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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]]==Humour==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|authorclass-"wikitable" cellpadding=The Harvard Lampoon"15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- van LENTE -->|title=Nightlight: A Parody of Twilight -|ratingstyle=3.5"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|genre=Humour|summary=Most people will have heard of the worldwide phenomenon that is [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyerimage:1683690346.jpg|Twilight]]link=http://www.amazon. The books by Stephenie Meyer and the film have made a legend of the romance between vampire Edward Mullen (Robert Pattinson plays the movie role) and teenage schoolgirl Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart)co.|amazonukuk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag=<amazonuk>1849013330</amazonuk>}}thebookbag-21]]

{{newreview|authorstyle=The Vampire Miles Proctor"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title===[[The New Vampire's Handbook|ratingCon Artist by Fred Van Lente]]=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=I shall start with a prediction. I will not become a vampire, for this imminent Hallowe'en, any festive fancy dress parties, or indeed for life as the lifeless undead. I will not need tips on filing my fangs, or how to divert attention from the fact I cannot eat human food at dinner parties. Me and my reflection in mirrors will remain intact. But for those of you reading this at night, somewhere, flameproof cape at hand, with your distaste of garlic, publicity and presumably the anaemic, this is the sterling how-to lifestyle guide.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224086464</amazonuk>}}

[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{newreview{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|author=David O'DohertyCrime]], Claudia O'Doherty and Mike Ahern|title=100 Facts About Pandas|rating=3.5[[:Category:Humour|genre=Humour|summary=Sometimes the title says it all - this is a book with 100 facts about pandas. Sometimes you need to note the author too - David O'Doherty won an Edinburgh Comedy Award, so this is a book of a 100 silly and untrue facts about pandas.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224086324</amazonuk>}}]]

{{newreview|author=Richard Horne |title=A is Comic-Cons are a place of wonder and sanctuary for Armageddon|rating=2.5|genre=Humour|summary=The world is definitely going to hell in a handcart. Wemany people, and when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, he're only just preventing lethal global warming by having a credit crunch s looking for both that has prevented a lot and sanctuary with other fans and creators, plus the chance of big buildingmaybe, air traveljust maybe reuniting with his ex. However, and consumerism. The population when his rival is getting so obese there found dead, Mike is no room for any more forced to navigate every dark corner of us - the con in order to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and add that intrusive fans to the exploding population statisticszombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, in doing so, and it's never going to look bettermay just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creator. And don't get me started on where all the bees have gone...[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224086197</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]

{{newreview<!-- Coulton -->|author=Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith |titlestyle=Pride and Prejudice and Zombies"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"||rating=4[[image:1473669588.5jpg|genrelink=Humour|summary=Ah, the benefits to a good book of a classic first linehttp://www. 'Call me Ishmaelamazon.' 'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteenco.' Who can forget Iain Banks' 'It was the day my grandmother exploded'uk/dp/1473669588/ref=nosim? Or those timeless words by Jane Austen, 'It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains.'|amazonuktag=<amazonuk>1594743347</amazonuk>}}thebookbag-21]]

{{newreview|authorstyle=Spike Milligan"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title=The Magical World of Milligan|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton]]==Some people you just have to love. It's the law. Spike Milligan was always fantastic, and he's much missed. He's got the perfect mix of nonsense, heart, and surreal humour. He speaks to people of all ages, and he's just plain lovely. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905264844</amazonuk>}}

[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{newreview|author=Sam Savage|title=The Cry of the Sloth|rating=3.5}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|genre=General Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|summary=Meet Andrew Whittaker. In some untold time of recent American history, he is forced through a failed marriage and an artistic temperament at odds with so many other people, to let properties to tenants he does not likeHumour]], for $120 a month. The lodgers might not like the state of the buildings - ceilings falling through and so on - but that[[:Category:Women's another matter. He would much prefer to be left alone in front of his little Olivetti typewriter and create art. He runs a literary journal, of a kind, called "Soap", which no-one likes, no-one reads (and often, with dodgy, cheap printing, no-one could physically read it anyway), and which makes him poorer in time, money and spirit.Fiction|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297856499</amazonuk>}}Women's Fiction]]

{{newreview|author=Christopher Moore|title=You Suck|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=You know that old adage Lex Coulton's debut novel is a story about books mistakes, failures, and covers? Well this is a case in pointrelationships. The title isn't greatmain protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, but the cover design for the paperback imprint isa sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, like, duh!a work colleague, and is grappling with the pits. It is so uncool…so unrep-resent-ative increasingly eccentric behaviour of the bookher mother. This relationship is not a cocktail thing. Not even a "Bloody Mary" thingcomplicated by the fact that Frances's father disappeared at sea when she was five years old. [[Falling Short by Lex Coulton|Full Review]]

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{{newreview|authorstyle=Tim Fitzhigham |title=All at Sea"vertical-align: One Man. One Bathtub. One Very Bad Ideatop; text-align: Conquering the Channel in a Piece of Plumbingleft;"||rating=4.5|genre=Travel|summary=Once more my life is made easy [[The Con Artist by saying this book does just what it claims on the cover - takes a narrator of zesty, wacky humour, throws him into an unlikely situation (a bath) and gets him to do something unusual (row it across the Channel - and then beyond). This despite the fact he was the world's worst sculler at University.|amazonukFred Van Lente]]===<amazonuk>1848090269</amazonuk>}}

[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{newreview|author=Simon Brettrating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|title=BlottoCrime]], Twinks and the Ex-King's Daughter|rating=4[[:Category:Humour|genre=Humour|summary=There can be few people who have written eighty books without me even having picked up one of them. At least, and at last, I have redressed that fault in the case of Simon Brett, and have come to the conclusion there are 79 more that will be worth investigating. Here we meet for the first time Blotto (posh idiotic son of a dowager duchess) and Twinks (posh brilliant genius sister to Blotto), their family, their surroundings, and the corpse inconveniently disturbing a dinner party.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845299353</amazonuk>}}]]

{{newreview|author=Karl Pilkington|title=Karlology|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=The Radio Five film critic Mark Kermode has Comic-Cons are a rule place of wonder and sanctuary for many people, and when reviewing comedies. If Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, he laughs more than five times then 's looking for both that and sanctuary with other fans and creators, plus the film deserves its billing as a comedychance of maybe, just maybe reuniting with his ex. If that rule was applied However, when his rival is found dead, Mike is forced to Karl Pilkington's new book Karlology then it would easily fit into navigate every dark corner of the category for there are laugh aplenty con in order to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans to zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, in this strangedoing so, amusing and charming little bookmay just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creator.[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140533746X</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]

{{newreview<!-- Curran -->|author=Joe Stretch-|titlestyle=Wildlife"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|rating=3[[image:1683690133.jpg|genrelink=Humour|summary=The word ''Twitter'' doesn't occur in Joe Stretch's vocabulary, but that's what his book is abouthttp://www. Life in the blogosphere, massively exaggerated, where people don't leave their desks but nevertheless come together (but never literally) in satisfying their deepest, darkest desiresamazon. If I've made it sound even faintly exciting, believe me, Joe Stretch is a fantasist with realist tendenciesco. What he is after is laughter; what he produces is a virtual simulacrum. Sniggery-pokery, jiggery-jokery, he tinkers with the twilight zone of a future-scenario where, for reasons beyond all understanding, some robotic and literal Dickhead (i.e. a man with a dick fixed to his forehead – I kid you not) decides to target a few selected humans for a make-over in his own image. Given that virtual worlds exist to pull in punters who don't like themselves in the real one, and their main purpose is to make money, one's only question must be: whyuk/dp/1683690133/ref=nosim?|amazonuktag=<amazonuk>0099532077</amazonuk>}}thebookbag-21]]

{{newreview|authorstyle=Rosy Barnes"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|title=Sadomasochism for Accountants|rating=3|genre=Women's Fiction|summary=Humour's very personal, isn't it? If you dig films like ''Shaun of the Dead'' and ''Hot Fuzz'', I predict you'll love this chick lit parody. It[[My Lady's anarchic Choosing by Kitty Curran and very British comedy tradition. If you're into the conventions of good writing, you may find it a little painful. Nevertheless, I enjoyed plenty of moments in Rosy Barnes' first novel.|amazonukLarissa Zageris]]===<amazonuk>0714531812</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Lady Annabel Goldsmith[[image:4star.jpg|titlelink=CopperCategory: A Dog's Life|{{{rating=4}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|genre=Humour]], [[:Category:Historical Fiction|summary=Copper was one of a litter of dogs born to a stray bitch and who was 'adopted' by Lady Annabel Goldsmith - or might it be the other way round?. Here he tells his story in his own words as transcribed for him by his owner. He's got his own priorities – and obedience is not one of them – along with a roving spirit. It's perhaps fortunate that he's a dog as this allows you to call him 'cheeky' and 'charming'. If he was a human being 'randy' and 'arrogant' would be two of the first words which came to mind.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751538205</amazonuk>}}Historical Fiction]]

{{newreview|author=Tim Moore|title=I Believe in Yesterday: My Adventures You are a lass of twenty eight. Plucky, penniless and in Living History|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=Common opinion has it that Regency era London the television programme race is on to find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. Along your journey you''Time Team'' did ll be accompanied by Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a lot for the public image of archaeologists – bringing them out of their holes in the groundlife alone, and making them seem like exciting, interesting people with fired by a good way of putting their knowledge acrossrogueish sense for adventure. However When it was clearly a much harder task when it came comes to those background artistes they suitors though, you'll have sometimesto make the ultimate decision between witty, walking up pretty and down in Roman centurion gearwealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or living the historical lifestyle as a re-enactmentmad, 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't going to be an easy decision...[[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224077813</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]

{{newreview<!-- Jester -->|author=L Vaughan Spencer-|titlestyle=Don't Be Needy Be Succeedy"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|rating=4[[image:Jester_Forever.jpg|genre=Humourleft|summarylink=Are you underperforming in your business and personal liveshttps://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1510704361? Do you underestimate the importance of good hair and moisturised skin in achieving your life goals? Are you stumbling through life in a Fastie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-Moving Business Environment (FMBE) without a motivational mantra to guide you? Then you need this book. As ''The A to Zee of Motivitality'', this is a dictionary of achievement from a man who can teach you how to succeed like a toothless budgie.|amazonuk21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=<amazonuk>1846681634</amazonuk>}}1510704361]]

{{newreview|authorstyle=Eric Nakagawa"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|title=I Can Has Cheezburger |rating=4|genre=Pets|summary=''I Can Has Cheezburger'', is a clever and witty anthology of some of the best pictures and captions from the fantastic [http[Forever After://icanhascheezburger.com/ lolcats websitea dark comedy by David Jester] of the same name. The site has been growing in popularity in recent months, and so it was inevitable that a book would soon hit the shelves. Choosing which pics to include in the book could not have been an easy task, and some of the old favourites are there, alongside some less well known ones.|amazonuk]===<amazonuk>0340977574</amazonuk>}}

[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{newreview|author=Ian Crofton|title=History Without the Boring Bits|rating=5}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|genre=HistoryParanormal]], [[:Category:Horror|summary=I was never one for history, and in fact left the dregs of a history teacher in tatters when I scraped through with a D. StillHorror]], history is an odd thing – written by the winners of course, and annoyingly biased in my mind towards the plain. There's no real reason to remember the order of Henry VIII's six wives, but we can only relish the one credited with polydactylism, a third nipple and whatnot (the second one, in fact – whoever that was).[[:Category:Fantasy|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847243746</amazonuk>}}Fasntasy]]

{{newreview|author=Jim Holt|title=Stop Me If You've Heard This|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=As far as I can remember, my first time in print was when I submitted some jokes to Michael Holland is a charity's themed joke collectioncocky and brash young man who dies and gets made the offer of his lifetime; immortality. Before thenWe follow Michael, some of my first actions as a child might have been laughing, grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and what is cuter Naff (a stoner in the records department) as they grapple with their long lives and finding a baby than that? But why was that infant laughing – he didn't have clean surface to sit on in their flat. [[Forever After: a joke he could get, surely?dark comedy by David Jester|amazonuk=<amazonuk>184668109X</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]

{{newreview<!-- Stibbe -->|author=P G Wodehouse -|titlestyle=Joy in the Morning"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"||rating=4[[image:Stibbe_Xmas.5jpg|genre=Humourleft|summarylink=''Joy in the Morning'' is another novel from Phttps://www.Gamazon. Wodehouse's wonderful series of books about Bertram Wooster and Jeevesco. Bertie is a young gentleman of inherited means and no present occupation. He is a good humoured and welluk/gp/product/0241309824?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-meant chap, however clearly not the smartest tool in the shed. Bertie seems to have a talent of getting himself into trouble but that is where Jeeves, his loyal, educated and painfully clever butler comes to his rescue. Jeeves is irreplaceable when it comes to saving Bertie from whatever 21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative, complicated and incredibly funny situations Wodehouse puts his characters through.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099513765</amazonuk>}}6738&creativeASIN=0241309824]]

{{newreview|authorstyle=Tom Holt "vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title=The Better Mousetrap|rating=4 |genre=Humour|summary[[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe]]==I approached this book with a fair degree of trepidation, as I had never heard of the author, and wondered if, when reading the synopsis, I was about to embark on a Terry Pratchett type novel (and I have to say, much though I admire his achievements, I'm not a fan of Discworld!) However, my fears were unfounded, and from page one I found myself drawn into this clever and erudite novel. Not having read the preceding novels in the series did put me at a slight disadvantage, but didn't detract from my enjoyment, and has certainly ensured that I'll read the others in the near future. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841495034</amazonuk>}}

[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{newreview|author=Philip Moore |title=Utterly Ridiculous|rating=3 }}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|genre=Humour|summary=If I learned nothing else from this book]], I now know of a new profession[[:Category: aircraft cleaner. For that is the trade of Dave, the hero of ''Utterly Ridiculous''. With little but a van and his torpid terrier Biggles, Dave roves the airstrips of southern England, titivating light aircraft.Short Stories|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906221685</amazonuk>}}Short Stories]]

{{newreview|author=John Mole |title=I Was Christmas – the time of traditional trauma. You only have to think about the turkey for that – once upon a Potato Oligarch: Travels and Travails in time it was leaving it sat on the New Russia|rating=1 |genre=Travel|summary=I remember getting this book in postdownstairs loo to defrost overnight, reading and if that failed the title hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. Nowadays it's all having to make sure it's suitably free-range and thinking noorganic – but not too organic that you can go and visit it, and get too friendly with it to want to eat it. Christmas, even though I am Russian, I will try to be unbiased is of course also a time of great boons. It's cash in hand for a lot of plump people who can hire red suits and judge beards, it like I would judge any other book about was always a foreign country experience. I now have godsend for postmen with all the thank-you letters to regretfully admit I failed. In my defenceaunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you write out in long-hand as a child, John Mole's focus on mocking and as for the nation makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they even try and country made that all too easy.sell them any other time of the year? [[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1857885090</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]

{{newreview<!-- Doescher -->|author=Clive Gifford-|titlestyle=Teenage Kicks"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: 101 Things to Do Before You're 16center;"||rating=3[[image:Doescher_Will.5jpg|genre=Humourleft|summarylink=Kidshttps://www. They're bored all the time, aren't they? Nothing you buy seems to have any longevityamazon. I think they live in alternative dimension in which time passes much more slowly that it does for harassed parentsco. It's the only explanation. I think Clive Gifford must sympathise, because his latest book, Teenage Kicks, has a whopping 101 ideas to alleviate boredom and a clever challenge too uk/gp/product/159474985X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag- your bored child has to complete them all before they reach 16. At a measly £5.99, this book could represent the most wonderful value for money any parent could ever wish for.|amazonuk21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=<amazonuk>0340950617</amazonuk>}}159474985X]]

{{newreview|authorstyle=George Saunders "vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|title=The Brain-dead Megaphone|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary=American author George Saunders is known for his short stories and fiction, but he is also a journalist for publications such as ''The Guardian'', ''The New Yorker Magazine'' and ''GQ''. ''The Brain-Dead Megaphone'' is his first collection of essays and it[[William Shakespeare's an interesting propositionthe Force Doth Awaken: sixteen pieces ranging from travel writing, literary appreciation, political essays, to surrealist short fiction.|amazonukStar Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher]]===<amazonuk>0747594260</amazonuk>}}

A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, there was a man called William Shakespeare, who was able to create a series of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil and rebellious heroes and heroines most sturdy. You may or may not have noticed the cinematic version of his original stage play for ''The Force Doth Awaken'', but here at last we get the actual script, complete with annoying-in-different-ways-to-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, and people keeping it in the family til it hurts. And if you need further encouragement, don't forget his audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – here the series is so popular we're on to part seven – surely making this over twice as good… [[William Shakespeare's the Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher|Full Review]] <!-- Goss -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Goss_600.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785942719?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785942719]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{newreview {rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verse|Children's Rhymes and Verse]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Consider the Doctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each year, were he to keep in touch with even half of his companions? He would certainly need a few novelty gifts for some of them, say, for example, whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the life of a Time Lord and that of some of his friends and enemies. As luck would have it, he has the space in his TARDIS to stock up in advance, so my advice to him – sorry, her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and get himself ready. And if you're working on a shorter timescale, with a shorter lifespan, and thinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, well my advice is pretty much the same. [[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies|titleFull Review]] <!-- Ingram -->|-| style=Tim "width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Ingram_Kammie.jpg|left|link=https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785451995?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=1785451995]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Pets|Pets]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] It was something of a relief when I encountered Annie Ingram and her cocker spaniel Kammie. You see, Annie knows something which has been self-evident to me for a long time: dogs are perfectly capable of communicating with humans and not just on a level of food!, walk! or play!. You do require extensive training to become fluent, but most dogs will be perfectly willing to give their time to teach you and all you have to do is listen. Annie has studied hard: Kammie has trained her well and the Tiny Horsepair have allowed us to share some of their conversations. [[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram|Full Review]] <!-- Harris -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Harris_Glass.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1908943823/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  |authorstyle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris]]===Harry Hill [[image:3star.jpg|genrelink=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Teenager Liam Glass is mugged and stabbed yards from his Camden flat. As the boy lies comatose, desperate journalist Jason Worthington scrabbles for the inside scoop, tired police officer Andy Rockham searches for a missing tape, harried politician Jamila Hasan fights for re-election, distraught mother Katrina Glass waits by her son, and gym-owner Royland simply finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. We follow this host of ensemble characters in a bleak, kaleidoscopic satire of modern media. [[The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris|Full Review]] <!-- LENTE -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Lente_10.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690222/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Nine comedians are invited to a remote Caribbean island under the guise of working with Dustin Walker, a comedic legend. Each fits neatly into one of the archetypal comic stereotypes: Steve, the washed-up has-been who has fallen far from his early days; Zoe, the rising female star with a new stand-up special coming soon; Dante, who went from being a kid on the streets to the hardest working road comic in the business; Oliver, the child-like prop comic who can't get any respect from his peers; Janet, the insult comic who is past her prime; TJ, the nightly variety show host with a reputation for harassing his female colleagues and guest acts; Ruby, the ultra-feminist YouTuber and Blogger with a chip on her shoulder; and William, whose redneck character ''Billy the Contractor'' is a far cry from his real personality as a posh millionaire. Of course, all nine agree because ''when God almighty walks down on a beam of light and asks for your help, what the hell else are you going to say?'' [[Ten Dead Comedians: A Murder Mystery by Fred Van Lente|Full Review]] <!-- Scott -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Scott_Eliz.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1788037006/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Elizabeth, William... and Me by S Lynn Scott]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|summarylink=After doing even tiny bit Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Ally is an ordinary woman with teenage children, a husband and a job. Then comes the day when ordinariness flies out of research the window. It's not a coincidence that it's the same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I realised in the pantry and the Bard of Avon in her bath. What's she going to do? Well, Elizabeth and Will have their own ideas about that I must ! [[Elizabeth, William... and Me by S Lynn Scott|Full Review]] <!-- Rodford -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Rodford_Surgeon.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178565005X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford]]=== [[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] In the second instalment of this series, Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a well-known local man to track down some missing valuables. Bill Galbraith, a world-famous surgeon at Cambridge's Addenbrooke's Hospital who hosts a popular medical television programme, has had his briefcase stolen by his live-in domestic servant, Aurora. According to Galbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of his at the hospital. George agrees to look into the theft, assuming it will be a relatively easy and straightforward case – little does he know, he's about to enter a world of deceit and dysfunction. [[The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford|Full Review]] <!-- Jordan -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Jordan_Tiny.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1760293814/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Our Tiny, Useless Hearts by Toni Jordan]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] As predicted by Caroline and Janice's mother on Caroline and Henry's wedding day, their marriage is over, albeit 15 years and two daughters further along than predicted. Indeed, this is definitely not a good weekend for Janice to be babysitting at Caroline's house. There's the only person out split and 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 ex-husband Alec. She still dreams of him, yes, but it's so over! Just as well really… guess who ever read Tim 's at the door? [[Our Tiny Horse having never heard , Useless Hearts by Toni Jordan|Full Review]] <!-- Taylor -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Taylor_Scilly.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/178475515X/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Life of a Scilly Sergeant by Colin Taylor]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Meet the Isles of Scilly. (I know they should be called that – the authorprovides a handy guide to the etiquette of their name, their nature and location, etc. Thus) For our more distant readers, I they're several chunks of granite rock out in the Atlantic, where Cornwall is pointing, with just 2,200 permanent residents. They're big on tourism, and big on growing flowers in the tropical climate the Gulf Stream bequeaths them – although the weather is bad enough to turn any car to a rust bucket within years. They're so wee, and so idyllic-seeming, especially at night, you can be mistaken for thinking there would be no need for a police presence. But there is – at least two working at any one time. And one of them in recent years has been Colin Taylor, who has done his official duty – alongside maintaining a well-known online existence, which has brought to life all the whimsical comedy of his work. [[The Life of a Scilly Sergeant by Colin Taylor|Full Review]] <!-- Lloyd -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Lloyd_Twas.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1472125118/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[['Twas the Fight Before Christmas: A Parody by Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] It's Christmas Eve and Mum has arranged everything. All she now has to do is await the arrival of the relatives and the food shopping delivery. Little does Mum know that those two elements alone have the potential to take another reviewerruin everything. [['Twas the Fight Before Christmas: A Parody by Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees|Full Review]] <!-- Phinn -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Phinn_Virgin.jpg|left|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1444779400/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Virgin Mary's word Got Nits by Gervase Phinn]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]], [[:Category:Anthologies|Anthologies]] Christmas in our house is the time we tend to get on a plane and head to either sun or snow, anywhere that is far, far away from the madness at home, last minute dashes to the shops on Christmas Eve, and food cupboard stockpiles that would imply supermarkets are shutting for a month, nor a mere 36 hours. But I do remember the feeling of Christmas when I was younger, back when itwas magical, and back when you knew exactly what the season would bring with carol concerts and school nativities and Christmas parties. This book is an anthology of those moments, and it took me right back to the wonder of Christmas as a child. [[The Virgin Mary's Got Nits by Gervase Phinn|Full Review]] <!-- North -->|-| style="typical Harry Hillwidth: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;" |[[image:North_Romeo.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0356508536/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Romeo and /or Juliet by Ryan North]]=== [[image:3.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] For all those who think tragedy plots are too restricted and prescribed, read on. In these pages you too will make see that Romeo had lots of options en route to hitting the bottle. Likewise, she could have turned away from her predestined path at no end of junctures. And to what result? Well, happy marriage and a kid called Ben, because the leads have just banged people's heads together and stopped the quarrelling, or Death by Tybalt (him) or a long life running an attempt at reviewing Tim establishment curing murderous women, such as a stand-aloneLady M (her). [[Romeo and/or Juliet by Ryan North|Full Review]] |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571229565</amazonuk!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->}|}