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[[Category:New Reviews|Humour]]==Humour==__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{newreview|authorclass-"wikitable" cellpadding=Martin Millar"15" <!-- INSERT NEW REVIEWS BELOW HERE--><!-- van LENTE -->|title=The Good Fairies of New York-|ratingstyle=4"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|genre=Fantasy[[image:1683690346.jpg|summarylink=In this fairytale of New York, the Cornish fairy King's children are living in exile, hiding in Central Park from a nasty industrial revolution back homehttp://www. They have friends from Ireland with them, and all have the ability to startle the local squirrelsamazon. Elsewhere two innocent scallywag fairies fleeing Scotland have arrived, and adopted a human eachco. Heather has joined up with Dinnie, the city's worst busker, a fat, alcoholic and lonely fan of TV ads for phone sex, while Morag befriends Kerry, a dying kleptomaniac beauty, just as alone for different reasons.|amazonukuk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag=<amazonuk>0749954205</amazonuk>}}thebookbag-21]]

[[Category| style="vertical-align: top; text-align:History]]left;"|{{newreview|author=Simon Garfield|title=Just My Type: A Book About Fonts|rating=4.5|genre[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente]]=Humour|summary=A quality typeface is a bit like a good referee at a football match in that you only really notice them if something has gone wrong. A referee is there to facilitate the players on the pitch, not to be the star of the show (though watching Match of the Day these past few weeks you'd often beg to differ). So it is with typefaces. A good type helps the reader, enhances the flow and makes the viewing experience easy and simple. Well sort of.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1846683017</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview[[image:4star.jpg|authorlink=Bob Servant and Neil Forsyth|title=Bob ServantCategory: Hero of Dundee|{{{rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=After }}} Star Reviews]] [[Delete This at Your Peril: One Man's Fearless Exchanges with the Internet Spammers by Bob ServantCategory:Crime|bursting into public consciousnessCrime]] as the scourge of email spammers, Broughty Ferry's resident polymath Bob Servant has returned. This time, he expands upon the colourful life only hinted at in his previous oeuvre, Delete this at Your Peril. And what a life it has been. He steers us from his humble beginnings, his broken family and traumatic schooldays, through the rise and fall of his window cleaning empire, and his role in Dundee's brutal cheeseburger wars. Along the way, we witness his struggles with, respectively, women ('skirt'), his simpleton sidekick Frank, and the demon drink.[[:Category:Humour|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1841589209</amazonuk>}}Humour]]

{{newreview|author=P K Munroe|title=You Can Stick It|rating=3Comic-Cons are a place of wonder and sanctuary for many people, and when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Con, he's looking for both that and sanctuary with other fans and creators, plus the chance of maybe, just maybe reuniting with his ex. However, when his rival is found dead, Mike is forced to navigate every dark corner of the 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 doing so, may just unravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creator.5|genre=Humour[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|summary=Literary merit? Absolutely none!Full Review]]

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{{newreview|authorstyle=Axel Scheffler"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title=How to Keep a Pet Squirrel|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton]]==So, how do you keep a pet squirrel? Well, the simple answer is that you don't. They're wild animals and not at all suitable for keeping in captivity, but accepted thinking didn't always run that way. It was whilst he was dipping into ''The Children's Encyclopaedia'' of 1910 that Axel Scheffler came across a small but indispensible guide to obtaining and caring for your pet squirrel. His inventive mind came up with these beautiful illustrations to accompany the text and if you're looking for an amusing gift for an animal-loving adult then this book could well be the answer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571255981</amazonuk>}}

[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{newreview|author=PJ Vanston|title=Crump|rating=3}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:General Fiction|genre=General Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|summary=ItHumour]], [[:Category:Women's Kevin CrumpFiction|Women'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.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848762852</amazonuk>}}Fiction]]

{{newreview|author=John Lennon|title=In His Own Write Lex Coulton's debut novel is a story about mistakes, failures, and A Spaniard in the Works|rating=3|genre=Humour|summary=During the height of Beatlemaniarelationships. The main protagonist, Frances Pilgrim, is a sixth form English teacher who has recently fallen out with her best friend Jackson, 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 tourwork colleague, if only waiting for screaming fans to leave them alone and go back home)is grappling with the increasingly eccentric behaviour of her mother. Some of them were seen This relationship is complicated by Tom Maschler, literary editor the fact that Frances's father disappeared at Jonathan Cape, who encouraged him to produce moresea when she was five years old. The results were published in two very successful short books in 1964 and 1965.[[Falling Short by Lex Coulton|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099530422</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]

{{newreview<!-- van LENTE -->|author=John Lindsay-|titlestyle=Emails From An Asshole"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|rating=4[[image:1683690346.jpg|genrelink=Humour|summary=Some classified ads are crying out for trollinghttp://www. John Lindsay replies to them, spins them a yarn, and strings them along for as long as possibleamazon. Sometimes the advert is fairly innocuous and he emails them anywayco. These are emails from an asshole, after all.|amazonukuk/dp/1683690346/ref=nosim?tag=<amazonuk>1402778279</amazonuk>}}thebookbag-21]]

{{newreview|authorstyle=A J Jacobs"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title=My Experimental Life|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente]]==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 Life, he recounts nine briefer episodes of living outside his comfort zone.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099547422</amazonuk>}}

[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{newreview|author=Seth Grahame-Smith|title=Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter|rating=3.5}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Crime|genre=Crime]], [[:Category:Humour|summary='Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.' That quote, on the Statue of Liberty, was probably not designed with the inclusion of vampires in mind. But by some means or another North America is rife with the things – hiding in plain sight, as the older ones can bear sunlight, with the help of darkened glasses. 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 for.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849014086</amazonuk>}}Humour]]

{{newreview|author=Jane AustenComic-Cons are a place of wonder and sanctuary for many people, Seth Grahameand when Comic book artist Mike Mason arrives at San Diego Comic-Smith Con, he's looking for both that and Tony Lee|title=Pride sanctuary with other fans and Prejudice and Zombies: The Graphic Novel|rating=3|genre=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 ''creators, plus the risen undead'' it will become a series chance of booksmaybe, inspiring others, and/or lead to the same story being published in many different guisesjust maybe reuniting with his ex. HereHowever, thenwhen his rival is found dead, on its way Mike is forced to Hollywood, is Jane Austen’s story navigate every dark corner of Lizzie Bennet, the feisty young woman trying con in order to ignore Mr Darcy while fighting off the ''manky unmentionables'' clear his name – at least she is until the hidden truths open up from cosplay flash mobs and intrusive fans to herzombie obstacle courses – Mike must prove his innocence and, in doing so, may just as the soft soils of Hertfordshire do to yield their once-human remainsunravel a dark secret behind a legendary industry creator. And this time it’s in graphic novel form.[[The Con Artist by Fred Van Lente|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1848566948</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]

{{newreview<!-- Curran -->|author=Carl McInerney-|titlestyle=The Funniest Football Joke Book Ever"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"||rating=3[[image:1683690133.5jpg|genrelink=Confident Readers|summary=Who scored the most goals in the Greek Mythology League? The centaur forwardhttp://www. Badoom boom tshhhhamazon. It's a football joke book, packed to the gills with all sorts of cheesiness and sillinessco. Funniest everuk/dp/1683690133/ref=nosim? Perhaps not, but it's not too bad.|amazonuktag=<amazonuk>1849391114</amazonuk>}}thebookbag-21]]

{{newreview|authorstyle=Valerie Thomas and Korky Paul"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|title=Winnie's Jokes|rating=2.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Who turns off the lights at Halloween? The lights witch. What does an Australian witch ride on? A broomerang. Yep, it[[My Lady's a joke book.|amazonukChoosing by Kitty Curran and Larissa Zageris]]===<amazonuk>0192729063</amazonuk>}}

[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{newreview|author=Nick Wadley|title=Man + Dog|rating=4.5}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|genre=Humour|summary=Throughout my life I've lived with dogs or deeply regretted the fact that I lacked a canine companion. Watching a dog – or better still, the interaction between dogs – is infinitely better than anything on television and it's sheer joy to see how man and dog interacts and how]], so often, they hold a mirror up to each other.[[:Category:Historical Fiction|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1564785521</amazonuk>}}Historical Fiction]]

{{newreview|author=The Harvard Lampoon|title=Nightlight: A Parody You are a lass of Twilight |rating=3twenty eight.5|genre=Humour|summary=Most people will have heard of Plucky, penniless and in Regency era London the worldwide phenomenon that race is [[Twilight by Stephenie Meyer|Twilight]]on to find a suitable suitor - or else doom yourself to life as an eternal spinster. The books Along your journey you'll be accompanied by Stephenie Meyer Lady Evangeline Youngblood - a fiesty noble eager to save you from a life alone, and the film fired by a rogueish sense for adventure. When it comes to suitors though, you'll have made a legend of to make the romance ultimate decision between vampire Edward Mullen (Robert Pattinson plays witty, pretty and wealthy Sir Benedict Granville, wholesome, rugged and caring Captain Angus MacTaggart, or the movie role) mad, bad and terrifyingly sexy Lord Garraway Craven. With orphans, werewolves, long lost lovers and teenage schoolgirl Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart)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>1849013330</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]

{{newreview<!-- Jester -->|author=Steven Lowe and Alan McArthur -|titlestyle=Is it Just Me or Has the Shit Hit the Fan?"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: Your Hilarious New Guide to Unremitting Global Miserycenter;"|rating=3[[image:Jester_Forever.jpg|genre=Humourleft|summarylink=''The banks fell over like fat Labradors running over a wet kitchen floorhttps://www.'' Surely that is the wackiest, most inappropriate simile for the credit crunch and all it has done for the worldamazon. 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 listsco.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847443656<uk/gp/product/amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author1510704361?ie=Eoin Colfer|titleUTF8&tag=And Another Thing ... Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Part Six of Three (Hitchhikers Guide 6) |ratingthebookbag-21&linkCode=3.5|genreas2&camp=Science Fiction|summary1634&creative=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.|amazonuk6738&creativeASIN=<amazonuk>0718155149</amazonuk>}}1510704361]]

{{newreview|authorstyle=David O'Doherty, Claudia O'Doherty and Mike Ahern"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|title=100 Facts About Pandas|rating=3.5|genre=Humour|summary=Sometimes the title says it all - this is [[Forever After: a book with 100 facts about pandas. Sometimes you need to note the author too - dark comedy by David O'Doherty won an Edinburgh Comedy Award, so this is a book of a 100 silly and untrue facts about pandas.|amazonukJester]]===<amazonuk>0224086324</amazonuk>}}

[[image:4star.jpg|link=Category:{{{newreview|author=Richard Horne |title=A is for Armageddon|rating=2.5}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Paranormal|genre=HumourParanormal]], [[:Category:Horror|summary=The world is definitely going to hell in a handcart. We're only just preventing lethal global warming by having a credit crunch that has prevented a lot of big building, air travel, and consumerism. The population is getting so obese there is no room for any more of us - and add that to the exploding population statisticsHorror]], and it's never going to look better. And don't get me started on where all the bees have gone...[[:Category:Fantasy|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224086197</amazonuk>}}Fasntasy]]

{{newreview|author=James May|title=Car Fever: Dispatches From Behind The Wheel|rating=4|genre=Lifestyle|summary=Now, way back when I was younger, Michael Holland is a cocky and watched TV a lot, I am sure I remember Top Gear as being a consumer programme. How times change. These days I am sure they destroy more cars than they review, brash young man who dies and gets made the three main people from the show are approaching superstar statusoffer of his lifetime; immortality. We follow Michael, with their amenable personalities, awkward wardrobe choices a grim reaper and trenchant laddish charms. They've sprung their media entities from out of the studio, into other TV programmes, his friends Chip (a stoner tooth fairy) and Naff (a stoner in the world of journalism, records department) as they grapple with chatty columns in the broadsheets allowing them free rein to witter to their heart's desire. And here, in one grandiloquent volume, long lives and finding a clean surface to sit on in time for Christmas, are many of James May's desirestheir flat.[[Forever After: a dark comedy by David Jester|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340994533</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]

{{newreview<!-- Stibbe -->|author=Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith |titlestyle=Pride and Prejudice and Zombies"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"||rating=4[[image:Stibbe_Xmas.5jpg|genre=Humourleft|summarylink=Ah, the benefits to a good book of a classic first linehttps://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/gp/product/0241309824? 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.'|amazonukie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=<amazonuk>1594743347</amazonuk>}}0241309824]]

{{newreview|authorstyle=Spike Milligan"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||title=The Magical World of Milligan|rating=4.5|genre=Confident Readers|summary[[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe]]==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:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{newreview|author=Sam Savage|title=The Cry of the Sloth|rating=3.5}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|genre=General Fiction|summary=Meet Andrew Whittaker. In some untold time of recent American historyHumour]], 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 like, for $120 a month. The lodgers might not like 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 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.[[:Category:Short Stories|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0297856499</amazonuk>}}Short Stories]]

{{newreview|author=Christopher Moore|title=Christmas – the time of traditional trauma. You Suck|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=You know only have to think about the turkey for that old adage about books – once upon a time it was leaving it sat on the downstairs loo to defrost overnight, and covers? Well this is a case in pointif that failed the hair-dryer shoved inside it treatment was your next best bet. The title isnNowadays it's all having to make sure it't great, s suitably free-range and organic – but the cover design for the paperback imprint isnot too organic that you can go and visit it, likeand get too friendly with it to want to eat it. Christmas, duh!though, the pitsis of course also a time of great boons. It is so uncool…so unrep's cash in hand for a lot of plump people who can hire red suits and beards, it was always a godsend for postmen with all the thank-resentyou letters to aunties you saw twice a decade that your parents made you write out in long-ative hand as a child, and as for the makers of Meltis Newberry Fruits – well, did they even try and sell them any other time of the book. This is not a cocktail thing. Not even a "Bloody Mary" thing. year? [[An Almost Perfect Christmas by Nina Stibbe|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 by saying this book does just what it claims on [[William Shakespeare's 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 Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Channel - and then beyond). This despite the fact he was the world's worst sculler at University.|amazonukSeventh by Ian Doescher]]===<amazonuk>1848090269</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Simon Brett|title=Blotto, Twinks and the Ex-King's Daughter|rating=[[image:4|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 party5star.jpg|amazonuklink=<amazonuk>1845299353</amazonuk>Category:{{{rating}}}Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]]

{{newreview|author=Karl Pilkington|title=Karlology|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=The Radio Five film critic Mark Kermode has A long time ago, in a rule when reviewing comedies. If he laughs more than five times then the film deserves its billing as galaxy far away, there was a comedy. If that rule man called William Shakespeare, who was applied able to Karl Pilkingtoncreate 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''s new book Karlology then it would easily fit into , but here at last we get the category for there are laugh aplenty actual script, complete with annoying-in-different-ways-to-before droids anew, returning heroes from elsewhere in this strangehis oeuvre, amusing and charming little bookpeople 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|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140533746X</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]

{{newreview<!-- Goss -->|author=Joe Stretch-|titlestyle=Wildlife"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|rating=3[[image:Goss_600.jpg|genre=Humourleft|summarylink=The word ''Twitter'' doesn't occur in Joe Stretch's vocabulary, but that's what his book is abouthttps://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. Sniggeryuk/gp/product/1785942719?ie=UTF8&tag=thebookbag-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?|amazonuk21&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=<amazonuk>0099532077</amazonuk>}}1785942719]]

{{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 [[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of the Dead'' Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss 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.|amazonukRussell T Davies]]===<amazonuk>0714531812</amazonuk>}}

{{newreview|author=Lady Annabel Goldsmith[[image:4.5star.jpg|titlelink=CopperCategory: A Dog's Life|{{{rating=4|genre=Humour|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}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Children's got his own priorities – Rhymes and obedience is not one of them – along with a roving spirit. It's perhaps fortunate that heVerse|Children's a dog as this allows you to call him 'cheeky' Rhymes and 'charming'. If he was a human being 'randy' and 'arrogant' would be two of the first words which came to mind.Verse]], [[:Category:Science Fiction|Science Fiction]], [[:Category:Humour|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0751538205</amazonuk>}}Humour]]

{{newreview|author=Tim Moore|title=I Believe Consider the Doctor. Just how many birthday and Christmas gifts must he have to hand out each year, were he to keep in Yesterday: My Adventures in Living History|rating=4|genre=Humour|summary=Common opinion has it 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 television programme ''life of a Time Team'' did a lot for the public image Lord and that of archaeologists – bringing them out some of their holes his friends and enemies. As luck would have it, he has the space in the groundhis 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 making them seem like excitingget himself ready. And if you're working on a shorter timescale, interesting people with a good way of putting their knowledge across. However it was clearly a much harder task when it came to those background artistes they have sometimesshorter lifespan, walking up and down in Roman centurion gearthinking perhaps just one gift season ahead, or living well my advice is pretty much the historical lifestyle as a re-enactmentsame.[[Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse (Dr Who) by James Goss and Russell T Davies|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0224077813</amazonuk>}}Full Review]]

{{newreview<!-- Ingram -->|author=L Vaughan Spencer-|titlestyle=Don't Be Needy Be Succeedy"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|rating=4[[image:Ingram_Kammie.jpg|genre=Humourleft|summarylink=Are you underperforming in your business and personal liveshttps://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1785451995? 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>}}1785451995]]

{{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://icanhascheezburger.com/ lolcats website[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram]] 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:{{{newreviewrating}}} 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 pair have allowed us to share some of their conversations. [[Conversations with Kammie by Annie Ingram|Full Review]] <!-- Harris -->|-|authorstyle=Ian Crofton"width: 10%; vertical-align: top; text-align: center;"|[[image:Harris_Glass.jpg|titlelink=http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1908943823/ref=nosim?tag=History Without the Boring Bitsthebookbag-21]]  |ratingstyle=5"vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"||genre=History==[[The Breaking of Liam Glass by Charles Harris]]=== [[image:3star.jpg|summarylink=I was never one 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 historyre-election, distraught mother Katrina Glass waits by her son, and gym-owner Royland simply finds himself in fact 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 dregs guise of working with Dustin Walker, a history teacher 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 tatters 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 I scraped through with God almighty walks down on a Dbeam 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. Stillamazon.co.uk/dp/1788037006/ref=nosim?tag=thebookbag-21]]  | style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[Elizabeth, history William... and Me by S Lynn Scott]]=== [[image:4.5star.jpg|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Ally is an odd thing – written ordinary woman with teenage children, a husband and a job. Then comes the day when ordinariness flies out of the window. 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]]  | 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 winners second instalment of coursethis 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, and annoyingly biased has had his briefcase stolen by his live-in my mind towards domestic servant, Aurora. According to Galbraith, this briefcase contains confidential notes concerning an important patient of his at the plainhospital. 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 no real reason to remember the order split and the awkwardness of Henry VIIIthe girls' schoolteacher being the other woman for a start. Then there's six wivesthat 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 we can only relish 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|link=Category:{{{rating}}} Star Reviews]] [[:Category:Travel|Travel]], [[:Category:Humour|Humour]] Meet the Isles of Scilly. (I know they should be called that – the author provides a handy guide to the etiquette of their name, their nature and location, etc.) For our more distant readers, they're several chunks of granite rock out in the one credited Atlantic, where Cornwall is pointing, with polydactylismjust 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 third nipple rust bucket within years. They're so wee, and whatnot (the second 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 oneof them in recent years has been Colin Taylor, in fact who has done his official duty – whoever 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 was)those two elements alone have the potential to ruin 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]] |amazonukstyle="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"|===[[The Virgin Mary's 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 it was 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]] <amazonuk!-- North -->1847243746|-| 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="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 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 establishment curing murderous women, such as a Lady M (her). [[Romeo and/or Juliet by Ryan North|Full Review]] </amazonuk!-- DO NOT REMOVE ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE -->}|}