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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|authorclass-"wikitable" cellpadding= Charles Harris"15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->|title= The Breaking of Liam Glass<!-- van LENTE -->|rating= 3-|genrestyle=Crime"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690346.jpg|summarylink= A flawed but reasonably entertaining swipe at modern mediahttp://www. There's plenty here to like, and plenty not toamazon. But good structure and scramjet pace keep this one flying to the final pageco.|amazonukuk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag=<amazonuk>1908943823</amazonuk>thebookbag-21]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|=== [[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|titlelink= Ten Dead ComediansCategory: A Murder Mystery{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|rating= 4Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|genre= Humour]]|summary= Nine comedians Comic-Cons are invited to a remote Caribbean island under the guise place of working wonder and sanctuary for many people, and when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, he's looking for both that and sanctuary with Dustin Walkerother fans and creators, a comedic legend. Each fits neatly into one plus the chance of the archetypal comic stereotypes: Stevemaybe, the washed-up has-been who has fallen far from just maybe reuniting with his ex. However, when his early days; Zoerival is found dead, Mike is forced to navigate every dark corner of the rising female star with a new stand-up special coming soon; Dantecon in order to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans to zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, who went from being a kid on the streets to the hardest working road comic in the business; Oliverdoing so, the childmay just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creator. [[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]]  <!-- Coulton -like prop comic who can't get any respect from his peers->|-| style="width: 10%; Janet, the insult comic who is past her primevertical-align: top; TJ, the nightly variety show host with a reputation for harassing his female colleagues and guest actstext-align: center; Ruby, the ultra-feminist YouTuber and Blogger with a chip on her shoulder"|[[image:1473669588.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1473669588/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; and William, whose redneck character ''Billy the Contractor'' is a far cry from his real personality as a posh millionairetext-align: left;"|===[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton]]=== [[image:4star. Of coursejpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], all nine agree because [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Lex Coulton'when God almighty walks down on s debut novel is a beam of light story about mistakes, failures, and asks for your helprelationships. The main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, is a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, a work colleague, what and is grappling with the hell else are you going to say?'increasingly eccentric behaviour of her mother. This relationship is complicated by the fact that Frances's father disappeared at sea when she was five years old. [[Falling Short by Lex Coulton|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594749744</amazonuk!-- van LENTE -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=S Lynn Scott"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690346.jpg|titlelink=Elizabeth, Williamhttp://www.amazon.co. and Meuk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |ratingstyle=4.5"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||genre=Humour==[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|summarylink=Ally is an ordinary woman with teenage childrenCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Comic-Cons are a husband place of wonder and sanctuary for many people, and a job. Then comes the day 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, Elizabeth and Will have their own ideas about that!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>1788037006</amazonuk!-- Curran -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle= E G Rodford"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690133.jpg|titlelink= The Surgeon's Casehttp: George Kocharyan Mystery 2//www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690133/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] |rating= 4|genrestyle= Crime "vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|summarylink=In the second instalment of this series, Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] You are a well-known local man to track down some missing valuableslass of twenty eight. Bill GalbraithPlucky, penniless and in Regency era London the race is on to find a worldsuitable suitor -famous surgeon at Cambridgeor else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Along your journey you's Addenbrooke's Hospital who hosts ll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a popular medical television programmefiesty noble eager to save you from a life alone, has had his briefcase stolen and fired by his live-in domestic servant, Auroraa rogueish sense for adventure. According When it comes to Galbraithsuitors though, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of his at you'll have to make the ultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the hospitalmad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. George agrees to look into With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the theftway, assuming it will 's clear this isn't going to be a relatively an easy and straightforward case – little does he know, hedecision... [[My Lady's about to enter a world of deceit Choosing by Kitty Curran and dysfunction.Larissa Zageris|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk!-- Jester -->178565005X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Toni Jordan-|titlestyle=Our Tiny, Useless Hearts"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|rating=5[[image:Jester_Forever.jpg|genre=Women's Fictionleft|summarylink=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 predictedhttps://www.amazon.co. Indeed, this is definitely not uk/gp/product/1510704361?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1510704361]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Forever After: a good weekend for Janice to be babysitting at Caroline's housedark comedy by David Jester]]=== [[image:4star. There's the split and the awkwardness of the girls' schoolteacher being the other woman for jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fasntasy]] Michael Holland is a start. Then there's that mistaken identity moment involving cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the neighboursoffer of his lifetime; immortality. At least Janice is well adjusted We follow Michael, a grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a stoner in the records department) as they grapple with their long lives and over her ex-husband Alecfinding a clean surface to sit on in their flat. She still dreams of him, yes, but it's so over[[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester|Full Review]] <! Just as well really… guess who's at the door?-- Stibbe -->|-|amazonukstyle=<amazonuk>1760293814</amazonuk>}}{{newreview"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|author=Colin Taylor[[image:Stibbe_Xmas.jpg|title=The Life of a Scilly Sergeantleft|ratinglink=4https://www.amazon.co.5uk/gp/product/0241309824?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0241309824]]  |genrestyle=Travel"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||summary=Meet the Isles of Scilly. (I know they should be called that ==[[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Christmas – the author provides time of traditional trauma. You only have to think about the turkey for that – once upon a handy guide time it was leaving it sat on the downstairs loo to the etiquette of their namedefrost overnight, their nature and location, etc.) For our more distant readers, they're several chunks of granite rock out in the Atlantic, where Cornwall is pointing, with just 2,200 permanent residentsif that failed the hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. TheyNowadays it're big on tourisms all having to make sure it's suitably free-range and organic – but not too organic that you can go and visit it, and big on growing flowers in the tropical climate the Gulf Stream bequeaths them – although the weather is bad enough get too friendly with it to turn any car want to eat it. Christmas, though, is of course also a rust bucket within yearstime of great boons. TheyIt're so wees cash in hand for a lot of plump people who can hire red suits and beards, and so idyllicit was always a godsend for postmen with all the thank-seeming, especially at night, you can be mistaken for thinking there would be no need for letters to aunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you write out in long-hand as a police presence. But there is child, and as for the makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – at least two working at well, did they even try and sell them any one other time. And one of them in recent years has been Colin Taylor, who has done his official duty – alongside maintaining a wellthe year? [[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe|Full Review]] <!-- Doescher --known online existence, which has brought to life all the whimsical comedy of his work.>|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178475515X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview-|authorstyle=Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Doescher_Will.jpg|titleleft|link='Twas the Fight Before Christmashttps: A Parody//www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/159474985X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=159474985X]]  |ratingstyle=3.5"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||genre=Humour|summary=It=[[William Shakespeare's Christmas Eve and Mum has arranged everythingthe Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher]]=== [[image:4. All she now has to do is await the arrival of the relatives and the food shopping delivery5star. Little does Mum know that those two elements alone have the potential to ruin everything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472125118</amazonuk>jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}}{{newreviewStar Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|author=Ryan NorthScience Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|title=Romeo and/or JulietHumour]]|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=For all those who think tragedy plots are too restricted and prescribedA long time ago, read onin a galaxy far away, there was a man called William Shakespeare, who was able to create a series of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy. In these pages you too will see that Romeo had lots You may or may not have noticed the cinematic version of options en route to hitting his original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken'', but here at last we get the bottle. Likewiseactual script, she could have turned away from her predestined path at no end of junctures. And complete with annoying-in-different-ways-to what result? Well-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, happy marriage and a kid called Ben, because people keeping it in the leads have just banged peoplefamily til it hurts. 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 heads together and stopped the quarrelling, or Death Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Tybalt (him) or a long life running an establishment curing murderous women, such as a Lady M (her). Ian Doescher|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356508536</amazonuk!-- Goss -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle= Gervase Phinn"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title= The Virgin Mary's Got Nits|rating= 4[[image:Goss_600.5jpg|genre= Humourleft|summarylink= Christmas in our house is the time we tend to get on a plane and head to either sun or snow, anywhere that is far, far away from the madness at home, last minute dashes to the shops on Christmas Eve, https://www.amazon.co.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 Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are shutting for a month, nor a mere 36 hoursRussell T Davies]]=== [[image:4.5star. But I do remember the feeling of Christmas when I was youngerjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verse|Children's Rhymes and Verse]], back when it was magical[[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], and back when you knew exactly what [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Consider the season would bring with carol concerts and school nativities Doctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas parties. This book is an anthology of those momentsgifts must he have to hand out each year, and it took me right back were he to keep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of them, say, for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the wonder life of Christmas as a child.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444779400</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kieran Crowley|title= Shoot|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= I make something Time Lord and that of a habit some of being late to discover good writershis friends and enemies. As luck would have it, in this case getting to Crowley after he is no longer with us. The result is that what is billed as ''an F.X. Shepherd mystery'' with all the optimism of there being more to come has the poignancy of beingspace in his TARDIS 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 not the last of you're working on a short lineshorter timescale, certainly one of with a few. F.X. Shepherd – he doesn't like his first name shorter lifespan, and prefers thinking perhaps just "Shepherd" isone gift season ahead, technically, a columnist. He's been sacked by one New York newspaper and well my advice is writing a weekly column for anotherpretty much the same. I don't know much about journalism, but I'm guessing one column a week doesn't pay much as a rule…which explains why Shepherd's soap[[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies|Full Review]] <!--washedIngram -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. >|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783296518</amazonuk>}}{{newreview-|authorstyle=Gray Jolliffe|title=The First Ever Christmas"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: And Who to Blamecenter;"|[[image:Ingram_Kammie.jpg|ratingleft|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785451995?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=51785451995]] |genre=Humour|summarystyle=If I tell you a secret, will you promise not to tell anyone? Well, I really don't like Christmas"vertical-align: top; text-align: it's my least favourite time of year and whilst some people count down to the day itselfleft;"|===[[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Pets|Pets]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] It was something of a relief when I look forward encountered Annie Ingram and her cocker spaniel Kammie. You see, Annie knows something which has been self-evident to that point when I can say that it's all over for another year. It's all too commercialised me for me, with a coating long time: dogs are perfectly capable of faux religioncommunicating with humans and not just on a level of food!, walk! or play!. I've never found it in the least funny - that isYou do require extensive training to become fluent, until I found Gray Jolliffe's ''The First Ever Christmasbut most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to teach you and all you have to do is listen. Annie has studied hard: And Who's Kammie has trained her well and the pair have allowed us to Blame''. 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 Christmas-themed cartoons from his archiveshare some of their conversations.[[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445663503</amazonuk!-- Harris -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=Jonathan Pugh"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title=Pugh's New Year's Resolutions[[image:Harris_Glass.jpg|ratinglink=4http://www.amazon.co.5uk/dp/1908943823/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |genrestyle=Humour"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|summarylink=If there's one thing that's for certainCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], it's that the world [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Teenager Liam Glass is changingmugged and stabbed yards from his Camden flat. We're dating onlineAs the boy lies comatose, desperate journalist Jason Worthington scrabbles for the inside scoop, we're communicating in ways that make email seem redundanttired police officer Andy Rockham searches for a missing tape, and when we'harried politician Jamila Hasan fights for re shopping we just tell a website where and when it can be delivered-election, distraught mother Katrina Glass waits by her son, and how much leeway they have to swap our wishes for whatever it is they do bring usgym-owner Royland simply finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. But those changes are also supposed to be affecting us – we're supposed to use We follow this host of ensemble characters in a smart watch to tell us if we're moving or notbleak, 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 eatkaleidoscopic satire of modern media.[[The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722885</amazonuk!-- LENTE -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle= Luke Rhinehart"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title= Invasion[[image:Lente_10.jpg|ratinglink= 4http://www.amazon.5|genre= Humour co.uk/dp/1683690222/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |summarystyle=Super"vertical-intelligent furry aliens suddenly appear from another universealign: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star. And they've come jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Nine comedians are invited to earth to have fun. Alien Louie follows fisherman Billy Morton home one day, and he and his family quickly come to love the playful aliena remote Caribbean island under the guise of working with Dustin Walker, a comedic legend. But when Louie starts using their computer to hack Each fits neatly into government and corporate networksone of the archetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, stealing millions the washed-up has-been who has fallen far from banks to give to others, they realise that Louie and his friends mean trouble. As Billy and his family begin a roller coaster ride of fame and fortuneearly days; Zoe, as well as the rising female star with a ranking high on the FBI's most wanted list, the Government new stand-up special coming soon decides that these aliens are terrorists; Dante, and must be eliminated. Whilst who went from being a kid on the aliens are playing games they hope will help humans streets to see the insanity of hardest working road comic in the American politicalbusiness; Oliver, economic and military systems, they soon come to realise that the Powers that Be donchild-like prop comic who can't play games: they make war. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785651757</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Rod Green|title=Only Fools get any respect from his peers; Janet, the insult comic who is past her prime; TJ, the nightly variety show host with a reputation for harassing his female colleagues and Horses: The Peckham Archives|rating=4|genre=Entertainment |summary=We are in guest acts; Ruby, the world of one of ultra-feminist YouTuber and Blogger with a chip on her shoulder; and William, whose redneck character ''Billy the countryContractor's most famous and well-loved sitcoms – even if it was sort-of killed off for Christmas 2003' is a far cry from his real personality as a posh millionaire. YesOf course, there have been specials since, and more repeats to clog up all nine agree because ''when God almighty walks down on a beam of light and asks for your help, what the BBC schedules than is really pukka, but very few people failed hell else are you going to succumb to its charms at one time or another. Isay?''m sure there have been books before now celebrating the stony[[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]] <!-- Scott -->|-faced reception of ''that'' drop through the open bar hatch, and ''that'' chandelier scene, but this is much more meaty| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Scott_Eliz.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co. Purporting to be the family archives, found dumped in Nelson Mandela House, the documents here were passed from pillar to postuk/dp/1788037006/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Elizabeth, from one council worker in a department William... and Me by S Lynn Scott]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Ally is an ordinary woman with teenage children, a clumsy acronym to another, from them to the police – husband and now here they are being published for their social history wortha job. Will enough readers find them Then comes the day when ordinariness flies out of worth, as the series quietly celebrates its 35th birthday?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849909245</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Mara Wilson|title= Where Am window. It's not a coincidence that it's the same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood in the pantry and Accidental Fame|rating= 5|genre= Autobiography|summary= Mara Wilson has always felt a little young and a little out of place: as the only child on a film set full Bard of adults, the first daughter Avon in a house full of boysher bath. What's she going to do? Well, the sole clinically depressed member of a cheerleading squad, a valley girl in New York Elizabeth and a neurotic in CaliforniaWill have their own ideas about that! [[Elizabeth, William... and an adult the world still remembers as a little girlMe by S Lynn Scott|Full Review]] <!-- Rodford -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Rodford_Surgeon. 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 kissesjpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178565005X/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 womantag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Surgeon's journey from accidental fame to relative obscurity, but also illuminate a universal struggleCase: learning to accept yourself, and figuring out who you are and where you belong. |amazonukGeorge Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford]]==<amazonuk>0143128221</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Tony Stuart|title= Writing Lines[[image:4star.jpg|ratinglink= 4.5Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|genre=Humour]]|summary= In the second instalment of this series, Private Investigator George Gordon Wentworth (1946-2011) lived Kocharyan has been hired by a humdrum lifewell-known local man to track down some missing valuables. He was Bill Galbraith, a barely adequate teacher in a fairly world renowned independent school in Kent and kept -famous surgeon at Cambridge's Addenbrooke's Hospital who hosts a copious diary of his quotidian existencepopular medical television programme, has had his briefcase stolen by his live-in domestic servant, Aurora. Most of what he recorded was dross. HoweverAccording to Galbraith, amongst all the utterly uninteresting tailings this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of his life there were some nuggets and grains at the hospital. George agrees to catch look into the attention. Author Tony Stuart has created these amusing anecdotestheft, panning them out over twenty six episodes which give us the best of Wentworth assuming it will be a relatively easy and straightforward case – comedy gold. 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 weddinglittle does he know, he's about to destroying enter a ski run; from appearing full-frontal naked in a sheep-farmersworld of deceit and dysfunction. [[The Surgeon' gazette to triggering an airs Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford|Full Review]] <!-- Jordan -->|-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:Jordan_Tiny.jpg|titlelink=Driving Madhttp: Maniacs, Morons and the Advanced Motorist's Club|rating=3//www.amazon.co.5|genreuk/dp/1760293814/ref=nosim?tag=Humourthebookbag-21]]  |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;"|===[[Our Tiny, the idiots were fewer and further betweenUseless Hearts by Toni Jordan]]=== [[image:5star. I don't know how long Graham Fulbright has been drivingjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]], but he certainly knows his motoring morons [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] As predicted by Caroline and in Janice's mother on Caroline and Henry'Driving Mad'' he brings us a fictional sample of s wedding day, their eccentricitiesmarriage is over, albeit 15 years and two daughters further along than predicted. WellIndeed, I'm pretty certain that they're fictional - but these days you never knowthis is definitely not a good weekend for Janice to be babysitting at Caroline's house.There's the split and the awkwardness of the girls' schoolteacher being the other woman for a start..|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783062584</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mario Giordano|title=Auntie Poldi and Then there's that mistaken identity moment involving 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 of drinking herself to deathneighbours. At least Janice is well adjusted and over her ex-husband Alec. She could, still dreams of coursehim, have done this in Germanyyes, but she felt that a sea view was essential. Once there, new friends, family already resident on it's so over! Just as well really… guess who's at the island and the corpse of a young mandoor? 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