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{{newreview|authorstyle= Fred Van Lente|title= Ten Dead Comedians"vertical-align: A Murder Mystery|rating= 4|genre= Humour|summary= Nine comedians are invited to a remote Caribbean island under the guise of working with Dustin Walker, a comedic legend. Each fits neatly into one of the archetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, the washed-up has-been who has fallen far from his early daystop; Zoe, the rising female star with a new standtext-up special coming soonalign: left; Dante, who went from being a kid on the streets to the hardest working road comic in the business; Oliver, the child-like prop comic who can't get any respect from his peers; Janet, the insult comic who is past her prime; TJ, the nightly variety show host with a reputation for harassing his female colleagues and guest acts; Ruby, the ultra-feminist YouTuber and Blogger with a chip on her shoulder; and William, whose redneck character ''Billy the Contractor'' is a far cry from his real personality as a posh millionaire. 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 say?''"||amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594749744</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=S Lynn Scott|title=[[Elizabeth, William... and Meby S Lynn Scott]]===|rating=[[image:4.55star.jpg|genrelink=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] |summary=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 it's the same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I in 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 that![[Elizabeth, William... and Me by S Lynn Scott|Full Review]] <!-- Rodford -->|-|amazonukstyle=<amazonuk>1788037006<"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Rodford_Surgeon.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178565005X/amazonuk>ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle= E G Rodford"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title= ==[[The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2by E G Rodford]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating= 4}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|genre= Crime ]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] |summary=In the second instalment of this series, Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a well-known local man to track down some missing valuables. Bill Galbraith, a world-famous surgeon at Cambridge's Addenbrooke's Hospital who hosts a popular medical television programme, has had his briefcase stolen by his live-in domestic servant, Aurora. According to Galbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of his at the hospital. 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 dysfunction.[[The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford|Full Review]] <!-- Jordan -->|-|amazonukstyle=<amazonuk>178565005X<"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Jordan_Tiny.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1760293814/amazonuk>ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle=Toni Jordan"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title===[[Our Tiny, Useless Heartsby Toni Jordan]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating=5}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|genre=Women's Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] |summary=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. Indeed, this is definitely not a good weekend for Janice to be babysitting at Caroline's house. There's the split and the awkwardness 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 and over her ex-husband Alec. She still dreams of him, yes, but it's so over! Just as well really… guess who's at the door?[[Our Tiny, Useless Hearts by Toni Jordan|Full Review]] <!-- Taylor -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Taylor_Scilly.jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>1760293814<http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178475515X/amazonuk>ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle=Colin Taylor"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title===[[The Life of a Scilly Sergeantby Colin Taylor]]=== |rating=[[image:4.55star.jpg|genrelink=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] |summary=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.) 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 residents. 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 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 -->|-|amazonukstyle=<amazonuk>178475515X<"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Lloyd_Twas.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472125118/amazonuk>ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle=Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title===[['Twas the Fight Before Christmas: A Parodyby Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees]]===|rating=[[image:3.55star.jpg|genrelink=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] |summary=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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472125118</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ryan North|title=Romeo and/or Juliet|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=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 Twas the quarrelling, or Death Fight Before Christmas: A Parody by Tybalt (him) or a long life running an establishment curing murderous women, such as a Lady M (her). Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356508536</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]

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{{newreview<!-- North -->|author= Kieran Crowley-|titlestyle= Shoot"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:North_Romeo.jpg|ratinglink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0356508536/ref=nosim?tag= 4thebookbag-21]] |genre= Crime|summarystyle= I make something of a habit of being late to discover good writers, in this case getting to Crowley after he is no longer with us. 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. F.X. Shepherd – he doesn'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 a weekly column for another. I don't know much about journalism, but I'm guessing one column a week doesn't pay much as a rule…which explains why Shepherd's soapvertical-washed-foulalign: top; text-mouthed editor (read the book, you'll see what I mean) expects him to turn in some genuine journalism as wellalign: front page, seat of your pants stuff. left;"||amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783296518<==[[Romeo and/amazonuk>or Juliet by Ryan North]]===}}{{newreview[[image:3.5star.jpg|authorlink=Gray Jolliffe|title=The First Ever ChristmasCategory: And Who to Blame|{{{rating=5}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|genre=Humour]] |summary=If I tell For all those who think tragedy plots are too restricted and prescribed, read on. In these pages you a secret, too will you promise not to tell anyone? Well, I really don't like Christmas: it's my least favourite time see that Romeo had lots of year and whilst some people count down options en route to hitting the day itself, I look forward to that point when I can say that it's all over for another yearbottle. It's all too commercialised for meLikewise, with a coating she could have turned away from her predestined path at no end of faux religionjunctures. I've never found it in the least funny - that is, until I found Gray Jolliffe's ''The First Ever Christmas: And Who's to Blame''. Amazinglywhat result? Well, happy marriage and a kid called Ben, Ibecause the leads have just banged people'd never encountered Gray Jolliffe eithers heads together and stopped the quarrelling, but I'm or Death by Tybalt (him) or a convert to his skills long life running an establishment curing murderous women, such as a cartoonist Lady M (if not to the idea of Christmasher) after reading this collection of Christmas-themed cartoons from his archive.[[Romeo and/or Juliet by Ryan North|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445663503</amazonuk!-- Crowley -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=Jonathan Pugh"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title=Pugh's New Year's Resolutions|rating=4[[image:Crowley_Shoot.5jpg|genrelink=Humour|summary=If there's one thing that's for certain, it's that the world is changinghttp://www. We're dating online, we're communicating in ways that make email seem redundant, and when we're shopping we just tell a website where and when it can be delivered, and how much leeway they have to swap our wishes for whatever it is they do bring usamazon. But those changes are also supposed to be affecting us – we're supposed to use a smart watch to tell us if we're moving or not, we have to keep up with the latest fads, and we're supposed to prick our ears up and take note when the proverbial 'they' change their minds about what we're supposed to eatco.|amazonukuk/dp/1783296518/ref=nosim?tag=<amazonuk>1780722885</amazonuk>thebookbag-21]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle= Luke Rhinehart"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title= Invasion|rating= 4.5=[[Shoot by Kieran Crowley]]===|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 day, 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 fortune, as well as a ranking high on the FBI's most wanted list, the Government soon decides that these aliens are terrorists, 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[[image: they make war4star. jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>1785651757</amazonuk>Category:{{{rating}}}{{newreviewStar Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|author=Rod Green|title=Only Fools and HorsesCrime]], [[:Category: The Peckham ArchivesHumour|rating=4Humour]]|genre=Entertainment |summary=We are in the world I make something of one a habit of the country's most famous and well-loved sitcoms – even if it was sort-of killed off for Christmas 2003. Yesbeing late to discover good writers, there have been specials since, and more repeats in this case getting to clog up the BBC schedules than Crowley after he is really pukka, but very few people failed to succumb to its charms at one time or anotherno longer with us. IThe result is that what is billed as 'm sure there have been books before now celebrating the stony-faced reception of 'an F.X. Shepherd mystery'that'' drop through with all the open bar hatch, and ''that'' chandelier scene, but this is much optimism of there being more meaty. Purporting to be come has the family archives, found dumped in Nelson Mandela Housepoignancy of being, if not the documents here were passed from pillar to postlast of a short line, from certainly one council worker in 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 worthfew. Will enough readers find them of worth, as the series quietly celebrates its 35th birthday?[[Shoot by Kieran Crowley|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849909245</amazonuk!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->}|}