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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|authorclass-"wikitable" cellpadding=Annie Ingram"15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->|title=Conversations with Kammie<!-- van LENTE -->|rating=4-|genrestyle=Pets"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|summary[[image:1683690346.jpg|link=It was something of a relief when I encountered Annie Ingram and her cocker spaniel Kammiehttp://www.amazon.co. You see, Annie knows something which has been selfuk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-evident to me for a long timealign: dogs are perfectly capable of communicating with humans and not just on a level of ''food!'', ''walk!'' or ''play!''left;"|===[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star. You do require extensive training to become fluentjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], but most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to teach you [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Comic-Cons are a place of wonder and all you have to do is listen. Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well sanctuary for many people, and the pair have allowed us when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, he's looking for both that and sanctuary with other fans and creators, plus the chance of maybe, just maybe reuniting with his ex. However, when his rival is found dead, Mike is forced to share some navigate every dark corner of their conversations.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785451995</amazonuk>the con in order to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans to zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, in doing so, may just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creator. [[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]]}}{{newreview|author= Charles Harris<!-- Coulton -->|title= The Breaking of Liam Glass-|ratingstyle= 3"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|genre=Crime[[image:1473669588.jpg|summarylink= A flawed but reasonably entertaining swipe at modern mediahttp://www.amazon. There's plenty here to like, and plenty not toco. But good structure and scramjet pace keep this one flying to the final page.|amazonukuk/dp/1473669588/ref=nosim?tag=<amazonuk>1908943823</amazonuk>thebookbag-21]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle= Fred Van Lente"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title= Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery|rating= 4=[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton]]===|genre= Humour[[image:4star.jpg|summarylink= Nine comedians are invited to a remote Caribbean island under the guise of working with Dustin WalkerCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|General Fiction]], a comedic legend. Each fits neatly into one of the archetypal comic stereotypes[[:Category: SteveHumour|Humour]], the washed-up has-been [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]] Lex Coulton's debut novel is a story about mistakes, failures, and relationships. The main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, is a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen far from his early days; Zoeout with her best friend Jackson, the rising female star with a new stand-up special coming soon; Dantework colleague, who went from being a kid on and is grappling with the streets to the hardest working road comic in increasingly eccentric behaviour of her mother. This relationship is complicated by the businessfact that Frances's father disappeared at sea when she was five years old. [[Falling Short by Lex Coulton|Full Review]] <!-- van LENTE -->|-| style="width: 10%; Oliver, the childvertical-like prop comic who can't get any respect from his peersalign: top; Janet, the insult comic who is past her primetext-align: center; TJ, the nightly variety show host with a reputation for harassing his female colleagues and guest acts"|[[image:1683690346.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; Ruby, the ultratext-feminist YouTuber and Blogger with a chip on her shoulder; and William, whose redneck character ''Billy the Contractor'' is align: left;"|===[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Comic-Cons are a far cry from his real personality as a posh millionaire. Of courseplace of wonder and sanctuary for many people, and when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, all nine agree because he''when God almighty walks down on a beam of light s looking for both that and sanctuary with other fans and asks for your helpcreators, what plus the hell else are you going to say?''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594749744</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=S Lynn Scott|title=Elizabethchance of maybe, Williamjust maybe reuniting with his ex... and Me|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary=Ally However, when his rival is an ordinary woman with teenage childrenfound dead, a husband and a job. Then comes Mike is forced to navigate every dark corner of the day when ordinariness flies out of the windowcon in order to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans to zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, in doing so, may just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creator. It's not a coincidence that it's the same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I in the pantry and the Bard of Avon in her bath[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]] <!-- Curran -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690133. What's she going to do? Well, Elizabeth and Will have their own ideas about that!jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>1788037006<http:/amazonuk>/www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690133/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle= E G Rodford"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title= The Surgeon==[[My Lady's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris]]===|rating= 4[[image:4star.jpg|genrelink= Crime Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|summary=In the second instalment of this seriesHumour]], Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by [[: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 fiesty noble eager to save you from a popular medical television programmelife 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 the hospital. George agrees you'll have to look into make the theftultimate decision between witty, assuming it will be a relatively easy pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the mad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and straightforward case – little does he knowancient Egyptian artifcats along the way, heit's about clear this isn't going to enter a world of deceit be an easy decision... [[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and dysfunction.Larissa Zageris|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565005X</amazonuk!-- Jester -->}}{{newreview|author=Toni Jordan-|titlestyle=Our Tiny, Useless Hearts"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Jester_Forever.jpg|ratingleft|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1510704361?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=51510704361]]  |genrestyle=Women's Fiction"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|summarylink=As predicted by Caroline and Janice's mother on Caroline and Henry's wedding dayCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], their marriage [[:Category:Fantasy|Fasntasy]] Michael Holland is over, albeit 15 years a cocky and brash young man who dies and two daughters further along than predictedgets made the offer of his lifetime; immortality. IndeedWe follow Michael, this is definitely not a good weekend for Janice to be babysitting at Caroline's house. There's the split grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a stoner in the awkwardness of the girls' schoolteacher being the other woman for records department) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a startclean surface to sit on in their flat. Then there's that mistaken identity moment involving the neighbours. At least Janice is well adjusted and over her ex[[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester|Full Review]] <!-- Stibbe -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-husband Alec. She still dreams of him, yes, but it's so over! Just as well really… guess who's at the door?align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Stibbe_Xmas.jpg|amazonukleft|link=<amazonuk>1760293814<https://amazonuk>www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0241309824?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0241309824]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle=Colin Taylor"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title=The Life of a Scilly Sergeant|rating==[[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe]]=== [[image:4.55star.jpg|genrelink=TravelCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] |summary=Meet Christmas – the Isles time of Scillytraditional trauma. (I know they should be called You only have to think about the turkey for that – once upon a time it was leaving it sat on the author provides a handy guide downstairs loo to the etiquette of their namedefrost overnight, their nature and location, etcif that failed the hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet.) For our more distant readers, theyNowadays it's all having to make sure it're several chunks of granite rock out in the Atlantic, where Cornwall is pointings suitably free-range and organic – but not too organic that you can go and visit it, and get too friendly with just 2it to want to eat it. Christmas, though,200 permanent residentsis of course also a time of great boons. TheyIt're big on tourisms cash in hand for a lot of plump people who can hire red suits and beards, and big on growing flowers in it was always a godsend for postmen with all the tropical climate the Gulf Stream bequeaths them – although the weather is bad enough to turn any car thank-you letters to aunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you write out in long-hand as a rust bucket within years. They're so weechild, and so idyllic-seemingas for the makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, especially at night, you can be mistaken for thinking there would be no need for a police presence. But there is – at least two working at 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 well-known online existence, which has brought to life all the whimsical comedy of his work.the year? [[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>178475515X</amazonuk!-- Doescher -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Doescher_Will.jpg|left|titlelink='Twas the Fight Before Christmas: A Parodyhttps://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 everything. All she now has to do is await the arrival of Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the relatives and the food shopping deliverySeventh by Ian Doescher]]=== [[image:4.5star. 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's heads together and stopped t forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the quarrelling, or Death by Tybalt (him) or a long life running an establishment curing murderous women, such series is so popular we're on to part seven – surely making this over twice as a Lady M (her). good… [[William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356508536</amazonuk!-- Goss -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle= Gervase Phinn"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Goss_600.jpg|title= The Virgin Mary's Got Nitsleft|ratinglink= 4https://www.amazon.co.5uk/gp/product/1785942719?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785942719]]  |genrestyle= Humour"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||summary= Christmas in our house is the time we tend to get on a plane ==[[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and head to either sun or snow, anywhere that is far, far away from the madness at homeRussell T Davies]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verse|Children's Rhymes and Verse]], last minute dashes to the shops on Christmas Eve[[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], and food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are shutting for a month, nor a mere 36 hours[[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Consider the Doctor. But I do remember the feeling of Just how many birthday and Christmas when I was youngergifts must he have to hand out each year, back when it was magical, and back when you knew exactly what the season would bring were he to keep in touch with carol concerts and school nativities and Christmas parties. This book is an anthology even half of those momentshis companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of them, say, for example, and it took me right back to 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 some of a habit 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|left|ratinglink=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 itself, I look forward to that point when I can say that it's all over for another yearleft;"|===[[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram]]=== [[image:4star. It's all too commercialised for mejpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Pets|Pets]], with [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] It was something of a coating of faux religion. relief when I've never found it in the least funny encountered Annie Ingram and her cocker spaniel Kammie. You see, Annie knows something which has been self- that is, until I found Gray Jolliffe's ''The First Ever Christmas: And Who's evident to Blame''. Amazingly, I'd never encountered Gray Jolliffe either, but I'm me for a convert to his skills as long time: dogs are perfectly capable of communicating with humans and not just on a cartoonist (if not to the idea level of Christmas) after reading this collection of Christmas-themed cartoons from his archivefood!, walk! or play!.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445663503</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jonathan Pugh|title=Pugh's New Year's Resolutions|rating=4You do require extensive training to become fluent, but most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to teach you and all you have to do is listen.5|genre=Humour|summary=If there's one thing that's for certain, it's that Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and the world is changingpair have allowed us to share some of their conversations. We're dating online, we're communicating in ways that make email seem redundant, 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 eat[[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram|Full Review]] <!-- Harris -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Harris_Glass.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1908943823/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722885</amazonuk>==[[The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris]]===}}[[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{newreview{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|author= Luke RhinehartCrime]], [[:Category:Humour|title= InvasionHumour]]|rating= 4.5|genre= Humour |summary=Super-intelligent furry aliens suddenly appear Teenager Liam Glass is mugged and stabbed yards from another universehis Camden flat. And they've come to earth to have fun. Alien Louie follows fisherman Billy Morton home one dayAs the boy lies comatose, and he and his family quickly come to love desperate journalist Jason Worthington scrabbles for the playful alien. But when Louie starts using their computer to hack into government and corporate networksinside scoop, stealing millions from banks to give to otherstired police officer Andy Rockham searches for a missing tape, harried politician Jamila Hasan fights for re-election, distraught mother Katrina Glass waits by her son, they realise that Louie and his friends mean troublegym-owner Royland simply finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. As Billy and his family begin We follow this host of ensemble characters in a roller coaster ride bleak, kaleidoscopic satire of fame and fortune, as well as a ranking high on the FBI's most wanted list, the Government soon decides that these aliens are terrorists, and must be eliminatedmodern media. Whilst the aliens are playing games they hope will help humans to see the insanity [[The Breaking of the American political, economic and military systems, they soon come to realise that the Powers that Be don't play games: they make war. 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 the world invited to a remote Caribbean island under the 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-up has-loved sitcoms – even if it was sort-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 stonyhardest working road comic in the business; Oliver, the child-faced reception of like prop comic who can''that'' drop through t get any respect from his peers; Janet, the open bar hatch, and ''that'' chandelier scene, but this insult comic who is much more meaty. past her prime; Purporting to be the family archives, found dumped in Nelson Mandela HouseTJ, 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 of Girlhood and Accidental Fame|rating= 5|genre= Autobiography|summary= Mara Wilson has always felt Contractor'' is a little young and a little out of place: far cry from his real personality as the only child on a film set full of adultsposh millionaire. Of course, the first daughter in all nine agree because ''when God almighty walks down on a house full beam of boys, the sole clinically depressed member of a cheerleading squad, a valley girl in New York light and a neurotic in Californiaasks for your help, and an adult what the world still remembers as a little girl. Tackling everything from how she first learned about sex on the set of hell else are you going to say?''Melrose Place,'' to losing her mother at a young age, to getting her first kiss (or was it kisses?) on a celebrity canoe trip, to not being cute enough to make it in Hollywood, these essays tell the story of one young woman's journey from accidental fame to relative obscurity, but also illuminate a universal struggle: learning to accept yourself, and figuring out who you are and where you belong. [[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]] <!-- Scott -->|-|amazonukstyle=<amazonuk>0143128221<"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Scott_Eliz.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1788037006/amazonuk>ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle= Tony Stuart"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|title== Writing Lines|rating= 4[[Elizabeth, William...5and Me by S Lynn Scott]]===|genre=Humour[[image:4.5star.jpg|summarylink= George Gordon Wentworth (1946-2011) lived Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] 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 of what he recorded was dross. However, amongst all Then comes the utterly uninteresting tailings day when ordinariness flies out of his life there were some nuggets and grains to catch the attentionwindow. Author Tony Stuart has created these amusing anecdotes, panning them out over twenty six episodes which give us It's not a coincidence that it's the best of Wentworth – comedy gold. From losing all the pupils same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I in his charge on a school trip to being arrested on suspicion of terrorism; from waking up in bed between the married couple pantry and the morning after their wedding, to destroying a ski run; from appearing full-frontal naked Bard of Avon in a sheep-farmersher bath. What' gazette s she going to triggering an air-sea rescue; Wentworth wasdo? Well, blinkered Elizabeth and befuddledWill have their own ideas about that! [[Elizabeth, the subject – of these William... and so many more unlikely but highly amusing events.Me by S Lynn Scott|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524634441</amazonuk!-- Rodford -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=Graham Fulbright"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[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. At least so far as Poldi was concerned.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908524693</amazonuk>}}Humour]]{{newreview|author= Grady Hendrix|title= My Best FriendAs predicted by Caroline and Janice's mother on Caroline and Henry's Exorcism|rating= 5|genre= Horror|summary=1988wedding day, Charlestontheir marriage is over, South Carolina. High school sophomores Abby albeit 15 years and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth gradetwo daughters further along than predicted. But after an evening of skinny-dipping goes disatrously wrongIndeed, Gretchen begins this is definitely not a good weekend for Janice to act...different. Shebe babysitting at Caroline's moodyhouse. SheThere's irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever shethe split and the awkwardness of the girls's nearbyschoolteacher being the other woman for a start. 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. 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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. 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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 stopped the quarrelling, or Death by Tybalt (him) or a year. We're quite long life running an establishment curing murderous women, such as a fearful society, you know. And the things we fear most are, in order: heights (acrophobia), snakes (ophidiophobia), public speaking (glossophobia), spiders (arachnophobia), small spaces (claustrophobia), mice (musophobia), needles (trypanophobia), flying (pteromerhanophobia), crowds (agoraphobia) and clowns (coulrophobia)Lady M (her).[[Romeo and/or Juliet by Ryan North|Full Review]] <!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0993429904</amazonuk>}}