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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|authorclass-"wikitable" cellpadding=Ryan North"15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->|title=Romeo and/or Juliet<!-- van LENTE -->|rating=3.5-|genrestyle=Humour"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690346.jpg|summarylink=For all those who think tragedy plots are too restricted and prescribed, read onhttp://www.amazon.co. 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 juncturesuk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star. And to what result? Welljpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], happy marriage [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Comic-Cons are a place of wonder and a kid called Bensanctuary for many people, because the leads have just banged peopleand when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, he's heads together looking for both that and sanctuary with other fans and stopped creators, plus the quarrellingchance of maybe, or Death by Tybalt (him) or a long life running an establishment curing murderous womenjust maybe reuniting with his ex. However, such as when his rival is found dead, Mike is forced to navigate every dark corner of the con in order to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans to zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, in doing so, may just unravel a dark secret behind a Lady M (her). legendary industry creator. [[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356508536</amazonuk>Full Review]]}}{{newreview|author= Gervase Phinn<!-- Coulton -->|title= The Virgin Mary's Got Nits-|ratingstyle= 4"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473669588.5jpg|genrelink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473669588/ref= Humournosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |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"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], far away from the madness at home[[:Category:Humour|Humour]], last minute dashes to the shops on Christmas Eve[[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Lex Coulton's debut novel is a story about mistakes, failures, and food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are shutting for a monthrelationships. The main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, nor is a mere 36 hours. But I do remember the feeling of Christmas when I was youngersixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, back when it was magicala work colleague, and back when you knew exactly what is grappling with the season would bring with carol concerts and school nativities and Christmas partiesincreasingly eccentric behaviour of her mother. This book relationship is an anthology of those moments, and it took me right back to complicated by the wonder of Christmas as a childfact that Frances's father disappeared at sea when she was five years old.[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444779400</amazonuk!-- van LENTE -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle= Kieran Crowley"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title= Shoot[[image:1683690346.jpg|ratinglink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag= 4thebookbag-21]]  |genrestyle= Crime"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||summary= I make something of ==[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Comic-Cons are a habit place of being late to discover good writerswonder and sanctuary for many people, and when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, in this case getting to Crowley after he is no longer with us. The result is 's looking for both that what is billed as ''an F.X. Shepherd mystery'' and sanctuary with all other fans and creators, plus the optimism chance of there being more to come has the poignancy of beingmaybe, if not the last of a short linejust maybe reuniting with his ex. However, certainly one of a few. F.X. Shepherd – he doesn't like when his first name and prefers just "Shepherd" rival isfound dead, Mike is forced to navigate every dark corner of the con in order to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans to zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, technicallyin doing so, may just unravel a columnistdark secret behind a legendary industry creator. He's been sacked [[The Con Artist 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 soapFred Van Lente|Full Review]] <!-- Curran -washed-foul>|-mouthed editor (read the book, you'll see what I mean) expects him to turn in some genuine journalism as well| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image: front page, seat of your pants stuff1683690133. jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>1783296518<http://amazonuk>}}www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690133/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]{{newreview|author=Gray Jolliffe|titlestyle=The First Ever Christmas"vertical-align: top; text-align: And Who to Blameleft;"||rating=5|genre=Humour|summary=If I tell you a secret, will you promise not to tell anyone? Well, I really don't like Christmas: it[[My Lady's my least favourite time of year Choosing by Kitty Curran and whilst some people count down to the day itself, I look forward Larissa Zageris]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] You are a lass of twenty eight. Plucky, penniless and in Regency era London the race is on to that point when I can say that it's all over for another year. It's all too commercialised for me, with find a coating of faux religionsuitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. IAlong your journey you've never found it in the least funny ll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - that isa fiesty noble eager to save you from a life alone, until I found Gray Jolliffe's ''The First Ever Christmas: And Who's and fired by a rogueish sense for adventure. When it comes to Blame'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. AmazinglyWith orphans, werewolves, I'd never encountered Gray Jolliffe eitherlong lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the way, but Iit'm a convert s clear this isn't going to his skills as a cartoonist (if not to the idea of Christmas) after reading this collection of Christmas-themed cartoons from his archivebe an easy decision...[[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445663503</amazonuk!-- Jester -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=Jonathan Pugh"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title=Pugh's New Year's Resolutions|rating=4[[image:Jester_Forever.5jpg|genre=Humourleft|summarylink=If there's one thing that's for certain, it's that the world is changinghttps://www.amazon.co. We're dating online, we're communicating in ways that make email seem redundant, and when we're shopping we just tell uk/gp/product/1510704361?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1510704361]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Forever After: a website where and when it can be delivereddark comedy by David Jester]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fasntasy]] Michael Holland is a cocky and how much leeway brash young man who dies and gets made the offer 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 have grapple with their long lives and finding a clean surface to swap our wishes for whatever it is they do bring ussit on in their flat. But those changes are also supposed to be affecting us – we're supposed to use [[Forever After: 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 eat.dark comedy by David Jester|Full Review]] <!-- Stibbe -->|-|amazonukstyle=<amazonuk>1780722885</amazonuk>}}{{newreview"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|author= Luke Rhinehart[[image:Stibbe_Xmas.jpg|title= Invasionleft|ratinglink= 4https://www.amazon.co.5|genreuk/gp/product/0241309824?ie= Humour |summaryUTF8&tag=Superthebookbag-intelligent furry aliens suddenly appear from another universe21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0241309824]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe]]=== [[image:4. And they've come to earth to have fun5star. Alien Louie follows fisherman Billy Morton home one dayjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], and he and his family quickly come to love [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Christmas – the playful alientime of traditional trauma. But when Louie starts using their computer You only have to hack into government and corporate networks, stealing millions from banks to give to others, they realise think about the turkey for that Louie and his friends mean trouble. As Billy and his family begin – once upon a roller coaster ride of fame and fortune, as well as a ranking high time it was leaving it sat on the FBI's most wanted listdownstairs loo to defrost overnight, and if that failed the Government soon decides hair-dryer 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 these aliens are terroristsyou can go and visit it, and must be eliminated. Whilst the aliens are playing games they hope will help humans get too friendly with it to want to see the insanity of the American politicaleat it. Christmas, economic and military systemsthough, they soon come to realise that the Powers that Be donis of course also a time of great boons. It't play games: they make war. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785651757</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rod Green|title=Only Fools s cash in hand for a lot of plump people who can hire red suits and Horses: The Peckham Archives|rating=4|genre=Entertainment |summary=We are 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 as for the world of one makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they even try and sell them any other time of the country's most famous and wellyear? [[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe|Full Review]] <!-loved sitcoms – even if it was sort-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 another. I'm sure there have been books before now celebrating the stonyDoescher -->|-faced reception of ''that'' drop through the open bar hatch, and ''that'' chandelier scene, but this is much more meaty| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Doescher_Will. 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 a department with a clumsy acronym to another, from them to the police – and now here they are being published for their social history worthjpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co. Will enough readers find them of worth, as the series quietly celebrates its 35th birthdayuk/gp/product/159474985X?|amazonukie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=<amazonuk>1849909245</amazonuk>159474985X]]}}{{newreview|author= Mara Wilson|titlestyle= Where Am I Now?"vertical-align: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fametop; text-align: left;"||rating= 5==[[William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher]]===|genre= Autobiography[[image:4.5star.jpg|summarylink= Mara Wilson has always felt a little young and a little out of placeCategory: as the only child on a film set full of adults{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] A long time ago, the first daughter in a house full of boysgalaxy far away, the sole clinically depressed member of there was a cheerleading squadman called William Shakespeare, who was able to create a valley girl in New York series of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil and a neurotic in California, rebellious heroes and an adult the world still remembers as a little girlheroines most sturdy. Tackling everything from how she first learned about sex on You may or may not have noticed the set cinematic version of his original stage play for ''Melrose Place,The Force Doth Awaken'' to losing her mother , but here at a young agelast we get the actual script, complete with annoying-in-different-ways-to getting her first kiss (or was it kisses?) on a celebrity canoe trip-before droids anew, to not being cute enough to make returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, and people keeping it in Hollywoodthe family til it hurts. And if you need further encouragement, these essays tell don't forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the story of one young womanseries is so popular we's journey from accidental fame re on to relative obscurity, but also illuminate a universal strugglepart seven – surely making this over twice as good… [[William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: learning to accept yourself, and figuring out who you are and where you belong. 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From losing all the pupils in his charge on a school trip to being arrested on suspicion of terrorismuk/gp/product/1785942719?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785942719]]  | style="vertical-align: top; from waking up in bed between the married couple the morning after their wedding, to destroying a ski runtext-align: left; from appearing full-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."||amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524634441</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Graham Fulbright|title=Driving Mad[[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: Maniacs, Morons A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and the Advanced Motorist's Club|ratingRussell T Davies]]===3.5|genre=Humour[[image:4.5star.jpg|summarylink=I passed my driving test when John F Kennedy was in the White House Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and IVerse|Children've recently had to reapply for my driving licence having achieved a venerable age. When I started driving the roads were kinder, more forgiving places - or put another ways Rhymes and Verse]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Consider the idiots were fewer and further betweenDoctor. I don't know Just how long Graham Fulbright has been driving, but 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 knows his motoring morons and in ''Driving Mad'' he brings us need a fictional sample few novelty gifts for some of their eccentricities. Wellthem, say, I'm pretty certain for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of a Time Lord and that they're fictional - but these days you never knowof some of his friends and enemies...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783062584</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mario Giordano|title=Auntie Poldi and As luck would have it, he has the Sicilian Lions|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Poldi had not long been widowed when she decided space in his TARDIS to move from Bavaria stock up in advance, so my advice to him – sorry, her – would be to Sicily with the intention of drinking herself pop along to deathhis local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. She couldAnd if you're working on a shorter timescale, of coursewith a shorter lifespan, have done this in Germanyand thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, but she felt that a sea view was essentialwell my advice is pretty much the same. Once there, new friends, family already resident on the island and the corpse [[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of a young man, his face blown off Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by a shotgun, whom she found on the local beach, intervened to give her life some meaning. For a while she was a suspect, but that (James Goss and her wig) were no obstacle to her falling for Commissario Vito Montana who was assigned to investigate the case. Assisting him (or having him assist her) came naturally to Poldi and before long there was an investigative and personal partnership. At least so far as Poldi was concerned.Russell T Davies|Full Review]] <!-- Ingram -->|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524693</amazonuk>}}{{newreview-|authorstyle= Grady Hendrix"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title= My Best Friend's Exorcism[[image:Ingram_Kammie.jpg|rating= 5left|genrelink= Horror|summary=1988, Charleston, South Carolinahttps://www.amazon. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth gradeco. But after an evening of skinnyuk/gp/product/1785451995?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-dipping goes disatrously wrong, Gretchen begins to act...different. She's moody. She's irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever she's nearby. Abby's investigation leads her to some startling discoveries 21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785451995]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text- and by the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusion, the fate of Abby and Gretchen will be determined by a single questionalign: Is their friendship enough to beat the devil?|amazonukleft;"|===<amazonuk>1594748624</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author[[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram]]= Kevin MacNeil|title=The Brilliant and Forever|rating= 3.5|genre= Humour[[image:4star.jpg|summarylink= You know sometimes when someone tells a jokeCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Pets|Pets]], everyone else laughs, and you're sat there wondering what was so funny?[[:Category:Humour|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973376</amazonuk>Humour]]}}{{newreview|author= Christopher Fowler|title= Bryant It was something of a relief when I encountered Annie Ingram and May: Strange Tide|rating= 3her cocker spaniel Kammie.5|genre= Crime|summary= The thirteenth outing for Bryant 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 May is looking very much like it not just on a level of food!, walk! or play!. You do require extensive training to become fluent, but most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their last. Arthur Bryant is on compassionate leave whilst tests are continuing, which are likely time to teach you and all you have to confirm that he do is suffering from Alzheimer'slisten. His condition is worsening almost by Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and the day, memory lapses are morphing into full-scale hallucinationspair have allowed us to share some of their conversations.[[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857523422</amazonuk!-- Harris -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=Kevin Smith"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Harris_Glass.jpg|titlelink=The Voyage of the Dolphinhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1908943823/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summarystyle=Dublin 1916"vertical-align: Among the unrest and antitop; text-British feeling worsened align: left;"|===[[The Breaking of Liam Glass by the threat of conscription into a war seen as nothing to do with the Irish, Trinity College faculty has other distractionsCharles Harris]]=== [[image:3star. They'd like a trophy; the skeleton of an Irish 'giant' to be precisejpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Teenager Liam Glass is mugged and stabbed yards from his Camden flat. The only glitch is that As the main trophy contenderboy lies comatose, Bernard MacNeill's skeletondesperate journalist Jason Worthington scrabbles for the inside scoop, is somewhere difficult to access and all seasoned explorers are otherwise engaged. There may be hope though. They turn to Fitzmauricetired police officer Andy Rockham searches for a missing tape, a student not good enough harried politician Jamila Hasan fights for anything else. Fitzmaurice agreesre-election, picking his friends Crozier and Rafferty to go with him. So… ''Gentlemendistraught mother Katrina Glass waits by her son, lace up your strongest boots and pack your warmest underwear – we're all off to gym-owner Royland simply finds himself in the wrong place at the bloody Arctic!'' Whether battle cry or epitaphwrong time. We follow this host of ensemble characters in a bleak, three men and a dog… and an iguana… are going anywaykaleidoscopic satire of modern media.[[The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124826</amazonuk!-- LENTE -->|amazonus=<amazonus>1910124826</amazonus>}}{{newreview-|authorstyle=Tony Hawks"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Lente_10.jpg|titlelink=Once Upon a Time in the West… Countryhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690222/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |ratingstyle=3"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||genre=Travel|summary=I have often complained in =[[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Nine comedians are invited to a jokey voice to my partner about life in remote Caribbean island under the sticksguise of working with Dustin Walker, and the way she moved me from an inner-city flat to slumming it in a comedic legend. Each fits neatly into one of the suburbs with fewer bussesarchetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, no takeaways within walkingthe washed-andup has-keepingbeen who has fallen far from his early days; Zoe, the rising female star with a new stand-food-hot distance, and no 'Polish' shops for a can of beer whenever you fancy one. Things are different with Tony Hawksup special coming soon; Dante, as here he has purposefully decided to up sticks who went from London being a kid on the streets to Somewherethe hardest working road comic in the business; Oliver, Devon – a tiny village where the people child-like prop comic who can't get any respect from his peers; Janet, the insult comic who built their own homes decades ago still live in themis past her prime; TJ, where slugs are the nightly variety show host with a lot more of a problem reputation for harassing his female colleagues and guest acts; Ruby, the wannabe lettuceultra-grower than they are for the metropolitan commuter, and where village halls have the power to turn you into both feminist YouTuber and Blogger with a Pol Pot dictator if you get chip on their committee her shoulder; and into a quiveringWilliam, bruise-inducing wreck if youwhose redneck character ''re Billy the wrong gender at Contractor'' is a Zumba class…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444794809</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Marian Keyes|title=Making It Up As I Go Along|rating=4far cry from his real personality as a posh millionaire.5|genre=Entertainment|summary=Oh, how the book reviewing gods like to giveOf course, all nine agree because ''when God almighty walks down on a beam of light and equally like to take away. Here before me is a brandasks for your help, spanking new collection of journalism by what the wonderful Marian Keyes – but it's a proof copy, so therehell else are you going to say?''s no photo of the author. Even if over the years I have stopped reading her novels, I have always turned to the author picture to remind myself such sights exist in this world[[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]] <!-- Scott -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Scott_Eliz. Himself is a lucky man, for surejpg|link=http://www.amazon.co. But beyond sounding like a letch, what can I say about this – the beauty's third large dose of essays, web columns and other journalismuk/dp/1788037006/ref=nosim? I can start with agreeing that I am not the target audiencetag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Elizabeth, but it's easy enough to see from these pages exactly what the target isWilliam... So much like that test you do – you know the oneand Me by S Lynn Scott]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Ally is an ordinary woman with teenage children, a husband and a job. Then comes the day when ordinariness flies out of the window. It's not a coincidence that formulates decisions about it's the same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I in the age pantry and commonality the Bard of all things Avon in space to come up with how many billions of planets are likely her bath. What's she going to do? Well, Elizabeth and Will have alien life on – you can narrow things down quite readily heretheir own ideas about that! [[Elizabeth, William... and still come up with a huge number.Me by S Lynn Scott|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk!-- Rodford -->0718182529</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Jean-Yves Ferri|titlestyle= Asterix and the Missing Scroll (Album 36)|rating= 5"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|genre= For Sharing[[image:Rodford_Surgeon.jpg|summarylink=Asterix is those rarest of book serieshttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178565005X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; one designed for kids which is actually even funnier when you are an adult. I used to love Asterix as a child, but now that I reread them I cantext-align: left;"|===[[The Surgeon't help but wonder why, because they are so full of hilarious jokes that I definitely wouldn't have understood when I was younger. I laughed loud and hard to myself twice within the first two pages of Asterix and the Missing Scroll, so I'd definitely say that this was a hit.s Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>1510100458</amazonuk>Category:{{{rating}}}{{newreviewStar Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|author=Spadge Whittaker|title=Braver Than BritainCrime]], Occasionally[[:Category:Humour|rating=4Humour]]|genre=Humour|summary=In which Spadge researches Britain's top ten fears and faces them all over the course second instalment of this series, Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a yearwell-known local man to track down some missing valuables. WeBill Galbraith, a world-famous surgeon at Cambridge's Addenbrooke're quite s Hospital who hosts a fearful societypopular medical television programme, has had his briefcase stolen by his live-in domestic servant, you knowAurora. And According to Galbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of his at the hospital. George agrees to look into the things we fear most aretheft, in order: heights (acrophobia)assuming it will be a relatively easy and straightforward case – little does he know, snakes (ophidiophobia), public speaking (glossophobia), spiders (arachnophobia), small spaces (claustrophobia), mice (musophobia), needles (trypanophobia), flying (pteromerhanophobia), crowds (agoraphobia) he's about to enter a world of deceit and clowns (coulrophobia)dysfunction.[[The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993429904</amazonuk!-- Jordan -->}}{{newreview|author= Mike Bullen-|titlestyle= Trust"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|rating= 4[[image:Jordan_Tiny.jpg|genrelink= General Fiction|summary= Greg and Amanda are happyhttp://www.amazon. Unmarried, but together thirteen years and with two young daughters, they are very much in loveco. Dan and Sarah aren't so fortunate. Their marriage is going through the motionsuk/dp/1760293814/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Our Tiny, and they're staying together for the sake of their troubled teenage sonUseless Hearts by Toni Jordan]]=== [[image:5star. Following a business conference away from home, one bad decision sends a happy couple into turmoiljpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] As predicted by Caroline and turns an unhappy couple into loveJanice's young dream. As secrets mother on Caroline and betrayals threaten to send both relationships out of controlHenry's wedding day, their marriage is over, albeit 15 years and two daughters further along than predicted. 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[[Our Tiny, his monoUseless Hearts by Toni Jordan|Full Review]] <!-- Taylor -->|-named assistant, amanuensis or 'male secretary'. Smee will come to the fore when the weather sets in and the train journey has to be abandoned some way short of its ultimate destination, Upper Bottom. Instead the pair fetch up at the isolated yet friendly community of Market Horton, and the only option for accommodation is taken – yes, the died| style="width: 10%; vertical-inalign: top; text-the-wool non-believer has to be housed by a retired vicar and his wifealign: center;"|[[image:Taylor_Scilly. 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In this format (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 in pithy little comments (several chunks of, ooh, about 140 characters granite rock out in lengththe Atlantic, where Cornwall is pointing, with just 2,200 permanent residents. They're big on tourism, for some reason…) and detail big on growing flowers in the tropical climate the minor things in life that we like nothing more than Gulf Stream bequeaths them – although the weather is bad enough to inflate turn any car to a major factor of liferust bucket within years. They can involve manners're so wee, and so idyllic-seeming, staring especially at things until they mend themselvesnight, hitting things ditto, or the fact that nobody apart from you and I know how to queue properlycan be mistaken for thinking there would be no need for a police presence. And if the idea hits the world outside our shores, then But there is – wellat least two working at any one time. And one of them in recent years has been Colin Taylor, you certainly have who has done his official duty – alongside maintaining a book full well-known online existence, which has brought to life all the whimsical comedy of content regarding our attitude and ineptitude abroadhis work.[[The Life of a Scilly Sergeant by Colin Taylor|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751558494</amazonuk!-- Lloyd -->}}{{newreview|author=Fraser McAlpine-|titlestyle=Stuff Brits Like|rating=4"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Lloyd_Twas.jpg|genrelink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472125118/ref=nosim?tag=Humourthebookbag-21]]  |summarystyle= With over 100 chapters on different aspects of Britain and Britishness, this book is both fascinating "vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[['Twas the Fight Before Christmas: A Parody by Josie Lloyd and hilariousEmlyn Rees]]=== [[image:3. Just looking at the list of subjects is enough to produce a sardonic twist of that stiff upper lip5star.jpg|link=Category: the chapters cover topics that range from offal {{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] It's Christmas Eve and Mum has arranged everything. All she now has to curry, from pedantry to banter, from conkers to rugby. There may be many chapters but this is no academic tome - each chapter is just 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 three pages long, each is written with endearing affection, each is easy ruin everything. [['Twas the Fight Before Christmas: A Parody by Josie Lloyd and satisfying Emlyn Rees|Full Review]] <!-- Phinn - and quirkily funny - to read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1857886348</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= John Samuel-|titlestyle= What I Tell You in the Dark"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Phinn_Virgin.jpg|left|ratinglink= 3http://www.amazon.co.5uk/dp/1444779400/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] |genrestyle= Humour"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||summary=A man called Will is fighting fiercely against corruption – desperate to expose his company==[[The Virgin Mary's dodgy dealings to the pressGot Nits by Gervase Phinn]]=== [[image:4. Overcome with doubt and fear, he goes to kill himself5star. But, at jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Anthologies|Anthologies]] Christmas in our house is the exact moment he attaches his noose time we tend to the back of the door, he is saved. By get on a curious housemate plane and head to either sun or a concerned girlfriend? Nosnow, anywhere that is far, by an Angel. Not far away from the white-feathered guardian Angel you may expectmadness at home, but one who wishes last minute dashes to help Will achieve his endsthe shops on Christmas Eve, and so possess food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are shutting for a month, nor a mere 36 hours. But I do remember the body feeling of the hapless Will in order to finish what he started. It goes without saying that the Angel is hoping things go better than they did Christmas when I was younger, back when it was magical, and back when you knew exactly what the season would bring with the last guy he possessed – a hapless young man from Galilee called Jesus…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. 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When Barry is found dead trussed up in a sex dungeonjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] For all those who think tragedy plots are too restricted and prescribed, it transpires that he has been leading a hidden life for years, and his expensive fetishes lead read on. In these pages you too will see that Romeo had lots of options en route to hitting the bank moving to take Susan's homebottle. Struck by both desperation and a sense of injusticeLikewise, Sue and Julie conspire to rob a bankshe could have turned away from her predestined path at no end of junctures. And to what result? Well, taking along their friend Jill – a devout Christian conflicted due to lack of money happy marriage and a terminally ill grandsonkid called Ben, and Ethel – a foul mouthed resident of because the nursing home longing for adventure.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0434023183</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Marie Phillipsleads 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|title=The Table Of Less Valued KnightsFull Review]]|rating=4.5|genre=Fantasy|summary=Sir Humphrey has been demoted from King Arthur's Round Table to the Table of Lesser Valued Knights. The only way to get his comfier seat back is to redeem himself via a quest. Therefore when damsel Elaine seeks help to find her kidnapped fiancé, Humphrey and his ward, the teenage giant Conrad, eagerly set forth. 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When he gets back, he finds one of the main Venus Islands artefacts that caused him to go there in the first place, a huge, macabre ceremonial fetish mask, purloined as corporate artwork. And some of the curators he wishes to work alongside have vanished. Is the weird society of the museum he's returning to, perchance, even weirder, stranger and more violent than the cannibalistic society he's waving farewell to?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1922079308</amazonuk>}}