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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]]==Humour==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|authorclass-"wikitable" cellpadding=P K Munroe"15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- van LENTE -->|title=You Can Stick It-|ratingstyle=3"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690346.5jpg|genrelink=Humour|summaryhttp://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1683690346/ref=Literary meritnosim? Absolutely none!tag=thebookbag-21]]
Plot, characterisation and all that other stuff you usually talk about? Nope – there's none of that, either.
Ah, so it's non| style="vertical-fiction? Well, calling it ''fact'' would be stretching things a little too far...align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente]]===
So, come on then[[image:4star. What ''is'' it?jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>0007362188</amazonuk>Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]]
{{newreview|author=Axel Scheffler|title=How to Keep Comic-Cons are a Pet Squirrel|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=So, how do you keep a pet squirrel? Wellplace of wonder and sanctuary for many people, the simple answer is that you don't. They're wild animals and not when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at all suitable for keeping in captivitySan Diego Comic-Con, but accepted thinking didn't always run that way. It was whilst he was dipping into ''The Children's Encyclopaedia'' of 1910 looking for both that Axel Scheffler came across a small but indispensible guide to obtaining and caring for your pet squirrelsanctuary with other fans and creators, plus the chance of maybe, just maybe reuniting with his ex. His inventive mind came up with these beautiful illustrations However, when his rival is found dead, Mike is forced to accompany navigate every dark corner of the text con in order to clear his name – from cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans to zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and if you're looking for an amusing gift for an animal-loving adult then this book could well be the answer, in doing so, may just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creator.[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571255981</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]
{{newreview
|author=PJ Vanston
|title=Crump
|rating=3
|genre=General Fiction
|summary=It's Kevin Crump's first day as a lecturer at Thames Metropolitan University - an ex-polytechnic. It's the happiest day of his life, and he can't wait to see all that it holds, and make a difference to all his students. And then it hits him: the relentless pettiness of authority figures, the students who can't string two sentences together, the lowering of standards in search of higher test scores, so more money from foreign students, and political correctness gone (as I believe the saying goes) mad.
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{{newreview<!-- Coulton -->|author=John Lennon-|titlestyle=In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|rating=3[[image:1473669588.jpg|genrelink=Humour|summary=During the height of Beatlemania, John Lennon used to doodle or write short poems or nonsense stories to pass the time (and there must have been a good deal of time to pass away on tour, if only waiting for screaming fans to leave them alone and go back home)http://www. Some of them were seen by Tom Maschler, literary editor at Jonathan Cape, who encouraged him to produce moreamazon. The results were published in two very successful short books in 1964 and 1965co.|amazonukuk/dp/1473669588/ref=nosim?tag=<amazonuk>0099530422</amazonuk>}}thebookbag-21]]
{{newreview
|author=John Lindsay
|title=Emails From An Asshole
|rating=4
|genre=Humour
|summary=Some classified ads are crying out for trolling. John Lindsay replies to them, spins them a yarn, and strings them along for as long as possible. Sometimes the advert is fairly innocuous and he emails them anyway. These are emails from an asshole, after all.
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{{newreview|authorstyle=L C Tyler"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title=The Herring In The Library|rating=4.5|genre=Crime|summary[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton]]==Tall, elegant Ethelred is a gentleman, and a third-rate author. Elsie, his literary agent, is short and dumpy, and not afraid to speak her mind. It is Elsie, in fact, who constantly assures her client he only occasionally aspires to the giddy heights of being second-rate. This could be the business partnership from hell, but not only do these two seem to get along, they even manage to solve crimes together. In this, the third outing for L C Tyler's eccentric sleuths, we are provided with a locked room mystery, a cast of possible villains of the most stereotypical type, and a fresh, funny tale which will make you laugh so much you'll get a stitch.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0230714684</amazonuk>}}
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{newreview|author=A J Jacobs|title=My Experimental Life|rating=3.5}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|genre=General Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|summary=A J Jacobs has a reputation for setting himself onerous tasks. His first book was about reading the entire Encyclopedia Britannica; his second detailed a year spent according to the Biblical precepts. In My Experimental LifeHumour]], he recounts nine briefer episodes of living outside his comfort zone.[[:Category:Women's Fiction|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099547422</amazonuk>}}Women's Fiction]]
{{newreview|author=Seth Grahame-Smith|title=Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=Lex Coulton'Give me your tireds debut novel is a story about mistakes, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe freefailures, and relationships. The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.' That quotemain protagonist, on the Statue of LibertyFrances Pilgrim, was probably not designed with the inclusion of vampires in mind. But by some means or another North America is rife a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with the things – hiding in plain sighther best friend Jackson, as the older ones can bear sunlighta work colleague, and is grappling with the help increasingly eccentric behaviour of darkened glassesher mother. It might just come down to one eager young man to rid his new country of such things, on his way to something he’s a bit more known forThis relationship is complicated by the fact that Frances's father disappeared at sea when she was five years old.[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849014086</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]
{{newreview<!-- van LENTE -->|author=Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith and Tony Lee|titlestyle=Pride and Prejudice and Zombies"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: The Graphic Novelcenter;"|rating=3[[image:1683690346.jpg|genrelink=Graphic Novels|summary=It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie story of any renown will not remain simply a zombie story. Before you can say ''the risen undead'' it will become a series of books, inspiring others, andhttp://or lead to the same story being published in many different guiseswww. Here, then, on its way to Hollywood, is Jane Austen’s story of Lizzie Bennet, the feisty young woman trying to ignore Mr Darcy while fighting off the ''manky unmentionables'' – at least she is until the hidden truths open up to her, just as the soft soils of Hertfordshire do to yield their once-human remainsamazon. And this time it’s in graphic novel formco.|amazonukuk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag=<amazonuk>1848566948</amazonuk>}}thebookbag-21]]
{{newreview
|author=Carl McInerney
|title=The Funniest Football Joke Book Ever
|rating=3.5
|genre=Confident Readers
|summary=Who scored the most goals in the Greek Mythology League? The centaur forward. Badoom boom tshhhh. It's a football joke book, packed to the gills with all sorts of cheesiness and silliness. Funniest ever? Perhaps not, but it's not too bad.
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{{newreview|authorstyle=Paul Magrs"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|title=Hell's Belles|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=[[The idea behind this series of novels is quite enchanting and amusing. Frankenstein's daughter is living and sleuthing in Whitby, ably aided and abetted Con Artist by her sidekick, the enigmatic Effie, and a growing menagerie of younger accomplices, namely Michael and Penny. Whilst the original idea showed huge promise, I felt that the author has rather overdone it in terms of output, in his desire to capitalise on his original success. Book two in the series was quite disappointing, relying on sensationalism rather than adequate plot and character development. Book three was an improvement-and I'm delighted to report that this, the fourth book in the series, shows him returning to form with the promise we saw in the first of the series.|amazonukFred Van Lente]]===<amazonuk>0755346467</amazonuk>}}
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{newreview|author=Valerie Thomas and Korky Paul|title=Winnie's Jokes|rating=2.5|genre=Confident Readers}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|summary=Who turns off the lights at Halloween? The lights witch. What does an Australian witch ride on? A broomerang. YepCrime]], it's a joke book.[[:Category:Humour|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0192729063</amazonuk>}}Humour]]
{{newreview|author=Nick Wadley|title=Man + Dog|rating=4.5|genre=Humour|summary=Throughout my life IComic-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've lived s looking for both that and sanctuary with dogs or deeply regretted other fans and creators, plus the fact that I lacked a canine companionchance of maybe, just maybe reuniting with his ex. Watching a dog – or better stillHowever, when his rival is found dead, Mike is forced to navigate every dark corner of the interaction between dogs con in order to clear his name – is infinitely better than anything on television from cosplay flash mobs and it's sheer joy intrusive fans to see how man zombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and dog interacts and how, in doing so often, they hold may just unravel a dark secret behind a mirror up to each otherlegendary industry creator.[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1564785521</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]
{{newreview<!-- Curran -->|author=The Harvard Lampoon-|titlestyle=Nightlight"width: A Parody of Twilight 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:1683690133.jpg|ratinglink=3http://www.5|genreamazon.co.uk/dp/1683690133/ref=Humour|summarynosim?tag=Most people will have heard of the worldwide phenomenon that is [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilightthebookbag-21]]. 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).|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849013330</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview
|author=Steven Lowe and Alan McArthur
|title=Is it Just Me or Has the Shit Hit the Fan?: Your Hilarious New Guide to Unremitting Global Misery
|rating=3
|genre=Humour
|summary=''The banks fell over like fat Labradors running over a wet kitchen floor.'' Surely that is the wackiest, most inappropriate simile for the credit crunch and all it has done for the world. You won't get any such namby-pamby animal likenesses from these authors, instead with quite a potty mouth on them they will lambast the modern world, the entire banking system, all those who failed to see it coming, and those millions just seemingly waiting for us all to revert to high-interest, high-risk, high-lending capitalism, so they can get back on the expenses train, and back up the rich lists.
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{{newreview
|author=Eoin Colfer
|title=And Another Thing ... Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Part Six of Three (Hitchhikers Guide 6)
|rating=3.5
|genre=Science Fiction
|summary=Of all the big books announced for this year, this one must have raised more eyebrows than many. Why try and write a new Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy book, when way before the end, its creator Douglas Adams was proving quite hopeless at such a task? And why approach an Irishman, Eoin Colfer, when the originals - tempered with their humour which could only be described as Monty Python doing a sci-fi Terry Pratchett, and with their cups of tea and dressing gowns, could only be described as very English? Well the answer is most evident - Colfer is a world-beater when it comes to knocking up a story.
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{{newreview|authorstyle=The Vampire Miles Proctor"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|title=The New Vampire's Handbook|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=I shall start with a prediction. I will not become a vampire, for this imminent Hallowe[[My Lady'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 s Choosing by Kitty Curran 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.|amazonukLarissa Zageris]]===<amazonuk>0224086464</amazonuk>}}
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{newreview|author=David O'Doherty, Claudia O'Doherty and Mike Ahern|title=100 Facts About Pandas|rating=3.5}}} Star Reviews]] [[: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.[[:Category:Historical Fiction|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224086324</amazonuk>}}Historical Fiction]]
{{newreview|author=Richard Horne |title=A is for Armageddon|rating=2You are a lass of twenty eight.5|genre=Humour|summary=The world Plucky, penniless and in Regency era London the race is definitely going on to hell in find a handcartsuitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. WeAlong your journey you're only just preventing lethal global warming ll be accompanied by having Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a credit crunch that has prevented life alone, and fired by a lot of big buildingrogueish 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, air travelwholesome, rugged and consumerismcaring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the mad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. The population is getting so obese there is no room for any more of us - With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and add that to ancient Egyptian artifcats along the exploding population statisticsway, and it's never clear this isn't going to look betterbe an easy decision. And don't get me started on where all the bees have gone...[[My Lady's Choosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224086197</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]
{{newreview<!-- Jester -->|author=James May-|titlestyle=Car Fever"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: Dispatches From Behind The Wheelcenter;"|rating=4[[image:Jester_Forever.jpg|genre=Lifestyleleft|summarylink=Now, way back when I was younger, and watched TV a lot, I am sure I remember Top Gear as being a consumer programmehttps://www. How times changeamazon. These days I am sure they destroy more cars than they review, and the three main people from the show are approaching superstar status, with their amenable personalities, awkward wardrobe choices and trenchant laddish charmsco. They've sprung their media entities from out of the studio, into other TV programmes, and the world of journalism, with chatty columns in the broadsheets allowing them free rein to witter to their heart's desire. And here, in one grandiloquent volume, and in time for Christmas, are many of James May's desires.|amazonukuk/gp/product/1510704361?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=<amazonuk>0340994533</amazonuk>}}1510704361]]
{{newreview
|author=Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith
|title=Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
|rating=4.5
|genre=Humour
|summary=Ah, the benefits to a good book of a classic first line. 'Call me Ishmael.' 'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.' Who can forget Iain Banks' 'It was the day my grandmother exploded'? 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.'
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{{newreview|authorstyle=Harry Hill"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|title=Tim The Tiny Horse At Large|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=It's been a while since Tim and Fly's [[Tim the Tiny Horse Forever After: a dark comedy by Harry Hill|last adventuresDavid Jester]], and changes are afoot in Tim's tiny world: Fly is getting married to his girlfriend. Tim's a little worried because they've only known each other for a week. The marriage goes ahead, and Tim finds himself kicking his heels, so he gets a pet. And so the brief episodes in the life of a horse who lives in a matchbox continue.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571244157</amazonuk>}}==
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{newreview|author=Spike Milligan|title=The Magical World of Milligan|rating=4.5}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|genre=Confident ReadersParanormal]], [[:Category:Horror|summary=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 agesHorror]], and he's just plain lovely. [[:Category:Fantasy|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1905264844</amazonuk>}}Fasntasy]]
{{newreview|author=Sam Savage|title=The Cry of the Sloth|rating=3.5|genre=General Fiction|summary=Meet Andrew Whittaker. In some untold time of recent American history, he Michael Holland is forced through a failed marriage cocky and an artistic temperament at odds with so many other people, to let properties to tenants he does not like, for $120 a month. The lodgers might not like brash young man who dies and gets made the state of the buildings - ceilings falling through and so on - but that's another matter. He would much prefer to be left alone in front offer of his little Olivetti typewriter and create artlifetime; immortality. He runs a literary journalWe follow Michael, of a kind, called "Soap", which no-one likes, no-one reads grim reaper and his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and often, Naff (a stoner in the records department) as they grapple with dodgy, cheap printing, no-one could physically read it anyway), their long lives and which makes him poorer finding a clean surface to sit on in time, money and spirittheir flat.[[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297856499</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]
{{newreview<!-- Stibbe -->|author=Christopher Moore-|titlestyle=You Suck"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|rating=4[[image:Stibbe_Xmas.jpg|genre=Humourleft|summarylink=You know that old adage about books and covers? Well this is a case in pointhttps://www.amazon. The title isn't great, but the cover design for the paperback imprint is, like, duh!, the pitsco. It is so uncool…so unrepuk/gp/product/0241309824?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-resent-ative of the book. This is not a cocktail thing. Not even a "Bloody Mary" thing. 21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=0241309824]]
Well, except for the tiny bit that is, but you'll discover that in due course.
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{{newreview|authorstyle=Hugh Murr and Sid Nigtures "vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title=Cyber Sign Offs|rating=2|genre=Humour|summary[[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe]]==I admit I had the wrong end of the stick when it came to this book, before I opened it at least. I had assumed it was a collection of real-life on-line signatures - we've all seen them, those straplines people have on all their forum posts. The obvious response would have been along the lines of 'fair enough, but why is this a book in this day and age, and not a website?'. But no. This is a collection of dialogues between two people - shall we call them Sue deNim and Allie Bye, who have a line or two to say to each other, and a made-up name (sorry, make that May Dupp-Name) with which to sign it off. Much jolly nonsense ensues.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1904312497</amazonuk>}}
{{newreview|author=Tim Fitzhigham |title=All at Sea[[image: One Man4. One Bathtub5star. One Very Bad Ideajpg|link=Category: Conquering the Channel in a Piece of Plumbing|{{{rating=4.5|genre=Travel}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|summary=Once more my life is made easy by saying this book does just what it claims on the cover - takes a narrator of zestyHumour]], 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.[[:Category:Short Stories|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848090269</amazonuk>}}Short Stories]]
{{newreview|author=Simon Brett|title=BlottoChristmas – the time of traditional trauma. You only have to think about the turkey for that – once upon a time it was leaving it sat on the downstairs loo to defrost overnight, Twinks and if that failed the Exhair-Kingdryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. Nowadays it's Daughter|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=There can be few people who have written eighty books without me even all having picked up one of them. At least, to make sure it's suitably free-range and at last, I have redressed organic – but not too organic that fault in the case of Simon Brettyou can go and visit it, and have come get too friendly with it to want to the conclusion there are 79 more that will be worth investigatingeat it. Here we meet for the first Christmas, though, is of course also a time Blotto (posh idiotic son of great boons. It's cash in hand for a dowager duchess) lot of plump people who can hire red suits and Twinks (posh brilliant genius sister beards, it was always a godsend for postmen with all the thank-you letters to Blotto)aunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you write out in long-hand as a child, their family, their surroundingsand as for the makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they even try and sell them any other time of the corpse inconveniently disturbing a dinner party.year? [[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1845299353</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]
{{newreview<!-- Doescher -->|author=Karl Pilkington-|titlestyle=Karlology"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|rating=4[[image:Doescher_Will.jpg|genre=Humourleft|summarylink=The Radio Five film critic Mark Kermode has a rule when reviewing comedieshttps://www. If he laughs more than five times then the film deserves its billing as a comedyamazon. If that rule was applied to Karl Pilkington's new book Karlology then it would easily fit into the category for there are laugh aplenty in this strange, amusing and charming little bookco.|amazonukuk/gp/product/159474985X?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=<amazonuk>140533746X</amazonuk>}}159474985X]]
{{newreview
|author=Joe Stretch
|title=Wildlife
|rating=3
|genre=Humour
|summary=The word ''Twitter'' doesn't occur in Joe Stretch's vocabulary, but that's what his book is about. 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 desires. If I've made it sound even faintly exciting, believe me, Joe Stretch is a fantasist with realist tendencies. 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: why?
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{{newreview|authorstyle=Michael Marr"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|title=Three Jumpers|rating=5|genre=Literary Fiction|summary=When Bardolph Middle placed an ad in [[William Shakespeare's the paper proclaiming he was a writer, he thought he might get Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the odd request to write a speech or two. Maybe, if he was very lucky, a company might ask him to conceive an entire marketing plan and advertising campaign. What he never expected was this job offer…|amazonukSeventh by Ian Doescher]]===<amazonuk>1906558485</amazonuk>}}
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{newreview|author=Rosy Barnes|title=Sadomasochism for Accountants|rating=3}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|genre=Women's Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|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's anarchic 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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0714531812</amazonuk>}}]]
{{newreview|author=Lady Annabel Goldsmith|title=Copper: A Dog's Life|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=Copper long time ago, in a galaxy far away, there was one of a litter of dogs born man called William Shakespeare, who was able to create a stray bitch series of dramatic histories full of machinations most foul, rulers most evil and who was 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'adopted' by Lady Annabel Goldsmith , but here at last we get the actual script, complete with annoying-in-different-ways-to- or might before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in his oeuvre, and people keeping it be in the other way round?family til it hurts. Here he tells his story in his own words as transcribed for him by his owner. HeAnd if you need further encouragement, don's got t forget his own priorities audience only demanded three parts of Henry VI – and obedience here the series is not one of them so popular we're on to part seven – along with a roving spirit. Itsurely making this over twice as good… [[William Shakespeare'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.Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh by Ian Doescher|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751538205</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]
{{newreview<!-- Goss -->|author=Tim Moore-|titlestyle=I Believe in Yesterday"width: My Adventures in Living History10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|rating=4[[image:Goss_600.jpg|genre=Humourleft|summarylink=Common opinion has it that the television programme ''Time Team'' did a lot for the public image of archaeologists – bringing them out of their holes in the ground, and making them seem like exciting, interesting people with a good way of putting their knowledge acrosshttps://www.amazon.co. However it was clearly a much harder task when it came to those background artistes they have sometimes, walking up and down in Roman centurion gear, or living the historical lifestyle as a reuk/gp/product/1785942719?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-enactment.|amazonuk21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=<amazonuk>0224077813</amazonuk>}}1785942719]]
{{newreview
|author=L Vaughan Spencer
|title=Don't Be Needy Be Succeedy
|rating=4
|genre=Humour
|summary=Are you underperforming in your business and personal lives? Do you underestimate the importance of good hair and moisturised skin in achieving your life goals? Are you stumbling through life in a Fast-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.
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{{newreview|authorstyle=Mark Crick "vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|title=Sartre's Sink: The Great Writers' Complete Book of DIY|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=''Sartre's Sink'' comprises fourteen short story parodies of some [[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of the world's best known writers – the twist being that the stories are all about undertaking some mundane DIY task such as tiling a bathroom (Dostoevsky) or reglazing a window Time Lord Verse (Milan KunderaDr Who). So far it sounds a bit like some pretentious Oxbridge student twaddle. You can just imagine how the idea came up over an over-ripe Brie and an underrated bottle of 1963 Taylor's port. It also rather smacks of that Radio 4 programme which I detest with an absolute passion - I can't even stand writing its name, ugh - ''Quote Unquote'', in which parodies do feature, read out by smug self-congratulatory writer darlings (you can tell I don't like it, can't you?). However, dear readers, this book is rather enjoyable James Goss and I speak as someone who is rather less versed in the writings of this famous lot than I care to admit.|amazonukRussell T Davies]]===<amazonuk>1847080472</amazonuk>}}
[[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{newreview|author=Eric Nakagawa|title=I Can Has Cheezburger |rating=4|genre=Pets}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's Rhymes and Verse|summary=''I Can Has Cheezburger'Children's Rhymes and Verse]], is a clever and witty anthology of some of the best pictures and captions from the fantastic [http[:Category://icanhascheezburger.com/ lolcats websiteScience Fiction|Science Fiction]] 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.[[:Category:Humour|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340977574</amazonuk>}}Humour]]
{{newreview|author=Ian Crofton|title=History Without Consider the Boring Bits|rating=5|genre=History|summary=I was never one 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 historyexample, and in fact left whimsical books of verse that pithily encapsulate the dregs life of a history teacher Time Lord and that of some of his friends and enemies. As luck would have it, he has the space in tatters when I scraped through with a D. Stillhis TARDIS to stock up in advance, history is an odd thing so my advice to him – written by the winners of coursesorry, her – would be to pop along to his local Earth-based book emporium and annoyingly biased in my mind towards the plainget himself ready. ThereAnd if you's no real reason to remember the order of Henry VIII's six wivesre working on a shorter timescale, but we can only relish the one credited with polydactylisma shorter lifespan, a third nipple and whatnot (the second thinking perhaps just onegift season ahead, in fact – whoever that waswell 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|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847243746</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]
{{newreview<!-- Ingram -->|author=Jim Holt-|titlestyle=Stop Me If You've Heard This"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|rating=4[[image:Ingram_Kammie.jpg|genre=Humourleft|summarylink=As far as I can remember, my first time in print was when I submitted some jokes to a charity's themed joke collectionhttps://www.amazon. Before then, some of my first actions as a child might have been laughing, and what is cuter in a baby than thatco.uk/gp/product/1785451995? But why was that infant laughing – he didn't have a joke he could get, surely?|amazonukie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=<amazonuk>184668109X</amazonuk>}}1785451995]]
{{newreview
|author=P G Wodehouse
|title=Joy in the Morning
|rating=4.5
|genre=Humour
|summary=''Joy in the Morning'' is another novel from P.G. Wodehouse's wonderful series of books about Bertram Wooster and Jeeves. Bertie is a young gentleman of inherited means and no present occupation. He is a good humoured and well-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 creative, complicated and incredibly funny situations Wodehouse puts his characters through.
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{{newreview|authorstyle=P G Wodehouse"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|title=Thank You, Jeeves|rating=4|genre=General Fiction|summary=Bertie Wooster was once engaged to Pauline Stoker. It didn't last very long – about forty eight hours, most of which Bertie spent in bed [[Conversations with a bad cold, if his memory serves him correctly. It's still embarrassing when he meets Pauline and her father, particularly as it was the father who was responsible for breaking off the engagement. Rather than eat at the Savoy Grill where he spotted the Stokers, he goes home to his only consolation. Bertie plays the banjo. Unfortunately, he doesn't play it very well.|amazonukKammie by Annie Ingram]]===<amazonuk>0099513730</amazonuk>}}
[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{newreview|author=Tom Holt |title=The Better Mousetrap|rating=4 }}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Pets|genre=Pets]], [[:Category:Humour|summary=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>}}Humour]]
{{newreview|author=Philip Moore |title=Utterly Ridiculous|rating=3 |genre=Humour|summary=If It was something of a relief when I learned nothing else from this bookencountered Annie Ingram and her cocker spaniel Kammie. You see, I now know 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 new profession: aircraft cleaner. For that is the trade level of Davefood!, the hero of ''Utterly Ridiculous''walk! or play!. With little You do require extensive training to become fluent, but a van 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 his torpid terrier Biggles, Dave roves the airstrips pair have allowed us to share some of southern England, titivating light aircrafttheir conversations.[[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1906221685</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]
{{newreview<!-- Harris -->|author=John Mole -|titlestyle=I Was a Potato Oligarch"width: Travels and Travails in the New Russia10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|rating=1 [[image:Harris_Glass.jpg|genrelink=Travel|summary=I remember getting this book in post, reading the title and thinking no, even though I am Russian, I will try to be unbiased and judge it like I would judge any other book about a foreign country experiencehttp://www. I now have to regretfully admit I failedamazon. In my defence, John Mole's focus on mocking the nation and country made that all too easyco.|amazonukuk/dp/1908943823/ref=nosim?tag=<amazonuk>1857885090</amazonuk>}}thebookbag-21]]
{{newreview
|author=Clive Gifford
|title=Teenage Kicks: 101 Things to Do Before You're 16
|rating=3.5
|genre=Humour
|summary=Kids. They're bored all the time, aren't they? Nothing you buy seems to have any longevity. I think they live in alternative dimension in which time passes much more slowly that it does for harassed parents. 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 - 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.
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{{newreview|authorstyle=Jon Canter "vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|title=A Short Gentleman|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=[[The narrator Breaking of this spoof biography is a civil law barrister. Robert Purcell has been educated at Winchester and Oxford. He has modelled himself on his polite and restrained father, a High Court judge and, as a child, Robert maps out the components his own expected adult life – wife, two children, career – and the respect which he will gain from this, together with his undoubted intellectual superiority. At the age of eight, he writes a future Who's Who entry for himself, with all the academic and professional accolades he expects to garner.|amazonukLiam Glass by Charles Harris]]===<amazonuk>0224077740</amazonuk>}}
[[image:3star.jpg|link=Category:{{{newreview|author=George Saunders |title=The Brain-dead Megaphone|rating=4.5}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|genre=Humour|summary=American author George Saunders is known for his short stories and fictionCrime]], 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's an interesting proposition[[:Category: sixteen pieces ranging from travel writing, literary appreciation, political essays, to surrealist short fiction.Humour|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747594260</amazonuk>}}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:{{{newreview 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|titlelink=Tim 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 the Tiny Horsewindow. It's not a coincidence that it's the same day she finds Queen Elizabeth I in the pantry and the Bard of Avon in her bath. What's she going to do? Well, Elizabeth and Will have their own ideas about that! [[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]] |authorstyle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford]]===Harry Hill [[image:4star.jpg|genrelink=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] In the second instalment of this series, Private Investigator George Kocharyan has been hired by a well-known local man to track down some missing valuables. Bill Galbraith, a world-famous surgeon at Cambridge's Addenbrooke's Hospital who hosts a popular medical television programme, has had his briefcase stolen by his live-in domestic servant, Aurora. According to Galbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of his at the hospital. George agrees to look into the theft, assuming it will be a relatively easy and straightforward case – little does he know, he's about to enter a world of deceit and dysfunction. [[The Surgeon's Case: George Kocharyan Mystery 2 by E G Rodford|Full Review]] <!-- Jordan -->|-| style="width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Jordan_Tiny.jpg|link=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1760293814/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]] | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Our Tiny, Useless Hearts by Toni Jordan]]=== [[image:5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Women's Fiction|Women's Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] As predicted by Caroline and Janice's mother on Caroline and Henry's wedding day, their marriage is over, albeit 15 years and two daughters further along than predicted. Indeed, this is definitely not a good weekend for Janice to be babysitting at Caroline's house. There's the split and the awkwardness of the girls' schoolteacher being the 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's at the door? [[Our Tiny, 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|summarylink=After doing even tiny bit Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Meet the Isles of research Scilly. (I realised know they should be called that I must be – the author provides a handy guide to the only person etiquette of their name, their nature and location, etc.) For our more distant readers, they're several chunks of granite rock out in the Atlantic, where Cornwall is pointing, with just 2,200 permanent residents. They're big on tourism, and big on growing flowers in the tropical climate the Gulf Stream bequeaths them – although the weather is bad enough to turn any car to a rust bucket within years. 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 ever read Tim 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 Tiny Horse having never heard arrival of the authorrelatives and the food shopping delivery. Thus, I 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="width: 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="typical Harry Hillvertical-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 -->}|}
