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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|authorclass-"wikitable" cellpadding= Fred Van Lente"15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->|title= Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery<!-- van LENTE -->|rating= 4-|genrestyle= Humour"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690346.jpg|summarylink= Nine comedians are invited to a remote Caribbean island under the guise of working with Dustin Walker, a comedic legendhttp://www.amazon. Each fits neatly into one of the archetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, the washedco.uk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-up has21]]  | style="vertical-been who has fallen far from his early daysalign: top; Zoe, the rising female star with a new stand-up special coming soontext-align: left; Dante, who went from being a kid on the streets to the hardest working road comic in the business; Oliver"|===[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], the child[[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Comic-like prop comic who canCons are a place of wonder and sanctuary for many people, and when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, he't get any respect from his peers; Janets looking for both that and sanctuary with other fans and creators, plus the insult comic who is past her prime; TJchance of maybe, the nightly variety show host just maybe reuniting with a reputation for harassing his female colleagues and guest acts; Rubyex. However, when his rival is found dead, Mike is forced to navigate every dark corner of the ultra-feminist YouTuber con in order to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and Blogger with a chip on her shoulder; intrusive fans to zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and William, whose redneck character ''Billy the Contractor'' is in doing so, may just unravel a far cry from his real personality as dark secret behind a posh millionairelegendary industry creator. Of course, all nine agree because ''when God almighty walks down on a beam of light and asks for your help, what the hell else are you going to say?''[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]]  <!-- Coulton -->|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594749744</amazonuk>}}{{newreview-|authorstyle=S Lynn Scott"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1473669588.jpg|titlelink=Elizabeth, Williamhttp://www.amazon.co. and Meuk/dp/1473669588/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summarystyle=Ally is an ordinary woman with teenage children, a husband and a job"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton]]=== [[image:4star. Then comes the day when ordinariness flies out of the window. Itjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Women's not a coincidence that itFiction|Women's the same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I in the pantry and the Bard of Avon in her bath. WhatFiction]] Lex Coulton's she going to do? Welldebut novel is a story about mistakes, failures, Elizabeth and Will have their own ideas about relationships. The main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, is a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, a work colleague, and is grappling with the increasingly eccentric behaviour of her mother. This relationship is complicated by the fact that!|amazonuk=Frances's father disappeared at sea when she was five years old. [[Falling Short by Lex Coulton|Full Review]] <amazonuk>1788037006</amazonuk!-- van LENTE -->}}{{newreview|author= E G Rodford-|titlestyle= The Surgeon's Case"width: George Kocharyan Mystery 210%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690346.jpg|ratinglink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690346/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;"|===[[The Con Artist by a well-known local man to track down some missing valuables. Bill GalbraithFred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Comic-Cons are a world-famous surgeon at Cambridge's Addenbrookeplace of wonder and sanctuary for many people, and when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, he's Hospital who hosts a popular medical television programmelooking for both that and sanctuary with other fans and creators, plus the chance of maybe, has had just maybe reuniting with his briefcase stolen by ex. However, when his live-in domestic servantrival is found dead, Aurora. According Mike is forced to Galbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient navigate every dark corner of his at the hospital. George agrees con in order to look into the theft, assuming it will be a relatively easy clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and straightforward case intrusive fans to zombie obstacle courses – little does he knowMike must prove his innocence and, in doing so, he's about to enter may just unravel a dark secret behind a world of deceit and dysfunctionlegendary industry creator.[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|amazonuk=Full Review]] <amazonuk>178565005X</amazonuk!-- Curran -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=Toni Jordan"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690133.jpg|titlelink=Our Tiny, Useless Heartshttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690133/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |ratingstyle=5"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||genre=Women==[[My Lady's Fiction|summaryChoosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris]]=As predicted by Caroline and Janice's mother on Caroline and Henry's wedding day== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], their marriage is over[[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] You are a lass of twenty eight. Plucky, albeit 15 years penniless and two daughters further along than predicted. Indeed, this in Regency era London the race is definitely not on to find a good weekend for Janice suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to be babysitting at Caroline's houselife as an eternal spinster. ThereAlong your journey you's the split ll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a life alone, and the awkwardness of the girls' schoolteacher being the other woman fired by a rogueish sense for a startadventure. Then thereWhen it comes to suitors though, you's that mistaken identity moment involving ll have to make the neighbours. At least Janice is well adjusted ultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the mad, bad and over her ex-husband Alecterrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. She still dreams of himWith orphans, werewolves, yeslong lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the way, but it's so over! Just as well really… guess whoclear this isn't going to be an easy decision... [[My Lady's at the door?Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760293814</amazonuk!-- Jester -->}}|-{{newreview|author| style=Colin Taylor"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title=The Life of a Scilly Sergeant|rating=4[[image:Jester_Forever.5jpg|genre=Travelleft|summarylink=Meet the Isles of Scillyhttps://www.amazon. (I know they should be called that – the author provides a handy guide to the etiquette of their name, their nature and location, etcco.) For our more distant readers, they're several chunks of granite rock out in the Atlantic, where Cornwall is pointinguk/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 dark comedy by David Jester]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], with just 2[[:Category:Horror|Horror]],200 permanent residents[[:Category:Fantasy|Fasntasy]] Michael Holland is a cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the offer of his lifetime; immortality. They're big on tourismWe follow Michael, a grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and big on growing flowers Naff (a stoner in the tropical climate the Gulf Stream bequeaths them – although the weather is bad enough to turn any car records department) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a clean surface to sit on in their flat. [[Forever After: a rust bucket within years. They're so wee, and so idyllicdark comedy by David Jester|Full Review]] <!-- Stibbe -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-seeming, especially at night, you can be mistaken for thinking there would be no need for a police presencealign: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Stibbe_Xmas.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon. But there is – at least two working at any one timeco. And one of them in recent years has been Colin Taylor, who has done his official duty – alongside maintaining a welluk/gp/product/0241309824?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-known online existence, which has brought to life all the whimsical comedy of his work.21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0241309824]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||amazonuk=<amazonuk>178475515X</amazonuk>==[[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe]]===}}{{newreview[[image:4.5star.jpg|authorlink=Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees|title='Twas the Fight Before ChristmasCategory: A Parody|{{{rating=3.5}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|genre=Humour]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] |summary=It's Christmas Eve and Mum has arranged everything– the time of traditional trauma. All she now has You only have to do is await think about the arrival of turkey for that – once upon a time it was leaving it sat on the relatives downstairs loo to defrost overnight, and if that failed the food shopping deliveryhair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. Little does Mum know that those two elements alone have the potential Nowadays it's all having to ruin everything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472125118</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ryan North|title=Romeo make sure it's suitably free-range and organic – but not too organic that you can go and/or Juliet|rating=3visit it, and get too friendly with it to want to eat it.5|genre=Humour|summary=For all those who think tragedy plots are too restricted and prescribedChristmas, read on. In these pages you too will see that Romeo had lots though, is of course also a time of options en route to hitting the bottlegreat boons. LikewiseIt's cash in hand for a lot of plump people who can hire red suits and beards, she could have turned away from her predestined path at no end of junctures. And it was always a godsend for postmen with all the thank-you letters to what result? Wellaunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you write out in long-hand as a child, happy marriage and a kid called Benas for the makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, because the leads have just banged people's heads together did they even try and stopped sell them any other time of the quarrelling, or Death year? [[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Tybalt (him) or a long life running an establishment curing murderous women, such as a Lady M (her). |amazonuk=Nina Stibbe|Full Review]] <amazonuk>0356508536</amazonuk!-- Doescher -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle= Gervase Phinn"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title= The Virgin Mary's Got Nits|rating= 4[[image:Doescher_Will.5jpg|genre= Humourleft|summarylink= Christmas in our house is 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;"|===[[William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the time we tend to get on a plane and head to either sun or snowSeventh by Ian Doescher]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], anywhere that is far[[:Category:Humour|Humour]] A long time ago, in a galaxy far away from the madness at home, last minute dashes there was a man called William Shakespeare, who was able to the shops on Christmas Evecreate a series of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil and food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are shutting for a month, nor a mere 36 hoursrebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy. But I do remember You may or may not have noticed the feeling cinematic version of Christmas when I was youngerhis original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken'', back when it was magicalbut here at last we get the actual script, and back when you knew exactly what the season would bring complete with carol concerts and school nativities and Christmas parties. This book is an anthology of those momentsannoying-in-different-ways-to-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, and people keeping it took me right back to in the wonder of Christmas as a childfamily til it hurts.|amazonuk= And if you need further encouragement, don't forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the series is so popular we're on to part seven – surely making this over twice as good… [[William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher|Full Review]] <amazonuk>1444779400</amazonuk!-- Goss -->}}{{newreview|author= Kieran Crowley-|titlestyle= Shoot"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|rating= 4[[image:Goss_600.jpg|genre= Crimeleft|summarylink= I make something of a habit of being late to discover good writers, in this case getting to Crowley after he is no longer with ushttps://www. The result is that what is billed as ''an Famazon.Xco. Shepherd mystery'' with all the optimism of there being more to come has the poignancy uk/gp/product/1785942719?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785942719]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of being, if not the last of a short line, certainly one of a fewTime Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies]]=== [[image:4. F5star.X. Shepherd – he doesnjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children't like his first name s Rhymes and Verse|Children's Rhymes and prefers just "Shepherd" isVerse]], technically[[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], a columnist[[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Consider the Doctor. He's been sacked by one New York newspaper Just how many birthday and is writing a weekly column for another. I don't know much about journalismChristmas gifts must he have to hand out each year, but I'm guessing one column were he to keep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a week doesn't pay much as a rule…which explains why Shepherd's soap-washed-foul-mouthed editor (read the bookfew novelty gifts for some of them, say, you'll see what I mean) expects him to turn in some genuine journalism as well: front pagefor example, seat whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of your pants stuff. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783296518</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Gray Jolliffe|title=The First Ever Christmas: And Who a Time Lord and that of some of his friends and enemies. As luck would have it, he has the space in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, so my advice to Blame|rating=5|genre=Humour|summary=If I tell you a secrethim – sorry, will you promise not her – would be to pop along to tell anyone? Well, I really don't like Christmas: ithis local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. And if you's my least favourite time of year re working on a shorter timescale, with a shorter lifespan, and whilst some people count down to the day itselfthinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, I look forward to that point when I can say that it's all over for another yearwell my advice is pretty much the same. It's all too commercialised for me, with a coating [[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of faux religion. I've never found it in the least funny Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies|Full Review]] <!-- Ingram -->|- that is, until I found Gray Jolliffe's ''The First Ever Christmas| style="width: And Who's to Blame''10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Ingram_Kammie.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co. Amazingly, I'd never encountered Gray Jolliffe either, but I'm a convert to his skills as a cartoonist (if not to the idea of Christmas) after reading this collection of Christmasuk/gp/product/1785451995?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-themed cartoons from his archive.|amazonuk21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=<amazonuk>1445663503</amazonuk>}}1785451995]]{{newreview|author=Jonathan Pugh|titlestyle=Pugh's New Year's Resolutions"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||rating=4==[[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram]]=== [[image:4star.5jpg|genrelink=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Pets|Pets]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]]|summary=If there's one thing that's for certain, it's that the world is changingIt was something of a relief when I encountered Annie Ingram and her cocker spaniel Kammie. We're dating onlineYou see, we're Annie knows something which has been self-evident to me for a long time: dogs are perfectly capable of communicating in ways that make email seem redundant, with humans and when we're shopping we not just tell on a website where and when it can be deliveredlevel of food!, and how much leeway they have to swap our wishes for whatever it is they walk! or play!. You do bring us. But those changes are also supposed require extensive training to become fluent, but most dogs will be affecting us – we're supposed perfectly willing to use a smart watch give their time to tell us if we're moving or not, we teach you and all you have to keep up with do is listen. Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and the latest fads, and we're supposed pair have allowed us to prick our ears up and take note when the proverbial 'they' change share some of their minds about what we're supposed to eat.conversations. [[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722885</amazonuk!-- Harris -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle= Luke Rhinehart"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Harris_Glass.jpg|titlelink= Invasion|ratinghttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1908943823/ref=nosim?tag= 4.5thebookbag-21]]  |genrestyle= Humour "vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||summary=Super-intelligent furry aliens suddenly appear from another universe. And they've come to earth to have fun. Alien Louie follows fisherman Billy Morton home one day==[[The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Teenager Liam Glass is mugged and he and stabbed yards from his family quickly come to love Camden flat. As the playful alien. But when Louie starts using their computer to hack into government and corporate networksboy lies comatose, stealing millions from banks to give to othersdesperate journalist Jason Worthington scrabbles for the inside scoop, they realise that Louie and his friends mean trouble. As Billy and his family begin tired police officer Andy Rockham searches for a roller coaster ride of fame and fortunemissing tape, as well as a ranking high on the FBI's most wanted listharried politician Jamila Hasan fights for re-election, the Government soon decides that these aliens are terroristsdistraught mother Katrina Glass waits by her son, and must be eliminated. Whilst gym-owner Royland simply finds himself in the aliens are playing games they hope will help humans to see wrong place at the insanity wrong time. We follow this host of the American politicalensemble characters in a bleak, economic and military systems, they soon come to realise that the Powers that Be don't play games: they make warkaleidoscopic satire of modern media. [[The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris|amazonuk=Full Review]] <amazonuk>1785651757</amazonuk!-- LENTE -->}}{{newreview|author=Rod Green-|titlestyle=Only Fools and Horses"width: The Peckham Archives10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Lente_10.jpg|ratinglink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690222/ref=nosim?tag=4thebookbag-21]]  |genrestyle=Entertainment "vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||summary=We ==[[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Nine comedians are in invited to a remote Caribbean island under the world guise of working with Dustin Walker, a comedic legend. Each fits neatly into one of the country's most famous and wellarchetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, the washed-loved sitcoms – even if it was sortup has-of killed off for Christmas 2003. Yes, there have been specials sincewho has fallen far from his early days; Zoe, and more repeats to clog the rising female star with a new stand-up the BBC schedules than is really pukkaspecial coming soon; Dante, but very few people failed who went from being a kid on the streets to succumb to its charms at one time or another. I'm sure there have been books before now celebrating the stony-faced reception of ''that'' drop through hardest working road comic in the open bar hatchbusiness; Oliver, and the child-like prop comic who can''that'' chandelier scenet get any respect from his peers; Janet, but this the insult comic who is much more meaty. past her prime; Purporting to be TJ, 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 nightly variety show host with a clumsy acronym to anotherreputation for harassing his female colleagues and guest acts; Ruby, from them to the police – ultra-feminist YouTuber and now here they are being published for their social history worth. Will enough readers find them of worthBlogger with a chip on her shoulder; and William, as whose redneck character ''Billy the series quietly celebrates its 35th birthday?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849909245</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Mara Wilson|title= Where Am I Now?: True Stories 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 Girlhood light and Accidental Fame|rating= 5|genre= Autobiography|summary= Mara Wilson has always felt a little young and a little out of place: as asks for your help, what the only child on a film set full of adults, the first daughter in a house full of boys, the sole clinically depressed member of a cheerleading squad, a valley girl in New York and a neurotic in California, and an adult the world still remembers as a little girl. Tackling everything from how she first learned about sex on the set of ''Melrose Place,'' to losing her mother at a young age, to getting her first kiss (or was it kisses?) on a celebrity canoe triphell else are you going to say?'' [[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.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1788037006/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Elizabeth, 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 struggleWilliam... and Me by S Lynn Scott]]=== [[image: learning to accept yourself, and figuring out who you are and where you belong4.5star. jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>0143128221</amazonuk>}}Category:{{{newreview|author= Tony Stuart|title= Writing Lines|rating= 4.5}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|genre=Humour]] |summary= George Gordon Wentworth (1946-2011) lived Ally is an ordinary woman with teenage children, a humdrum life. He was a barely adequate teacher in a fairly world renowned independent school in Kent husband and kept a copious diary of his quotidian existencejob. Most Then comes the day when ordinariness flies out of what he recorded was drossthe window. However, amongst all the utterly uninteresting tailings of his life there were some nuggets It's not a coincidence that it's the same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I in the pantry and grains to catch the attentionBard of Avon in her bath. Author Tony Stuart has created these amusing anecdotes, panning them out over twenty six episodes which give us the best of Wentworth – comedy gold. From losing all the pupils in his charge on a school trip What's she going to being arrested on suspicion of terrorism; from waking up in bed between the married couple the morning after do? Well, Elizabeth and Will have their wedding, to destroying a ski run; from appearing fullown ideas about that! [[Elizabeth, William... and Me by S Lynn Scott|Full Review]] <!--frontal naked in a sheepRodford -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.>|-|amazonukstyle=<amazonuk>1524634441</amazonuk>}}{{newreview"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|author=Graham Fulbright[[image:Rodford_Surgeon.jpg|titlelink=Driving Madhttp: Maniacs, Morons and the Advanced Motorist's Club//www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178565005X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |ratingstyle=3.5"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||genre=Humour|summary=I passed my driving test when John F Kennedy was in the White House and I=[[The Surgeon've recently had to reapply for my driving licence having achieved a venerable ages Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford]]=== [[image:4star. When I started driving the roads were kinder, more forgiving places - or put another wayjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] In the idiots were fewer and further between. I don't know how long Graham Fulbright has been drivingsecond instalment of this series, but he certainly knows his motoring morons and in ''Driving Mad'' he brings us Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a fictional sample of their eccentricitieswell-known local man to track down some missing valuables. WellBill Galbraith, I'm pretty certain that theya world-famous surgeon at Cambridge's Addenbrooke're fictional s Hospital who hosts a popular medical television programme, has had his briefcase stolen by his live- but these days you never knowin domestic servant, Aurora.According to Galbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of his at the hospital..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783062584</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mario Giordano|title=Auntie Poldi George agrees to look into the theft, assuming it will be a relatively easy and the Sicilian Lions|rating=4|genre=Crime|summary=Poldi had not long been widowed when she decided to move from Bavaria to Sicily with the intention straightforward case – little does he know, he's about to enter a world of drinking herself to deathdeceit and dysfunction. She could, of course, have done this in Germany, but she felt that a sea view was essential[[The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford|Full Review]] <!-- Jordan -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Jordan_Tiny. 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 meaningjpg|link=http://www.amazon.co. For a while she was a suspectuk/dp/1760293814/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Our Tiny, but that (and her wig) were no obstacle to her falling for Commissario Vito Montana who was assigned to investigate the caseUseless Hearts by Toni Jordan]]=== [[image:5star. Assisting him (or having him assist her) came naturally to Poldi and before long there was an investigative and personal partnership. 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AbbyThen there's investigation leads that mistaken identity moment involving the neighbours. At least Janice is well adjusted and over her to some startling discoveries ex- and by husband Alec. She still dreams of him, yes, but it's so over! Just as well really… guess who's at the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusiondoor? 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(I know they should be called that – the author provides a handy guide to the etiquette of their last. Arthur Bryant is on compassionate leave whilst tests are continuingname, which are likely to confirm that he is suffering from Alzheimertheir nature and location, etc.) For our more distant readers, they's. His condition re several chunks of granite rock out in the Atlantic, where Cornwall is worsening almost by the daypointing, memory lapses are morphing into full-scale hallucinations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857523422</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kevin Smith|title=The Voyage of with just 2,200 permanent residents. They're big on tourism, and big on growing flowers in the Dolphin|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Dublin 1916: Among tropical climate the unrest and anti-British feeling worsened by Gulf Stream bequeaths them – although the threat of conscription into weather is bad enough to turn any car to a war seen as nothing to do with the Irish, Trinity College faculty has other distractionsrust bucket within years. They'd like a trophy; the skeleton of an Irish 'giant' to be precise. The only glitch is that the main trophy contenderre so wee, Bernard MacNeill's skeletonand so idyllic-seeming, is somewhere difficult to access and all seasoned explorers are otherwise engaged. There may especially at night, you can be mistaken for thinking there would be hope though. They turn to Fitzmaurice, no need for a student not good enough for anything elsepolice presence. Fitzmaurice agrees, picking his friends Crozier and Rafferty to go with himBut there is – at least two working at any one time. So… ''GentlemenAnd one of them in recent years has been Colin Taylor, lace up your strongest boots and pack your warmest underwear who has done his official duty – we're alongside maintaining a well-known online existence, which has brought to life all off to the bloody Arctic!'' Whether battle cry or epitaph, three men and whimsical comedy of his work. [[The Life of a dog… and an iguana… are going anyway.Scilly Sergeant by Colin Taylor|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910124826</amazonuk!-- Lloyd -->|amazonus=<amazonus>1910124826</amazonus>}}{{newreview-|authorstyle=Tony Hawks"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"||title[[image:Lloyd_Twas.jpg|link=Once Upon a Time in the West… Countryhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472125118/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |ratingstyle=3"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||genre=Travel|summary=I have often complained in a jokey voice to my partner about life in =[['Twas the sticks, Fight Before Christmas: A Parody by Josie Lloyd and the way she moved me from an inner-city flat to slumming it in the suburbs with fewer busses, no takeaways within walking-Emlyn Rees]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] It's Christmas Eve and-keeping-food-hot distance, Mum has arranged everything. All she now has to do is await the arrival of the relatives and no 'Polish' shops for a can of beer whenever you fancy onethe food shopping delivery. Things are different with Tony Hawks, as here he has purposefully decided to up sticks from London Little does Mum know that those two elements alone have the potential to Somewhere, Devon – a tiny village where ruin everything. 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Here before me is a brand, spanking new collection of journalism by the wonderful Marian Keyes – but it=[[The Virgin Mary's a proof copy, so there's no photo of the authorGot Nits by Gervase Phinn]]=== [[image:4.5star. Even if over the years I have stopped reading her novelsjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], I have always turned to the author picture to remind myself such sights exist in this world. Himself [[:Category:Anthologies|Anthologies]] Christmas in our house is the time we tend to get on a lucky manplane and head to either sun or snow, for sure. But beyond sounding like a letchanywhere that is far, what can I say about this – far away from the madness at home, last minute dashes to the beauty's third large dose of essaysshops on Christmas Eve, web columns and other journalism? I can start with agreeing food cupboard stockpiles that I am not the target audience, but it's easy enough to see from these pages exactly what the target iswould imply supermarkets are shutting for a month, nor a mere 36 hours. So much like that test you But I do – you know remember the one, that formulates decisions about feeling of Christmas when I was younger, back when it was magical, and back when you knew exactly what the age season would bring with carol concerts and commonality school nativities and Christmas parties. This book is an anthology of all things in space those moments, and it took me right back to come up with how many billions the wonder of planets are likely to have alien life on – you can narrow things down quite readily here, and still come up with Christmas as a huge numberchild.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718182529[[The Virgin Mary's Got Nits by Gervase Phinn|Full Review]] </amazonuk!-- North -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle= Jean"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-Yves Ferrialign: center;"|[[image:North_Romeo.jpg|titlelink= Asterix and the Missing Scroll (Album 36)http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0356508536/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |ratingstyle= 5"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||genre= For Sharing|summary=Asterix is those rarest of book series; one designed for kids which is actually even funnier when you are an adult=[[Romeo and/or Juliet by Ryan North]]=== [[image:3.5star. I used to love Asterix as a child, but now that I reread them I can't help but wonder whyjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] For all those who think tragedy plots are too restricted and prescribed, 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 read on. In these pages you too will see that Romeo had lots of Asterix and options en route to hitting the Missing Scrollbottle. Likewise, so I'd definitely say that this was she could have turned away from her predestined path at no end of junctures. And to what result? Well, happy marriage and a hit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1510100458</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Spadge Whittaker|title=Braver Than Britain, Occasionally|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=In which Spadge researches Britainkid called Ben, because the leads have just banged people's top ten fears heads together and faces them all over the course of a year. We're quite a fearful societystopped the quarrelling, you know. And the things we fear most are, in order: heights or Death by Tybalt (acrophobiahim)or a long life running an establishment curing murderous women, snakes such as a Lady M (ophidiophobia), public speaking (glossophobia), spiders (arachnophobia), small spaces (claustrophobia), mice (musophobia), needles (trypanophobia), flying (pteromerhanophobia), crowds (agoraphobiaher) . 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As secrets and betrayals threaten to send both relationships out of control, there's only one thing that can keep everything from falling apart: Trust|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751559253</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Dan Rhodes|title=When the Professor Got Stuck in the Snow|rating=4.5|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, and all-round devotee of ''Deal or No Deal''. The other is Smee, his mono-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!-in-theDO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -wool non-believer has to be housed by a retired vicar and his wife. This clash of titanic opinions, peppered with social faux pas aplenty will provide for 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…>|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910709018</amazonuk>}}