls' schoolteacher being the other woman for a startTime Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies]]=== [[image:4.5star. Then therejpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's that mistaken identity moment involving the neighbours. At least Janice is well adjusted Rhymes and Verse|Children's Rhymes and over her ex-husband Alec. She still dreams of himVerse]], yes[[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], but it's so over! Just as well really… guess who's at the door?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760293814</amazonuk>[[:Category:Humour|Humour]]}}{{newreview|author=Colin Taylor|title=The Life Consider the Doctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each year, were he to keep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a Scilly Sergeant|rating=4.5|genre=Travel|summary=Meet few novelty gifts for some of them, say, for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the Isles life of Scilly. (I know they should be called a Time Lord and that – the author provides a handy guide to the etiquette of their name, their nature some of his friends and location, etcenemies.) For our more distant readersAs luck would have it, they're several chunks of granite rock out he has the space in his TARDIS to stock up in the Atlanticadvance, where Cornwall is pointingso my advice to him – sorry, with just 2,200 permanent residentsher – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. TheyAnd if you're big working on tourisma shorter timescale, with a shorter lifespan, and big on growing flowers in thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the tropical climate the Gulf Stream bequeaths them – although the weather is bad enough to turn any car to a rust bucket within years. They're so wee, same. [[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and so idyllicRussell T Davies|Full Review]] <!-- Ingram -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-seeming, especially at night, you can be mistaken for thinking there would be no need for a police presencealign: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Ingram_Kammie.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon. But there is – at least two working at any one timeco. And one of them in recent years has been Colin Taylor, who has done his official duty – alongside maintaining a welluk/gp/product/1785451995?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-known online existence, which has brought to life all the whimsical comedy of his work.21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785451995]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||amazonuk=<amazonuk>178475515X</amazonuk>==[[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram]]===}}{{newreview[[image:4star.jpg|authorlink=Josie Lloyd and Emlyn ReesCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Pets|title='Twas the Fight Before ChristmasPets]], [[:Category: A ParodyHumour|rating=3.5Humour]]|genre=Humour|summary=It's Christmas Eve was something of a relief when I encountered Annie Ingram and Mum has arranged everythingher cocker spaniel Kammie. All she now You see, Annie knows something which has been self-evident to do is await the arrival me for a long time: dogs are perfectly capable of the relatives communicating with humans and the not just on a level of food shopping delivery!, walk! or play!. Little does Mum know that those two elements alone You do require extensive training to become fluent, but most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to teach you and all you have the potential to ruin everythingdo is listen. Annie 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]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472125118</amazonuk!-- Harris -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=Ryan North"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title=Romeo and/or Juliet|rating=3[[image:Harris_Glass.5jpg|genrelink=Humourhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1908943823/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 ==[[The Breaking of options en route to hitting the bottleLiam Glass by Charles Harris]]=== [[image:3star. Likewisejpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], she could have turned away [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Teenager Liam Glass is mugged and stabbed yards from her predestined path at no end of junctureshis Camden flat. And to what result? WellAs the boy lies comatose, desperate journalist Jason Worthington scrabbles for the inside scoop, happy marriage and tired police officer Andy Rockham searches for a kid called Benmissing tape, harried politician Jamila Hasan fights for re-election, distraught mother Katrina Glass waits by her son, because and gym-owner Royland simply finds himself in the leads have just banged people's heads together and stopped wrong place at the quarrellingwrong time. We follow this host of ensemble characters in a bleak, or Death kaleidoscopic satire of modern media. [[The Breaking of Liam Glass by Tybalt (him) or a long life running an establishment curing murderous women, such as a Lady M (her). Charles Harris|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356508536</amazonuk!-- LENTE -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle= Gervase Phinn"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title= The Virgin Mary's Got Nits[[image:Lente_10.jpg|ratinglink= 4http://www.amazon.co.5uk/dp/1683690222/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] |genre= Humour|summarystyle= Christmas in our house is the time we tend to get on a plane and head to either sun or snow, anywhere that is far, far away from the madness at home, last minute dashes to the shops on Christmas Eve, and food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets "vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Nine comedians are shutting for invited to a monthremote Caribbean island under the guise of working with Dustin Walker, nor a mere 36 hourscomedic legend. But I do remember Each fits neatly into one of the feeling of Christmas when I was youngerarchetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, the washed-up has-been who has fallen far from his early days; Zoe, back when it was magical, and back when you knew exactly what the season would bring rising female star with carol concerts and school nativities and Christmas parties. This book is an anthology of those momentsa new stand-up special coming soon; Dante, and it took me right back who went from being a kid on the streets to the wonder of Christmas as a child.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444779400</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kieran Crowley|title= Shoot|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= I make something of a habit of being late to discover good writershardest working road comic in the business; Oliver, the child-like prop comic who can't get any respect from his peers; Janet, in this case getting to Crowley after he the insult comic who is no longer with us. past her prime; The result is that what is billed as ''an F.X. Shepherd mystery'' with all TJ, the optimism of there being more to come has the poignancy of beingnightly variety show host with a reputation for harassing his female colleagues and guest acts; Ruby, if not the last of ultra-feminist YouTuber and Blogger with a short linechip on her shoulder; and William, certainly one of a few. F.X. Shepherd – he doesnwhose redneck character ''Billy the Contractor''t like his first name and prefers just "Shepherd" is, technically, a columnist. He's been sacked by one New York newspaper and is writing far cry from his real personality as a weekly column for anotherposh millionaire. I don't know much about journalismOf course, but Iall nine agree because 'm guessing one column a week doesn't pay much as when God almighty walks down on a rule…which explains why Shepherd's soap-washed-foul-mouthed editor (read beam of light and asks for your help, what the book, hell else are yougoing to say?''ll see what I mean) expects him to turn in some genuine journalism as well[[Ten Dead Comedians: front page, seat of your pants stuff. A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783296518</amazonuk!-- Scott -->}}{{newreview|-|author=Gray Jolliffestyle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Scott_Eliz.jpg|titlelink=The First Ever Christmashttp: And Who to Blame//www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1788037006/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] |rating=5|genrestyle=Humour"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||summary=If I tell you a secret==[[Elizabeth, will you promise not to tell anyone? Well, I really don't like ChristmasWilliam... and Me by S Lynn Scott]]=== [[image: it'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 year4. It's all too commercialised for me, with a coating of faux religion5star. I've never found it in the least funny - that is, until I found Gray Jolliffe's ''The First Ever Christmasjpg|link=Category: And Who's to Blame''. Amazingly, I'd never encountered Gray Jolliffe either{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Ally is an ordinary woman with teenage children, but I'm a convert to his skills as husband and a cartoonist (if not to job. Then comes the idea day when ordinariness flies out of Christmas) after reading this collection of Christmas-themed cartoons from his archivethe window.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445663503</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jonathan Pugh|title=PughIt's not a coincidence that it's the same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I in the pantry and the Bard of Avon in her bath. What's New Year's Resolutionsshe going to do? Well, Elizabeth and Will have their own ideas about that! [[Elizabeth, William... and Me by S Lynn Scott|rating=4.5Full Review]]|genre=Humour|summary=If there's one thing that's for certain, it's that the world is changing<!-- Rodford -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Rodford_Surgeon. Wejpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178565005X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Surgeon're dating onlines Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], we're communicating in ways that make email seem redundant[[:Category:Humour|Humour]] In the second instalment of this series, and when we're shopping we just tell Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a website where and when it can be delivered, and how much leeway they have well-known local man to swap our wishes for whatever it is they do bring ustrack down some missing valuables. But those changes are also supposed to be affecting us – we're supposed to use Bill Galbraith, a smart watch to tell us if weworld-famous surgeon at Cambridge's Addenbrooke're moving or nots Hospital who hosts a popular medical television programme, has had his briefcase stolen by his live-in domestic servant, we have Aurora. According to keep up with Galbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of his at the latest fads, and we're supposed hospital. George agrees to prick our ears up and take note when look into the proverbial 'theytheft, assuming it will be a relatively easy and straightforward case – little does he know, he' change their minds s about what we're supposed to eatenter a world of deceit and dysfunction.[[The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford|Full Review]]|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722885</amazonuk>}}{{newreview<!-- Jordan -->|author= Luke Rhinehart-|titlestyle= Invasion"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]]  |genrestyle= Humour "vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||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 day==[[Our Tiny, and he and his family quickly come to love the playful alienUseless Hearts by Toni Jordan]]=== [[image:5star. But when Louie starts using their computer to hack into government and corporate networks, stealing millions from banks to give to othersjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]], they realise that Louie and his friends mean trouble. [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] As Billy predicted by Caroline and his family begin a roller coaster ride of fame Janice's mother on Caroline and fortune, as well as a ranking high on the FBIHenry's most wanted listwedding day, the Government soon decides that these aliens are terroriststheir marriage is over, albeit 15 years and must be eliminatedtwo daughters further along than predicted. Whilst the aliens are playing games they hope will help humans Indeed, this is definitely not a good weekend for Janice to see be babysitting at Caroline's house. There's the split and the insanity awkwardness of the American political, economic and military systems, they soon come to realise that girls' schoolteacher being the Powers other woman for a start. Then there's that Be don't play games: they make warmistaken identity moment involving the neighbours. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785651757</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rod Green|title=Only Fools and Horses: The Peckham Archives|rating=4|genre=Entertainment |summary=We are in the world At least Janice is well adjusted and over her ex-husband Alec. She still dreams of one of the countryhim, yes, but it's most famous and so over! Just as wellreally… guess who's at the door? [[Our Tiny, Useless Hearts by Toni Jordan|Full Review]] <!-loved sitcoms – even if it was sort-of killed off for Christmas 2003Taylor -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Taylor_Scilly.jpg|link=http://www. 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 anotheramazon.co. I'm sure there have been books before now celebrating the stonyuk/dp/178475515X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-faced reception of ''that'' drop through the open bar hatch, and ''that'' chandelier scene, but this is much more meaty. Purporting to be the family archives, found dumped in Nelson Mandela House, the documents here were passed from pillar to post, from one council worker in 21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Life of a department with a clumsy acronym to another, from them to the police – and now here they are being published for their social history worth. Will enough readers find them of worth, as the series quietly celebrates its 35th birthday?Scilly Sergeant by Colin Taylor]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>1849909245</amazonuk>Category:{{{rating}}{{newreview} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|author= Mara Wilson|title= Where Am I Now?Travel]], [[:Category: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental FameHumour|rating= 5Humour]]|genre= Autobiography|summary= Mara Wilson has always felt a little young and a little out of place: as Meet the Isles of Scilly. (I know they should be called that – the only child on author provides a film set full of adults, handy guide to the first daughter in a house full etiquette of boystheir name, the sole clinically depressed member of a cheerleading squadtheir nature and location, a valley girl in New York and a neurotic in California, and an adult the world still remembers as a little girletc. Tackling everything from how she first learned about sex on the set of ''Melrose Place) For our more distant readers,they'' to losing her mother at a young agere several chunks of granite rock out in the Atlantic, where Cornwall is pointing, with just 2, to getting her first kiss (or was it kisses?) 200 permanent residents. They're big on a celebrity canoe triptourism, and big on growing flowers in the tropical climate the Gulf Stream bequeaths them – although the weather is bad enough to not being cute enough 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 police presence. But there is – at least two working at any one time. And one of them in recent years has been Colin Taylor, who has done his official duty – alongside maintaining a well-known online existence, which has brought to life all the whimsical comedy of his work. [[The Life of a Scilly Sergeant by Colin Taylor|Full Review]] <!-- Lloyd -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Lloyd_Twas.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472125118/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[['Twas the Fight Before Christmas: A Parody by Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] It's Christmas Eve and Mum has arranged everything. All she now has to do is await the arrival of the relatives and the food shopping delivery. Little does Mum know that those two elements alone have the potential to ruin everything. [['Twas the Fight Before Christmas: A Parody by Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees|Full Review]] <!-- Phinn -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Phinn_Virgin.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1444779400/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Virgin Mary's Got Nits by Gervase Phinn]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Anthologies|Anthologies]] Christmas in our house is the time we tend to get on a plane and head to either sun or snow, anywhere that is far, far away from the madness at home, last minute dashes to the shops on Christmas Eve, and food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are shutting for a month, nor a mere 36 hours. But I do remember the feeling of Christmas when I was younger, 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 to the wonder of Christmas as a child. [[The Virgin Mary's Got Nits by Gervase Phinn|Full Review]] <!-- North -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:North_Romeo.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0356508536/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[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 prescribed, read on. In these pages you too will see that Romeo had lots of options en route to hitting the bottle. Likewise, she could have turned away from her predestined path at no end of junctures. And to what result? Well, happy marriage and a kid called Ben, because the leads have just banged people's heads together and stopped the quarrelling, or Death by Tybalt (him) or a long life running an establishment curing murderous women, such as a Lady M (her). [[Romeo and/or Juliet by Ryan North|Full Review]] <!-- Crowley -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Crowley_Shoot.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1783296518/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Shoot by Kieran Crowley]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] I 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. something of a habit of being late to discover good writers, in this case getting to Crowley after he is no longer with us. The result is that what is billed as ''an F.X. Shepherd mystery'' with all the optimism of there being more to come has the poignancy of being, if not the last of a short line, certainly one of a few. [[Shoot by Kieran Crowley|Full Review]] <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0143128221</amazonuk>}}