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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|authorclass-"wikitable" cellpadding=S Lynn Scott"15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- van LENTE -->|title=Elizabeth, William... and Me-|ratingstyle=4"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690346.5jpg|genrelink=Humourhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |summarystyle=Ally is an ordinary woman with teenage children, a husband and a job"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star. Then comes the day jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Comic-Cons are a place of wonder and sanctuary for many people, and when ordinariness flies out of the window. ItComic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, he's not a coincidence looking for both that it's the same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I in the pantry and sanctuary with other fans and creators, plus the Bard chance of Avon in her bathmaybe, just maybe reuniting with his ex. What's she going However, 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 do? Wellzombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, in doing so, Elizabeth and Will have their own ideas about that!may just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creator. [[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]]  |amazonuk=<amazonuk!-- Coulton -->1788037006</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= E G Rodford-|titlestyle= The Surgeon's Case"width: George Kocharyan Mystery 210%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473669588.jpg|ratinglink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473669588/ref=nosim?tag= 4thebookbag-21]] |genre= Crime |summarystyle=In the second instalment of this series, Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired "vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Falling Short by a well-known local man to track down some missing valuablesLex Coulton]]=== [[image:4star. Bill Galbraithjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], a world-famous surgeon at Cambridge[[:Category:Women's AddenbrookeFiction|Women's Hospital who hosts Fiction]] Lex Coulton's debut novel is a popular medical television programmestory about mistakes, has had his briefcase stolen by his live-in domestic servantfailures, Auroraand relationships. According to GalbraithThe main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of his at the hospital. George agrees to look into the theftis a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, assuming it will be a relatively easy work colleague, and straightforward case – little does he know, heis grappling with the increasingly eccentric behaviour of her mother. This relationship is complicated by the fact that Frances's about to enter a world of deceit and dysfunctionfather disappeared at sea when she was five years old.[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565005X</amazonuk!-- van LENTE -->}}{{newreview|author=Toni Jordan-|titlestyle=Our Tiny, Useless Hearts"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|rating=5[[image:1683690346.jpg|genrelink=Women's Fictionhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |summarystyle=As predicted "vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Con Artist by Caroline and Janice's mother on Caroline Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Comic-Cons are a place of wonder and Henry's wedding daysanctuary for many people, their marriage is over, albeit 15 years and two daughters further along than predicted. Indeedwhen Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, this is definitely not a good weekend for Janice to be babysitting at Carolinehe's house. There's the split looking for both that and sanctuary with other fans and creators, plus the awkwardness chance of maybe, just maybe reuniting with his ex. However, when his rival is found dead, Mike is forced to navigate every dark corner 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 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, in doing so, may just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creator. She still dreams of him, yes, but it's so over[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]] <! Just as well really… guess who's at the door?-- Curran -->|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760293814</amazonuk>}}{{newreview-|authorstyle=Colin Taylor"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690133.jpg|titlelink=The Life of a Scilly Sergeanthttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690133/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |ratingstyle=4.5"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||genre=Travel|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 =[[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and location, etcLarissa Zageris]]=== [[image:4star.) For our more distant readersjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], they're several chunks [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] You are a lass of granite rock out twenty eight. Plucky, penniless and in Regency era London the Atlantic, where Cornwall race is pointing, with just 2,200 permanent residentson to find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. TheyAlong your journey you're big on tourismll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a life alone, 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 fired by a rust bucket within yearsrogueish sense for adventure. TheyWhen it comes to suitors though, you're so weell have to make the ultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and so idyllic-seemingcaring Captain Angus MacTaggart, especially at nightor the mad, you can be mistaken for thinking there would bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the way, it's clear this isn't going to be no need for a police presencean easy decision. 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. [[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|Full Review]] <!-- Jester --known online existence, which has brought to life all the whimsical comedy of his work.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178475515X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees-|titlestyle='Twas the Fight Before Christmas"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: A Parodycenter;"|[[image:Jester_Forever.jpg|ratingleft|link=3https://www.amazon.co.5uk/gp/product/1510704361?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1510704361]] |genre=Humour|summarystyle=It's Christmas Eve and Mum has arranged everything"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester]]=== [[image:4star. All she now has to do jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fasntasy]] Michael Holland is await a cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the arrival offer of the relatives his lifetime; immortality. We follow Michael, a grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a stoner in the food shopping delivery. Little does Mum know that those two elements alone have the potential records department) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a clean surface to ruin everythingsit on in their flat.[[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472125118</amazonuk!-- Stibbe -->}}{{newreview|author=Ryan North-|titlestyle=Romeo and/or Juliet"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Stibbe_Xmas.jpg|ratingleft|link=3https://www.amazon.co.5uk/gp/product/0241309824?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0241309824]]  |genrestyle=Humour"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||summary=For all those who think tragedy plots are too restricted and prescribed, read on==[[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe]]=== [[image:4.5star. In these pages you too will see that Romeo had lots jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Christmas – the time of options en route traditional trauma. You only have to hitting think about the bottle. Likewise, she could have turned away from her predestined path at no end of junctures. And turkey for that – once upon a time it was leaving it sat on the downstairs loo to what result? Welldefrost overnight, happy marriage and a kid called Ben, because the leads have just banged peopleif that failed the hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. Nowadays it's all having to make sure it's heads together suitably free-range and organic – but not too organic that you can go and stopped the quarrellingvisit it, or Death by Tybalt (him) or a long life running an establishment curing murderous womenand get too friendly with it to want to eat it. Christmas, though, such as is of course also a Lady M (her). |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356508536</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Gervase Phinn|title= The Virgin Marytime of great boons. It's Got Nits|rating= 4.5|genre= Humour|summary= Christmas in our house is 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 time we tend thank-you letters to get on aunties you saw twice a plane and head to either sun or snowdecade that your parents made you write out in long-hand as a child, anywhere that is far, far away from and as for the madness at homemakers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, last minute dashes to did they even try and sell them any other time of the shops on year? [[An Almost Perfect 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 childby Nina Stibbe|Full Review]] <!-- Doescher -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Doescher_Will.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/159474985X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=159474985X]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444779400</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kieran Crowley|title= Shoot|rating[[William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher]]=== 4|genre= Crime[[image:4.5star.jpg|summarylink= I make something of Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, there was a habit of being late to discover good writersman called William Shakespeare, in this case getting who was able to Crowley after he is no longer with uscreate a series of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy. The result is that what is billed as You may or may not have noticed the cinematic version of his original stage play for ''an F.X. Shepherd mysteryThe Force Doth Awaken'' with all , but here at last we get the optimism of there being more actual script, complete with annoying-in-different-ways-to come has the poignancy of being-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, if not and people keeping it in the last of a short line, certainly one of a fewfamily til it hurts. F.X. Shepherd – he doesnAnd if you need further encouragement, don't like forget his first name and prefers just "Shepherd" audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the series is, technically, a columnist. Heso popular we'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 re on to part seven – surely making this over twice as a rule…which explains why Shepherdgood… [[William Shakespeare's soap-washed-foul-mouthed editor (read the book, you'll see what I mean) expects him to turn in some genuine journalism as well: front page, seat of your pants stuff. Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783296518</amazonuk!-- Goss -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=Gray Jolliffe"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Goss_600.jpg|left|titlelink=The First Ever Christmashttps: And Who to Blame//www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785942719?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785942719]] |rating=5|genrestyle=Humour"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||summary=If I tell you a secret, will you promise not to tell anyone? Well, I really don't like Christmas==[[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: itA Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verse|Children's my least favourite time of year Rhymes and whilst some people count down to the day itselfVerse]], I look forward [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Consider the Doctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to that point when I can say that it's all over for another hand out each year. It's all too commercialised for me, , were he to keep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a coating few novelty gifts for some of faux religion. I've never found it in the least funny - that isthem, say, until I found Gray Jolliffe's ''The First Ever Christmas: And Who's to Blame''. Amazinglyfor example, I'd never encountered Gray Jolliffe either, but I'm whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of a convert to Time Lord and that of some of his skills as a cartoonist (if not to friends and enemies. As luck would have it, he has the idea of Christmas) after reading this collection of Christmas-themed cartoons from space in his archive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445663503</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jonathan Pugh|title=PughTARDIS to stock up in advance, so my advice to him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. And if you's New Year's Resolutions|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary=If there's re working on a shorter timescale, with a shorter lifespan, and thinking perhaps just one thing that's for certaingift season ahead, it's that well my advice is pretty much the world is changingsame. [[Doctor Who: Now We're dating online, we're communicating in ways that make email seem redundant, Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss 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 us. 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 eatRussell T Davies|Full Review]] <!-- Ingram -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Ingram_Kammie.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785451995?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785451995]]  |amazonukstyle=<amazonuk>1780722885</amazonuk>"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|}}{{newreview|author= Luke Rhinehart|title= Invasion|rating= 4.5[[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram]]===|genre= Humour [[image:4star.jpg|summarylink=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 dayCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Pets|Pets]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] It was something of a relief when I encountered Annie Ingram and he and his family quickly come to love the playful alienher cocker spaniel Kammie. But when Louie starts using their computer to hack into government and corporate networksYou see, stealing millions from banks Annie knows something which has been self-evident to give to others, they realise that Louie me for a long time: dogs are perfectly capable of communicating with humans and his friends mean trouble. As Billy and his family begin not just on a roller coaster ride level of fame and fortunefood!, as well as a ranking high on the FBI's walk! or play!. You do require extensive training to become fluent, but most wanted list, the Government soon decides that these aliens are terrorists, and must dogs will be eliminated. Whilst the aliens are playing games they hope will help humans perfectly willing to see the insanity of the American political, economic give their time to teach you and military systems, they soon come all you have to realise that do is listen. Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and the Powers that Be don't play games: they make warpair have allowed us to share some of their conversations. [[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram|amazonuk=Full Review]] <amazonuk>1785651757</amazonuk!-- Harris -->}}{{newreview|author=Rod Green-|titlestyle=Only Fools and Horses"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: The Peckham Archivescenter;"|rating=4[[image:Harris_Glass.jpg|genrelink=Entertainment |summaryhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1908943823/ref=We are in the world of one of the country's most famous and wellnosim?tag=thebookbag-loved sitcoms – even if it was sort21]]  | style="vertical-of killed off for Christmas 2003align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris]]=== [[image:3star. Yes, there have been specials sincejpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Teenager Liam Glass is mugged and more repeats to clog up stabbed yards from his Camden flat. As the BBC schedules than is really pukkaboy lies comatose, 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 desperate journalist Jason Worthington scrabbles for the stony-faced reception of ''that'' drop through the open bar hatchinside scoop, tired police officer Andy Rockham searches for a missing tape, and ''that'' chandelier sceneharried politician Jamila Hasan fights for re-election, but this is much more meaty. Purporting to be the family archivesdistraught mother Katrina Glass waits by her son, found dumped and gym-owner Royland simply finds himself in Nelson Mandela House, the documents here were passed from pillar to post, from one council worker wrong place at the wrong time. We follow this host of ensemble characters in a department with a clumsy acronym to anotherbleak, from them to the police – and now here they are being published for their social history worthkaleidoscopic satire of modern media. Will enough readers find them [[The Breaking of worth, as the series quietly celebrates its 35th birthday?Liam Glass by Charles Harris|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849909245</amazonuk!-- LENTE -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle= Mara Wilson"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Lente_10.jpg|titlelink= Where Am I Nowhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690222/ref=nosim?: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fametag=thebookbag-21]]  |ratingstyle= 5"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||genre= Autobiography|summary= Mara Wilson has always felt a little young and =[[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 little out remote Caribbean island under the guise of place: as the only child on working with Dustin Walker, a film set full comedic legend. Each fits neatly into one of adultsthe archetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, the first daughter in a house full of boyswashed-up has-been who has fallen far from his early days; Zoe, the sole clinically depressed member of rising female star with a cheerleading squadnew stand-up special coming soon; Dante, who went from being a valley girl in New York and a neurotic kid on the streets to the hardest working road comic in Californiathe business; Oliver, and an adult the world still remembers as a little girl. Tackling everything child-like prop comic who can't get any respect from how she first learned about sex on his peers; Janet, the set of ''Melrose Placeinsult comic who is past her prime; TJ,'' to losing her mother at the nightly variety show host with a young agereputation for harassing his female colleagues and guest acts; Ruby, to getting the ultra-feminist YouTuber and Blogger with a chip on her first kiss (or was it kisses?) on shoulder; and William, whose redneck character ''Billy the Contractor'' is a celebrity canoe trip, to not being cute enough to make it in Hollywoodfar cry from his real personality as a posh millionaire. Of course, these essays tell the story of one young womanall nine agree because ''s journey from accidental fame to relative obscurity, but also illuminate when God almighty walks down on a universal struggle: learning to accept yourself, beam of light and figuring out who you asks for your help, what the hell else are and where you belong. going to say?'' [[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0143128221</amazonuk!-- Scott -->}}|-{{newreview|author| style= Tony Stuart"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title= Writing Lines[[image:Scott_Eliz.jpg|ratinglink= 4http://www.amazon.co.5uk/dp/1788037006/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] |genre=Humour|summarystyle= George Gordon Wentworth (1946"vertical-2011) lived a humdrum lifealign: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Elizabeth, William. 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. However, amongst all the utterly uninteresting tailings of his life there were some nuggets and grains to catch the attentionand Me by S Lynn Scott]]=== [[image:4. Author Tony Stuart has created these amusing anecdotes, panning them out over twenty six episodes which give us the best of Wentworth – comedy gold5star. From losing all the pupils in his charge on a school trip to being arrested on suspicion of terrorism; from waking up in bed between the married couple the morning after their weddingjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Ally is an ordinary woman with teenage children, to destroying a ski run; from appearing full-frontal naked in husband and a sheep-farmers' gazette to triggering an air-sea rescue; Wentworth was, blinkered and befuddled, job. Then comes the subject – day when ordinariness flies out of these and so many more unlikely but highly amusing eventsthe window.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524634441</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Graham Fulbright|title=Driving Mad: Maniacs, Morons and the Advanced MotoristIt's not a coincidence that it's Club|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=I passed my driving test when John F Kennedy was the same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I in the White House pantry and Ithe Bard of Avon in her bath. What've recently had s she going to reapply for my driving licence having achieved a venerable age. When I started driving the roads were kinderdo? Well, more forgiving places - or put another wayElizabeth and Will have their own ideas about that! [[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 eccentricities. Well, I'm pretty certain that they're fictional - but these days you never know...Me by S Lynn Scott|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783062584</amazonuk!-- Rodford -->}}{{newreview|author=Mario Giordano-|titlestyle=Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian Lions|rating=4"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|genre=Crime[[image:Rodford_Surgeon.jpg|summarylink=Poldi had not long been widowed when she decided to move from Bavaria to Sicily with the intention of drinking herself to deathhttp://www.amazon. She could, of course, have done this in Germany, but she felt that a sea view was essentialco. Once there, new friends, family already resident on the island and the corpse of a young man, his face blown off by a shotgun, whom she found on the local beach, intervened to give her life some meaninguk/dp/178565005X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford]]=== [[image:4star. For a while she was a suspectjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], but that (and her wig) were no obstacle to her falling for Commissario Vito Montana who was assigned to investigate [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] In the case. Assisting him (or having him assist her) came naturally second instalment of this series, Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a well-known local man to Poldi and before long there was an investigative and personal partnershiptrack down some missing valuables. At least so far as Poldi was concerned.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524693</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Grady Hendrix|title= My Best FriendBill Galbraith, a world-famous surgeon at Cambridge's Addenbrooke's Exorcism|rating= 5|genre= Horror|summary=1988Hospital who hosts a popular medical television programme, Charlestonhas had his briefcase stolen by his live-in domestic servant, South CarolinaAurora. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth grade. But after an evening of skinny-dipping goes disatrously wrong, Gretchen begins According to act.Galbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of his at the hospital..different. She's moody. She's irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever she's nearby. 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 question: Is their friendship enough relatively easy and straightforward case – little does he know, he's about to beat the devil?|amazonuk=enter a world of deceit and dysfunction. [[The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford|Full Review]] <amazonuk!-- Jordan -->1594748624</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kevin MacNeil-|titlestyle=The Brilliant and Forever"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Jordan_Tiny.jpg|ratinglink= 3http://www.amazon.co.5uk/dp/1760293814/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] |genre= Humour|summarystyle= You know sometimes when someone tells a joke, everyone else laughs, and you're sat there wondering what was so funny?"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846973376</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Christopher Fowler|title= Bryant and May: Strange Tide|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|Humour]]|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857523422</amazonuk>}}{{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 anti-British feeling worsened by the threat of conscription into a war seen as nothing to do with the Irish, Trinity College faculty has other distractions. They'd like a trophy; the skeleton of an Irish 'giant' to be precise. The only glitch is that the main trophy contender, Bernard MacNeillJanice's mother on Caroline and Henry's skeletonwedding day, their marriage is somewhere difficult to access over, albeit 15 years and all seasoned explorers are otherwise engagedtwo daughters further along than predicted. There may be hope though. They turn to FitzmauriceIndeed, this is definitely not a student not good enough weekend for anything else. Fitzmaurice agrees, picking his friends Crozier and Rafferty to go with himJanice to be babysitting at Caroline's house. So… There''Gentlemen, lace up your strongest boots s the split and pack your warmest underwear – wethe awkwardness of the girls're all off to schoolteacher being the bloody Arctic!'' Whether battle cry or epitaph, three men and other woman for a dog… start. Then there's that mistaken identity moment involving the neighbours. 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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 his work. [[The Life 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 is. 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Their marriage head to either sun or snow, anywhere that is going through the motionsfar, and they're staying together for the sake of their troubled teenage son. Following a business conference far away from the madness at home, one bad decision sends a happy couple into turmoillast minute dashes to the shops on Christmas Eve, and turns an unhappy couple into love's young dream. As secrets and betrayals threaten to send both relationships out of controlfood cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are shutting for a month, there's only one thing that can keep everything from falling apart: Trust|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751559253</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Dan Rhodes|title=When 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 Professor Got Stuck in the Snow|rating=4.5|genre=General Fiction|summary= Two people are on a train on their way to, season would bring with carol concerts and school nativities and Christmas parties. This book is an anthology of all thingsthose moments, a WI meeting where and it took me right back to the ladies wonder of All Bottoms will be lectured on the non-existence of GodChristmas as a child. One of the two people is Professor Richard Dawkins, rampant atheist, hectoring scientist chappie, and all-round devotee of ''Deal or No Deal''. [[The other is Smee, his mono-named assistant, amanuensis or 'male secretaryVirgin Mary's Got Nits by Gervase Phinn|Full Review]] <!-- North -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:North_Romeo. 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 Bottomjpg|link=http://www.amazon.co. Instead the pair fetch up at the isolated yet friendly community of Market Horton, and the only option for accommodation is taken – yes, the dieduk/dp/0356508536/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-inalign: top; text-the-wool non-believer has to be housed align: left;"|===[[Romeo and/or Juliet by a retired vicar and his wife. 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Well, for some reason…) happy marriage and detail a kid called Ben, because the minor things in life that we like nothing more than to inflate to a major factor of leads have just banged people's heads together and stopped the quarrelling, or Death by Tybalt (him) or a long liferunning an establishment curing murderous women, such as a Lady M (her). 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.[[Romeo and/or Juliet by Ryan North|Full Review]] <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751558494</amazonuk>}}