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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|authorclass-"wikitable" cellpadding=Toni Jordan"15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->|title=Our Tiny, Useless Hearts<!-- van LENTE -->|rating=5-|genrestyle=Women's Fiction"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690346.jpg|summarylink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag=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 predictedthebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star. Indeedjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], this is definitely not [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Comic-Cons are a good weekend place of wonder and sanctuary for Janice to be babysitting many people, and when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at CarolineSan Diego Comic-Con, he's house. There's the split looking for both that and sanctuary with other fans and creators, plus the awkwardness chance of the girls' schoolteacher being the other woman for a startmaybe, just maybe reuniting with his ex. Then there's that mistaken identity moment involving the neighbours. At least Janice However, when his rival is found dead, Mike is well adjusted 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 over her ex-husband Alec. She still dreams of him, yesin doing so, but it's so over! Just as well really… guess who's at the door?may just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creator. [[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]]  |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760293814</amazonuk!-- Coulton -->}}|-{{newreview|author| style=Colin Taylor"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title=The Life of a Scilly Sergeant[[image:1473669588.jpg|ratinglink=4http://www.amazon.co.5|genreuk/dp/1473669588/ref=Travelnosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |summarystyle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton]]=Meet the Isles of Scilly== [[image:4star. (I know they should be called that – the author provides a handy guide to the etiquette of their namejpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], their nature and location[[:Category:Humour|Humour]], etc[[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Lex Coulton's debut novel is a story about mistakes, failures, and relationships.) For our more distant readersThe main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, they're several chunks of granite rock is a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out in the Atlanticwith her best friend Jackson, a work colleague, where Cornwall and is pointing, grappling with just 2,200 permanent residentsthe increasingly eccentric behaviour of her mother. TheyThis relationship is complicated by the fact that Frances'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 s father disappeared at sea when she was five yearsold. They're so wee, and so idyllic[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton|Full Review]] <!-- van LENTE -->|-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:1683690346.jpg|link=http://www. But there is – at least two working at any one timeamazon. And one of them in recent years has been Colin Taylor, who has done his official duty – alongside maintaining a wellco.uk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-known online existence, which has brought to life all the whimsical comedy of his work.21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||amazonuk=<amazonuk>178475515X</amazonuk>==[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente]]===}}[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{newreviewrating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|author=Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees|title='Twas the Fight Before ChristmasCrime]], [[:Category: A ParodyHumour|rating=3.5Humour]]|genre=Humour|summary=ItComic-Cons are a place of wonder and sanctuary for many people, and when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, he's Christmas Eve looking for both that and sanctuary with other fans and Mum has arranged everythingcreators, plus the chance of maybe, just maybe reuniting with his ex. All she now has However, when his rival is found dead, Mike is forced to do is await the arrival navigate every dark corner of the relatives con in order to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and the food shopping delivery. Little does Mum know that those two elements alone have the potential to ruin everythingintrusive 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>1472125118</amazonuk!-- Curran -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=Ryan North"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title=Romeo and/or Juliet|rating=3[[image:1683690133.5jpg|genrelink=Humourhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690133/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==[[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris]]=== [[image:4star. In these pages you too will see that Romeo had lots jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] You are a lass of options en route to hitting the bottletwenty eight. LikewisePlucky, she could have turned away from her predestined path at no end of juncturespenniless and in Regency era London the race is on to find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. And Along your journey you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to what result? Wellsave you from a life alone, happy marriage and fired by a kid called Benrogueish sense for adventure. When it comes to suitors though, because you'll have to make the leads have just banged people's heads together ultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and stopped the quarrellingcaring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or Death by Tybalt (him) or a the mad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. With orphans, werewolves, long life running an establishment curing murderous womenlost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the way, such as a Lady M (her)it's clear this isn't going to be an easy decision. .. [[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356508536</amazonuk!-- Jester -->}}{{newreview|author= Gervase Phinn-|titlestyle= The Virgin Mary's Got Nits"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Jester_Forever.jpg|left|ratinglink= 4https://www.amazon.co.5|genreuk/gp/product/1510704361?ie=UTF8&tag= Humour|summarythebookbag-21&linkCode= Christmas in our house is the time we tend to get on as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1510704361]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Forever After: a plane and head to either sun or snowdark comedy by David Jester]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], anywhere that is far[[:Category:Horror|Horror]], far away from [[:Category:Fantasy|Fasntasy]] Michael Holland is a cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the madness at home, last minute dashes to the shops on Christmas Eveoffer of his lifetime; immortality. We follow Michael, a grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are shutting for Naff (a stoner in the records department) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a month, nor clean surface to sit on in their flat. [[Forever After: 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 partiesdark comedy by David Jester|Full Review]] <!-- Stibbe -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Stibbe_Xmas.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co. This book is an anthology of those moments, and it took me right back to the wonder of Christmas as a child.|amazonukuk/gp/product/0241309824?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=<amazonuk>1444779400</amazonuk>0241309824]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle= Kieran Crowley"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|title===[[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe]]== Shoot|rating= 4|genre= Crime[[image:4.5star.jpg|summarylink= I make something of a habit of being late to discover good writersCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], in this case getting [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Christmas – the time of traditional trauma. You only have to Crowley after he is no longer with us. The result is that what is billed as ''an F.X. Shepherd mystery'' with all think about the turkey for that – once upon a time it was leaving it sat on the optimism of there being more downstairs loo to come has the poignancy of beingdefrost overnight, and if not that failed the last of a short line, certainly one of a fewhair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. F.X. Shepherd – he doesnNowadays it't like his first name and prefers just "Shepherd" is, technically, a columnist. Hes all having to make sure it's been sacked by one New York newspaper suitably free-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. Christmas, though, is writing of course also a weekly column for anothertime of great boons. I donIt't know much about journalisms cash in hand for a lot of plump people who can hire red suits and beards, but I'm guessing one column it was always a week doesn't pay much as godsend for postmen with all the thank-you letters to aunties you saw twice a rule…which explains why Shepherd's soapdecade that your parents made you write out in long-washed-foul-mouthed editor (read the bookhand as a child, you'll see what I mean) expects him to turn in some genuine journalism and as for the makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well: front page, seat did they even try and sell them any other time of your pants stuff. the year? [[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783296518</amazonuk!-- Doescher -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=Gray Jolliffe"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Doescher_Will.jpg|titleleft|link=The First Ever Christmashttps: And Who to Blame//www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/159474985X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=159474985X]]  |ratingstyle=5"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||genre=Humour|summary=If I tell you a secret, will you promise not to tell anyone? Well, I really don't like Christmas=[[William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: it's my least favourite time of year and whilst some people count down to Star Wars Part the day itself, I look forward to that point when I can say that it's all over for another yearSeventh by Ian Doescher]]=== [[image:4. It's all too commercialised for me, with a coating of faux religion5star. I've never found it in the least funny - that isjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], until I found Gray Jolliffe's ''The First Ever Christmas[[:Category: And Who's to Blame''. AmazinglyHumour|Humour]] A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, I'd never encountered Gray Jolliffe eitherthere was a man called William Shakespeare, but I'm a convert who was able to his skills as create a cartoonist (if not to the idea series of Christmas) after reading this collection dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy. You may or may not have noticed the cinematic version of Christmas-themed cartoons from his archive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445663503</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jonathan Pugh|title=Pughoriginal stage play for 's New Year's Resolutions|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary=If thereThe Force Doth Awaken's one thing that's for certain, it's that but here at last we get the world is changing. We're dating onlineactual script, we're communicating complete with annoying-in -different-ways that make email seem redundant-to-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, and when we're shopping we just tell a website where and when people keeping it in the family til it can be delivered, 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 – we're supposed to use a smart watch to tell us hurts. And if weyou need further encouragement, don're moving or not, we have to keep up with t forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the latest fads, and series is so popular we're supposed on to prick our ears up and take note when part seven – surely making this over twice as good… [[William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the proverbial 'they' change their minds about what we're supposed to eat.Seventh by Ian Doescher|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722885</amazonuk!-- Goss -->}}{{newreview|author= Luke Rhinehart-|titlestyle= Invasion|rating= 4"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Goss_600.5jpg|left|genrelink=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785942719?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp= Humour 1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785942719]]  |summarystyle=Super"vertical-intelligent furry aliens suddenly appear from another universe. And they've come to earth to have funalign: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies]]=== [[image:4. Alien Louie follows fisherman Billy Morton home one day, and he and his family quickly come to love the playful alien5star. But when Louie starts using their computer to hack into government jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verse|Children's Rhymes and corporate networksVerse]], stealing millions from banks to give to others[[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], they realise that Louie and his friends mean trouble[[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Consider the Doctor. As Billy 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 family begin companions? He would certainly need a roller coaster ride of fame and fortunefew novelty gifts for some of them, say, as well as a ranking high on the FBI's most wanted listfor example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the Government soon decides life of a Time Lord and that these aliens are terrorists, of some of his friends and must be eliminatedenemies. Whilst the aliens are playing games they hope will help humans As luck would have it, he has the space in his TARDIS to see the insanity of the American politicalstock up in advance, economic and military systemsso my advice to him – sorry, they soon come her – would be to pop along to realise that the Powers that Be donhis local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. And if you't play gamesre 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. [[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: they make war. |amazonuk=A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies|Full Review]] <amazonuk>1785651757</amazonuk!-- Ingram -->}}{{newreview|author=Rod Green-|titlestyle=Only Fools and Horses"width: 10%; vertical-align: The Peckham Archives|rating=4top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Ingram_Kammie.jpg|left|genrelink=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785451995?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=Entertainment 6738&creativeASIN=1785451995]]  |summarystyle=We are in the world of one of the country's most famous and well-loved sitcoms – even if it was sort-of killed off for Christmas 2003"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram]]=== [[image:4star. Yes, there have been specials sincejpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Pets|Pets]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] It was something of a relief when I encountered Annie Ingram and more repeats to clog up the BBC schedules than is really pukkaher cocker spaniel Kammie. You see, but very few people failed Annie knows something which has been self-evident to succumb to its charms at one me for a long time : dogs are perfectly capable of communicating with humans and not just on a level of food!, walk! or anotherplay!. I'm sure there have been books before now celebrating the stony-faced reception of ''that'' drop through the open bar hatch, and ''that'' chandelier sceneYou do require extensive training to become fluent, but this is much more meaty. Purporting most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to be teach you and all you have to do is listen. Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and the family archives, found dumped in Nelson Mandela House, the documents here were passed from pillar pair have allowed us to post, from one council worker in a department share some of their conversations. [[Conversations 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?Kammie by Annie Ingram|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849909245</amazonuk!-- Harris -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle= Mara Wilson|title= Where Am I Now?"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Famecenter;"|rating= 5[[image:Harris_Glass.jpg|genrelink= Autobiography|summaryhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1908943823/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style= Mara Wilson has always felt a little young and a little out of place"vertical-align: top; text-align: as the only child on a film set full left;"|===[[The Breaking of adultsLiam Glass by Charles Harris]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Teenager Liam Glass is mugged and stabbed yards from his Camden flat. As the first daughter in boy lies comatose, desperate journalist Jason Worthington scrabbles for the inside scoop, tired police officer Andy Rockham searches for a house full of boysmissing tape, harried politician Jamila Hasan fights for re-election, distraught mother Katrina Glass waits by her son, and gym-owner Royland simply finds himself in the wrong place at the sole clinically depressed member wrong time. We follow this host of a cheerleading squad, a valley girl ensemble characters in New York and a neurotic in Californiableak, and an adult the world still remembers as a little girlkaleidoscopic satire of modern media. Tackling everything from how she first learned about sex on the set [[The Breaking of ''Melrose Place,'' to losing her mother at a young age, to getting her first kiss (or was it kissesLiam Glass by Charles Harris|Full Review]] <!-- LENTE -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Lente_10.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690222/ref=nosim?) 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 struggletag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: learning to accept yourself, and figuring out who you are and where you belong. top; text-align: left;"||amazonuk=<amazonuk>0143128221</amazonuk>}}==[[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente]]==={{newreview[[image:4star.jpg|authorlink= Tony Stuart|title= Writing Lines|Category:{{{rating= 4.5}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|genre=Humour]]|summary= George Gordon Wentworth (1946-2011) lived Nine comedians are invited to a remote Caribbean island under the guise of working with Dustin Walker, a humdrum lifecomedic legend. He was a barely adequate teacher in a fairly world renowned independent school in Kent and kept a copious diary of his quotidian existence. Most of what he recorded was dross. HoweverEach fits neatly into one of the archetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, amongst all the utterly uninteresting tailings of washed-up has-been who has fallen far from his life there were some nuggets and grains to catch early days; Zoe, the attention. Author Tony Stuart has created these amusing anecdotesrising female star with a new stand-up special coming soon; Dante, panning them out over twenty six episodes which give us who went from being a kid on the best of Wentworth – comedy gold. From losing all streets to the pupils hardest working road comic in his charge on a school trip to being arrested on suspicion of terrorismthe business; Oliver, the child-like prop comic who can't get any respect from his peers; from waking up in bed between Janet, the married couple insult comic who is past her prime; TJ, the morning after their wedding, to destroying nightly variety show host with a ski runreputation for harassing his female colleagues and guest acts; from appearing fullRuby, the ultra-frontal naked in feminist YouTuber and Blogger with a sheep-farmers' gazette to triggering an air-sea rescuechip on her shoulder; Wentworth was, blinkered and befuddledWilliam, whose redneck character ''Billy the subject – 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 these light and so many more unlikely but highly amusing events.asks for your help, what the hell else are you going to say?'' [[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524634441</amazonuk!-- Scott -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=Graham Fulbright"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Scott_Eliz.jpg|titlelink=Driving Madhttp: Maniacs, Morons and the Advanced Motorist's Club//www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1788037006/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summarystyle=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 age. When I started driving the roads were kinder, more forgiving places "vertical-align: top; text- or put another wayalign: left;"|===[[Elizabeth, the idiots were fewer and further betweenWilliam... I don't know how long Graham Fulbright has been driving, but he certainly knows his motoring morons and in ''Driving Mad'' he brings us a fictional sample of their eccentricitiesMe by S Lynn Scott]]=== [[image:4. Well, I'm pretty certain that they're fictional - but these days you never know5star...jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>1783062584</amazonuk>Category:{{{rating}}}Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]]{{newreview|author=Mario Giordano|title=Auntie Poldi Ally is an ordinary woman with teenage children, a husband and a job. Then comes the Sicilian Lions|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Poldi had not long been widowed day when she decided to move from Bavaria to Sicily with ordinariness flies out of the intention of drinking herself to deathwindow. She could, It's not a coincidence that it's the same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I in the pantry and the Bard of course, have done this Avon in Germany, but her bath. What's she felt that a sea view was essential. Once theregoing to do? Well, new friendsElizabeth and Will have their own ideas about that! [[Elizabeth, family already resident on the island William... and the corpse of a young man, his face blown off Me by a shotgun, whom she found on the local beach, intervened to give her life some meaningS Lynn Scott|Full Review]] <!-- Rodford -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Rodford_Surgeon. For a while she was a suspect, but that (and her wig) were no obstacle to her falling for Commissario Vito Montana who was assigned to investigate the casejpg|link=http://www.amazon. Assisting him (or having him assist her) came naturally to Poldi and before long there was an investigative and personal partnershipco. At least so far as Poldi was concerned.|amazonukuk/dp/178565005X/ref=nosim?tag=<amazonuk>1908524693</amazonuk>thebookbag-21]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle= Grady Hendrix"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title= My Best Friend==[[The Surgeon's ExorcismCase: George Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford]]===|rating= 5[[image:4star.jpg|genrelink= HorrorCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|summary=1988Crime]], Charleston[[:Category:Humour|Humour]] In the second instalment of this series, South Carolina. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been best friends since fourth grade. But after an evening of skinnyhired by a well-dipping goes disatrously wrong, Gretchen begins known local man to acttrack down some missing valuables...different. SheBill Galbraith, a world-famous surgeon at Cambridge's moody. SheAddenbrooke's irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever she's nearbyHospital 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. Abby's investigation leads her George agrees to some startling discoveries - and by look into the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusiontheft, the fate of Abby and Gretchen assuming it will be determined by a single questionrelatively easy and straightforward case – little does he know, he's about to enter a world of deceit and dysfunction. [[The Surgeon's Case: Is their friendship enough to beat the devil?George Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594748624</amazonuk>Full Review]]}}{{newreview<!-- Jordan -->|author= Kevin MacNeil-|titlestyle=The Brilliant and Forever"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Jordan_Tiny.jpg|ratinglink= 3http://www.amazon.5|genre= Humour|summaryco.uk/dp/1760293814/ref= You know sometimes when someone tells a joke, everyone else laughs, and you're sat there wondering what was so funnynosim?|amazonuktag=<amazonuk>1846973376</amazonuk>thebookbag-21]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle= Christopher Fowler|title= Bryant and May"vertical-align: top; text-align: Strange Tideleft;"||rating= 3.5==[[Our Tiny, Useless Hearts by Toni Jordan]]===|genre= Crime[[image:5star.jpg|summarylink= 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 continuing, which are likely to confirm that he is suffering from AlzheimerCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's. His condition is worsening almost by the dayFiction]], memory lapses are morphing into full-scale hallucinations.[[:Category:Humour|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857523422</amazonuk>Humour]]}}{{newreview|author=Kevin Smith|title=The Voyage of the Dolphin|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Dublin 1916: Among the unrest As predicted by Caroline and Janice's mother on Caroline and Henry's wedding day, their marriage is over, albeit 15 years and anti-British feeling worsened by the threat of conscription into a war seen as nothing to do with the Irishtwo daughters further along than predicted. Indeed, Trinity College faculty has other distractions. They'd like this is definitely not a trophy; the skeleton of an Irish 'giant' good weekend for Janice to be precisebabysitting at Caroline's house. The only glitch is that There's the split and the awkwardness of the girls' schoolteacher being the main trophy contender, Bernard MacNeillother woman for a start. Then there's skeleton, that mistaken identity moment involving the neighbours. At least Janice is somewhere difficult to access well adjusted and all seasoned explorers are otherwise engagedover her ex-husband Alec. There may be hope though. They turn to FitzmauriceShe still dreams of him, a student not good enough for anything else. Fitzmaurice agreesyes, picking his friends Crozier and Rafferty to go with him. So… but it's so over! Just as well really… guess who''Gentlemen, lace up your strongest boots and pack your warmest underwear – we're all off to s at the bloody Arctic!'' Whether battle cry or epitaphdoor? [[Our Tiny, three men and a dog… and an iguana… are going anyway.Useless Hearts by Toni Jordan|Full Review]]|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124826</amazonuk>|amazonus=<amazonus>1910124826</amazonus!-- Taylor -->}}{{newreview|author=Tony Hawks-|titlestyle=Once Upon a Time in the West… Country"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Taylor_Scilly.jpg|ratinglink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178475515X/ref=nosim?tag=3thebookbag-21]] |genre=Travel|summarystyle=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"vertical-city flat to slumming it in the suburbs with fewer busses, no takeaways within walkingalign: top; text-and-keeping-food-hot distance, and no 'Polish' shops for align: left;"|===[[The Life of a can of beer whenever you fancy oneScilly Sergeant by Colin Taylor]]=== [[image:4.5star. Things are different with Tony Hawks, as here he has purposefully decided to up sticks from London to Somewherejpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], Devon – a tiny village where [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Meet the people who built their own homes decades ago still live in them, where slugs are Isles of Scilly. (I know they should be called that – the author provides a lot more handy guide to the etiquette of a problem for the wannabe lettuce-grower than they are for the metropolitan commutertheir name, their nature 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 quiveringlocation, etc.) For our more distant readers, bruise-inducing wreck if youthey're several chunks of granite rock out in the wrong gender at a Zumba class…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444794809</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Marian Keyes|title=Making It Up As I Go Along|rating=4.5|genre=Entertainment|summary=Oh, how 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 book reviewing gods like to give, and equally like to take away. Here before me Gulf Stream bequeaths them – although the weather is bad enough to turn any car to a brand, spanking new collection of journalism by the wonderful Marian Keyes – but itrust bucket within years. They's a proof copyre so wee, and so there's idyllic-seeming, especially at night, you can be mistaken for thinking there would be no photo of the authorneed for a police presence. 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 But there is – at least two working at any one time. And one of them in this world. Himself is a lucky manrecent years has been Colin Taylor, for sure. But beyond sounding like who has done his official duty – alongside maintaining a letchwell-known online existence, what can I say about this – which has brought to life all the beauty's third large dose whimsical comedy of essays, web columns and other journalism? I can start with agreeing that I am not the target audience, but it's easy enough to see from these pages exactly what the target ishis 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. 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I used Little does Mum know that those two elements alone have the potential to love Asterix as a child, but now that I reread them I canruin everything. [['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 Twas the Fight Before Christmas: A Parody by Josie Lloyd 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.|amazonuk=<amazonukEmlyn Rees|Full Review]] <!-- Phinn -->1510100458</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Spadge Whittaker-|titlestyle=Braver Than Britain, Occasionally"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Phinn_Virgin.jpg|left|ratinglink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1444779400/ref=nosim?tag=4thebookbag-21]]|genre=Humour|summarystyle=In which Spadge researches Britain's "vertical-align: top ten fears and faces them all over the course of a year. 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And the things we fear most are, in orders Got Nits by Gervase Phinn]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: heights (acrophobia)Humour|Humour]], snakes (ophidiophobia), public speaking (glossophobia), spiders (arachnophobia)[[:Category:Anthologies|Anthologies]] Christmas in our house is the time we tend to get on a plane and head to either sun or snow, small spaces (claustrophobia)anywhere that is far, mice (musophobia)far away from the madness at home, needles (trypanophobia)last minute dashes to the shops on Christmas Eve, flying (pteromerhanophobia)and food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are shutting for a month, crowds (agoraphobia) and clowns (coulrophobia)nor a mere 36 hours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993429904</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Mike Bullen|title= Trust|rating= 4|genre= General Fiction|summary= Greg 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 Amanda are happyChristmas parties. UnmarriedThis book is an anthology of those moments, but together thirteen years and with two young daughters, they are very much in love. Dan and Sarah aren't so fortunate. Their marriage is going through it took me right back to the motions, and they're staying together for the sake wonder of their troubled teenage son. Following Christmas as a business conference away from home, one bad decision sends a happy couple into turmoil, and turns an unhappy couple into love's young dreamchild. As secrets and betrayals threaten to send both relationships out of control, there[[The Virgin Mary's only one thing that can keep everything from falling apart: TrustGot Nits by Gervase Phinn|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751559253</amazonuk!-- North -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=Dan Rhodes"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:North_Romeo.jpg|titlelink=When the Professor Got Stuck in the Snowhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0356508536/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |ratingstyle=4.5"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||genre=General Fiction|summary= Two people are on a train on their way to, of all things, a WI meeting where the ladies of All Bottoms will be lectured on the non-existence of God. One of the two people is Professor Richard Dawkins, rampant atheist, hectoring scientist chappie, =[[Romeo and all-round devotee of ''Deal /or No Deal''Juliet by Ryan North]]=== [[image:3. 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This clash of titanic opinionslong life running an establishment curing murderous women, peppered with social faux pas aplenty will provide for such as a particularly English kind of farcical comedy, but one with the legs to go as far as any other Good Books have reached in the past…Lady M (her). [[Romeo and/or Juliet by Ryan North|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910709018</amazonuk>Full Review]]}}{{newreview|author=Rob Temple|title=Very British Problems Abroad|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=Meet, if you haven't already, the phenomenon of the Very British Problem. In this format they're in pithy little comments (of, ooh, about 140 characters in length, for some reason…) and detail the minor things in life that we like nothing more than to inflate to a major factor of life. They can involve manners, staring at things until they mend themselves, hitting things ditto, or the fact that nobody apart from you and I know how to queue properly. And if the idea hits the world outside our shores, then – well, you certainly have a book full of content regarding our attitude and ineptitude abroad.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751558494</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Fraser McAlpine|title=Stuff Brits Like|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary= With over 100 chapters on different aspects of Britain and Britishness, this book is both fascinating and hilarious. Just looking at the list of subjects is enough to produce a sardonic twist of that stiff upper lip: the chapters cover topics that range from offal 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 two to three pages long, each is written with endearing affection, each is easy and satisfying - and quirkily funny - to read.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1857886348</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= John Samuel|title= What I Tell You in the Dark|rating= 3.5|genre= Humour|summary=A man called Will is fighting fiercely against corruption – desperate to expose his company's dodgy dealings to the press. Overcome with doubt and fear, he goes to kill himself. But, at the exact moment he attaches his noose to the back of the door, he is saved. By a curious housemate or a concerned girlfriend? No, by an Angel. Not the white<!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE --feathered guardian Angel you may expect, but one who wishes to help Will achieve his ends, and so possess the body of the hapless Will in order to finish what he started. 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