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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. 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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 at last we get the actual script, complete with annoyings father disappeared at sea 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. 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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. 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You seePlucky, Annie knows something which has been selfpenniless and in Regency era London the race is on to find a suitable suitor -evident or else doom yourself to me for a long time: dogs are perfectly capable of communicating with humans life as an eternal spinster. Along your journey you'll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a life alone, and not just on fired by a level of ''food!'rogueish sense for adventure. When it comes to suitors though, you'll have to make the ultimate decision between witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, ''walk!'' 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'play!''. You do require extensive training t going to become fluent, but most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to teach you an easy decision... [[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and all you have to do is listen. Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and the pair have allowed us to share some of their conversations.Larissa Zageris|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1785451995</amazonuk!-- Jester -->}}|-{{newreview|author| style= 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. There's plenty here to like, and plenty not toco. But good structure and scramjet pace keep this one flying to the final page.|amazonukuk/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; Zoeimmortality. 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%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center; Janet, the insult comic who is past her prime"|[[image:Stibbe_Xmas.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0241309824?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0241309824]]  | style="vertical-align: top; TJ, the nightly variety show host with a reputation for harassing his female colleagues and guest actstext-align: left; Ruby, the ultra-feminist YouTuber and Blogger with a chip on her shoulder; and William"|===[[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], whose redneck character ''Billy the Contractor'' is [[:Category:Short Stories|Short Stories]] Christmas – the time of traditional trauma. You only have to think about the turkey for that – once upon a far cry from his real personality as a posh millionaire. 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It's not cash in hand for a coincidence that lot of plump people who can hire red suits and beards, it's was always a godsend for postmen with all the same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I thank-you letters to aunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you write out in the pantry long-hand as a child, and as for the Bard makers of Avon in her bath. What's she going to doMeltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they even try and sell them any other time of the year? Well, Elizabeth and Will have their own ideas about that![[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk!-- Doescher -->1788037006</amazonuk>}}{{newreview |author= E G Rodford-|titlestyle= The Surgeon's Case"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: George Kocharyan Mystery 2center;"|[[image:Doescher_Will.jpg|rating= 4left|genrelink= Crime https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/159474985X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=159474985X]]  |summarystyle=In "vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[William Shakespeare's the second instalment of this series, Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by a well-known local man to track down some missing valuablesIan Doescher]]=== [[image:4.5star. Bill Galbraithjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] A long time ago, in a world-famous surgeon at Cambridge's Addenbrooke's Hospital galaxy far away, there was a man called William Shakespeare, who hosts was able to create a popular medical television programmeseries of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, has had his briefcase stolen by his live-in domestic servant, Aurorarulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy. According to Galbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient You may or may not have noticed the cinematic version of his at the hospital. George agrees to look into original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken'', but here at last we get the theftactual script, assuming it will be a relatively easy and straightforward case – little does he knowcomplete with annoying-in-different-ways-to-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, he's about to enter a world of deceit and dysfunctionpeople keeping it in the family til it hurts.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>178565005X</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Toni Jordan|title=Our Tiny And if you need further encouragement, Useless Hearts|rating=5|genre=Womendon's Fiction|summary=As predicted by Caroline and Janicet forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the series is so popular we's mother re on Caroline and Henry's wedding day, their marriage is to part seven – surely making this 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. Theretwice as good… [[William Shakespeare's the split and Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the awkwardness of the girls' schoolteacher being the other woman for a start. Then there's that mistaken identity moment involving the neighbours. At least Janice is well adjusted and over her exSeventh by Ian Doescher|Full Review]] <!-- Goss -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-husband Alecalign: center;"|[[image:Goss_600. She still dreams of him, yes, but it's so over! Just as well really… guess who's at the door?|amazonukjpg|left|link=<amazonuk>1760293814<https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/amazonuk>}}1785942719?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785942719]] {{newreview|authorstyle=Colin Taylor"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|title=The Life of a Scilly Sergeant|rating=4.5|genre=Travel|summary=Meet the Isles [[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Scilly. Time Lord Verse (I know they should be called that – the author provides a handy guide to the etiquette of their name, their nature and location, etcDr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies]]=== [[image:4.5star.) For our more distant readers, theyjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verse|Children're several chunks of granite rock out in the Atlantics Rhymes and Verse]], where Cornwall is pointing[[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], with just 2,200 permanent residents[[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Consider the Doctor. They're big on tourismJust how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each year, and big on growing flowers were he to keep in the tropical climate the Gulf Stream bequeaths touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of them – although , say, for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the weather is bad enough to turn any car to a rust bucket within yearslife of a Time Lord and that of some of his friends and enemies. They're so weeAs luck would have it, he has the space in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, and so idyllic-seemingmy advice to him – sorry, especially at night, you can be mistaken for thinking there her – would be no need for a police presence. But there is – at least two working at any one timeto 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 of them in recent years has been Colin Taylorgift season ahead, who has done his official duty – alongside maintaining a well-known online existence, which has brought to life all my advice is pretty much the whimsical comedy of his worksame.|amazonuk=[[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies|Full Review]] <amazonuk>178475515X</amazonuk!-- Ingram -->}}{{newreview|-|author=Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Reesstyle="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"||title='Twas the Fight Before Christmas[[image: A Parody|rating=3Ingram_Kammie.5jpg|genre=Humourleft|summarylink=It's Christmas Eve and Mum has arranged everythinghttps://www.amazon. All she now has to do is await the arrival of the relatives and the food shopping deliveryco. Little does Mum know that those two elements alone have the potential to ruin everything.|amazonukuk/gp/product/1785451995?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=<amazonuk>1472125118</amazonuk>1785451995]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle=Ryan North"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title=Romeo and/or Juliet==[[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating=3.5}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Pets|Pets]], [[:Category:Humour|genre=Humour]]|summary=For all those who think tragedy plots are too restricted It was something of a relief when I encountered Annie Ingram and prescribed, read onher cocker spaniel Kammie. In these pages you too will You see that Romeo had lots , 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 options en route to hitting the bottle. Likewisefood!, she could have turned away from her predestined path at no end of junctureswalk! or play!. And You do require extensive training to what result? Wellbecome fluent, happy marriage and a kid called Ben, because the leads but most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to teach you and all you have just banged people's heads together to do is listen. Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and stopped the quarrelling, or Death pair have allowed us to share some of their conversations. [[Conversations with Kammie by Tybalt (him) or a long life running an establishment curing murderous women, such as a Lady M (her). 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As the madness at homeboy lies comatose, last minute dashes to desperate journalist Jason Worthington scrabbles for the shops on Christmas Eveinside scoop, and food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are shutting tired police officer Andy Rockham searches for a monthmissing tape, nor a mere 36 hours. But I do remember the feeling of Christmas when I was youngerharried politician Jamila Hasan fights for re-election, back when it was magicaldistraught mother Katrina Glass waits by her son, and back when you knew exactly what gym-owner Royland simply finds himself in the season would bring with carol concerts and school nativities and Christmas partieswrong place at the wrong time. This book is an anthology We follow this host of those momentsensemble characters in a bleak, and it took me right back to the wonder kaleidoscopic satire of Christmas as a childmodern media.[[The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris|amazonuk=Full Review]] <amazonuk>1444779400</amazonuk!-- LENTE -->}}{{newreview|-|authorstyle= Kieran Crowley"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|title= Shoot[[image:Lente_10.jpg|ratinglink= 4http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690222/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |genrestyle= Crime"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||summary= I make something of a habit of being late to discover good writers, in this case getting to Crowley after he is no longer with us==[[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star. The result is that what is billed as ''an F.X. Shepherd mystery'' with all the optimism of there being more jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Nine comedians are invited to come has a remote Caribbean island under the poignancy guise of beingworking with Dustin Walker, if not the last of a short line, certainly comedic legend. Each fits neatly into one of a few. F.X. Shepherd – he doesn't like his first name and prefers just "Shepherd" isthe archetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, technically, a columnist. He's the washed-up has-been sacked by one New York newspaper and is writing a weekly column for another. I don't know much about journalismwho has fallen far from his early days; Zoe, but I'm guessing one column the rising female star with a week doesn't pay much as a rule…which explains why Shepherd's soapnew stand-washed-foul-mouthed editor (read up special coming soon; Dante, who went from being a kid on the book, you'll see what I mean) expects him streets to turn the hardest working road comic in some genuine journalism as well: front pagethe business; Oliver, seat of your pants stuff. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783296518</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Gray Jolliffe|title=The First Ever Christmas: And Who to Blame|rating=5|genre=Humour|summary=If I tell you a secret, will you promise not to tell anyone? the child-like prop comic who can't get any respect from his peers; Janet, the insult comic who is past her prime; WellTJ, I really don't like Christmas: it's my least favourite time of year the nightly variety show host with a reputation for harassing his female colleagues and whilst some people count down to guest acts; Ruby, the day itself, I look forward to that point when I can say that itultra-feminist YouTuber and Blogger with a chip on her shoulder; and William, whose redneck character ''Billy the Contractor's all over for another year. It's all too commercialised for me, with is a coating of faux religionfar cry from his real personality as a posh millionaire. I've never found it in the least funny - that isOf course, until I found Gray Jolliffeall nine agree because 's ''The First Ever Christmas: And Who's when God almighty walks down on a beam of light and asks for your help, what the hell else are you going to Blamesay?''. Amazingly, I'd never encountered Gray Jolliffe either, but I'm a convert to his skills as a cartoonist (if not to the idea of Christmas) after reading this collection of Christmas-themed cartoons from his archive.[[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1445663503</amazonuk!-- Scott -->}}{{newreview|author=Jonathan Pugh-|titlestyle=Pugh's New Year's Resolutions"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Scott_Eliz.jpg|ratinglink=4http://www.amazon.co.5uk/dp/1788037006/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |genrestyle=Humour"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||summary=If there's one thing that's for certain==[[Elizabeth, it's that the world is changingWilliam... We're dating online, we're communicating in ways that make email seem redundant, and when we're shopping we just tell 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 website where husband and a job. Then comes the day when ordinariness flies out of the window. It's not a coincidence that it can be delivered, 's the same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I in the pantry and how much leeway they have to swap our wishes for whatever it is they do bring usthe Bard of Avon in her bath. But those changes are also supposed to be affecting us – weWhat're supposed s she going to use a smart watch to tell us if we're moving or notdo? Well, we Elizabeth and Will 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 own ideas about what we're supposed to eatthat! 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But when Louie starts using their computer to hack into government and corporate networksjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], stealing millions from banks to give to others[[:Category:Humour|Humour]] In the second instalment of this series, they realise that Louie and his friends mean trouble. As Billy and his family begin Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a roller coaster ride of fame and fortune, as well as a ranking high on the FBI-known local man to track down some missing valuables. Bill Galbraith, a world-famous surgeon at Cambridge's Addenbrooke's most wanted listHospital who hosts a popular medical television programme, the Government soon decides that these aliens are terroristshas had his briefcase stolen by his live-in domestic servant, and must be eliminatedAurora. Whilst According to Galbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of his at the aliens are playing games they hope will help humans hospital. George agrees to see look into the insanity of the American politicaltheft, economic and military systemsassuming it will be a relatively easy and straightforward case – little does he know, they soon come he's about to realise that the Powers that Be donenter a world of deceit and dysfunction. [[The Surgeon't play gamess Case: they make war. 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Ijpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women'm sure there have been books before now celebrating the stony-faced reception of s Fiction|Women''that'' drop through the open bar hatchs Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] As predicted by Caroline and Janice's mother on Caroline and Henry'that'' chandelier scenes wedding day, but this their marriage is much more meaty. Purporting to be the family archivesover, found dumped in Nelson Mandela Housealbeit 15 years and two daughters further along than predicted. Indeed, the documents here were passed from pillar to post, from one council worker in this is definitely not a department with a clumsy acronym to another, from them good weekend for Janice to be babysitting at Caroline's house. There's the police – split and now here they are the awkwardness of the girls' schoolteacher being published the other woman for their social history wortha start. Will enough readers find them of worth, as Then there's that mistaken identity moment involving the series quietly celebrates its 35th birthday?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849909245</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author= Mara Wilson|title= Where Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood neighbours. At least Janice is well adjusted and Accidental Fame|rating= 5|genre= Autobiography|summary= Mara Wilson has always felt a little young and a little out over her ex-husband Alec. She still dreams of place: as the only child on a film set full of adultshim, the first daughter in a house full of boysyes, the sole clinically depressed member of a cheerleading squad, a valley girl in New York and a neurotic in California, and an adult the world still remembers but it's so over! Just as a little girl. Tackling everything from how she first learned about sex on well really… guess who's at the set of ''Melrose Placedoor? [[Our Tiny,'' to losing her mother at a young age, to getting her first kiss (or was it kisses?) on a celebrity canoe trip, to not being cute enough to make it in Hollywood, these essays tell the story of one young woman's journey from accidental fame to relative obscurity, but also illuminate a universal struggleUseless Hearts by Toni Jordan|Full Review]] <!-- Taylor -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: learning to accept yourself, and figuring out who you are and where you belong. center;"|[[image:Taylor_Scilly.jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>0143128221<http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178475515X/amazonuk>ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]}}{{newreview|authorstyle= Tony Stuart"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|title= Writing Lines|rating= 4.5|genre=Humour|summary= George Gordon Wentworth (1946-2011) lived [[The Life of a humdrum lifeScilly Sergeant by Colin Taylor]]=== [[image:4. He was a barely adequate teacher in a fairly world renowned independent school in Kent and kept a copious diary of his quotidian existence5star. Most of what he recorded was dross. Howeverjpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], amongst all [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Meet the utterly uninteresting tailings Isles of his life there were some nuggets and grains to catch the attentionScilly. Author Tony Stuart has created these amusing anecdotes, panning them out over twenty six episodes which give us the best of Wentworth (I know they should be called that – comedy gold. From losing all the pupils in his charge on author provides a school trip handy guide to being arrested on suspicion the etiquette of terrorism; from waking up in bed between the married couple the morning after their weddingname, their nature and location, to destroying a ski run; from appearing full-frontal naked etc.) For our more distant readers, they're several chunks of granite rock out in a sheep-farmers' gazette to triggering an air-sea rescue; Wentworth wasthe Atlantic, where Cornwall is pointing, blinkered and befuddledwith just 2, the subject – of these and so many more unlikely but highly amusing events200 permanent residents.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1524634441</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Graham Fulbright|title=Driving Mad: ManiacsThey're big on tourism, Morons and big on growing flowers in the Advanced Motorist's Club|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=I passed my driving test when John F Kennedy was in tropical climate the Gulf Stream bequeaths them – although the White House and I've recently had weather is bad enough to turn any car to reapply for my driving licence having achieved a venerable agerust bucket within years. When I started driving the roads were kinderThey're so wee, more forgiving places and so idyllic- or put another wayseeming, the idiots were fewer and further between. I don't know how long Graham Fulbright has been drivingespecially at night, but he certainly knows his motoring morons and in ''Driving Mad'' he brings us you can be mistaken for thinking there would be no need for a fictional sample of their eccentricitiespolice presence. Well, I'm pretty certain that they're fictional - but these days you never knowBut there is – at least two working at any one time...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1783062584</amazonuk>}}{{newreviewAnd 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. 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Arthur Bryant Christmas in our house is the time we tend to get on compassionate leave whilst tests are continuing, which are likely a plane and head to confirm either sun or snow, anywhere that he is suffering far, far away from Alzheimer's. His condition is worsening almost by the daymadness at home, last minute dashes to the shops on Christmas Eve, memory lapses and food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are morphing into full-scale hallucinationsshutting for a month, nor a mere 36 hours.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0857523422</amazonuk>}}{{newreview|author=Kevin Smith|title=The Voyage But I do remember the feeling of the Dolphin|rating=5|genre=Historical Fiction|summary=Dublin 1916: Among the unrest Christmas when I was younger, back when it was magical, and anti-British feeling worsened by back when you knew exactly what the threat of conscription into a war seen as nothing to do season would bring with the Irish, Trinity College faculty has other distractionscarol concerts and school nativities and Christmas parties. They'd like a trophy; This book is an anthology of those moments, and it took me right back to the skeleton wonder of an Irish 'giant' to be preciseChristmas as a child. [[The only glitch is that the main trophy contender, Bernard MacNeillVirgin Mary's skeleton, is somewhere difficult to access and all seasoned explorers are otherwise engaged. There may be hope though. They turn to Fitzmaurice, a student not good enough for anything elseGot Nits by Gervase Phinn|Full Review]] <!-- North -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:North_Romeo.jpg|link=http://www.amazon. Fitzmaurice agrees, picking his friends Crozier and Rafferty to go with him. So… ''Gentlemen, lace up your strongest boots and pack your warmest underwear – we're all off to the bloody Arctic!'' 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Things are different with Tony Hawks, as here he has purposefully decided In these pages you too will see that Romeo had lots of options en route to up sticks from London to Somewhere, Devon – a tiny village where hitting the people who built their own homes decades ago still live in thembottle. Likewise, where slugs are a lot more she could have turned away from her predestined path at no end of junctures. And to what result? Well, happy marriage and a problem for kid called Ben, because 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…leads have just banged people's heads together and stopped the quarrelling, or Death by Tybalt (him) or a long life running an establishment curing murderous women, such as a Lady M (her). 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