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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]]==Humour==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|authorclass-"wikitable" cellpadding=Eoin Colfer"15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- van LENTE -->|title=And Another Thing ... Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Part Six of Three (Hitchhikers Guide 6) -|ratingstyle=3.5"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|genre=Science Fiction[[image:1683690346.jpg|summarylink=Of all the big books announced for this year, this one must have raised more eyebrows than manyhttp://www. Why try and write a new Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy book, when way before the end, its creator Douglas Adams was proving quite hopeless at such a taskamazon.co.uk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim? And why approach an Irishman, Eoin Colfer, when the originals tag=thebookbag- tempered with their humour which could only be described as Monty Python doing a sci-fi Terry Pratchett, and with their cups of tea and dressing gowns, could only be described as very English? Well the answer is most evident - Colfer is a world-beater when it comes to knocking up a story.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0718155149</amazonuk>}}21]]

{{newreview|authorstyle=David O'Doherty, Claudia O'Doherty and Mike Ahern"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title=100 Facts About Pandas|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente]]==Sometimes the title says it all - this is a book with 100 facts about pandas. Sometimes you need to note the author too - David O'Doherty won an Edinburgh Comedy Award, so this is a book of a 100 silly and untrue facts about pandas.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224086324</amazonuk>}}

[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{newreview|author=Richard Horne |title=A is for Armageddon|rating=2.5}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|genre=Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|summary=The world is definitely going to hell in a handcart. We're only just preventing lethal global warming by having a credit crunch that has prevented a lot of big building, air travel, and consumerism. The population is getting so obese there is no room for any more of us - and add that to the exploding population statistics, and it's never going to look better. And don't get me started on where all the bees have gone...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224086197</amazonuk>}}Humour]]

{{newreview|author=James May|title=Car Fever: Dispatches From Behind The Wheel|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary=NowComic-Cons are a place of wonder and sanctuary for many people, way back and when I was youngerComic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, he's looking for both that and sanctuary with other fans and watched TV a lot, I am sure I remember Top Gear as being a consumer programme. How times change. These days I am sure they destroy more cars than they reviewcreators, and plus the three main people from the show are approaching superstar statuschance of maybe, just maybe reuniting with their amenable personalities, awkward wardrobe choices and trenchant laddish charmshis ex. They've sprung their media entities from out of the studioHowever, into other TV programmeswhen his rival is found dead, and Mike is forced to navigate every dark corner of the world of journalism, with chatty columns con in the broadsheets allowing them free rein order to witter clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans to their heart's desire. And herezombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, in one grandiloquent volumedoing so, and in time for Christmas, are many of James May's desiresmay just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creator.[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340994533</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]

{{newreview<!-- Coulton -->|author=Harry Hill-|titlestyle=Tim The Tiny Horse At Large|rating=4"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|genre=Humour|summary=It's been a while since Tim and Fly's [[Tim the Tiny Horse by Harry Hillimage:1473669588.jpg|last adventures]], and changes are afoot in Tim's tiny worldlink=http: Fly is getting married to his girlfriend//www. Tim's a little worried because they've only known each other for a weekamazon. The marriage goes ahead, and Tim finds himself kicking his heels, so he gets a petco. And so the brief episodes in the life of a horse who lives in a matchbox continue.|amazonukuk/dp/1473669588/ref=nosim?tag=<amazonuk>0571244157</amazonuk>}}thebookbag-21]]

{{newreview|authorstyle=Sam Savage"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title=The Cry of the Sloth|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton]]==Meet Andrew Whittaker. In some untold time of recent American history, he is forced through a failed marriage and an artistic temperament at odds with so many other people, to let properties to tenants he does not like, for $120 a month. The lodgers might not like the state of the buildings - ceilings falling through and so on - but that's another matter. He would much prefer to be left alone in front of his little Olivetti typewriter and create art. He runs a literary journal, of a kind, called "Soap", which no-one likes, no-one reads (and often, with dodgy, cheap printing, no-one could physically read it anyway), and which makes him poorer in time, money and spirit.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297856499</amazonuk>}}

[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{newreview{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|author=Christopher Moore|title=You Suck|rating=4General Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|genre=Humour]], [[:Category:Women's Fiction|summary=You know that old adage about books and covers? Well this is a case in point. The title isnWomen't great, but the cover design for the paperback imprint is, like, duh!, the pits. It is so uncool…so unrep-resent-ative of the book. This is not a cocktail thing. Not even a "Bloody Mary" thing. s Fiction]]

WellLex 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 out with her best friend Jackson, a work colleague, except for and is grappling with the increasingly eccentric behaviour of her mother. This relationship is complicated by the tiny bit fact that is, but youFrances'll discover that in due courses father disappeared at sea when she was five years old.[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841498092</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]

{{newreview<!-- van LENTE -->|author=Hugh Murr and Sid Nigtures -|titlestyle=Cyber Sign Offs"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|rating=2[[image:1683690346.jpg|genrelink=Humour|summary=I admit I had the wrong end of the stick when it came to this book, before I opened it at leasthttp://www.amazon. I had assumed it was a collection of real-life on-line signatures - we've all seen them, those straplines people have on all their forum postsco. The obvious response would have been along the lines of 'fair enough, but why is this a book in this day and age, and not a websiteuk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?'. But no. This is a collection of dialogues between two people tag=thebookbag- shall we call them Sue deNim and Allie Bye, who have a line or two to say to each other, and a made-up name (sorry, make that May Dupp-Name) with which to sign it off. Much jolly nonsense ensues.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312497</amazonuk>}}21]]

{{newreview|authorstyle=Simon Brett"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title=Blotto, Twinks and the Ex-King's Daughter|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente]]==There can be few people who have written eighty books without me even having picked up one of them. At least, and at last, I have redressed that fault in the case of Simon Brett, and have come to the conclusion there are 79 more that will be worth investigating. Here we meet for the first time Blotto (posh idiotic son of a dowager duchess) and Twinks (posh brilliant genius sister to Blotto), their family, their surroundings, and the corpse inconveniently disturbing a dinner party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845299353</amazonuk>}}

[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{newreview|author=Karl Pilkington|title=Karlology|rating=4}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|genre=Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|summary=The Radio Five film critic Mark Kermode has a rule when reviewing comedies. If he laughs more than five times then the film deserves its billing as a comedy. If that rule was applied to Karl Pilkington's new book Karlology then it would easily fit into the category for there are laugh aplenty in this strange, amusing and charming little book.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140533746X</amazonuk>}}Humour]]

{{newreview|author=Joe Stretch|title=Wildlife|rating=3|genre=Humour|summary=The word ''Twitter'' doesn't occur in Joe Stretch's vocabularyComic-Cons are a place of wonder and sanctuary for many people, but that's what his and when Comic book is about. Life in the blogosphereartist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, massively exaggerated, where people donhe't leave their desks but nevertheless come together (but never literally) in satisfying their deepests looking for both that and sanctuary with other fans and creators, darkest desires. If I've made it sound even faintly excitingplus the chance of maybe, believe me, Joe Stretch is a fantasist just maybe reuniting with realist tendencieshis ex. What he However, when his rival is after found dead, Mike is laughter; what he produces is a virtual simulacrum. Sniggery-pokery, jiggery-jokery, he tinkers with forced to navigate every dark corner of the twilight zone of a future-scenario where, for reasons beyond all understanding, some robotic and literal Dickhead (i.e. a man with a dick fixed con in order to clear his forehead name – I kid you not) decides from cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans to target zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, in doing so, may just unravel a few selected humans for dark secret behind a make-over in his own imagelegendary industry creator. Given that virtual worlds exist to pull in punters who don't like themselves in the real one, and their main purpose is to make money, one's only question must be: why?[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099532077</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]

{{newreview<!-- Curran -->|author=Michael Marr-|titlestyle=Three Jumpers"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|rating=5[[image:1683690133.jpg|genrelink=Literary Fiction|summary=When Bardolph Middle placed an ad in the paper proclaiming he was a writer, he thought he might get the odd request to write a speech or twohttp://www.amazon. Maybe, if he was very lucky, a company might ask him to conceive an entire marketing plan and advertising campaignco. What he never expected was this job offer…|amazonukuk/dp/1683690133/ref=nosim?tag=<amazonuk>1906558485</amazonuk>}}thebookbag-21]]

{{newreview|authorstyle=Lady Annabel Goldsmith"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|title=Copper: A Dog's Life|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=Copper was one of a litter of dogs born to a stray bitch and who was 'adopted' by [[My Lady Annabel Goldsmith - or might it be the other way round?. Here he tells his story in his own words as transcribed for him by his owner. He's got his own priorities – Choosing by Kitty Curran and obedience is not one of them – along with a roving spirit. It's perhaps fortunate that he's a dog as this allows you to call him 'cheeky' and 'charming'. If he was a human being 'randy' and 'arrogant' would be two of the first words which came to mind.|amazonukLarissa Zageris]]===<amazonuk>0751538205</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Tim Moore[[image:4star.jpg|titlelink=I Believe in YesterdayCategory: My Adventures in Living History|{{{rating=4}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|genre=Humour|summary=Common opinion has it that the television programme ''Time Team'' did a lot for the public image of archaeologists – bringing them out of their holes in the ground]], and making them seem like exciting, interesting people with a good way of putting their knowledge across. However it was clearly a much harder task when it came to those background artistes they have sometimes, walking up and down in Roman centurion gear, or living the historical lifestyle as a re-enactment.[[:Category:Historical Fiction|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224077813</amazonuk>}}Historical Fiction]]

{{newreview|author=L Vaughan Spencer|title=Don't Be Needy Be Succeedy|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=Are you underperforming in your business and personal lives? Do you underestimate the importance You are a lass of good hair twenty eight. Plucky, penniless and moisturised skin in achieving Regency era London the race is on to find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Along your life goals? Are journey you stumbling through life in a Fast'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood -Moving Business Environment (FMBE) without a motivational mantra fiesty noble eager to guide save you? Then from a life alone, and fired by a rogueish sense for adventure. When it comes to suitors though, you need this book. As ''The A ll have to Zee of Motivitalitymake the ultimate decision between witty, 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 ancient Egyptian artifcats along the way, it's clear this isn', this is a dictionary of achievement from a man who can teach you how t going to succeed like a toothless budgiebe an easy decision...[[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846681634</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]

{{newreview<!-- Jester -->|author=Mark Crick -|titlestyle=Sartre's Sink"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: The Great Writers' Complete Book of DIYcenter;"|rating=4[[image:Jester_Forever.jpg|genre=Humourleft|summarylink=''Sartre's Sink'' comprises fourteen short story parodies of some of the world's best known writers – the twist being that the stories are all about undertaking some mundane DIY task such as tiling a bathroom (Dostoevsky) or reglazing a window (Milan Kundera)https://www. So far it sounds a bit like some pretentious Oxbridge student twaddleamazon. You can just imagine how the idea came up over an over-ripe Brie and an underrated bottle of 1963 Taylor's portco. It also rather smacks of that Radio 4 programme which I detest with an absolute passion uk/gp/product/1510704361?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag- I can't even stand writing its name, ugh - ''Quote Unquote'', in which parodies do feature, read out by smug self-congratulatory writer darlings (you can tell I don't like it, can't you?). However, dear readers, this book is rather enjoyable and I speak as someone who is rather less versed in the writings of this famous lot than I care to admit.|amazonuk21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=<amazonuk>1847080472</amazonuk>}}1510704361]]

{{newreview|authorstyle=Ian Crofton"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|title=History Without the Boring Bits|rating=5|genre=History|summary=I was never one for history, and in fact left the dregs of a history teacher in tatters when I scraped through with [[Forever After: a D. Still, history is an odd thing – written dark comedy by the winners of course, and annoyingly biased in my mind towards the plain. There's no real reason to remember the order of Henry VIII's six wives, but we can only relish the one credited with polydactylism, a third nipple and whatnot (the second one, in fact – whoever that was).|amazonukDavid Jester]]===<amazonuk>1847243746</amazonuk>}}

[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{newreview|author=Jim Holt|title=Stop Me If You've Heard This|rating=4}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|genre=HumourParanormal]], [[:Category:Horror|summary=As far as I can rememberHorror]], my first time in print was when I submitted some jokes to a charity's themed joke collection. Before then, some of my first actions as a child might have been laughing, and what is cuter in a baby than that? But why was that infant laughing – he didn't have a joke he could get, surely?[[:Category:Fantasy|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668109X</amazonuk>}}Fasntasy]]

{{newreview|author=P G Wodehouse |title=Joy in the Morning|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary=''Joy in Michael Holland is a cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the Morning'' is another novel from P.G. Wodehouse's wonderful series offer of books about Bertram Wooster and Jeeveshis lifetime; immortality. Bertie is We follow Michael, a young gentleman of inherited means grim reaper and no present occupation. He is his friends Chip (a good humoured stoner tooth fairy) and well-meant chap, however clearly not the smartest tool Naff (a stoner in the shed. Bertie seems to have records department) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a talent of getting himself into trouble but that is where Jeeves, his loyal, educated and painfully clever butler comes clean surface to his rescuesit on in their flat. Jeeves is irreplaceable when it comes to saving Bertie from whatever creative, complicated and incredibly funny situations Wodehouse puts his characters through.[[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099513765</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]

{{newreview<!-- Stibbe -->|author=P G Wodehouse-|titlestyle=Thank You, Jeeves"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|rating=4[[image:Stibbe_Xmas.jpg|genre=General Fictionleft|summarylink=Bertie Wooster was once engaged to Pauline Stokerhttps://www. It didn't last very long – about forty eight hours, most of which Bertie spent in bed with a bad cold, if his memory serves him correctlyamazon. It's still embarrassing when he meets Pauline and her father, particularly as it was the father who was responsible for breaking off the engagementco. Rather than eat at the Savoy Grill where he spotted the Stokers, he goes home to his only consolation. Bertie plays the banjo. Unfortunately, he doesn't play it very well.|amazonukuk/gp/product/0241309824?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=<amazonuk>0099513730</amazonuk>}}0241309824]]

{{newreview|authorstyle=Philip Moore "vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title=Utterly Ridiculous|rating=3 |genre=Humour|summary[[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe]]==If I learned nothing else from this book, I now know of a new profession: aircraft cleaner. For that is the trade of Dave, the hero of ''Utterly Ridiculous''. With little but a van and his torpid terrier Biggles, Dave roves the airstrips of southern England, titivating light aircraft.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906221685</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=John Mole [[image:4.5star.jpg|titlelink=I Was a Potato OligarchCategory: Travels and Travails in the New Russia|{{{rating=1 |genre=Travel}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|summary=I remember getting this book in postHumour]], reading the title and thinking no, even though I am Russian, I will try to be unbiased and judge it like I would judge any other book about a foreign country experience. I now have to regretfully admit I failed. In my defence, John Mole's focus on mocking the nation and country made that all too easy.[[:Category:Short Stories|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1857885090</amazonuk>}}Short Stories]]

{{newreview|author=Clive Gifford|title=Teenage Kicks: 101 Things Christmas – the time of traditional trauma. You only have to think about the turkey for that – once upon a time it was leaving it sat on the downstairs loo to Do Before You're 16|rating=3defrost overnight, and if that failed the hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet.5|genre=Humour|summary=Kids. TheyNowadays it're bored s all the time, arenhaving to make sure it't they? Nothing s suitably free-range and organic – but not too organic that you buy seems can go and visit it, and get too friendly with it to want to have any longevityeat it. I think they live in alternative dimension in which Christmas, though, is of course also a time passes much more slowly that it does for harassed parentsof great boons. It's the only explanation. I think Clive Gifford must sympathisecash in hand for a lot of plump people who can hire red suits and beards, because his latest book, Teenage Kicks, has it was always a whopping 101 ideas godsend for postmen with all the thank-you letters to alleviate boredom and aunties you saw twice a clever challenge too decade that your parents made you write out in long- your bored hand as a child has to complete them all before they reach 16. At a measly £5.99, this book could represent and as for the most wonderful value for money makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they even try and sell them any parent could ever wish for.other time of the year? [[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340950617</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]

{{newreview<!-- Doescher -->|author=Jon Canter -|titlestyle=A Short Gentleman"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|rating=4[[image:Doescher_Will.jpg|genre=Humourleft|summarylink=The narrator of this spoof biography is a civil law barristerhttps://www. Robert Purcell has been educated at Winchester and Oxfordamazon. He has modelled himself on his polite and restrained father, a High Court judge and, as a child, Robert maps out the components his own expected adult life – wife, two children, career – and the respect which he will gain from this, together with his undoubted intellectual superiorityco. At the age of eight, he writes a future Who's Who entry for himself, with all the academic and professional accolades he expects to garner.|amazonukuk/gp/product/159474985X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=<amazonuk>0224077740</amazonuk>}}159474985X]]

[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] A long time ago, in 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. You may or may not have noticed the cinematic version of his original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken'', but here at last we get the actual script, complete with annoying-in-different-ways-to-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, and people keeping it in the family 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 the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher|Full Review]] <!-- Goss -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Goss_600.jpg|left|link=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 Russell T Davies]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{newreview {rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verse|Children's Rhymes and Verse]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Consider the Doctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each year, were he to keep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of them, say, for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of 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 him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. And if you're working on a shorter timescale, with a shorter lifespan, and thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the same. [[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies|Full Review]] <!-- Ingram -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Ingram_Kammie.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785451995?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785451995]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|titlelink=Tim Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Pets|Pets]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] It was something of a relief when I encountered Annie Ingram and her cocker spaniel Kammie. You see, Annie knows something which has been self-evident to me for a long time: dogs are perfectly capable of communicating with humans and not just on a level of food!, walk! or play!. You 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. Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and the Tiny Horsepair have allowed us to share some of their conversations. [[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]]  |authorstyle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris]]===Harry Hill [[image:3star.jpg|genrelink=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Teenager Liam Glass is mugged and stabbed yards from his Camden flat. As the boy lies comatose, desperate journalist Jason Worthington scrabbles for the inside scoop, tired 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, and gym-owner Royland simply finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. We follow this host of ensemble characters in a bleak, kaleidoscopic satire of modern media. [[The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris|Full Review]] <!-- LENTE -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Lente_10.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690222/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Nine comedians are invited to a remote Caribbean island under the guise of working with Dustin Walker, a comedic legend. Each fits neatly into one of the archetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, the washed-up has-been who has fallen far from his early days; Zoe, the rising female star with a new stand-up special coming soon; Dante, who went from being a kid on the streets to the hardest working road comic in the business; Oliver, the child-like prop comic who can't 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 guest acts; Ruby, the ultra-feminist YouTuber and Blogger with a chip on her shoulder; and William, whose redneck character ''Billy the 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 light and asks for your help, what the hell else are you going to say?'' [[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]] <!-- 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, William... and Me by S Lynn Scott]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|summarylink=After doing even tiny bit Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Ally is an ordinary woman with teenage children, a husband and a job. Then comes the day when ordinariness flies out of research the window. It's not a coincidence that it's the same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I realised in the pantry and the Bard of Avon in her bath. What's she going to do? Well, Elizabeth and Will have their own ideas about that I must ! [[Elizabeth, William... and Me by S Lynn Scott|Full Review]] <!-- Rodford -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Rodford_Surgeon.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178565005X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] In the second instalment of this series, Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a well-known local man to track down some missing valuables. Bill Galbraith, a world-famous surgeon at Cambridge's Addenbrooke's Hospital who hosts a popular medical television programme, has had his briefcase stolen by his live-in domestic servant, Aurora. According to Galbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of his at the hospital. George agrees to look into the theft, assuming it will be a relatively easy and straightforward case – little does he know, he's about to enter a world of deceit and dysfunction. [[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.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1760293814/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Our Tiny, Useless Hearts by Toni Jordan]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] 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 predicted. Indeed, this 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 only person out other woman for a start. Then there 's that mistaken identity moment involving the neighbours. At least Janice is well adjusted and over her ex-husband Alec. She still dreams of him, yes, but it's so over! Just as well really… guess who ever read Tim 's at the door? [[Our Tiny Horse having never heard , Useless Hearts by Toni Jordan|Full Review]] <!-- Taylor -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Taylor_Scilly.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178475515X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Life of a Scilly Sergeant by Colin Taylor]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Meet the Isles of Scilly. (I know they should be called that – the authorprovides a handy guide to the etiquette of their name, 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 residents. They're big on tourism, and big on growing flowers in the tropical climate the Gulf Stream bequeaths them – although the weather is bad enough to turn any car to a rust bucket within years. ThusThey're so wee, I and so idyllic-seeming, 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 any one 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 Life of a Scilly Sergeant by Colin Taylor|Full Review]] <!-- Lloyd -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Lloyd_Twas.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472125118/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[['Twas the Fight Before Christmas: A Parody by Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] It's Christmas Eve and Mum has arranged everything. All she now has to do is await the arrival of the relatives and the food shopping delivery. Little does Mum know that those two elements alone have the potential to take another reviewerruin everything. [['Twas the Fight Before Christmas: A Parody by Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees|Full Review]] <!-- Phinn -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Phinn_Virgin.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1444779400/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Virgin Mary's word Got Nits by Gervase Phinn]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Anthologies|Anthologies]] 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, and food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are shutting for a month, nor a mere 36 hours. But I do remember the feeling of Christmas when I was younger, back when it was magical, and back when you knew exactly what the season would bring with carol concerts and school nativities and Christmas parties. This book is an anthology of those moments, and ittook me right back to the wonder of Christmas as a child. [[The Virgin Mary's Got Nits by Gervase Phinn|Full Review]] <!-- North -->|-| style="typical Harry Hillwidth: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;" |[[image:North_Romeo.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0356508536/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Romeo and/or Juliet by Ryan North]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] For all those who think tragedy plots are too restricted and prescribed, read on. In these pages you too will make see that Romeo had lots of options en route to hitting the bottle. Likewise, she could have turned away from her predestined path at no end of junctures. And to what result? Well, happy marriage and a kid called Ben, because the leads have just banged people's heads together and stopped the quarrelling, or Death by Tybalt (him) or a long life running an attempt at reviewing Tim establishment curing murderous women, such as a stand-aloneLady M (her). [[Romeo and/or Juliet by Ryan North|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571229565</amazonuk!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->}|}