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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]] __NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|authorclass-"wikitable" cellpadding= David Jester"15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE-->|title= Forever After: a dark comedy<!-- van LENTE -->|rating= 4-|genrestyle= Paranormal"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690346.jpg|summarylink= Michael Holland is a cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the offer of his lifetime; immortalityhttp://www.amazon.co. We follow Michael, a grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a stoner in the records department) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a clean surface to sit on in their flatuk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>1510704361</amazonuk>Category:{{{rating}}}{{newreviewStar Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|author=Nina StibbeCrime]], [[:Category:Humour|title=An Almost Perfect ChristmasHumour]]|rating=4.5|genre=Humour |summary=Christmas – Comic-Cons are a place of 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 other fans and creators, plus the time chance of traditional traumamaybe, just maybe reuniting with his ex. You only have to think about However, when his rival is found dead, Mike is forced to navigate every dark corner of the turkey for that con in order to clear his name – once upon a time it was leaving it sat on the downstairs loo from cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans to defrost overnightzombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, and if that failed the hairin doing so, may just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creator. [[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]]  <!-- Coulton --dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. Nowadays it's all having to make sure it's suitably free>|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-range and organic – but not too organic that you can go and visit it, and get too friendly with it to want to eat italign: center;"|[[image:1473669588.jpg|link=http://www.amazon. Christmas, though, is of course also a time of great boonsco. It's cash in hand for a lot of plump people who can hire red suits and beards, it was always a godsend for postmen with all the thankuk/dp/1473669588/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-you letters to aunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you write out in longalign: top; text-hand as a child, and as for the makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they even try and sell them any other time of the year?align: left;"|===[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>0241309824</amazonuk>Category:{{{rating}}}{{newreviewStar Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|author=Ian DoescherGeneral Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|title=William ShakespeareHumour]], [[:Category:Women's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the SeventhFiction|rating=4.5Women's Fiction]]|genre=Science Fiction|summary=A long time agoLex Coulton's debut novel is a story about mistakes, failures, and relationships. The main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, in is a galaxy far awaysixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, there was a man called William Shakespearework colleague, who was able to create a series and is grappling with the increasingly eccentric behaviour of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdyher mother. You may or may not have noticed This relationship is complicated by the cinematic version of his original stage play for fact that Frances''The Force Doth Awaken'', but here s father disappeared at last we get the actual script, complete with annoyingsea when she was five years old. [[Falling Short by Lex Coulton|Full Review]] <!-in-differentvan LENTE -ways-to>|-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, and people keeping it in the family til it hurts| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690346. 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…jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||amazonuk=<amazonuk>159474985X</amazonuk>==[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente]]===}}[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{newreview{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|author=James Goss and Russell T Davies|title=Doctor WhoCrime]], [[: Now We Are Six HundredCategory: A Collection Humour|Humour]] Comic-Cons are a place of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who)|rating=4.5|genre=Childrenwonder and sanctuary for many people, and when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, he's Rhymes looking for both that and sanctuary with other fans and Verse |summary=Consider creators, plus the Doctorchance of maybe, just maybe reuniting with his ex. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each yearHowever, when his rival is found dead, were he Mike is forced to keep navigate every dark corner of the con in touch with even half of order to clear his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of themname – from cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans to zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, sayin doing so, for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of may just unravel a Time Lord and that of some of his friends and enemiesdark secret behind a legendary industry creator. 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[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]] <!-- Curran -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-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 samealign: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690133.jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>1785942719<http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690133/amazonuk>ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle=Annie Ingram"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|title=Conversations with Kammie|rating=4|genre=Pets|summary=It was something of a relief when I encountered Annie Ingram [[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and her cocker spaniel KammieLarissa Zageris]]=== [[image:4star. You see, Annie knows something which has been self-evident to me for a long timejpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category: dogs Historical Fiction|Historical Fiction]] You are perfectly capable a lass of communicating with humans twenty eight. Plucky, penniless and not just on a level of ''food!'', ''walk!'' in Regency era London the race is on to find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Along your journey you''play!''. You do require extensive training ll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to become fluentsave you from a life alone, but most dogs will be perfectly willing and fired by a rogueish sense for adventure. When it comes to give their time to teach you and all suitors though, you 'll have to do is listenmake 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. Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and ancient Egyptian artifcats along the pair have allowed us to share some of their conversationsway, it's clear this isn't going to be an easy decision...[[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785451995</amazonuk!-- Jester -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle= Charles Harris"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title= The Breaking of Liam Glass[[image:Jester_Forever.jpg|rating= 3left|genrelink=Crime|summary= A flawed but reasonably entertaining swipe at modern mediahttps://www.amazon.co. There's plenty here to like, and plenty not to. But good structure and scramjet pace keep this one flying to the final page.|amazonukuk/gp/product/1510704361?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=<amazonuk>1908943823</amazonuk>1510704361]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle= Fred Van Lente"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title= Ten Dead Comedians==[[Forever After: A Murder Mystery|ratinga dark comedy by David Jester]]=== 4|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:Paranormal|Paranormal]], [[:Category:Horror|Horror]], [[:Category:Fantasy|Fasntasy]] Michael Holland is a comedic legend. Each fits neatly into one cocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the offer of the archetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, the washed-up has-been who has fallen far from his early dayslifetime; Zoe, immortality. We follow Michael, a grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a stoner in the rising female star records department) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a new stand-up special coming soon; Dante, who went from being a kid clean surface to sit 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 peerstheir flat. [[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester|Full Review]] <!-- Stibbe -->|-| style="width: 10%; Janet, the insult comic who is past her primevertical-align: top; TJ, the nightly variety show host with a reputation for harassing his female colleagues and guest acts; Ruby, the ultratext-feminist YouTuber and Blogger with a chip on her shoulderalign: center; and William, whose redneck character ''Billy the Contractor'' is a far cry from his real personality as a posh millionaire"|[[image:Stibbe_Xmas.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co. 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 sayuk/gp/product/0241309824?''ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0241309824]]  |amazonukstyle=<amazonuk>1594749744</amazonuk>"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|}}===[[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe]]==={{newreview|author=S Lynn Scott|title=Elizabeth, William[[image:4.5star.. and Mejpg|link=Category:{{{rating=4.5}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|genre=Humour]], [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]]|summary=Ally is an ordinary woman with teenage children, a husband and a jobChristmas – the time of traditional trauma. Then comes You only have to think about the day when ordinariness flies out of the window. It's not turkey for that – once upon a coincidence that time it was leaving it's sat on the same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I in the pantry downstairs loo to defrost overnight, and if that failed the Bard of Avon in her bathhair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. WhatNowadays it's she going all having to do? Wellmake sure it's suitably free-range and organic – but not too organic that you can go and visit it, Elizabeth and Will have their own ideas about that!|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1788037006</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= E G Rodford|title= The Surgeonget too friendly with it to want to eat it. Christmas, though, is of course also a time of great boons. It's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2|rating= 4|genre= Crime |summary=In the second instalment cash in hand for a lot of this series, Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by plump people who can hire red suits and beards, it was always a wellgodsend for postmen with all the thank-known local man you letters to track down some missing valuables. Bill Galbraith, aunties you saw twice a worlddecade that your parents made you write out in long-famous surgeon at Cambridge's Addenbrooke's Hospital who hosts hand as a popular medical television programmechild, has had his briefcase stolen by his live-in domestic servantand as for the makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, Aurora. According to Galbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient did they even try and sell them any other time 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.year? [[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565005X</amazonuk!-- Doescher -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle=Toni Jordan"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title=Our Tiny, Useless Hearts[[image:Doescher_Will.jpg|rating=5left|genrelink=Women's Fictionhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/159474985X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=159474985X]]  |summarystyle=As predicted by Caroline and Janice's mother on Caroline and Henry"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[William Shakespeare's wedding day, their marriage is over, albeit 15 years and two daughters further along than predictedthe Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher]]=== [[image:4.5star. Indeedjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] A long time ago, this is definitely not in a good weekend for Janice galaxy far away, there was a man called William Shakespeare, who was able to be babysitting at Caroline's house. There's the split and the awkwardness create a series of the girls' schoolteacher being the other woman for a startdramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy. Then there's that mistaken identity moment involving You may or may not have noticed the neighbours. At least Janice is well adjusted and over her ex-husband Alec. She still dreams of him, yescinematic version of his original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken'', but it's so over! Just as well really… guess who's at here at last we get the door?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1760293814</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Colin Taylor|title=The Life of a Scilly Sergeant|rating=4.5|genre=Travel|summary=Meet the Isles of Scillyactual 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. (I know they should be called that – the author provides a handy guide to And if you need further encouragement, don't forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the etiquette of their name, their nature and location, etc.) For our more distant readers, theyseries is so popular we're several chunks of granite rock out in on to part seven – surely making this over twice as good… [[William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Atlantic, where Cornwall is pointing, with just 2,200 permanent residentsSeventh by Ian Doescher|Full Review]] <!-- Goss -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Goss_600. 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 yearsjpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co. They're so wee, and so idyllicuk/gp/product/1785942719?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785942719]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-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 align: left;"|===[[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178475515X</amazonuk>Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}}{{newreview|author=Josie Lloyd Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Emlyn ReesVerse|title=Children'Twas the Fight Before Christmass Rhymes and Verse]], [[:Category: A ParodyScience Fiction|rating=3.5Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|genre=Humour]]|summary=It's Consider the Doctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas Eve and Mum has arranged everything. All she now has gifts must he have 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 hand out each year, were he to ruin everything.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1472125118</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Ryan North|title=Romeo and/or Juliet|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=For all those who think tragedy plots are too restricted 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 prescribed, read onenemies. In these pages you too will see that Romeo had lots of options en route As luck would have it, he has the space in his TARDIS to hitting the bottle. Likewisestock up in advance, so my advice to him – sorry, she could have turned away from her predestined path at no end of junctures– would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. And to what result? Well, happy marriage and if you're working on a shorter timescale, with a kid called Benshorter lifespan, because the leads have and thinking perhaps just banged people's heads together and stopped the quarrellingone gift season ahead, or Death by Tybalt well my advice is pretty much the same. [[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (himDr Who) or a long life running an establishment curing murderous women, such as a Lady M (her). by James Goss and Russell T Davies|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk!-- Ingram -->0356508536</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Gervase Phinn-|titlestyle= The Virgin Mary's Got Nits"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Ingram_Kammie.jpg|left|ratinglink= 4https://www.amazon.co.5uk/gp/product/1785451995?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785451995]] |genre= Humour|summarystyle= 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"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Pets|Pets]], far away from the madness at home, last minute dashes to the shops on Christmas Eve[[:Category:Humour|Humour]] It was something of a relief when I encountered Annie Ingram and her cocker spaniel Kammie. You see, and food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are shutting Annie knows something which has been self-evident to me for a month, nor long time: dogs are perfectly capable of communicating with humans and not just on a mere 36 hourslevel of food!, walk! or play!. But I You do remember the feeling of Christmas when I was younger, back when it was magicalrequire extensive training to become fluent, but most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to teach you and back when all you knew exactly what the season would bring with carol concerts have to do is listen. Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and school nativities and Christmas parties. This book is an anthology of those moments, and it took me right back the pair have allowed us to the wonder share some of Christmas as a child.their conversations. [[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444779400</amazonuk!-- Harris -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle= Kieran Crowley"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title= Shoot[[image:Harris_Glass.jpg|ratinglink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1908943823/ref=nosim?tag= 4thebookbag-21]]  |genrestyle= Crime"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||summary= I make something ==[[The Breaking of a habit of being late to discover good writersLiam Glass by Charles Harris]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], in this case getting to Crowley after he [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Teenager Liam Glass is no longer with usmugged and stabbed yards from his Camden flat. The result is that what is billed as ''an F.X. Shepherd mystery'' with all As the optimism of there being more to come has boy lies comatose, desperate journalist Jason Worthington scrabbles for the poignancy of beinginside scoop, if not the last of tired police officer Andy Rockham searches for a short linemissing tape, certainly one of a few. F.X. Shepherd – he doesn't like his first name and prefers just "Shepherd" isharried politician Jamila Hasan fights for re-election, technicallydistraught mother Katrina Glass waits by her son, a columnistand gym-owner Royland simply finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. He's been sacked by one New York newspaper and is writing We follow this host of ensemble characters in a weekly column for anotherbleak, kaleidoscopic satire of modern media. 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[[The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris|Full Review]] <!-- LENTE -washed-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. |amazonukstyle=<amazonuk>1783296518</amazonuk>}}{{newreview"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|author=Gray Jolliffe[[image:Lente_10.jpg|titlelink=The First Ever Christmashttp: And Who to Blame//www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690222/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] |rating=5|genrestyle=Humour"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|summarylink=If I tell you a secret, will you promise not to tell anyone? Well, I really don't like ChristmasCategory:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category: it's my least favourite time of year and whilst some people count down Humour|Humour]] Nine comedians are invited to a remote Caribbean island under the day itselfguise of working with Dustin Walker, I look forward to that point when I can say that it's all over for another year. It's all too commercialised for me, with a coating of faux religioncomedic legend. I've never found it in Each fits neatly into one of the archetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, the least funny washed-up has- that isbeen who has fallen far from his early days; Zoe, until I found Gray Jolliffe's ''The First Ever Christmas: And Who's to Blame''. Amazinglythe rising female star with a new stand-up special coming soon; Dante, I'd never encountered Gray Jolliffe either, but I'm who went from being a convert to his skills as a cartoonist (if not kid on the streets to the idea of Christmas) after reading this collection of Christmashardest working road comic in the business; Oliver, the child-themed cartoons like prop comic who can't get any respect from his archive.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445663503</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Jonathan Pugh|title=Pugh's New Year's Resolutions|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary=If there's one thing that's for certainpeers; 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, it's that the world is changing. We're dating onlineultra-feminist YouTuber and Blogger with a chip on her shoulder; and William, wewhose redneck character ''Billy the Contractor're communicating in ways that make email seem redundant, and when we're shopping we just tell is a website where and when it can be deliveredfar 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 how much leeway they have to swap our wishes asks for whatever it is they do bring us. But those changes your help, what the hell else are also supposed you going to be affecting us – wesay?'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.[[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1780722885</amazonuk!-- Scott -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle= Luke Rhinehart"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title= Invasion[[image:Scott_Eliz.jpg|ratinglink= 4http://www.amazon.co.5uk/dp/1788037006/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] |genre= Humour |summarystyle=Super"vertical-align: top; text-intelligent furry aliens suddenly appear from another universe. And they've come to earth to have funalign: left;"|===[[Elizabeth, William.. Alien Louie follows fisherman Billy Morton home one day, and he and his family quickly come to love the playful alien. But when Louie starts using their computer to hack into government and corporate networks, stealing millions from banks to give to othersMe by S Lynn Scott]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Ally is an ordinary woman with teenage children, they realise that Louie a husband and his friends mean troublea job. As Billy and his family begin a roller coaster ride Then comes the day when ordinariness flies out of fame and fortune, as well as a ranking high on the FBIwindow. It's most wanted list, the Government soon decides not a coincidence that these aliens are terrorists, and must be eliminated. Whilst it's the aliens are playing games they hope will help humans to see same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I in the pantry and the insanity Bard of the American politicalAvon in her bath. What's she going to do? Well, economic Elizabeth and military systemsWill have their own ideas about that! [[Elizabeth, they soon come to realise that the Powers that Be don't play games: they make warWilliam... and Me by S Lynn Scott|amazonuk=Full Review]] <amazonuk>1785651757</amazonuk!-- Rodford -->}}{{newreview|author=Rod Green-|titlestyle=Only Fools and Horses"width: The Peckham Archives10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Rodford_Surgeon.jpg|ratinglink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178565005X/ref=nosim?tag=4thebookbag-21]]  |genrestyle=Entertainment "vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||summary=We are in the world of one of the country==[[The Surgeon's most famous and well-loved sitcoms – even if it was sort-of killed off for Christmas 2003Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford]]=== [[image:4star. Yesjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], there have been specials since, and more repeats to clog up [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] In the BBC schedules than is really pukkasecond instalment of this series, but very few people failed Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a well-known local man to succumb to its charms at one time or anothertrack down some missing valuables. I'm sure there have been books before now celebrating the stonyBill Galbraith, a world-faced reception of famous surgeon at Cambridge's Addenbrooke'that'' drop through the open bar hatchs Hospital who hosts a popular medical television programme, and ''that'' chandelier scenehas had his briefcase stolen by his live-in domestic servant, but this is much more meatyAurora. Purporting According to be the family archives, found dumped in Nelson Mandela HouseGalbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of his at the documents here were passed from pillar hospital. George agrees to postlook into the theft, from one council worker in assuming it will be a department with a clumsy acronym to anotherrelatively easy and straightforward case – little does he know, from them he's about to the police – enter a world of deceit and now here they are being published for their social history worthdysfunction. Will enough readers find them of worth, as the series quietly celebrates its 35th birthday?[[The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849909245</amazonuk!-- Jordan -->}}{{newreview|author= Mara Wilson-|titlestyle= Where Am I Now?"width: 10%; vertical-align: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fametop; text-align: center;"|[[image:Jordan_Tiny.jpg|ratinglink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1760293814/ref=nosim?tag= 5thebookbag-21]]  |genrestyle= Autobiography"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||summary= Mara Wilson has always felt a little young and a little out of place==[[Our Tiny, Useless Hearts by Toni Jordan]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category: as the only child on a film set full of adults, the first daughter in a house full of boys, the sole clinically depressed member of a cheerleading squad{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]], a valley girl in New York [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] As predicted by Caroline and a neurotic in California, Janice's mother on Caroline and an adult the world still remembers as a little girl. Tackling everything from how she first learned about sex on the set of Henry''Melrose Places wedding day,'' to losing her mother at a young agetheir marriage is over, to getting her first kiss (or was it kisses?) on a celebrity canoe tripalbeit 15 years and two daughters further along than predicted. Indeed, to this is definitely not being cute enough a good weekend for Janice to make it in Hollywood, these essays tell the story of one young womanbe babysitting at Caroline's house. 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High school sophomores Abby Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] It's Christmas Eve and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth gradeMum has arranged everything. But after an evening of skinny-dipping goes disatrously wrong, Gretchen begins All she now has to act...different. She's moody. She's irritable. And bizarre incidents keep happening whenever she's nearby. Abby's investigation leads her to some startling discoveries - and by do is await the time their story reaches its terrifying conclusion, arrival of the fate of Abby relatives and Gretchen will be determined by a single question: Is their friendship enough to beat the devil?food shopping delivery. Little does Mum know that those two elements alone have the potential to ruin everything. 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The only glitch anywhere that is that far, far away from the main trophy contendermadness at home, Bernard MacNeill's skeletonlast minute dashes to the shops on Christmas Eve, is somewhere difficult to access and all seasoned explorers food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are otherwise engaged. There may be hope though. They turn to Fitzmauriceshutting for a month, nor a student not good enough for anything elsemere 36 hours. Fitzmaurice agreesBut I do remember the feeling of Christmas when I was younger, back when it was magical, picking his friends Crozier and Rafferty to go back when you knew exactly what the season would bring with him. So… ''Gentlemen, lace up your strongest boots carol concerts and school nativities and pack your warmest underwear – we're all off Christmas parties. This book is an anthology of those moments, and it took me right back to the bloody Arctic!'' 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In these pages you too will see that Romeo had lots of beer whenever you fancy oneoptions en route to hitting the bottle. Things are different with Tony HawksLikewise, as here he has purposefully decided to up sticks she could have turned away from London to Somewhereher predestined path at no end of junctures. And to what result? Well, Devon – happy marriage and a tiny village where kid called Ben, because the leads have just banged people who built their own homes decades ago still live in them's heads together and stopped the quarrelling, where slugs are or Death by Tybalt (him) or a lot more of long life running an establishment curing murderous women, such as a problem for the wannabe lettuce-grower than they are for the metropolitan commuter, and where village halls have the power to turn you into both a Pol Pot dictator if you get on their committee and into a quivering, bruise-inducing wreck if you're the wrong gender at a Zumba class…Lady M (her). 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