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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|class-"wikitable" cellpadding="15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- van LENTE -->|author=James Goss and Russell T Davies-|titlestyle=Doctor Who"width: Now We Are Six Hundred10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who)center;"|[[image:1683690346.jpg|ratinglink=4http://www.amazon.co.5uk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |genrestyle=Children's Rhymes and Verse "vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|summarylink=Consider the Doctor. Just how many birthday Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Comic-Cons are a place of wonder and sanctuary for many people, and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each yearwhen Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, were he to keep in touch 's looking for both that and sanctuary with even half other fans and creators, plus the chance of maybe, just maybe reuniting with his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of themex. However, saywhen his rival is found dead, for example, whimsical books Mike is forced to navigate every dark corner of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of a Time Lord con in order to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and that of some of intrusive fans to zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his friends innocence and enemies. As luck would have it, he has the space in his TARDIS to stock up in advancein doing so, so my advice to him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to his local Earthmay just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creator. [[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]]  <!-- Coulton -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-based book emporium and get himself readyalign: center;"|[[image:1473669588. 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 samejpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.|amazonukuk/dp/1473669588/ref=<amazonuk>1785942719</amazonuk>nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle=Annie Ingram"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title=Conversations with Kammie==[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton]]===|rating=4[[image:4star.jpg|genrelink=PetsCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|summary=It was something of a relief when I encountered Annie Ingram and her cocker spaniel Kammie. You seeGeneral Fiction]], Annie knows something which has been self-evident to me for a long time[[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category: dogs are perfectly capable of communicating with humans and not just on a level of Women's Fiction|Women'food!'s Fiction]] Lex Coulton's debut novel is a story about mistakes, ''walk!'' or ''play!''failures, and relationships. You do require extensive training to become fluentThe main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, is a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, a work colleague, but most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to teach you and all you have to do is listengrappling with the increasingly eccentric behaviour of her mother. Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and the pair have allowed us to share some of their conversationsThis 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>1785451995</amazonuk!-- van LENTE -->}}|-{{newreview| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690346.jpg|authorlink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag= Charles Harristhebookbag-21]] |title= The Breaking of Liam Glass|ratingstyle= 3"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||genre=Crime==[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|summarylink= A flawed but reasonably entertaining swipe at modern media. There's plenty here to likeCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], and plenty not to. But good structure and scramjet pace keep this one flying to the final page.[[:Category:Humour|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1908943823</amazonuk>Humour]]}}{{newreview|author= Fred Van Lente|title= Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery|rating= 4|genre= Humour|summary= Nine comedians are invited to a remote Caribbean island under the guise Comic-Cons are a 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 child-like prop comic who can't get any respect from his peersmay just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creator. [[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]] <!-- Curran -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: 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:1683690133.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690133/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; Ruby, the ultratext-feminist YouTuber and Blogger with a chip on her shoulderalign: left; "|===[[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and WilliamLarissa Zageris]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], whose redneck character ''Billy the Contractor'' is a far cry from his real personality as [[:Category:Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] You are a posh millionairelass of twenty eight. Of coursePlucky, all nine agree because ''when God almighty walks down penniless and in Regency era London the race is on to find a beam of light and asks for suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Along your help, what the hell else are journey you going 'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to say?''|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1594749744</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=S Lynn Scott|title=Elizabethsave you from a life alone, and fired by a rogueish sense for adventure. When it comes to suitors though, you'll have to make the ultimate decision between witty, William... pretty and Me|rating=4wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the mad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven.5|genre=Humour|summary=Ally is an ordinary woman with teenage childrenWith orphans, werewolves, a husband long lost lovers and a job. Then comes ancient Egyptian artifcats along the day when ordinariness flies out of the window. Itway, it's not a coincidence that itclear this isn't going to be an easy decision... [[My Lady's the same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I 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 thatChoosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|Full Review]] <!-- Jester -->|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788037006</amazonuk>}}{{newreview-|authorstyle= E G Rodford"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Jester_Forever.jpg|titleleft|link= The Surgeon's Casehttps: George Kocharyan Mystery 2//www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1510704361?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1510704361]]  |ratingstyle= 4"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||genre= Crime |summary=In the second instalment of this series, Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired =[[Forever After: a dark comedy by a well-known local man to track down some missing valuablesDavid Jester]]=== [[image:4star. Bill Galbraith, a world-famous surgeon at Cambridge's Addenbrooke's Hospital who hosts a popular medical television programmejpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|Paranormal]], has had his briefcase stolen by his live-in domestic servant[[:Category:Horror|Horror]], Aurora. According to Galbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient [[:Category:Fantasy|Fasntasy]] Michael Holland is a cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the offer of his at the hospitallifetime; immortality. George agrees to look into the theftWe follow Michael, assuming it will be a relatively easy grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and straightforward case – little does he know, he's about to enter Naff (a world of deceit stoner in the records department) as they grapple with their long lives and dysfunctionfinding a clean surface to sit on in their flat.[[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565005X</amazonuk!-- Stibbe -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=Toni Jordan"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Stibbe_Xmas.jpg|titleleft|link=Our Tiny, Useless Heartshttps://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0241309824?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0241309824]]  |ratingstyle=5"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=As predicted ==[[An Almost Perfect Christmas 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 predictedNina Stibbe]]=== [[image:4. Indeed5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], this is definitely not a good weekend for Janice to be babysitting at Caroline's house. There's [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Christmas – the split and the awkwardness time of traditional trauma. You only have to think about the girls' schoolteacher being the other woman turkey for that – once upon a start. Then there's that mistaken identity moment involving time it was leaving it sat on the neighbours. At least Janice is well adjusted downstairs loo to defrost overnight, and over her exif that failed the hair-husband Alecdryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. She still dreams of him, yes, but Nowadays it's so over! Just as well really… guess whoall having to make sure it's at the door?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760293814</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Colin Taylor|title=The Life suitably free-range and organic – but not too organic that you can go and visit it, and get too friendly with it to want to eat it. Christmas, though, is of course also a Scilly Sergeant|rating=4time of great boons.5|genre=Travel|summary=Meet the Isles of Scilly. (I know they should be called that – the author provides It's cash in hand for a handy guide to the etiquette lot of their nameplump people who can hire red suits and beards, it was always a godsend for postmen with all the thank-you letters to aunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you write out in long-hand as a child, their nature and locationas for the makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, etc.) For our more distant readers, they're several chunks did they even try and sell them any other time of granite rock out in the Atlantic, where Cornwall is pointing, with just 2,200 permanent residentsyear? [[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe|Full Review]] <!-- Doescher -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Doescher_Will.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co. They're big on tourism, and big on growing flowers in uk/gp/product/159474985X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=159474985X]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[William Shakespeare's the tropical climate Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Gulf Stream bequeaths them – although the weather is bad enough to turn any car to a rust bucket within yearsSeventh by Ian Doescher]]=== [[image:4.5star. They're so wee, and so idyllic-seemingjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] A long time ago, especially at nightin a galaxy far away, you can be mistaken for thinking there would be no need for was a man called William Shakespeare, who was able to create a police presenceseries of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy. But there is – at least two working at any one time. And one You may or may not have noticed the cinematic version of them in recent years has been Colin Taylor, who has done his official duty – alongside maintaining a well-known online existenceoriginal stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken'', which has brought but here at last we get the actual script, complete with annoying-in-different-ways-to life all -before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, and people keeping it in the whimsical comedy of his workfamily til it hurts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178475515X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees|title= And if you need further encouragement, don'Twas t forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the Fight Before Christmasseries is so popular we're on to part seven – surely making this over twice as good… [[William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: A ParodyStar Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher|Full Review]] |rating=3.5<!-- Goss -->|genre=Humour-|summarystyle=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 ruin everything"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]]  |amazonukstyle=<amazonuk>1472125118</amazonuk>}}{{newreview"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|author=Ryan North|title=Romeo and/or Juliet|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary[[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies]]===For all those who think tragedy plots are too restricted and prescribed, read on [[image:4. In these pages you too will see that Romeo had lots of options en route to hitting the bottle5star. Likewise, she could have turned away from her predestined path at no end of junctures. And to what result? Well, happy marriage jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and a kid called Ben, because the leads have just banged peopleVerse|Children's heads together Rhymes and stopped the quarrellingVerse]], or Death by Tybalt (him) or a long life running an establishment curing murderous women[[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], such as a Lady M (her). [[:Category:Humour|Humour]]|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0356508536</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Gervase Phinn|title= The Virgin Mary's Got Nits|rating= 4Consider the Doctor.5|genre= Humour|summary= Just how many birthday and Christmas in our house is the time we tend gifts must he have to get on a plane and head hand out each year, were he to either sun or snow, anywhere that is farkeep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of them, far away from the madness at homesay, last minute dashes to the shops on Christmas Evefor example, and food cupboard stockpiles whimsical books of verse that would imply supermarkets are shutting for a month, nor a mere 36 hours. But I do remember pithily encapsulate the feeling life of Christmas when I was younger, back when it was magical, a Time Lord and back when you knew exactly what the season would bring with carol concerts that of some of his friends and school nativities and Christmas partiesenemies. This book is an anthology of those momentsAs luck would have it, and it took me right back he has the space in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, so my advice to the wonder of Christmas as a child.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444779400</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Kieran Crowley|title= Shoot|rating= 4|genre= Crime|summary= I make something of a habit of being late him – sorry, her – would be to discover good writers, in this case getting pop along to Crowley after he is no longer with ushis local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. The result is that what is billed as ''an F.X. Shepherd mystery'And if you' re working on a shorter timescale, with all the optimism of there being more to come has the poignancy of beinga shorter lifespan, if not the last of a short line, certainly one of a few. F.X. Shepherd – he doesn't like his first name and prefers thinking perhaps just "Shepherd" isone gift season ahead, technically, a columnistwell my advice is pretty much the same. He's been sacked [[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by one New York newspaper James Goss and is writing a weekly column for another. I don't know much about journalism, but I'm guessing one column a week doesn't pay much as a rule…which explains why Shepherd's soapRussell T Davies|Full Review]] <!-- Ingram -washed-foul>|-mouthed editor (read the book, you'll see what I mean) expects him to turn in some genuine journalism as well| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image: front page, seat of your pants stuffIngram_Kammie. jpg|left|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>1783296518<https://amazonuk>}}www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785451995?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785451995]]{{newreview|author=Gray Jolliffe|titlestyle=The First Ever Christmas"vertical-align: top; text-align: And Who to Blameleft;"||rating=5|genre=Humour|summary=If I tell you a secret, will you promise not to tell anyone? Well, I really don't like Christmas[[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[: it's my least favourite time Category:Pets|Pets]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] It was something of year and whilst some people count down to the day itself, I look forward to that point a relief when I can say that it's all over for another yearencountered Annie Ingram and her cocker spaniel Kammie. It's all too commercialised You see, Annie knows something which has been self-evident to 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 Christmas: And Who's but most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to teach you and all you have to Blame''do is listen. Amazingly, I'd never encountered Gray Jolliffe either, but I'm a convert Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and the pair have allowed us to his skills as a cartoonist (if not to the idea share some of Christmas) after reading this collection of Christmas-themed cartoons from his archivetheir conversations.|amazonuk=[[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram|Full Review]] <amazonuk>1445663503</amazonuk!-- Harris -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=Jonathan Pugh"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Harris_Glass.jpg|titlelink=Pugh's New Year's Resolutionshttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1908943823/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |ratingstyle=4.5"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||genre=Humour|summary=If there's one thing that's for certain, it's that the world is changing=[[The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris]]=== [[image:3star. We're dating onlinejpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], we'[[: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 communicating in ways that make email seem redundant-election, distraught mother Katrina Glass waits by her son, and when we're shopping we just tell gym-owner Royland simply finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. We follow this host of ensemble characters in a website where and when it can be deliveredbleak, 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 eatkaleidoscopic 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;"||amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722885</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Luke Rhinehart|title= Invasion|rating[[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente]]=== 4.5|genre= Humour [[image:4star.jpg|summarylink=Super-intelligent furry aliens suddenly appear from another universe. And they've come Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Nine comedians are invited to earth to have fun. Alien Louie follows fisherman Billy Morton home one daya remote Caribbean island under the guise of working with Dustin Walker, and he and his family quickly come to love the playful aliena 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 early days; Zoe, the rising female star with a roller coaster ride of fame and fortunenew stand-up special coming soon; Dante, as well as who went from being a ranking high kid on the FBI's most wanted list, streets to the Government soon decides that these aliens are terrorists, and must be eliminated. Whilst hardest working road comic in the aliens are playing games they hope will help humans to see the insanity of 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 the country's most famous ultra-feminist YouTuber and well-loved sitcoms – even if it was sort-of killed off for Christmas 2003. Yes, there have been specials since, Blogger with a chip on her shoulder; and more repeats to clog up the BBC schedules than is really pukkaWilliam, but very few people failed to succumb to its charms at one time or another. I'm sure there have been books before now celebrating the stony-faced reception of whose redneck character ''that'' drop through Billy the open bar hatch, and ''thatContractor'' chandelier scene, but this is much more meatya far cry from his real personality as a posh millionaire. Purporting to be the family archivesOf course, found dumped in Nelson Mandela Houseall nine agree because ''when God almighty walks down on a beam of light and asks for your help, what the documents here were passed from pillar hell else are you going to post, from one council worker in a department with a clumsy acronym to another, from them to the police – and now here they are being published for their social history worth. Will enough readers find them of worth, as the series quietly celebrates its 35th birthday?say?'' [[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849909245</amazonuk!-- Scott -->}}{{newreview|author= Mara Wilson-|titlestyle= Where Am I Now?"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Famecenter;"|[[image:Scott_Eliz.jpg|ratinglink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1788037006/ref=nosim?tag= 5thebookbag-21]] |genre= Autobiography|summarystyle= Mara Wilson has always felt a little young and a little out of place"vertical-align: top; text-align: as the only child on a film set full of adultsleft;"|===[[Elizabeth, the first daughter in a house full of boys, the sole clinically depressed member of a cheerleading squadWilliam... 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 valley girl in New York husband and a neurotic in California, and an adult the world still remembers as a little girljob. Tackling everything from how she first learned about sex on Then comes the set day when ordinariness flies out of the window. It's not a coincidence that it'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 s the same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I in Hollywood, these essays tell the story pantry and the Bard of one young woman'Avon in her bath. What's journey from accidental fame she going to relative obscuritydo? Well, but also illuminate a universal struggle: learning to accept yourselfElizabeth and Will have their own ideas about that! [[Elizabeth, William... and figuring out who you are and where you belong. Me by S Lynn Scott|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0143128221</amazonuk!-- Rodford -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle= Tony Stuart"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title= Writing Lines[[image:Rodford_Surgeon.jpg|ratinglink= 4http://www.amazon.co.5uk/dp/178565005X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |genrestyle=Humour"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||summary= ==[[The Surgeon's Case: George Gordon Wentworth (1946-2011) lived a humdrum lifeKocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford]]=== [[image:4star. He was a barely adequate teacher in a fairly world renowned independent school in Kent and kept a copious diary of his quotidian existence. Most of what he recorded was dross. However, amongst all jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] In the utterly uninteresting tailings second instalment of his life there were some nuggets and grains to catch the attention. Author Tony Stuart this series, Private Investigator George Kocharyan has created these amusing anecdotes, panning them out over twenty six episodes which give us the best of Wentworth – comedy goldbeen hired by a well-known local man to track down some missing valuables. From losing all the pupils in his charge on Bill Galbraith, a school trip to being arrested on suspicion of terrorism; from waking up in bed between the married couple the morning after their weddingworld-famous surgeon at Cambridge's Addenbrooke's Hospital who hosts a popular medical television programme, to destroying a ski run; from appearing fullhas had his briefcase stolen by his live-frontal naked in a sheep-farmers' gazette domestic servant, Aurora. According to triggering Galbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an air-sea rescue; Wentworth wasimportant patient of his at the hospital. George agrees to look into the theft, blinkered assuming it will be a relatively easy and befuddled, the subject straightforward case – of these little does he know, he's about to enter a world of deceit and so many more unlikely but highly amusing eventsdysfunction.[[The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524634441</amazonuk>Full Review]]}}{{newreview<!-- Jordan -->|author=Graham Fulbright-|titlestyle=Driving Mad"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: Maniacs, Morons and the Advanced Motorist's Clubcenter;"|[[image:Jordan_Tiny.jpg|ratinglink=3http://www.amazon.co.5|genreuk/dp/1760293814/ref=Humournosim?tag=thebookbag-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. 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There're fictional - but these days you never know...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783062584</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Mario Giordano|title=Auntie Poldi s the split 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 awkwardness of the girls' schoolteacher being the other woman for a start. Then there's that mistaken identity moment involving 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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